World-News

By Jim Lobe

A familiar group of mainly neo-conservative hawks - many of whom championed the 2003 invasion of Iraq -released an open letter to President Barack Obama Thursday urging him to retain a substantial military force in that Middle East country beyond this year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29142.htm



The President s Real Goal in Iraq

By Jay Bookman

Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm



Congress Sees Middle East Through AIPAC-Colored Glasses

By Medea Benjamin

Here are a few of examples of their tunnel vision:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29153.htm

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Neoconservatism Taken Down
http://lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon92.1.html

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Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet: 'The time has come to ask whether modern 'backlash' conservatism has become a religious faith rather than a pedestrian political ideology.... Like religious faiths, the hard-right reveres an original text - the Constitution - and, like all religious fundamentalists, conservatives claim to adhere to a literalist interpretation of it while actually picking and choosing from among its tenets.'

http://www.truth-out.org/has-american-style-conservatism-become-religion/1316181257



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