Archiv: Neokonservative / Neocons


15.11.2024 - 16:23 [ ABC News ]

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is Trump‘s pick for director of national intelligence

(November 13, 2024)

„Trump ended up with some neocons around him who were trying to undermine his objectives so they could feed their goals of continuing to keep us in a perpetual state of war,“ Gabbard said, discussing his first administration. „This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before,“ Gabbard said when she endorsed Trump during a campaign event in Michigan.

„This is one of the main reasons why I‘m committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he can, once again, serve us as our commander in chief.“

05.05.2024 - 09:11 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Israel Supporters Are Some Of The Worst People In The World

(24.02.2024)

No political faction I have ever interacted with is as immoral and dishonest, or so frequently says things that are so jaw-droppingly disgusting I am sure I must be misinterpreting it at first. I’ve never tangled with a more odious group of people.

05.05.2024 - 07:31 [ Fox News ]

More than 2,100 arrested at anti-Israel protests nationwide as police clear college encampments

– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.

05.05.2024 - 07:15 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza is the greatest test liberalism has faced since 1945. And it is failing

Pro-Israeli lobbies have hijacked most western liberal democracies.

The whole world is now privy to the shameless pimping of western politicians previously documented in Congressman Paul Findley‘s 1985 book They Dare to Speak Out and reinforced by the 2007 book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, by political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.

As an anonymous commentator wrote: “People think Gaza is occupied, but in reality, Gaza is free but the whole world is occupied.”

09.02.2024 - 20:49 [ Middle East Eye ]

Biden and Starmer will pay a heavy price for supporting Israel‘s war in Gaza

We can be sure of one thing. History is going to be a much harsher judge of those political leaders who justified and tolerated the ethnic cleansing now going on in Gaza.

Biden and Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire and their refusal to back the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel should take steps to comply with the Genocide Convention, will produce an indelible stain on their careers.

Neither man sees the danger they are in over Gaza. But then neither did Bush or Blair when they invaded Iraq.

23.01.2024 - 11:50 [ ZDF ]

Werteunion trifft sich in Erfurt: Maaßens großer Schritt zur Parteigründung

(20.01.2024)

Mit der CDU-Führung liegt Maaßen seit geraumer Zeit im Dauerkonflikt – seit vergangenem Jahr läuft ein Parteiausschlussverfahren gegen den ehemaligen Spitzenbeamten und derzeitigem Chef der Werteunion, einem Verein, in dem auch besonders konservative Mitglieder von CDU und CSU vertreten sind.
Bei einer Mitgliederversammlung am Samstag in Erfurt soll ein erster wichtiger Schritt in Richtung Parteigründung gegangen werden:

26.12.2023 - 19:25 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Kanzlerkandidat der Union: K-Frage laut Kretschmer bereits entschieden

Im September werden in Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg die Landtage neu gewählt.

Erst am Wochenende hatte Nordrhein-Westfalens Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst (CDU) die Union vor verfrühten Debatten über die Kanzlerkandidatur gewarnt – und ein Bekenntnis zu Merz vermieden.

19.10.2023 - 21:02 [ Glenn Greenwald ]

Gaza’s Devastating Humanitarian Crisis Worsens. The US & Israel Revive War on Terror Framework: Dissenters Labeled “Pro-Hamas.” And Is the US Establishment pro-Israel or pro-Palestine?

Not everything the United States government did in the name of waging war on the terrorists or destroying the perpetrators of those attacks turned out to be wise, justified, or even moral. To the contrary: so many actions undertaken by the U.S. government in the months and years following the 9/11 attack were self-destructive and shameful. That is the reason that the neocons who dominated the Bush-Cheney administration and George Bush and Dick Cheney themselves ended up discredited and in disgrace, at least until they magically rehabilitated themselves by denouncing Donald Trump, which absolves all sins. But the reason they were discredited and in disgrace is not because people reconsidered whether the 9/11 attack was morally unjustified. Americans still overwhelmingly believe that it was. The shame and horror from that era are, instead, due to the fact that so much of what the US did in the name of „fighting terror“ had the opposite effect: either by inflaming it, turning the world against the U.S. and engaging in actions that destroyed the moral credibility of our government.

13.10.2023 - 14:51 [ Fox News ]

Who could be Republicans‘ next speaker candidate after Scalise bowed out?

