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A Political Project
Now that that America has entered an end-of-empire death spiral our feral elite are either studiously ignoring our predicament, or blaming the victims. By death spiral I don’t mean Trump, he’s only one of the more grotesque symptoms, but our whole … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism
Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, The Powell Memo
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Pattern Recognition
William Gibson writes dystopian science fiction, where he imagines the future by closely studying the present. In his post 9/11 novel Pattern Recognition, he discovers that the present is just as weird and dystopian as any future he might imagine. I’ve … Continue reading
Lab Rats
When I was growing up the Cold War against the Soviet Union was driven by conservatives, who were convinced that communism was an existential threat to capitalism and indeed the American way of life. These days the Cold War … Continue reading
Outside Influence
Who gets to decide US foreign policy, the president or the deep state? That seems to be the pertinent question that’s left unsaid in the whole Ukraine-gate impeachment drama. Also unsaid by the corporate media is the essential Ukraine backstory … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged CIA, deep state, Donald Trump, impeachment, Russia-gate, Ukraine-gate
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Over there
My friends and loved ones grow weary of my focus on foreign policy. They’re much more concerned with the pressing domestic issues facing our country. But what happens over there affects us over here. And what happens over there … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, impeachment, Nancy Pelosi, Russia-gate, Ukraine-gate
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All about the Benjamins
I’ve talked about the deep state at length but the whole Epstein affair casts this dynamic in a much darker hue. For instance, there’s no way that a serial pedophile blackmailer like Epstein went unnoticed by the vaunted intelligence … Continue reading
Scandalous
Michelle Obama is making the rounds with a curious claim. In a recent interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, she contrasted her husband’s presidency with that of his successor by claiming that unlike Trump, the Obama family had … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, propaganda
Tagged Al Qeada, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Honduras, Libya, Michelle Obama, neo-Nazis
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