Tag Archives: Cold War

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

Corporate Patriotism

Posted on September 19, 2016 by camelotkidd

There’s a serious effort underway to get President Obama to pardon whistleblower, Edward Snowden, before he leaves office. There’s also a new movie about Snowden, by Oliver Stone, that has got me thinking about what it means to be … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Allan Dulles, Cold War, Constitution, corporate empire, corporate flag, corporate patriotism, deep state, Devil's Chessboard, Edward Snowden, foreign policy, fucked-up foreign policy, hegemony, mindless obedience, new Cold War, Oliver Stone, President Obama, presidential pardon, regime change, Russia, The Powell Memo, We the people | Leave a comment

The Shotgun Sings the Song

Posted on December 19, 2015 by camelotkidd

It’s becoming clear just what Margaret Thatcher meant when she told everyone that there was no alternative to neoliberalism. In an absolutely stunning article, economist Michael Hudson explains how the US is wielding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged China, Cold War, IMF, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Hudson, neoconservative, neoliberal, no alternative, Russia, The Who, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Rollback

Posted on December 16, 2015 by camelotkidd

The US is waging a novel type of hybrid warfare in a desperate attempt to maintain its hegemony and counter the rise of a multi-polar world led by Russia and China. The war on terror is a hoax, used as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, Andrew Horybko, Cold War, Color Revolutions, empire of chaos, Facebook, Google Maps, hive mind, Hybrid Wars, media, Pepe Escobar, propaganda, public diplomacy, public relations, rollback, Russia, selling war, social media, Soviet Union, Syria, Twitter, Ukraine, YouTube, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Leave a comment

Control

Posted on December 2, 2015 by camelotkidd

If Americans appear clueless about foreign policy it’s by design. The rationales offered range from fighting terrorists who threaten our homeland, to protecting helpless civilians, to spreading peace and democracy. Hopefully you, dear reader, don’t need me to point out … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al-Qaida, Cold War, control, Council on Foreign Relations, Deterring Democracy, dollars, empire of chaos, indigenous nationalism, ISIS, neoconservatives, oil and gas pipelines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Syria, US foreign policy, Wall Street, Washington consensus | Leave a comment

We’ve Always Been at War With Eastasia

Posted on November 25, 2015 by camelotkidd

Behind the smokescreen of American exceptionalism, the US is the dominant world-wide empire, working assiduously to prevent other countries from threatening their status. To the uninitiated US foreign policy appears to be a sea of absolute incoherence, but there is a method … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cold War, empire of chaos, General Wesley Clark, Iran, Iraq, Pat Lange, Paul Wolfowitz, Pepe Escobar, Russia, Sic Semper Tyrannis, Soviet Union, Syria, Ukraine | 1 Comment

The Safari Club

Posted on November 14, 2015 by camelotkidd

The Safari Club sounds like a seedy stripper bar on the wrong side of the tracks that sells cheap beer and has a condom machine in the mens room advertising–For Her Pleasure. In reality the Safari Club is an instructional story … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Allen Dulles, CIA, Cold War, deep state, Devil's Chessboard, empire, Intelligence agencies, Jon Schwarz, proxies, The Church Committee, The Intercept, The Safari Club, Watergate | Leave a comment

My Pet Goat

Posted on October 21, 2015 by camelotkidd

That Trump fellow sure is making things interesting with his recent statements. “Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Trump’s attack forced Jeb Bush to defensively claim that his brother, President George Bush, “kept us safe.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AUMF, Bin Laden, Clean Break, Cold War, Donald Trump, empire, George Bush, Jeb Bush, My Pet Goat, neoconservatives, patsy, President Obama, war on terror | Leave a comment

The Threat of a Good Example

Posted on June 6, 2015 by camelotkidd

The political and economic elite in the US is threatened by an alternative model for organizing society. This is the perverse flip side to Margaret Thatchers admonishment–“there is no alternative.” However, the constant repetition of the this free market dogma … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Fletcher, Cold War, Cuba, Deterring Democracy, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, new york times, no alternative, Noam Chomsky, Soviet Union, threat of a good example, Washington consensus, washington post | Leave a comment

Public Diplomacy

Posted on January 7, 2015 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are not an accident of history. They are the ideological components of a sophisticated and largely successful counterattack on the New Deal, that commenced within seconds of the signing of the progressive legislation by President Franklin D. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cold War, FDR, New Deal, propaganda, public diplomacy, Reagan, Robert Parry | Leave a comment