Scalise won a closed-door secret ballot vote to be the House GOP’s new candidate for speaker on Wednesday afternoon. However, it quickly became clear that he did not have the 217 votes needed to win a House-wide vote.

04.10.2023 - 09:42 [ Tristan Snell / Twitter ]

Democrats + 7 MAGA Republicans removed Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. Democrats + 7 moderate Republicans could make Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker.

04.10.2023 - 09:36 [ CircleBackEugene / Twitter ]

„Here is a look at what comes next after the US House of Representatives for the first time in its history booted its speaker out of the job“ He was voted out, not booted. Eight Republicans voted with 208 Democrats. It‘s called democracy.

04.10.2023 - 09:15 [ Reuters ]

Who could succeed Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the US House?

JIM JORDAN

Representative Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee and an ally of former President Donald Trump, was nominated by some Republican rebels to be the speaker during the election to the seat in January. He received 20 votes during one round of voting. (…)

Representative Patrick McHenry was named to step in as speaker pro tempore following McCarthy‘s ouster. Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, McHenry is a McCarthy ally who spoke in support of McCarthy prior to the vote.

04.10.2023 - 08:59 [ MSNBC Public Relations / Twitter ]

Rep. @Ilhan Omar to @KatiePhang: “The fact that McCarthy has become known as chief liar, whether it is within his conference or within the Democrats, really sealed his fate.“ Watch via @MSNBC.

04.10.2023 - 08:43 [ Associated Press ]

Speaker McCarthy ousted in historic House vote, as scramble begins for a Republican leader

Next steps are highly uncertain with no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority. Action is halted in the House until next week, when Republicans try to elect a new speaker.

04.10.2023 - 08:22 [ KTLA 5 / Youtube ]

House makes history, removes Kevin McCarthy as Speaker

The mutiny, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), came days after McCarthy averted a government shutdown by putting a stopgap measure on the floor that garnered Democratic support — a move that infuriated hardline Republicans. In the final 216-210 vote, seven Republicans joined Gaetz to unseat McCarthy.

Every Democrat in the chamber also voted to boot McCarthy, refusing to help protect him from his unruly conference. McCarthy said he would give Democrats nothing if they were to vote to help him.

04.10.2023 - 08:17 [ ZDF ]

US-Repräsentantenhaus : McCarthy als Vorsitzender abgewählt

Das US-Repräsentantenhaus hat in einer historisch einmaligen Abstimmung seinen Vorsitzenden Kevin McCarthy abgesetzt. Nach einer Rebellion in den Reihen der Republikaner votierte am Dienstag eine knappe Mehrheit in der Kongresskammer dafür, McCarthy von seinem Posten zu entfernen.

16.09.2023 - 00:05 [ Glenn Greenwald / Locals.com ]

EU and The Washington Post Escalate Their Censorship Campaign with a New Fraudulent “Disinformation Study” About Twitter and Russia. Plus: The John McCain Institute Used to Promote Neocon Dogma on War

(September 08, 2023)

The way this typically works is that groups claim to employ “disinformation experts” – a brand new and fake expertise they created overnight – and then produce studies that purport to document who is either circulating harmful disinformation or who is permitting it to be heard. This latter accusation, permitting dangerous disinformation to be heard, always means that one social media company or another is failing to censor in accordance with the demands of the group and its funders. They then get corporate media outlets who crave censorship to melodramatically trumpet their accusatory studies using flamboyant headlines that claim a disobedient technology platform has the blood on their hands, knowing that it will spread virally, but very few people actually read the study to determine if the accusations have any validity.

15.09.2023 - 21:55 [ MisesInstitute.org ]

America Since 9/11: 22 Years of Lies and Despotism

Just last week, Dick Cheney took to social media to condemn Donald Trump as a threat „to our republic.“ This video echoes a similar condemnation from George W. Bush in 2021.

In a more reasonable world, people like Cheney, Rice, Bolton, et al, would all be forgotten, shamed, disgraced politicians. They all would have been forced into retirement and shunned years ago after overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a surveillance state at home. Many of them would just now be emerging from prison for their crimes against both international law and the US Constitution.

Unfortunately, we don‘t live in a more reasonable world.

07.07.2023 - 04:50 [ Codepink ]

CODEPINK Condemns Biden‘s Nomination of Elliott Abrams to U.S Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

President Biden’s nomination of Elliott Abrams to The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is appalling and should be condemned by any one who believes in diplomacy and democracy.

