Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton

The political/economy of empire

Posted on August 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

While it’s useful to focus on what we can all do to make things better, going local will only go so far. Entering a presidential election between two deeply unpopular candidates, we are faced with problems that require a national … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 2016 presidential election, Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, American benevolence, Barak Obama, China, Cold War 2.0, Consortium News, Democrats are the party of war, Donald Trump, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, isolationism, Libya, NATO, neoconservative, political/economy of empire, Putin, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, SL Tribune, Syria, war on terror, washington post | Leave a comment

The Lesser Evil

Posted on June 25, 2016 by camelotkidd

Readers have accused me of being a Trump supporter. I’m not a supporter, but I do believe that he’s the lesser evil in a matchup against Hillary Clinton. I know, hear me out. The media has once again done … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged banana republic, deep state, Donald Trump, free trade, Hillary Clinton, immigration, neo-conservatives, neoliberal | Leave a comment

The Greater Evil

Posted on June 25, 2016 by camelotkidd

Readers accuse me of being a Trump supporter. I’m not a supporter, I’m just making the case that Hillary Clinton is the greater evil. I know, hear me out. The conventional wisdom is that Hillary is a progressive, like … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoconservative, neoliberal | Leave a comment

Job Interview

Posted on June 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

The 51 State Department officials who signed a memo urging the Obama administration to bomb Syria must be applying for a position in the future Hillary Clinton administration. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made it known that she favors … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Consortium News, Donald Trump, gang of 51, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, John Kerry, neo-conservatives, neoconservative agenda, NY Times, regime change, Robert Parry, State Department, Sunni terrorists, Syria, The Center for Citizens Initiative (CCI), threat of nuclear war, war crime | Leave a comment

Human Capital

Posted on June 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism reduces us all to market participants. To neoliberals we’re not citizens, just human capital. There’s a great article at Salon, by Anis Shivani, that provides a glimpse into this poorly understood ruling ideology. “Neoliberalism believes that markets are self-sufficient unto … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anis Shivani, Bernie Sanders, divide and rule, Donald Trump, free speech, Hillary Clinton, human capital, identity politics, Margaret Thatcher, market apostate, multiculturalism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Salon, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, working-class | 1 Comment

Misery Loves Company

Posted on May 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

Media and political consultants are in full mea culpa mode now that Donald Trump has essentially clinched the Republican nomination to be President. As part of this reckoning there’s also an effort underway to assess why it is that Republican … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, economic populism, Eric Boehlert, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Mark Ames, mea culpa, Media Matters, Naked Capitalism, Spite the Vote | Leave a comment

How Neoliberalism Became a Pejorative

Posted on May 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberal’s have gotten a touch defensive lately. Recently, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait tweeted, “What if every use of ‘neoliberal’ was replaced with, simply, ‘liberal’? Would any non-propagandistic meaning be lost?” Neoliberalism is the generally accepted name for the socially atomizing, inequality-generating, environmentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged banana republic, Barak Obama, class warfare, Corey Robin, Democratic Party, divide and rule, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Jacobin, Jonathan Chait, Keynesianism, liberalism, market, neo-liberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Deal, no alternative, Phiip Mirowski, The New Republic, unions, Washington consensus | Leave a comment

Managing the Decline

Posted on April 19, 2016 by camelotkidd

We are witnessing the first presidential campaign since the Great Depression that directly challenges the essential features of the US economy. All the controversy over social issues and immigration is just so much distraction from the bi-partisan economic policies … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2016 presidential election, banana republic, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, feral elite, Gaius Publius, Hillary Clinton, inequality, manage the decline, neoliberalism, New Deal, not a bug but a feature, Panama Papers, ruling elite, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment

Kindness is a Revolutionary Act

Posted on March 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Frankenstein candidacy of Donald Trump has been brought to life by neoliberal economic policies pursued by Republicans and Democrats alike. To be sure, Trump’s rise is predicated on his appeal to racial resentments and xenophobia. Normally this racism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, culture of meanness, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Emmanual Goldstein, FDR, Flint, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Ian Welch, kindness is a revolutionary act, lead poisoning, Michigan, Mussolini, neoliberal, New Deal, savage race to the bottom, social-Darwinism | Leave a comment

Queen of the Neocons

Posted on March 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a neocon problem. Clinton has just been endorsed for president by neoconservative intellectual, Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican who recognizes that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the presumptive favorite, would be hostile to neoconservative … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American empire, Bernie Sanders, Consortium News, Counterpunch, coups, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, neocons, neoconservatives, Project for the New American Century, regime change, Republicans, Robert Kagan, Robert Parry, Scoop Jackson, Syria, Ukraine, US foreign policy | Leave a comment