Tag Archives: George Orwell

How-to manual

Posted on October 27, 2022 by camelotkidd

George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be a how-to manual, yet here we are. The corporate media coverage of the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine demonstrates the extent to which government and media have merged to become a … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-imperialism, propaganda | Tagged 1984, George Orwell, Russia, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Deluge

Posted on July 15, 2022 by camelotkidd

We are being smashed with a deluge of war propaganda In the first full month of the US proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine, American network TV stations gave more coverage than any other war that the US has been directly involved … Continue reading →

Posted in propaganda | Tagged George Orwell, propaganda, Russia, Russia-gate, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Of the erosion of international norms of war and the Western commitment to them

Posted on February 18, 2021 by camelotkidd

For the last five years we’ve been bombarded by story after story of Trump being a secret Russian agent directed personally by Vladimir Putin, while the Russians are portrayed as being particularly villainous. Why, dear reader, do you think that … Continue reading →

Posted in deep state, neoconservatives | Tagged George Orwell, Joe Biden, neocons, Operation Timber Sycamore, propaganda, Russia-gate, Syria | Leave a comment

Friends and Family

Posted on February 6, 2021 by camelotkidd

There was a meme a few years back during the Obama administration where liberals were encouraged to relate how they had lost a family member to Fox News propaganda. During the Trump administration the narrative managers flipped the script, with … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberalism, propaganda, Uncategorized | Tagged Donald Trump, George Orwell, neoliberalism, new york times, propaganda, Russia-gate | Leave a comment

The Hate Machine

Posted on November 22, 2019 by camelotkidd

The corporate media manufactures consent by manufacturing hate. We transitioned from Hope and Change to Make America Great Again, but very little has changed with the economic and foreign policies of the American empire. A lot of this is … Continue reading →

Posted in propaganda | Tagged 1984, Edward Herman, George Orwell, matt taibbi, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, propaganda model, Russia-gate, Ukraine-gate | 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

Permanent emergency in the liberal imagination

Posted on December 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

Over the weekend, Russia-gate took an even more surreal turn when former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was accused of being a Russian-stooge because she shared a table with Vladimir Putin and former General Michael Flynn in 2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Alice in Wonderland, Caitlin Johnstone, drinking the Kool-Aid, echo chamber, General Michael Flynn, George Orwell, guilt by association, Jackson Lears, Jill Stein, Kremlin collusion, Lewis Carroll, London Review of Books, McCarthyism, resistance, Rocky Anderson, Russia, Russia-gate, SLC Tribune, South Park, Vladimir Putin, What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Russian Hacking., witch-hunt | Leave a comment

All the fake news that’s fit to print

Posted on July 3, 2017 by camelotkidd

The corporate-media is still freaking-out over fake news. Their concern would have a lot more credibility and sympathy if these so-called respectable news outlets hadn’t been responsible for so much propaganda. Does anyone remember mushroom clouds, aluminum tubes, and weapons … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism | Tagged 1984, Al-Qaeda, armchair warriors, beautiful, chemical attack, CNN, corporate media, cruise missile diplomacy, Die Welt, Donald Trump, fake news, false-flag, George Orwell, Manufacturing Consent, new Cold War, new york times, New Yorker, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Russia, sarin, seymour hersh, Syria, Tomahawks, US intelligence agencies, war is the health of the state, WWIII | Leave a comment

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

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