Tag Archives: deep state

Failing Upwards

Posted on February 9, 2016 by camelotkidd

Despite being the richest most powerful country in the world the US is an empire in decline. Perhaps it’s because we don’t hold our elite accountable? Empire-101 requires holding elites accountable to maintain said empire. History is replete with failed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bad shit happens, banana republic, Condoleezza Rice, corporate media, corruption, deep state, empire, empire of chaos, failing upwards, feral elite, foreign policy, General David Petraeus, god's work, Jamie Dimon, KKR, Little Timmy, Lloyd Blankfein, Mike Lofgren, Paul Wolfowitz, Pepe Escobar, President Obama, Tim Geithner, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Priorities

Posted on January 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

The US is the greatest country the world has ever seen, proclaim our leaders. It’s getting hard to take these kinds of statements seriously. In Flint, Michigan we’ve decided that we really don’t give a fuck if the residents … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1984, American exceptionalism, banana republic, class warfare, deep state, Emmanual Goldstein, Flint, George Orwell, lead exposure, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Michigan water, middle-class, Mike Lofgren, neoliberalism, nuclear weapons, Rick Snyder, self-actualized, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Contradictions

Posted on January 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

What do secret wars, regime change, spying on Americans, and bailouts for Wall Street have in common? They’re all policies of the deep state, according to Mike Lofgren, the Republican congressional staffer who wrote the groundbreaking essay Anatomy of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anti-intellectuallism, corporations, deep state, Enlightenment, ferel elite, greedy/ideology, invasion of Iraq, Mike Lofgren, military industrial complex, no-nothings, secret government, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Factions

Posted on December 24, 2015 by camelotkidd

Seymour Hersh’s new article makes abundantly clear that the American deep state has factions that are vying for supremacy. “…at some point some other military leaders decided that they couldn’t follow the policy, because it was nonsensical, and did something … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Joint Chief, kremlinologist, President Obama, Putin, Russia, seymour hersh, Sunni terrorism, Syria, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The Great Game

Posted on November 25, 2015 by camelotkidd

I’ve always wondered if Obama is a figure-head for the deep state or if he’s in on it. Paul Craig Roberts is wondering the same thing in response to Turkey shooting down a Russian bomber on the Syrian border. Here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged deep state, ISIS, Paul Craig Roberts, President Obama, Russia, Sunni terrorists, Syria, the great game, Turkey | 1 Comment

The Rabbit Hole

Posted on November 19, 2015 by camelotkidd

Why is it that the CIA, while ostensibly an intelligence agency, instead has operated as a para-military unit fomenting coups and instigating regime change in numerous foreign countries? Also, has the CIA been operating as a rogue agent carrying out these policies or … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, CIA, Consortium News, deep state, Killing Hope, Lewis Carol, rabbit hole, regime change, Robert Parry, Syria, William Blum | Leave a 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

The Kill Switch

Posted on November 11, 2015 by camelotkidd

New Zealand just released the draft of the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)and it is worse than we could have imagined. According to consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the TPP, “…allows corporations to bypass our three branches of government to impose enforceable sanctions … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Hedges, corporate coup, deep state, Exxon/Mobile, finance, Glass-Steagall Act, ISDS, military/intelligence/industrial complex, oil, Ralph Nader, RICO, TPP | 1 Comment

It’s the empire, stupid!

Posted on November 4, 2015 by camelotkidd

Why does the US pursue such boneheaded foreign policies? Can you say empire? Over at Colonel Pat Lang’s shop–Sic Semper Tyrannis , they write of the dilemma the US faces as an empire that’s dependent on allies to provide bases … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Colonel Patrick Lang, deep state, empire of chaos, Ian Welsh, ISIS, Mike Lofgren, neoconservatives, proxies, proxy forces, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, terrorists, UAE | Leave a comment

Class-Warfare

Posted on October 27, 2015 by camelotkidd

The free-market economic policy our leaders have chosen for us–neoliberalism–requires coercion to make people participate. Enforcing market obedience is something I’ve written about at CK before. It’s also one of the salient points made about early capitalism in Karl Polanyi’s masterpiece, The … Continue reading →

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