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The Gray Lady
Of all the topics I discuss probably the most confusing is propaganda. This week I’m going to focus on the New York Times, since it’s the premier-elite newspaper that all other media take their cues from. Going further, the … Continue reading
Forest for the Trees
At Camelotkidd, I’ve settled into a routine of writing critical articles on neoliberalism, neoconservatism, our feral elite, and propaganda, because I realized that these were subjects that not only interested me but were key to making sense of our chaotic … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, propaganda
Tagged Coronavirus, feral elite, narrative, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, pandemic, propaganda
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Back in the USSR
Imagine having a government that cares about average people, helping keep them safe during an emergency and ensuring that the costs of the crisis fall upon the members of society with the most? You don’t know how lucky you … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, neoliberalism, pandemic, Russia, Vladimir Putin
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A World Turned Upside Down
When the British surrendered at Yorktown at the close of the Revolutionary War their commander, General Cornwallis, was so distraught that he feigned illness and instead had his subordinate proffer his sword to General Washington. The tenor of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, corporate media, makers and takers, Matt Stoller, Mitt Romney, neoliberalism, pandemic, propaganda, Wall Street
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Rotten Arrangements
The Coronavirus pandemic is calling into question all of the rotten arrangements that have brought us to this point in American history. Indeed, the virus is remorselessly exposing every weakness in the political and economic ideologies it touches. Especially the ideology … Continue reading
Existential Threat
Every economy is planned. The essential political question is who gets to do the planning. Likewise, every economy is a mix between state and private actors. After 40 plus years of neoliberal “reforms”, the dominant actors in the US are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate media, DNC, finance, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Redistribution
As Bernie Sanders continues to triumph in Democratic primaries expect to hear increased denunciations of socialism. Along the way I suspect there will be denunciations of redistribution as well. However, it’d important to understand that the crucial redistribution has already … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate socialism, Donald Trump, feral elite, Kayfabe, neoliberalism, redistribution, socialism
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The language of control
In a recent interview Matt Stoller confirmed something that I long suspected. Stoller, the author of Goliath: The 100 Year war between Monopoly Power and Democracy, describes economics as the language of the aristocracy, or oligarchy, if you will. He … Continue reading
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Tagged Davos, Goliath, human capital, masters of the universe, Matt Stoller, neoliberalism, precarity, Wendy Brown
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A Political Project
Now that that America has entered an end-of-empire death spiral our feral elite are either studiously ignoring our predicament, or blaming the victims. By death spiral I don’t mean Trump, he’s only one of the more grotesque symptoms, but our whole … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, The Powell Memo
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