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May 2005
May 31, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
¤ De Villepin replaces Raffarin as French PM
¤ Kidnapped Governor in Iraq Found Dead
¤ Tales of abuse in Guantanamo testimony
¤ Bush blasts Amnesty report on Guantanamo
¤ At least 11 killed in Pakistan attack, riot
¤ Fewer and Fewer Latinos Willing to Die in Iraq
¤ The Dead Voice of "al Qaeda" in Iraq
¤ How Dick Cheney Got Away With $35 Million
¤ Israeli planner says don’t rule out Osiraq-like strike on Iran
¤ “Things are getting worse by the day.”
¤ Dishonesty, Greed and Hypocrisy in Corporate America
¤ The Israeli Origins of Bush II's War
¤ Killing Americans with Secrecy
¤ Al Zarqawi and Bin Laden Get Down with their Bad Selves
¤ 'Memorial Day BushWhacked'
¤ A Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death
¤ It's Time to Get Serious About Impeaching Bush
¤ The Me-Too Club
¤ US Nuclear Hypocrisy
¤ 'Catapulting the propaganda'
¤ Looking War In The Face
¤ 60,000 Iraqis 'Disappeared' into US Camps Audio
¤ A game of double bluff
¤ Blowing the whistle on the Iraq War charade
¤ Black Brazilians learn from Biko
¤ Bush: "You Have To Keep Repeating Things To Catapult The Propaganda
¤ South Africa and Palestine
¤ Europe's shattered dream
¤ Basra out of control, says chief of police
¤ 'Tank girl' army accused of torture
¤ The lie about liberty
¤ Claims of abuse at Guantanamo are revealed
¤ 'This Is the Freedom America Has Brought Us'
¤ China must collapse for Russia to stay united
¤ S. Korean students protest against U.S. military
¤ Octagon Soap
¤ The weight of war
¤ A Pretext for War
¤ Canada Red Cross Guilty in Blood Scandal
¤ Iraqi soldiers die in checkpoint blast
Chávez leads the way
Posted: Monday, May 30, 2005
In using oil wealth to help the poor, Venezuela's leader is an example to Latin America
Richard Gott in Caracas
The Guardian UK
A muddy path leads off the airport motorway into one of the small impoverished villages that perch on the hills above Caracas, a permanent reminder of the immense gulf between rich and poor that characterises oil-rich Venezuela. Only 20 minutes from the heart of the capital city a tiny community of 500 families lives in makeshift dwellings with tin roofs and rough breeze-block walls. They have water and electricity and television, but not much else. The old school buildings have collapsed into ruin, and no children have received lessons over the past two years.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
May 30, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, May 30, 2005
¤ Testimonies of Iraqi Prisoners In the American Prisons
¤ Iraqi Journalists Complain of Censorship
¤ Suicide bombers attack Iraqi ex-policemen, kill 27
¤ The US baseness and bankruptcy!
¤ More on Newsweek’s retraction of the Koran story
¤ Voting U.S. Out of Iraq
¤ Fallujah: An Unnatural Disaster
¤ U.N. Party Planners Wonder, Will Bush and Friends Attend?
¤ Mbeki lambasts Brown for 'imperial nostalgia'
¤ America, a Symbol of...
¤ Fluff Stories Crowd Out News the Nation Needs
¤ AIPAC Wants You to Die in Iran
¤ Did Jews Trick America Into Entering The First World War?
¤ Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran
¤ Straight talk - Hypocrisy oozes from Bush's lips
¤ Meanwhile, back in Iraq
¤ 'Soon, Iraq survivors will question a war'
¤ For Iraq, and St George!
¤ U.S. Forces Mistakenly Detain Sunni Chief
¤ Attack, Mosque Blast Kill 4 in Pakistan
¤ Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun?
¤ Long Jailings Anger Iraqis
¤ INSURGENTS DEFY IRAQ CRACKDOWN
¤ Shia Leaders...
¤ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Suckering the Great Unwashed
¤ Do The People Of Iraq Have A Right To Resist U.S. Occupation?
¤ Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Policemen in Hillah
¤ Crisis for Europe as France rejects EU constitution by huge majority
¤ Iranian Nuclear Power Crazy? Think Again
¤ Iraq insurgency more sophisticated
¤ Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq
¤ Bush is accused of shielding a terrorist
¤ Bad for the US, Bad for the World
¤ Why War is all the Rage
¤ ON MEMORIAL DAY
¤ Lethal joint blasts bring grief to Hilla
¤ ‘My detention against Geneva covention’
¤ Israeli airstrike injures two
¤ Nato compound attacked in Kabul
¤ Anger as US backs brutal regime in Uzbekistan
¤ Remember
¤ They Knew Not Where They Were Going or Why
¤ Small, portable, deadly - and absurd
May 29, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2005
¤ A U.S. Faith Initiative for Africa
¤ The bracelet may in fact be a ruse for installing 'Big Brother'
¤ French voters reject EU charter
¤ Things to Remember on Memorial Day
¤ The cat is out of the bag
¤ U.S. keeps moving Mideast goal posts
¤ 'The world isn't waiting for our politicians to get it'
¤ Insurgents Kill 30 As Iraqis Crack Down
¤ British aid for Serb on US terror list
¤ Double blast kills 22 in Indonesian market
¤ Setbacks pin 'lame duck' label on Bush
¤ U.S. Current Account Deficit may hit $900 billion
¤ Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration
¤ U.S. Expands Aid to Iran's Democracy Advocates Abroad
¥ First it was nuclear weapons, no it is Democracy, if this fails, WAR
¤ 31 dead in Iraq violence
¤ RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war
¤ Fla. County Urged to Ditch Voting Machines
¤ 'It must stop completely'
¤ 'I want to see for myself'
Why Are Nukes OK for You, But Not for Us?
Posted: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Forcing Iran into a Nuclear Corner
Why Are Nukes OK for You, But Not for Us?
Imagine you are leader of a nation with a population of 69 million, and one fifth the size of the US. You have massive oil and gas deposits but your country is otherwise appallingly poor, being over 70 per cent desert that cannot be irrigated because there are few water sources. Your armed forces are equipped with antique tanks and airplanes that would be suitable as memorials to your dead after your country has been invaded, which you have reason to believe may be its fate.
