neoconservatism

Video: The neocons and 9/11

by News Sources 09.21.2012
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Newt Gingrich’s deep neocon ties drive his bellicose Middle East policy

by News Sources 01.30.2012

Wayne Barrett writes: Casino king Sheldon Adelson’s multi-million-dollar cache of chips-on-the-table for Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has at last made him a household name outside of Las Vegas. But it isn’t just Adelson’s brand of pro-Israel, donor-driven saber-rattling that’s pushing Gingrich into far-out positions on virtually every Middle East-related question, from applauding the assassination of [...]

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Syria, the ‘Zio-American plot’, and Conflicts Forum

by Paul Woodward 01.09.2012

On its website (which I created) Conflicts Forum is referred to as “an international movement which engages with Islamist movements” — a partially correct but somewhat misleading statement. Conflicts Forum does indeed engage Islamist movements — principally Hezbollah and Hamas. It does have an international element — evident in its advisory board. But by no [...]

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The excommunication of Ron Paul

by News Sources 12.30.2011

Steve Kornacki writes: When you’re running near the top of the polls, it’s inevitable that your opponents will gang up on you. But there’s something different about the nature of the attacks Ron Paul is now facing – and, potentially, about their implications. In the past few days, three of Paul’s rivals – Newt Gingrich, [...]

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Hawks who learned nothing

by News Sources 12.29.2011

Matt Duss writes: This month, after almost nine years that left 4,484 American soldiers and well over 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, the U.S. war in Iraq came to an end. As the troubling recent reports indicate, the new Iraq will continue to struggle with enduring political tensions and serious security challenges for years to come. [...]

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Gingrich on Iran: ‘we are going to replace their regime’ — bombing isn’t enough

by News Sources 12.16.2011
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Gingrich ready to help Israel attack Iran — calls Palestinians an ‘invented people’

by News Sources 12.10.2011

In a CNN interview Newt Gingrich volunteers to capitulate to Israeli nuclear blackmail: “I would rather plan a joint operation [against Iran] conventionally, than push the Israelis to the point where they go nuclear.” Gingrich told The Jewish Channel that Palestinians are not a genuine nation.

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The neocons have finally snapped

by News Sources 12.07.2011

M.J. Rosenberg writes: Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post. Glick, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, has flipped out over some remarks (which we’ll [...]

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Neocons worst fear: a shift in the balance of power in the Middle East

by News Sources 12.03.2011

M.J. Rosenberg writes: Suddenly the struggle to stop Iran is not about saving Israel from nuclear annihilation. After a decade of scare-mongering about the second coming of Nazi Germany, the Iran hawks are admitting that they have other reasons for wanting to take out Iran, and saving Israeli lives may not be one of them. [...]

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‘It’s time to stop the bully’: Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn on Occupy Wall Street, the Israel lobby and the New York Times

by Paul Woodward 11.28.2011

Mondoweiss interviews the founder of Adbusters: When the Occupy Wall Street protests began to attract attention in the fall, everyone wanted to know where the idea to set up a permanent protest at the heart of Manhattan’s financial district came from. The answer was the mind of Kalle Lasn, the co-editor (along with Micah White) [...]

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The boys who cry ‘Holocaust’

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Gary Kamiya writes: We’ve been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion of Grenada — and using the ultimate trump card [...]

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Visions of slaughter: Jennifer Rubin, Rachel Abrams and the Washington Post

by Paul Woodward 11.08.2011

Here’s the post that got this story rolling. It’s written by Rachel Abrams and appears on her blog, Bad Rachel, and is her bloodcurdling response to the release of the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, on October 18: GILAD!!!!!!!!!! He’s free and he’s home in the bosom of his family and his country. Celebrate, Israel, with [...]

