Tag Archives: deep state
Post Neoliberalism
If you thought neoliberalism was bad, just wait. Neoliberalism was the owners of the country rebelling against the New Deal class compromise between capital and labor. Back when the US maintained a manufacturing economy workers possessed more power and the … Continue reading
Operation Epic Fail
Trump’s attack on Iran is turning into the biggest military disaster in US history. Even the neocons are saying it, and the corporate media is reporting it. On May 10, Robert Kagan, arch-neocon who’s married to Maidan cookie-monster Victoria Nuland, lamented in The … Continue reading
Mapping the Deep State
Federalist Papers author and first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, presciently described the deep state: “The people who own the country ought to govern it.” And so they have. America is not really a country. It’s … Continue reading
The Hamptons are not a defensible position
Skimming Karp’s screed it stuck me once again that our feral elite would kill us off without a thought as they transform the US government from being run by humans to being run by algorithmic computations. And they don’t seem to … Continue reading
King Croesus
Trump’s Iran adventure is going so swimmingly that he could be our first anti-imperialist president by destroying the American empire. In a way that history doesn’t repeat but rhymes, Trump is behaving like Croesus, ruler of the Lydian Empire. According … Continue reading
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Trump more and more resembles the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, from Fantasia, where Mickey Mouse starts something that he can’t control. During negotiations, Trump and Netanyahu cast the spell of death and destruction with their cowardly assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali … Continue reading
Primitive destruction leads to creative accumulation
I’m mashing political/economic concepts together to demonstrate how ideologies have long term consequences. The creditor class have been subjugating nations and funding wars for centuries, kicking into high gear with the “enclosure laws”–policies that forced peasants off their land and … Continue reading
On the way to collapse
In addition to all the other reveals, the Epstein Files have shone a light on the ongoing looting operation, where it’s much more lucrative to sabotage the US economy so that the billionaires can profit from the destruction. The latest … Continue reading
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