The Asses and the Masters

After a satirical beginning, Floyd gets serious and informative.Good article.
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Asses Bearing Gold: Of Neo-Cons and Nabobs
By Chris Floyd
Under Bush II, the neo-cons were brought in as shock troops; their mindless zealotry was a perfect tool for implementing the plans drawn up by the real players in the new regime: Cheney's notorious "Energy Task Force" and the much lesser-known "Joint Task Force on Petroleum" formed by the Council on Foreign Relations and – who else? – the James Baker Institute at Rice University. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14576.htm===
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AlterNet: The Clash of Civilizations Doesn't Exist... Yet
Clash of Civilizations? Not Yet, but the Neocons are working on it.
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The Clash of Civilizations Doesn't Exist... Yet http://www.alternet.org/story/41032
The neocons who are pushing a Clash of Civilizations are mirror-images of the terrorists that inspire their hyperbolic fear -- they are just as irrational and just as great a threat to our security. Or more so.