DISSECTING the "Neo-con" Fraternity

Neo-con: A Confusing Code Word A look into the origin of the term. Irving Kristol, father of the movement, described its early members as "liberals mugged by reality."

From Israel: "America controls the world, we control America" An Israeli view of how the predominantly Jewish, but one hundred percent rabidly pro-Israel neo-cons are taking over the United States. From the Gush Shalom peace site, this article opposes the Iraqi War and the ill treatment of Palestinians by the government of Ariel Sharon. 

"Creative Destruction"—Masonic/Marxist Dialectic of the Neo-Cons' War  For the Masons, it's "Ordo ab Chao" (Latin for Out of chaos, order); for the Communists, it's "Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis"; for Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984,  it's "War is Peace." Today, for Neo-Cons, it's "Creative Destruction." "Creative destruction," writes neo-con Michael Ledeen, "is [America's] middle name."

"Rush Limbaugh Joins The Frumpurge" Syndicated columnist Sam Francis weighs in on the attempt by Limbaugh and other Establishment shills to silence any and all opposition to growing neo-con  influence and power in America. This is done, writes Francis, by making "the claim that the very term 'neo-conservative' is merely a codeword for 'Jew.'  That's a neat trick if you can get away with it, because it means that anyone criticizing neo-conservatives at all would merely be an anti-Semite and thereby beyond the pale of permissible discussion. Therefore, there could be no criticism of neo-conservatism. It's a way to win the argument by name-calling instead of arguing, much like using names like 'racist' or 'homophobe.'" (For another informative column by Sam Francis on the neo-con phenomenon, "'Neo-conservatives' vs. the Real McCoy," click here.)

Neo-cons Gear Up for the New World Order  "It was Sept. 11 that put the neo-cons in play; until that day, they had been castigating Bush for not being tough enough overseas. And now, looking back, they freely admit that Bush embraced their national-security strategy only because he had been jolted by events."

The Dark Underside of the Neo-Con Movement When William Bennett was exposed as a compulsive gambler, part of the neo-conservatives' veneer of virtue chipped off. But he isn't the first whose private predilections were at sharp odds with his public pronouncements. In Ravelstein, a book published in 2000 and based on the hidden life of the neo-con bestselling author Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students), novelist Saul Bellow revealed that his friend and mentor, far from the conservative standard bearer of traditional values, was an atheist and promiscuous homosexual, whose  activities led to an AIDS-related death (Bloom's obituaries in 1992 simply referred to liver failure). An examination of the neo-con movement's roots shows that the contents of ethical primers its front men are producing for consumption by the masses vary greatly from the beliefs that they themselves hold: the anti-Christian "beyond good and evil" philosophy expounded by Nietzsche and secretly taught  by neo-con guru Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago. [This article comes from the website of a group whose politics are not shared by the Real News 24/7 staff, nevertheless. it contains much information of value on this subject. Again, for those wishing to know more regarding our editorial policy, please read the disclaimer below.]