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USAF Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski interviews friend Dr. Stephen Sniegoski about his 'The Transparent Cabal' book which discusses the Likudnik (JINSA/PNAC/AEI) Neocons and their war for Israel agenda in the second hour of her broadcast (click on the June 1st, 2009 link at the following URL):

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/American_Forum_09.html

Youtube of call for friends USAF Lt Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski & Dr. Stephen Sniegoski (who wrote the 'The Transparent Cabal') about the war for Israel agenda of the Likudnik (JINSA/PNAC/AEI) crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_NVZa837lA&feature=PlayList&p=7D7112A64BE7B012&index=0&playnext=1

http://Tinyurl.com/InDepthDiscussion

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Sniegoski Discusses "Transparent Cabal" on Karen Kwiatkowski's Program

Thursday, June 4, 2009 7:56 PM
From: "Stephen Sniegoski"

Friends,

Sniegoski Discusses "Transparent Cabal" on Karen Kwiatkowski's Program

On Monday, June 1, I discussed "The Transparent Cabal" on Karen Kwiatkowski's Internet radio program, "American Forum." Karen has restarted her Internet radio program after an absence of about a year or so. The discussion is archived at:

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/American_Forum_09.html

http://tinyurl.com/mwlacr

Karen Kwiatkowski is well-known for writing about her personal experiences of the neocon-oriented Office of Special Plans, the Department of Defense office which provided the most extreme war propaganda to drive the United States into the war on Iraq She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties in the Pentagon and the National Security Agency. From May 2002 to February 2003 she served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA), where she gained first-hand knowledge of the activities of the Office of Special Plans ( I go over the Office of Special Plans at some length in "The Transparent Cabal" http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172 or http://tinyurl.com/mkun7m ).

Karen has a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America; her thesis was on overt and covert war in Angola. She has also published two books about U.S. policy towards Africa.

It was a very good discussion since Karen is familiar with my book, which
she is reviewing for "The Independent Review." She emphasized that my book brought out the key differences between the neocons and traditional
American foreign policy on the Middle East. The neocons seek to destabilize the region-fragmenting and weakening Israel's enemies-whereas the traditional American policy has been to promote stability in order to facilitate the flow of oil.

Karen's discussion of "The Transparent Cabal" with me takes place in the
second hour of her program. To listen, click on the June 1st, 2009 link
at the following URL:

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/American_Forum_09.html

http://tinyurl.com/mwlacr

AMERICAN FORUM ARCHIVE 2009

06/01/2009 Monday - First hour: reintroduction of the American Forum
radio program, and some talk about libertarianism, and the state of the
economy. Second hour: In-depth discussion with Dr. Stephen Sniegoski about his new book "The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel. Read more here:

http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172

http://tinyurl.com/54k4xv

Alpha · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:15 am Post subject:

Karen Kwiatkowski:

Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., is a retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, who spent her final years in uniform working at the Pentagon's Near East/South Asia bureau (NESA). Her new assignment was to work on policy papers for the Secretary of Defense and other top brass at the Pentagon. Shortly thereafter, she was assigned to a newly-formed bureau inside the Pentagon called the Office of Special Plans, which was created to help the Pentagon deal with issues in Iraq. Deeply frustrated and alarmed, Kwiatkowski, still on active duty, took the unusual step of penning an anonymous column of internal Pentagon dissent that was posted on the Internet by former Colonel David Hackworth, America's most decorated veteran. She lives with her freedom-loving family in the Shenandoah Valley, and among other things, writes for lewrockwell.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski

Open Door Policy:

A strange thing happened on the way to the war.

By Karen Kwiatkowski

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2004/jan/19/00027/

Review of The Transparent Cabal in Middle East Policy:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2009/04/08/review-of-transparent-cabal-in-middle-east-policy.php

The Lie Factory (Karen Kwiatkowski mentioned):

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/lie-factory

Alpha · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

Steve Sniegoski wrote:

Amazing—Phil Weiss made very favorable, though very small, comment about my book:

The best unfolding of this conspiracy inside our politics--and yes, it is a conspiracy, in precisely the way that the slave power functioned as a "conspiracy" in American politics in the 1850s, as then-obscure Abraham Lincoln stated when he raised up the Republican Party to smash it-- is by Stephen Sniegoski. He too has been smeared and marginalized.

