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: (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

Professor Lustick's article below, illustrates the amazing growth in the 'War on Terror' industry throughout various sectors of American society. From Congressional estimates of 160 potential terrorist targets in 2003 to 300,000 potential fund-generating targets in 2006. From zero dollars to 650 billion dollars for anti-terrorist expenditures. It's now a huge 'pork barrel' with "thousands of interest groups crowding toward the anti-terrorism trough" according to Lustick. It's like the Tulip craze in the Netherlands in the 1600s. Anti-terrorism has now become a huge industry of vested interests depending on the continuing phoney wars on terror created by the Bush regime and its neoconservatives to justify real invasions, wars and generally enlarging real wars. As with the intended US-planned nuclear war on Iran, proof of any accusations is not required. The accusation is enough backed up by an eager mass media repeating and embellishing every lie.

The official mantra is that we fight in Iraq because it is the "central front in the War on Terror." The exact opposite is the case.
We are trapped in fighting an unwinnable - even nonsensical - "war on terror" because its invention was required in order to fight in Iraq. After years of slaughter in Iraq, the neoconservative fantasy of a series of cheap, fast, neo-imperial victories is dead. But the war on terror lives on, stronger than ever.

A dedicated sometimes fanatical minority which has many wealthy and powerful adherents can dominate the more rational, but less focused majority. Fundamentalists often tithe and give large sums to further their fanatical beliefs This is demonstrated in the following article describing the rise of right-wing religionists in the military. Their major asset is George Bush who relies on their support and votes. Its a powerful combination and threat to American society. It is a cause of some of the irrational foreign policy decisions.  

The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country's military and law enforcement.
The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement. This effort signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the radical Christian right to dismantle America's open society and build a theocratic state. A successful politicization of the military would signal the end of our democracy.

.... Parry's article below reports that the Bush regime is planning to go ahead with its expansion of the Iraq  war, and by nuclear bombing Iran. This parallels many other articles on this site which say the same thing. All predict very, very serious consequences in many areas.
Parry also predicts there will be "some provocation that can be blamed on Syria and Iran , thus justifying the expanded war."
My own prediction is that the "provocation" referred to by Parry, will be a vitally important False Flag operation. It would be very carefully planned by the Bush Administration to stage some kind of an attack, perhaps a terrorist attack on the US, like 9/11, for which the Bush Regime has planned to blame Iran. ...

Intelligence sources say President Bush -- along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair -- are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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?

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..

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.

By being the only country to vote "no" at the UN to a resolution to ban weapons in space, the US formally exposes its plans to militarise space. It does not want any legal encumbrances such as the following no weapons in space resolutions.

Dear Friends,
There was an error in the report I sent out from the UN about the vote on the two space resolutions.  Cote D'Ivoire and Israel abstained on the Paros resolution to Prevent an Arms Race in Outer Space, while the US was the only country to vote 'No' on A/C.1/61/L.10/Rev 1. .  166 countries voted to prevent an arms race in outer space.  In the second resolution, A/C.1/61/L36, on Transparency and Confidence building Measures in Outer Space, there was only 1 vote against it from the US and one abstention from Israel .  167 nations vote for it.  I've corrected the report below.  Alice    Full Report

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.

‘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.’

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?

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.

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.

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.

David Corn's brilliant analysis of the Iraq war and Bush's reactions are scary as he says. Bush plans to sweep aside all expert advice and escalate the war with more troops (he invented a new term for escalating the war. He calls it a 'surge' tactic). He will also likely intensify US bombing of Iraq. However Corn does not mention that Bush may also use a ‘False Flag' attack on the US and blame Iran, then use that as his justification to both escalate the Iraq war, use nuclear weapons on Iran, and introduce fascist-type legislation in the US. This possibility has been mentioned extensively in other writings on this site.

This is scary. The president of the United States of America has created a hellish disaster that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American soldiers, and he's resting well. The vice president believes that the man responsible for three of the greatest military blunders in U.S. history (attacking Iraq without devising a strategy for securing the country after the invasion; dissolving the Iraqi army, creating armed and trained recruits for the incipient insurgency; and mounting an extensive de-Baathification campaign that destroyed the governing infrastructure of the nation) did his job well.

Tariq Ali's brilliant article below, deals with the present unfolding disaster. But not with what might soon follow.
A 'surge' of more US troops and increased US bombing of civilians will produce more desperate resistance and lead to more Iraqi and US casualties in Iraq. It is likely to be accompanied by more domestic US protest, and more US military testimony against the war, including more military resignations.

