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Deeper Malady
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. We would do well to reflect on a speech he gave exactly a year before his death. At the Riverside Church, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, King portrayed the war … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged American exceptionalism, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, civil-rights, Cold War, deep state, deeper malady, Donald Trump, empire, gun violence, Martin Luther King Jr., neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, new Cold War, opioid crisis, return to sender, Riverside Church speech, Russia-gate, terrorist proxy
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Won’t end well
Lately, I’ve detected a certain sense of malaise among my fellow citizens. In my opinion, it’s long been apparent that this won’t end well. Take the stock market, the indicator that our elite reliably depict as proof of the … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism
Tagged Bill Clinton, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, extreme poverty, opioid crisis, President Reagan, Republican Party, school shootings, stock market, suicide, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, Wall Street, wall street crash, war on labor, won't end well, Yasha Levine
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A Tale of Two Countries
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” When Charles Dickens wrote the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities it was in reference to London and Paris during the French Revolution, but his epochal depiction … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, best of times, Charles Dickens, class warfare, Clusterfuck Nation, corruption, Democratic Party, James Howard Kunstler, Matt Stoller, neo-feudalism, neo-liberalism, opioid crisis, PR, President Obama, technocratic elite, technocratic liberalism, Wall Street, worst of times
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Accumulated Despair
Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading
Posted in neoliberals
Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs
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