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/05/the-neoconservative-network-still-unreported.html

May 18, 2009

the neoconservative network, still unreported

Here is a nice piece in Haaretz showing how the Shalem Center, a thinktank whose pigeons are now reroosting in the Netanyahu administration, including Michael Oren and Ron Dermer, was heavily funded by neoconservatives so as to keep bad ideas alive. "The institute was founded with the aid of American Jewish donors, including the Bernstein family, Sheldon Adelson, George Rohr and Ron Lauder."

I dunno who the Bernstein family is. I think I went to college with George. Nice guy; now a New York financier. Peace, brother. (The contribution button is on the right.)

What is disgraceful about this article--yes, I know; everything is disgraceful today, I'm in that kind of mood, I feel the tail wagging my dog--is that it is actually piecemeal journalism about a scandal of the American discourse, the extent to which the neoconservative policy options that ultimately burned Baghdad and destroyed my country's image in the world were kept afloat by rich donors, generally rightwing pro-Zionist Jews such as Bruce Kovner and Irving Moskowitz, supporters of the American Enterprise Institute, and Sheldon Adelson, who backed the Shalem Center, Natan Scharansky, the Republican Party, and also Douglas Feith when he was at One Jerusalem.

The flow of this international money (yes, I know, a canard) can also be glimpsed in the $96,000-a-year support that Dore Gold, a former Netanyahu aide who has his own thinktank, receives from the American Enterprise Institute as a "scholar." Why Gold is getting this money from an American institute is something I've never been able to figure out.

I suppose this is the sort of scandal we can expect journalists and historians to begin to unravel in five years, when it is safely over (we pray). The disgrace is that the Times and the Washington Post have shown utter indifference to the question. Myself, I did a little bit on it at New York Magazine, but no one ever hired me to do more investigation of the social/intellectual/political/journalistic and financial networks that kept hope alive for the neocons. What the story deserves is a thorough unearthing of the network, or at least one chain of it, going back, say, to '96 when Richard Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, all of whom would turn up later in the Bush Administration, wrote the Clean Break paper for Netanyahu urging him to forget about the peace process and Palestinian sovereignty-- and work to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Walt and Mearsheimer of course broached this alarming coincidence, and were smeared as anti-Semites. The difficulty for anyone exploring the matter is that the story really does involve Jewish influence, and even dual loyalty. You can't not address these questions if you are going to be intellectually honest. Doug Feith's former law partner Marc Zell is a religious settler in the Occupied Territories, and also a person with influence during the Bush years. Go figure.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who has blabbed on Amy Goodman about "Jewish money" pushing the Iran madness, has also said he would rather run through the streets naked than report on this stuff. And you know why: because if he did, he'd be unpaid. The best unfolding of this conspiracy inside our politics--and yes, it is a conspiracy, in precisely the way that the slave power functioned as a "conspiracy" in American politics in the 1850s, as then-obscure Abraham Lincoln stated when he raised up the Republican Party to smash it-- is by Stephen Sniegoski. He too has been smeared and marginalized. I guess we have to wait for Haaretz.

Alpha · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject: Neocon Network and Netanyahu

Neocon Network and Netanyahu
Sunday, June 7, 2009 6:14 AM
From: "Stephen Sniegoski"

To: "Sniegoski, Stephen"

Friends,

Neocon Network and Netanyahu

The following two articles, one by the courageous (and Jewish) Philip Weiss and the other from Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper, illustrate the power of the neocon nexus, which has its tentacles stretched to Israel. Neocon money has funded the pro-Likudnik think tank in Israel—the Shalem Center—which is providing the staff for the Netanyahu administration. The Ha’aretz article points out that “There is no think tank today with as much influence on the Israeli government as the Shalem Center, which has extensive resources, despite being a small institute.” Netanyahu is, of course, a neocon favorite. There should be much more coordination between the US neocons and the Netanyahu government than there had been with Olmert.

