New documentary "A Very Heavy Agenda" - why the neocons are eager for Cold War II

[JohnyCanuck]

The trailer for Part 1 of the video is embedded below (warning, includes swearing).

pre-order now : averyheavyagenda.blogspot.com
release date: 10.15.15

A Very Heavy Agenda

Post-9/11, the War on Terror had outlived its usefulness.
The minds behind the think tanks that drive America’s interventionist foreign policy decided that the U.S. needed a new enemy, so they chose an old one -- Russia.

Part 1: A Catalyzing Event 1hr 25mins

Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld were ubiquitous in the news media as they took every available opportunity to market to America an aggressive preemptive war policy. But from where did their ideas originate? The answer is a tightly knit and eminently well placed group of neoconservative thought leaders, chief among them Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan. Part 1 begins in the panicked weeks after 9/11, as Kagan et al. seized upon the hysteria surrounding the anthrax letter attacks to further shape America’s perception of reality, planting the seeds for endless future military engagements. George W. Bush may have been understandably perceived as an idiot, but watching these wonks and academics drive the ideological engine for his administration belies a much more sophisticated strategy at play.

Part 2: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The New Neocons 1hr 35mins

After the Cold War, the US-NATO reach expanded significantly to take in most of the old Soviet Union clients in the Warsaw pact. Neoconservative darling Robert Kagan and his diplomat wife Victoria Nuland played key roles inside and out of various administrations and think tanks as they greased the skids for a US-sponsored coup in Ukraine. Part 2 shows the resurrection of old cold warriors from beltway depths to deliver blatant propaganda with techniques reminiscent of a red scare era that had only just faded from memory. US-funded outfits like Radio Free Liberty are pitted against Russia’s RT as each nation accuses the other of waging an ever more desperate and transparent "Information War".

Part 3: Maintaining the World Order 1hr 30mins

"When the Berlin wall fell, our work wasn't finished". -- Victoria Nuland, November 2013

“Fuck the EU” -- Victoria Nuland, February 2014
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[JohnyCanuck]

1. Meet Robert Kagan, PNAC co-founder [Clip from A Very Heavy Agenda]

Kagan is also the husband of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (of "Fuck the EU" fame).

[KamaAina]

3. PNAC did not go away. It simply morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative.

They do this every time people start to get wise to them. Before PNAC, it was the Committee on the Present Danger, and so on.

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff

Board of Directors
Eric Edelman
Robert Kagan
William Kristol
Dan Senor

And check this out:

Staff...
Ellen Bork
Senior Fellow

[JohnyCanuck]

2. How Neocons Destabilized Europe

How Neocons Destabilized Europe
By Robert Parry

The Death of ‘Realism’

The 2003 Iraq invasion sounded the death knell for foreign policy “realism” in Official Washington. Aging or dead, the old adult voices were silent or ignored. From Congress and the Executive Branch to the think tanks and the mainstream news media, almost all the “opinion leaders” were neocons and many liberals fell into line behind Bush’s case for war.

And, even though the Iraq War “group think” was almost entirely wrong, both on the WMD justifications for war and the “cakewalk” expectations for remaking Iraq, almost no one who promoted the fiasco suffered punishment for either the illegality of the invasion or the absence of sanity in promoting such a harebrained scheme.

Instead of negative repercussions, the Iraq War backers – the neocons and their liberal-hawk accomplices – essentially solidified their control over U.S. foreign policy and the major news media. From The New York Times and The Washington Post to the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, the “regime change” agenda continued to hold sway.

It didn’t even matter when the sectarian warfare unleashed in Iraq left hundreds of thousands dead, displaced millions and gave rise to Al Qaeda’s ruthless Iraq affiliate. Not even the 2008 election of Barack Obama, an Iraq War opponent, changed this overall dynamic.

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/07/how-neocons-destabilized-europe/

[Blue_Tires]

4. Cold War 2.0 started awhile ago for those who were paying attention

and the Neocons weren't the ones to start it, either

[Xolodno]

5. Just to beat everyone else...

...I'll do the required name call that comes with this....

"Putinista"

Ok, its been said and lets move on.

Thanks for this. It should be interesting to watch.