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No mercy in this land
There is no mercy in this land. We have one political party that makes no bones about its support for plutocratic rule and another that pretends to support democracy while surreptitiously aiding the wealthy and powerful at every opportunity. … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged Chuck Schumer, corporate media, Democrats, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, McResistance, Noam Chomsky, Palestinians, propaganda, Republicans, secular Arab nationalism, Steny Hoyer, trans-national plutocrats, US foreign policies, war of terror
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War is a Product
Fifteen years ago our neocon-foreign-policy elite sold us a war based on fraudulent intelligence. They acquired much of this intelligence through torture. Saddam Hussein was accused of having weapons of mass destruction. He had none. Iraq was illegally attacked and … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Andrew Card, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Dixie Chicks, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Jeffrey St. Clair, Lindsey Graham, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, propaganda, Russia-gate, Saddam Hussein, war crime, war is a product, WMD
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Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine
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The Trump Diversion
Many liberals would love to depose Trump and return to a normalcy where such a monster could never be elected. If only Hillary would’ve won, the thinking goes, things would have been so much better. I beg to disagree. As a … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged C. Wright Mills, critiques proliferate and mature across the society, Donald Trump, generational crisis, Hillary Clinton, inverted totalitarianism, Obama diversion, oligarchy, Political Economy of Obama/Trump, power elite, propaganda, Richard Wolff, Sheldon Wolin, The president for our milieu, Trump diversion, US system of oligarchy
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