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A low and dishonest century
9/11 ushered in a low and dishonest century. And because we have a low and dishonest corporate media we get shit like this from Paul Krugman: “Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn’t a mass outbreak of … Continue reading
Situational
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
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Making the connection
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
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Deeper Malady
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
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Surveillance is the business model
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
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A dirty game
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
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Ruling Ideologies
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
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