Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Todd Pierce via Salon <salon@listserve.com> Date: 6/8/24 5:30 PM (GMT-05:00) To: SALON Admin <salon@committeefortherepublic.org> Subject: [Salon] Meloni and her lieutenants plan their takeover of Europe - The Spectator World I like to read The Spectator, along with The American Conservative magazine, as I once did “People’s World,” as the latter provided an advance preview of propaganda memes of the Communist Party USA on US foreign policy in the 1980s. Many of which would then be picked up by other publications, as my one time “Political Warfare” mentor, Antonio Ybarra, told me, as could be seen in literature of far-left-wing political activist organizations. And his experience as a political warfare specialist (more than mere “propagandist") for the Sandinistas, first, and then the CIA, should have taught him something about political warfare that he could pass on. In fact, I was introduced to him by Caesar Sereseres a consultant to the USG on Guatemala, also a political warfare expert, as that’s defined, in which he was alleged to have designed so much of the US’ directed own terrorism in Guatemala. Whom I also got to know well, in promoting US "Low-Intensity Conflict” policies in MN as a National Security Conservative in the 1980s. Some, not all, of which I have to atone for today. Which has been on my mind this week as a group whose founders I once worked with in the 1980s, the Center for the American Experiment, while I was helping found the MN Association of Scholars, and working with the local Air Force Association chapter on LIC issues, held its annual dinner this past week in Minneapolis with Naftali Bennett their featured speaker: https://www.fox9.com/news/former-israel-prime-minister-met-protesters-minneapolis. I was on the other side of the “battlelines,” from some of my one-time friends, who I broke off any association with shortly after 9/11, with their support of policies like Traditional Conservative Sen. Jeff Sessions and the Heritage Foundation promoted so heavily, such as torture, suppression of speech/dissent, the Iraq War, etc., all as much as or more than their “Neoconservative” counterparts were doing. In fact, in my opinion, Sen. Jeff Sessions, favorite of Traditional Conservatives here, should have been charged with “Crimes Against Humanity,” as much as Bush, Cheney, et al., should have been! So no more s**t about “virtuous Traditional Conservatives,” as opposed to to non-virtuous Neoconservatives! If anything, the former are worse than the later, if only because the latter are off-shoots of the former, and always have been worse as the “”Founders” of each. And have been since ex-Trotskyites Kendall and Burnham joined with fascist admirer William F. Buckley, to found “Traditional Conservatism” as the Conservative Movement! For anyone curious, below is a bit on Sereseres, and this link on the policies he helped devise: |