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Mis, Dis and Mal-information
A recent Homeland Security alert made me laugh. “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Joe Biden, propaganda, Russia, The Blob, Ukraine
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Performative Virtue Signaling
Why has the the modern Democratic Party become incapable of governing? Perhaps it’s because the Democratic Party has become defined by a contradiction: it simultaneously promises policies that benefit its corporate donors while also solving problems created by those same … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Reed Jr., identity politics, Joe Biden, Modern Democratic Party, Thomas Frank
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Your Health is in Your Hands
I’ve come to realize that the emphasis on vaccines to the exclusion of other public health measures is a neoliberal solution to the pandemic. It is not hard to understand why the magic bullet of vaccines–to the exclusion of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, feral elite, Joe Biden, neoliberalism, vaccines
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Failing Upward
It’s pretty rich that a lot of business and management books tend to be written by US military leaders even as they have a well documented record of failure. Here’s how it works. No American general has been disciplined for … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Donald Trump, failed state, feral elite, Joe Biden
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Can’t make it here anymore
The Democratic Party is poised to deliver a Build Back Better betrayal to the American people. Indeed, the ways in which President Biden’s social and infrastructure spending proposals have been hollowed out are a good microcosm of the Democratic Party’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Build Back Better, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, New Deal, public infrastructure, Simon Patten
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Ism’s
I’m trying to quit ism’s but it’s proving more difficult than I imagined. The problem is that ism’s like socialism, capitalism, liberalism and Marxism have become so charged that one has to spend an inordinate amount of time unpacking the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, neoliberalism, socialism
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Pattern Recognition
The American empire has not become kinder and gentler just because they are flying the rainbow or BLM flags at our embassy’s. Or because there is now a lesbian at the helm of the CIA directing drone strikes. Or because … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, fascism, Joe Biden, Wall Street
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Conscience
Why is it that we are led by sociopaths? If we’re honest about our milieu it’s apparent that the commanding heights of business, politics and media are filled with sociopaths. It’s really not that hard to see and understand; there’s … Continue reading
Tribal Narrative
I was joking about our putative leaders substituting PR for policy, but only slightly. This is important because our whole worldview is constructed from narratives that we’ve decided are true. The only problem for the powers that be is that … Continue reading
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Tagged feral elite, Joe Biden, matt taibbi, narrative, national security state
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