Friday, April 26, 2013

Neocons Attack Ron Paul Peace Institute

The Daily Caller wags its finger at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity because of the two libertarian professors it has on its board, Butler Shaffer and Walter Block. (Thanks to Lew Rockwell for the link.)

The problems with these men are many:

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Boston bombing the logical blowback of Neocon policy

I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused on Russia.

Giuliani knows full well how the Chechen “terrorists” proved useful to the U.S. in keeping pressure on the Russians, much as the Afghan mujahedeen were used in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. In fact, many neocons signed up as Chechnya’s “friends,” including former CIA Director James Woolsey.

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US-Israel pursue the Neocon policy of waging wars

A commentator tells Press TV that the bellicose neocon doctrine of the United States and Israel is to wage preemptive wars on whomever they perceive as a threat while Iran is only trying to defend itself.

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Yaalon have finalized a new arms deal worth USD 10 billion.. Hagel is set to visit Cairo, then Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to finalize details of a USD 10 billion arms deal that will also provide sophisticated missiles to Saudi Arabia and US F-16 fighter jets to the UAE. The Pentagon chief’s trip comes a month after US President Barack Obama visited Israel and reaffirmed Washington’s backing of Tel Aviv while promoting fresh attempts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons

I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused on Russia.

Giuliani knows full well how the Chechen “terrorists” proved useful to the U.S. in keeping pressure on the Russians, much as the Afghan mujahedeen were used in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. In fact, many neocons signed up as Chechnya’s “friends,” including former CIA Director James Woolsey.
 
 

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Reality Dawns: NeoCon Princess Wonders About Young Muslim Immigrants

At first glance, Anne Applebaum seems a fairly standard issue Neoconservative Princess, equipped with Blue Chip educational credentials, the string of plum posts and awards with which these people adorn one another, and a record of attacking Anne Coulter.

Having said, that her fine new book Iron Curtain:The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-56, which I have almost finished, is a valuable account of the process of the Communist takeover in Eastern Europe - depressingly parallel to the victory of the Cultural Marxists here. 
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Rand Paul Takes a Poke at Neocon Evangelicals From the Paleolibertarian camp

There’s no doubt to me that Rand Paul is referencing the Neocon evangelical camp, and he’s speaking from the faux-libertarian evangelical camp. This rift widened and proponents from both sides started quiet infighting behind the scenes a couple of years before the end of Bush’s last term. It’s essentially the troofer far right vs. the Neocon hard right, initially the Neocons had the upper hand from the inertia of the Bush years, but now it’s the wigged out far right in control of the GOP.
“When we talk about war, that I think part of Republicans problems and frankly to tell you the truth some in the evangelical Christian movement I think have appeared too eager for war. 
“…When I read the New Testament, when I read about Jesus, he wasn’t really involved with a war of his days. In fact people rebuked him for not being the king they wanted.
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“… .We’re talking about ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ not ‘blessed are the warmakers.’
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Allen West: Another neocon down for the count

Allen West is unable to answer simple questions about defense strategy and spending. He doesn't know what would happen if somebody attacked Russia. He doesn't know what would happen if somebody attacked us. He can't explain why we have to spend 12 times as much as any other country on defense spending. Watch this link that exposes his ignorance.

Allen West, fmr. Congressman, on defense spending. How much do we need to spend to be safe from attack?
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Obama, Neocons openly back terrorism

The tragic comedy of the phony War on Terror is being exposed as never before for the sham that it is. Press TV reported yesterday the opening of the MKO terrorist organization office a block away from the White House. What a message that sends to the world...that we look out for our terrorists and take good care of them, but it just might take a little time to do it.

This is the group who inflicted four 911's on Iran by murdering 12,000 in terrorist attacks, much of it under Saddam, and then under US protection when we took over Iraq. Israel was involved, also...no surprise there.
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Julian Barnes on Christopher Hitchens’s “ripple dissolve”

In the New Statesman centenary edition:
He was the most brilliant talker I’ve met and the best argufier. At the Statesman he was largely gay, idly anti-Semitic and very left-wing. Then ripple-dissolve to someone who was twice married and had discovered himself to be Jewish and become a neocon. An odd progress, though he didn’t do the traditional shuffle to the right; he kept one left, liberal leg planted where it always had been and made a huge, corkscrewing leap with his right leg. I enjoyed his company but never entirely trusted him.
Also quite dry on David Cameron and the Coalition Government:
It seems perfectly possible that David Cameron will be remembered as the prime minister who “lost” Scotland and took Britain out of Europe. But then, this is a government with rare powers: who thought you could manage to produce a fall in unemployment combined with a triple-dip recession?
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Rand Paul's Neocon Vision For The Empire

HuffPo has a piece on Rand Paul's views regarding the shutting down of U.S. military bases on foreign soil.
“I’m not saying don’t have any,” he said. "I'm just saying maybe not 900. I mean, I’d rather have one at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox than one in Timbuktu.”

And it turns out Paul is not opposed to keeping military bases in Iraq, or in that part of the world, for the foreseeable future...

"I think having some places and bases where we could orchestrate attacks if we had to, if there's a regrouping of people, wouldn't be too unreasonable. But I think out patrolling the villages after 12 years, the Afghans should be doing that," Paul said...
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An Open Letter to NeoCon Hoodlum Max Boot

Mr. Boot, we both agree that the U.S. has been supporting those rebels. Can we agree on the widely documented fact that those rebels are largely terrorists and have committed serious terrorist acts? This point is even acknowledged by one of your neoconservative colleagues, Elliott Abrams.

Even the New York Times acknowledged that the Syrian rebels has “an explicit stamp of approval from Al Qaeda,” and the group itself “is a direct offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials and former Iraqi insurgents say, which has contributed veteran fighters and weapons.”

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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

North Koreans Win By Strengthening Neocon Hand

The military-industrial complex and their neocon supporters on Capitol Hill must be standing up and saluting every time North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un issues another bellicose statement or dire threat to attack the United States and its nearby allies, such as South Korea and Japan.

While no threat against America should go un-investigated, and the North Koreans could certainly do great harm to South Korea if they attacked, there is no evidence that the North Koreans have the ability to attack the U.S. directly from North Korea.
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