Neoconservatives

With the beat of Washington’s war drums continuing to grow, particularly following the Monday revelation of a government plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to counter Iran, the threat of an “accidental” provocation or a “false flag” is also becoming increasingly likely. As MintPress recently reported, the possibility of an “accident” leading to open conflict between the U.S. and Iran is now being openly stated by top European officials — such as U.K.

The increasingly aggressive moves by Trump’s hawkish advisers give the impression of a palace coup, writes Patrick Lawrence.  By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Neoconservative hawks in the Trump administration, led by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary…Read more →

Hail, Donald J. Trump, we who are about to read your latest tweet salute you! Tom Engelhardt pens an obituary for the republic. By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com What dreamers they were! They imagined a kind of global power that would leave even Rome…Read more →

Grayzone Project — Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged

The Grayzone entered the carefully concealed offices of a covert, British government-backed propaganda mill that is at the center of…
The post Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War appeared first on The Grayzone.

At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of…
The post Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider appeared first on Grayzone Project.

21st Century Wire says…
There wasn’t much ‘good’ at all in President Trump’s speech Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, prompting the question ‘what were the speech writers smoking?’ when they wrote it:

This is truly ‘bad spin’ on more sanction addiction – spinning off the rails and right into the swamp. ‘WORLD PEACE’ is not on the agenda here.
WAR: GOOD FOR FEW, BAD FOR MOST. (Illustration by Carlos Latuff/WikiCommons)
Antiwar.com reports…

During the election, I wrote a little ebook titled “Donald Trump’s War on Islam.” In addition to pointing out Trump’s pandering to Islamophobia, I wrote about his association with a number of neocons, including Frank Gaffney and John Bolton, who is now his national security adviser. “I think John Bolton’s a good man,” Trump told […]

This is not an ordinary review or even rehash of George Orwell’s 1945 essay, “Notes on Nationalism.” Rather, it is a reflection on and attempt to expand and re-contextualize the ideas expressed there with comments directly relevant to 2018.