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Redistribution
As Bernie Sanders continues to triumph in Democratic primaries expect to hear increased denunciations of socialism. Along the way I suspect there will be denunciations of redistribution as well. However, it’d important to understand that the crucial redistribution has already … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate socialism, Donald Trump, feral elite, Kayfabe, neoliberalism, redistribution, socialism
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Enemy Of Empire
General Soleimani was assassinated because he was successful at opposing the US empire and defeating their terrorist proxies. Soleimani was not a mastermind of terrorism, as the corporate media alleges. He was a mastermind of legitimate resistance against American … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Donald Trump, General Soleimani, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Michael Hudson, neocons, petrodollar, Saudi Arabia, terrorist proxy
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Not Natural
It would be nice if our sociopathic elite would dial down the war rhetoric for the holidays, but I’m not holding my breath. While Americans have been led to believe that our president is a secret Putin-controlled double agent, … Continue reading
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson writes dystopian science fiction, where he imagines the future by closely studying the present. In his post 9/11 novel Pattern Recognition, he discovers that the present is just as weird and dystopian as any future he might imagine. I’ve … Continue reading
Lab Rats
When I was growing up the Cold War against the Soviet Union was driven by conservatives, who were convinced that communism was an existential threat to capitalism and indeed the American way of life. These days the Cold War … Continue reading
Situational
I always thought that the war on terror was an artificial construct, put in place to continue using the military/industrial/complex as a way to organize the US economy after the fall of the Soviet Union. The whole thing seemed … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Cold War, Cold War 2.0, feral elite, neocons, Russia-gate, Soviet Union, Ukraine-gate, war on terror
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The Hate Machine
The corporate media manufactures consent by manufacturing hate. We transitioned from Hope and Change to Make America Great Again, but very little has changed with the economic and foreign policies of the American empire. A lot of this is … Continue reading
Posted in propaganda
Tagged 1984, Edward Herman, George Orwell, matt taibbi, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, propaganda model, Russia-gate, Ukraine-gate
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Outside Influence
Who gets to decide US foreign policy, the president or the deep state? That seems to be the pertinent question that’s left unsaid in the whole Ukraine-gate impeachment drama. Also unsaid by the corporate media is the essential Ukraine backstory … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged CIA, deep state, Donald Trump, impeachment, Russia-gate, Ukraine-gate
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