Tag Archives: Syria

The political/economy of empire

Posted on August 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

While it’s useful to focus on what we can all do to make things better, going local will only go so far. Entering a presidential election between two deeply unpopular candidates, we are faced with problems that require a national … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 2016 presidential election, Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, American benevolence, Barak Obama, China, Cold War 2.0, Consortium News, Democrats are the party of war, Donald Trump, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, isolationism, Libya, NATO, neoconservative, political/economy of empire, Putin, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, SL Tribune, Syria, war on terror, washington post | Leave a comment

Job Interview

Posted on June 20, 2016 by camelotkidd

The 51 State Department officials who signed a memo urging the Obama administration to bomb Syria must be applying for a position in the future Hillary Clinton administration. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made it known that she favors … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Consortium News, Donald Trump, gang of 51, Hillary Clinton, invasion of Iraq, John Kerry, neo-conservatives, neoconservative agenda, NY Times, regime change, Robert Parry, State Department, Sunni terrorists, Syria, The Center for Citizens Initiative (CCI), threat of nuclear war, war crime | Leave a comment

QE for you and me

Posted on May 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

Donald Trump is many things–racist, reality TV star, torture advocate, strong leader with fascist tendencies. However, Trump is also a truth-teller, in that he has repeatedly challenged conventional wisdom, as articulated by the American political and media elite. He’s kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9-11, Bash kept us safe, Bernie Sanders, CBO, conventional wisdom, Donald Trump, economic orthodoxy, economic populism, fiat currency, George W. Bush, Iraq, Libya, Modern Monetary Theory, neoliberal, President Obama, public infrastructure, Syria, US imperialism | Leave a comment

Queen of the Neocons

Posted on March 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has a neocon problem. Clinton has just been endorsed for president by neoconservative intellectual, Robert Kagan, a longtime Republican who recognizes that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the presumptive favorite, would be hostile to neoconservative … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American empire, Bernie Sanders, Consortium News, Counterpunch, coups, deep state, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iraq, neocons, neoconservatives, Project for the New American Century, regime change, Republicans, Robert Kagan, Robert Parry, Scoop Jackson, Syria, Ukraine, US foreign policy | Leave a comment

Bigger Fish to Fry

Posted on February 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

The death of Supreme Court Justice Scalia and what it portends for domestic politics is a monumental story. One of the wildest presidential campaigns of recent memory just got a whole lot more complicated with the politics of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bombing campaign, Consortium News, deep state, dramatic escalation, elite failure, empire of chaos, indispensable nation, ISIS, neocons, nuclear war, Putin, Qatar, Recep Erdogan, regime change, Robert Parry, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, Syria, tactical nuclear weapons, terrorist proxy, the saker, Turkey | Leave a comment

The Memory Hole

Posted on February 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

The successful Russian intervention in Syria’s civil war is causing a great hue and cry within US media and think-tanks. The latest outburst is, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency, by Charles Lister, a visiting Fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 7 countries in 5 years, Brookings, civil war, General Wesley Clark, invasion of Iraq, ISIS, memory hole, neo-conservatives, neocons, New American Century, oil and gas pipelines, Pepe Escobar, pipelineistan, propaganda, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, seymour hersh, Sunni terrorism, Syria, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

Ideology

Posted on January 6, 2016 by camelotkidd

“So when they come with that opinion poll Yeah, they better not use words like: Ideology… Or try to tell me ’bout the issues, Ideology…Whose side are you on…” Our world is ruled by dangerous ideologies. Most American’s identify Islamic terrorism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged greed is good, Ian Welsh, ideology, Islamic terrorism, joe jackson, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Paul Craig Roberts, right or wrong, Russia, Syria, US economic policies, US foreign policies | Leave a comment

Factions

Posted on December 24, 2015 by camelotkidd

Seymour Hersh’s new article makes abundantly clear that the American deep state has factions that are vying for supremacy. “…at some point some other military leaders decided that they couldn’t follow the policy, because it was nonsensical, and did something … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged deep state, Donald Trump, Joint Chief, kremlinologist, President Obama, Putin, Russia, seymour hersh, Sunni terrorism, Syria, Wall Street | 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