Ideological zealotry has helped destroy Iraq, revive the Taliban and increase the terror threat

The Iraq Study Group is obviously pandering to Bush fantasies, by refusing to recognise the US massacre of Iraqis as an illegal, totally unjustified invasion of a small country. Iraq had no WMD, no links to al-Qaeda or Bin Laden, and no links to the 9/11 attack, and no intentions of attacking neighbours or the USA or the UK ..."....in 45 minutes" as Tony Blair claimed. This would have to be one of the largest deceptions for warmaking in history.
The ISG is parroting all the lies and false assumptions used to justify this illegal war - and claims "US troops will be there " for a long, long time." This genuflecting to Bush, the neocons, the media, and their war mania, is in defiance of 7 out of 10 Americans who want an end to the war and for US troops to be withdrawn. 

Washington Refuses to End the War When Colin Powell endorsed the Iraq Study Group report during his Dec. 17 appearance on "Face the Nation," it was another curtain call for a tragic farce.
Four years ago, "moderates" like Powell were making the invasion of Iraq possible. Now, in the guise of speaking truth to power, Powell and ISG co-chairs James Baker and Lee Hamilton are refueling the U.S. war effort by depicting it as a problem of strategy and management.
But the U.S. war effort is a problem of lies and slaughter.

This article by David Corn, editor of The Nation, reveals additional important testimony that Bush and Blair cooked and altered intelligence in order to justify an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq - an independent, sovereign state. Whereas they made much of the fact that Sad Hussein was a murdering despot and needed to be deposed so that they could introduce 'freedom and democracy' in Iraq, this was just a joke.
They do not admit and US mass media did not report, that the US made and supported Sadam's dictatorship from its very beginning. They armed him, encouraged his war with Iran and his crimes against his own people.

For some journalists, it's not old news that the United States and England cooked the case for war in Iraq . The Independent of England has an important story out on this front. Here's the lead: The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

Video Exposing Blunders of 9/11 Commission Report Airs on New Zealand Television     911 In Plane Site
The TV Channel 3 screening on Dec 16, 2006, of the Film "9/11 In Plane Site" is the first mass media exposure of serious flaws in the official story of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. Hopefully this will open the taboo subject to more exposure. There is a large body of evidence and testimony showing that 9/11 was an inside job.
This makes the whole story of Islamic terrorism and 'war on terror' an invented phoney exercise to justify a series of wars on oil-rich and oil-producing Islamic states in the Middle East. The conspirators will deal with other states, such as oil-producing Venezuela , in different ways using different excuses.

Saturday night's national airing of "In Plane Site" on New Zealand television represents a historic turning point in the global collective consciousness regarding the terrorist attacks of September 11.  After all, it was only months after the second national airing of "In Plane Site" on Australia 's Network 10, which kicked off a firestorm of debate leading to Federal Labor politician Michael Danby's demand that the programming director of Network 10 be fired for airing the program. 

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.

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?

... If the Democrats were against this war, they would help expose the lies upon which it is based, and call for immediate withdrawal from this unjustified and illegal war. However throughout the war they have covered up and repeated Bush's lies and made themselves an integral part of this deception.
The Democrats also have the power to cut off and refuse funding for this war. But they could never be so bold as to actually act for the people of the United States and develop policies based on truth and reality - rather than the grandiose fantasies of Bush and his neocons.
Democratic control of Congress was a forlorn last hope. It's very sad to see that hope die so soon. ...

The Democratic Party and its feckless leaders in Congress are about to fall into a trap. The trap is being sprung by President Bush and his too clever brain trust, but the sad fact is that it was actually laid by the Democrats themselves.
Taking over the Congress on a wave of popular revulsion at the twin catastrophes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Democrats could have issued immediate calls for an end to those wars, a return of the troops, and investigations into the criminal causes of those costly fiascos. They could have initiated efforts to halt funding for further war and foreign occupation.

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.

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."

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

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.

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

My belief is that the only way to stop a possible Bush plan of this type is to educate Americans about 'False Flag' usage in the past, and that Bush may use such a technique to fool Americans into supporting a nuclear war on Iran . I really don't see how else he can get away with doing it, and convincing allies and the rest of the world that he did the right thing. Unless pre-warned about this possibility, even the Japanese might go along with a believable 'False Flag' blamed on Iran to justify the US use of nuclear weapons in retaliation.

The neocons believe that the use of nukes will convince Arabs and the wider world that there is no recourse to accepting America's will. John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America's ambassador to the UN by even the compliant and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.

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.

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.

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" errorist attack on the US. 

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.

