Category Archives: deep state
Days of Rage
Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on markets rather than human needs, is finally getting the appropriate response. Days and nights of rage. There are currently widespread riots in France. The triggering event was police brutality: Rioting then spread to Spain and … Continue reading
The Resistance
The donkeys are already informing us that their first priority will be to super-size US support for Ukraine. Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election. Fucking Democrats! While cynically appealing to working-class anger over the cost of … Continue reading
The Good Stuff
The best propaganda is aimed at the professional/managerial/class (PMC). A large part of its effectiveness is due to the fact that the PMC view themselves as too sophisticated to be propagandized. That shit is reserved for the mouth-breathers watching Fox … Continue reading
Hauled it Away
On Paradise, John Prine sings. “And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay. Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking. Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled … Continue reading
Never gonna change
Our elite have been marinating in a vat of jingoism, ignorance and hubris. Of course, it’s a bi-partisan effort because the Democratic party does not represent a sane or credible alternative to the warmongering lunacy of the Republicans. Let’s start … Continue reading
The most evil corporation in the world
There’s a lot of competition but I think we have a winner. Evil is easy and it takes a lot to be number one but Palantir has it all. Created by techno-fascist Peter Thiel and now managed by psychopath Alex … Continue reading
Instruments of Statecraft
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001 it seems an appropriate moment to examine how the US deploys terrorists as instruments of statecraft. Before we get to 9/11 there’s some important contextual history. … Continue reading
The man of integrity
Who runs the Department of War? Well, it’s probably not the drunken rapist–Kegsbreath, even though his name appears at the top of the flow chart. However, Kegsbreath does make a good foil for the true leader of the Pentagon, whom … Continue reading
The accidental anti-imperialist
I’m sure that wasn’t his intent but Trump is turning out to be the accidental anti-imperialist president. The turn of events is quite ironic since he based his second coming on emulating William McKinley, our first imperialist president. But Trump … Continue reading
