Biden’s transition team is filled
with war profiteers, Beltway chickenhawks, and corporate consultants
11/14/2020
KEVIN GOSZTOLA
A glance at the
Biden-Harris agency review teams should provide a rude awakening to anyone who
believed a Biden administration could be “pushed to the left.”
An eye-popping array
of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been
appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the
agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the
United States government when Barack Obama was president.
The appointments
should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration
could be pressured to move in a progressive direction, especially on foreign
policy.
If the agency teams are any indication, Biden will be firmly insulated from any pressure to depart from the neoliberal status quo, which the former vice president has pledged to restore. Instead, he is likely to be pushed in an opposite direction, towards an interventionist foreign policy dictated by elite Beltway interests and consumed by Cold War fever.