Hitting Rock Botton
Posted: Saturday, May 28, 2005
The Bush Administration's Shameful Rejection of Venezuela's Extradition Request
May 27, 2005
By The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, coha.org
The State Department's summary and insulting rejection of the extradition request issued by the government of Venezuela for Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles was as shocking as it was predictable. The decision not to hand over Posada to be tried for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner which 73 innocent people were killed does violence to this administration's respect for the rule of law. Yet this is nothing new for a White House which has a long history of selective indignation towards villainous acts committed abroad. Such a categorical rejection of the administration's own antiterrorist rhetoric bears strong resemblance to its similarly hypocritical praise for the 2002 coup attempt against the democratically-elected Hugo Chávez, thus belying President Bush's supposed commitment to the spread of democracy throughout the hemisphere. Worst of all, the Department of State has dishonored this country's dead as a result of a terrorist act on September 11 by not honoring those murdered in 1976 when a bomb blew up on a Cuban Airlines flight over the Bahamas. A preponderance of evidence – some of it from the FBI and the CIA – and his subsequent acts of terror dispel any doubt that Posada is a world-class terrorist.
Just as it was entirely predictable that the Bush administration would reject the extradition request as a cheap slap in the face to its adversaries in Caracas, is the certain fate of Washington's already precipitous decline in its standing throughout Latin America. The moral cynicism behind the State Department's reluctance to extradite a major international terrorist suspect will certainly be pointed to by leaders of Latin America's "Pink Wave" as evidence of continued Yankee duplicity, and still another reason to disengage from the American hegemon.
While much of Latin America may be put off by Chávez's style, they are not inclined to give any credence to the State Department's claim that it does not extradite suspects for trial in a "kangaroo court." Foggy Bottom has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to extradite terrorist suspects to countries with a reputation for judicial integrity far below Venezuela's, such as Syria and Uzbekistan – presumably because such lax judicial regulation will lead to the desired swift punishment for suspects.
Embarrassingly to the average American, the joke has been circulating for weeks that the State Department would choose to turn down Venezuela's extradition request for Posada on the eve of a Friday afternoon of a three-day national holiday, thus providing the slow news day environment in which indignation over his release would have time to cool down. This banal script was the exact one that the uncool Bush administration chose to follow.
But the administration's decision was a fait accompli long before it was actually hatched. It has repeatedly revealed its inability to learn from its ethical pratfalls and to live by its own pretentious but non-observed standards, as evidenced by Bush's nomination of the notorious intelligence manipulator, John Bolton, to be ambassador to the UN, and by the promotion of John Negroponte, who had a history of support for local death squads while he was Ambassador to Honduras. Additionally, the number two man in Bush's National Security Council, Elliot Abrams, was an irresistable candidate for his post because he had to be pardoned by the first President Bush for lying to Congress during Iran-Contra. This White House has done itself and the nation a disservice by choosing to pander to the powerful Cuban-American interest groups in Miami rather than demonstrate its genuine dedication to the war on terrorism.
With Posada, Washington had a choice of maintaining the integrity of its already deeply troubled antiterrorism crusade or to cater to its hard right Miami campaign donors and political backers. Lamentably, there was never any mystery as to which road Washington would choose to take.
The above statement was drafted by COHA Director Larry Birns and COHA Research Associate Joseph Taves.
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, founded in 1975, is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and information organization. It has been described on the Senate floor as being "one of the nation's most respected bodies of scholars and policy makers." For more information, please see our web page at www.coha.org; or contact our Washington offices by phone (202) 223-4975, fax (202) 223-4979, or email coha@coha.org.
May 28, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, May 28, 2005
¤ Iran says US, Israel are the real nuclear threats
¤ Rice rejects Amnesty report on detainees
¤ Iraq becomes Vietnam as America destroys entire villages
¤ 45 Iraqis, GI Killed in 2 Days of Attacks
¤ Bombers strike Iraqi security forces
¤ Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq
¤ Why Are Nukes OK for You, But Not for Us?
¤ What's Next in Venezuela?
¤ Insomnia and Sarcasm
¤ Hitting Rock Botton
¤ Cuba to continue fighting terrorism, US hostility
¤ Media Disinformation and the Nature of the Iraqi Resistance
¤ "Dogs of the Americans,"
¤ US Foreign Aid Greatly Exaggerated, Says New Study
¤ U.S. army investigates shooting of Iraqi prisoner
¤ IS GEORGE BUSH A LIAR?
¤ Claims that NGOs are agents of destabilisation are irresponsible
¥ Read the following 3 articles
Flashback ¤ US Totalitarian Tendencies exposed
¤ Venezuela's ambassador to U.S. demands end to funding of groups that organized recall
¤ Rift deepens Between U.S., Venezuela Years After Coup
¤ Death and 'Sketchy Details' in Iraq
¤ Media Silence on Memorial Day
¤ Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded
¤ Money Wasted on Bases Needed for War
¤ Burning crosses signal return of Ku Klux Klan
¥ They never left
¤ Suicide Car Bombers Kill 5 in Northern Iraq
¤ Twin Bomb Explosions in Indonesia Kill 20
¤ Chirac in last-ditch bid to win yes vote
¤ The 'Ism' at the Gate
¤ Abu Ghraib, Abu Gulag, and Abu Lies
¤ Interactive media ownership chart
May 27, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, May 27, 2005
¤ Quran Abuse Allegations: True or False?
¤ Shanghai citizens dump U.S. dollars
¤ America pays the cover charge for Bush war crimes
¤ It Really is a Crusade
¤ Will the world ever learn the truth about Fallujah?
