Tag Archives: war on terror

Open for Business

Posted on October 24, 2017 by camelotkidd

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 | 1 Comment

Pipeline-Istan

Posted on August 9, 2017 by camelotkidd

The Russian sanctions bill has got to be one of the most perverse pieces of legislation that I’ve ever seen. Since WWII the presidency has increased its power vis-a-vis congress in relation to foreign policy and the ability to … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged energy wars, follow the pipelines, Iraq, long war, new york times, Pepe Escobar, pipelineistan, Russia, sanctions, Syria, the great game, US Congress, war on terror, washington post | Leave a comment

The Orb

Posted on May 29, 2017 by camelotkidd

We live in a post-satire world. There is no more glaring example of this than the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, in Riyadh, where US president Donald Trump visited to participate in this Orwellian photo-op. Seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernhard, blowback, Consortium News, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology, Manchester terror attack, Memorial Day, moon of alabama, Russia, satanic ritual, satire, Saudi Arabia, Sunni terrorism, terrorism, Wahhabism, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

The Weathervane Bares All

Posted on April 20, 2017 by camelotkidd

As I’ve stated repeatedly, the recent presidential election and its aftermath have been amazingly clarifying. Come to find out that the torrent of propaganda spewed out by the corporate media in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, corporate media, Donald Trump, fake news, flathead, rabbit hole, suck on this, talking heads, terrorism, terrorist patsy, terrorist proxy, The Weathervane, Thomas Friedman, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

Hypocrisy is thy name

Posted on October 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

Only our unique American exceptionalism could create hypocrisy so great that it threatens to blot out the sun. Historians have documented that empires fail when the discrepancy between what elites say and what they do grows too large. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Al-Qaeda, American empire, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, collateral damage, corporate media, corporate tax rate, dirty-little-secret, domestic insurgency, Donald Trump, economy, feral elite, great recession, Harvard Business School, Hillary Clinton, hypocrisy, plutocracy, political legitimacy, public infrastructure, Russia, Saudi Arabia, so-called economic recovery, Syria, tax havens, tax holiday, terrorist proxy, trolling, unworthy victims, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, worthy victims | Leave a comment

The Deep State Goes Rogue

Posted on September 21, 2016 by camelotkidd

It appears that the military/intelligence arm of the deep state has gone rogue, bombing Syrian Army positions, and potentially jeopardizing the truce agreement with Russia that Secretary of State, John Kerry negotiated, and President Obama signed off on. Here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Ash Carter, CIA, corporate media, Counterpunch, deep state, deep state hawks, Deterring Democracy, DOD, domestic politics, ISIS, new Cold War, Paul Ryan, Pentagon, President Obama, regime change, Russia, Syria, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

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

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

Salvaging the Narrative

Posted on October 31, 2015 by camelotkidd

Even our elected representatives are starting to figure out that the war on terror narrative is bull-shit. Here Tyler Durden, at Zero Hedge laying out the grisly details. “One point we’ve been particularly keen on driving home since the beginning … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ISIS, Russia, Syria, Tyler Durden, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, war on terror, World War III, Zero Hedge | Leave a comment

My Pet Goat

Posted on October 21, 2015 by camelotkidd

That Trump fellow sure is making things interesting with his recent statements. “Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Trump’s attack forced Jeb Bush to defensively claim that his brother, President George Bush, “kept us safe.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AUMF, Bin Laden, Clean Break, Cold War, Donald Trump, empire, George Bush, Jeb Bush, My Pet Goat, neoconservatives, patsy, President Obama, war on terror | Leave a comment