Tag Archives: Cold War

Situational

Posted on November 30, 2019 by camelotkidd

I always thought that the war on terror was an artificial construct, put in place to continue using the military/industrial/complex as a way to organize the US economy after the fall of the Soviet Union. The whole thing seemed … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda | Tagged Cold War, Cold War 2.0, feral elite, neocons, Russia-gate, Soviet Union, Ukraine-gate, war on terror | Leave a comment

Market Failure

Posted on November 9, 2019 by camelotkidd

I never though I would feel nostalgic for the Cold War but in retrospect it’s apparent that the contest between the two superpowers over which system delivered more comfort, freedom, and happiness to its citizens was a golden era. … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda | Tagged Barak Obama, Cold War, George W. Bush, Goliath, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neoliberalism, There is no Alternative, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Making the connection

Posted on May 23, 2018 by camelotkidd

Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America’s new CIA director. Now that we have a torturer in charge of our premier intelligence agency it’s appropriate to make the connection between the economic and foreign policies of the US empire. Neoliberalism … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Chile, CIA, CIA as organized crime, Cold War, Democratic Party, Douglas Valentine, Gina Haspel, making the connection, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, The Shock Doctrine, torture, war on terror | Leave a comment

Deeper Malady

Posted on April 5, 2018 by camelotkidd

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. We would do well to reflect on a speech he gave exactly a year before his death. At the Riverside Church, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, King portrayed the war … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged American exceptionalism, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, civil-rights, Cold War, deep state, deeper malady, Donald Trump, empire, gun violence, Martin Luther King Jr., neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, new Cold War, opioid crisis, return to sender, Riverside Church speech, Russia-gate, terrorist proxy | Leave a comment

Surveillance is the business model

Posted on March 8, 2018 by camelotkidd

In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine | Leave a comment

A dirty game

Posted on February 28, 2018 by camelotkidd

The sociopathic elite that make up the deep state are playing a very dirty game. Russia-gate has gone from allegations that Donald Trump personally colluded with Vladimir Putin to deny Hillary Clinton the presidency to the latest indictment of … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged aluminum tubes, CIA, CNN's fake interview, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, corporate media, Creel Committee, deep state, dirty game, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, false-flag, FBI, Gulf of Tonkin, hypocritical liberals, John Brennan, Joseph McCarthy, military industrial complex, MK-ULTRA, mushroom clouds, neoconservatives, Operation Northwoods, propagan, rip scores of babies out of incubators, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russia-gate, Saddam's WMD, Steele dossier, US national security, witch-hunt | Leave a comment

Propagandized

Posted on November 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m so sick of reading letters-to-the-editor in our local paper blaming Russia for besmirching our precious democracy and electing Donald Trump. Why, you’d almost think that there was a propaganda effort afoot to get gullible Americans to believe such … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Caitlin Johnstone, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, Donald Trump, fake news, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, invasion of Iraq, neocons, neoconservative, new york times, Paul Wolfowitz, Phil Donahue, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, silos of knowledge, Sunni terrorists, United States of amnesia, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, washington post | Leave a comment

Out of the shadows

Posted on February 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

After 70 years of anonymity the deep state has fully emerged from the shadows. In the wake of the surprise resignation of Trump’s national-security-advisor, Michael Flynn, stories about the deep state are everywhere, from the New York Times, to Naked … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Cold War, Consortium News, corporate media, corporate propaganda, deep state, Democratic Party, Democrats, Douglas Valentine, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, liberals, McCarthy, military/intelligence/industrial complex, Naked Capitalism, new Cold War, new york times, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russians, The CIA As Organized Crime, wikileaks | Leave a comment

Ruling Ideologies

Posted on January 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the United States has been operating under the auspices of two mutually reinforcing ideologies–neoliberalism and neoconservatism. By criticizing trade treaties like the TPP and NAFTA, while promising to mend relations … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged 2nd Cold War, all-American corporate empire, Andrew Bacevich, bi-partisan elite, blowback, CIA, Cold War, corporate media, Council on Foreign Relations, cover story, Democrats, Donald Trump, globalization, Grand Areas, Great Britain, hacking, liberal interventionists, Margaret Thatcher, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, no alternative, Putin, Republicans, ruling ideologies, Russia, Soros funded NGO's, Soviet Union, US intelligence agencies | Leave a comment

Like Ike

Posted on November 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 | 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 | Leave a comment