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Operation Epic Fail
Trump’s attack on Iran is turning into the biggest military disaster in US history. Even the neocons are saying it, and the corporate media is reporting it. On May 10, Robert Kagan, arch-neocon who’s married to Maidan cookie-monster Victoria Nuland, lamented in The … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged 1984, deep state, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Iran, Israel, neocons, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland
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Gotta get in to get out
To be an apostate takes courage, tenacity and perseverance. Oh, and bloody-mindedness. But in addition, becoming an apostate–an outsider–requires introspection. An examination of your own consciousness reveals a lot of unfounded assumptions about who we are, our place in society … Continue reading
Posted in propaganda, feral elite
Tagged Donald Trump, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Ian Welsh, idealogies
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How-to manual
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
Deluge
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
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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