Tag Archives: Donald Trump

An adversarial way

Posted on February 2, 2018 by camelotkidd

Legendary investigative journalist Robert Parry has died. Anyone who’s read this blog knows how much I valued Robert and his investigative website–Consortiumnews.com. His death is a profound tragedy, and I’ve spent the week in a state of persistent melancholy. Life … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged adversarial journalist, Associated Press, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Central America, CIA, Consortium News, corporate media, Donald Trump, forth estate, George Ellison, Jean Kirkpatrick, Jeff Bezos, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, new Cold War, President Reagan, propaganda, PropOrNot, public diplomacy, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, self-censorship, Syria, washington post | Leave a comment

War is a way of shattering to pieces

Posted on January 25, 2018 by camelotkidd

Who knew Defense Secretary Mattis had such a refined sense of humor? SEC. MATTIS: “We don’t invade other countries, in Russia’s case — Georgia, Ukraine. That we settle things by international rule of law, you know, this sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, all-American corporate empire, C. Wright Mills, corporate media, Donald Trump, empire, foreign policy, George Orwell, McResistance, memory hole, military/intelligence/industrial complex, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Rachel Maddow, Randolph Bourne, regime change, Russia, Russia-gate, Secretary of Defense--Mattis, Secretary of State--Tillerson, sovereignty, Syria, war is the health of the state | Leave a comment

Duck and Cover

Posted on January 17, 2018 by camelotkidd

A year on it’s become clear that the McResistance to Trump’s misrule is largely about Democrats and liberals avoiding self-examination, while continuing the ruinous neoliberal and neoconservative policies that brought us to this point. For example, Trump came into office promising … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged 9/11, Al-Qaeda, all-American corporate empire, Caitlin Johnstone, corporate media, deep state, Donald Trump, duck and cover, Hawaii, HR 608, ICBM, McResistance, NATO, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, plutocracy, propaganda, regime change, Russia, Russia-gate, Stop Arming Terrorists, Syria, terrorist proxy, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard | Leave a comment

The Trump Diversion

Posted on December 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

Many liberals would love to depose Trump and return to a normalcy where such a monster could never be elected. If only Hillary would’ve won, the thinking goes, things would have been so much better. I beg to disagree. As a … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, critiques proliferate and mature across the society, Donald Trump, generational crisis, Hillary Clinton, inverted totalitarianism, Obama diversion, oligarchy, Political Economy of Obama/Trump, power elite, propaganda, Richard Wolff, Sheldon Wolin, The president for our milieu, Trump diversion, US system of oligarchy | Leave a comment

Yay Resistance!

Posted on December 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

Members of the Trump Resistance are turning handsprings over the guilty plea of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI about pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador. But, this case and its ramifications should trouble … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Consortium News, Donald Trump, FBI, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jared Kushner, military industrial complex, new Cold War, NSA, resistance, Robert Mueller, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russia-gate, Shattered, tax bill, the pawl, the ratchet, US Senate | Leave a comment

The Rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Posted on November 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

Nothing says United States of Amnesia quite like the rehabilitation of George W. Bush. Articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Guardian eagerly reported Bush’s recent speech with its implicit criticisms of Trump as a hopeful … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alfred McCoy, American exceptionalism, corporate media, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, The rehabilitation of George W. Bush, United States of amnesia | Leave a comment

Propagandized

Posted on November 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m so sick of reading letters-to-the-editor in our local paper blaming Russia for besmirching our precious democracy and electing Donald Trump. Why, you’d almost think that there was a propaganda effort afoot to get gullible Americans to believe such … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Caitlin Johnstone, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, Donald Trump, fake news, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, invasion of Iraq, neocons, neoconservative, new york times, Paul Wolfowitz, Phil Donahue, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, silos of knowledge, Sunni terrorists, United States of amnesia, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, washington post | Leave a comment

Crackpot Centrism

Posted on November 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m smitten. Caitlin Johnstone is my new favorite blogger. She’s smart, funny and absolutely fearless. She also writes about the things I’m most interested in–political/economy, foreign policy, and media manipulation. Perhaps because she’s Australian, Johnstone deftly deconstructs US propaganda, following … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alex Carrey, C. Wright Mills, Caitlin Johnstone, corporate media, corporate propaganda, crackpot centrism, crackpot realism, deep state, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Republican Party, Russia, Russia-gate, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

Friends like these

Posted on November 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

There’s an effort underway to force the US to attack Iran. The pressure is coming from the putative allies of the US in the Middle-East: Saudi Arabia and Israel. Of course this crazy idea is also supported by the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 9/11, 9/11 Report, Asian Times, Bashar al-Assad, Daniel Lazare, Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Trump, friends like these, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, MBS, missing 29 pages of the 9/11 Report, Mohammed bin Salman, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Pepe Escobar, President Bush, Russia, Saad al-Hariri, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Shia crescent, Sunni, Sunni terrorism, Syria, unsanctioned terrorism, Wahhabism, war on terror, Yemen | Leave a comment

Leftless in America

Posted on October 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

In The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, political scientist, Corey Robin says that conservatism draws its power and purpose from opposition to the left. “From the French Revolution through civil rights and women’s lib, struggles … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged conservatism, Corey Robin, cultural issues, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, economics, Edmund Burke, finance, hippies, identity politics, left, long-standing fissures of the conservative movement, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, Reactionary Mind, Republican Party, right, Ronald Reagan | Leave a comment