Tag: Neocons

Empire of Absurdity: Recycled Neocons, Recycled Enemies

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Empire of Absurdity: Recycled Neocons, Recycled Enemies

There are times when I wish that the United States would just drop the charade and declare itself a global empire. As a veteran of two imperial wars, a witness to the dark underside of America’s empire-denial, I’ve grown tired of the equivocation and denials from senior policymakers. The U.S. can’t be an empire, we’re told, because – unlike the Brits and Romans – America doesn’t annex territories outright, and our school children don’t color its colonies in red-white-and-blue on cute educational maps.

MEET THOR HALVORSSEN, NEOCON SCAM ARTIST WHO HEADS BOGUS HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

With backing from his filthy rich, right-wing Venezuelan family and help from a credulous American press corps, Thor Halvorssen has become one of the best-known human rights advocates in the United States and internationally. The New York Times has said he “champions the underdog and the powerless” while Buzzfeed raves that he “possesses a burning desire to right the countless injustices of this world … and he does not care if those injustices are being committed by the ‘right-wing’ or ‘left-wing’ regimes.”

MEET THOR HALVORSSEN, NEOCON SCAM ARTIST WHO HEADS BOGUS HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION