The Usual Suspects Part 1: Richard Perle, Prince of Darkness
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Posted Wed, 05/20/2009
A few years ago Greyhawk asked me to post my Usual Suspects series on this website. I never got to it. Now, I'm extending the series and figured better late than never. So here is part one of The Usual Suspects:
This is the first installment of a series of articles in which I will introduce you to the cast of characters that pull most of the strings behind the neocon movement, The Usual Suspects. This group has had a long and sordid history of criminal activity and have shown a propensity for sacrificing U.S. national security for their own agendas.
Today, I will introduce you to an infamous figure many of you already know: Richard Perle, the Prince of Darkness.
Perle served as an assistant Secretary of Defense for the Reagan administration and on the Defense Policy Board Adisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.
Perle is a member of the Project for the New American Century, (PNAC), the Hudson Institute and is a resident fellow on the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is also a disciple of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). You will be hearing those organizations quite often in this series, but let me point out now that Nitze, who founded the SAIS in 1944, was a former investment banker for a company that floated loans for the Third Reich. It was Nitze who wrote NSC Memorandum 68 which was the policy basis for the Cold War and led to the establishment of our never ending war economy. This document asserted, for the first time in U.S. history, a U.S. claim on any economic and social resources anywhere in the world.
(More here.)
Posted Wed, 05/20/2009
A few years ago Greyhawk asked me to post my Usual Suspects series on this website. I never got to it. Now, I'm extending the series and figured better late than never. So here is part one of The Usual Suspects:
This is the first installment of a series of articles in which I will introduce you to the cast of characters that pull most of the strings behind the neocon movement, The Usual Suspects. This group has had a long and sordid history of criminal activity and have shown a propensity for sacrificing U.S. national security for their own agendas.
Today, I will introduce you to an infamous figure many of you already know: Richard Perle, the Prince of Darkness.
Perle served as an assistant Secretary of Defense for the Reagan administration and on the Defense Policy Board Adisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.
Perle is a member of the Project for the New American Century, (PNAC), the Hudson Institute and is a resident fellow on the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is also a disciple of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). You will be hearing those organizations quite often in this series, but let me point out now that Nitze, who founded the SAIS in 1944, was a former investment banker for a company that floated loans for the Third Reich. It was Nitze who wrote NSC Memorandum 68 which was the policy basis for the Cold War and led to the establishment of our never ending war economy. This document asserted, for the first time in U.S. history, a U.S. claim on any economic and social resources anywhere in the world.
(More here.)
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