27.06.2023 - 12:00 [ Tagesschau.de ]

K-Frage in der CDU: Ein Hauch von Machtprobe

Beherrschtheit, Disziplin, Vorsicht – das sind herausstechende Merkmale des 47 Jahre alten Münsterländers, der in seinen früheren, bisweilen ungestümen Jahren als rauflustiger Generalsekretär der NRW-CDU gezeigt hat, dass er auch anders kann. Als er sich aber vor gut anderthalb Jahren anschickte, die Nachfolge von Armin Laschet anzutreten, schaltete Wüst in den Kontrollmodus. Jeder Satz ist seitdem überlegt, sprachliche Ausflüge in unwegsames Gelände meidet er wie der Teufel das Weihwasser.

21.06.2023 - 14:20 [ Boris Reitschuster ]

Hendrik Wüst (CDU) startet Projekt „AfD 40 Prozent“: Die Abwege der Christdemokraten

Wüst ist Merkelianer durch und durch. Er ist bekannt für seine Aussage, die CDU sei nicht konservativ. Und er zeigte wie sein Idol in Corona-Zeiten totalitäre Züge. Zitat: „Es geht darum, den Geimpften zu zeigen: Wir lassen das nicht länger zu, dass Menschen ihre individuelle Freiheit über die Freiheit der gesamten Gesellschaft stellen. Jetzt kümmern wir uns um die Nichtgeimpften und führen eine Impfpflicht ein.“ (Januar 2022 bei Anne Will).

21.06.2023 - 14:11 [ Kölner Stadtanzeiger ]

Machtkampf mit CDU-Chef Merz: Was Hendrik Wüst bei der Kanzlerkandidatur wirklich vorhat

Laumann, Chef des Arbeitnehmerflügels in der CDU, konnte mit Wüsts raubeinigen Auftreten in der Zeit als Generalsekretär von Jürgen Rüttgers (regierte zwischen 2005 und 2010) wenig anfangen. Wüst kam vom anderen Pol der NRW-CDU. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe um den damaligen CSU-General Markus Söder hatte er ein von den Medien viel beachtetes Thesenpapier für einen „modernen Konservatismus“ vorgelegt. Die Gruppe nannte sich selbst scherzhaft „Schwarze Jedi-Ritter“.

23.04.2023 - 07:04 [ @upholdreality / Nitter ]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: „When my uncle came into office, two months later he was fighting his intelligence apparatus and his military… in the middle of Bay of Pigs, he realized they were lying to him. He realized the function of the intelligence agencies had become to provide the military-industrial complex with a constant pipeline of war… … And so the neocons and CIA got to go into Iraq and do regime change. We spent $8 trillion and what did we get for it? Nothing… Iraq is now much worse off than it was when we went in there. We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.“

(April 20, 2023)

06.04.2023 - 05:02 [ Robert F. Kennedy Jr / Nitter ]

The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power.

(04.04.2023)

China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon‘s short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.

07.08.2022 - 07:48 [ Glenn Greenwald / Nitter ]

Bernie doesn‘t even pretend any more to have anything resembling a left-wing foreign policy or any minimal divergence from the neocon-driven Dem Party‘s foreign policy dogma. Opposing NATO expansion was long a mainstream liberal view. Now only Hawley & Paul will get near it:

22.08.2020 - 09:47 [ The Grayzone / Youtube ]

The Grayzone‘s Anya Parampil rips „criminal neocons“ in Biden & Trump camps

The Grayzone‘s Anya Parampil joins Tucker Carlson Tonight to address the revival of Iraq war neocons and militarists by both the Biden campaign and Trump White House.

21.08.2020 - 14:58 [ Moderate Rebels / Youtube ]

DNC embraces neocons, and Russiagate conspiracy just won‘t die – with Aaron Maté

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Aaron Maté about the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC), and how the Democratic Party welcomes neoconservative war criminals and right-wing Republicans while attacking the left.

We also talk about Joe Biden choosing hawkish neoliberal „top cop“ Kamala Harris as his VP candidate. Then Aaron picks apart the new Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russia, and explains why the Russiagate conspiracy still won‘t go away, even after it has been debunked.

