Wednesday, July 28, 2004
robot warriors never say die
Neoconservative dead-enders regroup and start plotting their comeback, writes Matthew Yglesias at The American Prospect, concerning the relaunch of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), "an organization not heard from since the last days of disco."
Sunday, July 25, 2004
Neoconservadroid puppet Bush seeks new war?
Recognizing the belligerent Eveready Bunny looking for a way to boost his re-election chances and another war to boost profits for his war profiteer cronies, a Los Angeles Times op-ed essay explores the potential mischief lurking in President Bush's recent statement that although the CIA had found "no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of Sept. 11," nevertheless "we will continue to look and see if the Iranians were involved." .... Re Bush's playing the fear card, Frank Rich predicts, "Odds are that the next John Ashcroft doomsday press conference will be timed to coincide with the run-up to Mr. Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday night."
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Neocons help create the present danger, now fight it
Neoconservadroids of all stripes reconstitute the Committee on the Present Danger, "dedicated to winning the global war on terrorism." Noble goal, but the CPD includes a lot of folks and organiations who bear responsibility for helping to create the global terrorist threat.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Fighting Fox
MoveOn.org continues to hold Fox News' feet to the fire, petitioning Congress to investigate whether or not Fox's "fair and balanced" claim violates truth in advertising laws, and leading the struggle to expose Fox for its partisan propagandizing for the Iraq war and other neoconservadroid projects. In just a few hours earlier today, more than 200,000 people signed an online petition asking Congress to call Fox owner Rupert Murdock to testify before Congress about Fox's partisan political programming disseminated as "news". Join the struggle at http://www.moveon.org/fox/.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Change partners, keep dancing
"Realists" urge restraint as new neoconservadroid target emerges: Iran.
Monday, July 19, 2004
How Feith made his "warped world" ours
The story of neoconservadroid Iraq war architect Douglas Feith's shenanigans lies exposed in four current books, says the UPI
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Oh, Condi, Condi
"You be the flower and I'll be the bumblebee
Oh she loves me; oops, she loves me not
People say you're cold, but I think you're hot."
"They say you're too uptight, I say you're not
Dance around me spinnin' like a top
Oh, Condi, Condi, don't ever stop."
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Chickenhawks waiting to pounce
Will "hawkish" neoconseradroids co-opt the new generation of young conservadroids as William F. Buckley Jr. passes the torch? Will libertarians leave them in the dust? Those are the questions raised in Young Right Tries to Define Post-Buckley Future in today's New York Times.
Friday, July 16, 2004
Murdoch the Manipulator
Center for American Progress profiles media mogul Rupert Murdoch, describing him as a media manipulator, war monger, oil imperialist, intimidator, far right partisan, Bush supporter, and neoconservadroid.
Thursday, July 15, 2004
How Democrats helped the neoconservadroids win
It's not all the neoconservadroids' fault. Ceding "class warfare" to the right, refashioning the Democrat party as pro-corporate: Thomas Frank explains why liberals have to share part of the blame of the US political and cultural shift to the right.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
From Trotsky to Wolfowitz
That's the arc of the cult's history, according to a column by Justin Raimondo today, worth reading if only for its overheated articulation of the in-fighting and fragmentation of already-splintered groups that leads to the current groupuscule of neoconservadroid power brokers pulling President Bush's puppet strings.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Paper positions Powell as anti-neoconservadroid
He's thumbing his nose at them, according to a story in today's Christian Science Monitor that also warns it's too soon to say the robotic warmongers have lost the battle for control of US foreign policy.
Why neoconservdroids are here to stay
"A former official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations and a former British diplomat argue that neo-conservatism is a manifestation of a deeper syndrome that has structural roots in United States history and politics." Their debate is worth reading, at openDemocracy.net
Monday, July 12, 2004
Michael Moore, closet neoconservadroid?
Is Michael Moore acting in concert with neoconservadroid Richard Perle? Once past that absurd question and its fallacious answer, Tany Hsu's column at Antiwar.com is worth reading for its fevered expose of a secret neoconservadroid plan to invade Saudi Arabia, stretching back to the oil crisis of 1971.
Friday, July 09, 2004
Neoconservdroid coup at CIA?
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Neoconservadroids know no shame
Mentioned almost in passing, in a Boston Globe book review: never-give-up, never-say-sorry neoconservadroid Paul Wolfowitz, "the neoconservative architect of the Iraq war who has most impressed specialists with his ignorance of the region."
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
No exit from neoconservadroid nightmare?
"One of the few things the neocons seem to have done successfully is pass on a no-exit catastrophe to whomever," writes Tom Engelhardt, in a must-read TomDispatch that answers the perennial question "why didn't Rumsfeld and the rest of the neoconservadroids have no exit strategy for their Iraqi adventure" and finds a slender thread of optimism in just how badly the neoconservadroids have misjudged the US voter hornets' nest that they have upset.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
What was the neoconservadroid Veep's doctor smoking?
Also in the New Yorker this week:
When George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney to b his running mate four years ago, Dr. Gary Malakoff Cheney’s personal physician, assured the nation, in letter released that July by the Bush campaign, tha Cheney, despite having suffered three heart attack and undergone quadruple-bypass surgery, was “up t the task of the most sensitive public office.” Fou months later, Cheney suffered a fourth heart attack and Malakoff joined Cheney’s cardiologist i declaring him fit to return to work. Now Cheney ha dropped Malakoff from his medical team, after nin years of service. [...] It turns out that Malakoff has a history, going back to 1997, of abusing prescription narcotics.
How bad are the neoconservadroids?
Even right-winger Pat Buchanan wants them out, according to the New Yorker:
....Pat Buchanan is no longer a Republican operative. For nearly two years, he has been waging his own steady protest against the Bush Administration, in the form of an upstart magazine, The American Conservative, which has charged that the Administration “alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through [its] arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.” He said, “That’s the reason we came into existence: to argue against a massive invasion of Iraq and to argue against, if you will, the neoconservative takeover—the hijacking of American foreign policy.”
Monday, July 05, 2004
Did one neoconservadroid's obsession take America to war?
Apparently so, despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary, reports Peter Bergen, in the Guardian.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Why are neoconservadroids so relentless...
Saturday, July 03, 2004
How to avoid some neoconservadroids at the beach this summer
Friday, July 02, 2004
Thanks for clearing that up
"The consensus in the press is to blame 'neoconservative' ideologues for these errors," Max Boot reports in the Jerusalem Post today, regarding the misconceived, failed, ongoing neoconservadroid occupation of Iraq. "The reality is more complicated. In point of fact, the so-called neocons in the Pentagon did not want to install an American viceroy. They were pushing for an Iraqi provisional government led by their favorite exile, Ahmed Chalabi."
Thursday, July 01, 2004
It depends on the meaning of "safer"
Like the Energizer Bunny, lyin' Veep "Expletive Deleted" Cheney continues to insist that the world and the US are safer as a result of Bush Administration policies, that al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein had ties that necessitated the invasion of Iraq (without offering any supporting evidence), & etc. Despite these assurances, the new Iraqi government and US puppetmasters remain holed up in their Green Zone bunker, US and other foreigners as well as untold numbers of Iraqis continue to be kidnapped, injured, and assassinated by terrorists and guerillas in Iraq and elsewhere, and Bush & Co. continue to issue terrifying-sounding threats about possible terrorist attacks inside the US.
