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Mangione Moment
How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Luigi Mangione, second Gilded Age
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Techno-Feudalism
The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ian Welsh, neoliberalism, propaganda, Ukraine
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Give War a Chance
The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading
Posted in deep state, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, neocons, propaganda, Russia, Russia-gate, Ukraine
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State Media
The US has long maintained a largely invisible, highly effective propaganda system, described by CIA official, Frank Wisner, as the mighty Wurlitzer,” on which he could play any propaganda tune. Back then the CIA maintained a network of writers, journalists … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, propaganda, Russia-gate, USAID
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Thread the Middle
The next four years are set to be a wild ride, but I intend to thread the middle. By that I mean that to defeat Trump we must scrutinize, modify and adapt our resistance. Furthermore, we cannot fail to acknowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden, deep state, Donald Trump, Gaza, neoliberalism, pawl, Russia-gate, Ukraine, USAID
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Authoritarian Conflict Management
Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Abraham Accords, Donald Trump, Israel, neocons, propaganda
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Gangster State
The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Mafia, neocons, neoliberalism, Syria
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Traitors
Billionaires are traitors, actively sabotaging the general welfare of America with their insatiable greed, and yet we celebrate them. The only reason we don’t immediately recognize their betrayal is due to the mighty propaganda Wurlitzer that venerates sociopathic CEO’s in … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged China, deep state, neoliberalism, propaganda, RedNote, Wall Street
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Pay the Toll
We have a tollbooth economy, where necessary components of modern life–education, healthcare, transportation and communication–have become prohibitively expensive, in the process erecting barriers to economic participation. A major feature of the tollbooth economy is the increasing weight of rentier activities … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, infrastructure spending, Simon Patten
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