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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

04/01/09

It was a neocon moment: there they were, the organizers of the Foreign Policy Initiative, the new neoconservative think-tank — Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, and Robert Kagan, with Clifford May, Randy Scheunemann, and junior neocon James Kirchick in tow. It was the occasion of FPI’s first public event — their Washington coming out party, so to speak — and who should show up but I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. A more fitting symbol of the neoconservative tendency in American politics — its history, its methods, and its essential criminality — could hardly be conceived. While John McCain was ostensibly the main attraction, the real focus of the conference was a celebration of the man who defeated him...

http://tinyurl.com/c7d4n6



Beware the cult of Obama

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

03/30/09

You’ve met them. They may be friends of yours, or family members. You may even be one of them (in which case you’ll hate this column). I’m referring to those who’ve heard the Call of Obama. Tucker Carlson compares it to a dog whistle: Inaudible to most, but irresistible to those who can hear it. … Conservatives like to think they’re above this sort of thing. Their attitude is summed up by the subtitle of Jerome Corsi’s recent bestseller: Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. But any conservative who thinks cultishness is exclusively a leftist phenomenon ought to take a good long look in the mirror. Because many of those who decry the “cult of Obama” are the same people who made a flight-suited action figure hero out of such common clay as George W. Bush...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10082


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Neo-Cons and Moral Degeneracy

By Jacob G. Hornberger

What is fascinating to me is how so many conservatives, neo-cons, and liberals fail to recognize the morally degeneracy of U.S. foreign policy. It's as if they have just resigned themselves into accepting that the U.S. Empire is now a permanent feature in American life and the life of the world and, therefore, that anything it does should automatically be considered good and moral.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22330.htm



Terror as a Tool of Empire

By Chris Floyd

The United States is deliberately fomenting terrorist attacks in order to pursue its political and military agendas.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22331.htm

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