In his discussion of the Ha’aretz article, Philip Weiss points out that the
neocon nexus and its connections to Israel should be a major topic for
investigation. “What the story deserves is a thorough unearthing of the
network, or at least one chain of it, going back, say, to '96 when Richard
Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, all of whom would turn up later in the Bush Administration, wrote the Clean Break paper for Netanyahu urging him to forget about the peace process and Palestinian sovereignty-- and work to remove Saddam Hussein from power.” Of course, it is a taboo subject out of bounds to the mainstream media. Weiss points out: “The difficulty for anyone exploring the matter is that the story really does involve Jewish influence, and even dual loyalty.” But he adds: “You can't not address these questions if you are going to be intellectually honest.” The answer here is that the American mainstream media, and much of the alternative media, is simply dishonest, by acts of omission and commission, on this subject. Public mention of this taboo truth can, in some cases, destroy one’s career. Weiss points out that investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who does touch on taboo issues, must refrain from dealing with the entire story “because if he did, he'd be unpaid.”

Weiss ends his comments by mentioning those individuals who have tried to deal with the neocon/Israel issue, and he places me in the number one
position. “The best unfolding of this conspiracy inside our politics--and
yes, it is a conspiracy, in precisely the way that the slave power
functioned as a ‘conspiracy’ in American politics in the 1850s, as
then-obscure Abraham Lincoln stated when he raised up the Republican Party to smash it-- is by Stephen Sniegoski. He too has been smeared and marginalized. I guess we have to wait for Haaretz.”

It is very gratifying to be given this high credit by an individual who is
well-versed on the neocon/Israel issue. Weiss also provides the Amazon
link to “The Transparent Cabal,”

http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172

Unfortunately, it is all too true that I have been smeared and
marginalized. But smearing has yet to cause physical harm and
marginalizing my work cannot make me a more marginal person than I was when I started writing on the subject. .

While there are definite negative consequences in dealing with this taboo
subject, the fear that many people have of broaching this subject is often
excessive. And, of course, just privately talking about the dangers does
nothing but exacerbate the censorship. So I hope that more people will come forward and mention my book, and certainly I am looking for more reviews. And this means reviews anywhere..

__________________________________________

Mondoweiss - ‎May 18, 2009‎

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/05/the-neoconservative-network-still-unreported.html

Philip Weiss
May 18, 2009

the neoconservative network, still unreported

Here is a nice piece in Haaretz showing how the Shalem Center, a thinktank whose pigeons are now reroosting in the Netanyahu administration, including Michael Oren and Ron Dermer, was heavily funded by neoconservatives so as to keep bad ideas alive. "The institute was founded with the aid of American Jewish donors, including the Bernstein family, Sheldon Adelson, George Rohr and Ron Lauder."

I dunno who the Bernstein family is. I think I went to college with George.
Nice guy; now a New York financier. Peace, brother. (The contribution button is on the right.)

What is disgraceful about this article--yes, I know; everything is
disgraceful today, I'm in that kind of mood, I feel the tail wagging my
dog--is that it is actually piecemeal journalism about a scandal of the
American discourse, the extent to which the neoconservative policy options,that ultimately burned Baghdad and destroyed my country's image in the world were kept afloat by rich donors, generally rightwing pro-Zionist Jews such as Bruce Kovner and Irving Moskowitz, supporters of the American Enterprise Institute, and Sheldon Adelson, who backed the Shalem Center, Natan Scharansky, the Republican Party, and also Douglas Feith when he was at One Jerusalem.

The flow of this international money (yes, I know, a canard) can also be
glimpsed in the $96,000-a-year support that Dore Gold, a former Netanyahu aide who has his own thinktank, receives from the American Enterprise Institute as a "scholar." Why Gold is getting this money from an American institute is something I've never been able to figure out.
I suppose this is the sort of scandal we can expect journalists and
historians to begin to unravel in five years, when it is safely over (we
pray). The disgrace is that the Times and the Washington Post have shown utter indifference to the question. Myself, I did a little bit on it at New York Magazine, but no one ever hired me to do more investigation of the social/intellectual/political/journalistic and financial networks that kept
hope alive for the neocons. What the story deserves is a thorough unearthing of the network, or at least one chain of it, going back, say, to '96 when Richard Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, all of whom would turn up later in the Bush Administration, wrote the Clean Break paper for Netanyahu urging him to forget about the peace process and Palestinian sovereignty-- and work to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
Walt and Mearsheimer of course broached this alarming coincidence, and were smeared as anti-Semites. The difficulty for anyone exploring the matter is that the story really does involve Jewish influence, and even dual loyalty.

