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In the News (Wed 9 Dec 09)

  
 NPR : Francis Fukuyama on Neo-Cons, Foreign Policy
Neoconservative intellectuals, in their years out of power before the 2000 election, had proposed a foreign policy agenda involving concepts like regime change, benevolent hegemony, unipolarity, preemption, and American exceptionalism that came to be hallmarks of the Bush administration's foreign policy.
It also draws on a neoconservative principle that neoconservatives seemed to have forgotten in the lead-up to the Iraq war: namely, that ambitious social engineering is very difficult and ought always to be approached with care and humility.
Neither realists nor neoconservatives have paid sufficient attention to the problem of development over the years, nor have they focused on parts of the world like Africa or Latin America where development is most problematic (except, of course, when countries in these regions become security threats).
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5239049   (2021 words)

  
 The American Spectator
We detect a deep pessimism among neoconservatives about human nature and human society -- and one which is much darker than the skepticism about human perfectibility often found in conservative thinking.
What they describe as neoconservatism is a fictitious straw man, developed apparently to deny neoconservatives the right to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan.
What all this demonstrates is that Reagan was a neoconservative (or in Krauthammer's terms, a democratic globalist) before that worldview had been given a name in a foreign policy context.
www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=6703   (1876 words)

  
 The Origins of the Modern American Conservative Movement
It is a striking historical coincidence that both the People's Republic of China and the modern American conservative movement were born a little over 50 years ago, the PRC in 1949 with the coming to power of Mao Zedung and modern conservatism in 1953 with the publication of Russell Kirk's masterwork, The Conservative Mind.
The neoconservatives similarly responded to the liberal seizure of the Democratic Party, represented by the nomination of George McGovern as President.
In the end, it was the neoconservatives' anti-communism and resistance to the counterculture that won the approval of the conservatives and led to a pragmatic marriage.
www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL811.cfm   (4531 words)

  
 The Middle East after the Iraq war
The neoconservatives who are the intellectual godfathers of this envision a series of what they call "small wars" to enforce U.S. domination.
The neoconservatives use a lot of ideological phraseology about spreading democracy--that Iraq is the first domino in a kind of reverse domino effect.
We have to get into a dialogue with people who were involved in it and say that the underlying reason we were not able to stop the war is because of the system drove that war.
www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/460/460_06_MiddleEast.shtml   (4801 words)

  
 Theodor W. Adorno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Popular culture was identified as a reason why people become passive; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture made people docile and content, no matter how terrible their economic circumstances.
Drawing on the Positivist critique, neoconservatives also deride Adorno as a theorist unwilling to submit to experimental falsification, and, they see in his complexity of thought a resource for the "politically correct" to provide long-winded justifications for unworthy and opaque schemes of social engineering.
Adorno's defenders reply to his positivist and neoconservative critics by pointing to his extensive numerical and empirical research, notably the "F-scale" in his work on Fascist tendencies in individual personalities in The Authoritarian Personality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodor_Adorno   (4191 words)

  
 Uncompromising journalism or just more spin | Independent World Television
Wolfowitz is considered by many political analysts a neoconservative and possibly a Straussian known for his passionate pro-Israel advocacy and staunch support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
I believe that the vast majority of people who vote, vote for a reason and that excluding people from voting for incorrectly answering a multiple choice question is absurd to say the least.
most often applied to people, and is used as a commendation, synonymous with "loyal", as in she is true to her friends.
www.iwtnews.com /node/1291   (14422 words)

  
 burchismo
Now, sane people in the center of the political spectrum may not know who this piece of garbage is. But he is a huge celebrity on the "Democracy Now Left," vocally supported by the likes of Ramsey Clark and Noam Chomsky.
People like Karen Armstrong and Juan Cole, who propagate the myth of Islam as "the religion of peace" serve the same function that people like Shaw and Duranty did -- as anaesthetics against the shock of truth about horror and threat.
These were not in the lexicon of anticipated consequences because neoconservatives had mistakenly drawn their template from the fundamentally Western cultural examples of Europe and modernity.
www.gregburch.net /burchismo.html   (12418 words)

  
 The Middle East Center - Film Descriptions
Their mother is blind and their father is a strict religious man who is concerned about their honor should they be left on their own or subjected to the sinful influences of the outside world while he is out of the house.
This film describes in detail the spiritual and social aspects of the controversial practice of Dhikr among Sufis in Egypt, including such topics as spiritual content of chants, the quality of singers, gender roles in participation, and the place of the ritual in as both a religious act and as a form of entertainment.
This discussion is enriched throughout by early footage of and interviews with Ashrawi from her student days at the American University of Beirut; her term as dean at Birzeit University; and in her current role as founder of the watchdog group, the Commission for Citizens' Rights.
mec.sas.upenn.edu /filmlist.html   (17521 words)

