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Index of Topics: General · Afghanistan · Iraq · Pakistan · Libya · Iran · Other Foreign Interventions · Government Institutionalized Torture · 9/11 · The Anthrax Hoax · Homegrown Terrorism · Government Corruption · Past Wars ( World War II , World War I , Spanish American War , The Civil War ) · Arming Our Enemies · The Bush Presidency · The Obama Presidency · The Growing Police State · News and Commentary · Radio Talk Shows · Israel · Political Action · Energy · The “Ayn Rand Institute”
Among the inconvenient patriots listed below could be included Kurt Haskell, under Homegrown Terrorism, and Richard Barlow, under Arming Our Enemies.
Rodney Stich
A former federal investigator for the FAA. The whistleblower other whistleblowers come to. He quotes eyewitness testimony of government agents who sooner or later refused to obey illegal orders.InterviewAbout him Defrauding AmericaThe Events of 9/11 and Government ComplicityThe Unfriendly SkiesDrugging AmericaInternet Whistleblowers Comments on the news (blog)Audio and videoThe national media ignores Rodney Stich. The better known alternative outlets, such as Judicial Watch and Accuracy in Media, are no better. Consequently, I think, sometimes he has not looked too closely at the speaking platforms offered him. Peymon Mottahedeh (“Freedom Law School”) may be a self-deceptive fraud, Rayelan Allan a nutball, and Greg Szymanski (“The Investigative Journal” on the Republic Broadcasting Network) a crank, but at least they gave Mr. Stich, who is none of these things, a public voice and made free recordings available. Book synopsesHistory of U.S. Aviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11Terrorism Against AmericaBlowback, 9/11, and Cover-UpsIraq, Lies, Cover-Ups, and ConsequencesLawyers & Judges – American Trojan HorsesSubverting America, Vol. I Vol. IIDavid vs. GoliathDefrauding AmericaDisavow (with Conan Russell)
Covert CIA CompaniesThose Ugly AmericansDrugging AmericaCovert CIA CompaniesFBI, CIA, the Mob, and TreacheryCongress and Other CesspoolsCrimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the MafiaAmerica’s Housing and Financial FraudsLockerbie to 9/11Financial Frauds: Japanese and U.S. War Plunder Printed or e-books from Lulu.comPrinted books from Amazon.com
Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col., ret.)
Quit the Pentagon to speak out against the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. She has said that “The way Israelis ... run their country in some respects is something Americans could take a lesson from. They put Israel first every time all the time. ... They put Israel number one, they never put Israel number two.”
Sibel Edmonds
Former FBI translator exposing the sale of secret nuclear technology to the Middle East. Those involved include Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Eric Edelman, Marc Grossman, Brent Scowcroft, Larry Franklin, and congressmen Dennis Hastert, Roy Blunt, Dan Burton, Tom Lantos, Bob Livingston, Stephen Solarz, and think tank members Graham E. Fuller (RAND), David and Alan Makovsky (AIPAC/WINEP).
Catherine Austin Fitts
A former federal investigator who fought government corruption from within and got prosecuted for it. The occasional Christian fundamentalist phrase and leftist bromide annoy, but neither is essential to what she is saying.
James Bovard
Second Renaissance Books, now Ayn Rand Books, once carried his book Lost Rights. No longer, which is consistent.
David Martin
A.k.a. DC Dave, unmasks propaganda in the mainstream press. Best known for “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,” and America’s Dreyfus Affair about the Vince Foster case, and Who Killed James Forrestal?
The Corbett Report
An online multi-media information resource by James Corbett.
War is Business
Neither anti-war nor anti-business: anti- war profiteering. See also Senior DOD officers retire to war industry and This is What Ron Paul is Up Against.
Harry Browne
Twice the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate. Famous for one-liners like: Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, “See, if it wasn’t for us, you couldn’t walk.” We disagree with his position on immigration and Ayn Rand, among other things.
Future of Freedom Foundation
Their mission is to “advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.”
Scott Horton’s Interview Radio Show
Listen to interviews of Karen Kwiatkowski, Sibel Edmonds, James Bovard, William Lind, Gary Webb, Ray McGovern, James Bamford, Seymour Hersh, Jude Wanniski, J. D. Cash and others.
Neoconservatives
“Ancient History”
U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention. By Sheldon Richman of the Cato Institute.
The Power of Nightmares
CIA torture training confused with a church social in the Muslim mind. We would have been better off without the torture. Documentary by Adam Curtis.
Overblown
“How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them.” By John Mueller.
Barefoot and Panty-Scanned: The Soviet Union Arrives
by Fred Reed.
