Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Concentrated

Posted on June 26, 2017 by camelotkidd

Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods has raised alarms about economic concentration. No corporation epitomizes monopoly better than Amazon, who’s business model is predicated on losing money with their super-low prices in order to capture market share. Their dominant position then … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Amazon, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, corporate media, corporate propaganda, corporations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic concentration, George Orwell, high-tech, Jeff Bezos, libertarians, Listen Liberal, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neofeudal, neoliberal, new economy, political/economy, rent seeking, Silicon Valley, Thomas Frank, washington post, Whole Foods | Leave a comment

We Live in a Political World

Posted on June 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

Why hasn’t a left-wing populist party arisen in the US in the wake of the Wall Street crash and bail-out by the government? Why have labor unions, environmentalists, racial and ethnic minorities not created an alternative to the fully … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged banana republic, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, class warfare, David Sirota, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic populism, financial reform, financialization, Great Britain, Grenfell Tower fire, identity politics, labor party, Margaret Thatcher, mass shootings, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Republicans, There is no Alternative, Washington Generals, we live in a political world | Leave a comment

The Orb

Posted on May 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

We live in a post-satire world. There is no more glaring example of this than the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, in Riyadh, where US president Donald Trump visited to participate in this Orwellian photo-op. Seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernhard, blowback, Consortium News, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, Manchester terror attack, Memorial Day, moon of alabama, Russia, satanic ritual, satire, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, terrorism, Wahhabism, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

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

It’s the economy, stupid

Posted on April 25, 2017 by camelotkidd

In retrospect it seems obvious, but political scientist Corey Robin argues that Bernie Sanders did so well in the 2016 presidential election because he’s the first Democrat in forever to offer a trenchant political analysis of the US economy. … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 Clinton Campaign, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hope and Change, identity politics, it's the economy stupid, liberal McCarthyism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, new Cold War, New Democrats, political economy, Russians, Shattered, Tom Perez, worsening economic conditions | Leave a comment

The Weathervane Bares All

Posted on April 20, 2017 by camelotkidd

As I’ve stated repeatedly, the recent presidential election and its aftermath have been amazingly clarifying. Come to find out that the torrent of propaganda spewed out by the corporate media in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, corporate media, Donald Trump, fake news, flathead, rabbit hole, suck on this, talking heads, terrorism, terrorist patsy, terrorist proxy, The Weathervane, Thomas Friedman, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | 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

Manufacturing Consent

Posted on April 3, 2017 by camelotkidd

While our neoliberal elite have been more than willing to offshore traditional manufacturing, they’ve kept the manufacturing of consent right here in America. Though western countries claim to be democracies, they all suffer from income and wealth inequality, with many … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged advertising, Alex Carey, bull-shit, corporate media, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, fake news, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Manufacturing Consent, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, plutocracy, propaganda model, public relations, Russia, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, think tanks, Walter Lippmann | Leave a comment

Accumulated Despair

Posted on March 27, 2017 by camelotkidd

Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs | Leave a comment

The ideology that failed

Posted on March 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism is a failed ideology that has immiserated millions of ordinary citizens. Like communism, neoliberalism benefits a small cohort of elites at the expense of everyone else. Under communism, the vanguard of the proletariat, i.e. members of the Communist … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged affluent professionals, Amazon, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, CNN, communism, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, economic populism, Gulag, Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison, Margaret Thatcher, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, new york times, no alternative, NPR, precariat, ruling ideology, the ideology that failed, Tom Perez, Truthdig, Vanity Fair, washington post | Leave a comment