Lucy Hamilton

Government Accountability Network has links to Atlas but is a Steve Bannon/Mercer 💰 project (see also Cambridge Analytica).

Clinton Cash is published by HarperCollins, a mainstream US house - not a more partisan imprint like Regnery, which has made a small fortune from anti-Clinton books. Critics will be quick to point out that HarperCollins is owned by conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, however. Who is Peter Schweizer? Schweizer is a former speechwriting consultant for Republican President George W Bush, a fellow at the conservative California-based think tank the Hoover Institution, president of the Government Accountability Institute and a senior editor-at-large for Breitbart.com, a right-wing news and opinion website. He's written two other books, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets and Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Jail. In Extortion, Schweizer accuses members of Congress, Republican and Democratic, of running a glorified protection racket, where they shake down donors under the threat of adverse legislation. "Pay me money, and I will promise not to make your life miserable," is how he describes it to the National Journal. "Fail to pay, and bad things will happen to you." It was enough to stir the ire of Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, who said Schweizer was making "bogus and salacious claims to sell books" Others have defended Schweizer's work. "Schweizer is no hack," tweets Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "He's written several great books on DC corruption." In

Check this example of the process in 2015. Murdoch’s *Collins* publishing giving heft to GOP trash.

Author from Hoover Institute (Atlas partner & 2 others plus linked GAI).

Testimony that author is “no hack” comes from rep of Cato Institute (Atlas partner where Murdoch was a director from 90s).

Brock was part of the junktank-> media/publishing conduit, as a Heritage Foundation fellow, writing several books attacking the Clintons & Anita Hill in the 90s.

The 2004 book is a whistleblower goldmine.

Luckily Brock became appalled, set up Media Matters for America, helping expose the machine.

Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans

Byline shows the continuing links between Tufton St (junktanks that are mostly Atlas Network partners) and the US scene. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/r...

See also: www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

Iran And the 30 Year NeoCon Plan For Regime Change Watch the Byline Times podcast with Adrian Goldberg and Nafeez Ahmed,

If you lost track of neocons or are too young to know about PNAC, this interview with the author at Byline Times podcast explains the 1990s/2000s context (without the junktanks & donors).

I think it would be good to join these dots since Ahmed’s 📕 connects

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/iran-and-t...

THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... the media. Unlike his father, William earned a PhD; but, like his father, he soon concluded, "I just wasn't cut out to do serious academic work," he told the Washington Post. Although he did not serve in Vietnam, while at Harvard he praised Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of the North Vietnamese capital as "one of the greatest moments in American history." The younger Kristol came to Washington in the mid-1980s to work for William Bennett, Irving's protégé, in the Reagan administration's Education Department and went on to serve Vice President Dan Quayle as chief of staff. In the White House, he forged close ties to the Christian Right and was credited as the architect of Quayle's attack on Candice Bergen's TV sitcom character, single mother Murphy Brown. Kristol told Republicans to denounce homosexuality as "the disease it is" and saw overturning Roe v. Wade as "the key to conservative reformation." Out of a job when Bush was defeated by Clinton and relying on the relationships his father, Irving, had forged with the Four Sisters foundations, William played in the 1990s the role his father had played in the 1970s: fixer, agitator, and commissar in chief for the GOP. Backed by the Bradley Foundation and by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Kristol set up a small strategy center he called the Project for the Republican Future, headquartered in the AEI building in Washington. Soon he set his sights on wrecking the Clinton plan to reform the health care system by advising Republicans to kill it outright for partisan gain rather than working with the administration to produce a bipartisan bill. When the reform effort was defeated and the Republicans took control of the House in 1994, Kristol persuaded Murdoch to pony up millions to finance a new magazine, The Weekly Standard, which became Kristol's vehicle for

THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... continuing the assault on the Clinton administration, while at the same time experimenting with formulas for a Republican comeback. Though Kristol's academic mien provided cover, The Weekly Standard began to print scurrilous insinuations about Clinton's private behavior that might have been more fitting for Murdoch's tabloid New York Post. According to Nina Easton, author of the book Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy, "If not for Kristol's obsessive marshalling of the pro-impeachment forces, said a number of conservatives, independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation might have petered out, and House Republicans might have allowed the public's disapproval of their course dissuade them from voting to impeach the president." When the strategy came a cropper, causing Republicans to lose House seats in 1998, Kristol disingenuously tried to distance himself from the whole business. 28 Seeking another strategy to revive GOP political fortunes, Kristol and his senior editor, David Brooks, developed and promoted what they called National Greatness Conservatism, which counseled Republicans to find useful purposes for government and deploy patriotism for partisan ends. For some years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kristol had been casting about for a way to politicize national security and thereby resurrect a Republican advantage vis-à-vis the Democrats. He thought he had found an issue in confronting China, but Republican business interests quickly shot it down. (Murdoch has significant holdings in China.) Because there was no appetite among Republicans to use government to solve domestic problems, National Greatness Conservatism needed a foreign policy crisis to work. With grants from the Bradley Foundation, Kristol established the Project for the New American Century

THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... (PNAC), where in the late 1990s the doctrine of American military preemption to project American power around the globe with or without international support and the idea of deposing Saddam Hussein were developed and then road-tested in The Weekly Standard. In 1997, a Weekly Standard cover story announced SADDAM MUST GO. While denouncing the press when it suits them (Richard Perle referred to New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh as a "terrorist"), Kristol, Perle, and other neocons are renowned for their ability to "work" it. In the run-up to the Iraq war, several think tank neocons, including Michael Ledeen of AEI, employed a Manhattan media booking agency (Benador Associates) to put them on television. Appearing on NPR on September 11, 2001, following the terrorist attacks, Kristol said, "I think Iraq is, actually, the big unspoken sort of elephant in the room today." On September 20, PNAC published a letter to Bush in the Washington Times, signed by Perle, Gaffney, Bennett, Kirkpatrick, and columnists Robert W. Kagan and Charles Krauthammer, among others, calling for Saddam's overthrow. 29 In July 2002, The Weekly Standard published a piece titled "The Coming War with Saddam," providing the script for right-wing commentators. In August, George Will wrote a syndicated column pressing the case for war. Krauthammer weighed in with "The Raines Campaign," an attack on the reportage of the New York Times, under then-executive editor Howell Raines, which revealed doubts about the war felt by leading Republicans. For the next seven weeks, Krauthammer beat the war drums in every syndicated column he filed. Also in early August, Kristol's messaging was picked up by Rush Limbaugh ("We want to destabilize the Middle East") and on the FOX News Channel by Bill O'Reilly, who attacked "America's alleged allies." 30 Result 1 of 3 X

In this @bylinetimes.bsky.social piece by Nafeez Ahmed, PNAC & the neocons are shown to be back advising Trump on militarism in the Middle East.

bylinetimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Republican Noise Machine (Brock, 2004) shows neocons funded by the main Atlas donors, Murdoch, from AEI (Atlas) into WH.

As you can imagine, I agree completely. I never want to look like a (fake) conspiracy theorist but these guys keep popping up and it looks a bit conspiratorial.

It’s so grim. The inculcation of the vast majority into a state enthusiastic about apartheid and ethnic cleansing of one form or another is a horror show.

Daniel Pipes - National Conservatism Conference 2019 Daniel Pipes taught Middle Eastern and world history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, served on the Policy...

Yes but there have been Jewish Zionists gambling on that for years. You’ve seen this video clip? nationalconservatism.org/natcon-dc-20...

Yes. Have you read Crack-up capitalism

It’s wild

Any hints welcome.

opportunities served that purpose here?

🤣

As someone raised Catholic who saw the residue of the longterm perception of Catholics as a joke-fringe of the establishment, it’s been fascinating listening to 🇺🇸 Catholic (& Jewish) scholars looking at dysfunction in subsets of their cohort keen for mainstream…success? Value?
Have Atlas partner

Craven is another gumboot radical Catholic wedded to Israel only for eschatological, apocalyptic reasons. Great name; nominative determinism.

My question is who is the eagle-eyed vigilante monitoring things done by small Muslim groups and hassling ignorant politicians to punish them?

Jillian Segal's office hand-picked candidate to assess controversial university antisemitism report card Greg Craven, a former vice-chancellor of Australian Catholic University, chosen after no other bids made for the tender Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Caitlin Cassidy Education reporter Sat 7 Mar 2026 01.00 AEDT < Share G Prefer the Guardian on Google Australia's antisemitism envoy hand-picked Greg Craven to lead her controversial university report card process after receiving no response from five firms approached during an open tender process.

