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Final Statement of the BRussells Tribunal

Tom Barry | Posted: April 20, 2004

(The following is the final statement of the BRussells Tribunal, an international commission of inquiry held in Brussels on April 14-17, 2004. Tom Barry, policy...

When Democracy Promotion Turns Partisan

Andrew Wells-Dang | Posted: April 04, 2004

A not-so-fine line exists between foreign support to foster democratization and the direct funding of a single political party. The first type of...

Long Live NATO

Tom Barry | Posted: March 31, 2004

The cold war is long over, but with the support of U.S. supremacists in both parties NATO lives on as America’s global cop.. ...

Thought Control for Middle East Studies

Joel Beinin | Posted: March 30, 2004

A band of neoconservative pundits with close ties to Israel have mounted a campaign against American scholars who study the Middle East. Martin...

The NATO Expansion Lobby

Tom Barry | Posted: March 18, 2004

(Return to the original article, Baghdad and Beyond, available online at rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/764.). Bruce Jackson, of the...

One Year After the Invasion: Baghdad and Beyond

Tom Barry | Posted: March 18, 2004

(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of investigative reports on the influence of a web of right-wing organizations and...

Remembering Team B

Tom Barry | Posted: February 11, 2004

The most notorious attempt by militarists and right-wing ideologues to challenge the CIA was the Team B affair in the mid-1970s. The 1975-76...

Right Web of Intelligence Reformers

Tom Barry | Posted: February 11, 2004

Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt have shuttled back and forth between government and right-wing institutes like the NSIC. In 2000 Shulsky was a member...

Basic Instincts, Not the Truth: Iraq War Product of Neocon Philosophy of Intelligence

Tom Barry | Posted: February 11, 2004

(The first in a series of investigative reports on influence of a web of right-wing organizations and individuals--chiefly associated with the...

Office of Special Plans

Tom Barry | Posted: February 11, 2004

In the days after September 11 terrorist attacks, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith started cooking intelligence to meet the needs of the radically...

Leo Strauss and Intelligence Strategy

Tom Barry | Posted: February 11, 2004

Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt credit the teachings of Leo Strauss, a German Jewish émigré philosopher, with helping them conceptualize...

Sen. Hillary Clinton, L. Paul Bremer and Americans for Victory over Terrorism, Paul Wolfowitz, James

Tom Barry | Posted: December 16, 2003

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been one of the few U.S. politicians willing to depart from accepted political discourse and announce, as she did...

Realists v. Hawks: Baker Returns

Jim Lobe | Posted: December 14, 2003

It may be that four or five months from now:. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz will have heard the siren song of...

Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and Middle East Foreign Policy

Chip Berlet & Nikhil Aziz | Posted: December 04, 2003

It’s hard to believe, but the Bush administration’s foreign policy and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are influenced by the...

Selective Service

Michael Flynn & Jim Lobe | Posted: July 07, 2003

In the growing debate over whether the Bush administration should get "boots on the ground" in the war-torn West African nation of Liberia, the neoconservatives who...

The Right Flexes Muscle with New U.S. Agenda

Michael Flynn | Posted: April 12, 2003

We meet here during a crucial period in the history of [the United States], and of the civilized world. Part of that history was written by...

Glossary of Right-Wing Sectors

By Tom Barry | Posted: October 04, 2002

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New Profiles
Natsios, Andrew

Andrew Natsios is a Romney foreign policy adviser and fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute who opposed the distribution of AIDS drugs in Africa as the Bush administration’s USAID director.

Lehman, John

John F. Lehman heads a private equity firm whose investment interests dovetail with his hawkish political advocacy, which has included supporting the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, as well as the work of numerous neoconservative pressure groups.

Cohen, Eliot

A neoconservative academic based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Cohen served as an adviser to President George W. Bush as well as to the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign.

Carlucci, Frank

President Reagan’s Pentagon chief and an alleged conspirator in the assassination of former DRC Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, Frank Carlucci now serves as an attack dog for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

Horner, Charles

China scholar Charles Horner, a fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, see a looming conflict between China and the Islamic world.

Latest Feature Articles
Will Israeli Dissent Halt the March towards War?

Jim Lobe | May 03, 2012

Tensions have been reaching near fevered pitch over Iran’s nuclear program as Israeli leaders and their supporters in the United States have pressed for military action to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. However, a number of factors have been working against the hawks, including recent progress at the P5+1 talks and the lack of enthusiasm for another conflict among a war-weary U.S. public. In recent weeks, a new force has emerged that seems to have made the threat of war even less imminent—the unprecedented wave of dissent from current and former top Israeli officials.

The Militarization of the Syrian Uprising

Samer Araabi | April 18, 2012

As pressure mounts to arm rebels in Syria, there is need for a sober assessment of the costs and consequences of the increasing militarization of the conflict there. If history is any guide, a foreign-backed armed rebellion will likely not produce the kind of victory—or engender the kind of support—that the anti-Assad fighters will require to usher in a new Syria. Additionally, there is the very real possibility that many of the rebels—as we’ve seen in Libya—will turn out to be little better than the regime they seek to replace.

Obama to Pro-Israel Lobby Group: ‘Too Much Loose Talk of War’

Mitchell Plitnick | March 05, 2012

Before a skeptical audience of delegates from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, President Obama affirmed U.S-Israeli ties and challenged detractors to impugn his administration’s record of support for the Jewish state. However, while insisting that that the United States would consider military options in the event of Iran’s developing a nuclear weapon, he also warned Israeli allies of “loose talk” about war, which Obama said only empowers the Iranian regime and decreases prospects for a diplomatic solution.

Whither the Liberal Hawks?

Jim Lobe | January 31, 2012

Tehran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, coupled with mounting threats from hawks in Israel and the United States, has brought the possibility of war sharply into view. But a number of influential members of the U.S. foreign policy establishment—including several prominent liberal interventionists who supported the invasion of Iraq—are warning against further escalation.

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