World Control

2010-10-02T11:57:00.000-07:00

Operation Dark Heart rises from ashes

So the burned book has returned. The redacted version is now available, even from Amazon. Wikileaks warns they have an unredacted copy from the first printing. These have sold for as much as $2000 on eBay. Julian Assange has promised to publish the unredacted version on wikileaks.org. I checked and they claim "scheduled maintenance" is underway.
AFP claims Assange is being hunted by Australian spies. Australia is after all the home of the old Nugan-Hand bank (until 1980 - but intrigues continue), infamous for CIA money laundering by some of the spookiest creatures in the business. Nonetheless, Julian continues making public appearances - most recently at London's City University. Sometimes the light of day is a lifesaver. This may be such an instance. Reports from City University London by mainstream media were dull, including stale slander of Assange. Here are 3 refreshing reports of Thursday's event:
http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,00.shtml

http://georgebrock.net/assange-of-wikileaks-reflections-on-truth/

http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/540810.php

2010-09-17T08:36:00.001-07:00

Operation Dark Heart will soon see the light of day

St. Martin's Press is currently negotiating with the Pentagon for the sale of it's entire first printing of "Operation Dark Heart" by Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, formerly of US intelligence in South Asia. At this point, it seems the military has no way to stop publication of the book that promises to blow holes in the public image of US operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the first run of 10,000 copies is gone, the usual thing for a publisher to do is print more.

Having not yet seen the light of day, the book is already headed on it's way up the charts.According to The Guardian:

"Shaffer describes in the book how he was part of the "dark side of the force" that operates outside the usual constraints of the military system...
...He says that US forces were gaining the upper hand until the military brass involved itself, curbing operations in Pakistan and permitting the Taliban to strengthen again.

Shaffer, who used the pseudonym Christopher Stryker, fell foul of his superiors several years ago after claiming that an intelligence programme he was working with identified Mohammed Atta as a terrorist threat to the US before he led the attacks on 9/11."

Similar claims are made by various intelligence agents who were dismissed or silenced in July and August of 2001, including Sibel Edmonds, a translator for the FBI who continues to struggle to make her story known.

St. Martins Press will release "Operation Dark Heart" next week. How soon it will reach the shelves is still an open question.

2010-09-15T23:51:00.000-07:00

The New Boss and the Old Boss

October 16, 2009
For Immediate Release
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT POINTS OF LIGHT 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
4:39 P.M. CDT
(excerpts)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. So, howdy, Aggies.
AUDIENCE Howdy!

THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank Michelle Nunn, the CEO of Points of Light, as well as Neil Bush, Chairman of the Board, for their wise leadership. (Applause.)
see also: Obama Gives a Nod to Neil Bush:
Bailout Deja Vu

2010-09-15T11:15:00.000-07:00

Same old military dictatorship in Peru

Reagan Era strongman Alan Garcia has recently decreed that Peru will apply the statute of limitations to crimes against humanity - some of which are known to have been committed during his presidency in the 80s. According to José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. "This means that those responsible for killings, ‘disappearances,' and torture will never have to pay the price for their crimes..."

"...This provision would allow Peruvian courts to apply statutes of limitations to cases of grave human rights abuses committed in the 1980s and 1990s, which are currently under investigation. These include atrocities during Garcia's first term, from 1985 to 1990, such as the massacre of 122 prisoners in El Fronton in 1986."

2008-01-20T11:11:00.000-08:00

Corporate Warriors Invade Illinois

In March of 2007, Blackwater Security began training urban guerillas in the woods of Northern Illinois. U.S Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has invested in real estate nearby.
details in DOGSPOT

2007-02-02T15:09:00.000-08:00

Domestic Surveillance by the DOD

Minutes ago, I had just successfully countered a hack attempt against my home computer by a system in France (88.191.28.59), combined with a mysterious IP address from Sprint in Virginia (205.245.110.154). Immediately after I filed a protest with Sprint, a similar IP address took up the attack. I tracked it to "Space and Warfare Command"
in Washington, DC. DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE

2006-12-20T12:50:00.000-08:00

Rumsfeld Under the Gun of Major Law Firm

Donald Rumsfeld is returning home to Skokie, Illinois and he will soon be greeted by the Sherrif with news from the powerful law firm of Loevy and Loevy. Rumsfeld will be asked to appear before Judge Milton Shadur to answer the complaint filed by one of his victims, US Navy veteran Donald Vance.
FULL STORY

2006-12-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

Iraq Study Group Members Profit from Secret UK Defense Lab

George Tenet, Frank Carlucci, and James Baker benefit from the privatization of sensitive UK defense assets finalized shortly before 9/11. On July 1, 2001, a portion of the British "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency" was renamed QuinetiQ. Former DCI George Tenet is one of its' directors.

