35 Years After Original 9/11
New Transcripts of Kissinger's Role in Chilean Coup
By Peter Kornbluh
When Henry Kissinger began secretly taping all of his phone conversations in 1969, little did he know that he was giving history the gift that keeps on giving. Now, on the 35th anniversary of the September 11, 1973, CIA-backed military coup in Chile, phone transcripts that Kissinger made of his talks with President Nixon and the CIA chief among other top government officials reveal in the most candid of language the imperial mindset of the Nixon administration as it began plotting to overthrow President Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically elected Socialist.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
By David Ray Griffin
Much of America's foreign policy since 9/11 has been based on the assumption that it was attacked by Muslims on that day. - Is it conceivable that this assumption might be false? ....
When actually examined, however, the proffered evidence turns out to be remarkably weak.
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Zero: An Investigation Into 9-11
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
By Robert Dreyfuss
......Certainly McCain could not have been unaware of the havoc unleashed by his bombing missions over Vietnam. Though Pentagon war planners and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara preferred to emphasize the antiseptic nature of aerial bombardment against carefully chosen targets, a highly publicized series of articles in late 1966 by Harrison Salisbury in the New York Times described the widespread devastation of civilian neighborhoods around Hanoi by American bombs.
"Bomb damage...extends over an area of probably a mile or so on both sides of the highway" near one target, he wrote, noting that "small villages and hamlets along the route [were] almost obliterated."
Several years ago, a chastened McNamara acknowledged that Operation Rolling Thunder, which unloaded 800 tons of bombs a day over North Vietnam, caused more than a million deaths and injuries in Vietnam each year from 1965 to 1968. .......
On October 26, 1967, on his twenty-third bombing mission, this one against a thermal power plant in what McCain described in his book as "a heavily populated part of Hanoi," he was shot down, plunging into a lake just blocks away from Ho Chi Minh's presidential palace, and taken to prison.
"Nobody made me fly over Vietnam," McCain says now, as quoted in John McCain: An American Odyssey, the biography by Robert Timberg. "That's what I was trained to do and that's what I wanted to do."...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20698.htm
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Why was Cheney's Guy in Georgia Before the War?
By James Gerstenzang
What was a top national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney doing in Georgia shortly before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's troops engaged in what became a disastrous fight with South Ossetian rebels -- and then Russian troops?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdffd9a6-7b71-11dd-b839-000077b07658.html
CNN Interviews Putin
Video - (English subtitles)
Compiled by Sean M. Madden
The following three-part series is an interview, held on August 28, between CNN's Matthew Chance and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin.
The CNN transcript is available here.
Following the three-part series is the truncated version broadcast for Western audiences.
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US-Iraqi Agreement: Leaked
By Raed Jarrar
This leaked draft is a treasure of information.
It's the first time any document related to this topic is made public.
It shows how weak the Iraqi negotiations team is (it is really pathetic to read their "suggestions" on how to fix the disaster of an agreement).
In case you missed it
The Keating Five
One Crook Went To Prison,
The Other Is Running For President
For anyone not aware of the Keating Five, here’s a very simple summary:
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McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate
By Tom Fitzpatrick
You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.
The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack
History of CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking
By William Blum
"In my 30 year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA."
-- Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
We Lie and Bluster About Our Nukes - And Then Wag Our Fingers At Iran
By George Monbiot
By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits, nuclear states are driving proliferation....
Monday, August 18, 2008
Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
By Mark H. Gaffney
Mark can be reached for comment at markhgaffney@earthlink.net
This excellent article is an excerpt from Mark H. Gaffney's forthcoming book,
THE 911 MYSTERY PLANE AND THE VANISHING OF AMERICA,
to be released in September 2008.
Regrettably, there is considerable evidence that elements of the Bush administration were complicit in the 9/11 attack, and may even have helped stage it. Let us now examine some of what I regard as the most compelling evidence.....
Gorbatchev describes Georgia Attack:
Media "Lies from Begining to End"
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Putin's Winning Hand
By Mike Whitney
There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, manufacturing plants and residential areas. It is also the home to 30,000 South Ossetians.
When Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered the city to be bombed by warplanes and shelled by heavy artillery last Thursday, he knew that he would be killing hundreds of civilians in their homes and neighborhoods. But he ordered the bombing anyway. .....
By day's end, over 2,000 people were killed in an operation that was clearly engineered with the assistance of the Bush White House.
Bush regards Saakashvilli as his main client in the region; they are friends. He is America's cat's paw in the Caucasus. Saakashvilli's assignment is to try to get Putin to overreact militarily and demonstrate to European allies that Russia still poses a threat to their national security.
Fortunately, many Europeans see through the ruse and know that the trouble originates in Washington. ........
The coverage of the western media has been abysmal.
