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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
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, propaganda, Russia-gate, USAID
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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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Biden, deep state, Donald Trump, Gaza, neoliberalism, pawl, Russia-gate, Ukraine, USAID
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Authoritarian Conflict Management
Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Abraham Accords, Donald Trump, Israel, neocons, propaganda
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Gangster State
The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Mafia, neocons, neoliberalism, Syria
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Pay the Toll
We have a tollbooth economy, where necessary components of modern life–education, healthcare, transportation and communication–have become prohibitively expensive, in the process erecting barriers to economic participation. A major feature of the tollbooth economy is the increasing weight of rentier activities … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, infrastructure spending, Simon Patten
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Concrete material benefits
The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism
Tagged Donald Trump, Elon Musk, H-1B, neoliberalism, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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Things behind things
We live in a interregnum, where everything, including reality itself, is in flux. The paranoia and distrust of institutions that has taken hold in America is not a function of Donald Trump’s rancid populism no matter what the liberal, intellectual … Continue reading
The end of the end of history
Trump’s reelection has shattered the end of history narrative promulgated by Francis Fukuyama and the assorted coterie of neocons who plotted a perpetual American empire. Former MI-6 military and foreign policy analyst, Alastair Crooke writes–“the U.S. election also, has been … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, neocons, neoliberalism
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Landslide
There was a clear winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Billionaires won in a landslide. No matter what the public wants and no matter the outcome of elections, the oligarchs almost always win. They get a neoliberal government that does little … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda
Tagged Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, oligarchy, Republican Party
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