Connecting the dots

And The Farmer at Corrente does a masterful job looking at the right wing spin machine and tracing its roots. Yes, Hillary, there is a VRWC. Remember this name. The American Security Council.

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In 1958 ASC launched the Institute for American Strategy (IAS) for the purposes of further spreading Cold War political propaganda among the public, indoctrinating public policy "elites" and military personnel in the ideology of right wing think, emphasizing the importance of powerful military industrial complex interests and trying to convince anyone they could buttonhole that communist had infiltrated the government at the highest levels. ACS sponsored events including the National Military Conferences which were essentially git- to-know-ya gatherings for Pentagon officials and National Security Council big wigs looking to hoot it up with corporate executives from such board rooms as United Fruit and Standard Oil.

Recall Eisenhower warning of the power of the military industrial complex -- these are the very people of whom he was speaking. The IAS was funded by the right wing Richardson Foundation (H. Smith Richardson) and administered by "political warfare" advocate Frank Barnett and long time ASC member Col. William Kintner. IAS president was John M. Fisher. Barnett was research director for the Richardson Foundation as well.

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