Today, June 11th, the Bush is Taking the Shirts Off Our Back to Pay For
This War (Shirts Off) Coalition opens a campaign against the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI), with a press conference to expose this
far-right think tank. AEI's current fellows include former Republican
government officials, as well as many corporate executives, such as Newt
Gingrich, Richard Perle, and former fellow, Ken Lay, of Enron. Twenty
former AEI fellows are now employed by the Bush Administration. Richard
Behan, Alternet, wrote, AEI and 2 other right-wing think tanks "crafted or
influenced virtually the entire agendas of both domestic and foreign policy
for the George W. Bush Administration."
AEI literally "houses" the notorious Project for the New American Century
(PNAC), and the Defence Policy Board, making for lots of "family ties" in
the Bush administration. AEI founded the pro-Iraq war NGO, "Committee for
the Liberation of Iraq" and holds open forums on world domination. AEI has
a "race desk" charged with popularizing unscientific and biological
determinist racial "theories" from AEI fellow Charles Murray, "Bell Curve",
(genetic explanations for poverty in communities of color), and Dinesh
D'Souza, "The End of Racism" (African-Americans should stop using
institutional racism as an 'excuse' for their 'failure' to be on par with
whites and Asians.) AEI promotes Oriana Fallaci's post 911 rant, The Rage
and the Pride: "They breed too much... At least half of the Moslem women
you see in our streets are pregnant or surrounded by streams of children."
Additionally, AEI held a seminar against funding for education, called "Are
Teachers Paid Too Little... or Too Much?", concluding that teachers are
paid too much.
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