Tag Archives: propaganda

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby

Posted on February 10, 2016 by camelotkidd

I know that Hillary’s pretty bloodthirsty, but is the Clinton campaign in such distress that they’d let the mask slip? Of course, I’m talking about Madeleine, Special Place In Hell, Albright Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, bloodthirsty, Creel Commission, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Manufacturing Consent, monsters among us, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, public relations, special place in hell, Virginia Slims, you've come a long way baby | Leave a comment

Rollback

Posted on December 16, 2015 by camelotkidd

The US is waging a novel type of hybrid warfare in a desperate attempt to maintain its hegemony and counter the rise of a multi-polar world led by Russia and China. The war on terror is a hoax, used as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, Andrew Horybko, Cold War, Color Revolutions, empire of chaos, Facebook, Google Maps, hive mind, Hybrid Wars, media, Pepe Escobar, propaganda, public diplomacy, public relations, rollback, Russia, selling war, social media, Soviet Union, Syria, Twitter, Ukraine, YouTube, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Leave a comment

Return to Sender

Posted on December 9, 2015 by camelotkidd

Crimes committed by the empire on the periphery always return to the center. Always. Bombing, murder, torture, drone assassinations, and employing terrorist proxies as cut-outs are some of the many crimes carried out by the US government in an effort to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged camelotkidd, conservatives, Consortium News, Daniel Lazare, empire of chaos, gun control, neoconservatives, propaganda, regime change, Robert Parry, San Bernardino, Syria, terrorist proxy, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

Public Diplomacy

Posted on January 7, 2015 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are not an accident of history. They are the ideological components of a sophisticated and largely successful counterattack on the New Deal, that commenced within seconds of the signing of the progressive legislation by President Franklin D. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cold War, FDR, New Deal, propaganda, public diplomacy, Reagan, Robert Parry | Leave a comment

A Milo Minderbinder Moment

Posted on December 7, 2014 by camelotkidd

Neoconservatives have a lock on American foreign policy with an intellectual conformity among analysts, commentators and government policy makers that is breathtaking. This has happened, I believe, because neoconservatism represents the strong state necessary for neoliberal economic policies to be implemented … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American exceptionalism, Catch-22, greedy/ideology, Joseph Heller, military industrial complex, Milo Minderbinder, Naomi Klein, neoconservatism, not a bug but a feature, propaganda, The Shock Doctrine, war profiteer | Leave a comment

Free Enterprise

Posted on November 21, 2014 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alec Carey, banana republic, big lie, Bill Black, free enterprise, Gresham's Dynamic, Lewis Powell, looting, Noam Chomsky, Powell memo, propaganda | Leave a comment

Lost In Space

Posted on November 3, 2014 by camelotkidd

It’s been a rough week for commercial space travel. First, on Tuesday an un-manned commercial supply rocket bound for the International Space Station, exploded after liftoff. The accident prompted criticism over NASA’s reliance on private corporations to launch payloads, now that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged commercial space travel, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, privatization, propaganda, public good, Robert Parry | 1 Comment

Greedy/Ideology

Posted on September 22, 2014 by camelotkidd

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Akerlof and Romer, censorship, empire, greedy/ideology, Kansas, Karl Rove, looting, Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism, propaganda, Thomas Frank, Tom Engelhardt, Yves Smith | Leave a comment

Mind Fog

Posted on January 14, 2014 by camelotkidd

When Mark Twain commented that, “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is getting its shoes on,” he was talking about America. It’s only gotten worse. We live in a world of bullshit, where reality is manufactured … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, agnotology, Mark Twain, neoliberalism, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Philip Mirowski, propaganda, public relations, uncertainty | Leave a comment

Mars Bitches

Posted on February 24, 2013 by camelotkidd

The documentary, “Hubris: Selling the Iraq War,” recently aired on MSNBC to mark the tenth-anniversary of the selling of the Iraq War by President George W. Bush’s administration. Sometimes I wonder if American’s even remember this shameful period. Thanks to Netflix, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Carey, Black Bush, Carnegie, corporations, Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Gore Vidal, Hubris: Selling the Iraq War, Mark Twain, Morgan, MSNBC, NBC, netflix, Numerian, Phil Donahue, Pinkertons, propaganda, Rockefeller, The American Anti-Imperialist League | Leave a comment