Vladimir Putin and Oliver Stone: The Neocons Are Dangerous to the United States

So, both Putin and Stone have good reasons to keep an eye on the Neocons, whose grandparents were none other than Trotskyites and Leninists. Neoconservative luminary Francis Fukuyama of Stanford (formerly of Johns Hopkins) himself compares the Neoconservative movement to Leninism. Neoconservatism, according to Fukuyama, is the reincarnation to some extent of both Leninism and Bolshevism.

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Trump and the Neocons: Doing the Unilateralist Waltz

The neocon inclination to unilateralism fuses seamlessly with Trump’s psychological inclination to unilateralism. Both play well in the current domestic political climate of hyper-nationalism.

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Will the Neocons’ Long War Ever End?

The recent news from Kabul (in Afghanistan), from Manchester and London (in England), from Mosul (in Iraq), from Raqqa (in Syria), from Marib (in Yemen) and from too many devastated and traumatized communities to list makes it only too clear that the world is trapped in an unprecedented and intractable cycle of violence. And yet, incredibly, none of the main parties to all this violence are talking seriously about how to end it, let alone taking action to do so.

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