by Larry Everest / May 30, 2004 ROOTS OF THE 2003 WAR What are the roots of the 2003 war? There has been an outpouring of books criticizing Bush and his administration--his lying, his family's ties to the CIA and various dictators and tyrants, his corporate connections. This shows how deeply troubled many people, with widely divergent viewpoints, are about the Bush regime, and much interesting information has been brought to light. But we need to dig much, much deeper. This war didn't...

WILLIAM FINNEGAN / Harper's Magazine May 03 In early March, President Bush, on the verge of declaring war on Iraq, was asked at a press conference why he thought "so many people around the world take a different view of the threat that Saddam Hussein poses than you and your allies." Mr. Bush replied, "I've seen all kinds of protests since I've been the president. I remember the protests against trade. There was a lot of people who didn't feel like free trade was good for the world. I compl...

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 Maureen Farrell Buzzflash.com 18 May 2004 "I am writing this from Frederick, Maryland. I've just been filming, for Channel 4, a press conference in which the son of a CIA officer who died in suspicious circumstances presented his evidence that vice-president Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld were, in 1975, when part of the Gerald Ford administration, involved in a cover-up of the events surrounding his father's death. The press conference was due to have been two...

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 Barry Grey Mar 23, 2004 The acquisition of FleetBoston Financial Corp. by Bank of America provides revealing insights into the workings of the American profit system and its social priorities. On March 17, the same day that shareholders of both banks met to approve the takeover of Fleet, the nation’s seventh largest bank, by the number-three financial institution, the Wall Street Journal reported that the merged bank plans to eliminate between 12,000 and 13,000 jobs. The job cuts, w...

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...

By DOUGLAS VALENTINE "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I. Finally, a period of re-evaluation. Too bad it took a war crimes scandal to bring it about, and that the entire Iraqi misadventure was a criminal fraud to being with. But here we are, with calls from Congress for the resignation of the once popular, infallible Donald Rumsfeld, and the absence of that permanent, arrogant smi...

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...

Mr. George W. Bush: the million Cubans who are gathered here today to march past your Interests Section is just a small part of a valiant and heroic people who would like to be here with us, if it were physically possible. We have not gathered in a hostile gesture to the American people whose ethics, rooted in the time when the first pilgrims emigrated to this hemisphere, are well known to us. Neither do we wish to upset the officials, employees and guards of this mission, who are given al...

by Christopher Deliso balkanalysis.com Last November, when George W. Bush traveled to London for an official state visit, pundits wondered if the timing could possibly have been worse. Both Bush and his British counterpart Tony Blair were then "mired in slumping approval ratings" because of the shoddy state of occupied Iraq. The American public would get a taste of how their supreme leader is perceived abroad, with televised footage of anti-Bush protests and denunciations from the likes o...

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...