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For What It's Worth Just Say No To Dick & Rummy's World View "These are all the same people who were running it more than 10 years ago. ... They'll make up just about anything ... to get their way." John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War" Please consider the following articles. Gary Starkweather says that the Bush administration is making things up to get US and world opinion behind their desire for war in Lies, Lies, And More Lies. Alexei Pushkov. a Russian foreign relations expert wrote an article for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta (a Moscow newspaper) titled 'U.S. Power Politics Induce Many Countries To Go Nuclear'. It is an interesting look at the world from a perspective not often heard in this country. A prominent investment analyst named Dean LeBaron sent it to me from his chalet in Switzerland. He said "News commentary from Russia is stronger in recognizing Pax Americana as the new Roman Empire than we usually get in the American press. And Russia, with the second largest nuclear arsenal, seems more concerned than we do that treating nuclear states like Israel/Pakistan with greater respect increases the likelihood that others will push hard to become members of this club... and it may not be that difficult to buy through the black market (when I was in Russia 12 yrs. ago my guess was that the going price of a field grade nuclear device... which we have never admitted existed... was only $5 million and easily obtained)." The Article can be read here. Nelson Mandela says "the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace" in this rare interview. In a report named "Rebuilding America's Defences - Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century", prepared by supporters of Rumsfeld et al months before the 'regime change' in Washington in November 2000, the Project for the New American Century (PANC) says, "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." in describing their vision of making the Middle East a protectorate of the US. The report is available in Adobe PDF format here here. Writing about a 1992 verion of the same report named "Defense Policy Guidance", the Asia Times said, "The paper was essentially a vision of a world dominated by the unilateral use of US military power to ensure international stability, promote the US national interest, and prevent the rise of any possible challenger for the foreseeable future." The article, titled "US and the Triumph of Unilateralism", is located here The report was reincarnated this week as the "National Security Strategy of the United States" which caused Molly Ivins to write "No. This is not acceptable. This is not the country we want to be. This is not the world we want to make." She continues "The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.". The rest of this great piece is here And, in another report in June of this year, the PANC said, "Americans are powerful enough that they need not fear Europeans, even when bearing gifts. Rather than viewing the United States as a Gulliver tied down by Lilliputian threads, American leaders should realize that they are hardly constrained at all, that Europe is not really capable of constraining the United States." Gary Starkweather starts a recent leter with "The direction that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are taking us is dead wrong and extremely dangerous." and it can be read here. On July 23, 2002 Scott Ritter, prominent UN Weapons Inspect in Iran for seven years electrified a hall full of Bostonians when he said that there is no threat from Iraq to warrant an attack he expects in October. He said "this coming war is about nothing more or less than domestic American politics, based upon speculation and rhetoric entirely divorced from fact" An article about the speech written by William Rivers Pitt for Truthout.com is here. Gary Starkweather writes 'They're Lying To Us Again - In the Name Of War'. Don't you hate it when you later learn that you were duped? See the U.S. Bombing Watch log of bombing runs in Iraq by the US - more than thirty five so far this year alone. Many of them involve dozens of sorties. It is an eye-opener... The Asian times says the new war started no later than March here The reported numbers match other reports (The Guardian for example). In August, Frank Rich, a New York Times columnist, wrote: 'What's been most remarkable about the Iraq project so far is how an administration as effectively secretive as this one could spring so many leaks of invasion scenarios to the press. It strains credulity to assert that this is all an ingenious conspiracy to fake out Saddam. The leaks fake us out instead, inuring us to the new war to come. ' Here is the whole editorial. Clearly this is not about Saddam... This is Rumsfeld's War. Darth Cheney and Rummy In Space Amazingly, it doesn't stop with global domination... It goes to space in a document named U.S. Space Command Vision 2020 which glowingly pictures a weaponized sky full of satellites with a plethora of space to space and space to ground armaments. "During the early portion of the 21st century, space power will also evolve into a separate and equal medium of warfare." Pg. 4 of the report "The emerging synergy of space superiority with land, sea, and air superiority, will lead to Full Spectrum Dominance." Pg. 5 of the report This clearly violates the UN Outer Space Treaty which the US ratified in 1967 along with nearly 100 other countries around the world. It is dishonorable but not too surprising. These fellows care little about treaties in general and not a whit about the UN. "Above all, we must guard against the misuse of outer space. We must not allow this century, so plagued with war and suffering, to pass on its legacy, when the technology at our disposal will be even more awesome. We cannot view the expanse of space as another battleground for our Earthly conflicts." Kofi Annan - 1999 U.N. Conference on Space Militarization What About Iraq? First, we need to own up to the fact that we created Saddam to play against Iran in the 80's. We taught the Iragis how to make, deploy, and use WMD both biological and chemical and sold them supplies right up to and even after the Gulf War. See "How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them" from The Sunday Herald for the history. Also, US diplomatic ineptitude appears to have given Saddam a green light on Kuwait. Eight days before the invasion of 1990 at a high level meeting, the US Ambassador said ""We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America." as quoted here and discussed here. Second, we need to understand why Iraq is so crucial. Nicholas von Hoffman refers to the Herald story and points out that it really is the oil (duh!) here. The Iraqi reserves are immense and, as reported by Platts Global Energy, the Iraqi infrastructure is in complete disrepair. Iraq had been negotiating with Russia and China to help develop their oil industry until the current situation developed. It is worth mentioning that Cheney's troubled Halliburton is the world's largest oil services company and would be expected to play a very lucrative role in any western efforts (not to mention its role as a top tier military contractor in both the US and Britain). Finally, as mentioned above, Iraq is not the point, it "provides the immediate justification" of a "substantial American force presence in the Gulf" according to the PANC report. More On George W And Friends An editorial in the NY Times on September 6th Paul Krugman wrote: The Bush team's Orwellian propensities have long been apparent to anyone following its pronouncements on economics. Even during campaign 2000 these pronouncements relied on doublethink, the ability to believe two contradictory things at the same time. Read it. This story, a scoop in the San Jose Mercury News, made me wonder how the same folks could hold the highest unelected positions in government for 30 years and who's really in charge in the Executive Branch. Read Scientist's Death Haunts Family - a CIA story Gary Starkweather wrote A Call To Action which starts with: 'We are being governed by an unelected President whose administration is by any measure more extreme than any in recent memory. Decades of hard work in areas as diverse as the environment, public health, privacy, energy conservation, world peace, the elderly, women's issues, workplace safety and more have been rolled back and undone with unprecedented speed. We are being robbed.' Read the rest Beau Blue, poet, systems engineer, programmer, and really smart guy asks we 'How much trouble are we in?' and decides that "We're in it up to our eyes." and that the "The real danger is the theft of our rights." See 'How much trouble are we in?' Gary Starkweather researched and wrote "How George Put The W In Wealthy" a financial history of our President. Land Grabs In The Information Age
Dan Gillmor, a very smart reporter at the San Jose Mercury has called us to action as a people because Big Media is intent on changing our fundamental rights to peruse and use information. See 'We Must Engage In Copyright Debate' Janis Ian, Folksinger and writer feels that the whole "intellectual property" debate is silly when it comes to downloading from the Internet. See 'The Internet Debacle' "I am of neither party nor yet a trimmer between parties. I have never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson" |
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