Category Archives: neoconservatives

Domesticated

Posted on April 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Trump ran for office vowing to change US foreign policy and put America first. That didn’t last long. Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria in response to the Syrian military’s so-called chemical weapon attack, marks the culmination of a … Continue reading →

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N is for Neofeudalism

Posted on April 5, 2017 by camelotkidd

Everything that was old is new again. Take feudalism, it’s making a comeback. The US economy is trending towards wage bondage and economic polarization, with an all-American debt peonage that I’ve come to call neofeudalism. Heterodox economist Michael Hudson explains how … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, austerity, bankers, bankers in orange jumpsuits, banksters, bondholders, debt, debt serfdom, dystopian, financialization, J is For Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Middle-Ages, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, privatization, science fiction, serfs, serfs up, starving the beast | Leave a comment

The Washington Generals

Posted on March 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The Democratic Party has transformed from a political party that represented working-class interests to a party that serves affluent professionals. In the process they’ve become a faux opponent very much like the Washington Generals who pretended to oppose the Harlem Globetrotters. … Continue reading →

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Out of the shadows

Posted on February 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

After 70 years of anonymity the deep state has fully emerged from the shadows. In the wake of the surprise resignation of Trump’s national-security-advisor, Michael Flynn, stories about the deep state are everywhere, from the New York Times, to Naked … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Cold War, Consortium News, corporate media, corporate propaganda, deep state, Democratic Party, Democrats, Douglas Valentine, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, liberals, McCarthy, military/intelligence/industrial complex, Naked Capitalism, new Cold War, new york times, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russians, The CIA As Organized Crime, wikileaks | Leave a comment

Illusion only is sacred, truth profane

Posted on February 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

There was much pearl-clutching by the corporate media when Trump blurted out the truth of US foreign policy in a recent interview with Fox host, Bill O’ Reilly. “There are a lot of killers.” Trump responded. “We’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

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The Pawl

Posted on February 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The recent election and its aftermath have been instructive. Americans who supported Bernie Sanders, were castigated as naive, political utopians who failed to understand that the only option was to support Hillary, lest the evil Orange-One prevail. And now … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged American political system, AUMF, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush 1, Democrats, Donald Trump, drone assassinations, executive branch, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ian Welsh, Nazis, Nuremberg, Patriot Act, public relations, Ratchet Effect, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, sabotage, the pawl, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

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Member the Maine?

Posted on January 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

Member? I member a South Park episode entitled Member Berries, which are small purple berries that utter nostalgic, so-called historical phrases, where I thought I would pee myself laughing. The focus on American citizens shallow, superficial, Disneyfied version of history, was … Continue reading →

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Ruling Ideologies

Posted on January 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the United States has been operating under the auspices of two mutually reinforcing ideologies–neoliberalism and neoconservatism. By criticizing trade treaties like the TPP and NAFTA, while promising to mend relations … Continue reading →

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War Pigs: or How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and to Love the Drone

Posted on December 24, 2016 by camelotkidd

When did the liberals turn into war pigs? If there was going to be anything positive from the election of Trump, it was the lowering of tensions between the US and Russia. With liberals excitedly pointing to the CIA’s … Continue reading →

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