These same people will profit from the privatization of Iraqi oil reserves:
which are 500x greater than Iraq's annual production in 1999. Which is why the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker of Carlyle has recommended privatization.see also

The privatization of QuinetiQ, former the research arm of the UK "Ministry of Defence" was proposed in 1998, shortly after Tenet assumed the postion of DCI in the US.

The story is based on publicly avalable government documents which are included in the "work in progress" currently online.

FULL STORY(so far)

2006-05-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

Full Text of Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush

In his lengthy letter to President Bush, Iran's President Ahmadinejad addresses concerns about 911, US support of Saddam Hussein, and the US overthrow of a legally elected Iranian government in 1953. Not surprisingly, it was universally shunned by the media that is now controlled by the same people who have looted the US treasury to the tune of US$7000 Billion - that is, US$7 Trillion worth of Fear and Loathing.

"Mr President, September Eleven was a horrendous incident. The killing of innocents is deplorable and appalling in any part of the world. Our government immediately declared its disgust with the perpetrators and offered its condolences to the bereaved and expressed its sympathies...
September eleven was not a simple operation.
Could it have been planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services ? or their extensive infiltration?
...Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told who botched their responsibilities? And, why aren't those responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial? "

The complete text follows with links and comments. I have loosened my restrictions on comments, and yours are welcome - if you bother to reader the friggin' letter first.

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2006-04-17T13:24:00.000-07:00

Retired Pakistani Brigadier Speaks His Mind On Indo-US Nuke Deal

A self-described "retired Pakistani brigadier", Shaukat Qadir presents a Pakistani view of how "Bush Undermined World Peace" by facilitating the expansion of India's nuclear weapons program while trying to disrupt plans for a pipeline between India, Pakistan and Iran that would compete with the interests of Texas-based oil companies.

full story at

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2006-04-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

Shit Hits the Fan in Iran

They could hear the sound of it spattering all the way in Norway, where the former Norwegian Prime Minister has called for a stay of execution for the opposition leader about to be hanged in Tehran. Those Norwegians know how to wake up at 5 in the morning, pray to their God, and read the newswire and the wire yesterday morning was more terrifying than usual. For Iran especially, where those folks are really between a rock and a hard place: Rumsfeld wants to attack them with our latest nuclear products from the University of California, and their own newly elected leader wants to hang people who have "insulted the government".

If they start executing people here for insulting Rumsfeld, let's hope the Norwegians we be around to bail us out -

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Iranian Opposition Leader Feyz-Mahdav On Verge of Execution

2005-11-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

REPORT ON THE GUATEMALA REVIEW

"On March 30, 1995, the President directed the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) to conduct a government-wide review concerning allegations regarding the l990 death of US citizen Michael DeVine, the 1992 disappearance of Guatemalan guerrilla leader Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, and related matters. Under terms of reference issued on April 7, 1995, the scope of this inquiry covers any existing intelligence bearing on the torture, disappearance, or death of US citizens in Guatemala since 1984, including the cases of Dianna Ortiz, Griffith Davis and Nicholas Blake. Other cases that have come to our attention and have been included in our review are those involving Peter Wolfe, Janey Skinner, Jennifer Roitman, Meredith Larson, June Weinstock, and Daniel Callahan. Because an investigation of the Dianna Ortiz case by the Department of Justice is still underway, our comments on that case will be limited at this time to our review of relevant intelligence reports."

A complete archive of this report is online: http://www.ciponline.org/iob.htm

"...In the course of our review, we found that several CIA assets were credibly alleged to have ordered, planned, or participated in serious human rights violations such as assassination, extrajudicial execution, torture, or kidnapping while they were assets--and that the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) headquarters was aware at the time of the allegations. A number of assets were alleged-- with varying levels of credibility--to have been involved in similar abuses before their CIA asset relationships began; in several other cases, the alleged abuses occurred or came to light only after the CIA was no longer in contact with the assets. A few assets were reportedly present as others engaged in acts of intimidation, and another engaged in such an act before becoming an asset. A further asset was the subject of an unspecific allegation of human rights abuse. Several of the above assets were also involved in covering up human rights abuses, as was an additional asset."

George Washington University has photocopies of the entire document from June 28, 1996 online:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB27/04-01.htm

In spite of this reality we have academics like Abraham Lowenthal who will insist that things were looking up as a result of the "progress" made during the Reagan years.
If he wasn't a professor of political science at UCLA his fantasies would be less troublesome, yet his title gets him recognized as an authority by New Perspectives Quarterly.

