Ars Technica NewsSep 18
Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project https://arstechni.ca/x6Wo #americanenterpriseinstitute #DepartmentofDefense #missiledefense #militaryspace #USSpaceForce #goldendome #Science #Space
Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

In nuclear era, it has proven cheaper to build offensive weapons than play defense.

Ars Technica
kriykatJun 25
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/24/chris-hedges-war-deja-vu/
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #History #Intelligence #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #NuclearWeapons #Wmd #AlQaeda #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #AtlanticCouncil #AyatollahRuhollahKhomeini #BrookingsInstitution #CentralIntelligenceAgency(c.i.a.)) #ChrisHedges #DavidFrum #DonaldTrump #Gen.JackKeane #GeorgeW.Bush #Isis #JohnBolton #JointComprehensivePlanOfAction(jcpoa) #Mr.Fish #NewtGingrich #NuclearNonProliferationTreaty(npt) #ProjectForANewAmericanCentury #SaddamHussein #Savak #SeanHannity #ShahMohammadRezaPahlavi #StephenKinzer #ThomasFriedman
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu

We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few differences between the lies told to ignite

Consortium News
Julie HughesJun 9

The right-wing #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute has turned on Trump's #BigBeautifulBill. I didn't expect to start my Monday by agreeing with #AEI

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/trump-big-beautiful-bill.html

Opinion | Seven Hidden Ways Trump’s Megabill Would Remake America

The Trump administration and its allies have worked hard to conceal the true impact the legislation would have on the country.

The New York Times
AFRICAN CONNECTIONS (ACREF)May 8

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

by: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/maga-republicans-us-universities?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

#education #University
#rightwing #MAGA
#JDVance #Nixon
#Trump #Harvard #Yale #Princeton #antisemitism #Christianity #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute
#ThinkTank #GIBill #JosephMcCarthy #LyndonJohnson
#HigherEducationAct #culturewars
#autocrat

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

The Guardian
Bernadette A. LearApr 8
I don't understand #tariffs well enough to comment. But when the #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute, a #conservative think-tank that focuses on #economic policy, says #Trump 's approach is wrong, I believe it. #AEI has supported many #Republican policies in the past, so it's a big deal for them to criticize him. https://www.aei.org/economics/president-trumps-tariff-formula-makes-no-economic-sense-its-also-based-on-an-error/
Peter RileyNov 26, 2024

MAGA = Make America Grift Again

#Militaryindustrialcomplex #Trident #AUKUS #Boeing #Raytheon #LockheedMartin #Halliburton #HeritageFoundation #CatoInstitute #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #project2025 #richpeoplesyachtmoney
#BlameCapitalism
#art #illustration #AndySinger

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 12, 2024

Witherspoon Institute
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113471085515066927

* conservative think tank in Princeton, NJ
* founded 2003 by Princeton University professor Robert P. George, others

#CharlesKoch #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #BarryPrize #AASL #FEHE #AEI #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #pseudointellectualism #propaganda #disinformation #antivax #ConspiracyTheorists

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 12, 2024

How Dark Money Invents Prestige for Right-Wing Academics
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/invisible-hand-new-group-awarding

* AASL: American Academy of Sciences & Letters
* FEHE: Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education
* trustee/religious right leader/Princeton Prof. Robert P. George
* senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
* conservative Witherspoon Institute
* funding f. Leonard Leo, Charles Koch

#CharlesKoch #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #AASL #FEHE #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #disinformation #antivax #ConspiracyTheorists

The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters sounds prestigious, but is it really?

Important Context
kriykatOct 23, 2024
The Chris Hedges Report: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/18/the-chris-hedges-report-the-secret-history-of-neoliberalism/
“It disenchants us with everything which cannot be measured in dollars and cents” — George Monbiot on his new book, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report The current world order is designed…
#Politics #Books #ClimateChange #Commentary #Economy #Greece #IncomeInequality #Indonesia #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #AdamSmithInstitute #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #AugustoPinochet #Brexit #Bureaucracy #Capitalism #CatoInstitute #CenterForPolicyStudies #ChrisHedgesReport #ConservativeParty #EmileDurkheim #FriedrichHayek #GeorgeMonbiot #HannahArendt #HeritageFoundation #IanHargreaves #InstituteOfEconomicAffairs #InvertedTotalitarianism #LudwigVonMises #MargaretThatcher #MontPelerinSociety #NationalHealthService #NaturalCapitalAgenda #Neoliberalism #PeterHutchinson #PrimeMinisterTonyBlair #RentierSociety #RonaldReagan #SheldonWolin #TaftHartleyAct #TheConstitutionOfLiberty #TheRoadToSerfdom #Totalitarianism #WalterLippmann #WarlordCapitalists #WilliamDavies
The Chris Hedges Report: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

"It disenchants us with everything which cannot be measured in dollars and cents" — George Monbiot on his new book, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=see5c5Sgi14 By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report The current world order is designed to

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Tim ZeeOct 23, 2024

Trump's proposed tariffs, a de facto sales tax, would cost Americans $3.9 trillion.
That's $3,900,000,000,000. That amounts to $11,641.79 for every man, woman, and child in the US.
This figure comes from the conservative but reality-based American Enterprise Institute.

#DonaldTrump #TrumpTariffs #TrumpTaxHikes #Inflation #WeirdDonald #Republicans #InternationalTrade #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #AEI #SteveLiesman #USEconomy #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQ0xfXuMYQ

Trump's proposed tariffs on imports could cost U.S. consumers $3.9 trillion

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