The book arrived yesterday in solid shape—still wrapped in its library cover, barcode intact. I ordered a bookmark for it too.
It’s Here: The Neocon Reader
Tag: Paul Wolfowitz
Nailing the neocon myth [Excerpts from The Neocon Reader]
Nailing the neocon myth (excerpt from “Neoconservatism” edited by Irwin Stelzer aka “The Neocon Reader”)
Read More »The Frontman of Empire: How Bono’s “Activism” Serves the Powerful
Trump Considering US-Led Iraq-Style Occupation Of Gaza
Officials are reportedly looking at the Coalition Provisional Authority as a model
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Hardline neoconservative think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, or JINSA, and the Vandenberg Coalition released a plan last year — with similar contours to what Reuters reported — that called for the creation of a private entity, the “International Trust for Gaza Relief and Reconstruction” to be led by “a group of Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates” and “supported by the United States and other nations.”
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Read More »EDSA1: The Snap Revolution
Off to the side was a more youthful Wolfowitz. He told me that this picture, which had pride of place in his office, was of exactly the moment when the Reaganites had narrowly voted to dump the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines in 1986 and to recognize the election victory of his opponent Cory Aquino.* “It was the first argument I won,” said Wolfowitz proudly. “I said that if we supported a dictator to keep hold of a base, we would end up losing the base and also deserving to do so. Whereas,” he went on, “by joining the side of ‘people power’ in Manila that year, we helped democracy movements spread through Taiwan and South Korea and even I think into Tiananmen Square in 1989.“
* See, for the best account of this upheaval in real time, James Fenton’s book The Snap Revolution.
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*The Snap Revolution (Part One: The Snap Election) | James Fenton
*The Snap Revolution (Part Two: The Narrow Road to the Solid North)
*The Snap Revolution (Part Three: The Snap Revolution)
Previously: PH’s EDSA1 AKA People Power Revolution
Google Document: PH’s EDSA1 AKA People Power Revolution & Chile’s 1988 Plebiscite
Financier John Phelan Tapped to be Next Navy Secretary
Financier John Phelan Tapped to be Next Navy Secretary
[John] Phelan is the founder of private equity firm Rugger Management LLC and previously served as the chairman and chief investment officer of the firm that oversaw the fortune of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell. He is also on the board of the Spirit of America [front group] non-profit, a non-partisan group with a mission to support American troops abroad that has also supported troops in Ukraine.
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Read More »CIA Cutout Welcomes Infamous Neo-Conservative Warmonger Victoria Nuland to Its Board, Showing Its True Colors
On September 13, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced that it was appointing Victoria Nuland to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul are salivating over the Wagner Group mutiny!
Francis Fukuyama, who hasn’t seen a regime change op that he hasn’t liked, and Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, are salivating over the Wagner Group mutiny!
Did Wagner Group Take Over Military Headquarters? What We Know
Interesting that McFaul mentioned Tilley and Trotsky.
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The Neocons are not new. They have tried to influence U.S. foreign policy since the 1930’s. They are not conservative. If conservatism means maintaining the status quo, then the Neocons, who advocate broad changes, are just the opposite. Furthermore, if the early pioneers of neoconservatism are those who eventually sought global stability through use of American power and promotion of its values, then the pioneers of neoconservatiam were radical leftists The more prominent devotees were followers of Leon Trotsky:
Prigozhin a Tool of the CIA/SBU or Too Big for his Britches?!
Israel and its US lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace Initiative
On Thursday the New York Times ran yet another report about Saudi Arabia’s entry into an “Abraham Accord,” but if only certain conditions could be met. It quoted longtime Israel lobby heavyweight Martin Indyk and reported on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s think tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy “expert” delegation’s visit to Riyadh to finalize a deal. Then on Friday explosive news broke that China had successfully concluded a secret peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Israel and its US lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace Initiative
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