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The Antidote
NakedCapitalism.com is the antidote to all of the shit that flows into your conscious through the corporate media. It’s not just the Big Lie that we need to guard against. It’s the cumulative effect of little lies, evasions, distortions and … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, propaganda
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Change of plans
Our feral elite have a new economic plan to re-shore American manufacturing, but it’s not in response to the bombed out cities and towns, the neglected infrastructure, or the deaths of despair that made the election of Donald Trump not … Continue reading
Crazy
I’m surprised more Americans are not wandering around babbling and shaking their fists at the clouds because it sure is fucking hard to maintain ones sanity in our crazy world. Stress, anxiety and depression are on the rise, and they have been for years. Studies have found that increases in … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, neoliberalism, primitive accumulation, propaganda, Terence MacKenna
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Know your enemy
You can learn a lot about the American power structure by how unconventional presidential candidates are treated. Unconventional candidates for the US presidency offer a litmus test for establishment thinking, and the economics and foreign policy red lines that shall … Continue reading
The end of neoliberalism?
I’ve been writing for a while about how you can’t run an empire with a neoliberal economy, but the contradictions can be overwhelming. As the late Mark Fisher wrote about neoliberalism –“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world … Continue reading
Freedom
Lambert at Naked Capitalism has a neoliberalism formulation: 1) Because Markets 2) Go die, that has always appealed to me for the conciseness. Let’s tease out some more of the political and social implications of such an explanation. The dominant … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Republicans
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If the right hand doesn’t get you the left hand will
Isn’t it great that in America we have a robust democracy where each political party represents a clear coalition and is responsive to the will of its voters? Oh, wait. At a Friday event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the President’s Emergency Plan … Continue reading
Sacrifice Zone
Is it just me or are America’s priorities seriously fucked-up? While our feral elite blather on about freedom, democracy, rule based international order, etc., the American people are discovering that they live in a sacrifice zone. On Monday, President Biden, … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged disaster capitalism, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, neoliberalism
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Because markets, go die
I’ve always liked this formulation of neoliberalism because of its succinctness, but it’s useful to tease out the implications. Because markets describes how neoliberalism organizes all human activity through the competition of a market system that’s directed by a neoliberal … Continue reading
Posted in anti-imperialism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Michael Hudson, neocons, neoliberalism, Russia, Ukraine, Wall Street
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Musical Chairs
There’s a new book out that helps explain the behavior of liberals since Trump’s surprise election in 2016. Virtue Hoarders, by Catherine Liu, examines the professional managerial class (PMC), which is predominated by liberals, and finds that they are shameless … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoliberalism, PMC, virtue hoarding
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