Category Archives: neofeudalism

Après moi, le déluge

Posted on October 12, 2018 by camelotkidd

Last week, I neglected to mention one of the key drivers of American nihilism–elite impunity. As David Sirota recounts in a new article, since Enron, America has become an elite accountability free-zone. “Our society has been fundamentally altered by … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda | Tagged 9/11, American nihilism, Après moi, CIA, CIA torture, David Sirota, Eric Holder, feral elite, invasion of Iraq, le déluge", Libor scandal, Purdue Pharma, retroactive legal immunity, Too Big to Jail, wall street crash | Leave a comment

American Nihilism

Posted on October 4, 2018 by camelotkidd

Why are Americans so desperately unhappy? What’s up with the opioid addiction, the mass murders, the deaths of despair, and the deep cynicism, that I’ve come to call American nihilism? Maybe this is all because we’ve embraced economic policies that condemned millions … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda | Tagged American nihilism, austerity, Donald Trump, free trade, global warming, Jimmy Carter, Make America Great Again, malaise speech, Morning in America, peak oil, Ronald Reagan | 1 Comment

Ten Years After

Posted on September 20, 2018 by camelotkidd

Ten years ago the US stock market tanked, and for the next several weeks financial markets were a cluster-fuck of panic and chaos. Americans were frightened of what was happening in the economy. The real estate market had collapsed. Venerable Wall … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bill Black, Donald Trump, Henry Paulson, Matt Stoller, matt taibbi, Michael Hudson, Timothy Geithner, Too Big to Jail, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Double-Truth

Posted on July 12, 2018 by camelotkidd

I know it’s hard to turn away from the ongoing dumpster fire that is the Trump administration but it’s imperative to understand how we got here. Can you say neoliberalism? The neoliberals first gathered at Mont Pelerin, circa 1947, in … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged agnotology, Barak Obama, Donald Trump, double truth, inverted totalitarianism, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberal thought collective, neoliberalism, neoliberals, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Philip Mirowski, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

A Madness to the Method

Posted on July 6, 2018 by camelotkidd

A wise man said that the purpose of a nation is to build unity and deconstruct division. That doesn’t describe our country, does it? No, we’ve become a nation of the haves and have nots, riven by false partisan … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, Citizen's United, Democracy in Chains, Democrats, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, identity politics, inequality, Lochner era, money equals free speech, Nancy MacLean, neoliberalism, New Democrats, Republicans | Leave a comment

Mittens ‘R’ Us

Posted on June 27, 2018 by camelotkidd

I wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper expressing my surprise that they haven’t connected the bankruptcy of Toys ‘R’ Us with Mitt Romney, the man who’s poised to become our next senator. Mittens, as I like to … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, Hope and Change, looting, Manufacturing Consent, Mitt Romney, Noam Chomsky, Salt Lake Tribune, Toys 'R' Us, Utah, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Look Around

Posted on June 20, 2018 by camelotkidd

The US has been at war since 9/11. First Bush, then Obama, now Trump, waging forever war. With all the outrage directed at the Trump Administration’s actions at the border it’s like Americans have developed amnesia about our forever wars … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Afghanistan, Barak Obama, corporate media, deep state, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, Libya, NAFTA, Russia-gate, Somalia, Syria, Venezuala, Vladimir Putin, Yemen | Leave a comment

Is that all there is?

Posted on June 14, 2018 by camelotkidd

Gazing around our world it’s clear that neoliberalism has narrowed the possibilities. Is that all there is? Massive student debts, opioid addiction, homelessness and suicides. An economy based largely on scams and fraud, that leaves the vast majority of … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 election, Bain Capital, culture of fraud, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, precariat, Silicon Valley, sociopathic elite, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

The limits of identity politics

Posted on June 7, 2018 by camelotkidd

I’m pretty sure this will not be a popular post, but I have to ask some uncomfortable questions. Is US society better now that we have woman torturer as head of the CIA who also happens to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gina Haspel, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, torture | Leave a comment

Making the connection

Posted on May 23, 2018 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | 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 | Leave a comment