.... 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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Evan Peterson presents a comprehensive case for impeachment of Bush and what is being done to achieve this objective. Bush continues to do a great deal of damage to America and the world and plans to do much more if Americans allow him to continue in office. The problem is that mainstream America is not aware that the problem is so very critical and that Bush must be stopped before he takes the US to a point of no return.
Unfortunately the mass media is still a meek handmaiden to the Bush regime, repeating or covering up all its lies and suppressing facts and discussion about the many frauds and very real crises Bush has unleashed on America.

FINAL NOTE TO THE READER: HOW BADLY DO WE WANT CHANGE IN AMERICA?
It's not about the newly-elected Congress; it's about what WE, THE PEOPLE, WANT! It's not what Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Howard Dean want: it's about what WE, THE ELECTORATE, WANT! Until the voters DEMAND accountability under the rule of law, we should not expect members of Congress to take the lead. If you agree with these essays, please forward them to your friends, relatives and colleagues.

...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.

...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....

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.

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.

You may remember ex-CIA agent Ralph McGeehee who toured NZ for us back in the 80's. He said, and books by ex-CIA people also confirm that, the CIA often uses right-wing religious groups like EBs as a cover to channel funds to groups in countries the CIA wants to influence. In NZ we do know the US wants to get rid of NZ N-Free legislation and get NZ back on track sending NZ troops to US wars and hosting their warships. So it makes sense to suspect that perhaps the CIA has a role in supplying money and direction to NZ EBs for this purpose.

There's a certain irony in that while papers in New Zealand devote their first few pages to the demise of Don, across the Tasman the Melbourne Age leads with a story about Exclusive Brethren involvement in the Victoria state elections.
It's the same old stuff. The EBs have taken out advertising in the Age and the Herald Sun attacking the Greens.
So what is the problem with the Exclusive Brethren campaigning ...

The International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), which continues to inspect Iran nuclear facilities under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and makes regular reports to the UN on their findings, says there is no evidence that Iran has nuclear arms or preparations to make nuclear arms. The following article says the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports a similar finding.
Yet the Bush Administration and Israel claim Iran is a nuclear threat and must be stopped. They constantly threaten to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities even threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran to stop Iran from making nuclear weapons.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not found conclusive evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, a US magazine has reported.

The military use of space is part of the  U.S. plan to be able to wage war in space or anywhere in the world. This is illustrated by its votes in the UN below and the US abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the new US National Space Policy statement.

Sadly, the US statement today was consistent with its flagrant assertion in its new space policy doctrine that it “will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space.”
What hypocrisy and deception!

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?

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.

Although the following article was written 3 years ago, its message is still powerful and relevant today. Most people passively tolerate the systematic poisoning of people, their lands and the world. However DU poisoning lasts for eternity. It drifts around the planet, killing, deforming and genetically damaging everyone's children and descendants forever, whether in Washington, New York or Kabul. Psychopaths in the Pentagon deny, deny, deny and then smirk like George Bush. They are doing their professional duty. People accept that and forget. How long can the human race survive when we, so casually, resort to such widespread killing and torture?

....This will not be easy to read, especially if you've projected evil out of your own heart, into some cave in Afghanistan or a spider hole in Iraq, and reduced the age-old question it inspires to this one: How can we bomb it off the face of the earth?
Before the damage we inflict grows greater, before history's judgment gets worse, before we contaminate the whole world - even before we vote in the next election - we must stop what we're doing. We must stop now.

....Usually, advocates of nuclear power do not take into account all the costs, and risks - both short term and long term. Nor do they considering the cost of decommissioning the nuclear plant, replacement, and storage of nuclear waste that they can't dispose of.

...look into the massive, ongoing cover up of 3 Mile Island and the signed, notorized statements made by Jane Rickover, daughter-in-law of Admiral Hyman Rickover and Dr. Rosalie Bertell as well as the statement made by Paul Blanch, former nuclear engineer of the year regarding the cover up...

The article also claims Iran wants the U.S. to make a limited attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, as this would allegedly boost Iranian prestige in the Middle East. I don't agree with this hypothesis or that the U.S. attack would be, or remain, limited. I think the U.S. wants regime change and will make a massive attack on Iran, it's population and infrastructure - much like what it has done in Iraq, only worse. I think it's real objective is a much wider war, against the Islamic world in general. Ultimately it's objective is to dominate the Middle East, particularly oil. Like the views expressed in many other articles, I think the Bush Administration plans to use nuclear weapons on Iran, and that the conflict will escalate into a terminal global disaster.

Too lazy to go over and read Sy Hersh's latest bombshell on the machinations for war with Iran at The New Yorker? Here are the juicy bits.
First off, Hersh confirms what  Ray McGovern warned of two weeks ago: don't start celebrating yet over Donald Rumsfeld's replacement, Bob Gates:
Other sources close to the Bush family said that the machinations behind Rumsfeld's resignation and the Gates nomination were complex, and the seeming triumph of the Old Guard may be illusory...
.....The bit that is making the headlines is what comes next. Hersh says that the CIA doesn't even think Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program, but that Cheney and his team don't care:

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.

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?

"Emissions of all industrialized countries declined by 3.3 percent between 1990 and 2004, while U.S. emissions grew by almost 16%". The U.S. is already responsible for "25 percent of global emissions".
However as the authors of the following article point out, the annual U.S. spending for "research energy and development has fallen from $7.7 billion in 1979 to just $3 billion in the current budget."
In contrast U.S. "funding for military research has increased 260 percent to $75 billion a year".

World temperatures are rising to levels not seen in at least 12,000 years. Greenland's ice mass is melting at "what what NASA calls a 'dramatic' rate of 41 cubic miles per year." And unless climate change is reined in, " extreme drought could eventually affect one-third of the planet ." More than 5,000 activists, scientists, and diplomats understand these facts and have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the annual two-week U.N. Climate Change Conference , which is now in its final three days . As U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, " The stakes are high . ... Yet too often climate change is seen as an environmental problem when it should be part of the broader development and economic agenda."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

....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.

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.

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.

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.

. . .Today North Korea is presented by the media and official US and allied statements, as a great threat to global security. The media don't mention the US policies which threatened North Korea , North Korea 's previous attempts to make a secure peace which were rejected by the US , all or which finally caused it to go nuclear.   The majority of Americans support Bush's classifications and definitions of North Korea as a nuclear threat.  Because the US media are basically performing a war propaganda role for the Bush Administration, rather than the truth of the situation, the US public has been prepared and conditioned for war. The majority accepts and supports possible US military action against North Korea . To a lesser degree this also applies to the media and publics in US-allied nations.

. . . In his first weeks in office, Bush cast aside the Clinton administration's delicate negotiations that had hemmed in North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The new president then brushed aside worries of Secretary of State Colin Powell and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung about dangerous consequences from a confrontation.

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

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.

. . . 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

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?

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?

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".

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

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.

The following essays provide insight into the growth and power of U.S. Christian Zionism, its influence on U.S. foreign policy, and the influence of Israel on U.S. policy. It is very powerful, very irrational and leading humanity toward what it sees as a Biblical prophecy of End Times. It is utterly immoral and cruel toward its Palestinian victims, as it believes they are occupying land given by God to the Jews a few thousand years ago. They believe that any action to help bring about End Times and the return of the Messiah, is justified as it helps implement God's will. It is a growing insanity of righteous self-destruction that believes that if some kind of heavenly Armageddon turns our planet into a fiery hell, the chosen  believers will be raptured to a heavenly paradise.

Google's 9 million articles provide greater evidence that a U.S. attack on Iran, perhaps launched before the U.S. elections on  Nov 7 in order to boost Bush and Republican popularity, is close.     Try the Google search yourself on "Nuclear Attack On Iran"

It is likely Bush regime lunatics will soon start what may expand to be Humanity's final war - a war on Iran . They will likely stage a "False Flag" attack on the U.S. and blame Iran . People have been conditioned to hate and fear Iran and believe lies that support and deepen that hate. Proofs to the contrary are simply dismissed as pro-Iranian or pro-terrorist propaganda.

Bush Signs New Policy Edict Calling For U.S. Control of Space:

The World is Not Enough, So Now U.S. Intends To Usurp Space
After US President George W. Bush signed away more basic human rights through his draconian Military Commissions Act Of 2006, he moved on this week to signing another unbelievable law: this time claiming outer space for the US, to be enforced by a new military service, the "U.S. Space Forces." And once again, his notion of US "diplomacy" is to order other nations to support this hegemonic US policy, or else.

James Bovard's article shows how Bush is emerging as America's dictator and how media helps this process by portraying it as perfectly normal. Congress and the Senate are allowing Bush to get away with installing a law that allows him to torture suspects. Also, laws to allow the courts to accept testimony obtained under torture, which is generally considered faulty. Most people will say anything just to stop the torture. The  Bush Administration will get the confessions it wants, to justify the sentence it wants to give it's prisoners. Bush can also declare anyone in the world a suspect and does not have to produce evidence to support that charge. It looks like the apathetic American public will accept this, mainly because the media do not make them aware.
If Bush stages a "False Flag" operation to incriminate Iran and then declares war on Iran, the process will be stepped up as well as the popularity of Bush and the Republicans. Few people are aware or care about this frightening loss as their democracy is legislated out of existence.

