What the successful neocon campaign against Freeman also showed was that there is little media power at the national level to defend a public figure who comes under sustained assault of this type. Several articles defending Freeman appeared on the Internet, and the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity published a supportive letter, but those efforts paled in comparison to the neocon barrage. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Robert Parry is a notoriously partisan journalist, who tends to present a biased view of the stories he covers, often presenting his own opinions as facts. This particular opinion piece is no exception.
"The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views … and the ... More »
Parry puts the AIPAC dictation of Obama appointees into the context of the long range strategy of the neocons to control the U.S. media and the U.S. Intelligence function for the service of right wing and right wing Israeli aims.
By using their media platform to launch the assault that kept “realist” Freeman out of the National Intelligence Council, the neocons brought together two central ... More »
Superb commentary by Robert Parry, in the wake of the Aipac/Israeli militarist triumph over Chas Freeman. The connection between the neocons (who include many rabid "supporters" of Israel) and the promoters of gargantuan US "defense" spending is made clear, with the skewing of intelligence to enlarge the trough from which the "defense" establishment feeds.
The neocons and the Israel lobby brought us the Iraq War catastrophe, and of course they are pushing hard for an even greater disaster, fomenting an attack on Iran. Will "protecting" Israel bankrupt the US? Cause a needless world war? These people are very dangerous indeed, and they receive the full support of the Wall Street Journal, and nearly full support from the Washington Post (though contrary messages get through, in the pages of the Post)
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