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  Tell Bush and Congress: Hands Off Iran!   We must act now to stop another war.
December 30, 2006

As the war in Iraq drags on into a fourth brutal year, the same politicians who led the U.S. to war in 2003 are preparing for a new war --this time against the people of Iran.
Once again using the pretext of "weapons of mass destruction," the U.S. is moving the forces into place in preparation for a possible attack. The USS Eisenhower strike force, with some 800 Tomahawk cruise missiles and a fleet of bombers, has moved into the Persian Gulf. A second carrier group, led by the USS Stennis, is now steaming toward the region.  The London Telegraph reported this spring that  "a major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East." 

   
   
  The latest on Larry's lecture tour in NZ
Find out how you can help save the planet from U.S. nuclear destruction.

The Shocking Truth – Nuclear War With Iran The Talk in Cathedral Square, Christchurch
...People with impeccable credentials have written that the so-called terrorist attack on New York and the Pentagon on Sept 9, 2001 was an inside job. Also, that the so-called al-Qaeda terrorists were really pawns in a much bigger conspiracy, organised by the Bush Administration to create a new enemy and justify their global crusade and wars against terrorism.

  Key Points When Lobbying MP's and Others on:

Key Points When Lobbying MP's and Others on: (1) Keeping New Zealand Nuclear Free (2) A New Foreign Policy As Neutral Peacemaker
(3) Warning! U.S. War On Iran and “False Flag” Operations -
General objective: To help create a peaceful, prosperous, stable, just world, and solving disputes by peaceful means. Solving alleged ‘terrorist' problems by international cooperation, joint intelligence, and UN sanctioned operations – not by unilateral wars.
As 16 U.S. Intelligence agencies reported, the Iraq war makes more terrorism – not less.
Revised, improved and expanded from an interview with Murray McCulloch,
MP and National Spokesman on Defence and Foreign Affairs

   
   
  Propaganda More  Effective than Truth in US
Comment by Larry Ross
December 31, 2006

Paul Craig Roberts describes how  pro-war war propaganda has triumphed over truth and rationality the US.
Lies have become the new 'truths' of the Bush regime.
However there is still some some hope that American society will prevail over fascism. The majority of Americans voted against the Republicans in the Nov/06 elections. Also, the polls show declining popularity for Bush and his war policies.
Unfortunately the US public is poorly served with a Bush-dominated mass media. They may be fooled again with some dramatic new lies about Iran hat are intended to gain public support for a war on Iran.

  The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age
by Paul Craig Roberts
December 29, 2006

In her historical mystery, “The Daughter of Time,” Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh), has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London.  The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed on Richard III in order to justify the upstart Tudor's violent seizure of the English throne.
They makes the point that if a 20th century mystery writer can detect the truth about a 15th century murder, historians have no excuse to persist in writing in school textbooks that Richard murdered his nephews. British historians remained loyal to the Tudor propaganda long after the Tudors were no longer around to be feared or served.

   
   
  Experts Predict Iran War in 2007
Comment by Larry Ross
December 30, 2006

Dr Leupp provides an excellent analysis of the geopolitical situation and the likelihood that the US will attack Iran in 2007.
However like many other US commentators he doesn't mention Bush's probable use of nuclear weapons, or how Bush may use a 'False Flag' type of attack on the US then blame it on Iran , to justify a war on Iran . An attack would frighten, confuse and probably enflame the US public with increased hatred of Iran , thus gaining their support for the planned war in much the same way as their support was gained for the phoney war on Iraq.

  COWBOYS DIFFER ON IRAN ATTACK: BUSH/CHENEY VS. BAKER COMMISSION
by Dr. Gary Leupp
December 26, 2006

The reaction to the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report suggests that a showdown is shaping up within the U.S. power elite between two different sets of cowboys.
On the one hand, there are the George W. Bush cowboys who want to expand their conquests from Afghanistan and Iraq into Syria and Iran. It's a natural extension of the Manifest Destiny doctrine that underpinned the conquest of the"Wild West," the annexation of almost half of Mexico's territory in the 1840s, the "opening of Japan" resulting from gunboat diplomacy in 1854, the Marines' overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, and the establishment of a colonial empire from the Pacific to the Caribbean following the Spanish-American War.

   
   
  Will Age Claim Castro?
Comment by Larry Ross
December 29, 2006

Castro has done a wonderful job for the Cuban people. They know and appreciate him for it. Somehow he has dodged and/or survived the many US assassination attempts against him. Let us hope the US hasn't invented some new biochemical weapon that could be virtually undetectable and create natural-appearing deaths. Given the huge lead the US has in weapons development in many fields, one cannot logically exclude the possibility of technological advances in US  covert weaponry. Also, we cannot expect news about such hypothetical new weapons, as detection and publicity would tend to nullify the usage and effects of such weapons.

  Castro Outlives Another American President
by Alexander Zaitchik
December 27, 2006

Admire him or despise him, it's tempting to think Fidel Castro keeps a piece of polished Cuban Mahogany in his office with, as of yesterday, six marks on it -- one for each American president he has defied and survived, beginning with Dwight Eisenhower. Every president starting with Ike has presided over plots of various levels of nefariousness against Castro's Cuba, the most notorious being the Kennedy era's botched invasions, exploding clam plots and beard-melting conspiracies. But even the more benign U.S. administrations have maintained the embargo and participated in various other forms of economic subterfuge against the hemisphere's only socialist isle.

  Wayne Madsen: Gerald Ford Remembered
by Wayne Madsen
December 27, 2006

As the nation eulogizes President Gerald R. Ford, who died last night in California, no one should lose sight of the fact that it was Ford who helped launch the careers of the two ugliest faces in the George W. Bush administration. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney and Rumsfeld were deep-selected from lower-level positions in the Nixon administration and named as Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff for Ford's White House.....
Much is being made of Ford's statement in the wake of Nixon's resignation that "our long national nightmare is over." Mr. Ford's elevation of Bush, Sr., Rumsfeld, and Cheney did not end our national nightmare, it merely postponed it until January 20, 2001.

   
   
  Another Astute US Author Predicts US War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
December 28, 2006

While brilliant and very worthwhile, Marjorie Cohn also neglects to mention the techniques and circumstances the Bush regime may use to start a war with Iran with US public support.  
The result of this kind of failure by many US journalists is a people that will be fooled by a US 'False Flag' against Iran. They will then support a war on Iran because of what they have been fooled into thinking that Iran has done. It is a story of how rational intelligent thinking people can discount and/or dismiss the idea of official chicanery, even though various US Governments and their agencies have a long history of committing various nefarious schemes against other countries and governments.

  "What's Going On?" A Vietnam-Era Song Rings True Today
by Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet
December 28, 2006

In 1971, singer Marvin Gaye raised hackles when he tried to make sense of the madness of the Vietnam War by asking, "What's Going On?" ....
The song, told from the perspective of a returning Vietnam veteran, was inspired by Gaye's brother who had recently returned from that disastrous war.

...."The deaths of American soldiers now verges on the criminal."

   
   
  WILL BUSH START A WAR WITH IRAN?
Comment by Larry Ross
December 28, 2006

A number of articles are posted on our website predicting a US war with Iran . And a Google search on this subject showed 104 million articles. Searching "US Nuclear War With Iran" showed 24.7 million articles. Therefore, a lot of very thoughtful people are deeply concerned, and writing about, this subject. And there are many indications that this nightmare will begin soon, just as there were before the illegal US bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq began in 2003.
The present Bush regime has committed multiple war crimes and violations of the US Constitution. Now, with their backs against the wall, with the "Impeach Bush" movement growing, and with Bush's popularity dropping below 30%, the Bush regime may decide their only way out is to resort to even greater crimes---such as escalating the Iraq War and making a preemptive strike with mini-nukes on Iran.

  Crime Of The Century: Are Bush And Cheney Planning An Early Attack On Iran?
by Dave Lindorff
December 24, 2006

Back on October 9, I wrote in The Nation that it looked like the Bush-Cheney gang, worried about the November election, was gearing up for an unprovoked attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, with a carrier strike group led by the USS Eisenhower being ordered to depart a month early from Norfolk, VA to join the already-on-station USS Enterprise. That article was based on reports from angry sailors based on the Eisenhower who had leaked word of their mission.
There was, thankfully, no attack on Iran before Election Day, but it is starting to look like I may have been right about the plan after all, but wrong about the timing.

   
   
  Spreading The Faith in the Pentagon
Comment by Larry Ross
December 27, 2006

When Generals and Congressmen promote the Faith at the Pentagon for TV it is usually a form of messianic Christianity - the kind that believes in 'End Times' soon, and a new crusade against the unbelievers. No risk is too great nor a new insanity that nutty, that they don't embrace it in their service to the primitive God of War that they fervently believe in.  
Unfortunately that is the message being conveyed to the Islamic world by George Bush and his actual illegal wars and brutal policies toward members of the Islamic faith, and the lies he uses to justify this new Crusade.

  Generals Promote Christianity Inside the Pentagon
by Thomas D. Williams
December 26, 2006

It's a delicate and controversial question. Where does freedom to practice religion inside Pentagon offices with high-ranking Defense Department officers, congressmen and other ranking federal officials stop?
Can Army generals in uniform gather with congressmen and federal agency officials to promote the Christian faith in uniform inside the Pentagon while being videotaped by a high-powered religious organization? Can the easily accessible tape, as well as military Christian web sites, be misconstrued by Islamic extremists during wartime?

   
   
  Bush's New Lies
Comment by Larry Ross
December 27, 2006

Here are a few of Bush's new lies in Newsweek, a mainstream US weekly.
However the real continuing lies were not mentioned. Is this because Newsweek likes to pretend these old lies don't count, because so many people still believe them? Or are they too big and sensitive to mention..

  Lies and Obfuscations
by Eleanor Clift
December 26, 2006

In the spirit of holding our political leaders accountable, this year-end review will tabulate the worst lies told by Bush and company, along with several stories that were underreported in the media. Much of what was generated got lost in the fog of war, but the long arm of history will retrieve these moments. As the president said in his news conference this week, if they're still writing about No. 1 - George Washington - there's plenty of time before the historians can properly evaluate No. 43. Judging by the mess in Iraq, it could be 200 or 300 years - if ever - before Bush is vindicated.

   
   
  Bioweapons - A Little-Known But  Massive Threat
Comment by Larry Ross
December 26, 2006

Francis Boyle, a law Professor at U of Illinois, is the legal architect of the The Biological Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. He has written a vitally important book: Biowarfare and Terrorism by Francis A. Boyle, Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia, USAT It is available through: amazon.co.uk or amazon.com for US$12.95. The biological weapons threat to humanity, is as great as the growing nuclear threat as Professor Boyles book shows. Here is a review of that book.

  The Silence is Poisonous!   Bioweapons - The US government's Nuremburg Crime
by William Bowles
March 1, 2006

A criminal biological weapons programme that is a threat to the entire planet!
Review: 'Biowarfare and Terrorism' by Francis A Boyle
  Before I even begin to review this 'weapon of critical information', I urge you not only to buy it but when you've finished reading it (it's real short, so it shouldn't overly tax our attention-deficit culture), post it to your MP, Congressman, Senator, the UN, your vicar/priest/imam/holy man/rabbi; give it to your neighbour, teacher, workmate, brother, sister, mum and dad. In short, shout it out from the rooftops; that the US government is an international criminal of staggering proportions and the entire Bush administration should be indicted as war criminals and every last one locked up and the key thrown away.

   
   
  New Nuclear Arms Race
Comment by Larry Ross
December 26, 2006

This is very valuable paper because it shows how influential people and countries are using the terrorist threat to advance their ambitions to make nuclear weapons.
Also, it gives an insight into the origins of American neoconservatism and its American author Leo Strauss, whose mentor was Carl Schmitt, an infamous Nazi law professor under Hitler. Leo Strauss teachings reflected those of his Nazi mentor, and his US students are now highly placed and very influential in formulating American policies under President Bush.

  Germany debating nuclear weapons
January 28, 2006

Remember the Nazis had their law professors too. Carl Schmitt was the most  notorious Nazi Law Professor. He was mentor to and sponsor for Leo Strauss,  who founded the Neo-Conservative Movement in the United States. These Neo-Cons are Neo-Nazis. We have many of these Neo-Con Neo-Nazi Law Professors in the United States, almost all of them affiliated with the right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, sexist, warmongering and totalitarian Federalist Society. Scholz should join the Federalist Society.
He would fit right in. ...
A former top German official said yesterday that his country should
consider building a nuclear arsenal in response to the threat of nuclear terrorism, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported today.

   
   
  Salvador Option Designed to Save US
Comment by Larry Ross
December 25, 2006

There was no civil war in Iraq before.  But by using what is known as "The Salvador Option" (described below by James Brook) the US rapidly turned their illegal war on Iraq  into the civil war it is today.
The technique, used many times by the US before, particularly in South America , involves employing death squads to masquerade as the militia of the dominant faction, or as police under the direction of that faction, and murder assigned targets on the victim side.

  Talking surge
by James Brooks
December 20, 2006

‘Everyone in town is talking “surge” now,’ a Pentagon adviser explained to NPR listeners the other day, and you could almost feel the country buckle up its mind for another bloody disaster ahead. One big “final” push to defeat the popular resistance of the Iraqi people. Just to see if we can do it, before we leave. It probably won’t work, but it’s worth a try.’

   
   
  $2 Trillion War Robbery
Comment by Larry Ross
December 23, 2006

Considering the war is both preplanned and based on lies, it is a robbery on a gigantic scale. Will Bush and his collaborators get away with this $trillion gigantic fraud, and the totally unjustified mass killing of 655,000 Iraqi people and 3,000 unwitting US Servicemen who believe they are doing their duty?

  The $2 Trillion Dollar War
by Charles M. Young
December 20, 2006

When America invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration predicted that the war would turn a profit, paying for itself with increased oil revenues. So far, though, Congress has spent more than $350 billion on the conflict, including the $50 billion appropriated for 2007.

   
   
  Left Behind Game Justifies Killing for Christ
Comment by Larry Ross
December 23, 2006

This video game equates killing unbelievers with Christian morality and teachings. The game implies that it is virtuous, Christian, ethical and spiritual to vaporize in a puff of smoke anyone who does not share the destructive religious delusions of far right Fundamentalist Christians. Fundamentalists claim they are reaching out in a spirit of love to the unbelievers, so that unbelievers have a chance to convert to the one true faith, rather than be 'left behind' in the great rapture of true believers to Heaven.

  'Christian' Game Leaves Behind A Pile of Corpses
by Matt Taibbi
December 20, 2006

Left Behind: Eternal Forces allows you to command the tribulation force, uncover the truth about worldwide disappearances, and save as many people as possible from the antichrist.

   
   
  Americans Conditioned For War
Comment by Larry Ross
December 22, 2006

Americans have had four years of unjustified, illegal war for no legitimate reason or excuse. Constantly they have been bombarded by a litany of lies, war propaganda, and pro-war commentators, and democratic politicians repeating these lies.
War is the new neocon -generated reality for many Americans.

  Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit
by Robert Scheer
December 21, 2006

The Bush Administration is hooked on the drug of military might, with Gates calling for sending more troops to a war we can't win. Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House?

   
   
  Bush Empire Built on Aggression
Comment by Larry Ross
December 20, 2006

Even before he was elected in 2000, Bush and his neocons were planning wars of aggression based on lies.
However, as Bush and his collaborators are the most powerful regime in the world, it's unlikely he will ever be prosecuted by the World Court, or impeached for crimes against the US Constitution by a US court. Bush has openly sneered at international law and discarded or ignored all international treaties that interfere with his illegal wars and nuclear armaments objectives.

  War of Aggression

The crime of a war of aggression is listed in Article 5.1 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (RSICC) as one of the four most serious crimes of concern to the international community, and that it falls within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was addressed earlier by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg following World War II , which called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

   
   
  Iraq Massacre Based On Lies
Comment by Larry Ross
December 20, 2006

The following article shows a few of the lies upon which the Iraq war is based. Amazingly, some people still believe these lies even though they have been exposed as concocted to justify the war. Even more amazing is that this US-created massacre not only continues, but gets worse in spite of the known lies. The mass media have embraced the lies as their own. To my knowledge, they have never admitted they acted for the Bush Administration in relaying these lies to their readers.

 

Options After the Deconstruction of Iraq

by: Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay
December 12, 2006

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors.
[1] They are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. Wars are also waged by warlike gambling leaders who bet their citizens' lives, houses and treasure to fulfill their own megalomaniac dreams of grandeur.

   
   
  Scholars For 9/11 Truth
Comment by Larry Ross
December 16, 2006

This is one of the best sites for the scientific investigation of the 9/11 attacks on World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. It separates truth from fiction and documents what is probably the largest conspiracy in human history, and one which has the most serious consequences for humanity.
Because it is so horrific and from many perspectives seems improbable, impossible and even ridiculous, people tend to dismiss 9/11 alternative explanations without serious consideration of any of the evidence or questions raised. See also: 9/11 U.S. Attack Evidence

   
   
  Comment
December 14, 2006

George Monbiot describes "total sensory deprivation" a US technique of torture that often makes prisoners like Jose Padilla lose their minds. Jose Padilla, a US  citizen detained as an "enemy combatant" and suspected of planning to detonate a dirty bomb, was imprisoned for 3 years without any charge being laid against him. He was subjected to "total sensory deprivation”. Now...."his mind is no longer there" Monbiot wrote.
...Remember, with pre-emptive nuclear war millions can be killed in hours. The world, if it continues, will be irreparably damaged for all the time that remains.

  Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's "war on terror"
by George Monbiot
December 12, 2006

In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront.
After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators, we now discover, have found a new way of destroying a human being.