2005-10-22T12:18:00.000-07:00

For Those Who Think That History Repeats Itself

"I went into the forest and told the people to hide their weapons. I wanted to continue resistance, and thus I became a rebel against Hitler's Germany.
At that time only England and I were still in the war.
I proclaimed that my army would be a Yugoslav Army. Some of my subalterns wished to have only a Serbian Army, but I proved to them the greatness of Yugoslavia as an idea.
Other commanders would not accept this.

Partisans appeared immediately when Soviet Russia entered the war. The Germans began to take reprisals, and some of the people begged me not to emerge."

General Draza Mihailovich, Resistance Fighter

closing speech

2005-10-19T21:41:00.000-07:00

Two hours ago I met Dahr Jamail: the news from Iraq wasn't pretty. It will be more difficult for a reporter to go in and get the type of coverage he got in January of this year. In June he was asked to testify for the International Tribunal on Iraq. He read from his testimony and indicated that the horrors he saw were only the tip of the iceberg. I will be posting a few photos of the event shortly in DOGSPOT

2005-10-17T15:49:00.000-07:00

Role of Pakistan Central to Current Conflicts in the Former British Empire

The nuclear capability in Iran was aquired from Pakistan,and likewise were the leadership and intelligence resources of the Taliban. Half a decade ago, experts were seriously adressing this problem which then seemed to focus on the nuclear saber-rattling between India and Pakistan.

In the picture above, George W. Bush smiles while dismantling decades of work diffusing what had become Churchill's nightmare: an ungovernable empire of unmanageable wealth that could explode violently at any moment.

Bush fired the most important US experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban during the 2 months prior to 911

Peace Activist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

In his politics a proponent of peace, and in his art a master of silence, Harold Pinter has received his just reward from the Swedish Academy with their announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature. It was Pinter's adaptation of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1981 that helped launch the careers of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Pinter also began his career as an actor, and in the 50 years since has become one of the world's most widely respected playwrights, winning accolades from Tom Stoppard and Vaclav Havel. The occassion was true to form, by his own account: "I was called 20 minutes before the official announcement. The chair of the Nobel committee phoned and said, 'You have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature'. I remained silent, and then said, 'I'm speechless.'"

In a report from ABC news, Nobel permanent secretary Horace Engdahl added to the academy's explanation for Pinter's win, saying the playwright "restored theatre to its basic elements - an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles". His style even saw the word 'Pinteresque' added to the artistic lexicon, meaning "a work of drama full of atmospheric silences peppered with half-stated insights".

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2005-08-15T17:19:00.000-07:00

Meanwhile, in Libya, home of many muslin extremists......

Khadaffi's generosity in supporting just about any sort of insurrection comes into play. from wikimirror.com we read:

Qaddafi also sought to increase Libyan influence, especially in states with an Islamic population, by calling for the creation of a Saharan Islamic state and supporting anti-government forces in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Notable in his politics has been the support for liberation movements, in most cases Muslim groups. In the 1970s and the 1980s this support was sometimes so freely given that even the most unsympathetic groups could get Libyan support. Often the groups represented ideologies far away from Qaddafi's own.

Question: Where did Qaddafi get his support?
How and why did it get funneled to groups he might have opposed?

Might it have been the Safari Club?

2005-08-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

Court Ruling Allows Public to View Caskets of US Dead

It took a lawsuit to break the blockade of images of soldiers who come back from war in a casket. A suit filed late last year by Ralph Begleiter has prevailed in obtaining the release of...

...still photographs and video from Dover Air Force Base containing images of the memorial and arrival ceremonies for deceased military personnel arriving from overseas. The government apparently has withheld these records pursuant to a policy, first ordered in 1991 by then-Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, through which the government halted the traditional American practice of honoring fallen soldiers when their flag-draped caskets return to United States soil.

full story from

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2005-08-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Joe Wilson Interviewed on the CIA/Rove Scandal

This morning's interview with Joe Wilson on Democracy Now! shed some new light on the fallout from the faked Niger Uranium documents. How did the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame by Karl Rove result in the imprisonment of journalist Judith Miller? What did she really know? Last year's statement from Wilson and the original documents are still available on dogspot#203.

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2005-04-19T21:01:00.000-07:00

Iraq Election Has It's Own Blog

Their weblog has links to numerous iraq blogs, and some are bi-lingual

at least one of them, A Family in Baghdad, is a BLOGGER blog!

2005-04-12T15:32:00.000-07:00

Occupations Seeks to Extinguish Popular Government in Iraq

Buried within the stories of protests in Iraq is news that "officials of Moqtada al Sadr" were gunned down en route to Baghdad. I had indicated in the previous DOGSPOTs last year that even during the rule of Saddam Hussein, a de-facto administration, led by the al Sadr family, existed in Iraq, with offices in various regions of the country. The US has continued the policy of extermination launched by Saddam Hussein against the family of Moqtada al-Sadr in 1999, and that is a major reason for the continued unpopularity of the occupation.

LATEST COVERAGE

2005-02-15T14:36:00.000-08:00

you tell me whether Jim Woolsey's advisory board web page looks like a hacker site...

I should have saved a mirror of the site! They updated the look - it was green on black, like the old VT100 terminals. Also, the "advisory board" is now behind the scenes, so I found the closest link that's public

2004-04-21T14:24:00.000-07:00

Guns for Haiti

According to retired ATF agent Daniel McBride:
"We would see, all of a sudden, a rash of large gun purchases, a large quantity of gun purchases throughout South Florida. We would find that then, a month or two months later, we would see a coup take place in Haiti."

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2004-04-20T20:34:00.000-07:00

Iran Contra Conspiracy Continues in Iraq and Haiti

John Negroponte, currently US ambassador to the UN will soon direct the largest US embassy in the world as ambassador to Iraq. It's not surprising that he will be a major figure in the concluding chapters of our costly venture in Iraq: He was in it from the beginning.

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2004-04-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

Experts Testify on "The Situation in Haiti"

Months before mercanaries marched across the island of Hispaniola to overthrow the government of Haiti, experts began in vain to present a glimpse of reality to the US government.

This failure of US influence - perhaps we can say of US diplomacy - is doubly shocking since the personalities who comprise this opposition have been widely perceived as allies - even sycophants - of Washington. Among these personalities are individuals who have participated in an array of political strategy meetings organized by the International Republican Institute using US government funds, and who have repeatedly visited Washington over the past three years. And, at least one of the highest profile leaders of this faction, Mr. Andre Apaid, is a US citizen.

Statement by Dr. Robert Maguire to the
House Committee on International Relations

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2004-04-17T12:28:00.000-07:00

President's Daily Brief Declassified

Last week, Thomas Blanton, in his article at the National Security Archive expounded on the argument for declassifying the President's Daily Brief of August 6, 2000. Now that it has been declassified excerpts are available...

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2004-04-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

President's Daily Brief Revealed

New Documents Released: Transcript of Testimony

The analysts...
provided President Bush with the August 6, 2001 PDB (President's Daily Briefing) including the warning that Bin Laden planned to attack the U.S., and mentioned hijacked airplanes as one possibility (apparently not as suicide missiles, but the more traditional skyjack style).
What did the President do with that warning?
Did anything happen? None of his senior aides were present at the August 6 briefing, which took place at the ranch in Crawford, Texas...

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2004-04-07T15:58:00.001-07:00

2001 Coup Led by Guy Phillip

Story from Haiti Support Group
Photo from Haiti Press Network
Background: Haiti Contras

Former FAD'H sergeant, Pierre Richardson, said he attended meetings in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo to plan the attack along with Guy Philippe, former police chief of the northern city of Cap-Haitien, and Jean-Jacques Nau, former police chief of the Delmas suburb of Port-au-Prince.
According to the police, Richardson, who has a bullet wound in his leg after Monday's assault on the presidential palace, had been stopped on a road near the border with the neighbouring Dominican Republic. When apprehended by police, he was said to have been carrying a wad of cash and an M16 rifle. The police say that Richardson had been involved in the July 28 attacks on the national Police Academy and three police stations, which left five dead and 14 wounded. Apparently, he later fled to Dominican Republic where he was granted temporary residence this month.

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2004-04-07T15:58:00.000-07:00

Background of US Duplicity in Haiti

...there are two governments: the official government and the invisible one (the Pentagon and CIA), which is often referred to in Haiti as the "Laboratory."...

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2004-04-02T14:56:00.000-08:00

Aristide's Lawyers Respond to Coup with Lawsuits

AFP (04-02)
"...the resignation -- made "at night, while in the hands of armed soldiers" -- was unconstitutional and therefore invalid..."

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2004-04-01T13:53:00.000-08:00

Iraqis Lash Out at Occupation

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP 03-31)
"...frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four men identified as U.S. security guards through the streets of a town...
west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad ..."
...In Baghdad, at least 10,000 supporters of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric rallied Wednesday outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in a protest against the closure of their weekly newspaper, accused by the top U.S. official in Iraq of inciting violence against coalition troops.

