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Absolution

David Brooks (of all people) has an op/ed in the Times, where he takes the professional/managerial/class (PMC) to task. “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” [David Brooks, New York Times]. “We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes … Continue reading

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Traditional

In an article last month, Matt Taibbi, asked “where are the rest of the “card-carrying” liberals from the seventies, eighties, and nineties — people like me, who always reflexively opposed restrictions on speech?” The short answer is, of course, Donald … Continue reading

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Cheap

We are going to have to learn to care for one another again. Neoliberalism has turned us into selfish assholes. We have followed Thatcher’s maxim that there is no society only individuals, and in the process have lost our humanity. … Continue reading

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Fight for your right to loot

I welcome the collapse of the US empire due to the sociopathy of our feral elite. The coming collapse could be brought about by the US and NATO’s defeat in their proxy war in Ukraine, hence all of the hysterical … Continue reading

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To Eleven

Seeing the polling results last week showing a majority of Americans support pouring more dollars down the Ukrainian rathole was depressing but not surprising. The US has a world-class propaganda system and the managers of empire have been bludgeoning the … Continue reading

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Empire Incorporated

It’s hard to run an empire with neoliberalism as your operating system. Neoliberalism favors a sort of short-termism, where the next quarter is the only thing that matters. It’s a race to the bottom, a real looters ball. Unfortunately, over … Continue reading

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No Bananas

It’s clear that we live in a banana republic where the former president is facing a 37 count indictment and 400 years in prison while the current president is under investigation for a massive bribery scandal. While the US doesn’t … Continue reading

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Mendacity

I swear to God that if I hear one more lie I’m going to scream. We live in nation of lies. They lied about the “weapons of mass destruction” that led to the invasion of Iraq. They lied about the … Continue reading

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Power

Occasionally I’m going to feature an examination of power in the US. I’m not talking about the legislative, executive and judiciary as enumerated in the Constitution, but the real power that exists behind these documents. A starting point is Federalist … Continue reading

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The Antidote

NakedCapitalism.com is the antidote to all of the shit that flows into your conscious through the corporate media. It’s not just the Big Lie that we need to guard against. It’s the cumulative effect of little lies, evasions, distortions and … Continue reading

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