Tag Archives: George W. Bush

The limits of identity politics

Posted on June 7, 2018 by camelotkidd

I’m pretty sure this will not be a popular post, but I have to ask some uncomfortable questions. Is US society better now that we have woman torturer as head of the CIA who also happens to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gina Haspel, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, torture | Leave a comment

Special kind of stupid

Posted on May 9, 2018 by camelotkidd

Our leaders seem to believe that the American people are a special kind of stupid. The latest propaganda campaign against Iran demonstrates that at this point they’re just going through the motions. As any half-wit could have foreseen, Trump … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Afghanistan, Barak Obama, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israeli nuclear weapons, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Libya, lies, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Russia, Russia-gate, special kind of stupid, Syria | Leave a comment

Heck of a job Brownie

Posted on March 23, 2018 by camelotkidd

If you wonder why America is in terminal decline, look no further than the lack of accountability. Not for us, silly. Under the regime of neoliberal-flavored-austerity there’s extreme accountability. Fuck-up and you’ll be living in a van down-by-the-river. No, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, Brownie, Condoleezza Rice, elite impunity, FEMA, George W. Bush, heck of a job, Hurricane Katrina, invasion of Iraq, John Yoo, Karl Rove, matt taibbi, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Rolling Stone, Ron Susskind, wall street crash, war crime | Leave a comment

War is a Product

Posted on March 20, 2018 by camelotkidd

Fifteen years ago our neocon-foreign-policy elite sold us a war based on fraudulent intelligence. They acquired much of this intelligence through torture. Saddam Hussein was accused of having weapons of mass destruction. He had none. Iraq was illegally attacked and … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Andrew Card, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Dixie Chicks, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Jeffrey St. Clair, Lindsey Graham, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, propaganda, Russia-gate, Saddam Hussein, war crime, war is a product, WMD | Leave a comment

Game Changer

Posted on March 14, 2018 by camelotkidd

The corporate media barely covered it but Russian President Putin’s recent speech was a wakeup call to our neocon-foreign-policy elite. To understand the geo-political ramifications of this speech, I would recommend the excellent article entitled “The Implications of Russia’s New … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged ABM treaty, aircraft carriers, anti-ship missiles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, empire, game changer, George W. Bush, MIC, Mike Pompeo, military industrial complex, military procurement, naval warfare, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, Nikki Haley, Putin's March 1st speech, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Russian dupe, Sputnik, Syria, United States of amnesia, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

The Rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Posted on November 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

Nothing says United States of Amnesia quite like the rehabilitation of George W. Bush. Articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Guardian eagerly reported Bush’s recent speech with its implicit criticisms of Trump as a hopeful … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alfred McCoy, American exceptionalism, corporate media, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, The rehabilitation of George W. Bush, United States of amnesia | Leave a comment

Propagandized

Posted on November 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m so sick of reading letters-to-the-editor in our local paper blaming Russia for besmirching our precious democracy and electing Donald Trump. Why, you’d almost think that there was a propaganda effort afoot to get gullible Americans to believe such … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Caitlin Johnstone, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, Donald Trump, fake news, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, invasion of Iraq, neocons, neoconservative, new york times, Paul Wolfowitz, Phil Donahue, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, silos of knowledge, Sunni terrorists, United States of amnesia, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, washington post | Leave a comment

I don’t miss W.

Posted on August 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, I saw a bumper sticker on a car that said: I Miss W. The car was festooned with other stickers that led me to believe that the owner was a liberal. Oh, great, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Barak Obama, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Germany, Hitler, hypocritical liberals, interregnum, morbid symptoms, Nazis, neo-conservative, neo-Nazis, neoliberal, Occupy Wall Street, opioid crisis, precariat, rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism, Supermanagerial Reich, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, white supremacists | Leave a comment

plus ça change

Posted on September 30, 2016 by camelotkidd

Sometimes, I think that I’ve become too cynical. But, then I see something like this. Look, I’m for political comity as much as the next fellow, but that calculation is for a political system that crafts policies and hammers … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, bi-partisanship, George W. Bush, Hope and Change, Michelle Obama, oligarchy, plus ça change, plutocracy, rancid bi-partisanship, suckers bet, war criminals | Leave a comment

QE for you and me

Posted on May 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

Donald Trump is many things–racist, reality TV star, torture advocate, strong leader with fascist tendencies. However, Trump is also a truth-teller, in that he has repeatedly challenged conventional wisdom, as articulated by the American political and media elite. He’s kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9-11, Bash kept us safe, Bernie Sanders, CBO, conventional wisdom, Donald Trump, economic orthodoxy, economic populism, fiat currency, George W. Bush, Iraq, Libya, Modern Monetary Theory, neoliberal, President Obama, public infrastructure, Syria, US imperialism | Leave a comment