Tag Archives: neocons
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
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Lots of friends went to the Bernie/AOC rally, and wondered why the one with the most radical politics, did not join. Anyone who has read this blog and contemplated what I write about already knows but, in a nutshell, the … Continue reading
Give War a Chance
The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close. Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war … Continue reading
Authoritarian Conflict Management
Out of town. So here’s a important article by Mike Whitney, detailing the ways in which Trump is responsible for Hamas’s bust out of Gaza and Israel’s genocidal response. And a taste–“So, with a wave of his hand, Trump broke … Continue reading
Gangster State
The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading
Blowback
Inquiring minds want to know if there’s a connection between the US’s weaponization of terrorist proxies in Syria to overthrow the Bashar Assad regime and the truck attack in New Orleans? Has the war of terror come home? A US … Continue reading