America creates its own enemies (video)
Interview with ex CIA agent Michael Scheuer. Q: Bin Laden is gone. Who is Washington’s number one enemy now? A: Washington’s enemy is an enemy that doesn’t exist. We’re fighting an Islamic enemy that Washington believes is out to kill us because we have elections, because we’re free, because we have women in the workplace. It’s an enemy that doesn’t exist, it didn’t exist when Bin Laden was alive, it doesn’t exit now. America is being attacked because of its foreign policy in the Muslim world: because of its support for Israel, because of its support for the Saudi police state, because of its presence on the Arab peninsula. And until we accept that, until Americans can say to each other: whether you support aid to Israel or not, our relationship with Israel is causing this war, we are not going to be able to defeat this enemy. ... Israel ... as a country is not the problem. The real problem is the leaders of the Jewish-American community in the United States who influence and corrupt our Congress to support Israel, when we have no interest there.
Wikileaks
Julian Assange, founder and editor in chief.
What’s so patriotic about the Patriot Act? (video)
Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Jeff Huber 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Commander, U.S. Navy (ret.).
Joel Skousen – World Affairs Brief
We can’t follow some aspects of his Christianity and disagree with some of his conjectures about 9/11. We’re still considering his claim that the total collapse of the Soviet Union was deliberate deception (if not, the effect looks the same as if it had been, with the Russian Federation run by the KGB and other former Communist Party organs). A literate commentator well worth reading – critically.
True and False Security
by Bruce Schneier.
Eeeek! Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
by Fred Reed.
How Would a Patriot Act?
by Glenn Greenwald, a “better sort of leftist” without whose post 9/11 analysis we would not recommend.
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
by Robert Pape.
Their Martyrs and Our Heroes
by John Feffer. Skip Tom’s introduction and scroll down to “Thoughts on Western Jihad.”
The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
by Peter Dale Scott. Comments on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard and private military contractors, such as Blackwater (a.k.a. Xe Services, and now ACADEMI), Diligence LLC, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Booz Allen, BAE systems.
Many Voices Singing One Song
The Israeli national anthem. By Philip Giraldi.
This Will Lead to That (video)
by Ron Paul in 1998.
Requiem for Reason
“Actions have consequences. If you support Batista, you will engender Fidel. If you support the Shah, you will get Khomeini. If you attack Moslems, you will get bin Laden.” By Fred Reed.
“War On Terror” a $6 Trillion Racket, Exceeding the Total Cost of W W II
by David DeGraw.
The New Terrorists: Whites
The Department of Homeland Security releases another “public service” video depicting white middle class Americans as terrorists.
How SITE Creates Terrorist Supporters
“SITE Intelligence Group” a.k.a. “Site Monitoring Service” – an Israeli outfit ostensibly run by Rita Katz – provides “breaking news, articles and analysis of the jihadist threat” not to mention fake Al-Qaeda videos.
Afghan Taliban Camps Were Built by NATO
New York Times title: “Afghan Camps, Hidden in Hills, Stymied Soviet Attacks for Years.”
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
About Far West, Ltd. and Afghan-Kosovo drug traffic. Russia’s 9/11 refers to the 1999 bombings in Moscow together with Chechnya’s invasion of Russian Dagestanin. By Peter Dale Scott.
The War on the Afghans
by David Wright.
Funding the Taliban
by Jean MacKenzie.
A Dead Marine
About the photo by Julie Jacobson (AP) and the reaction to it. By Fred Reed.
NATO: Ah, nuts
Innocents in war and all that. Here’s $2,000, not that we owe you anything. (archive.org)
Profile of two stoned arms dealers
The trash who profit from U.S. empire. By Guy Lawson.
U.S. Command Finally Admits to Execution-style Killing (archive.org)
by Jerome Starkey. Mr. Greenwald’s commentary: How Americans Are Propagandized.
The War on Freedom (pdf)
A book by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed. Though a liberal he can read the newspapers.
Self-Induced Quagmire
Brief comment by Rodney Stich.
The Importance of Dumbing Down the American Public
Extended comment by Rodney Stich.
International Institute for Strategic Studies report.
Review by Eric Margolis.
The U.S., Opium, and Afghanistan
by Peter Dale Scott.
The War Logs
Wikileaks per the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and the New York Times.
Rogue “kill team” poses with murdered civilians
Rogue or just caught by journalists?
An interview with Lawrence Wilkerson (Col., ret.): Part 1 Part 2
Arming Iraq: A Chronology of U.S. Involvement
Truth About War
Frozen at the start of the Iraq War as “a permanent record showing that not everyone was fooled by the claims [neocons] made about Saddam Hussein and his supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
James Bamford
The Israeli Origins of Bush II’s War
by Stephen Sniegoski.