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2004-03-26T12:45:00.000-08:00

Think Small and Carry a Big Stick: Bush's New Motto

It's regrettable that amidst the controversies surrounding 911 and Iraq Intelligence that the Bush administration has failed to rise to the occasion and provide solid reasoning to justify its action (or lack thereof). Instead they have proved their ability to think small.

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2004-03-24T15:29:00.000-08:00

According to the Times of India,two suspects detained in connection with the March 11 terrorist attacks in Spain may ultimately turn out to be ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence of Pakistan) agents. This may further embarass an administration that has relied upon Pakistan as an ally against Al Queda, an organization created by Pakistan's ISI and still intricately linked to it.

2004-03-23T15:26:00.000-08:00

Mixed Signals from Pakistan

"...elements within the Pakistani military and its intelligence establishment are helping Al-Qaeda members evade capture and making a mockery of the media hype about the fresh military operations against leaders such as Osama bin Laden, United States analysts have said.
With anti-Taliban and anti-Al Qaeda forces controlling Kabul, Stratfor said, the only remaining suspects are within Islamabad’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) apparatus.

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2004-03-20T15:27:00.000-08:00

The Train in Spain: Regime Change 2004

IF you carry out a well planned atrocity, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than a thousand, and three days later the government that supported an invasion to which you object is unexpectedly defeated in a general election, you are entitled to consider the venture to have been a success...

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2004-03-19T12:19:00.000-08:00

US Gunfire Increases Toll of Arab Journalists

BAGHDAD (IHT 03-19)
A reporter for the Arab satellite television station Al Arabiya died from his wounds Friday after U.S. soldiers shot him hours earlier along with a cameraman, who died at the scene. The death brought to five the number of journalists killed in Iraq in less than 24 hours.

"There are so many things that are untrue that are being reported by irresponsible journalists and ... television stations, particularly like al-Jazeera and al-Arabia," he said, adding that the Iraqi people are being given an unbalanced picture "of what is happening in their country."
Donald Rumsfeld 11-03-2003

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2004-03-19T10:33:00.000-08:00

Justice Department Appeals Detainment Ruling

The Justice Department urged the court to overturn an appellate ruling that found President Bush had exceeded his constitutional authority in detaining Jose Padilla, an American citizen who the government contends has links to Al Qaeda.
''The ultimate issue,'' Ms. Newman said in an interview, ''is whether the president has the authority to order the military to detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil outside a zone of battle and to deny him access to a court to review the legality of that detention.''

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2004-03-19T10:31:00.000-08:00

Senate Probes Backing of Haitian Insurgents

The DOD has supplied 20,000 M-16s and other equipment to the Dominican military over the past two years. Was the Dominican Republic being used as a staging ground for weapons transfers and coup plotting?

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2004-03-19T10:28:00.000-08:00

Pakistan Poses Greater Threat than Taliban

"...the administration is still covering up for Pakistan, whose government recently made the absurd claim that large-scale shipments of nuclear technology and material to rogue states - including North Korea, according to a new CIA report - were the work of one man, who was promptly pardoned by President Pervez Musharraf. "

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2004-03-14T15:59:00.000-08:00

Train Wreck Influences Election in Spain

The government had initially blamed ETA, an armed Basque separatist group, for Thursday's string of train bombings in Madrid. Analysts (predicted) that blaming the massacre on ETA, which the government has gone all out to crush in recent years, would likely benefit the ruling party in today's election. (and it did indeed....

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2004-03-09T18:24:00.000-08:00

Stolen Moments? Follow the Money

The day the music died in the intelligence committee hearings

Time is money: especially in this quagmire called Iraq. Much ado has been made of the false basis of our involvement. Investigations have come and gone here and in the UK. Tony Blair managed to hang on by his fingernails in the wake of the Hutton inquiry while the inner circle of Bush advisors manged to keep a stiff upper lip and carry on as if the game had been played by the book.

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2004-03-08T15:15:00.000-08:00

US Delegation Confirms Aristide Kidnapping

"'We were refused access to Haiti's president Jean Bertrand Aristides, says a US delegation which has arrived in the Central African Republic to meet with him." I spoke with Sara Flounders today Sunday at 1:47pmEST...

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2004-03-07T15:09:00.000-08:00

Black helicopters in Baghdad

For those fools who doubted their existance...
here's an example: and a recent story

"The police couldn't handle security because there are too few of them," said Abu Amr, a Badr Brigade security guard. "And the US couldn't do it because they don't understand Muslims. Too much of a chance for misunderstandings." American Apache and Black helicopters circled overhead.

