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Shut up and Sing
The 20 year anniversary of 911 promises plenty of weepy testimonials and homages to the heroic first responders who died in the attacks. What we won’t see is a reckoning on how 911 was used to fundamentally transform the United … Continue reading
Posted in deep state, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged 911, deep state, invasion of Iraq, neocons, propaganda, war on terror
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Situational
I always thought that the war on terror was an artificial construct, put in place to continue using the military/industrial/complex as a way to organize the US economy after the fall of the Soviet Union. The whole thing seemed … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoconservatives, propaganda
Tagged Cold War, Cold War 2.0, feral elite, neocons, Russia-gate, Soviet Union, Ukraine-gate, war on terror
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A crisis of ideologies
I find it darkly amusing that neoliberalism and neoconservatism are losing legitimacy by the day, while political leaders and the corporate media warn of the disintegration of the “western-liberal-order.” That these two ruling ideologies are imploding says a lot … Continue reading
Making the connection
Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America’s new CIA director. Now that we have a torturer in charge of our premier intelligence agency it’s appropriate to make the connection between the economic and foreign policies of the US empire. Neoliberalism … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Chile, CIA, CIA as organized crime, Cold War, Democratic Party, Douglas Valentine, Gina Haspel, making the connection, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoconservative foreign policies, neoliberal economic policies, Republican Party, The Shock Doctrine, torture, war on terror
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Open for Business
Neoliberalism has trumped our democratic values and institutions by substituting a cost-benefit and efficiency rational. Political discourse is framed only in entrepreneurial terms where the management of a market-economy confers a government the legitimacy to carry out domestic and … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Chile, criminal law, Cuba, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Iran, Ken Burns, Libya, market-based values, neoliberalism, regime change, Richard Posner, Venezuala, Vietnam, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, Wendy Brown
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