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Cold War Kids

Posted on July 26, 2017 by camelotkidd

The Democratic Party with the corporate media in tow has been consistently promulgating the idea that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in favor of Trump. This effort is part of a larger scheme. Even before the election powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Democratic Party, military industrial complex, new Cold War, Noam Chomsky, permanent war party, Republican Party, Russia, US Congress, Washington consensus | Leave a comment

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, CIA, Color Revolutions, deep state, deep state network, Donald Trump, figurehead, isolationist, liberal, Mike Lofgren, Mike Pence, military industrial complex, oligarchy, populist, power elite, PR, protectionist, Silicon Valley, TPP, US system of oligarchy, Wall Street, year of living dangerously | Leave a comment

Like Ike

Posted on November 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Before he took office, President Obama professed his admiration of President Reagan. Lately he’s behaving like President Eisenhower. Eisenhower, after creating the military-industrial-complex and nascent deep state, famously warned against it. As he was leaving office. Many Americans remember Eisenhower’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allan Dulles, Barak Obama, CIA, Citigroup, Cold War, deep state, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Glass-Steagall Act, globalization, golf, Hope and Change, inequality, John Foster Dulles, Larry Summers, Like Ike, Little Timmy, MIC, military industrial complex, regime change, State Department, Tim Geithner, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The Flying Lemon

Posted on October 4, 2016 by camelotkidd

Reading the Project of Government Oversight report on the F-35, it’s apparent that the fighter/bomber is a flying lemon, and we the taxpayers are the unwitting buyers. The report claims that the F-35, built by Lockheed Martin, is weighed down … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged corruption, cost-plus, empire, F-35, flying lemon, George Akerlof, information asymmetry, Journal pf Strategic Culture, Lockheed Martin, looting, military industrial complex, military procurement, needless complexity, neocons, no-fly zone in Syria, noliberals, opacity, POGO, US military, US system of oligarchy | Leave a comment

Contradictions

Posted on January 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

What do secret wars, regime change, spying on Americans, and bailouts for Wall Street have in common? They’re all policies of the deep state, according to Mike Lofgren, the Republican congressional staffer who wrote the groundbreaking essay Anatomy of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anti-intellectuallism, corporations, deep state, Enlightenment, ferel elite, greedy/ideology, invasion of Iraq, Mike Lofgren, military industrial complex, no-nothings, secret government, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment

A Milo Minderbinder Moment

Posted on December 7, 2014 by camelotkidd

Neoconservatives have a lock on American foreign policy with an intellectual conformity among analysts, commentators and government policy makers that is breathtaking. This has happened, I believe, because neoconservatism represents the strong state necessary for neoliberal economic policies to be implemented … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American exceptionalism, Catch-22, greedy/ideology, Joseph Heller, military industrial complex, Milo Minderbinder, Naomi Klein, neoconservatism, not a bug but a feature, propaganda, The Shock Doctrine, war profiteer | Leave a comment

Why we can’t have nice stuff

Posted on October 6, 2014 by camelotkidd

We’ve been talking a lot about foreign policy lately, but why does US foreign policy matter to the American public? It matters because our elite are committed to empire. Empire is their political economy. Empire benefits them. Us, not so … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Hedges, deep state, empire, military industrial complex, neo-feudalism, Noam Chomsky | Leave a comment

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