Tag Archives: deep state
Gunboat Diplomacy
The US doesn’t do diplomacy. Instead we send in the gunboats or, to be precise, the aircraft-carrier-battle-groups. Like everything else these days the price of a modern aircraft carrier is astronomical. America’s latest carrier class, the Gerald R. Ford, costs … Continue reading
Source Documents
I’m fascinated by the history of ideas and ideologies, and no ideology has captivated me quite like neoliberalism. In our secular era, ideologies, like neoliberalism, with its admonishment that there is no alternative, take on articles of faith. Indeed, neoliberalism’s … Continue reading
The Hundred Year War
The US has been at war with Russia for over a hundred years. Technically it started out as a war against the Soviet Union, but the enmity remained after we defeated the godless communists. There was a brief interlude during … Continue reading
A declining empire run by bad people
In a recent poll young Americans were pessimistic about their future, describing the US as a declining empire led by bad people. “Young voters overwhelmingly believe that almost all politicians are corrupt and that the country will end up worse … Continue reading
It’s a mean, mean world
We live in a mean world organized by sociopaths. America is run by people who are both evil and stupid, and they are acting on the associated impulses, attempting to reestablish a unipolar world dominated by the United States, and … Continue reading
Sensible Center
I’m going to miss my senator Mittens. Not because he’s a good legislator, in fact he’s terrible, but because he blurts out things our feral elite keep on the down-low. When Mittens ran for president in 2012 against Obama he … Continue reading
The Host
Despite conventional, bi-partisan opinion America’s fulsome support for Israel is a fatal weakness. The rest of the world can witness how a small country in the Middle East and a Zionist diaspora controls US foreign and economic policies. At the … Continue reading
The mask come off
The student protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza have forced our feral elite to take their mask off, and what we are witnessing is monstrous. The fulsome US support of the genocide Gaza is simply indefensible. And the students sense this … Continue reading
New Era
The Iranian drone, cruise missile and ballistic missile attack on Israel represents a new era in the Middle East. I’m traveling and don’t have the time or bandwidth to put together a post detailing the momentous significance of Iran’s response. … Continue reading
What’s the plan Stan?
What is the plan for the American empire? Do our feral elite even have one or are they just winging it? There was the Wolfowitz Doctrine, that outlined a policy of unilateralism and pre-emptive military action to suppress potential threats from other … Continue reading
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