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Cultural Revolution
It appears that the Chinese have exported their Cultural Revolution to the US in return for US corporations exporting American manufacturing jobs to China. This Cultural Revolution has been enormously beneficial to our feral elite in dividing and ruling, by … Continue reading
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The political aspects of unemployment payments
Trump could coast to a win in November if he would embrace his inner Keynes. Unfortunately he’s constrained by Republican orthodoxy, and right-wing think-tank ideologues who reject government interference in the so-called “free market”. This ideological opposition is nothing … Continue reading
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Second Chance
I always knew that the national security state and their corporate media handmaidens would keep Russia-gate alive if for no other reason than to hide their culpability in the attempted coup against the president. And with Trump’s reckless style … Continue reading
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Busy Little Termites
I find it perversely amusing that while doing good is so damn hard, doing evil is easy. Doing evil is especially easy in the service of wealth and power. Take neoliberalism, a shape-shifting ideology so nefarious that its proponents … Continue reading
He’s Our Boy
In the midst of increasingly shrill denunciations of Donald Trump, I’m vainly waiting for someone to acknowledge the obvious. He’s our boy. Politicians and their media allies want to pretend that Trump is some sort of aberrant outlier, but … Continue reading
Human Capital
Neoliberalism reduces us all to market participants. To neoliberals we’re not citizens, just human capital. There’s a great article at Salon, by Anis Shivani, that provides a glimpse into this poorly understood ruling ideology. “Neoliberalism believes that markets are self-sufficient unto … Continue reading
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Tagged Anis Shivani, Bernie Sanders, divide and rule, Donald Trump, free speech, Hillary Clinton, human capital, identity politics, Margaret Thatcher, market apostate, multiculturalism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Salon, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, working-class
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God’s been drinking
So much evil in this world is projected as good. Some of the best writer/propagandists have taken on this task of conflating the Satanic with the sacred. Take Max Weber, who depicted God’s divine intentions throughout the Industrial Revolution … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Fredrick von Hayek, Garden of Eden, IMF, Industrial Revolution, Jesus Christ, Ludwig von Mises, max weber, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, projection, protestant work ethic, Road to Serfdom, the enclosure acts, Thomas Friedman, welfare state
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QE for you and me
Donald Trump is many things–racist, reality TV star, torture advocate, strong leader with fascist tendencies. However, Trump is also a truth-teller, in that he has repeatedly challenged conventional wisdom, as articulated by the American political and media elite. He’s kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, Bash kept us safe, Bernie Sanders, CBO, conventional wisdom, Donald Trump, economic orthodoxy, economic populism, fiat currency, George W. Bush, Iraq, Libya, Modern Monetary Theory, neoliberal, President Obama, public infrastructure, Syria, US imperialism
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