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The Primary Aim
I’m confused. Is America spreading democracy or enriching the military/industrial/complex (MIC)? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. Here’s arch-neocon Victoria Nuland, trying out multiple arguments for more Ukraine spending: “We will do what we have always done, which is defend democracy … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Bushnell, deep state, Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland
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Halfway around the world
The ongoing Russia-gate psy-op is demonstrating Mark Twain’s adage that: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” For the national-security-state, deep state, Blob, Russia-gate is literally the gift that keeps … Continue reading
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Tagged Blob, deep state, Donald Trump, Mark Twain, propaganda, Russia-gate
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Gradually, then suddenly
In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, described how one went bankrupt–gradually, then suddenly. It’s the same with empires. One day they’re fit as a fiddle, then the next day multiple crisis’s reveal a brittle shell. The US is undergoing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair Crooke, deep state, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, William Butler Yeats
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How should we then live?
The Doom Blogging post got me thinking that I should write about something positive, so here goes. John Michael Greer wrote a novel, entitled Retrotopia, that imagines a possible future where faith in technology doesn’t equal prosperity. Greer, as an … Continue reading
Eye of the Beholder
Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 I’ve lost respect for countless liberal writers. Count Rick Perlstein among them. In a new article, entitled American Fascism, Perlstein warns of the potential for American-style fascism should Trump win another term. The … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, fascism, Joe Biden, neoliberalism, Rick Perlstein
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Doom Blogging
I have been accused of doom blogging because all I ever write about is bad news. But, in my defense, chronicling the implosion of the American empire is good news because this state of affairs has become intolerable for a … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-imperialism, deep state, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, neocons, neoliberalism, propaganda
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Greenspan Moment
I keep waiting for a Greenspan moment from a prominent neocon where he admits that he has found a flaw in his ideological model. According to the wayback machine–in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street Crash, Alan Greenspan, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Greenspan, anti-imperialism, MIC, neocons, propaganda, Russia
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Poisoned Chalice
An empire that lives by the the narrative, dies by the narrative. Our feral elite spokespersons can insist at the top of their lungs that Russia is losing in Ukraine or that “democratic” Israel, is simply defending themselves, but in … Continue reading
This ain’t no fooling around
“Heard of a van that’s loaded with weaponsPacked up and ready to goHeard of some gravesites, out by the highwayA place where nobody knows The sound of gunfire, off in the distanceI’m getting used to it nowLived in a brownstone, … Continue reading
David and Goliath
The Houthis of Yemen have demonstrated their courage and determination in standing up for the Palestinians as the rest of world silently witnesses the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza. I fully support the Houthis because Israel’s savage attack on Gaza … Continue reading
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