¤ Media keeps Americans in the dark about massive foreign policy failure
¤ Newsweek -- your source for yellow-bellied journalism
¤ Fake Left Anti-War Groups Out Themselves
¤ Why Pat Tillman's Parents Are No Longer Silent
¤ Illegally Financing the WMD Hoax
¤ Military Deserters Flee To Canada
¤ Americans Warned of Continued Haiti Danger
¤ The Answer Is Fear
¤ Pakistan shrine blast kills at least 20
¤ Pipeline opens new oil route to west Cartoon
¤ 'Father' of Malaysia savages Bush and Blair
¤ UzBushistan
¤ 20,000 Dead-Enders
Flashback ¤ The Fake bin Laden Video Tape
¤ Why we need free speech online
¤ Blaming the victim for Qur'an desecrations
¤ Newsweek Was Right: Part II
¤ A base for the corruption of democracy
¤ We Have Ways of Making You Speak
¤ Beyond the desecration
¤ US military: Helicopter downed in Iraq
¤ Commentary: What's in a name?
¤ Who Should Be Held Accountable For The Media's Mistakes Ahead of the Iraq Invasion?
¤ Pipelineistan's biggest game begins
¤ Opium remains major source of income in Afghanistan
¤ FBI Files Show Guantanamo Detainees Reported Desecration of Koran
May 26, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2005
¤ Gimme Some Truth
¤ Oil might be drying up, but Washington's greasy as ever
¤ House Kills First Vote on Iraq Withdrawal
¤ Uzbekistan signs $600m oil deal with China
¤ Israeli army committed war crimes
¤ The Silent Media Curse of Memorial Day
¤ The Tillman Scandal
¤ 'With the gloves off'
¤ Keep your (made-in-China) shirt on ...
¤ Nine killed in Iraqi killing spree
¤ In Afghanistan, mistrust of U.S. in black and white
¤ Why the World Hates the US
¤ Chaquita's Threat to the Caribbean Islands
¤ Giant Caspian oil pipeline opens
¥ So is this what the U.S 'war and terror' was all about?
¤ Pipe Dreams
¤ America's pipe dream
¤ Afghan Pipe Dreams
¤ Bush's Pipe Dreams for Reconstructing Iraq
¤ US Afghan Policy Driven By Oil Interests
¤ New Caspian oil interests fuel US war drive against Iraq
¤ The New U.S. -British Oil Imperialism
¤ Pipelines or pipe dreams?
¤ FBI memo reignites Qur'an furore
¤ China backs Uzbekistan president
¤ Bush's war comes home
¤ Votez oui, malgré tout
¤ Thousands of Iraqi Children are Dying
¤ 'They blew up their poster boy'
¤ THE CAGING OF AMERICA!
¤ Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment
¤ Blind, deaf and dumb
¤ Death by Media
¤ Shouldn't Laura Know the Words of the Song Before Getting Up to Sing?
¤ Illegally Financing the WMD Hoax
¤ Sick strategies for senseless slaughter
¤ Sometimes You are Just Screwed
May 25, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2005
¤ US dependence on foreign oil growing - experts
¤ Abu Ghraib as Normalcy
¤ The Stench of "Progress"
¤ Bush and Frist Got What They Wanted
¤ US Poor Fare Badly by Comparison
¤ Newsweek Has Done Worse, With No Apologies
¤ Newsweek is giving the U.S a bad name Cartoon
¤ U.S. leads global attack on human rights -Amnesty
Flashback ¤ What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded.
¤ Putin slams power monopoly after big Moscow outage
¤ The horrors that were committed in Iraq?
¤ China rejects US demand for revaluation
¤ Launching Of Major US-Backed Caspian Oil Pipeline
¤ 'Laura's trip: Another publicity stunt'
¤ 'Lies of war: How the press enables the Bush administration'
¤ 'Lipstick on a pig: The folly of media reform'
¤ 'Bush's terrorist ally'
¤ Pipelineistan's biggest game begins
¤ U.S. PR Blitz Aimed at Palestinians
¤ U.S. arms sales support dictatorships
¤ Baghdad's Polluted Water Makes Children Sick With Cholera
¤ Congress Must Investigate Torture of Detainees, Pentagon's Missing
¤ Hizb Allah chief: We will keep our arms
¤ Report slams Israeli, US rights abuses
¤ Blowing up an assumption
¤ Steve Bell on Washington's attitude towards Africa
¤ Tokyo angry at China's walkout
¤ Amnesty International Takes Aim at U.S.
¤ Bomb explodes in Madrid
¤ A RIDGE TOO FAR
¤ Pleasantries But No Change as Bush Greets Karzai
¤ The pipeline that will change the world
¤ House panel backs $45 bln for Iraq
¤ In Iraq, efforts to catch militants fuel rage, fear
¤ How to enrage Iraq's Sunnis.
¤ FBI accused over torture in detention
¤ McClellan Backs Away from Claims that 'Newsweek' Story Cost Afghan Lives
May 24, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2005
¤ Blaming the Little Guy for History's Big Crimes
¤ World Bank, IMF Requirements Stifling Poor Countries' Health Spending
¤ Church Sign Sparks Debate
¤ May on target to become one of deadliest months for U.S. troops
¤ A base for the corruption of democracy
¤ How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq
Flashback ¤ Condoleezza Rice's Credibility Gap
¤ 'Don't look now!
¤ The pipeline that will change the world
¤ Google hires neo-con headbanger
¤ The Tillman Scandal: 'Newsweek' Error Bad, Pentagon Lying OK?
¤ Displaced Iraqis Simmering With Anger In Amman
¤ Dozens killed in Iraq violence
¤ Audit Criticizes Iraq's Handling of Oil Sales after Power Transfer
¤ Danger of new adventures as U.S. losing grip on world events
¤ Bush rules out Afghan command over US troops
¤ Bombings Across Iraq Kill More Than 50 People
¤ Down and out with Iraqi forces
¤ Is Bush a Sith Lord?
¤ Russian-Chechen War is the Kremlin's last agony
¤ Just another pig at the trough
¤ Pentagon Caught In Fib about Koran-gate?
¤ EU condemns use of force in Uzbekistan
¤ Don't rely solely on America
¤ Car Bomb Kills Six in Baghdad
¤ Brass and Chutzpah
¤ Karzai denies article prompted riots
¤ Afghanistan: Violence Surges
¤ Full Syrian withdrawal questioned
¤ U.N. verifies Syrian military left Lebanon
¤ Blast rocks Baghdad school
¤ At least 8,000 treasures looted from Iraq museum still untraced
Flashback ¤ Iraqi artifacts stolen by US invaders auctioned on internet
May 23, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, May 23, 2005
¤ Car bombs, suicide attacks kill 49, scores hurt
¤ Bush Distorts History While Laura Amuses the Media
¤ Remembering a Million Killed in Genocide
¤ US war in Iraq yields a social “tragedy”
¤ An Exclusive Interview with George Galloway
¤ Fallout from a Forged War
¤ An Unmentioned and Inconsequential Detail
¤ Just What You'd Expect
¤ Inventing a Pretext for War
¤ White House Hypocrisy
¤ The Real Lesson from Last Week's Riots
¤ Great Lies of the Amercian free press
¤ Pat Tillman as Prop
¤ Invasion, Not Article, Causes Hatred
¤ 'The wrong man...'
¤ Galloway, Israeli spies and more
¤ How Not to Count in Iraq
¤ It was a Fairly Quiet Day in Baghdad
¤ Legalising torture?
¤ Bush: U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Will Remain Under U.S. Control
¤ Schröder gambles office on early general election
¤ Enron - Uzbekistan & Bush
¤ The face of modern tyranny
¤ US Silenced Information on Terrorism Supplied by Cuba
¤ U.S. Soldier Instructed Iraqi Detainee to Dig Own Grave
¤ Mother of shot activist accuses Israeli army of cover-up
¤ Israel's Sharon Heckled During N.Y. Speech
¤ Laura Bush heckled on Holy Land visit
¤ Trouble in Uzbekistan
¤ Iraq, Tony & the Truth Audio
¤ Russia's «war on terror» tainted by brutality and corruption
¤ US military to build four giant new bases in Iraq
¤ A spark of defiance, and then the slaughter
¤ Where are U.S. sanctions on Syria heading?
¥ To War
¤ Israel: Iraq 'Not Enough' - Wants US To Take Syria, Iran
¤ IRAN & SYRIA: Terror for Oil & Israel
¤ Israel instructs America to attack Iran and Syria
¤ Syria 'a step away' from facing US military action
¤ UN verifies Syrian troop pullout
¤ Israel comes first, says US politician
¤ The February 2002 Koran Incident at Gitmo
¤ Permanent ruse for an indefinite war
¤ Pentagon engineers : a free and honest advise!
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food
Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2005
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food
Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys
Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food.
How the technology works, and what it promises
What is it?
Genetically modified (GM) food is produced from plants or animals that have had their genetic material altered by scientists. Scientists are able to extract genes from organisms with desirable properties - such as a particular colour or resistance to a disease - and transfer them to another organism.
May 22, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2005
¤ TKO by axis of evil
¤ One dead, dozens injured in Delhi blasts
¤ Egypt police arrest opposition leaders
¤ Red, White, and Without a Clue
¤ How political power distorts morality
¤ For Bush, Iraq lies are fundamental
¤ Angels of Death
¤ It's all Newsweek's fault
¤ Bush Administration Attempts to Influence Global HIV/AIDS Policy
¤ Iraq's Most Dangerous Civilian Job
¤ Special forces downed by rocket ambush
¤ U.S. Coalition, Afghans Kill 12 Insurgents
¤ Germany 'blocks' Blair's Africa plan
¤ Health fears over secret study into GM food
¤ When fed to rats it affected their kidneys and blood counts.
¤ War on terror runs into Afghan sand
¤ Karimov escapes regime change as America pursues the ‘great game’
¤ Condi-Diplomacy
¤ The forgotten conflict
¤ A Castro ally with oil cash vexes the US
¤ As Chavez Rises in Venezuela, Ties With U.S. Sour
¤ Anti-govt feeling simmers in Azerbaijan
¤ Prewar Findings Worried Analysts
¤ The writing's on the wall, or rather the web
¤ Black market organ trade is Baghdad's new growth industry
¤ Cheers, jeers greet Bush at graduation
¤ Top Iraqi Official Gunned Down in Baghdad
¤ Laura Bush Heckled at Islamic Holy Shrine
¤ Aristide Backers March in Haiti
¤ Needed (But Not Expected): U.S. Department of Remorse
¤ Understanding History and the Path to Peacemaking
¤ Koran story exposes myth of American Democracy and morality
Bush unveils plans for US colonial office
Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2005
The US government is creating a permanent agency tasked with the rapid consolidation of US control in countries targeted by Washington for military aggression. That was President George W. Bush's essential message in a speech delivered Wednesday to a Republican audience in Washington.
He announced that his administration is proposing $100 million in funding in next year's budget for a new "conflict response" fund and $24 million for a new Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization within the State Department. This office is to include an "Active Response Corps" made up of government foreign affairs specialists, as well as private consultants and contractors.
Bush wrapped this new initiative in the mantle of democracy. "We are seeing a rise of a new generation whose hearts burn for freedom—and they will have it," he declared. What they will really have, however, and what the US administration is preparing, is more war.
Full Article : wsws.org
Bush Lied, and Press Can't be Bothered to Report on it
Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2005
On May 1, the Sunday Times of London published the confidential minutes of a meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and members of his Cabinet.
The minutes reveal, among other things, that President Bush and Blair secretly agreed to invade Iraq long before weapons inspections had begun -- in fact, long before the United Nations was even approached about revisiting the idea of weapons inspections.
This memo proves what many around the world already knew: that the Bush administration lied about the reasons for waging war on this unarmed nation. Disgraceful! Particularly when you consider the more than 1,600 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died as a result of that lie.
But equally disgraceful is that the so-called mainstream media have failed to report on this important story. A search of the Star Tribune's archives brings up one story (published nearly two weeks after the London Times piece) that talks more about liberal outrage that the story hasn't received attention than the actual story.
Full Article : commondreams.org
May 21, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, May 21, 2005
¤ Report implicates top brass in Bagram scandal
¤ Tarnished image abroad fails to register with Americans at home
¤ US losing battle for hearts and minds
¤ The CIA's Kidnapping Ring
¤ The Comings and Goings of Jeff Gannon
¤ The Resistance in Context
¤ Dubya's Doublespeak
¤ 2 Afghan death certificates: A U.S. cover-up?