Selective Intelligence
by Seymour Hersh.
Interview with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
Middle Eastern Chessboard: Arming Iraq
by Paul Joseph Watson.
Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War
by Chris Floyd.
Frago 242
Issued about a year after the invasion of Iraq, orders U.S. troops not to investigate abuse of Iraqi detainees committed by Iraqis.
Iraq Vets Bear Witness
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
by Warren Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers 10 March 2008.
Gag orders on the largest war profiteering in history?
by Jane Corbin, BBC News.
Colin Powell, Bagman
Mai Lai, Iran-Contra, then Iraq.
The Three Trillion Dollar War
by Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes.
Marketing an Invasion
“The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold.” By Jeffrey St. Clair.
Erik Prince
Two articles by Jeremy Scahill.
Brain Dead
When the Soviets conquered a country they made sure to kill the intelligentsia. Apparently Israel and Amerika have that in common. By Layla Anwar.
The Story of Fallujah
by Hannah Gurman.
An Unjust War
by Charley Reese.
The Police State America Built
by Chris Floyd, a benighted leftist who doesn’t know what capitalism means, but does know police state apparatus when he sees it.
Collateral Damage
What strikes most about the video is “... the laughter. Laughing when they shoot, after they shoot, in viewing the dead and near dead, and ... laughing as they drive over the bodies ... . For the most part, this isn’t nervous laughter; instead, it is the laughter of thugs ...” – from “This Is War” by Karen Kwiatkowski.
U.S. unleashes Iraqi “security forces”
Nuri al-Maliki: the U.S. government’s man in Iraq
Regime change.
The truth about Pat Tillman
Transcript of interview with filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev.
William Lind
Military advisor. At times trashy and vulgar.
Victory at Last?
by William Pitt.
Killing people for “made up crap”
by Chris Floyd.
Pakistan’s Thug
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
Arming terrorists during the Reagan administration (video)
Interview of John Stockwell, CIA whistleblower, February 1981.
Mission Accomplished in Libya?
By Ron Paul.
The CIA’s International Torture Club
Comment on “Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit” in the NYT.
NATO’s involvment
The CIA in Iran
by James Risen, New York Times 2000. (Multipage article: see the table of contents at middle right.)
CIA coup, 1953
About the American and British August coup against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq.
The Clinton-Bush air disaster cover-up plan
In 1988 the USS Vincennes shot down a commercial Iranian airliner, killing all 290 passengers. By Jack Cashill.
The forgotten USS Vincennes attack on Iran
Next stop, Iran
by Stephen Sniegoski.
Iran: The Next War
by James Bamford.
Israeli General urges US-Israel strike against Iran
“As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help [the president] pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party ... and US newspaper editors ... in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one ... .” – General Oded Tira.
If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran)
America above could be any other country. Iran and America are not equivalent but after abstracting from the differences the coup of 1953 was a criminal enterprise. By J. L. Bryan.
Amir-Abbas Fakhravar is a fraud
Fakhravar is to Iran as Ahmed Chalabi was to Iraq. Comments on “Has Washington found its Iranian Chalabi?” by Laura Rozen.
Tehran isn’t exactly the sticks
How Iran hijacked a U.S. drone
This engineer doesn’t sound suicidal.
Preventive War versus Deterrence (pdf)
by Justin Logan.
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies
“Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.” Afterwords (C-Span2 BookTV) interview with the author, by Barbara Slavin.
The Fuel Behind Iran’s Nuclear Drive
One of Iran’s goals in building a nuclear power plant may be nuclear weapons, but an argument other than possession of oil is necessary. (See also the section on Energy below.)
Has War With Iran Already Begun?
In the “campaign to destabilize Iran, the U.S. is allying itself with some pretty loathsome elements.” By Justin Raimondo.
U.S. Government Enriches Companies Helping Iran
by Jo Becker and Ron Nixon, New York Times 2010.
Lani Kass: Part I Part II
Former Israeli Major now senior assistant to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force with full access to classified information. By Philip Giraldi.
U.S. Guards terrorists in Iraq for use in Iran
by Tony Cartalucci.
| Other Foreign Interventions |
Uzbekistan: The Banality of Evil by Craig Murray.BosniaGeorgiaChile by Peter Kornbluh.Uganda: The Making of Idi Amin by Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch.Uganda: The Keeping of Yoweri Museveni by Tony Cartalucci.How Israel helped install Idi Amin – Not to mention the help by MI6 and the CIA.Ethiopia and Somalia by Thomas Barnett. Review by Chris Floyd. Mexico - weaponry supplied by U.S. per Merida Initiative by Gregory Berger.History of U.S. InterventionsKilling Hope – Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Zaire. By William Blum. (An America-hating leftist, but focus on the facts rather than his motivation for digging them up.)U.S. Backed CoupsU.S. helps Chinese InterrogatorsThe CIA’s Third World War: Part I Part II – Lecture by John Stockwell, a retired CIA official. Video and transcript.Luis Posada Carriles, your man in Latin America (video) – the hypocrisy of today’s anti-terror campaign.Richard Maybury interview – war and foreign aid.The Real Terror Network – by Edward Herman.
| Government Institutionalized Torture |
McClatchy torture investigation
James Bovard
Torture from the Top Down
by Scott Horton.