   
   
  Hitler's Lesson Ignored Again?
Comment by Larry Ross
December 14, 2006

I repeat this quote from Adolph Hitler because it seems so relevant to the tactics today of the Bush Administration. The reactions of people are much the same. It's as if nothing was learned since the Hitlerian techniques were successfully used on the German people. Why?  They may be fooled again, particularly if Bush and co unleash a 'False Flag' op, followed up with a well-planned campaign of lies, blame, pro-war propaganda and war on the accused, for the phoney alleged "False Flag" terrorist attack on the US. 

   
   
  Listing Fascist Trends in the USA
Comment by Larry Ross
December 14, 2006

Chris Floyd has written one of the great papers of our age. In a few pages he expresses the steps in the decline of US Constitutional Law; the US rise of fascist-type legislation; and why we should not expect much improvement from the new 'democratically-controlled' Senate and Congress.
I'll add a few thoughts to Floyd's brilliant analysis.

  Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat
by Chris Floyd
December 12, 2006

.... We have seen the proof of this in our time. When law - understood here as agreed-upon principles of justice and commonweal - is treated as a filthy rag or a "quaint" relic or a cynical sham by those in power, the result is an ever-growing suppuration of greed, lies, brutality and violence.

   
   
  John Pilger's 2003 Predictions Come True
Comment by Larry Ross
December 13, 2006

It's almost 4 years since John Pilger wrote this article, yet all his predictions and observations have come true. ...  Pilger's observation that the Bush regime is the "Third Reich of our times' is so very apt today.

  PILGER: BLAIR IS A COWARD
by John Pilger
January 29, 2003

William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people.
In my experience "on his hands" applies especially to those modern political leaders who have had no personal experience of war, like George W Bush, who managed not to serve in Vietnam, and the effete Tony Blair.

   
   
  Great Resources on War And Related Issues
Comment by Larry Ross
November 29, 2006

The following is a great resource for people looking for authoritative articles on US war plans, policies and related issues. Professor Chossudovsky is only one of many top analysts and writers featured.
I suggest that readers look through the many articles offered by Global Research.ca

  "Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia
October 6, 2006

The entire Middle East Central Asian region is on a war footing.

   
   
  US 'Stop War on Iran' organisation action to prevent war.
Comment by Larry Ross
November 30, 2006

This is an excellent statement and action we can use in New Zealand to help Americans stop another unjust, illegal war by the Bush Administration against a non-nuclear state. I hope NZ labour unions, groups and individuals will take advantage of this fine initiative.

  Labor Speaks Against War on Iran
November 30, 2006

The following resolution, opposing U.S. military action and threats against Iran, was passed unanimously by the San Francisco Labor Council.  
This is an important victory for antiwar activists in the labor movement.  Let's keep the momentum going --We encourage you to work to get similar resolutions passed in your unions, Labor Councils, City Councils, churches, schools, student governments, clergy associations, tenant organizations, community groups, etc.  Send us copies of the resolutions you pass--ALL these resolutions will be posted on Stop War on Iran web site. (Send them to
resolutions@stopwaroniran.org.) Help build a movement to stop a war on Iran:

   
   
  Scholarly Essay on US Fascism Growth Omits Key Factors
Comment by Larry Ross
November 29, 2006

...Hitler's Reichstag fire was a successfully planned 'False Flag' event.  The neoconservative soul of the Bush Administration has shown itself very capable of planning similar 'False Flag' events. Many think they have already demonstrated how they can make history and orchestrate their new deceitful 'truths' to suit, with the phoney  9/11 attack. Their litany of lies to justify their continuing illegal war on Iraq is another good example of their artful Machiavellian deceptions.

  It Could Happen Here
by Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto
November 27, 2006

...The fact that more is being said about fascism in America indicates that a thorough and ongoing debate is now in order. Yet discussions of this sort will inevitably take us into a virtual minefield, especially given the commonplace perception of fascism as a form of totalitarianism that occurred in the past and can never happen again....

   
   
  Links to 9/11 Conspiracy
Comment by Larry Ross
November 29, 2006

Here is another piece of the 9/11 puzzle. That Pakistan Intelligence financed the 9/11 hijackers. That the newly appointed head of the CIA Porter Goss, knew this and had close links with Pakistan intelligence. If 9/11 was a Bush Administration 'inside job', Porter Goss must have been privy to, or part, of that operation. No wonder Bush appointed him to head the CIA with overall control of a budget of 40 billion dollars for intelligence operations? For those who have studied 9/11 and concluded it must have been a Bush Administration conspiracy, the attached article by Prof. Chossudovsky makes sense and is an important part of the conspiracy.

  White House Nominee to Head the CIA has Dubious Links to the Terror Network
by Michel Chossudovsky
July 5, 2004

Two weeks before 9/11, Porter Goss, the White House nominee for the CIA Director of Intelligence was being "briefed on the growing threat of al Qaeda" (WP, 5/04/03) by a Pakistani General who "ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. "
Following George Tenet's resignation as Director of Central Intelligence at the CIA, the Bush administration immediately pointed to Rep. Porter Goss, as its handpicked nominee.
Porter Goss, a Florida Republican and former CIA operative, is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He also chaired, together with Senator Bob Graham, the Joint Senate House Committee, on the September 11 attacks.

   
   
  Permanent U.S. Bases Mean Permanent Occupation
Comment by Larry Ross
November 23, 2006

This article is particularly good because of its analysis of the Washington establishment, the probable result of the Iraq Study Group, and comments about permanent U.S. bases in Iraq, and the amazing abdication of responsibility by the Mass Media of honest coverage of the war.
On the other hand the predictions could be wrong if the Bush Administration implements its plan to make war on Iran, and escalates that into a nuclear war on Iran, leading to a general war on Islamic countries.
The possible use of a 'False Flag' operation by the Bush Administration, to incriminate Iran and justify using nuclear weapons, must also be considered.

 

Will Papa Bush's Old Pals Prolong the Iraq Occupation?

November 22, 2006

While everyone in Washington is treating Bush Senior's ally Robert Gates' Pentagon arrival and James Baker's Iraq Study Group report as godsends that will end the war in Iraq, it's quite likely that they will deploy more troops and stay there indefinitely.

   
   
  The Deadly Empire
Comment by Larry Ross
November 18, 2006

It is sickening to think thousands of mainly innocent victims have  been kidnapped by the U.S. and clandestinely transported to prisons in countries ruled by dictatorial regimes. There they are subjected to torture until they confess. These so-called confessions are usually worthless, because they are made to stop the torture. As the following article points out, the majority of victims are unaccounted for. They are believed to have been either murdered or disappeared. The Bush regime may extend and increase this practice, especially if it starts a new war on Iran. New legislation may allow Bush to apply this practice to domestic U.S. dissenters and critics of the Bush regime. At the moment the American political system and the people, seem unable to rid America of the terrorist monsters in the White House.

  Missing Presumed Tortured
By Stephen Grey
November 16, 2006

More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?

   
   
  Assassination or Suicide?
Comment by Larry Ross
November 15, 2006

There is much data on Kelly's death that suggests  he died due to foul play, rather than suicide. As the BBC repeats government lies about Iraq, and reflects it's false assumptions and views, I hope their investigative programme is not a whitewash.

  BBC reopens Kelly case with new film
By Maurice Chittenden
November 15, 2006

THE BBC is risking a new confrontation with Downing Street by launching an investigation into the death of David Kelly, the scientist at the centre of the storm over the “sexed up” dossier on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

   
   
  Torture Becoming A Part of the American Way
Comment by Larry Ross
November 15, 2006

A few weeks ago Congress passed laws which legalised the U.S. use of torture on so-called terrorism suspects At first there was some debate and resistance to Bush's torture bill. But the Senate and Congress quickly caved in and gave Bush what he wanted. Now torture is legal. For the time being it is mainly kept secret and done by U.S.-sponsored dictatorships, or client regimes in other countries. Main stream U.S. media carefully avoid the subject so a lot of Americans don't know how much about it. The following article shows how torture is becoming incorporated into American life. It is a reflection of the psychopathology of George Bush. As long as Bush remains in office, we can expect a growth in this foul and degrading practice.

  'Torture Taxis' Make Regular Stops in Las Vegas
November 10, 2006

Is torture an acceptable tactic to use in the war against terror?
The Bush Administration recently acknowledged that some forms of coercion are being used by American agents against suspected terrorists. But human rights advocates say the U.S. is actively supporting the use of more extreme techniques. And the people who are involved are making regular visits to Las Vegas.

   
   
  The Rise of Right Wing Religion in the U.S.
Comment by Larry Ross
November 14, 2006

This review of 'WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE was on an Amazon list of books and films offered for sale. It was one of the 3 million articles available from a Google search of 'MORGAN REYNOLDS'. Morgan worked most of his life in Washington and occupied many government positions. He is also professor emeritus of Texas University. He has researched and written extensively on 9/11 questions. I think most people would judge it very worthwhile if they Googled 'MORGAN REYNOLDS' and read some of his work. The power and ascendancy of the Fundamentalist Right, documented in the book reviewed below, will be of interest to those wishing to preserve our religious freedoms.

