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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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We the Precariat
Here’s an observation from Lambert at Naked Capitalism that perfectly captures the precarious world that’s been created by the advance of neoliberalism. “So, Walmart spends squillions destroying public education, and then pays low wages because people can’t read or … Continue reading
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Tagged Lambert, Naked Capitalism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, privatization, public education, Walmart
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That’s just the way it is
Divide and rule is as old as the hills. That’s just the way it is. In the wake of Trump’s surprising win over Hillary Clinton, Democrats have seized upon several explanations for the poor showing of their establishment candidate. … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Bill Clinton, Bruce Hornsby, class warfare, corporate media, deplorables, Donald Trump, feral elite, free trade, Hillary Clinton, immigration, maquiladoras, Mexico, Mickey Kantor, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Robert Rubin, Ron Brown, That's just the way it is, Wall Street, Walmart, Warren Christopher
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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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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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Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine
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Won’t end well
Lately, I’ve detected a certain sense of malaise among my fellow citizens. In my opinion, it’s long been apparent that this won’t end well. Take the stock market, the indicator that our elite reliably depict as proof of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, extreme poverty, opioid crisis, President Reagan, Republican Party, school shootings, stock market, suicide, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, Wall Street, wall street crash, war on labor, won't end well, Yasha Levine
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Predatory Society
I’ve been writing recently about US foreign policy and the lack of interest among Americans with the horrific results of these policies. If we’re honest, (and I sincerely believe that this is why the disinterest), US foreign policy is largely … Continue reading
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Tagged Case/Deaton, deaths of despair, extreme greed and narcism, Iraq, Libya, Margaret Thatcher, neoliberal economic policies, no alternative, no society only individuals, predatory society, profound moral collapse, regime change, shit-hole country, sociopathic, Syria, terrorist proxy, Umair Haque, US foreign policies
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