Tag Archives: Consortium News

It must be a coincidence

Posted on April 12, 2018 by camelotkidd

It must be a coincidence that every time Trump or someone in his administration talks about leaving Syria there’s a chemical weapons attack. On Saturday, April 7, video and stories claiming a chemical weapons attack in Douma were broadcast. … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Brian Williams, Caitlin Johnstone, Consortium News, corporate media, deep state, Donald Trump, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, Nikki Haley, Robert Parry, Russia, seymour hersh, State Department, Syria | Leave a comment

An adversarial way

Posted on February 2, 2018 by camelotkidd

Legendary investigative journalist Robert Parry has died. Anyone who’s read this blog knows how much I valued Robert and his investigative website–Consortiumnews.com. His death is a profound tragedy, and I’ve spent the week in a state of persistent melancholy. Life … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged adversarial journalist, Associated Press, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Central America, CIA, Consortium News, corporate media, Donald Trump, forth estate, George Ellison, Jean Kirkpatrick, Jeff Bezos, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, new Cold War, President Reagan, propaganda, PropOrNot, public diplomacy, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, self-censorship, Syria, washington post | Leave a comment

Siver Lining

Posted on January 11, 2018 by camelotkidd

I like to read books twice. Not all books but certainly the good ones. It’s amazing the things that you miss the first time. Take Douglas Valentine’s–The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. It blew … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 9/11, Consortium News, conspiracy theories, control, corporate media, Douglas Valentine, Homeland Security Department, Hotel Tacloban, Jade Helm, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, regime change, Robert Parry, silver lining, structural violence, The CIA As Organized Crime, The Future Applicability of the Phoenix Program, The Phoenix Program, true relationship between crime and law enforcement., US foreign policies | Leave a comment

Yay Resistance!

Posted on December 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

Members of the Trump Resistance are turning handsprings over the guilty plea of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI about pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador. But, this case and its ramifications should trouble … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Consortium News, Donald Trump, FBI, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jared Kushner, military industrial complex, new Cold War, NSA, resistance, Robert Mueller, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russia-gate, Shattered, tax bill, the pawl, the ratchet, US Senate | Leave a comment

The Orb

Posted on May 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

We live in a post-satire world. There is no more glaring example of this than the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, in Riyadh, where US president Donald Trump visited to participate in this Orwellian photo-op. Seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernhard, blowback, Consortium News, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, Manchester terror attack, Memorial Day, moon of alabama, Russia, satanic ritual, satire, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, terrorism, Wahhabism, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | 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

Illusion only is sacred, truth profane

Posted on February 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

There was much pearl-clutching by the corporate media when Trump blurted out the truth of US foreign policy in a recent interview with Fox host, Bill O’ Reilly. “There are a lot of killers.” Trump responded. “We’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 9/11, Bill O'Reilly, blaming America first, CIA, Consortium News, Donald Trump, group think, Illusion only is sacred, killers, moral equivalence, narrative, National Security Council, new york times, pearl-clutching, perception management, PR, President Reagan, propaganda, Robert Parry, torture, truth profane, US corporate empire, US foreign policy, Walter Raymond Jr., war crimes, William Casey | Leave a comment

The political/economy of empire

Posted on August 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

Job Interview

Posted on June 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

Queen of the Neocons

Posted on March 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a neocon problem. Clinton has just been endorsed for president by neoconservative intellectual, Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican who recognizes that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the presumptive favorite, would be hostile to neoconservative … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American empire, Bernie Sanders, Consortium News, Counterpunch, coups, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, neocons, neoconservatives, Project for the New American Century, regime change, Republicans, Robert Kagan, Robert Parry, Scoop Jackson, Syria, Ukraine, US foreign policy | Leave a comment