  FAHRENHEIT 9/11 to the "Christian" Right
Reviewed by mr. snrub
January 19, 2006

WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE is as invaluable a documentary as FAHRENHEIT 9/11 or BUSH FAMILY FORTUNES: THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

   
   
  Preparations For War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
November 12, 2006

....The U.S. Democrats who have just won in Congress and the Senate are unlikely to stop this war as they are deeply involved in approving the Iraq war, and either repeating or not questioning Bush lies to justify it. They are doing the same thing about the new U.S. enemy - Iran . They have also approved Bush's new nuclear doctrines, his patriot laws, his preparations for the Iran war and given him virtually unlimited power. The Democrats have proved themselves to be a weak, lily-livered and wishy-washy opposition party unwilling and unable to speak the truth about the Bush Administration and the illegal wars. There are a few exceptional and honest Democratic politicians who oppose U.S. war policies, but not enough to make much difference.

    Unleashing Armageddon in the Middle East
By Dr. Elias Akleh
November 11, 2006

In mid 1970s the American Power Elite drew a “Grand Plan” to control and to monopolize global oil and nuclear energy resources, for he who controls energy resources determines the fate of nations. The base of this “Grand Plan” is the invasion of energy rich countries to directly control their resources, and to create subservient governments that would exploit their own people as cheap labor to harvest energy for the United States.
The collapse of the Soviet Union had created a window of opportunity for the United States to ensure and to affirm its global superiority through expansion and controlling energy resources without any real opposition. The attacks of 911 were necessary requirements for the Bush administration to wage a “global war against terror” that would serve as a cover up for American hegemony. President Bush borrowed Mussolini's fascist motto of “If you are not with me, you are against me” and turned it into “You are either with us or with the terrorist” to terrorize weaker nations into accepting American expansions.

   
   
Haditha - A Symbol of Genocide
Comment by Larry Ross
November 7, 2006

The American people have been deceived and shanghaied into becoming tools of a criminal conspiracy...
What has happened to our U.S.A. that was a beacon of hope to the world's impoverished, oppressed masses? It could have led in solving the world's real problems and led humanity toward a secure, prosperous, and just world.
Instead it took another road - the road of evil and the blackest fascism and mass murder. The conspiracy has even increased its genocidal preparations with new nuclear doctrines that 'legally' allow it to wage pre-emptive nuclear slaughter of people, not by the thousand as in Iraq , but now by the million in Iran and elsewhere. The compliant mass propaganda media made sure this information, its implications, and criticism of it, was not given to the people.

Say No to U.S. War Crimes!
November 7, 2006

My Lai , Vietnam , 1968. Haditha , Iraq , 2005. Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush hate it when anyone mentions these two events — these two war crimes — in the same breath. All the more reason to examine them closely, to see that they have the same basis that they spell out the same lesson.

   
   
  U.S. Sets Up Legal Contortions To Justify Nuclear Attack
Comment by Larry Ross
November 5, 2006

The U.S. has gone to considerable lengths to set up a situation in the UN where it can claim UN approval to legally use nuclear weapons against Iran.
Professor Hirsch shows how this was done. Although it may not have been the intention of any state other than Israel to give such approval for any such action, the U.S. has an objective and a plan - and that plan includes making war on Iran . All kinds of dupliciity, chicanery and pressure has been used to achieve this end, so that they can actually argue that the UN resolution and sanctions against Iran gave them approval to use force against Iran - even nuclear weapons.

 

A Legal US Nuclear Attack Against Iran The real reason for the IAEA Iran resolution

by Jorge Hirsch
November 12, 2005

On September 24 of this year, the United States finally achieved a goal it had persistently pursued over several years. Iran was declared by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to be in "non compliance" with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The resolution passed by the IAEA is remarkably weak. It does not set a date for Iran to be referred to the UN Security Council, and it does not even mention the possibility of sanctions. It even notes that Iran has made "good progress" in correcting its "breaches," all of which date back to before October 2003. The LA Times characterized it as a " gentle slap ." It is instead an enormous thud.

   
   
  Creeping Fascism Is silence our answer to genocide?
Comment by Larry Ross
November 5, 2006

. . . Dissent and criticism of Bush will become non-existent, both because the media will suppress it and because people will be unwilling to express criticism and risk imprisonment, torture and jail.
If events unfold as now indicated, it will be a triumph of dedicated and diabolical evil, employing all the instruments of ultimate force and deception, backed by millions of duped and fearful Americans and the huge wealth and government apparatus of the state.

 

OLBERMANN PROPERLY NAMES BUSH AS AMERICA'S GREATEST THREAT


October 19, 2006

Mr Bush, your words are lies that imperil us all ~ Sadly, of course , the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you: Keith Olbermann
. . . This President now has his blank check.
He lied to get it.
He lied as he received it.
Is there any reason to even hope, he has not lied about how he intends to use it, nor who he intends to use it against?

   
   
  Nuclear Doctrines Threaten Humanity
Comment by Larry Ross
November 1, 2006

This is one of the most important papers we have ever re-printed, by a world authority on U.S. nuclear war policies, and U.S. plans to wage nuclear war on Iran . Michel Chossudovsky details the various nuclear war doctrines that are an integral part of Pentagon military options. No longer do the U.S. military consider nuclear weapons 'a weapon of last resort', likely to lead to escalation and an end to humanity.
Today they literally, have learned to 'love the bomb' and have radically changed past perceptions so that nuclear weapons have become just one of a number of military options military commanders may use in various battle situations. They allow the U.S. to suddenly launch a preemptive nuclear strike against a chosen enemy. The enemy may be non-nuclear or nuclear. Also, they claim the right to introduce nuclear weapons use into conventional military conflicts.

 

Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?

by Michel Chossudovsky
February 22, 2006

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout,  over a large part of the Middle East.
All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as "a weapon of last resort" have been scrapped. "Offensive" military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of "self-defense".

   
   
U.S. Nuclear Weapons On Iran?
Comment by Larry Ross
October 31, 2006

Although the following article is 6 months old, I felt it should be posted on our web site because it is so thorough and well-researched.
This any many other articles show there is little doubt that key Bush Administration people want to hit Iran, and reject any objections to using nuclear weapons against Iran.
Any attack on Iran would be so much against U.S. present and future interests, the Administration would have to construct an utterly false but very convincing case for such an action. They did just that for their war on Iraq and the Democrats bought it, in spite of its glaring lies. Iraq may be a quagmire, but the ruse succeeded. Their success with the Iraq deception is likely to embolden them to enact a much larger crime against Iran.
White house decisions are made by extremists with fanatical belief systems that allow them to discount national U.S. considerations. Also, one has to calculate what kind of person calculates the killing of thousands of other human beings and risks far wider war, even nuclear war, for no real reason - other than some kind of fanatical beliefs that defy reason?

Mind Games Over Iran

April 11, 2006

Three years after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, Washington is abuzz about new reports that the administration of President George W. Bush is preparing to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.
In just the past few days, lengthy articles detailing planning for aerial attacks on as many as 400 nuclear and military targets have appeared in The Washington Post , the London Sunday Times , The Forward (the main weekly of the U.S. Jewish community) and The New Yorker.
The New Yorker account, written by legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who two years ago was the first to disclose U.S. abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, was the most spectacular, although it relied heavily on unnamed sources outside the administration.

   
   
  GROWING GLOBAL MADNESS FUELED BY AN INSANE US CABAL:
by Dr Richard Franklin
October 19, 2006

NEOCONS BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN
I've often altered a famous line of Ralph Waldo Emerson, rendering it as, "Mad men are in the saddle and ride mankind." In that Emersonian context,
Canadian Professor Michel Chossudovsky, who is one of the world's premier journalists on geostrategic military matters, has written a carefully-researched article that will make your hair stand on end.
Dr. Chossudovsky tells us, "The world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history." At first glance, that resonates like the muckraking headline on a copy of the National Enquirer, but this article is neither tabloid sensationalism nor a fabrication. It's an exposition of numerous hard realities that the world is now facing.

   
   
 

At Last, A Real Man With The Guts and Sense to Tell The Truth - General Sir Richard Dannatt -
What a breath of fresh air - the tide is turning!! My faith in my fellow countrymen is restored.
But why should it be so sensational to see the obvious and tell the truth?
Will this courageous man now be sacked and replaced by a "yes minister" man for doing his moral duty and exposing the corrupt Bush puppets?
The British media have done such a good job of repeating Bush and Blair lies for so long that even they have convinced themselves of their own propaganda. May be we can get the New Zealand media to open their eyes.   Comment by Anna Allan, October 13, 2006

 

Army chief called in to explain 'quit Iraq' appeal

by Michael Evans & Sam Coates
October 13, 2006

TONY BLAIR'S foreign policy was in tatters last night after the head of the Army said that the continued presence of British troops in Iraq was responsible for bloodshed at home and abroad.