How to Make a Power Grab 'Mundane'

The Washington Post's story today -- "Bush Signs Terrorism Measure" -- looks like just another routine report on the approval of a piece of legislation, accompanied by the usual "he said/ she said" quotes. A typical reader might shrug at this point and shift to the sports section to read the latest autopsy on the Redskins.
How will we know when a dictatorship has arrived? Not from reading the Washington Post. The Post's story today -- “Bush Signs Terrorism Measure” -- looks like just another routine report on the approval of a piece of legislation, accompanied by the usual “he said/ she said” balancing quotes.

Terrorstorm exposes how Governments have long staged false-flag terror events in order to achieve political and sociological ends.
1) False Flag Terror Alert
- - Public's Right To Know – Demand Release of 9/11-Documents
- - Official 9/11 story On Life support; Truth is Taking Over
- - Terrorstorm Raises The Bar In Truth Film Making
- - Kucinich Hearing on War Plans for Iran

Representative Dennis Kucinich knows the neocon playbook used to lead our nation into war. That's why the courageous Congressman is doing everything he possibly can to ensure that the Bush administration fails in its effort to pull the same old tricks in manufacturing a war with Iran. . . .
1) Iran is at least 5 years – but more likely 10 or more years – away from producing weapons-grade nuclear materials
2) Iran poses no imminent threat to the US, Israel, or its neighbors
3) The Bush administration has already selected the military option and is moving to make it operational
4) The consequences of a military confrontation with Iran are global and nightmarish
5) We should be pursuing multilateral negotiations and have missed key opportunities to do so – including not even responding to an Iranian offer to put     recognition of Israel and suspension of its nuclear program on the table.
    Perhaps more than anything else, our refusal to engage Iran frustrates this panel.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Here is a dire warning from one of the best commentators on US policy, that Bush will nuclear bomb Iran.
Read it and draw your own conclusions. If you agree the situation is extremely dangerous, then please forward it as widely as possible.

Why Bush Will Nuke Iran

The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of US (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East.
The US has lost the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Generals in both war theaters are stating their need for more troops. But there are no troops to send.
See also http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12569.htm

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

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?

Blumenthal's article is an excellent review of the details of present and past U.S. presidencies He details the disasters of the Bush regime, his many deceptions and the black future if Bush continues.. He knows the right words and symbols that sell the American people - then turns them on their head and does the opposite.

The Disastrous Rule of a Mayberry Machiavelli

Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he has become the most radical American president in history, and arguably the worst.
The following is an excerpt from How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press, 2006).
No one predicted just how radical a president George W. Bush would be. Neither his opponents, nor the reporters covering him, nor his closest campaign aides suggested that he would be the most willfully radical president in American history.

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

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.

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

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.

In New Zealand we certainly live in a 'Bubble of ignorance' generated by our mass media. If it wasn't for Internet, New Zealand would indeed be embedded in ignorance about world affairs - particularly what's going on in Washington. I Googled "When Nuclear strike On Iran" and got 6,150,000 entries. There is a lot of authoritative articles predicting a nuclear strike on Iran. If you doubt the Neo Conservative Bush regime would do such a thing - because they well know Iran has no nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons programme as reported by IAEA inspectors, even though they are screaming the opposite - try doing a Google yourself and read a few of these articles.  Here is one good example. Search this site for more info - it's all here.

Mutually Assured Dementia

Maybe it's just me, but I've been at least a little bit surprised by the relatively muted reaction to the news that the Cheney Administration and its Pentagon underlings are racing to put the finishing touches on plans for attacking Iran – plans which may include the first wartime use of nuclear weapons since Nagasaki.
See also: The Story of Our Time

Time: This is how US will attack Iran

....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 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

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.

Neol Gibeson's paper is one of the strongest, best researched and most convincing papers I have read on the U.S. Government 9/11 conspiracy.
There is little doubt that the Bush neo-con regime and their many accomplices will fight hard and use all kinds of tricks and foul play to avoid being exposed and standing trial for their crimes.

9/11 SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NEEDED

We do not want to believe that our own federal government may have conspired and murdered other Americans to justify the Global War on Terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq . Such information destroys our concept of self and our worldview. However, the truth is the truth and it cannot be hidden any longer. Now, some CIA officers are buying legal insurance to cover the cost of their defense should they be indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in 9/11. They are worried that the results of an internal CIA investigation into some CIA agents' roles in 9/11 may soon become public and the public outcry would immediately lead to their arrest for murder and conspiracy among other charges.

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

... 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!

Leuren Moret's article indicates that we are a seriously flawed species. Thousands of people in the U.S., UK and Israel are co-operating with their governments to spread tons of DU in many locations, knowing that that it is a killer for all eternity. They are deliberately using nuclear mass destruction weapons - that's what DU weapons are....
Now I understand the old saying "Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely"

Depleted Uranium is WMD

My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:

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

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.

This is a truly excellent paper by Craig Roberts, and he does conclude that the Official story about the cause of 9/11, is unbelievable. He is very convincing that the Bush Administration 9/11 story is totally unbelievable. Although it is painfully obvious that the Bush Administration must have been deeply involved in the 9/11 conspiracy and covering up the details of the crime as well as preventing a full and strictly independent investigation, Roberts and many other prestigious Americans seem very reluctant to say so.

Five Years After and We Still Don't Know

... The scientists, engineers, and professors who pose the tough questions about 9/11 are not people who spend their lives making sense of their experience by constructing conspiracy theories.  Scientists and scholars look to facts and evidence.  They are concerned with the paucity of evidence in behalf of the official explanation.  They stress that the official explanation is inconsistent with known laws of physics, and that the numerous security failures, when combined together, are a statistical improbability. 

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

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.

... 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

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.

Bush is not fighting a global war on terrorism in Iraq or anywhere else. There was no terrorism in Iraq until Bush provoked the resistance to invasion and American barbarism. He calls such resistance "terrorism" for his own political purposes. His wars and policies and statements make far more resistance to American aggression or "terrorism" as he likes to call it, than it defeats. His so-called "war on terrorism" in Iraq is not a war - particularly after he quickly defeated the puny forces of Saddam Hussein. It has always been an illegal invasion and massacre of civilians, based on many whopping big lies. His tactics don't kill terrorists, it makes them.

Bush's Terror Tales

There is something sad about a grown man playing children's make-believe war games in a tree-house in grandpa's back yard?which is how George W. Bush came across Thursday night in his  speech on the importance of winning the war in Iraq in the global battle against terrorism. Rarely does a leader of a great country like the United States malign history, his people's intelligence and the dignity of over a billion Muslims in one speech. But Bush did that Thursday night and will probably keep doing it for a while.

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

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.

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

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.

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'

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'”.

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

The NYT has faithfully reported the lies of the Bush regime and it's wars since 2,000, with little if any, questioning of the basic lies used to justify it. One of the greatest newspapers in the world, with an illustrious record, has supinely served up the propaganda of the Bush regime. They have studiously avoided the key questions and doubts about 9/11, the Iraq war and the coming war with Iran .
Seymour Hersh, who has written some wonderful articles on these key subjects for The New Yorker magazine, would be avoided like the plague by the paper that still strokes itself with the self-serving and now deceitful slogan "All the News that's fit to print". What a joke. What kind of sterilized news is this?

A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom

. . . Mr. Barrett, 47, described how some news organizations (the French daily newspaper Figaro and Radio France International, in fact) had reported that an agent from the Central Intelligence Agency visited with Osama bin Laden two months before the attacks. He also said fires could not have caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers at free-fall speed, as reported by the special Sept. 11 commission. “The 9/11 report will be universally reviled as a sham and a cover-up very soon,” said Mr. Barrett, who has been a teacher's assistant or lecturer on Islam, African literature and other subjects at the University of Wisconsin , Madison, since 1996. “The 9/11 commission has its conspiracy theory, and we have ours.”

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

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!

In the tradition of Jesus Christ, and according to his teachings, the Presbyterians are confronting the lies and conspiracies of those who rule us. They are supporting the exposure of 9/11 lies. I hope other religious groups in the U.S. will endorse the Presbyterian stand, and also become active.

'Christian Faith And The Truth Behind 9/11: A Call To Reflection And Action"

THE NEW MUST-READ BOOK ABOUT 9/11 . . .                                             reviewed by Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.,     August 16, 2006
It's a major publishing event. It's the book the American Religious Right wants to bury.
And you'll probably never hear about it in the mainstream media news. The publishing arm of a major religious denomination in the USA has just released a DEVASTATING critique of the Bush administration's "official"9/11 cover story.

Paul Craig Roberts found that according to U.S. polls, 50% of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded and 64% still believe Saddam has strong links to Al Qaeda. That is really astonishing. Enough Americans will believe whatever their leaders tell them, regardless of how outrageously wrong it may be - and - they will keep believing it in spite of the many proofs that it is lies.

Gullible Americans

Americans never check any facts.  Who do you know, for example, who has even read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the alleged facts reported in that document.  I can answer for you.  You don't know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts. 