  
 Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy
The advisors listed above may be really smart, but they simply cannot have the breadth of knowledge about the politics of foreign leaders and movements.
The debate between realists and neoconservatives over U.S. power and moralism could prove as poisonous to the Republicans as the foreign policy fights that racked the Democratic Party during the 1970s and 1980s.
The Bush administration's commitment to restore sovereignty to the Iraqi people on June 30 is as illusory as Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
www.realisticforeignpolicy.org /archives/2004/04/index.php   (2850 words)

  
 The Neoconservatives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Professor Lewis was responsible for forming the Neoconservative vision of Islam and Professor Huntington for propounding the idea that the USA should confront Islam and remould it to fit in with the Neoconservative agenda.
Although many Neoconservatives profess to be inspired by the old Republican tradition of isolationism and described their foreign policy as "Wilsonian" after the isolationist tendencies of President Woodrow Wilson's Administration, their new cry is not for isolationism but for an American imperialism, a "New World Order".
ALEC was founded in 1973 by the prominent Neoconservative Paul Weyrich, ALEC occupies prime office space in downtown Washington, operates on an annual budget of roughly $6 million, and employs a full-time staff of around thirty.
www.eurolegal.org /neoconservatives.shtml   (9564 words)

  
 TPMCafe Book Club | TPMCafe
Yet throughout the book you will find, here and there, citations of prescient warnings from people involved in the game that by consorting with this or that force on the Islamic right we were "playing with fire." Perhaps that is the job of a policymaker--to play with fire.
It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.
It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world.
www.tpmcafe.com /flexinode/list/8?page=18   (1852 words)

  
 The Real Churchill - Mises Institute
It's not a surprise that this neoconservative administration and its apologists in the tamed media laud and venerate Churchill, for he was as President Bush described him; a man who was synonymous with war.
Churchill's aim of course was not liberty for oppressed peoples, as his admirers like to claim for him, but for Britain to dominate the Middle East to ensure that the oil wells of Iraq and the Persian Gulf were securely in British hands.
Chris Matthews described Churchill as the "man who save[d] the honor of the 20th century." Rather than this great accolade, Winston Churchill must be ranked with Karl Marx, Woodrow Wilson, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt as one of the destroyers of the values and greatness of Western civilization.
www.mises.org /story/1450   (5262 words)

  
 Free Iraq: On Iraqi People, Resistance and Oil versus American bases
I related that the Iraqi people were going through a state of shock from the sudden disappearance of the Iraqi army and the Ba’athist militias as well as from the anarchy, looting and destruction that was taking place.
The neoconservative agenda of defending the security of Israel coincided comfortably with the lucrative control of Iraqi oil fields, through occupation, for the benefit of America’s 'global Pax Americana'.
The most joyous day of my life was in 1994 when, for the first time ever, people of all backgrounds and descriptions stood patiently and expectantly in line together, as one nation, with common purpose, freely casting their vote.
abutamam.blogspot.com /2005/02/on-iraqi-people-resistance-and-oil.html   (3087 words)

  
 Point#3, Neoconservatives, Washington's War Party
Neoconservatives are pro-bombing, pro-empire Washington policy wonks (almost never with a business or military background) who have filled the vacuum on the Right, where most Americans have little interest in foreign policy and know little about foreign nations.
Neoconservatives are former liberals (which explains the 'neo' prefix) who advocate an aggressive unilateralist vision of U.S. global supremacy, which includes a close strategic alliance with Israel.
His logic is impeccable: people never fight unless it is in their interest to do so, that is, unless they have to defend their homes and their way of life against some actual or perceived aggression.
againstbombing.org /point3.htm   (4896 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online: International
The popular press is hot on the heels of the Christmas "killjoys", compiling an almost daily list of politically correct do-gooders who they say, frankly, are just spoiling the fun for everyone.
The number of residents in New York City could put such a strain on its infrastructure by 2030 that the demand for power exceeds the supply, housing becomes scarce and rush hour lasts all day because of an overwhelmed transit network.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned that the city of 8,2-million people must start planning now for the expected population growth of another million over the next 25 years.
www.mg.co.za /articleList.aspx?area=/insight/insight__international   (1321 words)

  
 Neoconservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neoconservatives respond by describing their shared view as a belief that national security is best attained by promoting freedom and democracy abroad through the support of pro-democracy movements, foreign aid and in certain cases military intervention.
Author Michael Lind argues that the neoconservatives are influenced by the thought of former Trotskyists such as James Burnham and Max Shachtman, who argued that "the United States and similar societies are dominated by a decadent, postbourgeois 'new class'".
Kinsley quotes Rich Lowry, whom he describes as "a conservative of the non-neo variety", as criticizing the neoconservatives "messianic vision" and "excessive optimism"; Kinsley contrasts the present-day neoconservative foreign policy to earlier neoconservative Jeane Kirkpatrick's "tough-minded pragmatism".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neoconservatism_(United_States)   (7544 words)

  
 Damn Interesting » Do What You're Told
Simply described, a test subject was recruited by newspaper and ad mail which sought people to aid in a "memory study".
After finishing the list, he then read the first word of the pair, and a list of four possible matches.
You give these people in the test the myth that they will not be held accountable and it shows their true nature that they are sheep that are too ignorant to think for themselves and need a man in a white coat to think for them
www.damninteresting.com /?p=242   (2200 words)

