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Making the connection
Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America’s new CIA director. Now that we have a torturer in charge of our premier intelligence agency it’s appropriate to make the connection between the economic and foreign policies of the US empire. Neoliberalism … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, CIA, CIA as organized crime, Cold War, Democratic Party, Douglas Valentine, Gina Haspel, making the connection, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, The Shock Doctrine, torture, war on terror
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No mercy in this land
There is no mercy in this land. We have one political party that makes no bones about its support for plutocratic rule and another that pretends to support democracy while surreptitiously aiding the wealthy and powerful at every opportunity. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, corporate media, Democrats, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, McResistance, Noam Chomsky, Palestinians, propaganda, Republicans, secular Arab nationalism, Steny Hoyer, trans-national plutocrats, US foreign policies, war of terror
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Morality of Empire
The missile strikes in Syria were a joke. Western officials claimed the 105-missile attack, including on a scientific research and development center in the capital of Damascus’ Barzeh district and two facilities nearly the city of Homs, had crippled … Continue reading
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Tagged chemical attack, China, cruise missile diplomacy, feral elite, greedy/ideology, nation of hustlers, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, One Belt One Road project, Russia, Russia-gate, Sic Semper Tyrannis, Syria
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It must be a coincidence
It must be a coincidence that every time Trump or someone in his administration talks about leaving Syria there’s a chemical weapons attack. On Saturday, April 7, video and stories claiming a chemical weapons attack in Douma were broadcast. … Continue reading
Deeper Malady
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. We would do well to reflect on a speech he gave exactly a year before his death. At the Riverside Church, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, King portrayed the war … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged American exceptionalism, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, civil-rights, Cold War, deep state, deeper malady, Donald Trump, empire, gun violence, Martin Luther King Jr., neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, new Cold War, opioid crisis, return to sender, Riverside Church speech, Russia-gate, terrorist proxy
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I am the Walrus
The non-stop demonization of Russia has achieved its desired outcome–a new cold war with Russia. This comes as the US empire enters post-primacy and desperately seeks a major new conflict to maintain its dominance and forestall the rise of a multipolar world. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Schiff, CIA, corporate media, deep state, detente, DNC, Donald Trump, elite impunity, Gina Haspel, I am the walrus, John Bolton, Killing Hope, McResistance, Mike Pompeo, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, nuclear war, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russia-gate, Stephan Cohen, think tanks, Vladimir Putin, William Blum
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War is a Product
Fifteen years ago our neocon-foreign-policy elite sold us a war based on fraudulent intelligence. They acquired much of this intelligence through torture. Saddam Hussein was accused of having weapons of mass destruction. He had none. Iraq was illegally attacked and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Andrew Card, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Dixie Chicks, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Jeffrey St. Clair, Lindsey Graham, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, propaganda, Russia-gate, Saddam Hussein, war crime, war is a product, WMD
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Game Changer
The corporate media barely covered it but Russian President Putin’s recent speech was a wakeup call to our neocon-foreign-policy elite. To understand the geo-political ramifications of this speech, I would recommend the excellent article entitled “The Implications of Russia’s New … Continue reading
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Tagged ABM treaty, aircraft carriers, anti-ship missiles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, empire, game changer, George W. Bush, MIC, Mike Pompeo, military industrial complex, military procurement, naval warfare, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, Nikki Haley, Putin's March 1st speech, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russian dupe, Sputnik, Syria, United States of amnesia, Vladimir Putin
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