You can't not address these questions if you are going to be intellectually
honest. Doug Feith's former law partner Marc Zell is a religious settler in
the Occupied Territories, and also a person with influence during the Bush
years. Go figure.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who has blabbed on Amy Goodman about "Jewish money" pushing the Iran madness, has also said he would rather run through the streets naked than report on this stuff. And you know why: because if he did, he'd be unpaid.

Posted by Philip Weiss at 10:02 AM in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine,
Journalism, Neocons, Netanyahu/Lieberman |

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086260.html
Haaretz.com, May 19, 2009

Funded by U.S. neocons, think tank researchers now carving Israeli policy
By Ofri Ilani
Tags: neoconservative U.S.

The rooms at Beit Nativ, the Jerusalem building that houses the Shalem
Center, have been gradually emptying in recent months, with fellows at the neoconservative research institute taking their leave one by one. But rather than signaling a slump, the depletion is actually a sign of the think tank's unprecedented success, because instead of writing scholarly books and articles, the Shalem fellows are now sitting in government offices, helping turn abstract research into concrete policy.

The picture looked quite different a year ago.

At that time, economist Omer Moav, a senior fellow at the center's Institute for Economic and Social Policy, was still busy writing an article for the Shalem journal, Azure, called "Who Needs Employment Security," which argues that worker protections sometimes hurt weaker segments of society. Now he heads the Finance Ministry's Council of Economic Advisers. Another senior fellow, historian Michael Oren, was busy critiquing "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," an Adam Sandler movie about an Israeli soldier who fakes his death and becomes a hair stylist in New York, which Oren, the author of "The Making of the Modern Middle East," described as a complete renunciation ofthe Zionist idea. He has been selected as Israel's ambassador to Washington.

And Shalem distinguished fellow Moshe Ya'alon, a former Israel Defense
Forces chief of staff who wrote a recent Azure article whose Hebrew title
was "The diplomatic process can wait," is now the minister for strategic
affairs. Natan Sharansky, another distinguished fellow and the chairman of the Shalem Center's Institute for Strategic Studies, is awaiting his
appointment as chairman of the Jewish Agency. His 2004 book "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror," which was published through the center, hit the headlines when George W. Bush publicly recommended it. The book was co-written with Ron Dermer, who now heads the information directorate in the Prime Minister's Office.

When the Shalem Center was established in 1994 with the aim of bringing
neoconservative thinking into the Israeli political and cultural discourse,
along the lines of American think tanks it was thought to be on the margins of Israeli intellectual life. Yoram Hazony, the center's provost and one of its founders - who is also one of Netanyahu's friends and former advisers - said when the center was established that Israel was in the midst of an "ideological degeneration" that had to be stopped. The institute was founded with the aid of American Jewish donors, including the Bernstein family, Sheldon Adelson, George Rohr and Ron Lauder.

In the United States, research institutes like this serve as the
intellectual hinterland of Republican administrations, leading critics of
the Bush administration to argue that the White House was in effect being
run by neoconservative intellectuals from think tanks like the American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Project for the New
American Century.

'Politicians don't read philosophy'

There is no think tank today with as much influence on the Israeli
government as the Shalem Center, which has extensive resources, despite being a small institute.

"Had I not been in the Shalem Center, I wouldn't be an adviser today to
[Finance Minister] Yuval Steinitz," said Moav. "What is special about the
Shalem Center is the attempt to influence policy and not merely to deal with academic research. I always had an interest in economics as academic research, but I cared a great deal about the State of Israel and it was important for me to have an influence. The Shalem Center gave me a good platform to invest in research about policy."

Moav is skeptical about the claim that the research center exerts sway over the prime minister, but said, "Netanyahu and the Likud party are sympathetic to the Shalem Center because they share a similar economic and political ideology. The economic agenda is liberal, and that is very convenient from my point of view."

