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The language of control
In a recent interview Matt Stoller confirmed something that I long suspected. Stoller, the author of Goliath: The 100 Year war between Monopoly Power and Democracy, describes economics as the language of the aristocracy, or oligarchy, if you will. He … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism
Tagged Davos, Goliath, human capital, masters of the universe, Matt Stoller, neoliberalism, precarity, Wendy Brown
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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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Crisis in Democracy
Our elite are busy consolidating the gains from their 30 year embrace of neoliberalism while deploying their bought and paid for government to make certain there’s nothing we can do about it. In a perverse bit of projection they describe … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis in democracy, Ellen Brown, looting, neoliberalism, public banking, Richard Posner, TISA, TPP, TTIP, Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown
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