{"article":{"id":69073,"heading":"Understanding Neocon Strategy - Their "Big Picture" Vision","author":"repost","created":"2003-07-02 19:19:11","modified":"2013-11-11 00:23:32","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:23:32","article":"

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\r\n Nicholas Confessore<\/b> (Editor Washington\r\n Monthly www.washingtonmonthly.com) on how the GOP is turning\r\n Washington's K-street lobbying industry into an arm of the Republican\r\n Party and how this strategy plays into the larger goal of establishing\r\n a de facto one-party rule in the USA.  This comprehensive\r\n political strategy, masterminded by movement conservatives in\r\n positions of power and influence such as Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist,\r\n Karl Rove and others, seeks to make the Republican Party\r\n indistinguishable from corporate cartels and utterly dominant in\r\n American life, with a consequent transformation of public service to\r\n private profit, the end of social programs, the shrinkage of the\r\n middle-class and the gulf between rich and poor expanding to\r\n third-world dimensions.  This important discussion, and the\r\n article which inspired it, are not to be missed.
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\r\n Dr. Rahul Mahajan<\/b> (Author of \"The New Crusade: America's\r\n War on Terrorism\" and \"Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in\r\n Iraq and Beyond.\"  Dr. Mahajan is a member of the Nowar\r\n Collective, the National Board of Peace Action, and the National\r\n Committee of the National Network to End the War against Iraq.  He\r\n holds a PhD. in physics from the University of Texas at\r\n Austin.  www.rahulmahajan.com ) on what's really happening\r\n in Iraq, how the United States will impose \"full spectrum\"\r\n dominance in the Middle-East and elsewhere and how US foreign and\r\n economic policies support repressive and kleptocratic regimes\r\n worldwide.  Dr. Mahajan addresses US manipulation of the UN, the\r\n NeoCon agenda for the world and the price to the citizens of the US\r\n and the world of the NeoCon empire.
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\r\n Dr. Cheryl Rubenberg<\/b> (former Professor of International\r\n Studies, Florida International University.  Author of \"The\r\n Palestinians in Search of a Just Peace,\" \"Israel and\r\n American National Interest: a Critical Examination,\" and\r\n \"Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West\r\n Bank\") on the under-reported back-story of the \"Roadmap to\r\n Peace.\"  Dr. Rubenberg addresses the unlikelihood of\r\n success, after 35 years of military occupation,  for the\r\n peace effort, the questionable sincerity of the participants, the\r\n dubious authenticity of the hand-picked by the US and Israel\r\n Palestinian representative.  She questions the Israeli commitment\r\n to a just long-term settlement, given the powerful political and\r\n religious forces in Israel that insist of the sovereignty of Israel\r\n over the occupied territories.  She notes open discussion in\r\n Israel of \"Palestinian transfer\" (see www.gamla.org.il\/english\r\n ).  Dr. Rubenberg offers a simple prescription for a genuine\r\n peace: honesty, fairness, abandonment of the settlements, a real state\r\n with real democracy, and respect for the humanity of both sides. \r\n Can this become a reality?<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n<\/table>\r\n \r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"audio\/mpeg","summary":"Ian Masters interviews Nicholas Confessore about the neocon's dream of creating a one party nation, and how this all fits into a bigger picture of shrinking government (except defense and corporate welfare), how Karl Rove and Grover Norquist fit into the picture, etc. Nicholas Confessore is the editor of the Washington Monthly, a highly respected academic journal published by a think-tank with mainstream and conservative board members like Brent Scowcroft. This is not marginal views from the left. These are mainstream views that sharply criticize the total insanity that is the George W. Bush junta. ","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/07\/ian-masters-stream.mp3","filesize":"0.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/07\/69073.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":69074,"heading":"more","article":"\r\n

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\r\n James C. Moore<\/b> (co-author of "Bush's Brain:\r\n How Karl Rove made George Bush presidential") on Karl Rove's--referred by\r\n Moore as "co-President"--conflation of policy and politics.
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\r\n Lina Krushcheva<\/b> (senior fellow World Policy Institute, New School for\r\n Social Research) on the emerging disturbing similarities between the Bush\r\n administration and American media to the old Soviet system.
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\r\n Paul Berman<\/b> (author "Terror and Liberalism") postulates\r\n a threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism and its terrorist\r\n manifestation to the western liberal tradition.<\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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\r\nPart 1<\/b>--The Bush Presidency<\/b>.  James Moore\r\n(Emmy and multiple jounalistic award-winning co-author Bush's Brain: How Karl\r\nRove made George W. Bush presidential) on the tactics of Presidential Advisor\r\nRove in guiding GWB's presidency.  Moore describes the "what you see\r\nis what you DON'T get" strategies of mis and dis-information,\r\nbait-and-switch campaigns, and the unprecedented radical agenda of the Bush\r\nadministration.  48 minutes.
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Roger Morris (former National Security Council\r\nunder Presidents Johnson and Nixon, author) on rising fascism in the US body\r\npolitic.
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\r\nPanel on Israeli\/Palestinian peace and the emergence of a political alternative\r\nto AIPAC (Tikkun Community), asking the question, who really speaks for Judaism\r\nin America? Rabbi Michael Lerner (founder of Tikkun.org, author of "Spirit\r\nMatters"), Dr. Stephen Zunes (Assoc. Professor of Politics & Chair of\r\nthe Peace and Justice Program San Francisco State University, author\r\n"Tinderbox: US Middle East foreign policy and the roots of\r\nterrorism"); Dr. Michael Nagler (Professor emeritus UC Berkeley, Chair UC\r\nPeace and Conflict Program, author "Is There no Other Way: the search for a\r\nnon-violent future")
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\r\nMilton Beardon (former Intelligence Officer, oversaw anti-Soviet CIA effort in\r\nAfghanistan) on the conflict between the Pentagon and the CIA, the role of\r\nintelligence in a democracy, "cooking" intel for political purposes,\r\n"blowback" and Middle-East assessment.<\/p>\r\n","author":"more","parent_id":69073,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-07-02 19:24:55","modified":"2003-07-02 19:24:55","fileurl":""}]}