I received a number of intelligent responses from readers of my August 14 column, “ Gullible Americans,” The letters deserve a reply. Moreover, some contain important points that should be shared with a wider audience. Pundits such as myself are not the only people who have interesting things to say. Considering the number of letters and the time it would require to respond individually, I am replying instead in this column.
Most readers from whom I heard understand the difference between loyalty to country and loyalty to a government. They understand that to support a political party or a government that is destroying the US Constitution and America’s reputation in the world is, in fact, an act of treason. Therefore, I did not have to read the usual drivel about how doubting “our government” is un-American.
Among the issues raised are:
How could the complicity of the US government, or some part of it, in the events of 9/11 be kept a secret?......

The U.S. has allied itself with some of the warlords in Afghanistan who control the poppyfields.
So things are getting back to normal with a flourishing drug industry. A steady supply of opium-based drugs is assured to the U.S. and other international markets. This is one example of the "freedom and democracy" the U.S. is giving to Afghanistan society.
Afghan opium cultivation hits a record:
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels - up by more than 40 percent from 2005 - despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press.
see also
C.I.A. & Drugs
New Opium War
The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire: The Bush family's involvement in drug-running is an open secret, but Dick Cheney's direct link to a global drug pipeline through a US construction company is less well known.

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.

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:

... 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.

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.”

Israeli Propaganda Is Winning

I was shocked to see the degree that Israel's intellectuals accepted the official justification for Israel's exceptionally barbarous wars on Lebanon and Palestine.
As the following article demonstrates, they justify the slaughter and every aspect of the disproportionality of Israel's response to Lebanese seizing of two Israeli soldiers. Nowhere do these intellectuals seem to admit that the war was planned well in advance. The seized solders were only an excuse for Israel to begin one of the most brutal wars in history. Why?

Dedicated to the too few Israeli intellectuals who do dare speak out against this war.
.... For those who imagine Israel's intellectual elite as a sane oasis of rational, moderate, peace-loving liberals, here are a few snapshots of Israel's intellectual cheerleaders on their current patriotic march supporting the devastation of Lebanon.

....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."

...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.

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

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!!!

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.

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.

George Orwell's book ":1984" has become reality in Israel.    More and more Israel is practising a form of ethnic cleansing on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians calling it part of Bush's "war on terrorism".

.....I'm so frustrated I can't think straight. I'm full of rage against Israel, the US, Britain, Iran and most of Europe. The world is going to go to hell for standing by and allowing the massacre of innocents. For God's sake, 34 children???

Bush may be a man of very limited abilities who honestly makes huge mistakes. Paul Waldman brilliantly points these out below.
But also, lest people forget, Bush is a serial war criminal, who is robbing the U.S. Treasury, destroying America's tarnished record, and endangering the world's population by threatening to use nuclear weapons to build an Empire.

When President Bush was caught on tape saying to Tony Blair, “See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over,” more than a few progressives said to themselves, “Well that’s a trenchant analysis of the situation, Sherlock.” And more than a few conservatives said, “Damn straight”?or as Michelle Malkin put it, “Sometimes, profanity is called for.”

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. .

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.

This article examines and helps explain the pathology of Israeli irrational and brutal behaviour toward Lebanon and Palestine.
Many Israeli intelligentsia are making a similar diagnosis of Israeli society. With some 200 to 500 nuclear weapons and U.S. support Israel thinks it is invulnerable. It believes it can bomb the UN and ignore UN resolutions. It makes excuses to justify grossly disproportionate aggression and expansion.. It doesn't want independent UN witnesses in Lebanon. Israeli extremism matches that of the Bush Administration. That's one reason Bush's U.S. supports and funds anything Israel does.

The Pathology Of Israeli Power

As we witness the unfolding spectacle of ferocious, indiscriminate violence, destruction, and brutality in Gaza and Lebanon, it's difficult to resist the conclusion that there is something terribly wrong with the Israeli state and society. It's as though all moral and psychological constraints and boundaries have been breached, deviancy normalized. Not that state terrorism, deliberate aggression, extreme disproportionate force, and massive violations of international humanitarian law are new to the Israeli state: from 1948, the list is long, the evidence widely available.

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.

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.

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 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.

It would have been very different for the world's future if Al Gore had been allowed to become U.S. President in 2000. He is well-motivated and would have had the power to directly address the world's growing environmental problems.

It's very, very scary and very, very good. The simulations showing how water levels are predicted to change with polar ice melt are particularly terrifying.

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

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."