¤ New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action
¤ The Saints of Mischief and Halliburton
¤ The American Myth Industry
¤ A Nation Willingly Deceived
¤ Justice in JebWorld
¤ Bush Lied, and Press Can't be Bothered to Report on it
¤ The Galloway Document
¤ George Galloway Video and Forged Document Scan
¤ Pyongyang reveals its hand
¤ Rice accuses Syria of meddling in Iraq
¥ Full scale propaganda
¤ From 'Duty, Honor, Country' To Depleted Uranium Cancer
¤ Bush unveils plans for US colonial office
¤ War Crimes: the Iraq Living Conditions Survey
¤ The unknown unknowns of the Abu Ghraib scandal
¤ Tabloid says it paid U.S. official for Saddam Hussein photos
¤ Caracas demands US return of militant
¤ Paper Prints More Photos of Saddam in Jail
¤ The suicide bombers
¤ Imperial Poison
¤ A War That Cannot Be Won
¤ Damage to U.S./White House, look in the mirror
¤ Afghan prisoners were 'tortured to death' by American guards
¤ Rules and Cash Flew Out the Window
¤ Is the US Recruiting for the Insurgency?
¤ Gasp! Double Standards!
¤ Russia's 'war on terror' tainted by brutality and corruption
¤ Uzbekistan rejects UN inquiry into killing of civilians
May 20, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, May 20, 2005
¤ British MP: Iraq war was for oil
¤ How they forged the case against Galloway
¤ MP George Galloway: Named four "Mossad agents" working in Iraq
¤ Galloway Senate testimony PDF goes AWOL
¤ A history of smears and lies
¤ Dear President Bush
¤ Qur'an abuse allegations date back years: Red Cross
¤ An Iraqi holds a copy of the holy Koran allegedly desecrated by US forces in Ramadi
¤ One vote saves Canadian PM
¤ Insurgency Increases; US Military Recruits Fall
¤ No Evidence Required
¤ Bolivia Erupts
¤ How the White House hand-picks 'public'
¤ Bush: Worst President Ever?
¤ The American press — how free?
¤ Cowardice in Journalism Award for Newsweek
¤ Motion Sickness
¤ Indian Tribes Linked Directly to African 'Eve'
¤ The Texas Nexus
¤ Enemies bought, friends sold
¤ Living in Two Worlds
¤ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Syria: More Propaganda from the Bush Lie Factory
¤ London Times Calls Fallujans Psychiatric Patients
¤ Ramsey Clark says Saddam trial unfair
¤ Is The USA Is Addicted To War?
¤ 10 IRAQIS KILLED 'IN US BUNGLE'
¤ Bush says he does not fear violent reaction to Saddam photos
¤ Uzbek troops reoccupy town
¤ Colombian Rebels Kill at Least 13 Officers
¤ US double standards claim over Cuban militant
¤ An Iraq Correspondent Comes Home
¤ The Worst Blunder Bush Could Make
¤ The lies that led to war
¤ The 'Newsweek' Scandal: Harm and Hypocrisy
¤ Bad week in Iraq
¤ Red Cross told U.S. of Koran incidents
¤ "Antibiotic" Beer Gave Ancient Africans Health Buzz
¤ In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
¤ Uzbeks retake rebel town as death toll reaches 1,000
¤ The rape of the rainforest... and the man behind it
¤ Old South racism lives on in Big Easy's Bourbon Street
¤ Israeli army kills Palestinian in clash
¤ Children killed in Baghdad bombing
May 19, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2005
¤ CIA plans to shift work to Denver
¤ Six killed in Afghan ambush
¤ Mofaz gives Israeli army free hand
¤ How Many More Lies Will the Media Tell
¤ Straight Talk from George Galloway
¤ U.S. Claims Over Siege Challenged
¤ Not a Pretty Picture
¤ Brazil's Poor are Cut Down After a 150-mile Protest March
¤ Newsweek's Flub and Bush's
¤ Geldof is wrong: aid to Africa hasn't worked
¤ Cuba slams US extradition 'farce'
¤ COWBOYS AND MUSLIMS
¤ What We Iraqis Want
¤ Bush likely to back weapons in space
¤ 'If the troops return, we will fight them'
¤ Fresh claims about abuse of Iraqis by British troops
¤ Al-Qaida suspect 'is British'
¤ Exchange of empires
¤ Campaign for democracy in U.K.
¥ If they don't have democracy, what are they trying to pass on?
¤ Halliburton Protest: 16 Arrested, a Dozen Trampled by Horses
¤ What is the Downing Street "Memo"
¤ US occupation forces detain journalists, whereabouts unknown
¤ Betraying a Revolution
¤ Not a Pretty Picture
¤ US Caught Up Short by Uzbekistan Violence
¤ A new war on terror
¤ Engineer, cleric's aide killed in Iraq
¤ Palestinian guard killed at border
May 18, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
¤ The Stupidity of George Galloway's Enemies
¤ Suicide car bomb kills two Iraqi police
¤ American Hypocracy At Work
¤ Newsweek: It doesn't deserve the diatribes
¤ Fear: The Foundation of Every Government's Power
¤ Anticipating U.S. Government Control of the Internet in the Near Future
¤ Karimov: He's Our Sonofabitch
¤ The Newsweek Retraction
¤ Newsweek is not the Issue; Abuse of Detainees Is
¤ White House warns China to alter exchange rate
¤ Writing Tickets for Amerian War Crimes
¤ The Propaganda War on Democracy
¤ Inquiry into Uzbekistan killings urged
¤ 'No Korans were harmed during the making of this movie'
¤ 'Newsweek's gift for a White House set to pounce'
¤ Despite sloppiness, Newsweek didn't fabricate Koran story
¤ Energizing new wars
¤ The Dead and the Undead...
¤ Desecration of Koran Had Been Reported Before
¤ Detainees' lawsuits allege Quran desecration
¤ In Uzbekistan, Families Caught In a Nightmare
¤ Masai fury as aristocrat's murder charge dropped
¤ Mortar Attacks Kill Two Iraqis in Mosul
¤ Galloway and the mother of all invective
¤ Who's the S.O.B.?
¤ A dictator who thrives with his people under the boot
¤ We Will Rape Your Women, Heck We Will Rape Our Women
¤ Iraqi Official Killed in Baghdad Shooting
¤ Car bomb kills Iraqi police
¤ Foreign investors sell U.S. assets
The Jackson State Murders, May 14, 1970
Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Recently, the US press gave a few lines of coverage to the murders of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen during antiwar demonstrations at the school thirty-five years ago. Sometimes these reports also included a reference to the murders of two more young people ten days later at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. These murders have always been a footnote to the Kent State killings. Part of the reason for this is the fact that they occurred after the Kent actions, but another aspect to this perception and portrayal is the fact that the young people who were murdered by police in Jackson were African-American. Through no fault of the Kent victims, the nature of US society is that white deaths count for more than those that occur to darker-hued individuals.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
The Propaganda War on Democracy
Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive." He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy," whose principal aim was to identify a rapacious business state "with every cherished human value." The power and meaning of true democracy, of the franchise itself, would be "transferred" to the propaganda of advertising, public relations and corporate-run news. This "model of ideological control", he predicted, would be adopted by other countries, such as Britain.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
May 17, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
¤ Why Isn't Bush in the Dock?
¤ The New Palestinian Uprising
¤ Demonize, Disguise, Divert Pinning the Blame on Newsweek
¤ Reporters Without Borders Unmasked
¤ Galloway vs. The US Senate
¤ Galloway rejects Senate accusations
¤ Another fake document shows Galloway’s name pasted on
¤ Media Coverage Reflects Public Acceptance of Imperial Presidency
¤ Mandela disagrees with Bush on how to spread freedom
¤ Is there anyone left...?
¤ Sorry, Ms. Rice, but the Iraq War Didn't Come to Us
¤ Army 'kills 200' in second Uzbek city as thousands head for border
¤ The US and its 'special' dictator
¤ Rice breaks US silence on Uzbekistan by calling for reform
¤ Uzbek Opposition Leader: Gov't Killed 745
¤ Newsweek apology fails to cool Qur'an anger
¤ Hardliners reject Koran apology
¤ Journalists expelled from Uzbekistan
¤ 'The West should wash its hands of Karimov'
¤ 12 more killed in held Kashmir
¤ US Locked in 'Vicious Circle' in Iraq
¤ Tensions mount in Central Asia as regime counters Uzbek revolt
¤ There Is Blood On All Our Hands
¤ The Propaganda State
¤ The Smoking Gun Memo
¤ US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'
¤ RAF Hercules downed by AA fire in Iraq
¤ Koran-in-toilet tale isn't the only septic anti-Muslim behavior
¤ US use of psychological torture systematic and unabated
¤ The American News Media – Tools and Fools and Scapegoats
¤ Media bows to US torture regime
¤ The Sledgehammer And The Ant
¤ Iraqi Security Forces Accused of Massacring Sunnis
America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and corruption flourish
Posted: Monday, May 16, 2005
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.
Full Article : independent.co.uk
May 16, 2005 News
Posted: Monday, May 16, 2005
¤ News Media and "the Madness of Militarism"
¤ Fury as Haiti quashes massacre verdicts
¤ US warns India not to seek veto power
¤ 'They shot us like rabbits'
¤ Israel Buried 80 Tons of Nuclear Waste in Palestine
Flashback ¤ Iraq: The Words of Mass Deception
¤ Al-Sadr demands Americans leave Iraq
¤ Why John Bolton should not be confirmed as US Ambassador
¤ Koran story exposes myth of American Democracy and morality
¤ Several killed in Iraq blast
¤ More Bodies Found in Iraq, Total Up to 50
¤ Annan warns U.S. on Iran
¤ War in Iraq: Staying What Course?
¤ China Contests Out of Africa Claims
¤ Oil and gas ensure that the US backs the Uzbek dictator to the hilt
¥ Again another blatant display of U.S./British hypocrisy
¤ Hundreds of civilians killed after protests turn to massacre
¤ Straw condemns Uzbekistan after 500 protesters are killed
¤ Scepticism greets Straw's reproof
¤ Brutality and poverty fuel wave of unrest
¤ Mexican president denies race slur
¤ Bill for Iran Sanctions Advances
¤ Will the real American please stand up Out
¤ Insurgents greet Rice with car bombings, murders and chaos
¤ Failing Everywhere You Look. We’re On Plan
¤ Chavez says Venezuela has plan in case he killed
¤ Outside View: Is Azerbaijan next?
¤ Surprise! You've been Nuked!
¤ How a Fire Broke Out
¤ Newsweek Got Gitmo Right
¤ Where’s All the News That’s Fit to Print?
¤ Bombs won't 'solve' Iran
¤ Bush's Nutty Referral
¤ A Welcome Parade of Seething Anger
¤ The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces
¤ India's suicide epidemic is blamed on the British
¤ Karzai warns heavy-handed US troops as riots spread
¤ Detox our racist culture
First man's children in Andamans
Posted: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Two tribes in the Andamans may be the direct descendants of the earliest modern humans who trudged out of Africa over 70,000 years ago, scientists will announce tomorrow.
Full Article : telegraphindia.com
May 15, 2005 News
Posted: Sunday, May 15, 2005
¤ Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant
¤ Is Israel using the americans to start a civil war in iraq?
¤ Secret emails, missing weapons
¤ Elections may have made things worse in Iraq, not better
¤ Venezuela slaps $1.6 mln fine on US medical firm
¤ 400 and counting: IRAQ’s Grim death toll for may
¤ Man who tried to kill Castro is in hiding and waiting on Bush
¤ The Bush-Bolton Plan to Bomb Bushehr
¤ Stop the Crime of the Century
¤ Uzbek protest toll about 500
¤ 'Wars' Raises Questions on U.S. Policy
¤ 2 Grisly Discoveries As Rice Visits Iraq
¤ US troops kill Iraqi civilians
¤ America's drug plan collapses in chaos
¤ We Know All This About Bush and Blair
¤ Learning the Neo-Words of Serial Wars
¤ Can the United States Win In Iraq?
¤ Anger as US backs brutal regime
¤ Uzbekistan, key U.S. ally, plagued by torture Video
¤ Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive
¤ Hundreds Dead in Uzbek Uprising
¤ Massacre in Uzbekistan
¤ Honour and martyrdom
¤ Bodies of 13 Men Discovered in Sadr City
¤ War by Other Means
¤ Iraq is a bloody no man's land.
