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Category Archives: Steve Bannon
Decoding Steve Bannon
ChatGPT says: Steve Bannon is best understood, through Alliance Theory, as a deliberate alliance arsonist whose power comes from forcing hidden coalitional conflicts into the open and making elite neutrality impossible. Start with Pinsof’s premise. Moral language is a weapon … Continue reading
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War For Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
From the European Conservative: It has been nearly three years since Steve Bannon was pushed (or jumped) out of the Trump Administration. Since then, he has become something of a genre. In 2018, the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Thin … Continue reading
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I Was Livestreaming When The Earthquake Rolled Through
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Why Have The Leaks Stopped At The Whitehouse?
On the latest Alt Right podcast, Richard Spencer says about Steve Bannon: “I’ve never liked him…” Eli: “The gorilla chapter is what I am waiting for.” Richard: “There is a hilarious gorilla parody chapter online. He wanted to watch the … Continue reading
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Frontpagemag: ‘Inventor of term “Alt Right” explains why Bannon critics are full of hot air’
Paul Gottfried writes: I’m beginning this commentary on the recent assaults on Steve Bannon by quoting my response to questions that a CNN-Digital reporter asked me concerning President-elect Trump’s friend and adviser: “There’s no indication that Steve Bannon, the Breitbart … Continue reading
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Buzzfeed: This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World
LINK: The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk, one where he said racism in the far right gets “washed out” and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat. BuzzFeed News publishes the complete … Continue reading
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