 

"U.K. Making Iraq Worse"

Sky News
October 13, 2006

"The presence of the British troops in Iraq is making the situation there worse" the Head of The British Army said.
General Sir Richard Dannall's sensational attack comes only shortly after he took over as Chief of The General Staff.

 

Armed Forces 'Cowed Into Silence'

October 9, 2006

Blair's wars have been marked by shameless attempts to stifle voices from the frontline. We have a right to hear them.
The fifth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan has been marked by two significant statements from the British government. Tony Blair said that soldiers resent relentlessly sceptical coverage of the struggle: "They get fed up, as does everyone else, when it is all presented in a negative light."

  See Also Times on Line- Iraq for other related stories AND "These men risk their lives and are paid less than cleaners!"
   
  Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle against the 9/11 Big Lie
By Kevin Barrett mujca
Posted October 11, 2006
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Bound Galley Advance Review Version. Topics: 9/11, academic freedom, conversion to Islam, autobiography, humor, autobiography, false-flag terror, bigotry, media bias, return to American ideals “Kevin Barrett is the Michael Moore of 9/11 truth.” – Michael Moore “Michael Moore is Kevin Barrett for 9/11 wimps.” – Kevin Barrett
   
   
  Ambling towards Disaster; Bush's North Korea Policy
By Mike Whitney
October 9, 2006

It took 6 years of relentless threats, sanctions and belligerence, but Bush finally succeeded in pushing Kim Jong-Il to build North Korea's first nuclear bomb. Now, Kim can just add a few finishing touches to his ballistic-missile delivery system, the Taepo-dong ICBM, and he'll be able to wipe out the 9 western states with a flip of the switch.

   
   
  Bush's Nuclear Apocalypse
By Chris Hedges
October 9, 2006

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

   
   
 

Wars and propaganda machines

By Rodrigue Tremblay
October 9, 2006

Propaganda machines are dangerous, even more so in a democracy than in a totalitarian regime, because their goal is to confuse, disinform, lie, raise fear and manipulate the opinions of the people.

   
   
  Indictment of "Stay the Course Strategy In Iraq"
Comment by Larry Ross
October 9, 2006

This is a very important factual paper that shreds Bush's "Stay the Course" argument for keeping his Iraq war going. Seeing as the war is a fraudulent construction by Bush neoconservatives in the first place, this paper only deals with the results of the fraud, and then produces arguments why this war should not be kept going. It's a very good argument for that alone.

 

The Insanity of 'Staying the Course' in Iraq

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
October 9, 2006

At this point, the only people left who think that the U.S. must 'stay the course' in Iraq are Bush's neocons and al Qaeda.
As the bodies pile up in Iraq, new polls show that most Iraqis want us out of their country, and they want us out soon. At the same time, Al Jazeera acquired a letter believed to be from a high-ranking al Qaeda operative that shows that our worst enemies think a protracted occupation of Iraq is "the most important thing" for the future of their cause.
Yet the Bush administration and its mouthpieces insist that we must "stay the course" in Iraq -- either to bring stability to the war-torn country or out of some misguided belief that we can salvage America's dignity from an embarrassing Vietnam-style defeat.

   
   
  U.S. Nuclear Attack on Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
October 8, 2006

Ex-U.S. Senator Gary   Hart claims Bush will launch "a preemptive war against Iran " this month before the November Congressional elections in the U.S.
The present predictions are that the Democrats would win enough seats to take control of the House, thus upsetting the Republican majority and perhaps preventing the more extreme war plans of the Bush Administration. The Bush neoconservative regime is determined to prevent that and reverse public opinion so that the Republicans will retain control. 
Will the Bush Administration rely only on lies and false propaganda, as Gary Hart's article implies, to justify preemptive war against Iran?
Or will Bush stage a 'False Flag' so-called 'terrorist attack' on the U.S. and blame Iran , in order to justify the use of nuclear weapons?

  Bush - Divine Guidance?
Comment by Larry Ross
October 7, 2006

Here is an article which gives more in-depth information about one of the themes in my NZ Tour talk - the influence of religious beliefs on Bush's foreign policy decisions. Also, "The October Surprise " may include a "False Flag" operation to gain public support for war with Iran and give a boost to Bush's and Republican Party popularity, for the Nov U.S.  elections, as detailed in my talk. It's very much like Adolph Hitler having the Reichstag burned down 3 days before the 1933 German elections, in order to get popular approval and Hindenberg's agreement to sign papers doing away with civil rights and allowing the installation of Hitler's dictatorship. At the moment, NZ might follow the U.S. lead, due lack of public education about this possibility.
(Note: Google "False Flag" for more information on the extent of various Governments use of FF)

 

The October Surprise

By Gary Hart, HuffingtonPost
October 3, 2006

It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.
Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times.
And we do not have a government much concerned with our national character. If anything, our current Administration is out to remake our national character into something it has never been.

   
   
  Two Bombshell Books Aired on TVNZ's Close Up
October 4, 2006

American Politics - Bob Woodward
Two bombshell books just published in the US have questioned the Bush administration's credibility and threaten to rock next month's mid-term elections in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The first is by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post journalist who broke the Watergate Scandal.
Called 'State of Denial' it comes to a damning conclusion: that President Bush has failed to tell the American people the truth over Iraq.
Woodward spent two years on the book and interviewed more than 200 people for it, including most of the top officials in the Bush administration.
On CNN'S Larry King programme Woodward revealed yesterday that secret reports directly contradict what Bush has been telling the American people and the world.
(Note: VIDEO FOR THIS ITEM IS NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE).

 

Susan Wood talks to Author Karen DeYoung

On Close Up
October 4, 2006

Washington Post  journalist Karen DeYoung's biography " Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell "  is out October 10 and in it DeYoung says former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President Bush he was facing a difficult insurgency in Iraq in their final meeting in January last year.
DeYoung says Bush was dismissive and unconcerned about Powell's warnings, just as he had been much of Powell's advice for the previous four years.
Like Bob Woodward's book " State of Denial " DeYoung's biography is out just in time for the November 7 House of Representative elections. She talks to Susan Wood about why Colin Powell departed and discusses her book and Woodward's.

   
   
  U.S. Moves Closer to Fascism
Comment by Larry Ross
October 3, 2006

The following article by Richard Franklin goes a long way toward describing the rapid decline toward a U.S. version of fascism; the new fascist type of laws; and the growing dictatorial powers of .President Bush. More than anything it shows how easily Americans can be persuaded to give up their hard-won rights and freedoms and be herded toward a Orwell world.
Even the neocon Bush regime must be amazed at how easy it has been to convert America. Bush is working toward an authoritarian control over the American population.

 

ARE WE ENTERING AMERICA'S DARKEST HOUR?

By Richard Franklin
October 3, 2006

I BELIEVE THIS DIRECTIVE IS A SERIOUS WARNING.
CONSIDER THAT BUSH WILL NOW HAVE THE POWER TO DECLARE ANY DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN AMERICA AN 'ENEMY COMBATANT' AND THEN DISAPPEAR HIM OR HER FOREVER.  
BE HONEST ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY.

   
   
 

MUJCA News: BBC, WI, alternative media cover UW 9/11 lecture!

By Kevin Barrett
October 2, 2006

Mainstream media coverage of 9/11 truth events is rarely what it should be, as I have complained on more than one occasion (like here, here, and here). But I have to admit that the local media did a pretty good job covering the recent U.W.-Madison event “9/11: Folklore and Fact.” Once again, the  left-liberal-leaning Capital Times led the way with a balanced, accurate, elegantly-written article, while  the conservative Wisconsin State Journal and Badger Herald also produced good, balanced articles. Here they are, along with the text of my talk “A Folklorist Looks at 9/11” and the wonderful pieces from 911blogger and Gaelic Starover. The BBC documentary on “9/11 conspiracy theorists” is due for broadcast in January.

   
   
  MORE STEPS TOWARD U.S. FASCISM
Comment by Larry Ross
October 1, 2006

Chris Floyd in Nov 2001, wrote "of Bush's claim that he could not only declare anyone on earth an "enemy combatant" and jail them forever in black holes without charges, but he could have them summarily killed.....these were claims being made openly and proudly by "Senior Administration officials". Now the laws are before Congress. If Americans value their freedoms and liberties, the Congress will reject this law. Particularly because Bush's wars on terror - used to justify this latest attack on the American people, is based on a tissue of lies. The new laws can be used against any U.S. citizen who opposes and exposes his new fascist laws.

 

Finally Standing Up as the Republic Crashes Down

By Chris Floyd
September 28, 2006

So the New York Times has finally roused itself and laid out the straight facts about the presidential tyranny that has been erected around the pathetic figure of George W. Bush: Rushing Off a Cliff The Times is to be lauded for this eloquent and powerful depiction of our degraded political state, and you should read it in full. But a few vital points must mitigate our praise of this otherwise remarkable editorial.

