Neocons and Neolibs: A Conspiracy of Silence

The full text of my forthcoming American Free Press article is posted below for my paid subscribers only. -KB

Neocons and Neolibs: A Conspiracy of Silence

by Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press

It is an oft-remarked truism that the United States is increasingly riven by acrimonious disputes between left and right. Democrats and Republicans are reciprocally uncivil in the halls of Congress, while in the streets, groups like Antifa and the Proud Boys regularly have at each other. More and more observers speak seriously of secession and/or civil war.

But at the higher levels of policy-making and information management, there is a remarkable convergence between ostensibly opposing sides. Neoliberals, those intellectual heirs of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and neoconservatives, the cult followers of Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt, purport to represent diametrically opposing ideologies. Yet they regularly work together—one might even say conspire—to advance the interests of the power elite that runs the Western bankster empire. Fostering the illusion of meaningful difference between the establishment left and establishment right is a key feature of their modus operandi.

The near-total overlap between the neoliberals and neoconservatives is most visible in their shared silence around the most outrageous state crimes against democracy (SCADs).* Two recent examples are Trump Administration neocons triggering the COVID pandemic via a biological attack on China and Iran,** and the Biden Administration’s demolition of the Nordstream pipeline.***