A Must Read! "US Right Weaves Tangled Web" Jim Lobe Asia Times.

[KoKo]

US right weaves tangled but effective web
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - While most of the world is still trying to come to terms with the neo-imperial ambitions of the post-September 11 Bush administration, US political analysts, particularly those on the libertarian right and the left, have been trying to map out the various forces behind the administration's hawks the better to understand and counteract them.

Most analysts have identified three main components to the coalition behind President George W Bush's aggressive foreign policy: right-wing militarists, of whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the exemplar; neo-conservatives, led by former Defense Policy Board (DPB) chairman Richard Perle, whose world view is similar to that of Israel's Likud Party; and Christian Right forces whose leaders are influential with Bush's political guru, Karl Rove.

While these forces are often depicted in the abstract, they constitute a network of flesh-and-blood people who have worked together closely and openly - both in and out of government - for more than 30 years in some cases.

Over that period, they built up what analyst Tom Barry of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) has called an "infrastructure of the counter-establishment", of key individuals, institutions, think-tanks and publications that has emerged as the dominant power in the Republican Party - and not only with respect to foreign policy.

More:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EL24Aa01.html

[ixion]

1. aging cobwebs

its ideological foes on the left, or even in the middle, "
resemble aging cobwebs".


That drives home a very poignant point. The dems in office have been going along 'business as usual', but it's not this at all. These thugs are highly organized, capable of anything and extremely dangerous to the US republic and the constitution for which it stands. They will destroy this country, if left unchecked, IMHO.

[arcane1]

3. "will" destroy it..?

or "already have"?

sometimes I wonder....

whether I feel it is a future event, or something that has already happened, depends a lot on my mood. Not a very good one today :/

[Fovea]

9. Note to George Soros

Ted Turner, et al.

Here we are. I can think of at least a dozen people here at DU alone who would be perfect in a progressive think tank.

Come, throw money at us.

[KoKo]

2. Another kick! Please read. One of the best articles about wha't going on

in the World today, and more about the Powers behind Bush. This goes further than PNAC.

[gold_bug]

4. good article

also take a look at RightWeb, it's mentioned in the article.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/

[4dsc]

6. Great web site

thanks for heads up. very imformative...

[teryang]

5. This sort of structure shares the organizational features

...of totalitarianism:

<Despite the centrality of both Perle and Kristol, however, the genius of the right's network, as noted by Barry, is its improvisational "architecture".

"Rather than operating from a single blueprint, they constantly renovate and commission additions in the form of new institutes, front groups, media outlets and political projects," he says. "It's a post-modern structure with no central office or main lobby, no fixed foundation, no elevator that takes you to different levels."

Compared with its vitality and breadth, according to Barry, its ideological foes on the left, or even in the middle, "resemble aging cobwebs". >

This is how Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler operated. The wholesale and unwarranted reorganization of the executive branch for "Homeland security" is an extension of this trait. It's purpose is to destabilize and undermine traditional institutions (and laws, such as the Bill of Rights).

The ongoing circus of scams, frauds, and self destructive policies requires an ever changing, unaccountable, and infinitely adaptable structure which can be shed like a snakeskin. The underlying corporate and state institutions financing the apparatus believe that they will milk the benefits of a compliant but unaccountable organization when they pull the pursestrings. This is what the corporations supporting Hitler thought.

[RainDog]

7. applying Enronomics to politics n/t

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thanks for the excellent article

and thanks to Gold_Bug for the reminder to check RightWeb.