Tag: neocons

Neocons Panic Over ‘Tea Party’

The tiny but well-placed – and very well-financed – political sect known as the neoconservatives is in panic mode. Discredited by the disastrous war in Iraq, and implicated in the trail of lies that led us into that quagmire, the neocons are deathly afraid that the jig is up: that their agenda of perpetual war … Continue reading “Neocons Panic Over ‘Tea Party’”

The War Party

I often make reference to “the War Party” in this space: it’s a convenient shorthand, one that evokes an image of something sinister, even Satanic, and this serves my rhetorical purposes well. But if we unpack the concept, and look for examples in real life, what we find is a little more prosaic than Satan … Continue reading “The War Party”

Ann, We Hardly Knew Ye

The “gaffe” (i.e., truth-telling) committed by GOP chairman Michael Steele continues to reverberate from one end of the political spectrum to the other: the latest wave to come crashing onto the shore is Ann “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity” Coulter. I very much doubt she ripped off … Continue reading “Ann, We Hardly Knew Ye”

Neoconservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey

As the right-wing leadership of the organized U.S. Jewish community defends Israel against international condemnation for its deadly seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian supplies for Gaza, a familiar clutch of neoconservative hawks is going on the offensive against what they see as the flotilla’s chief defender, Turkey. Outraged by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip’s Erdogan’s … Continue reading “Neoconservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey”