CHICAGO, Illinois: The head of the American defense contracting firm implicated in the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has close ties to Israel and visited an Israeli "anti-terror" training camp in the occupied West Bank earlier this year. Jack London, chairman, president and CEO of CACI International Incorporated, traveled to Israel in January this year as part of a high-level delegation of US Congressmen, defense contractors and pro-Israel lobbyists, sponsored and paid for in part...

Last week, CBS's Sixty Minutes II program showed footage of American soldiers creating "human pyramids" from detained Iraqis. However, it should be remembered that Iraqis, and indeed Muslims in general, are no strangers to "human pyramids." The last time that such pyramids were built in the region was in the 13th century when the hordes of Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, sacked Iraq. After massacring entire towns and villages, they would assemble huge pyramids of human skulls as a remi...

By Douglas Valentine www.douglasvalentine.com 2003 "The implication or latent threat of terror was sufficient to insure that the people would comply." William Colby, RIP (1) America has been in an ideological state of siege since 11 September 2001, when the Twin Towers came crashing down, and all the moral and psychological prohibitions on the reactionary right were lifted forever. Under the aegis righteous retribution, the anger and frustration the neo-conservatives cultivated durin...

For a century there has been a strong interventionist belief in the United States - although it competes with widespread isolationism. In recent years attitudes hardened: human-rights interventionism became a consensus among the 'foreign policy elite' even before September 11. Human Rights Watch itself is part of that elite, which includes government departments, foundations, NGO's and academics. It is certainly not an association of 'concerned private citizens'. HRW board members include pre...

A little publicized piece by Ali Abunimah in Lebanon’s Daily Star titled Israeli link possible in US torture techniques: In exchange for interrogation training, did Washington award security contracts? should be getting a lot more attention. While it is doubtful that the Pentagon and its defense contractors would need to barter with Israel to get their interrogation techniques (they’ve had them for decades), the Abunimah article provides a gold-mine worth of resources establishing, yet again,...

We speak with two whistleblowers from different eras about their experiences in speaking out: Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator hired to translate pre-9/11 intelligence, has said the U.S. had considerable evidence that al Qaida was planning to strike the U.S. with airplanes. The Bush administration is now trying to block her from testifying at a major 9/11 lawsuit. And Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps the most famous whistleblower in U.S. history who leaked the Pentagon Papers setting in motion ...

U.S.-CENTRAL ASIAN COOPERATION A. Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Subcommittee on Central Asia and the Caucasus Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Senate December 13, 2001 Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Subcommittee, it is a distinct honor and privilege to be the first Administration official to testify before this new Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The very fact that it was created testifies to t...

My fellow countrymen: At the opening of the Social Workers Training School in Santiago de Cuba on October 24, I said that in the coming days I would speak about the international economic situation and how it could affect our country, which was carrying out an unprecedented social development program as it gradually recovered from the special period. I do not want to put that discussion off any longer. To characterize the current situation, one could say, by way of a very brief summary,...

Introduction Attention, loyal Americans. Do you believe in your country? Do you believe what your leaders say? Do you believe in the truth? The greatest tragedy in American history occurred on September 11, 2001. The nation we love was attacked. Our leaders told us a tale of what happened. It was a lie. We dare you, loyal Americans, to look at this evidence, which reveals - in irrefutable clarity - that the Pentagon was not hit by a jetliner on 9/11. They say a photograph is worth a ...

By David Ruppe N E W Y O R K, May 1 — In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. ...

By Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.* On October 1, 2001-approximately two weeks before the first publicly announced anthrax mailing-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials received an urgent warning from this author.(1) Government investigators were directed to consider the growing anthrax fright as the planned response to military-style propaganda. The American news media's coverage of anthrax, and subsequently the anthrax mailings, held many similarities to what militar...

This deck is designed to support on-going campaigns against many of the evil-doers present here. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack the deck against democracy in the rigged game of global power. Exposing their place in the house of cards illuminates the links among corporations, institutions, and government officials that profit from endless war. The US War of Terror is not about liberation, democracy, or UN resolutions. Plainly put, the ...

by Michael C. Ruppert CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR "BUZZY" KRONGARD MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the...

This article, circulated in the FEASTA discussion list, is about probably the biggest level of theft in world history - by the group around George Bush. Among interesting information is amounts and assets reported missing by the US General Accounting Office (GAO), also about how increasing parts of the US budget are becoming classified and an anecdote which shows how the media in the US turn out if they think the Democrats are going to be implicated in financial crime but stay away from repo...

The Zionist Connection: an Unholy Tripartite Ted Lang / May 24, 2004 Henry Makow , a PhD. who writes for several Internet news and opinion websites, has provided invaluable insight focusing on political alliances that control the United States as well as the entire world. An unholy tripartite threatens the individual freedom of all people, as well as the peace of the entire world, desiring the establishment of a New World Order controlled by one global government. It consists of these t...