Moslims Analyse Attacks in Iraq

from AL-AHRAM,
one of Egypt's oldest newspapers: BAGHDAD
While American and Iraqi officials fear the Tuesday Ashura attacks on Shias in Baghdad and Karbala will inflame sectarian violence, Shia hostility targets neither Sunnis nor Kurds, but rather Americans, writes Ramsey Al-Rikabi in Baghdad.
Iraqi police were a rarity in the Kadhemiya district Tuesday morning, stationing themselves away from the main mosque. Kalashnikov- toting local Shia along with members of the Badr Brigade and Mahdi Army, both Shia militias, undertook security near the shrine.

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2004-03-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

Haitian Rebels Have a History

Another figure to recently reemerge is Guy Philippe ...who fled Haiti in October 2000 after authorities discovered him plotting a coup ...
with others trained in Ecuador by US Special Forces during the 1991-1994 coup. Since that time, the Haitian government has accused Philippe of master-minding deadly attacks on the Police Academy and the National Palace in July and December 2001, as well as hit-and-run raids against police stations on Haiti's Central Plateau over the following two years.
"I believe that this is a group that is armed by, trained by, and employed by the intelligence services of the United States," Said Haiti's legal representative Ira Kurzban of Wednesday's coup when interviewed by Amy Goodman

2004-02-29T15:15:00.000-08:00

U.S. policy toward Cuba is dominated by one man, a scandal-plagued Cold War relic who has no business being President Bush's chief adviser on Latin America.
That's what U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, has to say about Otto Reich.

2004-02-27T15:59:00.000-08:00

Discovering Why We are in Iraq

Separate statements by Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and U.S. retired Gen Jay Garner, who was in charge of planning and administering post-war reconstruction from January through May 2002, suggest that other, less public motives were behind the war, none of which concerned self-defence, pre-emptive or otherwise.

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2004-02-22T15:13:00.000-08:00

American policy on Haiti in the last 10 years has gone from one extreme to another. The Clinton administration strongly supported the ousted president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, sending 20,000 troops in 1994 to restore him to power. The current administration then cut off all American assistance to the Aristide government while giving advice and moral support to Aristide's opponents. more

2004-02-21T15:58:00.000-08:00

Hussein Declared a POW, Receives Visit from Red Cross

BAGHDAD, AP(2-21)

"...the Pentagon formally declared Saddam a prisoner of war last month because of his status as commander in chief of Iraq's military. As a POW, Saddam is entitled under the Geneva Conventions to certain rights, including visits by the international Red Cross and freedom from coercion of any kind during interrogations."

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2004-02-17T12:51:00.000-08:00

US Backed Contras in Haiti

A close associate of Chamblain, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, has admitted its CIA funding and direction. Chamblain was revealed in documents reviewed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York as one of those present during the planning, with a USA agent, of the assassination of the pro-Aristide minister of justice, Guy Malary, in 1993. The USA refuses to release documents it seized from FRAPH during the 1994 USA invasion - presumably to cover up the CIA ties to FRAPH. Philippe and Chamblain were among those from the Haitian opposition, recognized by the USA - the Convergence - who organized conferences in the Dominican Republic, funded and attended by USA operatives from the International Republican Institute.

Revolution in Haiti

"Double Game in Haiti" from Crisis Web

2004-02-17T11:32:00.000-08:00

Bush Appoints Iran-Contra Figure To Head Up Iraq "Intelligence" Probe

PACIFICA RADIO (02-12)

"The impartiality of the commission has...
...come into question. The co-chairs named to head up the inquiry will be federal appeals court Judge Laurence Silberman and former Virginia Democratic Senator Charles Robb.

Judge Silberman has been described as a longtime Republican operative and is widely thought to have helped orchestrate Ronald Reagan's1980 "October Suprise" when Reagan secretly made contacts with the Iranian government before he was elected.

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2004-02-05T15:46:00.000-08:00

Greg Dyke's Resignation Statement: full text

"...The dossier raised issues of great public interest. Dr Kelly was a credible source. Provided his allegations were reported accurately, the public in a modern democracy had a right to be made aware of them. The greater part of the BBC's coverage of the >dossier fulfilled this purpose."

full text and related documents

2004-02-04T19:47:00.000-08:00

Prepare for Another Whitewash

In the wake of an investigation that largely cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair of falsifying intelligence that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, President Bush now calls for a similar inquiry into the "sources" that lead to our involvement. As the New York Times blighthly notes, this undertaking is awash with difficulties. Some would say flawed form the outset. Notably Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the senate committee tasked to investigate this type of failure.

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2004-02-03T12:43:00.000-08:00

Andrew Gilligan's Resignation Statement -- full text:

"...The Government did sex up the dossier, transforming possibilities and probabilities into certainties...
and many in the intelligence services, including the leading expert in WMD, were unhappy about it."

His complete statement

2004-01-31T13:29:00.000-08:00

False Basis of Iraq War Precipates International Scandal

"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction
because it was the one issue everyone could agree on."
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

special coverage

2003-12-19T15:31:00.000-08:00

Occupation Becomes Unpopular

"If Saddam Hussein had ever put barbed wire around this village, we would have fought him," the Sheik says angrily.

Interview with the sheik of Saddam Hussein's tribe

2003-12-19T15:18:00.000-08:00

Who Paid for the War in Miami

$8.5-million spent on security during the FTAA meeting came directly out of the $87-billion Bush extracted from Congress for Iraq last month
A partial chronology of reports is archived here.
Naomi Klien provides a thorough analysis at www.nologo.org

2003-12-10T13:10:00.000-08:00

Iraq Reconstruction Contracts:

The Headline is the Story

EU to examine whether U.S. decision to shut Iraq war opponents
out of reconstruction contracts violates WTO rules
AP International
AP National

2003-11-26T17:42:00.000-08:00

Haliburton Iraq contracts worth $2 bn

The administration has shut down one of Iraq's major TV stations, and threatened another.
Could this be the reason?

2003-11-25T15:39:00.002-08:00

Freedom of Press in Iraq Excedes that of US Invaders

(11-25) 14:20 PST WASHINGTON (AP)

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claims that Arab news organizations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya cooperated with Iraqi insurgents to witness and videotape attacks on American troops.
"They've called Al-Jazeera to come and watch them do it...
THAT IS EXACTLY HOW THE AMERCAN PRESS COVERED BATTLES UNTIL
COLIN POWELL CHANGED THE POLICY IN THE AFTERMATH OF MAI LAI

AP Story

2003-11-18T12:42:00.000-08:00

Republicans Shut Down Iraq Intelligence Investigation

John D. Rockefeller in today's Washington Post

...my staff recently drafted an options memo on the use or potential misuse of intelligence. The memo, intended only for me, was pilfered from the usually secure Senate intelligence committee and distributed to the media.

Consider, for example:
• The highly unusual role of Defense Department officials in preparing and collecting information outside the normal intelligence channels.
• The unexplained and possibly unsupported shift in the 2000 and 2002 intelligence assessments regarding Iraq's nuclear programs.
• The presentation of fraudulent information regarding Iraq's nuclear program in the president's State of the Union address -- and assertions by intelligence analysts that their judgments were discounted when they did not support the administration's pro-war policies.
Faced with Republicans' continuing refusal to conduct a complete investigation into these matters, my staff recently drafted an options memo on the use or potential misuse of intelligence. The memo, intended only for me, was pilfered from the usually secure Senate intelligence committee and distributed to the media. It has become a convenient excuse for Republicans to shut down the committee and curtail the investigation.

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2003-11-03T17:28:00.000-08:00

Guided By Voices

Dr. Joseph C. Sharp of the Walter Reed Army Institue of Research, serving as a test subject, heard and understood spoken words delivered to him in an echo-free isolation chamber via a pulsed-microwave audiogram (an analog of the words' sound vibrations) beamed into his brain. Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations designed to drive a target crazy with "voices" or deliver undectable instructions to a programmed assassin.

from "The Body Electric" by Nobel Laureate Robert O. Becker

2003-11-03T15:15:00.000-08:00

Surveillance and Control: No Longer X Files

"'I can't even go to the bathroom without being watched"
Department of Defense microwave voice transmission contract,
courtesy of an EPA employee
unclassified development is now in progress.
...transmission via MODULATED microwave pulses carrying voices to selected weapons testing victims has been carried on for more than two decades
FOIA request: denied for national security reasons

2003-11-03T15:00:00.000-08:00

AP Top News at 2:43 p.m

Congress OKs Iraq, Afghanistan Funding

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress voted its final approval Monday for $87.5 billion for U.S. military operations and aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, a day after Americans in Iraq endured their worst casualties since March. full story

$67 billion is for unspecified millitary and intelligence operations,
the remaining $20 billion is for rebuilding Iraq

2003-10-31T13:22:00.000-08:00

US Hunts for Secret Base Near Saddam's Birthplace

picture and story have been removed from AP archives

UJA, Iraq 12:16PM(AP)
Facing an increasing tide of attacks, American soldiers Friday cordoned off the village where Saddam Hussein was born."There are ties leading to this village, to the funding and planning of attacks against U.S. soldiers," said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, a battalion commander in nearby Tikrit.

