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NYT: You know it’s publish the any old tripe time when the Israeli Palestinian conflict heats up yet again. Now who do you turn to? There must be a neoconservative ready to spout his foreign policy fantasies based upon some assumption of his political...
by LaFeminista
on Tue May 18, 2021 at 01:03 AM PDT
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A cadre of neocon and conservative critics of Trump have decided to organize an effort to remove Trump in 2020. "Trumpism, an empty faith led by a bogus prophet." Some of the most prominent NeverTrump Republicans — Steve Schmidt, George Conway, Rick...
by annieli
on Tue Dec 17, 2019 at 01:49 PM PST
with 101 Recommends
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Nikki Haley, who didn’t have a lick of foreign policy experience before Pr*sident Donald Trump appointed her to be ambassador to the United Nations, delivered a speech on Iran’s compliance with the 2015 multinational nuclear agreement to the American...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Sep 07, 2017 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Glenn Greenwald writes another warning of the fundamental problems of the Democratic party and its foreign policy history as rooted in neoconservative ideologies, or at least a susceptibility to them. It may seem oxymoronic to consider that there are...
by annieli
on Mon Jul 17, 2017 at 06:53 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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Political eras in America tend to cycle every 36-48 years diverging suddenly and in unexpected ways. Each of these eras has a clear starting point based on signature group decisions end of the previous cycle. America has gone thru both Progressive and...
by TrickleDownPoverty
on Wed Mar 01, 2017 at 02:32 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
The members of what TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East, calls “the Church...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 08:43 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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I'm confused. Here we are two weeks into the Presidency of our first reality show leader who has rapidly been overturning and flouting laws - and whom many think is on a fast track to a fascist ...
by Geminijen
on Sun Feb 05, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST
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Not being the writer that many here are, it can be most intimidating. Caitlin Johnstone, I am not. Please bear or (bare) with me and let me say what has been on my mind and scaring the living daylights out of me. It is a subject that I wish more were...
by justmypiece
on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 04:11 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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From: impracticalcogitator.wordpress.com/…
If you had asked any politico to describe the differences between Republicans and Democrats, say fifteen years ago, he or she would have had a reasonably easy time of it. True, the Regan years had shifted...
by parango
on Sat Sep 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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First of all, his entire argument rests on a logical fallacy; begging the question. The unproven premise being that, of the two major party candidates, Clinton constitutes the lesser evil. This is far from settled fact. Oh, I know what you're thinking...
by Hang em High
on Tue Aug 02, 2016 at 12:20 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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Thanks to author Benjamin Studebaker for his thoughtful piece on Bernie vs Hillary, some of which I share below after a couple of comments on our ongoing “war” here at DK.
It’s hard not to notice that some Clinton supporters here on...
by NeoLiberalTrash
on Tue May 24, 2016 at 05:50 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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I recently posted a diary suggesting that the Conservative powers-that-be were running Trump/Cruz only as a smokescreen, in order to install their preferred “boy” Paul Ryan through a brokered convention. My Kos commenters did not seem enthusiastic...
by wpmiller
on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 09:53 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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I just got this email from Roots Action:
A new website tells the truth. Please help spread it around:
HillaryIsANeocon.com
"For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The par
by riottapes
on Sat Mar 19, 2016 at 07:58 AM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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Alexander Griffing, the Director of Digital Outreach at Haaretz English edition, writes a revealing op-ed urging traditional, interventionist, one might say “neocon” Republicans to vote for Hillary.
First off, she’s "the only candidate in the fie
by themgt
on Thu Mar 10, 2016 at 10:05 AM PST
with 36 Recommends
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First, a bit of background. The man pictured here is none other than Robert Kagan. His career in the neoconservative school of International Relations has been long and storied. Here are some (only some) highlights:
— In 1997, Kagan cofounded, with
by Australian2
on Tue Mar 08, 2016 at 09:00 AM PST
with 25 Recommends
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No wait! That was not our president, that was his former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Running for Commander-in-Chief of our military forces. Neocon war-hawk supreme. She just stated that ...
by New Minas
on Wed Oct 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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I will NOT defer to three dimensional chess players. I will not relent in my opposition to the tenets of Neoliberal Economists and Neoconservative warmongers. I will ONLY mock and ridicule the ...
by New Minas
on Mon Aug 31, 2015 at 02:30 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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Foreign Affairs is rarely a huge issue in a Presidential Race. This time around it looks like it will be. WHAT IS THE RIGHT FIT FOR THE U.S. HOW CAN WE BE A SUPERPOWER WITH FEWER RESOURCES AND A ...
by murphthesurf3
on Thu Jun 04, 2015 at 06:54 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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The hawks are at it again. All the things we have heard before are coming back. Obama must do more. He is feckless. He has no strategy. He is scared to use American force. He does not believe in ...
by Abhi Thakur
on Tue May 26, 2015 at 03:28 AM PDT
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The surprising disintegration of Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has opened up the race for the 2016 Republican nomination, benefitting the other candidate from Florida, Senator Marco Rubio. ...
by bobburnett
on Thu May 21, 2015 at 06:08 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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