I hate to admit it but just a few short years ago I was a Neocon, and I’m not proud of it. Like so many others today I was bewitched by what I thought at the time was patriotism. I genuinely believed that if we could just elect some good, God Fearing Republicans all...
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Pompeo: I Lied About Soleimani ‘Imminent Attacks’
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 10, 2020 | Neocon Watch
Trump's neoconservative Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is a man unafraid to admit to being a liar. In fact he seems to revel in his ability to lie to the American people. Remember just a week ago when Pompeo told us that the US absolutely HAD to send in a drone to...
Lindsey Graham: ‘Steal Syria’s Oil to Pay for US Occupation!’
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 25, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been chewing down his fingernails ever since President Trump's first suggestion that US troops should come home from the Middle East. Last December, when Trump made it clear that he wanted to end the US troop presence in Syria and let...
‘If you hit them, they will behave …’ – The Neocons’ Song.
by Col. W. Patrick Lang | Sep 23, 2019 | Neocon Watch
I have long puzzled over the question of why the neocons; Lindsey Graham, the late John McCain (be brave Lindsey!), Jack Keane, Bolton, Pompeo, etc., etc., ad nauseam, cling so firmly to the idea of striking Iran a hard blow.This weekend I heard the reason voiced on...
For Cliff May, War Pays
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 8, 2019 | Neocon Watch
To say that Clifford May, founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, loves war would be an understatement. He loves almost everything about war and he thinks the US should be in a lot more of them. He thinks that the US should never go home, should...
Are Libertarians the New Neocons?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 20, 2019 | Neocon Watch
There is a disturbing trend in some libertarian circles and among some libertarian organizations to be increasingly enamored with foreign interventionism and US government backed regime change overseas. For those focused on foreign affairs, this is particularly...
Even Libertarians Believe the Russian Collusion Nonsense
by Kurt Nimmo | Jun 19, 2019 | Neocon Watch
I should say, rather, big “L” Libertarians. For instance, Nicholas Sarwark, Libertarian Party Chairman. If you base your support of China and Venezuela on opposition to the United States interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign government, one would expect you...
Lindsey Graham Asks Trump To Invade Venezuela: ‘Do Exactly What Reagan Did’ In Grenada
by Tyler Durden | May 28, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Likely frustrated over the fact that the crisis in Venezuela has by and large retreated from the headlines over the past weeks following the failed US-backed coup attempt against Maduro at the end of April, Sen. Lindsey Graham went on one of his characteristic...
Marco Rubio: Salesman for Neocon Total War on Iran
by Kurt Nimmo | May 16, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Once again, Marco Rubio is trying to tell us Trump’s neocons are not interested in a war with Iran, despite the fact they have loudly and persistently called for one for two decades. URGENT: 1/5These actions are not the prelude to a U.S. attack against #IranThere is...
The Fanatic Running Trump’s Foreign Policy
by harley | Apr 29, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Dexter Filkins has written an extensive profile of John Bolton. The profile recounts many familiar stories from Bolton’s career, and it has a few interesting details I hadn’t read about before. Among many other things, it covers his ties to the MEK and the payment he...
Pompeo Appoints Fox News Neocon as Spokesperson
by Kurt Nimmo | Apr 4, 2019 | Neocon Watch
And the neocon-ization of the Trump administration continues. While The Donald is packing away Big Macs and Diet Cokes, his neocon secretary of state is appointing likeminded warmongers. Pleased to welcome Morgan Ortagus as our new @statedeptspox. Her experience as an...
Trump Blocks Bolton, Reverses New North Korea Sanctions
by 21st Century Wire | Mar 22, 2019 | Neocon Watch
In a tweet on Friday, President Trump announced that “additional large-scale sanctions” by the US Treasury that had been added to already existing set of sanctions – were now off the table. It is not clear yet why the President has seemingly undercut his National...
Nikki Haley Named to Boeing Board – Lew Rockwell ‘Sickened’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 28, 2019 | Neocon Watch
"Mike Pence is known as the stupidest person in the Trump Administration, but Nikki Haley was known as the second-stupidest." So Lew Rockwell tells RT on the news that Trump's former Ambassador to the UN has been named to the board of US mega weapons manufacturer...
Trump’s Latest Neocon Adviser Assigned Task of Overthrowing Maduro in Venezuela
by Kurt Nimmo | Jan 29, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Donald Trump is no different than his predecessors. During the campaign, he said whatever he had to in order to get elected. He promised to close down the neocon foreign wars and also fight the “deep state” by draining the swamp. Obama also promised to end the neocon...
Pompeo: US ‘Absolutely Not’ Getting Out of the Middle East
by Robert Wenzel | Jan 21, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the United States is "absolutely not" getting out of the Middle East."We’re a force for good," Pompeo said in an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group according to The Hill. "The notion of get out doesn’t frankly –...
After the Shutdown of ‘The Weekly Standard’ Neocons Grab Lefty Money to Stay Alive
by Robert Wenzel | Jan 11, 2019 | Neocon Watch
The neocons are back in action with a new media outfit after the collapse of The Weekly Standard.A new online news site, The Bulwark, was launched on Monday.It features many neocons from the recently shut down TWS.Charles Sykes, formerly a contributing editor at The...
Return of the Neocons
by harley | Jan 8, 2019 | Neocon Watch
Two years ago, as Donald Trump ascended to the presidency, you might have thought that, if nothing else, neoconservatives had finally been put out to pasture. In the campaign, Trump had blasted the neocons’ signature policy, the war in Iraq, as a “big fat mistake,”...
Neocons Rage: International (And Domestic) Support for Trump’s Syria Pull-Out
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 1, 2019 | Neocon Watch
The mainstream press coverage of President Trump's announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn't care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has...
Good Riddance to The Weekly Standard
by Charles Goyette | Dec 15, 2018 | Neocon Watch
I greet the demise of The Weekly Standard with great joy.Just hours after Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution in October 2002, an opinion column in the Washington Post propagated The Weekly Standard line that, “having...
Melania Trump Kneecaps Top Bolton Aide
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 13, 2018 | Neocon Watch
Hooray for First Lady Melania Trump! In a refreshingly - and shockingly - frank statement, the relatively quiet First Lady has issued a statement through her spokeswoman today making it clear that top National Security Council aide Mira Ricardel needs to hit the...
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