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Operation Epic Fail
Trump’s attack on Iran is turning into the biggest military disaster in US history. Even the neocons are saying it, and the corporate media is reporting it. On May 10, Robert Kagan, arch-neocon who’s married to Maidan cookie-monster Victoria Nuland, lamented in The … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged 1984, deep state, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Iran, Israel, neocons, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland
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How-to manual
George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a how-to manual, yet here we are. The corporate media coverage of the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine demonstrates the extent to which government and media have merged to become a … Continue reading
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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Permanent emergency in the liberal imagination
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
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The Russians are coming
How did the new Cold War get started? Maybe we need an enemy to keep us distracted as much of the country spirals into 3rd world status? Maybe we need an enemy to keep the Military/Intelligence/Industrial/ Complex profitable? For example, … Continue reading
Priorities
The US is the greatest country the world has ever seen, proclaim our leaders. It’s getting hard to take these kinds of statements seriously. In Flint, Michigan we’ve decided that we really don’t give a fuck if the residents … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, American exceptionalism, banana republic, class warfare, deep state, Emmanual Goldstein, Flint, George Orwell, lead exposure, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Michigan water, middle-class, Mike Lofgren, neoliberalism, nuclear weapons, Rick Snyder, self-actualized, wall street crash
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“Boy Play”
Thought I’d become inured to “war-on-terror” blowback. Boy was I wrong. In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Afghanistan, blowback, George Orwell, opium, war on terror
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