While the Center for a New American Security may well be the “farm team,” what they don’t tell you is the Council on Foreign Relations - as always - is the Majors. Typical MSM subterfuge. It is far more significant that most of the Obama team are members of the CFR - THE establishment - than a one-year-old “think tank.”

Yochi J. Dreazen - Nov 16, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Center for a New American Security, a small think tank here with generally middle-of-the-road policy views, is rapidly emerging as a top farm team for the incoming Obama administration.

When President-elect Barack Obama released a roster of his transition advisers last week, many of the national-security appointments came from the ranks of the center, which was founded by a pair of former Clinton administration officials in February 2007.

The think tank’s central role in the transition effort suggests that its positions — which include rejecting a fixed timeline for a withdrawal from Iraq — will get a warm reception within the new administration.

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• # 1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
• # 2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
• # 3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
• # 4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
• # 5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
• # 6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
• # 7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
• # 8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
• # 9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
• # 10. APA Complicit in CIA Torture
• # 11. El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
• # 12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
• # 13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
• # 14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
• # 15. Worldwide Slavery
• # 16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
• # 17. UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
• # 18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
• # 19. Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
• # 20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
• # 21. NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
• # 22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid
• # 23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
• # 24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
• # 25. Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

Don Nicoloff - September, 2008 issue of The Idaho Observer

Parts one and two of “The Three Stooges go to Washington” appeared in the June and July, 2008 editions of The IO where the genealogical roots and life of then “presumptive Republican nominee” Sen. John McCain was investigated. Our second stooge is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrat nominee for president. Our researcher Don Nicoloff has discovered so many anomalies, discrepencies, lies, obfuscations and inconsistencies with the “official” Obama story that no one — probably not even Obama himself - can truly claim to know who he really is or where he came from.

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via Real History Blog

Julian C. Holmes, A brilliant and prolific letter writer.

[...] Though the Washington Post does not over-extend itself in the pursuit of hard news, just let drop the faintest rumor of a government “conspiracy”, and a klaxon horn goes off in the news room. Aroused from apathy in the daily routine of reporting assignations and various other political and social sports events, editors and reporters scramble to the phones. The klaxon screams its warning: the greatest single threat to herd-journalism, corporate profits, and government stability — the dreaded “CONSPIRACY THEORY”!!

It is not known whether anyone has actually been hassled or accosted by any of these frightful spectres, but their presence is announced to Post readers with a salvo of warnings to avoid the tricky, sticky webs spun by the wacko “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS”.

Recall how the Post saved us from the truth about Iran-Contra.

Professional conspiracy exorcist Mark Hosenball was hired to ridicule the idea that Oliver North and his CIA-associated gangsters had conspired to do wrong (*1). And when, in their syndicated column, Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta discussed some of the conspirators, the Post sprang to protect its readers, and the conspirators, by censoring the Anderson column before printing it (*2).

But for some time the lid had been coming off the Iran-Contra conspiracy. In 1986, the Christic Institute, an interfaith center for law and public policy, had filed a lawsuit alleging a U.S. arms-for-drugs trade that helped keep weapons flowing to the CIA-Contra army in Nicaragua, and cocaine flowing to U.S. markets (*3). In 1988 Leslie Cockburn published Out of Control, a seminal work on our bizarre, illegal war against Nicaragua (*4). The Post contributed to this discovery process by disparaging the charges of conspiracy and by publishing false information about the drug-smuggling evidence presented to the House Subcommittee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. When accused by Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY). of misleading reporting, the Post printed only a partial correction and declined to print a letter of complaint from Rangel (*5).