   
   
  Understanding the Death of U.S. Liberalism
Comment by Larry Ross
September 22, 2006

For a long time I've wondered why, in the home of freedom and democracy, there is not more outraged liberal reaction to the phoney and contrived "wars on terror".
After reading Tony Judt's article, I now understand. It will not be surprising if Bush succeeds in converting America into a fascist state in all but name. That is because there does not appear to be much intelligent opposition to Bushism. Tony mentions so many prominent liberals who have quickly converted to defending and justifying Bush war madness against the newly coined but non-existent 'Islamo-fascism'.

 

Bush's Useful Idiots

Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America
September 21, 2006

Why have American liberals acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy? Why have they so little to say about Iraq, about Lebanon, or about reports of a planned attack on Iran? Why has the administration's sustained attack on civil liberties and international law aroused so little opposition or anger from those who used to care most about these things? Why, in short, has the liberal intelligentsia of the United States in recent years kept its head safely below the parapet?

   
   
  U.S. Torture and False Imprisonment Is A Policy
Comment by Larry Ross
September 21, 2006

One can assume that the Bush regime is aware that his Iraqi Command says that 18,770 Iraqis have been released since June 2004. US officers told the International Red Cross that 70 to 90 percent of the Iraqi detentions were "mistakes".
Also, it is well established that torture does not produce reliable information. So in addition to moral, ethical and legal considerations, there is no practical advantage in torturing one's victims. Also Bush's torture policies makes enemies and turns the U.S. into an international pariah.
So what's the point of his torture policies.?

 

Bush's Cruel and Degrading Presidency

By Mike Whitney
September 19, 2006

Washington is a moral swamp. When the chief executive can stand at the presidential podium and make an unabashed appeal for torture, then the American dream is dead.
Bush hates America and only God knows why? He's been buoyed-along his entire life on a raft of wealth and privilege; distancing himself from his endless failures, one after the other…flop, flop, flop. Still, Bush wants more; another pound of flesh to inflate his battered, alcohol-saturated ego. He wants to snuff out anything that even vaguely resembles honor or decency or dignity so he can permeate the world with his own fiendish image beaming from TVs across the globe.

   
   
  Bush's Messianic Mission To Make War On Iran
Comment by Larry Ross
September 21, 2006

According to Seymour Hersh, Bush has a messianic mission - making war on Iran. The pretext, as we learned from Bush's war on Iraq, is that his neocon administration creates it's own pretexts for war, by stringing together a fabric of lies, and demonizing the leader of the target nation.
Even if Iran had or was planning to make nuclear weapons, that does not give Bush & Co the right to wage pre-emptive war against it. Does the U.S. make war on Israel, because Israel has an arsenal of 200-500 nuclear weapons?. It does not, nor does it make war or threaten sanctions against any of the other nuclear weapon states -Russia, China, Britain, France, Pakistan, North Korea, India. So why would Bush risk starting a major war in the Middle East - even a nuclear war -  that could escalate and end the world?.

 

Hersh: U.S. mulls nuclear option for Iran

Wolf Blitzer from CNN
April 10 , 2006

HERSH: The word I hear is "messianic." He thinks, as I wrote, that he's the only one now who will have the courage to do it. He's politically free. I don't think he's overwhelmingly concerned about the '06 elections, congressional elections. I think he really thinks he has a chance, and this is going to be his mission.

   
   
  U.S. Attack Iran War Plans
Comment by Larry Ross
September 19, 2006
Time Magazine accepts and repeats the lies, false assumptions, omissions of facts and sheer phoniness, of the Bush Administration.
The following is a good example.
 

Time: This is how US will attack Iran

By Yitzhak Benhorin
September 18, 2006

....And while the US is exerting diplomatic pressure, the Pentagon is preparing for a possibility that US President George W. Bush will eventually instruct the army to attack Iran.

   
   
  Torture is Neocon Policy
Comment by Larry Ross
September 19, 2006

Torture is part of the strategy of the Neo-conservative Bush regime.
They know very well that it does not produce reliable intelligence. The reasons are given by Paul Craig Roberts in his article which follows. So why do they do so much of it, thus besmirching the U.S. reputation., US Constitution and the Geneva Accords?

 

War Criminal at Bay

By Paul Craig Roberts
September 18, 2006

President George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he elevated to power and by his Attorney General, Torture Gonzales who gave him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at the expense of America's reputation and our soldiers' fate.
....
President Bush has given no thought to the impact on America's reputation of his strident campaign to write torture into US law. He has given no thought to what saving himself means for captured US troops if the US government guts Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

   
   
  Comprehensive Theory of 9/11 and War On Terror Frauds
Comment by Larry Ross
September 17, 2006

This is a well-documented article by Dick Fojut which exposes some of the details of what may be the biggest fraud in history.
It is one of a growing number that examine the proposition that the Bush Administration staged a "False Flag" operation to create a "Pearl Harbour" in the U.S. and then blamed what it called  "Islamic terrorists" for this crime. After the alleged 9/11 crime, 7 of the 19 so-called "terrorists" were found alive and well by British newspapers and the BBC in 2001. Most U.S. and allied media neither reported nor followed up on this story.

 

FIVE CRITICAL REASONS TO THROW ALL THE REPS AND DEMS OUT OF CONGRESS

by DICK FOJUT
September 15, 2006

... ALMOST EVERYONE in Congress naively swallowed our government's 9/11 ("False Flag") fiction by blaming "19 MUSLIM HIJACKERS", evidently ignorant of the fact that SEVEN of the FBI-identified 19 were found alive and well by British newspapers later in Sept. 2001! At least 7 of the FBI-accused "dead" hijackers were never on the 4 planes!

   
   
  False Flag Operations: Are They The Secret of the Bush Empire?
Comment by Larry Ross
September 12, 2006

I have been studying American foreign policy for over 50 years and I think the following article by Barrie Zwicker is one of the most disturbing I have ever read on this subject. ...
... It's like having the evil and deluded Rev Jim Jones of the Jonesville massacre, now in charge of the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world. ...
... There may not be much time left before the Bush Regime creates an excuse for their next war, probably against Iran. New Patriot-type laws, martial law and conscription could then halt and suppress any dissent. Concerned people should act now as tomorrow may be too late.

 

False Flag Operations: Declassified Military Documents Show How

from Fred Burks
September 7, 2006

US Government Planned Terrorist Attacks Against its Own Citizens
As reported by ABC News, stunning military documents codenamed "Operation Northwoods" were declassified in recent years and show how in 1962, the top US military leaders planned an operation to create terror attacks against its own cities and kill US citizens.

   
   
  Another US Republican says 9/11 was a Hoax
Comment by Larry Ross
September 7, 2006

... If people wish to avoid the very,very disastrous consequences of this scenario, they will have to act now to get rid of the Bush neocon administration. It is unlikely they will be able to act, or be effective, after the Bush Administration begins these last extreme stages of it's plan.

 

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

August 24, 2005

A Republican candidate for this area's congressional seat said Wednesday that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In an editorial board interview with The Telegraph on Wednesday, the candidate, Mary Maxwell, said the U.S. government had a role in killing nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, so it could make Americans hate Arabs and allow the military to bomb Muslim nations such as Iraq.Maxwell, 59, seeks the 2nd District congressional seat. The Concord resident opposes the incumbent, Charles Bass of Peterborough, and Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson in the Republican primary Sept. 12.

   
   
  War IS Terrorism
Comment by Larry Ross
September 7, 2006

I saw films tonight about the U.S. bombardment, destruction and occupation of a small city in Iraq - Fallujah The suffering victims expressed themselves on film. Their homes had been bombed and shelled by the U.S. - the woman and children wounded and killed. The Americans blocked their exit roads from the city. It was Bush, Neo-conservative Terrorism on a grand scale. It wasn't so a much war, as an 'Only Made In America' slaughter house

 

War is not a solution for terrorism

By Howard Zinn
September 3, 2006

THERE IS SOMETHING important to be learned from the recent experience of the United States and Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only morally reprehensible, but useless in achieving the stated aims of those who carry them out.
The United States, in three years of war, which began with shock-and-awe bombardment and goes on with day-to-day violence and chaos, has been an utter failure in its claimed objective of bringing democracy and stability to Iraq. The Israeli invasion and bombing of Lebanon has not brought security to Israel; indeed it has increased the number of its enemies, whether in Hezbollah or Hamas or among Arabs who belong to neither of those groups.

   
   
  Clash of Cultures?
Comment by Larry Ross
September 5, 2006

It is essential to the fulfillment of the Bush Neo-con plan, and the benefit of his many cronies in the U.S. military-industrial complex and oil industry, that they create a credible enemy that can be goaded into resistance and acts of terrorism against U.S. and U.K. neo-Imperialism.
All acts of resistance to U.S. or Israeli illegal wars and occupations in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine or any other country, especially those with oil resources that Bush Neo-cons covet, must be portrayed to the public as acts of terrorism probably committed by Muslim fanatics, suicide bombers and Islamic fascists. In creating his enemies, Bush warns Americans "you are either with us or with the terrorists".

