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Wherein neoconservatives begin to suspect they just might be the useful idiots of Wall Street. Having learned nothing from the first Gilded Age, neocons are now discovering we’re in the second Gilded Age. Better late than never. Did you Kossacks...
by Seth Huebner
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on Tue Feb 21, 2023 at 07:40 AM PST
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Somewhere within the subroutines and algorithms that drive the Gray Lady is a hard-coded fear that Democrats might take the country too far left. What exactly does that mean? I don’t know and ...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 11:45 AM PDT
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George W. Bush is whining from the peanut gallery about the inevitable US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bush says he's watching crisis unfolding in Afghanistan with 'deep sadness' The former president, who launched a "war on terror" in Afghanistan after...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Tue Aug 17, 2021 at 09:41 AM PDT
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UPDATE Charles M. Blow:"I call that party a national security threat and a cancer on our democracy." [SEE THE UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] From the N.Y. Times: The G.O.P. Menace to Society What do you call members of a party who, from top to bottom, from elected officials to voters, largely believe a lie and a liar determined to undermine,...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Aug 02, 2021 at 07:26 AM PDT
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a toxic vision We are living in perilous times, unlike any other since the Civil War. Yet, while America has been blessed for nearly three centuries, we have spent much of that time having great difficulty getting over ourselves. Too many of us have...
by vjr7121
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on Mon Aug 23, 2021 at 04:39 AM PDT
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Philosophically to the right of former Vice President Dick Cheney and the Neocons, a super-hawk, John Bolton is an evil purveyor of death and destruction. From Iran to Venezuela, it is claimed he never found an adversary he didn’t want to bomb....
by JohnBAlexander
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on Tue Jun 23, 2020 at 03:39 PM PDT
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Not trying to start a war here, but Tulsi is right. She made “regime change wars” her signature issue. She warned that the neo-cons/Republicans/Likud party have wanted war in Iran for decades. They would not rest until they got it. Oh well….
by TheJackdaw
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on Fri Jan 03, 2020 at 09:44 AM PST
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Short entry here—but basically I hope our side isn’t increasingly sympathetic to neocons or to warmonger types. I”m not ONLY talking about the current alarming tragic situation in Turkey, but the general foreign policy stance and language. We don’t...
by superseiyan
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on Sun Oct 13, 2019 at 12:12 PM PDT
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So long, John Bolton. He’ll be welcomed on TV and opinion pages for the rest of his life as one of the “reasonable war criminals.”
by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Sep 13, 2019 at 02:50 PM PDT
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I spent several years of my early 20’s serving as a line officer at sea on the navigation bridges of several U.S. Navy warships during the Viet Nam War. After I returned to civilian life, and ever since, I’ve maintained more than a passing interest in...
by LeftOfYou
67 comments
on Thu May 16, 2019 at 07:29 PM PDT
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THE UGLY AMERICAN:
A CASE HISTORY
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by tdduff
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on Mon Mar 11, 2019 at 03:24 PM PDT
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One of the good things about Twitter is it’s ability to reveal the vapidity and unearned privilege of so many people in politics. It also serves as a regular reminder that we share little if any values with prominent #NeverTrump conservatives. Here’s...
by subir
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on Thu Feb 14, 2019 at 10:32 AM PST
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Remember “Freedom Fries,” when the Neocons could not stand using anything French?
Well, it’s our turn. “Rights, not ICE!” We can proudly order “’Rights cream.” We can put “Rights’ cubes” in our drinks. We can drink “Rights’ coffee,” cold brew or...
by David B
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on Wed Jun 20, 2018 at 04:40 PM PDT
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John Bolton wants War;
Donald Trump wants the ultimate in Distractions — you do the Math.
In Bolton’s own words ...
Trump's likely pick to replace his national security adviser really wants to bomb North Korea
by Alex Lockie,...
by jamess
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on Thu Mar 22, 2018 at 05:25 PM PDT
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Andrew Bacevich, former Army colonel turned professor (America’s War for the Greater Middle East), enjoys some shadenfreude at the expense of two former Bush neo-cons*. In a recent podcast, Max Boot and Eliot Cohen. Both are #neverTrumpers who are...
by Rambler797
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on Wed Jan 03, 2018 at 05:07 AM PST
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Recently on CNN, DP consigliere Paul Begala remarked that “we were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power” and that we should be talking about a new regime of sanctions, perhaps even about blowing up the KGB. He is not alone in thing...
by Rambler797
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on Tue Jul 18, 2017 at 06:17 PM PDT
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On August 30th, 2013 President Barack Obama confounded many of the lessor hawks and full blown Neocons within and without his administration by not taking vigorous military action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad following the chemical weapons...
by durrati
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on Sat Apr 08, 2017 at 12:45 PM PDT
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First time post. Are we all having fun yet?? I came across something that sent a shiver up my spine, well more so that all the other shivers...in need of shiver management. This post concerns the potential appointment of John Bolton as Secretary of...
by ProLiberalDemocracy
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on Mon Nov 14, 2016 at 06:10 PM PST
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How are Democrats going to deal with the Trump administration going forward? *Updated with some new links and more.
Control of Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court as soon as they can install a new Scalia clone — Republicans hold most of the...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 08:01 PM PST
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Dr Moti Nissani, the closest thing I know to a real polymath has just written a terrific review for my blog about a book that intrigued me since the moment it was announced last Fall. It is a book written by a heartland American expat, Jeff Brown, who...
by raccoondog
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on Wed Jul 20, 2016 at 09:44 AM PDT
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