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Tag Archives: Naomi Klein
Making the connection
Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America’s new CIA director. Now that we have a torturer in charge of our premier intelligence agency it’s appropriate to make the connection between the economic and foreign policies of the US empire. Neoliberalism … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Chile, CIA, CIA as organized crime, Cold War, Democratic Party, Douglas Valentine, Gina Haspel, making the connection, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, The Shock Doctrine, torture, war on terror
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5 feet high and rising
Much of the Sturm und Drang over President Trump has got to do with the ongoing crisis in the legitimacy of the neoliberal dispensation. Let’s face it, our elite have made a hash of things and they can’t seem to cope … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 5 feet high and rising, corporate media, disaster capitalism, Donald Trump, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Margaret Thatcher, Naomi Klein, neoliberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Orleans, ongoing crisis in the neoliberal dispensation, rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, The Shock Doctrine
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In our world, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act
The defining characteristic of neoliberalism is it’s use of crisis and disaster to force its market based dogma upon a captive society. In the process, neoliberalism destroys community and compassion while encouraging rampant and destructive individualism. This has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, age of Trump, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, Fear City, feral elite, Howard Zinn, Kim Phillips-Fein, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Powell memo, resistance, shock doctrine
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Apple Pie
No thoughtful observer of American history can be surprised at the Senate report detailing the torture carried out by the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11. The revelation of torture should be seen as the logical outcome of economic and … Continue reading
A Milo Minderbinder Moment
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
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