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The 9/11 Decade – The Clash of Civilizations?

by News Sources 09.11.2011
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State Dept funding neocon-Zionist propaganda outfit

by News Sources 08.13.2011

Ali Gharib reports: On Thursday, the U.S. State Department announced a $200,000 grant to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East media watchdog closely aligned with U.S. neoconservatives and Israel’s hawkish security establishment and rightist Likud Party. The grant was awarded “to conduct a project that documents anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and Holocaust [...]

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John Robertson: Elliot Abrams bangs the drum for war against Iran

by Guest Contributor 07.11.2011

By John Robertson, War in Context, July 11, 2011 Once again, from one of those worthies privileged to call themselves “fellows” of the Council on Foreign Relations, a call for America to suck it up, be strong, hammer those bad guys into submission (and not a word about how much it costs, or how little [...]

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Does the US have a strategic interest in the success of the Arab democratic revolution?

by Paul Woodward 03.29.2011

One of the most pernicious effects of the Bush era was that the neocons succeeded in turning so many progressives into realists. Before Bush, “the national interest” was correctly viewed as the abiding concern of insular conservatives. It meant that Americans should be concerned with the rest of the world only in as much as [...]

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Gaddafi hired Prince of Darkness as his image consultant

by News Sources 02.22.2011

Does being known as the Prince of Darkness lower or raise your status as an image consultant? I guess it just depends on the client. Laura Rozen reports: One of the more unlikely image-mongers that has worked to burnish Qadhafi’s and Libya’s image never registered with the Justice Department. Prominent neoconservative Richard Perle, the former [...]

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Egypt in 2011 is not Iran in 1979

by News Sources 02.13.2011

Hamid Dabashi writes: The pro-Isreali neocons in the United States and their Zionist counterparts in Israel compare the Egyptian and Iranian revolutions because they are frightened out of their wits by a massive revolutionary uprising in a major Arab country that may no longer allow the abuse of the democratic will of a people for [...]

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Worse than Bush

by Paul Woodward 01.18.2011

While George W Bush was president it was possible to sustain what turned out to be a naive hope: that much of the harm he had done could be undone once he was out of office and the neoconservatives had been dislodged from power. But the harm personified by Bush and Cheney is now being [...]

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The United States: imperial by design

by News Sources 12.17.2010

In The National Interest, John Mearsheimer writes: In the first years after the Cold War ended, many Americans had a profound sense of optimism about the future of international politics. President Bill Clinton captured that mood when he told the UN General Assembly in September 1993: It is clear that we live at a turning [...]

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Do neoconservatives really care about the Iranian opposition?

by News Sources 11.18.2010

Ali Gharib writes: The rumblings of the largely underground Iranian Green Movement encourage neoconservative pundit Reuel Marc Gerecht. “I think it’s the most amazing intellectual second revolution…that we’ve seen in the Middle East,” he told a packed briefing room at Bloomberg’s D.C. headquarters last month. But even as he called on President Barack Obama to [...]

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The 9/11 hijackers now defending Ground Zero

by Paul Woodward 08.27.2010

The opponents of Park51, the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” have decided that the litmus test for identifying “good Muslims” is to ask them whether they regard Hamas as a terrorist organization. Andy McCarthy, one of the lead knights in the crusade to stop “the Islamization of America,” strikes the latest blow — this time against [...]

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Incompetent McCarthyism and shared beliefs

by Paul Woodward 03.08.2010

Scott Horton takes on the neocon campaign against a group of lawyers, now working for the Obama Administration, who “voluntarily represented terrorists.” …the incompetent McCarthyites haven’t done their homework. On a list of lawyers in recent government service who have served alleged terrorists, the first name might be Michael Chertoff’s. Chertoff served as counsel to [...]

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Did The American Conservative just get hacked by Zionists?

by Paul Woodward 01.27.2010

Did The American Conservative just get hacked by Zionists? By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 27, 2010 Philip Weiss drew my attention to an article that caught Andrew Sullivan‘s eye: Jihadism, anti-Jihadism and Palestine by Daniel Larison. It appears at Pat Buchanan’s The American Conservative. But if you follow the link at this time [...]

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