Details of Two Afghan Inmates’ Deaths
by Tim Golden.
A Question of Torture
“CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror” by Alfred McCoy.
The Dark Side
by Jane Mayer. Yes, a dang liberal, but she gets it right in this case.
Review of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side
by Jennifer Schuessler, NYT. The principal instigators were vice president Cheney, and his legal counsel David Addington and J. Yoo.
Ex-Guantanamo guard speaks out
by Jenifer Fenton.
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
by Steven Miles. (book)
Interrogation in Afghanistan and Iraq
Torture and Truth
Interview of Mark Danner.
Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story 1 2 3 4 5
by Mark Danner.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
New York Times review of the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody, by the International Committee of the Red Cross. By Mark Danner.
Kidnapped by the CIA
by Peter Bergen.
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights
by Trevor Paglen and A. C. Thompson.
Yoo’s 2003 Memo On Interrogation
by Dan Eggen. “Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail.” An immigrant we could have done without?
Yoo Two
by Scott Horton, Harper’s April 3, 2008. “... I want to look not at the contents of the memo, but at the contextual questions. Why was it sought, and how was it used.”
John Yoo, Totalitarian
by Paul Craig Roberts.
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
by Stephen Grey.
Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project
ACLU torture investigation
Torture and the Banality of Evil
by Craig Murray.
The Torture Question
Frontline video in six parts.
Interrogation Experts Against Torture
Interview of Seymour Hersh about Abu Ghraib (audio)
Conducted by Charles Goyette. Discusses the torture of innocents at Abu Ghraib, the persecution of general Taguba who led the initial investigation, and the cover-up of the torture being ordered from the very top. 23 June 2007.
Murat Kurnaz
Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences
by Chris Floyd.
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
What’s done always exceeds what’s explicitly allowed. By Scott Shane, David Johnston, James Risen.
Detainees Hidden from Red Cross
“If the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.”
A flippant remark by Jonathan Fredman, CIA, on “harsh” interrogation techniques.
U.S. Torture Techniques Copied from Communists
by Scott Shane.
On Torture and American Values
NYT editorial, Oct. 7, 2007.
Defendant Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense sued for torture
This article, by Nat Hentoff, was written in 2005. Former secretary Rumsfeld asserted that he was immune from responsibility for any acts of torture and abuse. On March 27, 2007 Chief Judge Thomas Hogan, D.C. Federal District Court, dismissed the case.
Torture of Iraqi Detainees by 82nd Airborne Division
Click “Page 2” to go beyond table of contents.
Obama Cancels Investigations Into Torture
by Tom Carter.
Inside the Wire
Review of the book by Erik Saar, a translator for interrogation sessions at Guantanamo.
“Extraordinary rendition” from Italy
Abuse of Detainees at Afghanistan Bases
U.S. Contractor Leads Torture Training in Mexico
by Kristin Bricker.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s memo and the betrayal of American values
An interview with this book’s author, Phillippe Sands.
Truth, Torture, and the American Way
by Jennifer Harbury.
Inside Camp Nama
“No blood, no foul.” By Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marhsall.
Retired Military Leaders Opposing Torture (video)
Court Rules CIA May Hide Torture Protests
By Mr. Greenwald
Torture Workshop
American Psychological Association, RAND and the CIA.
Overseas, Expectations Build for Torture Prosecutions
by Scott Horton.
Americans Want Torture Inquiry, Obama Doesn’t
“President Obama’s actions are fast diverging from his public rhetoric.” By Thomas Eddlem.
The Stories of Torture Sounded Made Up
by Carol Leonnig.
Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death
by Stephen Webster.
Obama Shields Torturers
by Chris Floyd, addressed to those who still think Obama meant change for the better.
The Question of Torture (pdf)
The Legal and Ethical Implications of the Torture Opinion of Jay S. Bybee. By Gerald Shea.
Torture and the American Conscience
by Paul Craig Roberts.
When Torture Isn’t Good Enough
Review of an article by David Benjamin.
Recently Released Gitmo Detainee
ABC news article.
Invisible Men
Held at Guantanamo Bay.
Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House (pdf)
“It is dispiriting as well as shameful to have to turn our attention to this issue.” By Jeremy Waldron, Columbia Law School.
FBI documents describe CIA jails
They took one look and fled. Partly declassified? By Scott Shane and Charlie Savage, NYT.
Transcript of Ali Shalal’s Testimony
In his book The Ominous Parallels Leonard Peikoff denounced this sort of thing just for itself, but he came to see a difference between the Nazis and his friends.
Torture probably killed more Americans than 9/11
Review of the book How to Break a Terrorist, by Major Matthew Alexander (a former interrogator) & John Bruning. Subtitled: The US interrogators who used brains, not brutality, to take down the deadliest man in Iraq.
Medical Evidence of Torture (pdf)
Interrogation Enhanced
by Matthew Alexander, the officer who cracked the Zarqawi network.
Guantánamo Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Released In Kuwait
Twelve weeks after Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered his release. By Andy Worthington.
Jeppesen Dataplan
The suit against this Boeing Company subsidiary, which helped the CIA in its “extraordinary rendition” program, will not be heard. “I understand you think it’s not fair, but so what?” – Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Upheld by Supreme Court, NYT commentary: Malign Neglect.
The Guantánamo “Suicides”
by Scott Horton, Harper’s.
The Guantánamo Files: Stories of 774 Detainees
by Andy Worthington.
Internal CIA documents on waterboarding
The mainstream media focuses on “waterboarding” suspects and ignores breaking their joints and bones, beating their brains in, and other mafia tactics. But even “waterboarding” can be worse than they describe. By Mark Benjamin.
“Outsourcing Torture” and other articles
by Jane Mayer.
Career Opportunities in the Torture State
Bribed men and the torture memos. By William Grigg.
The Bush Era Torture-Homicides
by Scott Horton.
Ex-Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks
Worst of the worst jihadists interviewed by Jason Leopold.
9/11 Timeline
Excluded from the 9/11 Commission’s report
Who is agent Thomas Frields’ boss?
The 9/11 heroin connection
One article from 9/11 and the phony war on drugs (Morning News) about the drug connection between terrorist hijacker Mohamed Atta and the owner of the Venice, Florida flight school Huffman Aviation. “The biggest lie told about the September 11th attack was the first one: ‘19 hijackers moved through Europe and America unnoticed.’ ” By Daniel Hopsicker.
The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11
Quotes from the book by John Farmer, who drafted the original 9/11 Commission report.
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
Interview with Lee Hamilton, co-author of this book along with Thomas Kean, respectively vice chairman and chairman of the 9/11 Commission. (archive.org)
9/11: The Case Isn’t Closed
by Sander Hicks.
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Hijacker had post-9/11 flights scheduled, files say. By Larisa Alexandrovna.
World Affairs Brief
by Joel Skousen.
9/11 Press for Truth
Documentary, gets interesting about 20% in. The blatant sob story treatment annoys.
What Did Israel Know?
by Christopher Ketcham.
The Israeli “Art Students”
An Israeli Trojan Horse
by Christopher Ketcham.
Gerald Shea’s Memo to the 9/11 Commission
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
DEA report. Begins some distance from top of webpage. (Also included in memo above.)
9/11 Enabled by Documented Corruption of Key U.S. Personnel
by Rodney Stich, “convicted” whistleblower and former FAA agent.
Jack Abramoff
It pays to have connections.
Interview with Daniel Hopsicker
About Mohammad Atta and the 911 cover up in Venice, Florida. Conducted by Sander Hicks.
Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus (video)
Produced by Daniel Hopsicker. Welcome to Venice, Florida, “it’s really just a pleasantly ordinary little place, except that ...”
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Abridged from a longer video for sale at Morning News.
The collapse of the World Trade Center towers
Remove the crank allegations from the “9/11 truth movement” and what’s left are the real conspiracies.A Critical Analysis of the Collapse From a Demolition Viewpoint (pdf)It’s a pity the author, an explosives engineer, of this otherwise sober article becomes peevish at the end. By Brent Blanchard, senior editor for Implosionworld.com and Director of Field Operations at Protec Documentation Services, Inc., which documents demolitions.
Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?by Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso, M.I.T. Applies to buildings 1 and 2, but not 7.
Buildings 1 & 2 disintegrated starting at the top. At any instant, the topmost uncollapsed floor collapsed next, until all floors were at the bottom. This is the opposite of a controlled demolition, where the building disintegrates starting at the bottom, always the bottommost uncollapsed floor collapsing next. Building 7 disintegrated like that, that is, like a controlled demolition.)
The Catch and Release of Wolfgang Bohringer
by Daniel Hopsicker.
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
by Larisa Alexandrovna.
