Friends,
I just posted seven very good articles to the newslog list,
now available on the archives:
http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists=newslog
Below are the header lines for each article and a few
excerpts to give you a flavor of the contents. My own
comments are occasionally interspersed, indented to the
left. If you are unable to access a particular article
on the website, I can send you a copy.
All of the articles relate to our current global
emergency. An emergency which is not caused by Iraq,
nor by rogue terrorism, but by America, its state
terrorism, and its weapons of mass destruction.
rkm
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:22:31 +0100
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From: "Richard K. Moore" <•••@••.•••>
Subject: Chossudovsky: Fabricating an Enemy
Chossudovsky is in my opinion the most important
journalist alive today. He is right out in front with
the deepest-digging critiques, and he documents
everything and gives URLs when appropriate. This piece
is wide-ranging. It talks about Iraq, Al Qeada,
Homeland Security, current propaganda techniques, and
more. Here is a randomly selected paragraph:
Covert support by the US military and intelligence
apparatus has been channelled to various Islamic
terrorist organisations through a complex network of
intermediaries and intelligence proxies. Moreover,
numerous official statements, intelligence reports
confirm recent links (in the post Cold War era) between
US military-intelligence units and Al Qaeda operatives,
as occurred in Bosnia (mid 1990s), Kosovo (1998-99) and
Macedonia (2001).18 The Republican Party Committee of
the US Congress in a 1997 report points to open
collaboration between the US military and Al Qaeda
operatives in the civil war in Bosnia.19 (See US
Congress, 16 January 1997,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html)
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Subject: Stephen Zunes on BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
AN ANNOTATED OVERVIEW OF THE FOREIGN POLICY SEGMENTS OF
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
By Stephen Zunes
January 29, 2003
BUSH SAID: "And as we and our coalition partners are
doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people
food and medicines and supplies--and freedom."
BUT CONSIDER THIS: The United States has spent only a
miserly amount of money for food, medicine, and other
humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan relative to the
billions of dollars spent to bomb that country. Despite
greater political pluralism in Afghanistan under the
post-Taliban regime, most of the country is not
enjoying freedom, but is subjected to the abuse of war
lords, opium magnates, and ethnic militias that have
gained in power since the U.S. intervention.
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Subject: Starhawk: The Choice Before Us
Somewhere tonight in Iraq, a small girl lies sleeping
who in a few weeks may be a lump of scorched flesh
buried under concrete.
...
Replace the nightmare with this dream: that in the
moment when one world power has amassed the
unchallenged military might to make its bid for global
empire, its own people rise up and say, "No. That is
not what we want to be.
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Subject: I'M LOSING PATIENCE WITH MY NEIGHBOURS, MR BUSH
by Terry Jones - The Guardian (UK), Saturday January 25 2003
Terry gives a fable to put Bush's mentality into a homey
context. Here are some excerpts:
I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for
bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am
I!
And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out
policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about
international peace and security. The one certain way
to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting
the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that
have never threatened us.
That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and
kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach
him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop
peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
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Subject: John Pilger: The media, Iraq, & Israel
The Israeli terrorists, who subjugate and brutalise a
whole nation, demolishing homes and shops, expelling
and killing and "systematically torturing" (Amnesty)
day after day, are not mentioned in the Observer
editorial. No "decisive action" (the Observer's words)
is required against the prima facie war criminals Ariel
Sharon and General Shaul Mofaz, who, along with their
predecessors, have caused a degree of suffering of
which Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda can only dream. There
is no suggestion that the British force heading for the
Middle East should "intervene" in the "republic of
fear" that Israel has created in Palestine in defiance
of the world, and "displace" them. There is not a word
about the weapons of mass destruction that Sharon
repeatedly flaunts ("the Arabs may have the oil, but we
have the matches").
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Subject: Wisdom Fund: IRAQ TRUE OR FALSE Q & A
18. The "No-Flight" zones in Northern and Southern Iraq
that have been enforced since 1992 by the U.S. and
British air forces were authorized by the United
Nations to protect the Iraqi Kurds in the north and the
Iraqi Shi'ites in the South. True or False.
False. There has been no UN authorization for
"No-Flight" zones, which are the creations of the U.S.
government on the rationale that they are needed to
protect the Kurds and the southern Shi'ites. The policy
was created when the U.S. encouraged the Kurds and
Shi'ites to revolt against Baghdad after the Gulf War.
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Subject: Brian Davey: Conspiracies and Conspiracy theories
When Tony Blair wanted to discredit the idea that the
coming Iraq was was motivated by oil issues he accused
his questioner of promoting "conspiracy theories".So
when, yesterday, at the Stop the War meeting someone
said to me that he "didn't believe in conspiracy
theories" it set me thinking...
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