Tag Archives: washington post

Pattern Recognition

Posted on December 14, 2019 by camelotkidd

William Gibson writes dystopian science fiction, where he imagines the future by closely studying the present. In his post 9/11 novel Pattern Recognition, he discovers that the present is just as weird and dystopian as any future he might imagine. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda | Tagged Donald Trump, impeachment, Jackpot, Jeff Bezos, Kayfabe, neocons, neoliberalism, Pattern Recognition, Russia-gate, The Peripheral, Ukraine-gate, washington post, William Gibson | 1 Comment

The Colossus

Posted on November 22, 2018 by camelotkidd

Amazon has become the most powerful economic actor, a veritable colossus astride our Republic. The recent reports about the ubiquitous online merchant’s search for a new headquarters only reinforce this perception. After a long process, Amazon finally announced that it … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amazon, antitrust, CIA, deaths of despair, Donald Trump, East India Company, fascism, Jeff Bezos, Matt Stoller, monopoly, savage race to the bottom, Standard Oil, washington post | Leave a comment

The Gatekeepers

Posted on October 17, 2018 by camelotkidd

When they silenced Alex Jones, I was certain that that wouldn’t be the end of the online censorship. And, now the other shoe has dropped with Facebook’s and Twitter’s recent purging of alternative sites and accounts that challenge conventional … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Alex Jones, Atlantic Council, censorship, corporate censorship is government censorship, Facebook, neoliberalism, propaganda, PropOrNot, Russia-gate, Twitter, washington post | Leave a comment

An adversarial way

Posted on February 2, 2018 by camelotkidd

Legendary investigative journalist Robert Parry has died. Anyone who’s read this blog knows how much I valued Robert and his investigative website–Consortiumnews.com. His death is a profound tragedy, and I’ve spent the week in a state of persistent melancholy. Life … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged adversarial journalist, Associated Press, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Central America, CIA, Consortium News, corporate media, Donald Trump, forth estate, George Ellison, Jean Kirkpatrick, Jeff Bezos, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, new Cold War, President Reagan, propaganda, PropOrNot, public diplomacy, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, self-censorship, Syria, washington post | Leave a comment

Propagandized

Posted on November 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’m so sick of reading letters-to-the-editor in our local paper blaming Russia for besmirching our precious democracy and electing Donald Trump. Why, you’d almost think that there was a propaganda effort afoot to get gullible Americans to believe such … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Barak Obama, Caitlin Johnstone, Cold War, Cold War 2.0, Donald Trump, fake news, George W. Bush, Gore Vidal, invasion of Iraq, neocons, neoconservative, new york times, Paul Wolfowitz, Phil Donahue, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russia, Russia-gate, silos of knowledge, Sunni terrorists, United States of amnesia, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax, washington post | Leave a 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

Concentrated

Posted on June 26, 2017 by camelotkidd

Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods has raised alarms about economic concentration. No corporation epitomizes monopoly better than Amazon, who’s business model is predicated on losing money with their super-low prices in order to capture market share. Their dominant position then … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Amazon, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, corporate media, corporate propaganda, corporations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic concentration, George Orwell, high-tech, Jeff Bezos, libertarians, Listen Liberal, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neofeudal, neoliberal, new economy, political/economy, rent seeking, Silicon Valley, Thomas Frank, washington post, Whole Foods | Leave a comment

The Other Ratchet

Posted on May 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’ve written before about how our political process is like a ratchet, where the Republicans apply rightward force, while the Democrats allow this rightward movement but whenever there’s a lull, they lock into place and prevent any movement back … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernie Sanders, conservative media, corporate media, deep state, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, flak, liberal media, Manufacturing Consent, McCarthyism, new Cold War, new york times, NPR, Republicans, Russia, Syria, the pawl, the ratchet, Ukraine, washington post, wikileaks | Leave a comment

The ideology that failed

Posted on March 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism is a failed ideology that has immiserated millions of ordinary citizens. Like communism, neoliberalism benefits a small cohort of elites at the expense of everyone else. Under communism, the vanguard of the proletariat, i.e. members of the Communist … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged affluent professionals, Amazon, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, CNN, communism, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, economic populism, Gulag, Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison, Margaret Thatcher, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, new york times, no alternative, NPR, precariat, ruling ideology, the ideology that failed, Tom Perez, Truthdig, Vanity Fair, washington post | Leave a comment

Necessary Lessons

Posted on January 4, 2017 by camelotkidd

Liberals lamenting the election of Donald Trump have not absorbed the necessary lessons. Rather than examining the policies of financial neoliberalism and the identity politics that provided neoliberalism its moral veneer, they are still blaming the Russians, or the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Brexit, deplorable, divide and rule, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Kos, liberal, Markos Moulitsas, neoliberalism, new york times, progressive neoliberalism, propaganda, Wall Street, washington post | Leave a comment