 

The Clash of Civilizations Doesn't Exist... Yet

By Joshua Holland
September 1, 2006

According to some of our more serious hawks, anyone who doesn't buy that the liberal democracies of the West are engaged in a death-match with hordes of dusky Muslim fanatics is "unserious" about America's security and can't be trusted.
It's the latest in a series of attempts to forestall any meaningful discussion of the causes of violent Islamist ideologies, much less how the United States should respond to them. It locks us into the global "war on terror."
Unfortunately, all too many otherwise sane people seem to accept the terms.

   
   
  Making War On A People
Comment by Larry Ross
September 3, 2006

Throughout the Israeli offensive against Lebanon, Israel has claimed this is in retaliation against Hezbollah for capturing 2 Israeli soldiers. Only Hezbollah they claim. In fact they attacked a well-known and marked UN observation post. This killed 4 UN staff even though the staff had been in regular contact with Israel forces warning that the Israeli bombs were getting closer to the base.
Israel did not stop, but continued bombing until they killed the UN officers. They then rubbed in the outrageous crime by attacking the rescue mission. This was a deliberate attack on the UN by Israel, which Israel then claimed was a mistake.

 

US media: Israel's 'shocking' use of cluster bombs not newsworthy

August 31, 2006

The UN recently reported that they have "identified 359 cluster bomb strike locations with as many as 100,000 unexploded bomblets" in southern Lebanon. Amazingly, 90% of the bombs were dropped in the final 72 hours of the war. They also report that it can take years to clean them up and innocent civilians are being killed and wounded by these munitions every day.

   
   
  Amnesty: Israel Committed War Crimes
Comment by Larry Ross
September 2, 2006

We should also recognise that both the U.S. and Israel are prepared to resort to the use of nuclear weapons in their conquest. A careful analysis of the military situation and relevant papers on both our web site and others, would tend to support this finding.
I don't think people should lose sight of these factors in their attempts to stop this criminal madness before it becomes uncontrollable. 

 

Amnesty: 'Israel committed war crimes'

by Doug Lorimer
August 30, 2006

On August 23, human rights group Amnesty International accused Israel of committing war crimes. Amnesty said that the pattern and scope of Israel's bombing campaign in Lebanon, statements by Israeli officials and the scale of damage inflicted on civilian infrastructure “indicated that such destruction was deliberate and part of a military strategy, rather than 'collateral damage'”.

   
   
  MUJCA - Pioneer 9/11 Truth Seeker
Comment by Larry Ross
August 18, 2006

We hope against hope, that the truth will come out in time to galvanize people into stopping the Bush Neocon machine before it starts escalating wars that may destroy humanity. 
The following MUJCA magazine is very comprehensive and well worth a browse and a read. It has a mountain of evidence refuting the Bush machine myths, and pointing toward gaps that need exploring or further verification. Welcome to MUJCA

   
   
  Massive Evidence Exposes Govt. 9/11 Myths
Comment by Larry Ross
August 17 , 2006

I have read MUJCA' articles and believe they are outstanding and very relevant. They add a lot of evidence to what we have been saying for a few years. Finally a significant number of people are joining the dots and coming to the obvious conclusions.

 

MUJCA News

by Kevin Barret
August 15, 2006

The book that triggered the Kevin Barrett controversy--and will be assigned reading in Barrett's classes at U.W.-Madison and Edgewood College--is now available for pre-order on Amazon!

   
   
  The Road to Guantánamo
This Film Showing in NZ in July & August, 2006

The true story of four British Muslim boys who went to Pakistan for a wedding in September 2001 and ended up as tortured prisoners of the US Army is re-enacted as a modern horror story in Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' electrifying exposé.

 

 

  Zionism Influences Most Of U.S. Foreign and Military Policy
Comment by Larry Ross
August 16, 2006

The following essays show just how much Israeli thinking and influence has permeated American culture and policy.
Neo-conservatives with a strong pro-Israel bias create the policy papers which influence American thinking.  Powerful well-funded, pro-Israeli lobby groups, with direct links to Israel and to Washington, lobby and donate to politicians that influence U.S. policy decisions. There is a well-known mass media bias for pro-Israel and pro-Israeli war articles. Israel has become a shining Beacon to the Bush Administration as it leads the way into the Middle East and disaster for millions of people. These essays explore the issues.

  IF AMERICANS KNEW: WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT ISRAEL/PALESTINE
August 15, 2006

by Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
... THE MORAL OF THE STORY. In the morally-twisted worldview of the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis, some people are as if gods, whereas other people just don't matter. However, we can challenge their primitive tribalistic "us versus them" mentality, help cure the world's ills, and uplift humankind, by adopting the three-step global ethics:

   
   
  Planned War With Lebanon Before It's Soldiers Were Captured
Comment by Larry Ross
August 15, 2006

... The cost? Hundreds of Lebanese civilians and Hezbollah soldiers killed and wounded and some hundred Israeli soldiers. Billions of dollars worth of Lebanese property and infrastructure by Israeli bombs.. And the captured Israeli solders?
Still held by Hezbollah.

  WATCHING LEBANON - Washington’s interests in Israel’s war
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
August 14, 2006

In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. “It’s a moment of clarification,” President George W. Bush said at the G-8 summit, in St. Petersburg, on July 16th. “It’s now become clear why we don’t have peace in the Middle East.” He described the relationship between Hezbollah and its supporters in Iran and Syria as one of the “root causes of instability,” and subsequently said that it was up to those countries to end the crisis. Two days later, despite calls from several governments for the United States to take the lead in negotiations to end the fighting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a ceasefire should be put off until “the conditions are conducive.”

   
   
  U.S. Expert's Background on Lebanon and Hezbollah
Comment by Larry Ross
August 9, 2006

....Rather than welcoming Hezbollah's important shift away from the use of terrorism to advance its political agenda, however, the Bush administration and Congress?in apparent anticipation of a U.S.-Israeli assault against the group and its supporters?instead became increasingly alarmist about the supposed threat posed by this Lebanese political party. And, given the refusal by the Lebanese government to ban the political party and their inability to disband the militia, the United States has given Israel the green light to attack not just Hezbollah militia, but the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon as well."

  Was Hezbollah a Legitimate Target?
by Stephen Zunes
August 8, 2006

...While Hezbollah's ongoing rocket attacks on civilian targets in Israel are indeed illegitimate and can certainly be considered acts of terrorism, it is important to note that such attacks were launched only after the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on civilian targets in Israel began July 12.

   
   
  A Comprehensive Look At The 9/11 Attack Fraud
Comment by Larry Ross
August 8, 2006

Here is a large compilation of articles on the 9/11 attack. Supposedly by Muslim terrorists, the articles give detailed evidence that the Bush Administration did an "Operation Northwoods" attack on the U.S. public to get their support for the wars against the newly minted enemy "war on terrorism". For the moment, the old Communist enemies have been relegated to retirement.
I hope I am terribly wrong in my conclusions. The implications if I and others are right are at least, a new Dark Ages for the human race. But like many other civilisation, we also might destroy ourselves and the world in a global holocaust.

 

South Tower NAPALM BOMB: 5 Views

From Jon Carlson
August 8, 2006

If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind bars.
- Andreas von Bülow, former German government minister and author of "Die CIA und der 11. September"

There's too much evidence to ignore the danger to the whole world - wake up before it's too late!!!

   
   
  Lebanese Ex-P.M. Calls Bush "Terrorist"
Comment by Larry Ross
August 8, 2006

Every day it becomes clearer that the U.S. and Israel are engaging in a joint war on Muslim countries in the middle east. Israel's assault on Lebanon is the latest example. Bush & Co. are acting for Israel diplomatically, justifying all it's atrocities, while blocking an effective U.N. resolution and action.
Today, Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert called on all Jews to unite behind Israel "which was fighting for it's life" and prepare for more sacrifices.
How could anyone believe such falsehoods? Israel is the strongest power in the middle east with enough nuclear firepower to annihilate any state that dared attack it. With it's 200-500 nuclear weapons, Israel could destroy most of the world. Nevertheless enough people will believe this pro-war rubbish and propaganda and support Israel's war. This will make it possible for Olmert to continue his unprecedented barbarism.

  "If this is not terrorism, what is?"
By Salim al-Hoss
August 3, 2006

An open letter to the American president :
Dear Mr. Bush,
We heard you express your regrets regarding the casualties of Israel's ravaging war against my country, Lebanon.
I hope you have been furnished with a true profile of the atrocities being perpetrated in my country. You pose as being at war with terrorism. Let me honestly tell you: Charity starts at home.

   
   
  "Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire"
August 6, 2006

Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He frequently travels and offers reflections on organizing and the state of America's soul....

