Tag Archives: neocons
Useful Idiots
Liberals and so-called “leftists” denouncing Iran are useful idiots for the US empire. Liberals tut-tut the mullah’s for their intolerance and accuse Iran of being a “theocratic fascist regime” while the US surrounds Iran with bases, and funds, arms and … Continue reading
The Donroe Doctrine
Empires do not go quietly into the night. Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a merry band … Continue reading
Nobody wants the status quo
The vast majority of Americans find the status quo poisonous. This is the inevitable blowback from decades of misguided bipartisan policies that have destroyed our country. From never-ending invasions, regime-change ops and sanctions, to ruinous financialization, to the steady outsourcing … Continue reading
Hills
In the 2016 presidential campaign we had one sociopath who boasted of “grabbing woman by the pussy” and one sociopath who joked in a television interview, “We came, we saw, he died” and laughed, after hearing that Gaddafi had been captured … Continue reading
Give War a Chance
War spending is a bi-partisan sport in the Beltway, while the corporate media justifies it with euphemisms such as “the war on terror”, “human rights”, “defending freedom”, “promoting democracy”, etc. We spend $1.5 trillion on what we humorously describe as … Continue reading
The Great Unraveling
“Things fall apart and the center cannot hold” I’ve been writing about the travails of our feral elite since I started this blog yet I’m shocked by how fast our country is falling apart. The examples of the gross incompetence … Continue reading
Everywhere is war
It certainly doesn’t appear possible for the US to have a non-belligerent foreign policy. Instead, the US aspires to be Techno-Sparta, where a climate of fear, hostility and end-of-times preparation seems to have overtaken US politicians, elites and the corporate media. … Continue reading
The Empire Strikes Back
We knew it was coming and with the recent attacks on Russia and now Iran, the US national-security-state is rolling the dice. It’s game-on. As the American empire loses primacy, and as it’s major weapons systems turn out to be … Continue reading
Playing With Matches
I wonder about the national-security-state types who continue the dangerous proxy war against Russia. What part of don’t fuck with Russia do they not understand? Are are they simply historically illiterate? Or is it something larger–the loss of their proxy … Continue reading
A Clockwork Orange
I live in a liberal neighborhood replete with Ukrainian flags, and wonder if the display is a sort of unconscious projection? Liberals have been taught their whole lives that the Holocaust was the greatest crime ever and were instructed to … Continue reading