Neo-conservative’s roots were planted first by Rockefeller

[NVMojo]

outrageous!

A strange marriage a century ago between Christian missionaries and cut-throat capitalists created the world’s first billionaire, and it’s a marriage still working for men like Harper and Bush
By Dan Adleman


Modern day neo-conservatism is usually associated with the Project for the New American Century, a “think tank” of prominent right-wing warmongers (including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, John Bolton, and Francis Fukuyama) who got together in 1997 to argue for a new “Pax Americana,” whereby the global order "must have a secure foundation on unquestioned US military preeminence” with full-scale domination of not only the world and its resources, but also space and cyberspace.

In 1998, PNAC sent a letter to then-President Clinton, urging him to declare war against Iraq on the basis of its proximity to Iran and Israel and its rich oil reserves: “While the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification , the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein. . . . And even should US-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in US security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region."

PNAC luminaries like former Assistant Secretary of Defense and current World Bank president Paul.Wolfowitz and Alan Bloom (who set up shop at the University of Toronto and formed the kernel of what later developed into the so-called Calgary School, the ideological wing of Harper’s Conservatives), claim direct intellectual lineage from Leo Strauss, a post-WWII German philosopher who (perhaps rightly) saw democracy as being rife with nihilism and constantly in jeopardy of falling victim to the tyranny of the majority.

In response to this, he advocated a kind of modern Machiavellian aristocracy that would use the “noble lies” of religion and nationalism to manipulate the dumb, hedonistic masses into doing the bidding of the natural ruling elites. And it was this very policy of calculated deception and manipulation that the Bush administration used to coerce the American public into getting behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[Tellurian]

1. Excellent and a concise must read-

This well written article sets in motion the connection
of the triad consisting of Church, State and mega corporations.

How this plan was hatched, by whom and why this unholy alliance
has become so difficult to overcome.

[NVMojo]

2. and it's much more complicated than your average mob

[Vidar]

3. Way too plausible.

[Kellanved]

4. And Leo Strauss actually just continues the line of Carl Schmitt,

but they don't like to hear that.

[bobbieinok]

5. see this link.......Rockefeller founded the U of Chicago, home of Strauss

The histories of most institutions are both positive and negative.

http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9806/html/rockefeller1.htm

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(from second page)

. Even before accepting the presidency, he boasted to Rockefeller, “I believe that ten years will show an institution at Chicago which will amaze the multitudes.” Working 16-hour days, Harper now negotiated more than 120 faculty appointments in little more than a year. Rockefeller might think the university a plant of slow growth, but Harper wanted it to bloom overnight. The new president raided so many Ivy League faculties—the ranks of Yale and Cornell were especially depleted—that his ransacked rivals complained of foul play. Harper dangled sizable sums before reluctant prospects, enlarging the school’s future financial requirements. This nationwide talent search netted nine college presidents for the first faculty. Harper signed up John Dewey and George Herbert Mead for the philosophy department and enticed novelist Robert Herrick to join the English department, while Albion Small initiated America’s first graduate department in sociology. Another eminent recruit, economist Thorstein Veblen, came to regard Harper as the educational counterpart of capitalists such as Rockefeller and satirized him as a captain of erudition, one of a new species of empire builders in higher education.