2003-10-28T15:26:00.000-08:00

Newspaper editor fatally shot in Mosul

(10-28) 09:10 PST MOSUL, Iraq (AP) --
Two men followed Ahmed Shawkat, editor of the independent "Without Direction," to the roof -- where he went to make a phone call -- and one of them shot him, police said. On April 2 of this year, the San Francisco Chronicle provided a brief history of his clashes with the Baathist party: "His uneasy relations with authority took a fateful turn after the 1968 revolution that brought the Baath Party to power. Ahmed, a freshman at the university in his hometown, Mosul, joined an underground opposition network." But as of now, we don't know exactly what precipitated his demise. According to his daughter:
"He used to write against the resistance, against the Americans, against the local government and the former government. He had integrity," the daughter said. "Obviously some people didn't like the fact that he ... had a view and a principle."

2003-10-20T09:38:00.000-07:00

Bolivian Massacre Ignored by Media

The 8th of October marked the start of a massacre of the Bolivian people during protests to defend the natural gas in the city of El Alto. As of Tuesday the 14th of October there have been more than 54 people killed and approximately 200 wounded as a result of the government's violent repression which has included live ammunition, impact of 'sub-lethal' grenades, and the toxic effects of tear gas.

2003-10-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

From Indymedia, Oct.18-
"...the military is executing soldiers who refuse to fire upon civilians.

Thousands of women of the union Central Obrera Boliviana have gone on hunger strike in Catholic churches, and even traditionally conservative cities such as Santa Cruz have been blockaded by protesters. Especially prominent among the protesters are the swarms of indigenous people that have filled the streets of La Paz, struggling against an apartheid-like government led by predominantly European-descended elite."

Yet the US State Department has already sent military advisors to the aid of U.S.-educated millionaire Sanchez de Lozada ...
...president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997. He took office for a second term in August 2002 after narrowly defeating Evo Morales, currently the leader of the opposition party in the Bolivian congress.

2003-10-18T13:32:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — The Senate joined the House in passing legislation Friday to grant President Bush’s request for $87 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Where will this money go?

2003-10-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

Don't Be Fooled Again

"See for yourself whether the key evidence in Colin Powell's U.N. presentation on Iraq's weapons program was misrepresented to the American public. "
How could this powerful presentation from CBS News get buried so quickly?

2003-10-18T13:15:00.000-07:00

Andean Turmoil Comes to a Head

In a statement Saturday, the State Department said the United States regrets the events that led to fall of the government and commended Sanchez de Lozada "for his commitment to democracy and to the well being of his country."
But the Bolivian s are crying: Bolivar Lives, Free Bolivia
Who will the media hear?

2003-10-15T11:24:00.000-07:00

US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops

news from Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq... ...Sheikh Hussein Ali Saleh al-Jabouri, a member of a delegation that went to the nearby US base to ask for compensation for the loss of the fruit trees, said American officers described what had happened as "a punishment of local people because 'you know who is in the resistance and do not tell us'." Asked how much his lost orchard was worth, Nusayef Jassim said in a distraught voice: "It is as if someone cut off my hands and you asked me how much my hands were worth."

2003-10-04T16:44:00.000-07:00

Wilsonism?

In 1931 Nicolson joined Sir Oswald Mosley and his recently formed New Party.He e dited the party newspaper, Action,and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in the 1931 General Election. Nicolson ceased to support Mosley when he formed the British Union of Fascists in 1932.

2003-10-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

It's Not Wilsonism At All

wilsonism, first hand The fact the James Woolsey held court as DCI under Clinton seems to indicate that the power of the presidency is limited not by the powers of the legislative and judicial branches as delineated by the constitution, but rather by the intelligence community, the military, and money.

2003-09-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

This Is World War IV

James Woolsey is a former director of the CIA.
His comments are adapted from a speech at UCLA on April 2.
Washington — As Johns Hopkins Prof. Eliot Cohen has noted, we have entered World War IV. More than a war against terrorism, this is a war to extend democracy to those parts of the Arab and Muslim world that threaten the liberal civilization we worked to build and defend throughout the 20th century in World War I, World War II and the Cold War—World War III.
I hope it will not be as long as the 40-plus years of World War III but it will certainly be longer than either World War I or World War II. It will probably take decades.
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