A Pocket Guide to Neocons--Radio Netherlands....incredible report!

[Gloria]

http://www.rnw.nl/en/html/sunday.html


A Pocket Guide to Neo-conservatives

American foreign and domestic policy has been reshaped by the administration of President George W Bush. Critics say that government thinking has been hijacked by the Neo-Conservatives. But just who are the so-called Neo-Cons and what do they stand for?
Two long-term observers offer an overview of the movement and its most influential supporters.


Scroll down..it's the second show listed...
It's airing live now via shortwave and internet on the Vox Humana program.
The above link is to the "on demand" page...you can listen to it anytime.

Jim Lobe, who has studied them for 25 years, is on the show....

A must listen! History, naming ALL names, interview with big wheels...you'll never get this show here in the US!

[Nicholas_J]

1. Great...thanks

I have been listening to Radio Nederlands every day for something like 27 years now (I listen to the broadcast around midnight). They do some of the best observations of American politics in the world.

I dont know how a government as liberal as Nederlands has could have possibly joined the coalition in Iraq.

[Gloria]

2. PS--the main producers are outfits based in the US...

the InterHemispheric Resource Center is here in NM......Foreign Policy in Focus is the Washington=based arm..Jim Lobe writes for them and his stuff is also picked up by Inter Press New Service and you'll often find it at Asia Times Online. I cite him often in the WMW....

[ladybugg33]

3. Can't get this. Can someone summarize? List names that we can look

up on the Net?

[Gloria]

4. Go to the FPIF site (link below) and use their very extensive SEARCH

function for "neoconservatives". You will get a lot of related articles that you can go through.

http://www.fpif.org/

The program interviewed Bill Kristol extensively...heard Jeb Bush's name, Wolfowitz and others. Mostly the best known...but the history also had other a few other names, including Kristol's father....

[phaseolus]

5. Streaming audio available from their website

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/041013vh.html

[CHIMO]

7. Power, glory and the neocons

The label ‘neoconservative' is bandied about often at the moment in relation to US politics, and critics of the policies of president George Bush say his administration has been highjacked by this shadowy group.
But neoconservatives themselves deny the accusation and even the question itself – the ‘godfather' of the neocons, Irving Kristol has said that "neoconservatism is not a movement but a persuasion, and one whose meaning we clearly glimpse only in retrospect."

So who are these people, why are they so powerful, and what do they stand for? Two experts offer a critical overview.

Who are they?
Tom Barry: "There is a small clique of neoconservatives and many of them are family members. They attend the same parties. It's a group of a hundred individuals. However, in describing the neocon camp it's more important to look at ideology. Some people have singled out certain people in the current administration - such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying they are not neoconservatives. That's true, they are not part of the small clique but because they don't have an ideology of their own, they share the same ideology as the originators of the neo cons."

http://www.rnw.nl/special/en/html/041013vh.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. it's on now

9:40 p.m. EDT or 0140 UTC, 9845 kHz.

Edited to add - see this page:

http://www.rnw.nl/en/html/northamerica.html