Tag Archives: George Orwell

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

The Russians are coming

Posted on September 9, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 1984, corporate media, deep state, Emmanuel Goldstein, empire, George Orwell, Hybrid Wars, NATO, neocons, new Cold War, NGO's, propaganda, purpose of war, Putin, Romanian and Polish ABM system, Russia, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland | Leave a comment

Priorities

Posted on January 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 | Leave a comment

Doublethink

Posted on January 5, 2016 by camelotkidd

Doublethink, or the act of ordinary people simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, is an essential means of population control for the U.S. government and corporate media. In this up-meets-down funhouse, destructive economic and foreign policies and narratives go largely unquestioned … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, Chile, doublethink, George Orwell, John Stewart Mill, Killing the Host, Michael Hudson, neoliberalism, Penny Pritzker, Pinochet, President Obama, Robert Rubin, University of Chicago | Leave a comment

“Boy Play”

Posted on September 23, 2015 by camelotkidd

Thought I’d become inured to “war-on-terror” blowback. Boy was I wrong. In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1984, Afghanistan, blowback, George Orwell, opium, war on terror | Leave a comment