For several months, an alliance has been forming between the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the neoliberal Center for American Progress (CAP). It’s the sort of kumbaya not witnessed since wartime Washington a decade ago.
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Monday, August 13, 2018
Thursday, August 09, 2018
'We Need More Banning': Weekly Standard Calls For More Big Tech Censorship In Wake Of Alex Jones Purge
The neoconservative Weekly Standard said Wednesday that Big Tech should ban more people and there's "no reason" conservatives should be defending Alex Jones.
"I'm not even trolling when I say that we need more banning," Jonathan Last said Wednesday on Twitter, linking to his column, "The Case For Banning Alex Jones."
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"I'm not even trolling when I say that we need more banning," Jonathan Last said Wednesday on Twitter, linking to his column, "The Case For Banning Alex Jones."
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018
On Iran, the Neocons Are No Ronald Reagan
In their pursuit of a policy of maximum pressure on Iran, America’s neoconservatives have pushed a nostalgic narrative: the Trump administration can bring down Iran’s theocracy the way that the Reagan administration helped defeat and dissolve the Soviet Union.
This comparison has been advanced by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), which promotes draconian sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Its arguments figured prominently in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent speechat the Reagan library in which he asserted that Iran is still a revolutionary regime “committed to spreading the revolution to other countries, by force if necessary.”
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Tuesday, August 07, 2018
Neocons Demand ‘Crushing’ Sanctions on Russia
You can always count on the neocons in Congress to ignore reality, ignore evidence, and ignore common sense in their endless drive to get us involved in another war. Last week, for example, Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-NC), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and others joined up to introduce what Senator Graham called “the sanctions bill from hell,” aimed at applying “crushing” sanctions on Russia.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2018
The Looming War Against Iran
President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months.
The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder’s cry, ‘delenda est Carthago!’. Iran must be destroyed.
So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to respond to US naval and air incursions or Israel’s growing air attacks in Syria. But the war of words between the US and Iran has now reached a critical phase.
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