The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - PNAC rises from the grave

[DMac]

Sets phazers to destroy - target - Syria

PNAC is back with a new name.

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

The FDD

Conservatives suggest Syria next steps (http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/19/conservatives_suggest_syria_next_steps_0)

[DMac]

The FDD, Who We Are (http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=516504&Itemid=374)


The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a non-partisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that threaten democracy.

FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. Our Leadership Council of Distinguished Advisors includes former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former State Department Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky, Forbes CEO Steve Forbes, former National Security Advisor Robert “Bud” McFarlane, former Ambassador Max Kampelman, Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol, Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey.

Those affiliated with FDD come from many backgrounds and political perspectives, but all believe:

• No one should be denied basic human rights, including minority rights, women’s rights, and religious freedom.

• Free and democratic nations have a right to defend themselves and an obligation to defend one another.

• Terrorism, the deliberate use of violence against civilians to achieve political objectives, is always wrong and must never be condoned.

A think tank with a solid track record of transforming ideas into actions that get results, FDD uniquely combines policy research, counterterrorism and democracy education, strategic communications, and investigative journalism.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies focuses its efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the policy community, in the media, on college campuses, and in the courthouse, both at home and abroad.



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[MAGNES]

Obama has expanded the wars and fulfilled PNAC NeoCon policy
waging war on new countries even. NeoCons never went away.

This is why they hate Ron Paul.

Ron Paul on NeoCons, see his article too, " you are being conned. "

" change in political party has not made a difference,
who is really in charge. "


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0N0iqUiaTs
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0N0iqUiaTs)

[Glass]

upside down stars and a bunch of players we've all seen before. We know where this is going.

[MAGNES]

DMac, you got some key threads here, again on antiwar.com, your thread.

US Gov spying on Americans - The FBI vs Antiwar.com (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?53357-US-Gov-spying-on-Americans-The-FBI-vs-Antiwar.com)

My comments on Raimondo outing the NeoCons, they have
a few of these " committees ", " foundations " going, they wind them down,
restart them, some interesting history here going back,
Raimondo has covered them like nobody else in his
articles on NeoCons. They use them to make money too,
they solicit cash and do PR for countries, they were
PR men for Turkey, for the Chechens, for the Albanians.
Perle is always involved and he has many conflicts of interests,
remember he was forced to resign from a war board early.

Sibel Edmonds keeps saying, " it is all the same people ".
All these same people are involved in all of these.

AEI is their main organization they operate out of.
They got lots of money for all of this.

Pat Buchanan , " they pay salaries . "

Paul Craig Roberts , " there is nothing American about the american enterprise institute " .

[mick silver]

just who pay for this group ?

[DMac]

just who pay for this group ?


Taxpayers, Israel, Corporations - the usual.

Look at the membership list, a regular who's who of Neocons:

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_fddbios&Itemid=326

Home About FDD Our Team

OUR TEAM
Leadership Council
Board of Advisors
In Memoriam
Staff and Senior Fellows
Adjunct Fellows
Leadership Council
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky
Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

Steve Forbes
Board Member
CEO Forbes Magazine

Judge Louis J. Freeh
Fmr. Director of the FBI

Max M. Kampelman
Fmr. Ambassador

Bill Kristol
Editor
Weekly Standard

Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(ID-CT)
U.S. Senate

Robert "Bud" McFarlane
Fmr. National Security Advisor

R. James Woolsey
Fmr. Director of the CIA, Chairman



Board of Advisors
Hon. Charles E. Allen
Principal at the Chertoff Group and
Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security


Gary Bauer
President
American Values

Rep. Eric Cantor
Chairman (R-VA)
Task Force on Terrorism

Gene Gately
Former Intelligence and Defense Official

General P.X. Kelley
USMC (RET)

Charles Krauthammer
Syndicated Columnist

Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland
Former Defense Department Official

Richard Perle
Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor

Steven Pomerantz
Former Assistant Director
FBI

Oliver "Buck" Revell
Former Associate Deputy Director
FBI

Bret Stephens
Columnist and Member of
the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board

Hon. Francis J. "Bing" West
Author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense



In Memoriam
Jack Kemp
Chairman, 2001-2007
Chairman Emeritus, 2007-2008

Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Founding Member, 2001-2006
Fmr. Ambassador to the UN



Staff and Senior Fellows
Khairi Abaza
Senior Fellow

Tony Badran
Research Fellow, Levant

Amb. Richard Carlson
Vice Chairman

Kristen Casapulla
Development Associate

David Donadio
Director of Communications

Mark Dubowitz
Executive Director

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Director, Center for Terrorism Research

Reuel Marc Gerecht
Senior Fellow

Dr. Sebastian Gorka
Military Affairs Fellow and Director, FDD’s National Security Fellows Program

Laura Grossman
Senior Research Analyst, Program Manager, Special Research Projects

Thomas Joscelyn
Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Jonathan Kay
Visiting Fellow

Orde Kittrie
Senior Fellow

Dr. Michael Ledeen
Freedom Scholar

Clifford D. May
President

Andrew C. McCarthy
Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Bill McCarthy
Senior Vice President

Patrick Megahan
Communications Associate

Steven Miller
Research Associate

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
Senior Fellow


David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Senior Fellow and Co-Chair,
Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Bill Roggio
Senior Fellow and Editor The Long War Journal

Cara Rosenthal
Senior Manager, Development

Claudia Rosett
Journalist-in-Residence


Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Vice President of Research


Jean Thurman


Ibn Warraq
Visiting Fellow, Center for Law & Counterterrorism

Benjamin Weinthal
Research Fellow



Adjunct Fellows
Dr. Jonathan Adelman
Professor
University of Denver

Ethan Gutmann
Author and Journalist


Rebeccah Heinrichs
Adjunct Fellow

Joel Mowbray
Journalist

Philip Carl Salzman
Professor of Anthropology
McGill University

[mick silver]

so we give them our paper and they come here and fuck this country . why are the people of this country not trying to take back whats ours and run the freaks off

[Barbaro]

Thanks for the heads up DMAC.

Basically the same, nasty names on that list, but under a different name.

[iOWNme]

GREAT info DMac!

Look at the 'Events' section of the FDD website:

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_displayevents&Itemid=362

Every single event is Pro-Israel and Anti-Islam.


The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

for a Middle East Forum

Panel discussion with:

US Senator Ben Cardin

Jonathan Schanzer, VP of Research, Foundation of Defense of Democracies

Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

B'nai Israel Congregation (6301 Montrose Road, Rockville)

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

[iOWNme]

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