Tag Archives: neocons

Greenwald, The Neocons’ Primary War Tactic: Branding Opponents of U.S. Intervention as Traitors

“The corporate media outlets consumed most voraciously by liberals are filled to the brim with war-loving neocons.”

New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics, by Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames

Now infiltrating the US: a massive “political smear unit” i

Global Research | The Truth About North Korea

Russia and China urge diplomacy to resolve a deepening crisis. They want tensions defused.

Oliver Stone Rages Against The Deep State’s “Wonderful Job Of Throwing America Into Chaos”

“I confess I really had hopes for some conscience from Trump about America’s wars, but I was wrong — fooled again!”

Robert Parry | The Politics Behind ‘Russia-gate’

There is a grave danger in playing partisan “gotcha” over U.S. relations with the world’s other major nuclear superpower

Scahill’s Intercepted | Trump’s Cabinet of Killers and Why Orange is the New Anti-Black

This week on Intercepted we sit down with intrepid investigative reporter Allan Nairn on Trump’s relationship with the CIA…

Hillary Clinton: the Queen of Chaos and the Threat of World War III

My answer to the first part of the question is that “voting for Hillary because she is a woman” makes no sense to me at all. Yes, women should get together for causes that affect women in general…But Hillary Clinton is an individual, she is not women in general. Women together might fight for women’s right to be elected President, but that right exists. It cannot be reduced to one particular woman’s right to be President.

Robert Parry: The Misinformation Mess

Parry: There is nothing wrong with having machines do more of the drudgery and give humans more time to enjoy life. The problem comes when the benefits accrue to a tiny minority and the rest of us are forced to work harder or face declining living standards.

Robert Parry: Should US Ally with Al Qaeda in Syria?

Parry: …the hysterical anti-Russian bias of The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media means that whatever Putin does must be cast in the most negative light.

▶ Coleen Rowley: “Neocons Dragging Us To Brink Of War”

On the Iran treaty, Rowley says Iran has no nuclear weapons program. It’s about the neocons and Israeli fear of Iran power.

Tomgram: William Astore, “Hi, I’m Uncle Sam and I’m a War-oholic”

Astore: When you define something as war, it dictates the use of the military (or militarized police forces, prisons, and other forms of coercion) as the primary instruments of policy. Violence becomes the means of decision, total victory the goal. Anyone who suggests otherwise is labeled a dreamer, an appeaser, or even a traitor.

Bruce Gagnon: Neocons are Reigniting Cold War Hysteria

Gagnon: Anyone in the west that speaks out against this provocative US-NATO chaos plan is “Putinized” in a classic replay of 1950’s style red-baiting.

Glenn Greenwald | Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low

Group of neocon extremists was literally just immunized by a federal court from the rule of law. By GLENN GREENWALD   The Intercept   firstlook.org   March 26, 2015 A truly stunning debasement of the U.S. justice system just occurred through the joint efforts of the Obama Justice Department and a meek and frightened Obama-appointed federal judge, Edgardo Ramos, all in order to […]

Evergreene Digest: American warmongers’ fatal conceit — The massive insecurity behind their calls for blood

The neoconservative “do something” crowd are really “Know Nothings” — and fatally misread the decade after 9/11 Forgetting Cheney’s Legacy of Lies Elias Isquith, Salon Saturday, Sep 6, 2014 | In the inaugural post for his new blog at the Intercept, former Washington Post reporter and Huffington Post bureau chief Dan Froomkin makes an argument […]

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Mary Beaudoin: Divide et Impera: Iraq and ISIS

 Breaking Iraq into three fragments will make it easier for the United States to ensure control. This is the cause of strife in Iraq. Sami Rasouli came to the U.S. in July to deliver a plaintive message about this in person: “I am here to tell you: don’t try to solve the problem of Iraq. […]

Cartoon: Iraq Reunion Tour by Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore’s new hilarious animation features a hot summer “I Raq” concert, starring Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmed Chalabi, and more neocon war criminals parading all over the news discussing the crisis in Iraq. Read about Fiore’s inspiration for “Neocon Reunion Tour” and watch the animation. To watch the animated cartoon, click here. By Mark Fiore  […]

Robert Parry: NYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative

Exclusive: The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry  ConsortiumNews.com  May 26, 2014 As part of the New York Times’ sorry […]

Robert Parry: Neocons Have Weathered the Storm

Exclusive: Official Washington’s bipartisan hysteria over Ukraine and Crimea is evidence that the neocons not only weathered the public fury over the Iraq War but are now back shaping U.S. geopolitical strategies, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry  ConsortiumNews.com  March 14, 2014 By the middle of last decade, the storm clouds were building over the neocons: their “regime […]

Robert Perry> Iran War on the Ballot

Iran War on the Ballot By Robert Parry (about the author) OpEdNews Op Eds 10/28/2012  opednews.com   Cross-posted from Consortium News Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama at the Oct. 22 debate which concentrated on foreign policy. (Photo credit: barackobama.com) A deal to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute, based on face-to-face negotiations between Iranian and U.S. officials, […]

Steve Breyman> Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now

Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now Neoconservative enthusiasm for intervention, perhaps somewhat dimmed by years of death, destruction, and failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, was reinvigorated by the fall of Gaddafi.  By Steve Breyman (about the author)  Oct. 1, 2012  opednews.com Last Friday (9/28), neocon military historian and columnist Max Boot […]