Category Archives: neoconservatives
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
Satanic Kingdom
Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, has managed to make Trump and Netanyahu look like geo-strategic geniuses with his decision to restart a war with Ansar Allah. What’s crazy is that 3 years … 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
Jersey
I saw this from Amy Walter at the Cook Political Report and laughed. “But in this era of deep and hardened partisanship, real world events don’t have the political impact that they once did, with voters more willing than ever to … 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 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
The Merger
The US House of Representatives just passed a bill merging the US military with Israel’s. The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), … Continue reading
The Dilemma
The Netanyahu Administration is happy that the US is again attacking Iran. That doesn’t mean that they want to participate. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has described the renewed US war on Iran as the ideal outcome for Israel, provided Israelis … Continue reading
Psycho
More clearly than Americans, Iranian leaders saw Trump’s mental condition and therefore utilized psychologists and psychiatrists in their negotiations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ending the Gulf conflict. Drop Site News reported that–“In an effort to navigate President Donald … Continue reading
Dirty War
Having effectively lost the broader geopolitical war against Iran and realizing that conventional military force cannot crush the Axis of Resistance, the United States and Israel are transitioning from direct confrontation to a dirty war. The core of this strategy … Continue reading