Category Archives: neofeudalism

War is a way of shattering to pieces

Posted on January 25, 2018 by camelotkidd

Who knew Defense Secretary Mattis had such a refined sense of humor? SEC. MATTIS: “We don’t invade other countries, in Russia’s case — Georgia, Ukraine. That we settle things by international rule of law, you know, this sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, all-American corporate empire, C. Wright Mills, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, foreign policy, George Orwell, McResistance, memory hole, military/intelligence/industrial complex, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Rachel Maddow, Randolph Bourne, regime change, Russia, Russia-gate, Secretary of Defense--Mattis, Secretary of State--Tillerson, sovereignty, Syria, war is the health of the state | Leave a comment

Siver Lining

Posted on January 11, 2018 by camelotkidd

I like to read books twice. Not all books but certainly the good ones. It’s amazing the things that you miss the first time. Take Douglas Valentine’s–The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. It blew … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 9/11, Consortium News, conspiracy theories, control, corporate media, Douglas Valentine, Homeland Security Department, Hotel Tacloban, Jade Helm, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, regime change, Robert Parry, silver lining, structural violence, The CIA As Organized Crime, The Future Applicability of the Phoenix Program, The Phoenix Program, true relationship between crime and law enforcement., US foreign policies | Leave a comment

Permanent emergency in the liberal imagination

Posted on December 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

Over the weekend, Russia-gate took an even more surreal turn when former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was accused of being a Russian-stooge because she shared a table with Vladimir Putin and former General Michael Flynn in 2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Alice in Wonderland, Caitlin Johnstone, drinking the Kool-Aid, echo chamber, General Michael Flynn, George Orwell, guilt by association, Jackson Lears, Jill Stein, Kremlin collusion, Lewis Carroll, London Review of Books, McCarthyism, resistance, Rocky Anderson, Russia, Russia-gate, SLC Tribune, South Park, Vladimir Putin, What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Russian Hacking., witch-hunt | Leave a comment

The Trump Diversion

Posted on December 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

Many liberals would love to depose Trump and return to a normalcy where such a monster could never be elected. If only Hillary would’ve won, the thinking goes, things would have been so much better. I beg to disagree. As a … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, critiques proliferate and mature across the society, Donald Trump, generational crisis, Hillary Clinton, inverted totalitarianism, Obama diversion, oligarchy, Political Economy of Obama/Trump, power elite, propaganda, Richard Wolff, Sheldon Wolin, The president for our milieu, Trump diversion, US system of oligarchy | Leave a comment

Junk Economics

Posted on December 7, 2017 by camelotkidd

Over the weekend, the US Senate passed the most drastic rewrite of America’s tax system since the Reagan administration, which is expected to mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans. This new tax cut legislation should provide further proof that the United … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Democrats, Edward Bernays, J is For Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, Republicans, Senate | Leave a comment

The Rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Posted on November 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

Nothing says United States of Amnesia quite like the rehabilitation of George W. Bush. Articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Guardian eagerly reported Bush’s recent speech with its implicit criticisms of Trump as a hopeful … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alfred McCoy, American exceptionalism, corporate media, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, The rehabilitation of George W. Bush, United States of amnesia | Leave a comment

Crackpot Centrism

Posted on November 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m smitten. Caitlin Johnstone is my new favorite blogger. She’s smart, funny and absolutely fearless. She also writes about the things I’m most interested in–political/economy, foreign policy, and media manipulation. Perhaps because she’s Australian, Johnstone deftly deconstructs US propaganda, following … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alex Carrey, C. Wright Mills, Caitlin Johnstone, corporate media, corporate propaganda, crackpot centrism, crackpot realism, deep state, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Republican Party, Russia, Russia-gate, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

A Flaw in the Model

Posted on November 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alan Greenspan, An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, animal spirits, Ayn Rand, banana republic, Democrats, Education/Industrial/Complex, flaw in the model, John Maynard Keynes, looting, magical belief system, military industrial complex, mortgage-securitization process, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, not a bug but a feature, Republicans, Richard Posner, student-loan-securitization process, Yves Smith | Leave a comment

Open for Business

Posted on October 24, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism has trumped our democratic values and institutions by substituting a cost-benefit and efficiency rational. Political discourse is framed only in entrepreneurial terms where the management of a market-economy confers a government the legitimacy to carry out domestic and … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Chile, criminal law, Cuba, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iran, Ken Burns, Libya, market-based values, neoliberalism, regime change, Richard Posner, Venezuala, Vietnam, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, Wendy Brown | 1 Comment

Leftless in America

Posted on October 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

In The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, political scientist, Corey Robin says that conservatism draws its power and purpose from opposition to the left. “From the French Revolution through civil rights and women’s lib, struggles … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged conservatism, Corey Robin, cultural issues, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, economics, Edmund Burke, finance, hippies, identity politics, left, long-standing fissures of the conservative movement, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, Reactionary Mind, Republican Party, right, Ronald Reagan | Leave a comment