Neocons

Neocons Do Not Speak for Iranian-Americans

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Neocons, Iran, American Jewish Committee, National Iranian American Council, Iran War Hype, Israel Iran War, Obama Israel Iran, Iran War Diplomacy, World News

The schedule for the American Jewish Committee conference in Washington coming up in May highlights that Sohrab Ahmari, an Iranian-American, will be a...

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Romney Will Be a Tea Party/Neocon Puppet: DeMint's (Not So) Secret Strategy for Taking Over the U.S.

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Social Security, Roads Bridges Tunnels, Food Stamps, Mitt Romney, The Kochs, Medicaid, Iraq, Iran, Dodd-Frank, Planned Parenthood, Sarbanes-Oxley, Evangelicals, Epa, Infrastructure, Unemployment, Neocons, Medicare, Politics News

The goal of the DeMints, with the backing of the Kochs and their fellow travelers, is not to let the American people have what they want. And, they will take whatever steps necessary to buy elections, to suppress the vote, to select robotic judges.

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The "Israel Firster" Brouhaha

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Aipac, Neocons, Israel, Comme, Israel Netanyahu, Conservative Israel, Obama Netanyahu, Israel Iran, World News

Can anyone argue with the assertion that for neocons Obama is always wrong and Bibi is always right? Not only that, they denounce those who dare criticize Netanyahu over anything while never ever letting up on Obama.

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The Neocons Have Finally Snapped

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Neocons, Israel, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Obama Israel Policy, Obama Israel Palestine, Barack Obama Israel, World News

Any doubt we might have that the Israeli right has lost its mind should be eliminated by the latest column from one of its most prominent media figures, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post .

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Neoconservatism Isn't Dead -- In Fact, It's Prepping For A Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: George Bush, George Bush Neoconservatives, 2012 Elections, The End of History, Michael Rubin, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama, Vulcans, Rick Perry, Dick Cheney, Gop Foreign Policy, Video, 2012 Election, Condoleezza Rice, Isolationism, Elliot Abrams, GOP Debates, Dov Zakheim, Doug Feith, Colin Powell, Gop 2012, Mitt Romney, Francis Fukuyama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, GOP Candidates, Foreign Policy, Herman Cain, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Politics News

The Republican Party is divided like never before on the issue of U.S. foreign policy, with rifts over foreign engagement, Pentagon budgeting and the ...

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Blaming the Muslims

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: War on Terror, Anders Breivik, Norway Shooting, Terrorism, Violence, Neocons, Muslims, Media, Peace, Right-Wing Extremism, Utoya Shooting, Norway Shootings, Norway Attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, Media News

Pundits, reporters and editorial writers jumped the gun and blamed Muslim terrorists for Norway. And the word went out. This is worse than bad reporting. It's a massive cover-up of the roots of human violence.

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Mistaken on the War Powers Act

Miles Jaffe | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Neocons, War Powers Act, Politics, Libya, Politics News

I am an enthusiastic supporter of President Obama. Yes, on some issues, health care, the size of the stimulus, I had hoped he would take a more prog...

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Egypt, Meet Kurdistan: American University of Iraq

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American University, Cheney, Kurdistan, Neocons, Oil, Rumsfeld, Iraq, Auis, Sulaimaniya, Aui-S, World News

Anyone who still wonders why the Bush administration invaded Iraq would do well to become familiar with an institution whose existence few Americans are aware of: the American University of Iraq-Sulaimaniya.

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Then They Came for Me

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Neimoller, Nazis, Robert Gates, War on Terror, Liz Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Neocons, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A fear- and vengeance-driven post-9/11 mentality could yet become the done deal it is in Liz Cheney's mind.

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Bruce Bartlett: Neocons Talk Deficit but Won't Budge on Defense Cuts

The Fiscal Times | Bruce Bartlett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neoconservatives Deficits, Bruce Bartlett Defense Cuts, Neoconservatives Defense Spending, Deficits, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Defense Spending, Bruce Bartlett Neocons, Bruce Bartlett, Defense Cuts, Politics News

Establishment conservatives love to talk about the need to cut government spending, but they always seem to find an excuse whenever there is a serious...

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The Chasm Between the Right and the Rest

Miles Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neocons, The Right, Global War on Terror, Deficit, Jihad, Gingrich, Politics News

The Right rejects all efforts by the center and left, Obama, European leaders or the United Nations, and ecumenical religious leader, to calm the storm and to appeal to Islamic moderates and isolate Islamists.

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Coming Attraction: More War

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Neocons, Iran, John Bolton, President Barack Obama, Politics News

"It is time to turn the page," Obama said as he announced the "end" of combat operations in Iraq. Meanwhile, those who brought us that unnecessary war remain committed to such policies and, if returned to power, are likely to carry them out.