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Note that the man antisemitism envoy Segal picked for her uni review is linked to Atlas Network partner the Centre for Independent Studies (with his brother Peter at the IPA).

How much is the broadly AJA project integrated into 🇦🇺 Atlas partner ops?

www.cis.org.au/person/greg-...

#Auspol

Ugh!

"Violent radical leftism is on the rise and its role in Quentin Deranque's death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety," the US State Department's bureau of counter-terrorism posted on social media. Under-secretary for public diplomacy Sarah Rogers said that Washington was watching the case closely.

Note also that this American official is funnelling US cash to EU far right.

Sarah Rogers came into government from Charlie Kirk’s sphere: globalextremism.org/post/sarah-r...

Researchers on social violence in France have been quick to emphasise that far-right groups continue to perpetrate the bulk of politically motivated killings, increasingly targeting Muslims, immigrants and Jews as well as left-wing opponents. Sociologist Isabelle Sommier stressed that of the 57 deaths linked to violence between political groups recorded between 1986 and 2017, the radical right had been responsible for all but five.

france24.com Video footage shows a brief scuffle as counter-protesters tried to snatch a banner carried by Némésis activists, dragging several to the ground - a scuffle from which Deranque appears to have kept his distance. Instead, the violence that led to the 23-year-old student's death broke out hundreds of metres away from the university, on the other side of a dark tunnel burrowing under the railway tracks reaching towards the city's main train station. The moments leading up to Deranque's fatal beating are still fiercely debated, with a video published by anti-fascist site Contre-Attaque showing a group of more than a dozen armed and masked ultranationalist militants charging a group of far-left militants at the junction outside the tunnel. Subsequent footage published by Le Canard Enchaîné shows a fierce clash between a bloc of black-clad far-right militants, some armed with pepper spray, reinforced gloves, a metal crutch and a pyrotechnic flare, and a group of anti-fascist militants, largely in street clothes. Members of both groups were masked and traded blows. At one point in the video, a far-right militant ignites the pyrotechnic flare and hurls it at the head of one of his opponents. Another blasts the leftists with what seems like pepper spray as his comrades ١٠.٠

This account of the bashing death of a young white supremacist antisemite in France makes it sound like it was only v bad luck for him that he was the one to die when heavily equipped Neo Nazis attacked leftists in street clothes. Right is using it to discredit Left. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Thanks. I wasn’t going to but I always like to make a single civil response for bystanders. I’ve been sealioned one too many times.

Australia's Atlas Network partners claim Advance's victories as their own One of the panels at last weekend's Advance Australia conference exposed much about the Atlas and Mont Pelerin Society connected operations.

Anthony Klan is compiling a donor list for us, I think.

More detail on who is behind them from the Advance conference. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Never heard of it!

This is an excellent & accessible summary. Please share with your circles.
#auspol

Depends on why you oppose it. If it’s because it’s greenwashing, then no. If you believe renewables are expensive/faulty/unreliable then you may well be a victim of one of their campaign. Remember renewable energy wouldn’t make the big actors anywhere near enough 💰 to suit them.

Alex Carey: a century of business taking the risk out of democracy Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”. His Whole Foods business also asked the National Labor Relati...

You’ve probably seen my intro to the Australian sociologist who tracked the power of these propaganda campaigns run by business, think tanks, advertising councils. Others might have missed it. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/03...

Ahh yes…an apology…

Muslims Don't Matter by Sayeeda Warsi - Books Sayeeda Warsi once said that Islamophobia has passed the dinner table test. Yet many refuse to even acknowledge it exists. Muslims Don't Matter is an anatomy of a prejudice.

Tory Baroness Warsi records that some better-off British Muslim friends are preparing escape. The don’t want to be the European Jews who missed the severity of the signs & the moment to get out.
Leading #Auspol figures are on boards with the transatlantic phobes.
www.hachette.com.au/sayeeda-wars...

The Man Who Made Stephen Miller Almost 20 years ago, anti-immigration activist David Horowitz cultivated an angry high school student. Now his ideas are coming to life in the Trump administration.

This is the story of the pivotal Islamophobic (and anti-Black racist) node of the network that made Stephen Miller from an aggrieved schoolboy racist into the Nazi running the White House & its emerging archipelago of gulags. www.politico.com/news/magazin...