  
 Neocon Convergences -- In These Times
According to a report by Media Transparency, from 1995 to 2001 the Milwaukee-based foundation provided about $14.5 million to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the think tank most responsible for incubating and nourishing the ideas of the neocon movement.
According to Graham, people in the administration didn’t support SDI in 1982.
Among the goals of the Moon Organization is the establishment of a worldwide government in which the separation of church and state would be abolished and then would be governed by Moon and his followers.
www.inthesetimes.com /theittlist/site/main/article/neocon_convergences   (2391 words)

  
 What It's Like | TPMCafe
These people never ever "knew better and chose the wrong path." They were born on gthe wrong path and enthusiastically followed it to the denouement to come.
The rumor is that Plame's CIA group was closing in on the people who forged the Niger documents - and they were shut down to protect the people we now are fairly sure were the forgers: Michael Ledeen, a couple CIA agents - and possibly all under the orders of Dick Cheney.
One the list of departed staffers, Gonzales prepared unprinciple advise that it is OK to use tortuture and degradation, Rice never expressed a view that Cheney himself would not have (she changed a bit as Secretary of State), Fleischer never hesitated to spew a lie, however outrageous, others I do not know.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/26/23727/338   (7192 words)

  
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These people say the chief issue is whether the government will insure the winning company against claims for property damage, injuries or death while working in Iraq, a provision that could save the company millions of dollars.
People in the "nonprofit sector" and in some unions united to oppose these disclosures, thinking that keeping private the identities of donors or the details of campaign expenditures was important.
They talked to experts, they talked to important white people, and Koppel reported this: Many fls are new to voting and, with limited education, have a difficult time with marking the sophisticated ballots.
lists.democracygroups.org /pipermail/rightwatch/2003q2.txt   (18491 words)

  
 People For the American Way - American Enterprise Institute
It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism, and has been extremely successful in placing its people in influential governmental positions, particularly in the Bush Administration.
AEI has been described as one of the country's main bastions of neoconservatism.
President George W. Bush has appointed over a dozen people from AEI to senior positions in his administration.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4456   (480 words)

  
 Spinsanity - A flurry of unfair associations
And for a subset of these people, Jews are a handy explanation for everything." He also claimed critics of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative think tank, view it as "sort of a Yiddish Trilateral Commission, the nexus of the sprawling neocon tentacles."
As Josh Marshall and Bob Somerby have pointed out, this is a clear attempt to associate criticism of President Bush's foreign policy or neoconservatism with anti-Semitism in readers' minds.
It was about people who imagine there is a shadowy conspiracy behind Bush policy.
www.spinsanity.org /columns/20040113.html   (778 words)

  
 Mundane Essays
Pre-prepare a list of questions, keep track of which are good, which are bad.
Those same people generally think that software development is hard and should be done by people with a computer science degree and call for software engineering certification and the creation of a software developer's union.
I think most of the latter would identify themselves as post modern programmers, people who just want to get the job done, well, and in a way that can change as a user's needs changes.
muness.blogspot.com   (6685 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online
So, while their daughter was away, my then-girlfriend's parents drove up to Cambridge, and pleaded with the Dean of Admissions at Harvard to let their daughter rescind her reject and accept a spot at Harvard.
Y is for hanging tough with DeLay: “People need to understand something: If the Democrats and the New York Times get Tom DeLay that’s not the end of a process, that’s the beginning of a process.
Montesquieu is quoted on his insistence that judgments be rendered strictly according to the law, not just the personal view of the judge: "Were they to be the private opinion of the judge, people would then live in a society, without exactly knowing the nature of their obligations..." (page 53).
www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/05_04_10_corner-archive.asp#060464   (12876 words)

  
 Washington Puzzles over the Mujahedeen-e Khalq [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes
The Treasury Department on August 15 (1) listed the National Council of Resistance in Iran as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and (2) "clarified" that the National Council of Resistance and People's Mujahedin of Iran are aliases of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK).
The Iranians promised amnesty to most of the 3,800 MEK members and not to apply the death penalty for the roughly 65 leaders who would be tried.
July 27, 2004 update: After 16 months, the State Department and FBI have found there is no basis to charge the 3,800 MEK members held in de facto American custody in Camp Ashraf with violations of American law, reports the New York Times.
www.danielpipes.org /blog/80   (1961 words)

  
 It was all just a joke, David Brooks has now said. But what about Brooks' slick brothers?
To hear these people describe it, PNAC is sort of a Yiddish Trilateral Commission, the nexus of the sprawling neocon tentacles.
In truth, the people labeled neocons (con is short for “conservative” and neo is short for “Jewish”) travel in widely different circles and don't actually have much contact with one another.
And he said this fairly late in his column—after implying, again and again, the critics of the neoconservatives were driven by hatred of Jews.
www.dailyhowler.com /dh010904.shtml   (2726 words)

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