War With Iran, The Foundation For Defense of Democracies & Trump's Neocons w/ Eli Clifton

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist and writer who has had articles appear in the Nation, the Intercept and most prolifically in Lobelog, he has been tracking the activities of far-right policy wonks and neoconservatives in the Washington DC orbit for over a decade and more specifically has spent a lot of time exposing the activities of the Iran regime change centric think tank known as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "When Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, hired Foundation for Defense of Democracy senior adviser Richard Goldberg as his assistant in January 2019, the perception of FDD’s heavy influence was confirmed” https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/foundation_for_defense_of_democracies/ Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/EliClifton

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:03.0	Hello. Hello, welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:28.4	This is your host for today, Lobby Martin.
0:32.5	Today we have a special episode about a subject that I am very familiar with and arguably have been
0:39.4	obsessed with for many, many years. It's something that we used to cover on the podcast very
0:45.0	frequently, but we haven't actually covered it in a while, and that is the neo-conservative
0:50.9	warhawks in Washington, D.C., and what they're currently most active with now.
0:57.7	Over the past couple of years, most of what we would describe as the neocons, Bill Crystal, Max Boo,
1:04.7	David Frum, Robert Kagan, a lot of these more commonly known names have been heavily involved in trying to build some kind
1:12.9	of consensus against Donald Trump in various ways, pumping continuous nonstop anti-Russian
1:19.3	hysteria, trying to get a primary candidate to challenge Trump in the 2020 elections, you name
1:26.1	it. But there's another side to this that is, to me, very, very interesting and one that we
1:31.6	shouldn't be surprised by.
1:32.7	And that is that these never-Trump or neocons actually do not make up the entire neocon landscape
1:41.8	in D.C., actually far from it.
1:47.0	Some of the most prominent project for the New American Century neocons that we know of are actually very much allied with the Trump
1:53.5	administration. And today I'm going to interview somebody who's kind of an expert in this relationship
1:59.7	and who has been tracking these activities for a long time.
2:03.6	His name is Eli Clifton.
2:05.3	He's an investigative journalist and writer who has had articles appear in the nation, the intercept, and Loeblog.
2:13.6	But most prolifically, he has written for LoBlog, which is a great outlet that I recommend everybody follow.
2:20.3	It's one of the most valuable neocon tracking outlets in the country, by far.
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