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Prof. Ira Chernus: “Pro-Israel” Neocons Go Global

by on 30. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His Alternet blog focuses mainly on issues of U.S. national (in)security. Ira writes frequently for progressive websites, especially on Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. These columns are collected at http://chernus.wordpress.com. His personal website is http://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus. AlterNet      September 28, 2010 “The Friends [...]

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Group to oppose President Obama’s Mideast policy

by on 14. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By BEN SMITH POLITICO  - 12 July 2010 Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration’s Mideast policy and the Democrats who support it. [...]

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Prof. Gary Leupp: “As You Know, I Didn’t Say That … ” — Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel

by on 07. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is [...]

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Neoconservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey

by on 15. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Jim Lobe Antiwar Forum -  June 10, 2010 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, [...]

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Necons side with Israel against Obama

by on 18. Mar, 2010 in Opinion

Middle East Online – 17 March 2010 In a phrase that the neocons used in the 1980s to demonize Americans who criticized Ronald Reagan’s bloody policies in Central America, it could be said that the Washington Post’s editorial writers are ‘blaming America first’ – and largely taking the side of Israel, notes Robert Parry. The US [...]

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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

by on 23. Dec, 2009 in Analysis

Middle East Online – 22 December 2009 Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel to accommodate the Palestinians in a Middle East peace accord. The neocons appear to be especially eager to [...]

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‘Father of Neoconservatism’ Irving Kristol’s Forgotten Alliance With Anti-Semites

by on 24. Sep, 2009 in Analysis

By Max Blumenthal Huffington Post     22 September 2009 In the hagiographic obits that have followed his death, the story of one of Kristol’s most momentous — and cynical — maneuvers has been conveniently forgotten. By the time Irving Kristol died on September 18 at the age of 89, he had transformed the Republican Party through [...]

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Neocons Paint Obama as Weak on ‘Rogues’

by on 24. Jun, 2009 in Analysis

by Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service    June 23, 2009 In what appears increasingly to be an orchestrated campaign, right-wing Republicans and Israel-centered neoconservatives are pulling out all the stops in depicting President Barack Obama as “weak” on national security and promoting democracy abroad. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet [...]

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