   
   
  D.U. Weapons Dust: With us Forever
August 3, 2006

D.U. weapons radiation, being spread by the US and UK in Iraq, and now in Lebanon, has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
Wind currents will carry it around the world. The more DU weapons are used the more people will become radiated, diseased and die - not just in the countries where it is directly used - but eventually it will contaminate and kill everywhere.. The Pentagon assures everyone it is safe. They are fully aware that they are lying. Without doubt this is one of George Bush's most terrible war crimes. .

  The Global Threat of DU
by Dr Robert Anderson
August 2, 2006

Adding to the horrors of the current offensive into Lebanon, with Afghanistan close to anarchy and Iraq drifting into civil war, Bush is now rushing depleted uranium (DU) bombs to Israel. This supports their colossal act of homicide and will increase further global contamination by radioactive DU particles.

   
   
  Israeli Propaganda Urgently Requires Corrective Education
Comment by Larry Ross
July 27, 2006

I would rate Israel's false propaganda among the most deceptively effective in the world. Israel manages to get top politicians singing it's song.
The facts do not seem to matter much. Opposition to Israeli aggression in Western countries is sporadic and misinformed. This is at least partly due to Israel's success in embedding their ban, that opposition to Israeli aggression is equivalent to "anti-Semitism" "anti-Zionism" "anti-Israeli prejudice" etc.

  Five Myths That Sanction Israel's War Crimes
By Jonathan Cook
July 26, 2006

This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist” who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against American professors who have the impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs have minds and feelings like the rest of us.

   
   
  Essential Reading: Background To U.S.- Iran Dispute
Comment by Larry Ross
July 27, 2006

For a more comprehensive understanding of U.S. policy on Iran, and Iran's offers of concessions to meet U.S. concerns, the following May 27 article is essential reading.

  Iran, Israel And Nuclear Weapons
by Ethan Heitner
May 26, 2006

Iran experts at the State Department had been working throughout 2001 on increasing relations with Mohammed Khatami's Iran. Post 9/11, they immediately realized the strategic value of working with Iran against a common enemy?al-Qaida.

   
   
  U.S. Support for Israeli Wars
Comment by Larry Ross
July 26, 2006

.... If only they would tell their readers about the PNAC papers that called for U.S. domination of middle east oil resources.

  Neocons looking to expand Israel-Hezbollah war
August 4, 2006

Sidney Blumenthal's latest article claims that the NSA is working with Israel to "monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments to Hezbollah." He describes his source as "a national security official with direct knowledge of the operation."

   
   
  U.S. and Israel Step Up War On Muslim Nations
Comment by Larry Ross
July 24, 2006

The following 3 articles provide an account of the issues and background to the Israeli offensive against Lebanon.
As the New York Times reported, the Bush Administration has sent Israel a large order of precision bombs to use in this offensive. Bush also blames Hezbollah for the huge Israeli assault, because they captured 3 Israeli soldiers. He justifies this grossly disproportionate Israeli response and the invasion of Lebanon and blocks any effective international action to stop it.

  The Power Of Arrogance:
July 19, 2006

Israel Violates U.S. Law On Weapons In Mideast

   
   
 

Top Republican Claims Bushcons Organised 9/11 Attack

Comment by Larry Ross
July 17, 2006

Morgan Reynolds joins a growing group of well-known Americans who have exposed the truth that the 9/11 attack was an inside job. The attack's purpose was to persuade Americans that this was a new "Pearl Harbour" attack on the U.S.A. Then the Bush Administration with media cooperation used that attack to fool Americans into supporting a "war on terrorism" and specific wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and in the future, other targets. The object, as indicated in the neocon PNAC papers, was to start up a "long war" in the Middle East - to conquer the territory - and control the world's oil resources.

  Media hide the truth: 9/11 was inside job
by Kevin Barrett
May 14, 2006

Last Saturday, former Bush administration official Morgan Reynolds drew an enthusiastic capacity crowd to the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium. It is probably the first time in Historical Society history that a political talk has drawn a full house on a Saturday afternoon at the beginning of final exams.
Reynolds, the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and the ex-top economist for George W. Bush's Labor Department, charged the Bush administration with gross malfeasance, and proposed the prosecution of top administration officials.

  Conspiracy and Closed Minds on 9/11
by Morgan Reynolds
March 13, 2006

While more Americans doubt the 9/11 story every week, evidence abounds that many have a mental block against rational examination of the evidence about 9/11. The possibility that it was an inside job is a non-starter for them. Programmed “cut outs” insure that 9/11 doubts are consigned to the “conspiracy” closet.
Last June I was explaining the fuss over my 9/11 article to a family member who shall remain anonymous and he interrupted and said, “I don't want to talk about it.” Millions join him in that sentiment. By implication they might as well say: “I'd rather cling to the official 9/11 myth” = “If mass murderers run free, I'm fine with that” = “If 9/11 was an inside job, then I'm ruled by monsters and I might have to do something about it, I'd rather watch Paris Hilton.”
Where does this passive attitude come from? Causes are many but American indoctrination has two sides that figure prominently in the explanation:

   
   
  Can We Win Against Bush Empire?
Comment by Larry Ross
July 17, 2006

Morgan Reynolds, past member of the Bush Administration, now exposing the crimes of that Administration, claims we can win against the huge power of the Bush Administration. As he points out, many powerful government agencies are helping Bush commit his crimes. They are deeply involved and have a strong incentive to keep on with the act at whatever cost. Will they suddenly be appalled at what they have been lured into and turn honest?
Let's hope so and Reynold's faith that enough will talk to impeach Bush is inspiring.

  The Risk of Winning:What Happens Once the 9/11 Sewer Opens Wide?
by Morgan Reynolds
April 9, 2006

I have begun receiving a handful of emails and questions from callers to radio interview shows that worry about our forthcoming victory in the 9/11 information war! What will happen once the 9/11 traitors are exposed, goes the lament, and an outraged public demands a pound of flesh from each conspirator? Scary huh?

   
   
  Many are Whispering: Is Bush Insane?
Comment by Larry Ross
July 8, 2006

...t's not just the Americans that are in trouble. If he brings on a nuclear war Bush can achieve a nuclear Armageddon. That is "God's will". He says so in the Bible according to millions of Fundamentalist Christian Americans who are looking forward to the 'End Times'. George Bush is their hero. And their numbers are growing every day. Craziness and the 'culture of paranoid nuttiness' are contagious. ...

  Is Bush Insane? It Can Get Worse
posted by windspike
March 3, 2005

But Bush administration policy toward the Middle East is being run by men, yes, only men who were routinely referred to in high circles in Washington during the 1980s as "the crazies." I can attest to that personally, but one need not take my word for it. According to James Naughtie, author of The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency , former Secretary of State Colin Powell added an old soldier's adjective to the "crazies" sobriquet in referring to the same officials. Powell, who was military aide to Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger in the early 80s, was overheard calling them "the f -ing crazies" during a phone call with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw before the war in Iraq. At the time, Powell was reportedly deeply concerned over their determination to attack with or without UN approval. Small wonder that they got rid of Powell after the election, as soon as they had no more use for him.

   
   
  Has Bush Exonerated Bin Laden For 9/11?
July 6, 2006

If Osama Bin Laden Masterminded The 9/11 Attacks That Killed Almost 3,000 People, Then Why Isn't The Bush Administration Pursuing Him? And What About Bush's Boast That "We're Gonna Git Bin Laden Dead 'Er Alahve"?

   
   
  US WAR ON IRAQ BUSH EMPIRETERRORISM
Comment by Larry Ross
July 5, 2006

The U.S. has deliberately created  terrorism and chaos in Iraq where there has been none before to justify it's continued military occupation and control of the territory.  There has been little U.S. effort to rebuild what they have destroyed - as they continue to lay waste the country and wantonly kill and imprison the people.. William Blum chronicles the U.S. dismal imperial record in the following article.

  Great Moments in the History of Imperialism
By William Blum
June 23, 2006

National Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR's Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was described in the NPR report as "a moderate" and as a person trying to lead his Shiite followers into practicing peace and reconciliation. He had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and forced into exile. Jenkins asked him: "What would you think if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?" The cleric replied that he'd "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way it is now."[1]

   
   
  New Nuclear Weapons?
Comment by Larry Ross
July 3, 2006

Since 1945, nuclear weapons have been considered a threat to humanities future. Intensive publicity on this theme, as well as much anti-nuclear campaigning has taken place around the world for the last 60 years. Diplomats have spent endless hours working on nuclear arms control treaties with eventual nuclear weapons abolition clauses. Why? Would this have been necessary if nuclear weapons were not so dangerous?

  White House ponders NG nuclear warheads
by Scott Lindlaw
July 1, 2006

The scientists who crack open the nation's nuclear weapons for a living are never quite sure what they will find inside.
Many of the warheads were designed and built 40 years ago, and their plutonium and other components are slowly breaking down in ways that researchers do not fully understand. With no new bombs in production, the government spends billions of dollars each year tending to its aging stockpile.

   
   

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