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Tag Archives: President Reagan
Evil Is Easy (Part 2)
Wall Street, the too-big-to-fail-banks, and the financial industry control our lives for the worse. How did this come to pass? From the New Deal up until the 80’s finance was heavily regulated, staid, boring even. Finance was also a … Continue reading
Illusion only is sacred, truth profane
There was much pearl-clutching by the corporate media when Trump blurted out the truth of US foreign policy in a recent interview with Fox host, Bill O’ Reilly. “There are a lot of killers.” Trump responded. “We’ve got a lot … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged 9/11, Bill O'Reilly, blaming America first, CIA, Consortium News, Donald Trump, group think, Illusion only is sacred, killers, moral equivalence, narrative, National Security Council, new york times, pearl-clutching, perception management, PR, President Reagan, propaganda, Robert Parry, torture, truth profane, US corporate empire, US foreign policy, Walter Raymond Jr., war crimes, William Casey
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Termites
Movement conservatives should be viewed as termites gnawing away at the structure of the commonwealth. Like an unscrupulous exterminator, who surreptitiously introduced the termites initially then shows up to rid them, conservatives then benefit from this destruction. Since Reagan, conservatives have … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Democratic Party, dick like Snyder, Emptywheel, exterminator, Flint, get governments out of the business of basic governance, GOP, Governor Rick Snyder, lead, Marcy Wheeler, Michigan, movement conservatives, New Deal, P.R., poison, politics of resentment, President Reagan, southern strategy, tax cuts, termites, water
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Class-Warfare
The free-market economic policy our leaders have chosen for us–neoliberalism–requires coercion to make people participate. Enforcing market obedience is something I’ve written about at CK before. It’s also one of the salient points made about early capitalism in Karl Polanyi’s masterpiece, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Traffic Controllers, Argentina, Chile, Corey Robin, death squads, deep state, James Petras, Karl Polanyi, libertarians, military coup, neoliberalism, Pinochet, President Reagan, primitive accumulation, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, The Great Transformation, violence, X-Files
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Hearts and Minds
At a party the other day a male relative repeated a familiar sentiment–“Government is the problem. We don’t need any government except the military.” Everyone around him kind of nodded and the party continued. Meanwhile, I wanted to bang my … Continue reading
