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What’s the plan Stan?
What is the plan for the American empire? Do our feral elite even have one or are they just winging it? There was the Wolfowitz Doctrine, that outlined a policy of unilateralism and pre-emptive military action to suppress potential threats from other … Continue reading
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Tagged American corporate empire, deep state, feral elite, Gaza, genocide, Israel, neo-consrvatism, neoliberalism, palestine, politics
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The Cookie Monster exits stage right
The coming defeat for the US in their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has already claimed its first resignation. Victoria Nuland’s “retirement” is a tell that Washington’s premier foreign policy project has failed. She was on the ground micro-managing … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, neocons, neoliberalism, Russia, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland
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How should we then live?
The Doom Blogging post got me thinking that I should write about something positive, so here goes. John Michael Greer wrote a novel, entitled Retrotopia, that imagines a possible future where faith in technology doesn’t equal prosperity. Greer, as an … Continue reading
Eye of the Beholder
Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 I’ve lost respect for countless liberal writers. Count Rick Perlstein among them. In a new article, entitled American Fascism, Perlstein warns of the potential for American-style fascism should Trump win another term. The … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, fascism, Joe Biden, neoliberalism, Rick Perlstein
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Doom Blogging
I have been accused of doom blogging because all I ever write about is bad news. But, in my defense, chronicling the implosion of the American empire is good news because this state of affairs has become intolerable for a … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-imperialism, deep state, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, neocons, neoliberalism, propaganda
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Weaponized
The dollar goes abroad in search of greater profits and the flag follows, trailed by human-rights and identity politics that have been weaponized to facilitate capital penetration. The US is the worlds leader in the hybrid-warfare that was developed by … Continue reading
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Tagged history, neoliberalism, philosophy, politics, Ukraine
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The Dismal Science
Examining the power centers in the US entails examining the ideologies behind them and there’s no greater ideological power than economics as it promotes and justifies capitalism. Economics and economists are ultimately political but this truism gets ignored in the … Continue reading
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Tagged inequality, Milanovic, neoliberalism, US empire, Visions of Inequality, Wall Street
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Lesser Evil
It occurred to me that whole idea of the Democrats as the lesser evil is starting to look a bit frayed around the edges and shabby. Back when Biden won in 2020 liberals celebrated, we were sermonized on how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Biden administration, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Gaza, neocons, neoliberalism, Russia-gate
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The Grifters
It’s almost impossible to manage an empire with neoliberalism as the operating system. Matt Stoller’s latest article about how the US cannot manufacture ammunition goes into copious detail on why that is so, but the short answer is Wall Street. … Continue reading
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Tagged deep state, mattstoller, neoliberalism, US empire, Wall Street
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