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Pro-Bombing Iran Is Anti-Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neocons, Iran, Israel, Aipac, Goldberg, Bombing, Heritage, World News

There is no evidence whatsoever that a nuclear-armed Iran would behave any differently than any other country that possesses the bomb. It is no more interested in national suicide than the United States, France, Pakistan or even North Korea.

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The ADL's Troubling Alliance With the Christian Right

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Sadly, The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the nation's foremost Jewish civil rights organization, has come out against the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

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Review: Running Commentary

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishing, Neocons, Politics, Magazines, Liberalism, Commentary, Running Commentary, Books News

In part, the meticulously researched Running Commentary, The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right is the story of post-war America.

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Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla Raid, Jews, Gaza, Politics, Jewish, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Roseanne Barr, Israel, Palestine, Barack Obama, Christians, Sarah Palin, Evangelicals, Zionist, Neocons, Christian Zionists, World News

Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr has been a consistent voice for decades against some of the acts committed by the state of Israel. With this latest incident of the flotilla raid by Israeli commandos, we sat down for a talk.

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Shadow Elite: Neocons Blast Back, On Israel's Behalf

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aei, Gaza, Liz Cheney, We-Con-the-World, Gaza Flotilla, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Richard Perle, Israel, Israel Gaza, William Kristol, Dick Cheney, World News

Cheney and the Neocons run the risk of backfiring in terms of Israel. Despite the insistence that Israel is a security asset to the U.S., some say it's time for the U.S. to ask itself whether Israel might now be a "strategic liability."

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The Clock Runs Out on 24

Barry Bortnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War on Terror, Condoleezza Rice, Jack Bauer, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Glenn Beck, Neocons, 24, Dick Cheney, Denver News

The War on Terror will end this spring when Fox pulls the plug on 24. The pop-culture phenomenon concludes in May when Jack Bauer tortures his last suspect.

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Hey, Mrs. Frum -- It's a Long Way Down

Trish Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Wife, Intervention, Neocons, Aei, David Frum Republicans, Dogs, Veterans, Politics News

Danielle Crittenden's shameless attempt to re-brand her Iraq War-hawk husband as warm and fuzzy is as transparent as the beleaguered Richard Nixon's desperate invocation of Checkers.

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My Fault: Apologies to David Frum!

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pugnacious Nationalists, Howard Kurtz, Steve Clemons, Moises Naim, Benson, Danielle Crittenden, Paul Gigot, Nick Gillespie, Wall Street Journal, Sarah Palin, Eli Lake, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, American Enterprise Institute, Bill Kristol, Irving Kristol, Neocons, Rupert Murdoch, Neoconservatives, David Frum, Martin Walker, Jamie Kirchick, Julia Watson, Health Care, William Kristol, Republican Party, Dogs, Politics News

It truly is a shame that the AEI didn't realize that it could reinvent its own place and relevance in Washington with the kind of creative bridge-building and policy innovation that Frum was pushing.

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Shadow Elite: March to War -- The Neocon Playbook, Straight from the Soviet Bloc

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Iraq War, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Communism, Janine Wedel, Huffpost Books, Eastern Europe, Shadow Elite, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Richard Perle, Cold War, World News

Despite a new administration in Washington, not to mention the damage done to their credibility since the Iraq invasion, the Neocon core lives on, because networks like it are self-propelling and enduring.

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Sarah Palin Kidnapped By Neocons!

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neocons, Israel, Buchanan, Palin, Kristol, Chris Wallace, Cheney, Pipes, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Fox, American Jews, Dick Cheney, Politics News

I don't believe Sarah Palin will become president but if, God forbid, she does, I expect that the neocons would be disappointed. As untutored as she is, she is no dummy. And she does not like being handled.

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Dick Cheney Keeps the Flame Aloft

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Dithering, Afghanistan, Frank Gaffney, Ronald Reagan, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Cold War, Center-for-Security-Policy, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It might be tempting to dismiss Cheney's remarks -- about Obama allegedly dithering when it comes to Afghanistan -- as so much conservative boilerplate. But that would be a mistake.

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Was "Ardi" a Liberal?

Frans de Waal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neocons, Bonobos, Evolution, Fossils, War, Chimpanzee, Politics News

What if we descend, not from a blustering chimp-like ancestor, but from a gentle, bonobo-like ape? What if we share characteristics with both of these relatives instead of the one favored by our political ideology?

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Jewish Voices of Color Must be Heard

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, India, Jews, Social Justice, Hanukkah, West Bank, Gaza, Affirmative Action, Nigeria, China, Race, Rabbi Capers Funnye, Culture, South Africa, Africa, Chicago, Racism, Israel, San Francisco, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Michelle Obama, Judaism, Martin Luther King Jr., Mumbai, Barack Obama, Religion, Chanukah, Anti-Defamation League, Martin Luther King, Capers Funnye, Neocons, Religion and Politics, Neoconservatives, Diversity, World News

As we enter this holiday season, Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukah. The Jewish community is a diverse one, a multicultural and multiracial assemblage, by no means monolithic, representing millions of people throughout the world.

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