Ofir Haivry, an associate fellow at Shalem's Institute for Philosophy,
Political Theory and Religion, said the Shalem researchers' role in the
government can be linked to the center's emphasis on practical policy.

"People like Omer Moav and Michael Oren are our success stories," said
Haivry. "We give these researchers the tools that free them to do research studies dealing with policy, and to make the politicians aware that they exist."

He said the researchers will differ from most political appointees. "Usually
most politicians or directors general who are responsible for economic or
diplomatic policy do not read philosophy," said Haivry. "They do not sit
down and read Milton Friedman. Therefore translating the ideas into policies must be done by someone who can digest this and turns the ideas into something user-friendly."

Money, money, money

What is the secret that has made the Shalem Center so much more influential than similar research institutes? Sarit Ben Simhon, a Tel Aviv University researcher who studies the role of think tanks in Israel, says the key word is money.

"The order of magnitude of the funding they received is one of the highest
in the country," she said. "There is no other institute of this kind that
can compete with them from the budget perspective."

The funding discrepancy has a significant effect on the think tanks' ability
to influence policy, said Ben Simhon.

"There is a direct connection between the mode of funding of institutes of
this kind and their ability to influence," she said. "Most of the institutes
in Israel that deal with social and economic policy can be placed on the
left side of the map, but they get very limited budgets. The left-wing
institutes cannot spend time on formulating and promoting their world view because they don't have the money. Because of lack of resources, they write paper after paper, but their influence is limited. The Shalem Center has such large budgets that it can encompass large numbers of fields and employ people on a daily basis for a prolonged period. The Shalem Center funded the research carried out by Moav, Oren and Sharansky for a good few years. Other institutes are unable to do so."

Bringing intellectual prestige to the right

"The American right understood that it had had political successes, like
Bush and Reagan, but that it did not have intellectual prestige," said
political analyst and literary critic Nissim Calderon. "That is why they
decided to circumvent institutionalized academic knowledge and set up these think tanks. The same is true of the Shalem Center, which zealously supports a market regime and an aggressive and armed concept of propagating democracy. The neoconservatives in the U.S. brought disasters to the world, and now they are doing the same in Israel."

But Moav said not all the Shalem researchers share the same political views.

"On the average, people in the Shalem Center have right-wing views," he
said. "But this is not a right-wing institute by definition. I personally am
a supporter of the 'smaller' Land of Israel as opposed to others at the
center who support the settlers. But in Israel, the typical intellectuals
are very left-wing politically and economically, and that is why they don't
like the Shalem Center."

"The Shalem Center's founders understood very well the role that could be played by intelligence in politics and the formulation of policy in Israel,"
said Ben Simhon. "The message that Yoram Hazony and Daniel Polisar [Shalem's president and one of the founders] brought with them was long-term work. They define themselves as marathon runners and say that their vision is for another 50 years ahead. They want to train people in Israel who will go into the media, politics and the business world and will be decision makers in years to come, with the world view of the Shalem Center being neoconservative, Zionistic and based on Jewish culture. These are neoconservative concepts that they brought with them from the U.S. and adapted to Israel."

Haivry said the Shalem Center's people are already looking forward to the
young generation of the center's graduates who are gradually getting
involved in making policy.

"Many of our graduates now have junior positions in the treasury, the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Ministry," he said. "When they hold
discussions, I hope they take with them a little more understanding and
deeper principles."

Writing two years ago in Haaretz, Calderon said: "The aim of the Shalem
Center - unlike that of the intellectuals of the left - is to conquer the
Knesset rather than the universities." Calderon believes that his prophesy
has been fulfilled, albeit earlier than expected.

But he notes that though the Shalem Center may have been modeled on American neoconservative think tanks, its rise is corresponding with their decline.

"This is happening at a time when in the United States itself, [President
Barack] Obama is trying to make up for the neoconservative experience, which tried to do away with the welfare state," said Calderon, "and the idea that the Islamic world is one big axis of evil on which the values of the democratic capitalistic world must be imposed."

Alpha · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject: Neocons for Ahmadinejad

Neocons for Ahmadinejad

http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/

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Karen Kwiatkowski interviews friend Dr. Stephen Sniegoski