Wapo throws down the gauntlet

[Magda Hassan]

CNAS (think tank sponsor of the report mentioned in the OP) looks like a Clinton-esque adoption of the PNAC strategy of Bush-era Republican advisors:

a. Make a think tank.
b. Staff it with your people.
c. Write a report.
d. Cite the report lavishly in friendly press outlets.
e. "Justify" your policies with the report.

That's how they work. Echo chambers.

As it happens, Kagan is a WaPo columnist. James Rubin is married to Christine Amanpour....

And Kagan's missus is Victoria Nuland of 'Fuck the EU' fame and busy currently dismembering Ukraine and installing a neo liberal friendly US puppet state there.

...so I expect CNN to cite the report soon, if it hasn't already, and his sister works at the New York Times....

Any time now...3...2...1...and........Over to you Christine "In an article today cited by the NTY ............."

[Lauren Johnson]

I seem to remember that Scooter Libby sent Judith Miller a letter which included this somewhat enigmatic paragraph:

You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life."

Sickening.

The link: they are all connected like aspens.

Judy Miller is a currently member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served her people well.

[Anthony Thorne]

I seem to remember that Scooter Libby sent Judith Miller a letter which included this somewhat enigmatic paragraph:

You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life."

Sickening.

The link: they are all connected like aspens.

Judy Miller is a currently member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served her people well.

The Aspen Strategy Group has a lot to answer for, I think.

Some interesting names pop up in the link below (gone from the Aspen site, but retrieved through archive dot org).

https://web.archive.org/web/200804010934...rkshop.htm

The Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop for August 2000 was on the blanket topic of "American Military Strategy". Judy Miller was there, as were Philip Zelikow, John Deutch, and Ashton Carter - the three authors of the CFR's prescient 'Catastrophic Terrorism' article two years earlier.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/...new-danger

[David Guyatt]

When I read the phrase "America's global leadership" I want to puke.
But this is exactly what Hillary will try to deliver to the rest of the world. Ask the Iraqis, ask the Lybians, ask the drone victims, ask all the peoples under a US-sanctioned dictator, basically ask anyone outside the elite circle of America's "friends" what they think of this kind of "leadership".

So true Carsten. I wonder if they are completely blinded to their goals or just don't give a shit what others think?

In my eyes this is a blatant propagada piece initiated by the Clinton camp and aimed against Sanders and Trump. (Compare http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hi...-ad-218417)
What really angers me is not that Hillary fights with all covert methods available to her, but that all the premises of this piece are so onesided and distorted that it creates a completely fictional image of the true situation. Practically every sentence in it is a lie or an invalid assumption, ignoring and denigrating everybody who questions the American empire. That a text like this can masquerade as a WaPo editorial just shows the complete sellout and the true function as a propaganda outlet of the Washington Post and the nonexistent ethics of Jeff Bezos (not that we needed any confirmation of that). I do not believe for a second that Clinton or Bezos believe anything that is written in this piece, both certainly do not suffer from loss of reality. This is purely directed at people who want the cozy feeling that they are standing on the right "liberal" side, thinking they somehow do good in the world by "leading" the bad guys (rest of the world) in the right direction.
It sounds to me like IS propaganda from the opposite side, "We are the good ones and everybody else has to follow us or die."

I understand your anger and frustration Carsten. Sadly, as you know, the leading western (not just American) press has decided to follow the same propaganda model in respect of news reporting aimed at societal shaping. The democratic model of government has long been abandoned in favour of a small elite running nations that all ultimately align with the USA (hence the EU supporting US demanded sanctions against Russia).

This has been the consequence of a slow - but de facto - coup d'etat that is not entirely dissimilar to the one taking place in Brazil as we speak - because both the US and the EU are enormously and massively corrupt and therefore enrich the few by stealing from the many.