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Of the erosion of international norms of war and the Western commitment to them
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
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Friends and Family
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
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The Hate Machine
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
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Permanent emergency in the liberal imagination
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
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The Orb
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
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The Russians are coming
How did the new Cold War get started? Maybe we need an enemy to keep us distracted as much of the country spirals into 3rd world status? Maybe we need an enemy to keep the Military/Intelligence/Industrial/ Complex profitable? For example, … Continue reading
Priorities
The US is the greatest country the world has ever seen, proclaim our leaders. It’s getting hard to take these kinds of statements seriously. In Flint, Michigan we’ve decided that we really don’t give a fuck if the residents … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1984, American exceptionalism, banana republic, class warfare, deep state, Emmanual Goldstein, Flint, George Orwell, lead exposure, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Michigan water, middle-class, Mike Lofgren, neoliberalism, nuclear weapons, Rick Snyder, self-actualized, wall street crash
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