¤ Pope: Europe corrupts Africa
¤ Brazil's 'slave' ranch workers
¤ 'El' Jazeera
¤ Four US Marines among 18 killed in Iraq
¤ MI6 boss 'tried to sex up' Iraq study
May 14, 2005 News
Posted: Saturday, May 14, 2005
¤ U.S. assault ends, gunmen kill Iraqi official
¤ Troops, protesters killed in Uzbekistan clashes
¤ Lessons from Vietnam
¤ 200 Killed in Police Assault on Demonstrators in Uzbekistan
¤ Solving the Media Puzzle
¤ `America kept in dark' as carnage escalates
¤ Italy sent troops to Iraq to secure oil deal
¤ British Intelligence Warned of Iraq War
¤ Iraq Uncensored
¤ Breaking Through The News Blackout in the US
¤ Thumbing their nose at Uncle Sam
¤ Pakistan denies CIA attack
¤ Unrest spreads to Uzbek border town
¤ Fighters Remain in Iraq-Syria Border Town
¤ Newsweek sparks global riots with one paragraph on Koran
¤ U.S. Urges Iraqi Leader to Answer Violence
¤ Violence flares in Uzbekistan
¤ Losing hearts and minds
¤ US nuclear weapons policy is ‘immoral’ and ‘illegal’
¤ The Iran Crisis in Global Context
¤ Intense fighting threatens Iraqi town
¤ A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost
¤ War on His Mind
¤ We shall tell the truth about genocide in the Caucasus to the world
¤ Depravity and the US 'War on Terrorism'
May 13, 2005 News
Posted: Friday, May 13, 2005
¤ A Chronology of US War Crimes & Torture, 1975-2005
¤ U.S. as Global Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor
¤ Credibility Matters Little to Brits, Americans
¤ Nine killed as Afghans rage at US
¤ What lies behind Uzbek protests?
¤ Iraq Falls Apart
¤ Politics in an Age of Fiction
¤ West’s obsession with Zim smacks of racism
¤ Chavez Predicts Worldwide Energy Crisis
¤ Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"--and Global Terrorism?
¤ The Bush in the bubble
¤ Back on Osama's trail
¤ What Google Knows But the NYT Doesn't
¤ Torture’s Dirty Secret: It Works
¤ The Sleazy World of Jeb Bush
¤ 'Losing hearts and minds'
¤ Violent Uprising Breaks Out in Uzbekistan
¤ Three die in anti-US protests
¤ Iraq Car Bombings Kill 21, Injure 90
¤ Syrians watch as battle between Marines and insurgents
¤ A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost
¤ The Greatness of American Diplomacy
¤ Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents
¤ Speaking of Iran
¤ Independent Access to Khuzestan Urged
¤ Diary from Mosul
¤ What Pakistan mean to Americans
¤ A bigger threat than the bomb
¤ We're Not Interested in Covering the Iraq War
¤ Seventeen U.S. soldiers killed since Saturday
¤ Iraqis Suffer “Tragic” Conditions: UN Report
¤ Don't demand answers; demand resignation
¤ Let's face it - the state has lost its mind
¤ Put the war on trial
Chinese come from Africa, just like the rest of us
Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005
CNA , HONG KONG
Thursday, May 12, 2005,Page 1
An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from "Peking Man" in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia to China some 100,000 years ago, Hong Kong's Ming Pao daily reported yesterday in a finding that confirms the "single origin" theory in anthropology.
According to the newspaper, a research team led by Jin Li (ª÷¤O) of Fudan University in Shanghai has found that modern humans evolved from a single origin, not multiple origins as some experts believe.
Full Article : taipeitimes.com
May 12, 2005 News
Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005
¤ Baghdad Suicide Bombing Kills 40
¤ The Dubious Wisdom of George W. Bush
¤ Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes on Rise in US: Report
¤ Your words of greeting will sound like a justification of murder
¤ Russell Simmons Responds to Abraham Foxman
¤ 3 More Die in Afghanistan Anti-U.S. Riot
¤ Demise of a Hard-Fighting Squad
¤ Investigators Find Evidence of Voter Fraud
¤ The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target
¤ Blair Backs U.N. Intervention for Iran
¤ Bush facing lame-duck woes
¤ Tally of civilian deaths depends on who's counting
¤ Anti-US protests spread in Afghanistan
¤ US denies copters downed in Iraq
¤ Former British colonies can be free and starve, or be loyal and be fed
¤ Chinese come from Africa, just like the rest of us
¤ Good War Myth: 60 Years is Enough
¤ Privatisation Plan Drawn Up
¤ Iraq Diaries. My First Car Bomb
¤ Iraqi police vent anger at US after car bombings
¤ One month's toll in Iraq: 67 suicide bombers
¤ Iraqi anger grows as insurgency intensifies
¤ The veneer of fraternity
¤ Four dead after anti-American riots erupt in Afghanistan
¤ Student rioters shot dead
¤ Weapons of Mass Destruction – Not!
¤ Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit?
¤ Body Counts
¤ Iran Threat Propaganda Heats Up,
¤ Geronimo, Cochise and Osama bin Laden
¤ A humiliating US gift
¤ Misuse of the U.S. military
¤ Desperately Seeking Virtue in the Bush Administration
¤ Castro calls for anti-US demonstration
¤ Russia set to send Iran nuclear fuel
¤ Bush and Blair must be prosecuted
¤ The Ultimate War Crime, Killing the Children
May 11, 2005 News
Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
¤ Troops battle way toward Syria
¤ More than 80 killed in Iraq attacks
¤ At Least 79 Are Killed in New Round of Attacks in Iraq
¤ The Occupation Get More Saddam-like Everyday
¤ Coffee, Tea or Torture?