Nearly every article and TV news segment begins with accusations of Russian aggression concealing the fact that the Georgian Army bombarded and invaded the capital of South Ossetia one full day before the first Russian tank crossed the border. By the time the Russians arrived, the city was already in a shambles and thousands were dead......
In a 2006 referendum, 99% of South Ossetians said they supported independence from Georgia. The voter turnout was 95% and the balloting was monitored by 34 international observers from the west. No one has challenged the results.
The province has been under the protection of Russian and Georgian peacekeepers since 1992 and has been a de facto independent state ever since. If Putin applied the same standard as Bush did in Kosovo, he would unilaterally declare South Ossetia independent from Georgia and then thumb his nose at the UN. (Sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander)
But Putin and newly-elected Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have taken a conciliatory attitude towards the international community and tried to resolve the issue through diplomatic channels. So far, they have conducted themselves with restraint and avoided any confrontation.
Still, Russia's operation in South Ossetia has ignited a firestorm in the US political establishment and Democrats and Republicans alike are demanding that Russia be "taught a lesson". ....
Saakashvili's hyperbolic rhetoric was followed by a surprise announcement from Poland that they had approved Bush's plans for deploying the Missile Defense Shield in Eastern Europe.......
The new "shield" will be integrated into the larger US nuclear weapons system placing the world's most lethal weapons just a few hundred miles from Russia's capital.
It is a clear threat to Russia's national security and it must be opposed at all cost.......
President Medvedev made this statement after hearing of Poland's decision:
"This decision clearly demonstrates everything we have said recently. The deployment of new anti-missile forces in Europe is aimed at the Russian Federation."......
The Bush administration has been planning for a confrontation with Russia for more than a year.....
So, it appears the Bush administration, working in conjunction with the Pentagon, did have contingency plans for dealing with a flare-up with Georgia.
The real question is whether or not they planned to initiate those hostilities to advance their own regional agenda? .......
Now that Georgia's American-trained army has been humiliated in front of the world, Bush is trying desperately to save face by demanding that Russia allow the US Air force to deliver humanitarian aid via C-17 military aircraft to the tens of thousands of Georgians who were displaced in the fighting.
It is worth noting that, as yet, Bush has never delivered as much as a bag of rice to the 2 million Iraqi refugees living in Jordan and Syria due to his war in Iraq.
Bush's magnanimity is not only suspect, it also creates real problems for Putin who will have to decide whether the offer is sincere or just a ploy to open up the ports and airfields so that more weaponry and ordnance can be delivered......
Friday, August 08, 2008
that a high-placed Iraqi source said that
Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
The intelligence was passed to the US
but was buried by the White House,
according to a new book.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4466512.ece
On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran. ....
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a criminal act on an epic scale. ......
The most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and save lives. .....
Since 1945, the United States is believed to have been on the brink of using nuclear weapons at least three times. In waging their bogus "war on terror", the present governments in Washington and London have declared they are prepared to make "pre-emptive" nuclear strikes against non-nuclear states.
With each stroke toward the midnight of a nuclear Armageddon, the lies of justification grow more outrageous. Iran is the current "threat". But Iran has no nuclear weapons and the disinformation that it is planning a nuclear arsenal comes largely from a discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition group, the MEK - just as the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction originated with the Iraqi National Congress, set up by Washington.
The role of western journalism in erecting this straw man is critical. That America's Defence Intelligence Estimate says "with high confidence" that Iran gave up its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 has been consigned to the memory hole. That Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" is of no interest. But such has been the mantra of this media "fact" that in his recent, obsequious performance before the Israeli parliament, Gordon Brown alluded to it as he threatened Iran, yet again.
This progression of lies has brought us to one of the most dangerous nuclear crises since 1945, because the real threat remains almost unmentionable in western establishment circles and therefore in the media. There is only one rampant nuclear power in the Middle East and that is Israel.
The heroic Mordechai Vanunu tried to warn the world in 1986 when he smuggled out evidence that Israel was building as many as 200 nuclear warheads. In defiance of UN resolutions, Israel is today clearly itching to attack Iran, fearful that a new American administration might, just might, conduct genuine negotiations with a nation the west has defiled since Britain and America overthrew Iranian democracy in 1953. .....
Read more about the real reasons why the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan!:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20444.htm
after careful consideration of alternatives,
have both been proven false.
Where Are the World's Nuclear Weapons?
According to information compiled by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization devoted to monitoring the status of the nuclear threat worldwide, nine countries had nukes by April 2004.
The nine countries are listed here.
And much more. . . .
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Obama and the Empire
By William Blum
I'm afraid that if Barack Obama becomes president
he's going to break a lot of young hearts.
And some older ones as well.
Writer Norman Solomon has written:
"These days, an appreciable number of Obama supporters are starting to use words like "disillusionment." But that's a consequence of projecting their political outlooks onto the candidate in the first place.
The best way to avoid becoming disillusioned is to not have illusions in the first place."