The Bin Laden Assassination Hoax
The fabrications about Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, weapons of mass destruction – to name a few recent frauds – are reason enough to distrust the administration’s latest war story. Staked out for weeks, unarmed, and the number one wanted man on earth, the man who allegedly knew more about 9/11 than anyone else, couldn’t be taken alive? Body destroyed hours later? Sea burial a Muslim custom? No authentic photos?
Warning Signs
Did the feds know what was coming? — mistitled “Did We Know ...” by William Norman Grigg. See also The War on Freedom.
Why is the government lying?
An interview with Sibel Edmonds. See also Sibel Edmonds above under “General.”
Some 9/11 Whistle-Blowers (video) – Part 1 Part 2
(1) David Graham, David Schippers, Anthony Shaffer, Randy Glass. (2) Sibel Edmonds, Indira Singh, Ms. Edmonds again.
The 9/11 Servility Reflex
by James Bovard.
Peter Dale Scott
Triple Cross
About Ali Mohamed, an ex-Egyptian army officer who spent five years as an FBI informant, all the while being Osama bin Laden’s chief intelligence agent, and obstruction of justice by senior FBI and DOJ officials. By Peter Lance. (Minor detail, he maintains that an on board bomb brought down TWA 800, when better evidence indicates a missile.)
Kurt Sonnenfeld
“... FEMA and several other federal agencies had already moved into position at their command center at Pier 92 on September 10th, one day before the attacks.”
Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist (video)
The title is provocative: the idea is that “Al Qaeda” isn’t what you think. Documentary produced by James Corbett (originally from Canada, day job: teaches English in Japan). Bibliography.
Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
Our friend in the Middle East? By Michel Chossudovsky.
Bin Laden 9/11 Confession Is Bogus
So claims Prof. Bruce Lawrence of Duke University, and Prof. Gernot Rotter of the University of Hamburg claims it was mistranslated.
Susan Lindauer’s Mission To Baghdad
Ms. Lindauer is rather a nut, still: (1) even a screwball can be correct after the “self-aggrandizement” is stripped away, and (2) the politically incorrect don’t deserve to be silenced by psychiatric prison. The fact and manner of the feds going after her suggests that indeed the Administration was explicitly warned in advance about the 9/11 attack. By David Samuels, New York Times August 29, 2004.
Why do mainstream investigative journalists ignore 9/11?
Comments by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others.
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins. And Harry Binswanger wanted this fraud for president of the United States?
One Recollection
Though the official story may be by and large true the above is worth reading for its account of the Washington Times’ neoconservatism. By Eric Peters.
9/11 in the Mainstream Media
Links to over 275 articles.
The anthrax attacks that occurred soon after 9/11, killing five people, helped get the Patriot Act passed. The attacks turned out to be a hoax designed to make Iraq look the culprit when in fact the anthrax came from a U.S. government lab. Who was responsible?The Anthrax Files
Review by Christopher Ketcham.By Mr. GreenwaldInterview with Greenwald and Meryl NassScientific impossibility: Did the FBI get their man in Bruce Ivins?
by Deborah Rudacille.The New York Times perpetuates Anthrax Hoax (doc)
by Barry Kissin.The Truth about the Anthrax Attacks and Its Cover-up (pdf)
Memorandum to congressman Rush Holt, by attorney Barry Kissin.Scientists’ Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case
by William Broad & Scott Shane, NYT.Meryl Nass, M.D.Francis Boyle
Former U.S. bioweapons advisor, now a law professor at the University of Illinois. One Suspect is Too Hot to Touch
by Delinda Curtiss Hanley.Bruce Ivins Wasn’t the Anthrax Culprit
by Richard Spertzel.By Mr. RaimondoWhat Ever Happened to the Anthrax Murder Case? (archive.org)Case not closed
Editorial from the journal Nature.
An excuse for a police state.
The Underwear Bomber
“The vast majority of Americans don’t care or will never believe that the U.S. Government is staging false terror attacks against its own citizens.”
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
FBI lured dimwits into terror plot (archive.org)
by Tony Allen-Mills. More here and here.
The FBI’s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot
by Graham Rayman, The Village Voice.
Manufactured Menace From Michigan
About the Hutaree militia and the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque, by William Grigg. See also FBI agent dummys up: “I can’t fully answer that question.”
The Fear Factory (pdf)
“The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts?” By Guy Lawson.
FBI Celebrates Prevention of its Own Bomb Plot
by Mike Masnick (blog). See also Was FBI grooming Portland suspect for terror?
The FBI thwarts its own Terror plot – again
by Glenn Greenwald. See also FBI Thwarts Own Radio Controlled Bomb.