¤ Carte Blanche for the Terror Cops
¤ In the War on Cuba, Truth Dies First
¤ America's hired guns: A pot of gold or death
¤ Terror Alerts Were Used As Electoral Weapons
¤ Israel Never Spies on the U.S...except when it's caught red-handed
¤ U.S. Agriculture Dept. paid journalist for favorable stories
¤ Ridge reveals clashes on alerts
¤ 'Real men don't kiss princes'
¤ Bush, Posada & Terrorism Hypocrisy
¤ A conspiracy theory with legs
¤ Lies Run Big, Facts Small in U.S. Media
¤ Iraq Bombshell Goes Mostly Unreported in US Media
¤ The war on Iraq destroyed 84% of education establishments
¤ Four Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya
¤ Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent
¤ Deadly day in Iraq
¤ Anti-U.S. Riot Turns Deadly in Afghanistan
¤ Afghan rioters shot dead in US protest
¤ Brazil summit policies at odds with US
¤ Zimbabwe Due to Deport Alleged Mercenaries
¤ THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME
¤ Rumsfeld Meets Saddam: Transcript of Conversation
¤ Israeli doctors experimented on children
¤ Brazilian chief calls for tools to help save land from 'white man'
¤ Early morning car-bomb blasts in Iraq kill at least 54
¤ U.S. to Expand Prison Facilities in Iraq
¤ The public outcry: 'Give us back our democracy'
¤ China Rejects Sanctions as Way to Restart Korean Nuclear Talks
¤ Judge who exonerated Cheney is on the payroll of Exxon
¤ Grading Accuracy in News Coverage of Israel and Palestine
¤ Working Hard to Draw Attention to Bush\Blair Lies
¤ US Ambitions Need Reality Check
¤ Israel shuts Palestinian vote offices in Jerusalem
¤ Have we come to this?
¤ Bush ignores Chechnya
May 10, 2005 News
Posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
¤ The big catch that wasn't?
¤ U.S. funds Syrian opposition for ‘regime change’
¤ Car Bomb Kills at Least 9 in Baghdad
¤ Mr Osama, are you OK?
¤ US media and Iran's nuclear threat
¤ Twin blasts rock Baghdad
¤ Halliburton gets $72 million bonus for work in Iraq
¤ Taking Direct Action Against Hallliburton
¤ S Americans attack US sanctions against Syria
¤ Governor of Iraqi province kidnapped
¤ Americans tend to be Believers, Not Thinkers
¤ Iraq is Still Not a Sovereign Nation
¤ Memo proves leadership knew Saddam was not a threat
¤ Venezuela tightens control over strategic oil resources
¤ Bush offers support to Putin's critics
¤ An ethical blank cheque
¤ Car Bomb Explosion Kills 7 in Baghdad
¤ Electoral reform: Why it's time for change
¤ System failure: all voters are equal, but some are more equal than others
¤ US claims 75 insurgents killed after assault on rebel enclave
¤ Lesson From a Total Defeat for the US
¤ Iraq War: Cheating for enlistments
¤ Why media shouldn’t take sides in the ‘war on terror’
¤ The Marines’ flawed body armor
¤ Venezuela: New party vows to take on Chavez
¤ DHS Considers Alternatives To Color-Coded Warnings
¤ Marines surprised by insurgent's preparation for attack
¤ Israel fired shell into Lebanon by mistake--army
¤ Caspian oil set for fast flow to the West
¤ Iran Poses Dangerous Threat, Peres Tells ADL
¤ Two US Marines, 23 insurgents killed in Afghan fighting
¤ USA, Israel and Abbas
US Totalitarian Tendencies exposed
Posted: Monday, May 9, 2005
Those who grew up during the peak years of the Cold War are struck by an emerging pattern in US foreign policy. The pattern suggests that throughout those Cold War years, the US projected on the Soviet Union its own intentions and inclinations, accusing the latter of seeking to set up a world government, seeking to spread the Soviet version of communism to every corner of the globe, when in fact it was the US which sought to impose its form of corporate cannibalism on the whole world.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
US Totalitarian Tendencies exposed
Posted: Monday, May 9, 2005
by Tafataona P. Mahoso
Those who grew up during the peak years of the Cold War are struck by an emerging pattern in US foreign policy. The pattern suggests that throughout those Cold War years, the US projected on the Soviet Union its own intentions and inclinations, accusing the latter of seeking to set up a world government, seeking to spread the Soviet version of communism to every corner of the globe, when in fact it was the US which sought to impose its form of corporate cannibalism on the whole world.
Now that the US and its allies succeeded in subverting and causing the collapse of the Soviet Union itself instead, they now boast of having achieved what they once accused the Soviet Union of trying to achieve. And it seems clear to historians of the Cold War that it was the US and its allies who sought world domination after tasting it during the fight against Hitler.
A re-reading of the book called Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy by Carl Friedrich and Zbgniew Brzezinski is telling in this regard.
However, we start with recent stories in the Press which provide immediate indicators of this historical reality.
The top of the list should be John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man which was summarised in the interview which the US "economic consultant" had with a US radio station called Democracynow which The Sunday Mail reprinted under the title "Economic 'hitman' bares all" on May 1 2005.
Essentially, Perkins is saying that as a US economic "consultant" for the last 50 years, his real function was that of an economic saboteur and manipulator on behalf of the US transterritorial empire. Perkins says in the interview:
"Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring - to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country (the US), to our corporations, and our government and, in fact, we've been very successful . . . This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through economic hitmen."
But the most revealing part of Perkins' interview is about the ladder of escalation of subversion methods used by this empire. At the lowest level it looks benign and friendly. It uses "civil society" means such as missionaries, NGOs, volunteers and other apparent do-gooders to soften up the society ideologically.
If this level does not accomplish the mission, intervention is raised to level two, where "the private sector" of the US carries out the US government's mandate with very little mention of the government or government intentions. Some of the private sector people become advisors to client governments. John Perkins himself rose to become the government's chief economist in some of the countries he helped to subvert and destroy. Zimbabwe also once hired a chief economist, Norman Raynolds, who now travels around the world agitating for Western military intervention in this country.
If level two fails, level three involves using what Perkins calls "CIA jackals". These are spy activists who whip up resentment and division within state and social institutions in order to provoke civil strife, civil war, coups d'etat or insurrection.
If level three fails, the US intervention escalates to level four, which involves the use of hired assassins to eliminate key leaders of the country. That is wh | |