06.05.2020 - 14:11 [ Saagar Enjeti, Host of Rising w/ Krystal and Saagar / Twitter ]

After 9/11 we saw how small cadre of well connected neocon ideologues took us into war in Iraq Right now a small group of well connected TrueCon ideologues are orchestrating a similar campaign not to spend more government resources during worst economic crisis since depression

16.02.2020 - 19:13 [ Daniel McAdams / Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity ]

The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck of Neocon and ‚Humanitarian‘ Interventionists

But Koch/Soros don‘t really want to end endless US interventions overseas. They want to fund the same old think tanks who are responsible for the disaster that is US foreign policy, re-brand interventionism as non-interventionism, and hope none of us rubes in flyover country notices.

25.12.2019 - 15:11 [ The Hill / Youtube ]

Panel: Dems embrace of neocon ‚Never Trumpers‘ is a disaster

Team Rising ponders why the ‚Never Trumpers‘ still think they matter in the Republican party

08.10.2019 - 15:47 [ Antiwar.com ]

Trump: ‘We’re Leaving Syria’ – Neocons Go Nuts!

President Trump has indicated that he will fulfill one of his central campaign promises – to get the US out of the endless wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. He has directed US troops to begin withdrawing from parts of northeast Syria in advance of an expected Turkish incursion into the region. Neocons screech that this will mean a comeback for ISIS and that abandoning the Kurds is treachery. They want to continue the “successful” Obama policy of eight years.

16.05.2019 - 06:56 [ Tulsi Gabbard, candidate for President / Twitter ]

Trump says he doesn‘t want war with Iran, but that‘s exactly what he wants, because that‘s exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first–not America.

03.05.2019 - 17:52 [ Tulsi Gabbard, Abgeordnete im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]

Neocons/Neolibs & MSM all sing from the same songsheet: War war war!!! Trump never gets positive media unless he‘s threatening war/carrying out military action. Today, Venezuela. Tomorrow, Iran? Cuba? Who’s next? No wonder NK won‘t give up their nukes.

01.05.2019 - 02:01 [ Ron Paul Liberty Report / Youtube ]

Venezuela Coup! Will Neocons (Finally) Get Their War?

At dawn, US-backed and self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, announced the „final phase“ of his coup against the Maduro government. While defections from the military are minor at this point, it is unknown whether the coup will reach critical mass. In the US, both Republicans and Democrats – who not long ago were furious over claims that the Russians have interfered in our elections – are cheering this US interference in Venezuelan elections. US neocons have joined the battle from the safety of their keyboards.

17.04.2019 - 16:19 [ Tulsi Gabbard, Abgeordnete im US Repräsentantenhaus / Twitter ]

Trump is surrounded by neocon war hawks who supported regime change wars in Libya, Iraq, Syria…now they’re calling for overthrow the govts of Venezuela and Iran, and the result will be the same: thousands of lives lost, trillions wasted, more suffering.

tulsi.to/warhawks

04.02.2019 - 16:04 [ Tulsi Gabbard / Twitter ]

As commander-in-chief, I will work to end the new cold war, nuclear arms race and slide into nuclear war. That is why the neocon/neolib warmongers will do anything to stop me.

04.02.2019 - 15:37 [ Tulsi Gabbard / Twitter ]

Trump campaigned against regime change wars when he ran for President but now bows to the wishes of the neocons around him, clamoring for the regime change wars he claimed to oppose, this time in Venezuela and Iran.

20.01.2019 - 09:56 [ Max Blumenthal / Twitter ]

The neocon/“left”-liberal interventionist freak out over the only pres candidate who has forcefully defied the bipartisan foreign policy consensus is just beginning. Will be somewhat enjoyable to watch it build to a petulant frenzy this year.

(11.1.2019)

20.01.2019 - 08:45 [ Tim Postulka ‏/ Twitter ]

It‘s sad to see her painted as an Assad supporter for opposing the war. During the Bush years, it was all about stopping the neocons. Now their policies control both parties even though Americans have been sick of it for a long time #Tulsi2020

04.01.2019 - 21:21 [ Daniel McAdams / Antiwar.com ]

Neocons Rage: International (And Domestic) Support for Trump’s Syria Pullout

The mainstream press coverage of President Trump’s announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn’t care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has used them as a cat’s paw and then abandoned them to their fate), were all of a sudden up in arms warning about an impending slaughter with the blood dripping squarely onto Trump’s hands.