NEO-CONS - Required reading
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From: CERJ@igc.org To: CERJ@igc.org Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: CERJ Required Reading on Neo-Cons Concerned about the new directions that US public policy seems to be taking? Alarmed about what seems to be fascistic practices in the so-called 'land of the free', and perpetrated by it globally? Review what's on this Christian Science Monitor web site on neo-con think tanks, documents, and periodicals ... each entry is linked to other documents and sites. Were it not for the grass-roots consciousness-raising of CERJ, you probably wouldn't see a site like this in existence today. -- John Wilmerding P.S.: No list such as this would be complete without the key PNACzi document, 'Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century', which, on its page 60, calls for (this is paraphrased) 'exploring the political usefulness of genotype-targetable biological weaponry', or the 'race bomb'. Here's the link to that blueprint for genocide: http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Original link to Christian Science Monitor web page with hyperlinks: http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/spheresInfluence.html Empire Builders
Sheres of Influence
Top Neo-Con Think-Tanks The Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Established in 1997 by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, PNAC's goal is "to promote American global leadership." Creating a blueprint for the US' current role in the world, PNAC's original Statement of Principles called for the US to return to a "Reaganite foreign policy of military strength and moral clarity." American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Founded in 1943, this influential Washington think tank is known as the headquarters of neoconservative thought. In a crucial speech in the leadup to the war in Iraq, US President George W. Bush said this to an audience at AEI: "You do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such minds." Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Based in Washington, JINSA "communicates with the national security establishment and the general public to explain the role Israel can and does play in bolstering American interests, as well as the link between American defense policy and the security of Israel." Some of the strongest supporters of Israel's right-wing Likud Party in the already pro-Israel neoconservative circles are on JINSA's board of advisers. Center for Security Policy (CSP)
CSP's 2001 annual report boasts of its influence saying it "isn't just a 'think tank' - it's an agile, durable, and highly effective 'main battle tank' in the war of ideas on national security." Securing neoconservatives' influence at the nexus of military policymakers and weapons manufacturers, CSP's mission is "to promote world peace through American strength." Others... The Hudson Institute
The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political
Studies
Ethics and Public Policy Center
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Top Neo-Con Periodicals Commentary
Describing itself as "America's premier monthly journal of opinion," Commentary magazine is widely regarded as the leading outlet for neoconservative writing. Founded in 1945, this American Jewish Committee publication steadily gained ideological influence under the editorships of Iriving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, two of neoconservatism's founding fathers. Today, Commentary advocates passionate support for Israel, and regime change in at least half a dozen countries deemed hostile to US and Israeli security and interests. National Review
Founded in 1955 by precocious conservative William F. Buckley, National Review promised to stand "athwart the path of history, yelling Stop!" AntiCommunist in stance, Catholic in judgment, Republican in preference, the magazine has weaned generations of conservative leaders. Its continued emphasis on traditional moral values and limited government put it outside the neoconservative camp, but in recent years, the magazine has increasingly adopted neocon attitudes. The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard editors comprise a "who's who" of neoconservative figures. Currently led by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the magazine has, since its founding in 1995, encouraged the cultivation of an American empire. The New Republic
Like neoconservatism's own founding, The New Republic's
roots tap into an unlikely intellectual resevoir. Begun as a progressive
oriented journal in 1914, the magazine initially supported the Soviet Union
and opposed the Vietnam war, but later supported President Reagan's foreign
policy and both Gulf Wars. Today, its advocacy of a muscular, pro-Israel,
pro-interventionist US foreign policy -coupled with its embrace of Democratic
centrist domestic policies -make it a leading
The National Interest
"The National Interest claims "it's where the great debates begin." Founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol, the quarterly journal examines the international relations from a broad perspective that embraces social and social differences, religion, and history. Though it does not always promote neocon causes, the journal's editorial board is dominated by some of the movement's most influential voices, including Midge Decter, Samuel P. Huntington, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, and Daniel Pipes. The Public Interest
When he founded the magazine in 1965, Irving Kristol
defined the aim of The Public Interest: "to help all of us when we discuss
issues of public policy, to know a little better what we are talking about
- and preferably in time to make such knowledge effective." The Public
Interest focuses more on American domestic culture and politics rather
than international affairs. As a result, its contributors reflect a wide
diversity of ideological perspectives.
Key Documents Draft of the 1992 "Defense Planning Guidance" [excerpts]
This classified document, which called for US military
preeminence over Eurasia and preemptive strikes against countries suspected
of developing weapons of mass destruction, circulated for several weeks
at senior levels in the Pentagon. After it was leaked to the media in 1992,
it proved so shocking that it had to be substantially rewritten. Many aspects
of this document are included in the USA's 2002 National Security Strategy:
"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm"
Prepared in 1996 by a group led by Richard Perle for Israel's right-wing Likud Party and published by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli think tank, this report called for "a clean break" with the policies of negotiating "land for peace" with the Palestinians. It also advocated "reestablishing the principle of preemption." "Toward a Neo-Reaganite foreign policy"
Published by Foreign Affairs in the summer of 1996, this neoconservative manifesto by William Kristol and Robert Kagan set the course for the modern neocon cause. By linking Reagan's foreign policy approach with neoconservative ideas, the authors energized Republican foreign policy and moved it away from both Pat Buchanan's "neoisolationism," or Henry Kissinger's "realism." PNAC letter to Clinton
Leading conservatives, many of whom became senior officials in the Bush Administration, wrote this open letter to then-President Bill Clinton in 1998. The letter, sponsored by the Project for a New American Century, expressed the urgent need to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. PNAC letter to Bush
Written just weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this open letter from PNAC to President George W. Bush urging Saddam Hussein's ouster marked the beginning of a concerted effort by neoconservatives to persuade President Bush to take action against Iraq. The letter stated, in part: "...even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the [9/11] attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq." The relentless campaign worked. Within two years years, US forces would occupy Iraq. Bush's speech to AEI
Less than a month before the US-led coalition launched its attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, George Walker Bush symbolically chose the de facto headquarters of neoconservative thought, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), as a venue to outline his vision for a new Iraq - and a new Middle East. AEI had been arguing for regime change in Iraq and democratization of the Middle East for over a decade. "Beyond the Axis of Evil"
In this controversial May, 2002 speech to the Heritage
Foundation, a conservative think tank, US Under Secretary for Arms Control
and International Security John Bolton accuses Libya, Syria, and Cuba of
actively developing weapons of mass destruction programs.
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