@lucyham
Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
It seems such simple asks to us. More justice. A bit more division of the spoils. And these blighters were so appalled at that prospect, they decided to take everything and leave nothing.
(But I do have to remind myself to look under “The” as well as the initial letter. I was looking for another “the” when I found this one. 😵💫)
www.desmog.com/atlas-econom...
So on the left, you have the relevant section of the last Atlas Network list of partner orgs in 2021. On the right, you have an article from Virginia Heffernan about being invited to Epstein’s race science project. I swear to god, I don’t keep hoping for 📰 links.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
IPA was in response to a Labor victory because of course that meant communism was coming to Australia 🤣
Yes. It was drawing on several models that Alex Carey tracked emerging before the turn of the century in America in response to workers organising & the extending of the vote to the working man. 💰 was disgusted by these two threats to their freedom to exploit. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/03...
Yes. Unfortunately the man himself is still wheeled out as if his “research” didn’t depend on “studies” conducted by the Nazi-linked Pioneer Fund. The fact he was plucked from obscurity by some of the OG Atlas Network thinktanks and turned into a force by people like Murdoch so less tax 🤯🤯
Pretty factual
Yes, there's a plan for fuel crisis. The Govt spent $150k trying to stop @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI to get it. Here it is - published with link to worse case
#auspol #Iran
michaelwest.com.au/fuel-crisis-...
If you are interested in a deeper dive, Gareth Hutchens of the ABC prepared this outstanding piece putting it all in context. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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It’s absolutely connected. They claim it’s not named for her work but rather its global reach, aims. I’m sure the double meaning is there. One of the partners is the Atlas Society, dedicated to Rand. Gave Gina a lifetime achievement award (as a fellow Randian).
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.
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...
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.
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?
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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!