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The Consensus
Most liberals take their cues from the New York Times, which provides the narrative for the American empire. Indeed, the Gray Lady’s chief role is to enforce accepted US imperial diktats and neoliberal orthodoxy. Oligarchic imperialism is our dominant state … Continue reading
A low and dishonest century
9/11 ushered in a low and dishonest century. And because we have a low and dishonest corporate media we get shit like this from Paul Krugman: “Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn’t a mass outbreak of … Continue reading
Lab Rats
When I was growing up the Cold War against the Soviet Union was driven by conservatives, who were convinced that communism was an existential threat to capitalism and indeed the American way of life. These days the Cold War … Continue reading
The Power of Narrative
The reason that I always doubted Russia-gate is because I read. A lot. I started out with tons of fiction but then moved to non-fiction, with a heavy emphasis on the history of empires. Oswald Spengler’s, Decline of the … Continue reading
Quagmires
I still wonder if Trump would have carried out his promise of better relations with Russia and less interventionist foreign policies absent Russia-gate? I ask this question because a confluence of events in Syria is increasing the danger of war with … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Al-Qaeda, deep state, Donald Trump, military industrial complex, Russia, Russia-gate, Syria, terrorist proxy
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Game Changer
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
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A dirty game
The sociopathic elite that make up the deep state are playing a very dirty game. Russia-gate has gone from allegations that Donald Trump personally colluded with Vladimir Putin to deny Hillary Clinton the presidency to the latest indictment of … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged aluminum tubes, CIA, CNN's fake interview, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, corporate media, Creel Committee, deep state, dirty game, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, false-flag, FBI, Gulf of Tonkin, hypocritical liberals, John Brennan, Joseph McCarthy, military industrial complex, MK-ULTRA, mushroom clouds, neoconservatives, Operation Northwoods, propagan, rip scores of babies out of incubators, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russia-gate, Saddam's WMD, Steele dossier, US national security, witch-hunt
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Yay Resistance!
Members of the Trump Resistance are turning handsprings over the guilty plea of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI about pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador. But, this case and its ramifications should trouble … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals
Tagged Consortium News, Donald Trump, FBI, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jared Kushner, military industrial complex, new Cold War, NSA, resistance, Robert Mueller, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russia-gate, Shattered, tax bill, the pawl, the ratchet, US Senate
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A Flaw in the Model
The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Alan Greenspan, An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, animal spirits, Ayn Rand, banana republic, Democrats, Education/Industrial/Complex, flaw in the model, John Maynard Keynes, looting, magical belief system, military industrial complex, mortgage-securitization process, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, not a bug but a feature, Republicans, Richard Posner, student-loan-securitization process, Yves Smith
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