Israel planned to make war on Lebanon for at least a year. Their strategy of mass bombing of civilian men, women and children and the Lebanon infrastructure and claiming they were after Hezbollah is just their justification. The captured Israeli soldiers are a convenient excuse which Israel and the U.S. use to justify this mass bombing and invasion. Any opposition to U.S.-Israeli rule in the middle east is demonised by their propaganda machines, so that they can justify further aggression.

sraeli war planes hit the cities of Sidon, south Beirut and Baalbak on Saturday and Israeli ground troops fought a hard battle to take over the village of Maroun al-Ras, said to be a Hizbullah rocket-launching site. The Israeli bombing of Sidon hit a religious complex linked to Hizbullah. The BBC reports that 'The UN's Jan Egeland said half a million people needed assistance - and the number was likely to increase. One-third of the recent Lebanese casualties, he said, appeared to be children. '

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.

Israel Violates U.S. Law On Weapons In Mideast

Is the road to a U.S./Israeli war with Iran, through Lebanon.?
Linda McQuaig has made a persuasive argument below that it is.
Israel and the U.S. have wanted a war with Iran for sometime. Both the Israeli and American public will probably except any excuse for war however far-fetched because they have been heavily propagandised by their own media - misinformed and uninformed to be anti-Iran and pro-Israel. 

As Israeli firepower rained down on Lebanon last week, pundits here in the West wasted no time pinning the blame on — Iran.
"Iran and its radical allies are pushing toward war," wrote Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
Washington defence commentator Edward Luttwak weighed in: "Iran's leaders have apparently decided to reject the Western offer to peacefully settle the dispute over its weapons-grade uranium-enrichment program."
In fact, Iran's leaders haven't rejected the "Western offer;" they've said publicly they will respond to it by Aug. 22. This isn't fast enough however to satisfy Washington, which considers the "offer" more of an ultimatum.

Top Republican Claims Bushcons Organised 9/11 Attack

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.

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.

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:

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.

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?

Because New Zealand is so propagandised by a pro-Bush, pro-U.S. war media, many New Zealanders have little idea of what's really happening in our world.  There are many indications that some M.P.s want relations improved with the U.S. at any price.

WASHINGTON - It was in 1776 that a group of British colonists living along the Atlantic seaboard of North America felt compelled to offer a public justification for their "Declaration of Independence" from their mother country out of "a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind".
That justification, a bill of particulars against King George II for a host of offences, including violations of what would come to be called human rights, was designed to rally British and European public opinion behind the colonists' cause.
As the nation marks that occasion exactly 230 years ago Tuesday, a series of surveys from around the world over the past three years makes clear that contemporary "Mankind" believes that the United States no longer accords its opinions the "decent respect" that those who founded the country believe was its due.

...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. ...

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.

He reveals how the U.S. conspired to ensure that the very successful UN inspection and disarmament efforts were torpedoed, so that the U.S. and UK could engage in mass bombing of Iraq's non-existent weapons-of-mass destruction, crippling sanctions that killed thousands of Iraqi children, and eventually, war based on lies. It is a very, very revealing talk that helps one really understand the continuing deceit practiced by the U.S. and UK governments on their own people about Iraq, Iran and middle-east affairs during the preceding decades. He also has many revealing insights and advice to peace activists.  

Transcript and Audio of Scott Ritter on war with Iraq and Iran

"I wish we were here to talk about how good things are happening in the cause of peace, how congress has reversed course and they're bringing our boys and girls home, how the Bush administration has woke up suddenly and said, ‘you know, this concept of global domination through the unilateral application of military force is not sound policy,' and the Democrats woke up for the first time in a long time and said, ‘you know, we facilitated this war in Iraq. We're as much to blame as George W. Bush.' But that's not the case. We live in a time where bad things are happening. .."

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?

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.

From Larry Ross

WHY KEEP NEW ZEALAND NUCLEAR-FREE?
WAR AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS
THE DANGERS OF FUNDAMENTALIST BELIEFS ON GEORGE BUSH AND ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
RACING TOWARD EXTINCTION
ARE WE HEADED FOR EARLY EXTINCTION
US INTELLIGENCE ON WMD IN IRAQ
FIVE EXPERTS WARN ABOUT THE INCREASING NUCLEAR THREAT
DEFEND NEW ZEALAND'S NUCLEAR-FREE POLICY
DEFENCE POLICY IN THE NUCLEAR AGE
Comment on Bush's 'Speech to the Nation'
NUCLEAR DANGERS TO THE WORLD FROM THE WAR ON IRAQ
Sleepwalking To Extinction
America is a Religion Comment by Larry Ross
Armageddon Comment by Larry Ross
US Launching New-Look Military Strike Force Comment by Larry Ross