Tag Archives: deep state

The Other Ratchet

Posted on May 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’ve written before about how our political process is like a ratchet, where the Republicans apply rightward force, while the Democrats allow this rightward movement but whenever there’s a lull, they lock into place and prevent any movement back … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernie Sanders, conservative media, corporate media, deep state, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, flak, liberal media, Manufacturing Consent, McCarthyism, new Cold War, new york times, NPR, Republicans, Russia, Syria, the pawl, the ratchet, Ukraine, washington post, wikileaks | Leave a comment

Domesticated

Posted on April 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Trump ran for office vowing to change US foreign policy and put America first. That didn’t last long. Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria in response to the Syrian military’s so-called chemical weapon attack, marks the culmination of a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, chemical weapons, corporate media, Council on Foreign Relations, cruise missiles, deep state, Donald Trump, foreign policy, H.R. 608--Stop Arming Terrorists, Israel, liberal media, Listen Liberal, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, Robert Parry, Russia, Syria, Thomas Frank, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard | 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

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, CIA, Color Revolutions, deep state, deep state network, Donald Trump, figurehead, isolationist, liberal, Mike Lofgren, Mike Pence, military industrial complex, oligarchy, populist, power elite, PR, protectionist, Silicon Valley, TPP, US system of oligarchy, Wall Street, year of living dangerously | Leave a comment

War Pigs: or How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and to Love the Drone

Posted on December 24, 2016 by camelotkidd

When did the liberals turn into war pigs? If there was going to be anything positive from the election of Trump, it was the lowering of tensions between the US and Russia. With liberals excitedly pointing to the CIA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged bankers in orange jumpsuits, black sabbath, CIA, CIA as organized crime, deep state, Donald Trump, Douglas Valentine, F-35, Hillary Clinton, hypocritical liberals, liberals, neoconservatives, new Cold War, Operation Mockingbird, Putin, regime change, Russia, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland, war pigs | Leave a comment

Planned economy

Posted on December 21, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump has caused an outpouring of grief and many commentators are convinced that the end of the world is nigh. However, Trump didn’t get us to this place, he was just a savvy opportunist who … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allen Greenspan, Bernie Sanders, Chicago Boys, classic economics, deep state, DNC, Donald Trump, economic planning, federal reserve, financialization, Hillary Clinton, Janet Yellen, Michael Hudson, neoliberals, planned economy, shareholder value, socialism, University of Chicago, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Internal divisions

Posted on December 13, 2016 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump is provoking internal divisions within the deep state, leading to some very interesting disclosures. Indeed, there is a battle being waged for influence and control in the presumptive Trump administration. It might be useful to … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, CIA, deep state, DIA, DOD, Donald Trump, emptywheel.net, energy flows, General Michael Flynn, Gulf States, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, John Brennan, Marcy Wheeler, Mike Lofgren, new york times, pipelineistan, Qatar, regime change, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia crescent, Syria, Wall Street, War on Drugs, war on terror is a hoax, Washington consensus, washington post | Leave a comment

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