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Zionist warmonger nestles to Obama's loving embrace

George Packer from the New Yorker magazine reports on an email he got from Ken Adelman today indicating that the neo-con is... more

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McCain's neocon foreign policy adviser has been a lobbyist for arms companies & Saakashvili's Georgia.

Randy Scheunemann, John McCain’s Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Lobbyist, and a former director of the neo conservative Project for a New American Century. A group which advocates global strategic and ideological predominance of the United States through military force. He has been a Republican political insider In Washington since 1986. He served on the staffs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and as National Security Adviser to Senate Republican and Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott from 1993-99. He was also McCain’s defense and foreign policy advisor during the bid for the White House in 2000. About his relationship with McCain the web site RIGHT WEB reports: He introduced the senator to the foreign ministers of Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia as they tried to win admission to NATO, and a representative of Taiwan as it lobbied for free trade, records show.

Mr. Scheunemann also accompanied Mr. McCain to Latvia in 2001 and Georgia in 2006. He has led 3 lobbying firms, SCHEUNEMANN & ASSOCIATES, ORION STRATEGIES and the MERCURY GROUP. He has lobbied for among others: Arms manufacturers and gun associations, Oil Firms, And represented foreign governments Including Georgia. The Wall Street Journal reported that “Mr. Scheunemann's firm (Orion Strategies) has earned more than $2 million since 2004 lobbying U.S. officials, including Sen. McCain and his staff, on behalf of various clients including Georgia, records show. His lobbying for Saakashvili has led to the inference by Journalist Robert Scheer on TruthDig, Conservative Columnist Pat Buchanan on Creators Syndicate, and indirectly Vladimir Putin of Russia, to suggest that he had something to do with Georgia’s attack on the breakaway region of South Ossetia in early August. Randy Scheunemann has been described as John McCain’s Henry Kissinger or Zbignew Brzeniski.

Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, Chip Berlet is a veteran freelance writer and photographer who specializes in investigating right-wing social movements, apocalyptic scapegoating and conspiracism, and authoritarianism. A PRA staffer since 1982, he has written, edited and co-authored numerous articles on right-wing activity and government repression for publications as varied as the The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Progressive, The Nation, The Humanist, and The St. Louis Journalism Review. Mr. Berlet edited Eyes Right! Challenging the Right-wing Backlash, co-published by PRA and South End Press (1995), a popular primer on the right. He is also co-author with Matthew N. Lyons of Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, published by Guilford Press (2000).McCain's neocon foreign policy adviser has been a lobbyist for arms companies & Saakashvili's Georgia. Randy... more

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2 months ago

No moderate, no realist, McCain the neocon

Matt Welch, of Reason.com, provides a history of McCain and his move to the militant neocons. Part 4 See Part 1 at:... more

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2 months ago

Obama is fighting on McCain's terms

Andrei Tsygankov: Obama must rethink Russia policy or risk losing election on national security issues. Both Senators McCain... more

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2 months ago

The myth of McCain

Matt Welch, editor of the libertarian magazine Reason.com: McCain and the Independent vote. Part 3 See Part 1 at:... more

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2 months ago

Bolton suggests Israel will attack Iran

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton on a possible Israeli strike. John Bolton served as the United States Permanent... more

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3 months ago

Lieberman wants a president 'enemies will fear'

Pepe Escobar and Paul Jay react to Lieberman's speech to the RNC. Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent... more

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3 months ago

Scott Ritter links John McCain to faulty WMD evidence and PNAC

Weapons inspector Scott Ritter provides testimony linking John McCain to discredited WMD evidence and PNAC. The video also... more

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3 months ago

Full spectrum dominance

Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the New Cold War. Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an... more

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3 months ago

The state of the empire

David Harvey: Exit the neocon global project, enter competing capitalist blocks. Part 1 In the first part of his interview with... more

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3 months ago

US to take over Afghan mission

The United States is planning to take control of all military operations in Afghanistan next year with an Iraq-style troop surge... more

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3 months ago

Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?

Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia... more

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3 months ago

War on terror is smokescreen for PNAC

This is just part one of the speech, go to youtube to see part 2

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3 months ago

"There will be other wars"

How the surge has energized McCain (Part 2 - Part 1 at http://current.com/items/89175843_surging_mccain ) Senator John... more

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3 months ago

McCain asked about PNAC and 9/11 at town hall

During a town hall event in Portsmouth, OH on Wednesday, John McCain was asked by a member of the audience whether his links to... more

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4 months ago

9/11 like you've never seen it

For anyone who still has doubts about 9/11, weigh up the facts and the overwhelming amount of evidence supporting the reality that... more

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6 months ago

The PNAC website is down!

If you click on the link, you will land on a page with another url which announces that "This Account Has Been... more

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6 months ago

The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder

There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied to Congress and to the American public — lies that have cost the lives of more than 4,000 young American soldiers and close to $1 trillion.

A Monumental Lie

In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.

On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the U.S. This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.

According to the October 1, 2002 NIE, “Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW [chemical and biological warfare] against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war.” The report concluded that Hussein was not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction; further, Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction he was believed to have if he were first attacked, that is, he would only use them in self-defense.

Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning, making the threat seem imminent and ominous.

In the original NIE report, members of the U.S. intelligence community vigorously disagreed with the CIA’s bloated and inaccurate conclusions. All such opposing commentary was eliminated from the declassified White Paper prepared for Congress and the American people.

The Manning Memo

On January 31, 2003, Bush met in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a memo summarizing the meeting discussion, Blair’s chief foreign policy advisor David Manning wrote that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would ever be found in Iraq, and that there was tension between Bush and Blair over finding some justification for the war that would be acceptable to other nations. Bush was so worried about the failure of the UN inspectors to find hard evidence against Hussein that he talked about three possible ways, Manning wrote, to “provoke a confrontation” with Hussein. One way, Bush said, was to fly “U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, [falsely] painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach” of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush was calculating to create a war, not prevent one.

more at the link.There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war... more