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Tag Archives: Powell memo
In our world, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act
The defining characteristic of neoliberalism is it’s use of crisis and disaster to force its market based dogma upon a captive society. In the process, neoliberalism destroys community and compassion while encouraging rampant and destructive individualism. This has been a … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, age of Trump, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, Fear City, feral elite, Howard Zinn, Kim Phillips-Fein, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Powell memo, resistance, shock doctrine
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Collaborators
The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Civil Right Act, Corey Robin, FDR, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, neo-liberal, New Deal, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, Powell memo, President Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy, triangulation, Voting Rights Act, Wall Street
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Free Enterprise
In the United States the term free enterprise has been used as a key component of an organized propaganda program to concentrate corporate wealth and power. Political scientist, Alex Carey wrote that the “20th century has been characterized by 3 developments of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Carey, banana republic, big lie, Bill Black, free enterprise, Gresham's Dynamic, Lewis Powell, looting, Noam Chomsky, Powell memo, propaganda
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The Empire Strikes Back
I discuss neo-feudalism at CK a fair amount. Okay, a lot. Going forward, I want to explore how Neo-feudalism came to be our reality. My decades of research have convinced me that this was no accident; shaped by benign, external forces. … Continue reading
History Lessons
America’s very own historian is at it again. Over the weekend Newt Gingrich vowed that as a future president he would overrule “activist judges” who rule contrary to American cultural heritage. He warned of an uprising against the courts unless … Continue reading
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Tagged activist judges, Citizen's United, Newt Gingrich, Powell memo
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