Tag Archives: deep state
Running Man
The hits keep coming
A bombshell new CIA review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May. The review found that the Obama … Continue reading
The Empire Strikes Back
We knew it was coming and with the recent attacks on Russia and now Iran, the US national-security-state is rolling the dice. It’s game-on. As the American empire loses primacy, and as it’s major weapons systems turn out to be … Continue reading
Playing With Matches
I wonder about the national-security-state types who continue the dangerous proxy war against Russia. What part of don’t fuck with Russia do they not understand? Are are they simply historically illiterate? Or is it something larger–the loss of their proxy … Continue reading
No Carrot, Just Stick
US diplomacy is significant for it’s lack of diplomacy. We don’t do diplomacy, we just issue edicts that if not obeyed lead to sanctions, covert-ops and invasions. The imperial rational was articulated by Karl Rove, in the aftermath of the … Continue reading
Now They Tell Us
As the Trump Administration embarks on a campaign of domestic rendition to silence critics of Israel’s genocide it’s important to acknowledge that the Biden Administration and corporate media lied to us about the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Now … Continue reading
Techno-Feudalism
The outlines of America’s future are coming into focus and it’s not pretty. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term coined by Yanis Varoufakis to describe the new economic reality where the tech-lords that control platforms like X, Amazon, Meta, and Google, stand … Continue reading
Give War a Chance
The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading
State Media
The US has long maintained a largely invisible, highly effective propaganda system, described by CIA official, Frank Wisner, as the mighty Wurlitzer,” on which he could play any propaganda tune. Back then the CIA maintained a network of writers, journalists … Continue reading
Thread the Middle
The next four years are set to be a wild ride, but I intend to thread the middle. By that I mean that to defeat Trump we must scrutinize, modify and adapt our resistance. Furthermore, we cannot fail to acknowledge … Continue reading
