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Toothay Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Abby Martin.

This is your host, Robbie Martin. This is your host, Robbie Martin.

So if anyone's been following this story about what happened at RT, check it out.

There's a couple articles that are published on Media Roots that kind of explains the backstory.

But what we wanted to do here was just kind of dig deeper into the evolution of neoconservatism and how it has morphed and the kind of new

players behind the game and how this is all rooted back decades pretty much and and the influence

over policy that the neocon clan has had and kind of pointing out the characters behind the game. So if anyone's

been following the RT story, you know that my anti-war message on RT essentially got hijacked

by warmongers here in D.C. from a think tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative. And ever since

this happened, my brother's been doing an ordinary amount of research about who these people are in the

foreign policy initiative and how it all ties back to the Bush

administration and beyond far back before that.

Is there anything else you wanted to add, Robbie?

No, I mean, just that the neoconservatives,

just like any ruined brand name, had to sort of reinvent themselves and repackage their message.

And a lot of the core neoconservatives and basically just foreign policy hawks who aren't in government, most of them aren't in government currently, are still pulling the strings in DC to a large extent.

And they've managed to do it by essentially distancing themselves from the Bush administration

foreign policy, pretending like they had no influence over it now after they were really proud of it during the Bush administration foreign policy, pretending like they had no influence over it now

after they were really proud of it during the Bush administration, effectively rewritten

history and now they're back. And a lot of them are even going out on the media like Bill

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