Author Archives: camelotkidd

The Invisible Government

Posted on March 28, 2016 by camelotkidd

I welcome the political awakening I see among friends and co-workers, caused in great part by the rise of Donald Trump as the leading Republican candidate, and Bernie Sanders as a challenger to the Democratic establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Carey, apolitical blues, banana republic, Bernie Sanders, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, free trade, Ian Welch, invisible government, manichean, NAFTA, Paul Krugman, plutocracy, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, TPP, unions | Leave a comment

The Whig Party

Posted on March 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Conventional wisdom says that the Republicans will go the way of the Whig party if Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for president. The Whig party was formed in “opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson (in office 1829–37) and his Democratic … Continue reading →

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We Live in a Political World

Posted on March 15, 2016 by camelotkidd

Economic insecurity does strange things to a society. When both political parties pursue economic policies that benefit the 1% at the expense of the rest of the population those who are left behind turn to an alternative. Welcome Donald … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, Charles Pierce, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, foam the runway, global labor arbitrage, GOP, Little Timmy, monkey brains, NAFTA, neoliberalism, One Market Under God, political world, Republicans, Ross Perot, Thoma Frank, Timothy Geithner, TPP, wall street crash, What's a Matter With Kansas? | Leave a comment

Kindness is a Revolutionary Act

Posted on March 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Frankenstein candidacy of Donald Trump has been brought to life by neoliberal economic policies pursued by Republicans and Democrats alike. To be sure, Trump’s rise is predicated on his appeal to racial resentments and xenophobia. Normally this racism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, culture of meanness, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Emmanual Goldstein, FDR, Flint, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Ian Welch, kindness is a revolutionary act, lead poisoning, Michigan, Mussolini, neoliberal, New Deal, savage race to the bottom, social-Darwinism | Leave a comment

Queen of the Neocons

Posted on March 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a neocon problem. Clinton has just been endorsed for president by neoconservative intellectual, Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican who recognizes that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the presumptive favorite, would be hostile to neoconservative … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American empire, Bernie Sanders, Consortium News, Counterpunch, coups, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, neocons, neoconservatives, Project for the New American Century, regime change, Republicans, Robert Kagan, Robert Parry, Scoop Jackson, Syria, Ukraine, US foreign policy | Leave a comment

Bigger Fish to Fry

Posted on February 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

The death of Supreme Court Justice Scalia and what it portends for domestic politics is a monumental story. One of the wildest presidential campaigns of recent memory just got a whole lot more complicated with the politics of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bombing campaign, Consortium News, deep state, dramatic escalation, elite failure, empire of chaos, indispensable nation, ISIS, neocons, nuclear war, Putin, Qatar, Recep Erdogan, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, Syria, tactical nuclear weapons, terrorist proxy, the saker, Turkey | Leave a comment

The Memory Hole

Posted on February 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

The successful Russian intervention in Syria’s civil war is causing a great hue and cry within US media and think-tanks. The latest outburst is, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency, by Charles Lister, a visiting Fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 7 countries in 5 years, Brookings, civil war, General Wesley Clark, invasion of Iraq, ISIS, memory hole, neo-conservatives, neocons, New American Century, oil and gas pipelines, Pepe Escobar, pipelineistan, propaganda, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, seymour hersh, Sunni terrorism, Syria, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby

Posted on February 10, 2016 by camelotkidd

I know that Hillary’s pretty bloodthirsty, but is the Clinton campaign in such distress that they’d let the mask slip? Of course, I’m talking about Madeleine, Special Place In Hell, Albright Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, bloodthirsty, Creel Commission, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Manufacturing Consent, monsters among us, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, public relations, special place in hell, Virginia Slims, you've come a long way baby | Leave a comment

Failing Upwards

Posted on February 9, 2016 by camelotkidd

Despite being the richest most powerful country in the world the US is an empire in decline. Perhaps it’s because we don’t hold our elite accountable? Empire-101 requires holding elites accountable to maintain said empire. History is replete with failed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bad shit happens, banana republic, Condoleezza Rice, corporate media, corruption, deep state, empire, empire of chaos, failing upwards, feral elite, foreign policy, General David Petraeus, god's work, Jamie Dimon, KKR, Little Timmy, Lloyd Blankfein, Mike Lofgren, Paul Wolfowitz, Pepe Escobar, President Obama, Tim Geithner, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Collaborators

Posted on February 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Clinton, Civil Right Act, Corey Robin, FDR, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, neo-liberal, New Deal, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, Powell memo, President Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy, triangulation, Voting Rights Act, Wall Street | Leave a comment