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Tag Archives: Barak Obama
Concentrated
Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods has raised alarms about economic concentration. No corporation epitomizes monopoly better than Amazon, who’s business model is predicated on losing money with their super-low prices in order to capture market share. Their dominant position then … Continue reading →
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
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Tagged 1984, Amazon, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, corporate media, corporate propaganda, corporations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic concentration, George Orwell, high-tech, Jeff Bezos, libertarians, Listen Liberal, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neofeudal, neoliberal, new economy, political/economy, rent seeking, Silicon Valley, Thomas Frank, washington post, Whole Foods
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The Pawl
The recent election and its aftermath have been instructive. Americans who supported Bernie Sanders, were castigated as naive, political utopians who failed to understand that the only option was to support Hillary, lest the evil Orange-One prevail. And now … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals
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Tagged American political system, AUMF, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush 1, Democrats, Donald Trump, drone assassinations, executive branch, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ian Welsh, Nazis, Nuremberg, Patriot Act, public relations, Ratchet Effect, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, sabotage, the pawl, Wall Street
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Like Ike
Before he took office, President Obama professed his admiration of President Reagan. Lately he’s behaving like President Eisenhower. Eisenhower, after creating the military-industrial-complex and nascent deep state, famously warned against it. As he was leaving office. Many Americans remember Eisenhower’s … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals
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Tagged Allan Dulles, Barak Obama, CIA, Citigroup, Cold War, deep state, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Glass-Steagall Act, globalization, golf, Hope and Change, inequality, John Foster Dulles, Larry Summers, Like Ike, Little Timmy, MIC, military industrial complex, regime change, State Department, Tim Geithner, Wall Street
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For the good of the country
How did a monster like Trump win? The short answer is that Hillary was a uniquely horrible candidate, as I detail here. She was also the establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election. The Democratic Party also bears a large … Continue reading →
plus ça change
Sometimes, I think that I’ve become too cynical. But, then I see something like this. Look, I’m for political comity as much as the next fellow, but that calculation is for a political system that crafts policies and hammers … Continue reading →
The political/economy of empire
While it’s useful to focus on what we can all do to make things better, going local will only go so far. Entering a presidential election between two deeply unpopular candidates, we are faced with problems that require a national … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives
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Tagged 2016 presidential election, Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, American benevolence, Barak Obama, China, Cold War 2.0, Consortium News, Democrats are the party of war, Donald Trump, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, isolationism, Libya, NATO, neoconservative, political/economy of empire, Putin, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, SL Tribune, Syria, war on terror, washington post
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Job Interview
The 51 State Department officials who signed a memo urging the Obama administration to bomb Syria must be applying for a position in the future Hillary Clinton administration. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made it known that she favors … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives
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Tagged Barak Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Consortium News, Donald Trump, gang of 51, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, John Kerry, neo-conservatives, neoconservative agenda, NY Times, regime change, Robert Parry, State Department, Sunni terrorists, Syria, The Center for Citizens Initiative (CCI), threat of nuclear war, war crime
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