October 2011 Iranian Plot
Arbabsiar, terrorist du jour. Yaron Brook swallowed this, eagerly, on his PJTV (Pajama TV, a neoconservative outlet) interview posted October 12, 2011.
Why the FBI fabricates terror plots
by Paul Craig Roberts.
Saving us from a plot of its own creation (video)
by Andrew Napolitano. See also his article.
The Informants
by Trevor Aaronson.
Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI entrapment
by Paul Harris.
Selected Domestic “Terrorist Attacks” of the Past Decade
by Kurt Haskell.
| Past and On-going Government Corruption |
The time ARI spends worrying about Israel would be better spent worrying about America.
The Vince Foster Affair
The Downing of TWA Flight 800
July 17, 1996.
Oklahoma City Bombing
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb.
Ron Paul on Iran Contra (video)
1989 interview.
The CIA and Drugs
by William Blum.
The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush (Sr.)
by Peter Brewton. (Amazon reviews)
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
by Alfred McCoy. (Amazon reviews)
CIA Drug Planes
by Daniel Hopsicker.
Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War
U.S. government drug smuggling from the perspective of former DEA agent Celerino Castillo. (archive.org)
NYPD fabricates drug charges against innocent people
by John Marzulli.
The Franklin Scandal
Innocent civilians really have been victims of a witchhunt. Some politicos claim they are too when in fact they are guilty. The Franklin “scandal” (rather too innocuous a word) takes its name from a bank in Omaha focused on loaning to Blacks.
The Child Abuse Industry
The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services (CPS)
by Nancy Schaefer. PDF version.
The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services (video): Part 1 Part 2
Talk by Nancy Schaefer.
The Strange Death of Nancy Schaefer
A bad way to fight Child Protective Services
Edgar J. Steele, self-described “attorney for the damned,” describes the case of Brian and Ruth Christine, who kidnapped their children from CPS.
WacoNo More Wacos Waco: A New Revelation Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum – maintained by Carol Valentine,
an emotional individual who if read must be read critically. She argues that the video above (produced by Michael McNulty) not only contains errors and weak arguments, these are deliberate in “an effort to misdirect and muffle protest over Waco under pretense of protest and opposition.”New Lies for Old by Joel Skousen.
Book reviews by Gary McGath:
El Dorado: Waco in slow motion
by William Grigg.
PanAm 103 (Lockerbie)
Defense Spending Fraud
Ruby Ridge
Parents Against Corruption and Cover-up
Inspired by the murder of Tommy Burkett. (archive.org)
M + others Aligned for Military & Murder Accountability
The military has a homicide problem. The author sometimes undercuts her effort by trying to be both tragic and lighthearted at the same time. The current website is www.goldstarmother.wetpaint.com . By Jan Beimdiek. (archive.org)
October Surprise
During the 1980 presidential race between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr. (Reagan’s running mate and CIA director during the Ford administration) and William Casey (Reagan’s campaign chief and later CIA director) held secret meetings with mullahs of Iran. Bush and Casey negotiated a delay in the release of 52 American hostages, who otherwise would have been released in October, until after the election. (The “surprise” was that the hostages where not released in October.) The intent was to prevent President Carter from looking good and thus to increase Reagan’s chance of victory.
Review of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & “Project Truth”
About Iran-Contra. By Robert Parry. See also the section on Israel below.
The Columbine Massacre
Operation Northwoods
The Pentagon’s plan to fool you into hating Castro (ABC News). Kennedy rejected it, but didn’t have anyone court martialed either. What similar plans have been executed?
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. (Amazon reviews)
Narco-colonialism in the 20th Century
DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcotics Traffickers
About a memorandum by Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent.
The Function of the Drug War
by J. Orlin Grabbe.
Prosecutorial Misconduct
by Bill Moushey.
The FBI — Past, Present & Future
Collection of links.
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
by Daniele Ganser. The armies, called “stay-behinds,” were operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO. They had access to military equipment originally intended for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead the armies carried out terrorist attacks across mainland Europe, killing hundreds of civilians as part of a “strategy of tension.”
Bordergate
Statement by Darlene Fitzgerald, former Customs Special Agent, at a National Security Whistleblower Press Conference, later presented to a Senate committee.
The death of James Forrestal
James Forrestal was Secretary of the Navy during WWII, later the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. He opposed Communist and Zionist influence within the Truman administration. The first link below is a critical review of the writing about Forrestal’s death. The second is the report of the Navy’s investigation, which as you will see was anything but investigative.
FBI COINTELPRO
Deborah Jeane Palfrey (the D.C. madam)
The Pentagon directs propaganda at America
Walter Anderson
A telecommunications and space industry entrepreneur. He established FINDS, the Foundation for the International Non-governmental Development of Space; funded the CATS (Cheap Access To Space) Prize of the Space Frontier Foundation; and his MirCorp arranged for the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station. Faced with virtually life in prison for alleged tax evasion and fraud, denied bail and consequently unable to properly defend himself, he entered a plea agreement and was sentenced to prison for from four to nine years.
Climategate
A Dinosaur Named Sue
1992 interview with Terry Wentz and Peter Larson about the 1990 confiscation of the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found. (archive.org)
KAL Flight 007 Remembered
An account of yet another hypocrisy of the Reagan administration. As for Schlossberg, almost certainly a crank.
The death of David Kelly
The U.K. is as corrupt as the U.S.
Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker. Bush Sr. and the “shadow government.”
The link between SSRI drugs and rampages
Politicians use these rampages to promote gun control while the thoughtful denounce the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Policing for Profit
The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture.
Judi Bari
I know, an environmentalist. Seen one redwood, seen ’em all. But did she deserve to have her legs blown off?
Neo-Nazi leader was MI6 agent
And you thought G. K. Chesterton’s ending to The Man Who Was Thursday was silly. (The novel tells of a group of plotters each of whom, one by one, is revealed to be a double-agent, until finally only the leader is left and he turns out to be a double agent too.)
How a Spaniard Became Bin Laden
“The photos are an important example how science and technological advancement is used to find fugitives and bring them to justice.” – the FBI. Yeah right. English translation below original german. The FBI now admits it. The victim comments.
Cryptome
Documents prohibited by governments foreign or domestic.
Expert Witness
Audio show hosted by Michael Levine & Mark Marshall.
Trickledown thuggery
Appeal to a higher court? Sauce for the fed, sauce for the city. Perhaps some of these videos don’t belong here but enough do to be scary. Sections on rights when dealing with a police officer, how to file a complaint. See also Jennifer Jones addressing city council of Quartzsite, Arizona.
No One Would Listen (video)
Today show interview (March 1, 2010) of the book’s author, Harry Markopolos, about Madoff and friends’ Ponzi scheme.
The Frame-up of Edgar J. SteeleEdgar Steele, a defense attorney specializing in CPS abuse and free speech, is a political prisoner. Why was the FBI consorting with the ADL on this case? The star witness for the prosecution, Larry Fairfax, was a paid FBI informant and admitted crook. The judge allowed him to testify at the trial. In a pre-trial hearing on the admissibility of evidence two audio experts testified in behalf of Mr. Steele. George Papcun, a forensic audiology expert, including voice morphing, said there were an extraordinary number of anomalies in the FBI recordings, suggesting they had been faked. The other expert, Bennett Walsh, a former New York City detective with years of experience investigating audio recordings, said the FBI recordings had been tampered with. On May 2, 2011 – after the federal judge refused to allow either witness to testify – Mr. Steele was convicted on all counts. Judge: B. Lynn Winmill, U.S. District Court (a Clinton nominee); Presecutor: Traci J. Whelan, Assistant U.S. Attorney; FBI agents: Michael Sotka, and others; Colleague of judge: Mark Haas.Mr. Steele is a white separatist and also critical of many Jews. Suppose you think that’s disgusting, like some people think pornography is disgusting. Then consider this: “It is not very inspiring to fight for the freedom of the purveyors of pornography or their customers. But in the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with the suppression of a given right’s least attractive practitioners. In this case, the disgusting nature of the offenders makes it a good test of one’s loyalty to a principle.” — Ayn Rand in “Censorship: Local and Express” (1973)Overviewby William Grigg.
Television Interview before sentencing (video)Station KXLY at undisclosed jail.
Steele Sentenced to 50 Yearsby Melissa Luck, KXLY Executive Producer.
Cyndi Steele’s “victim statement” at sentencing hearing - November 9, 2011 Edgar Steele before sentencingby Melissa Luck, KXLY Executive Producer - November 2, 2011 updated November 9 with statement by Cyndi Steele.
Mr. Steele at sentencing Notes From Prison (pdf) Review article “Thank You” – August 2, 2011.
Jailhouse Telephone Interview (audio) – June 23, 2011.
Interview of Cyndi Steele (audio) – August 2, 2011.
Interview of his alleged victim, Cyndi Steele (audio) – February 9, 2011.
Earlier interview of Cyndi Steele (audio) – January 13, 2011.
Q & A of press conference given by his wife & attorney Wesley Hoyt (audio) – Sept. 20, 2010.
Informant bribed for testimony with reduced jail time Motion for a new trial, affidavits and exhibits U.S. Supreme Court Petition (pdf)
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
— attributed to Dresden James.
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World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The “Greatest Generation” was fooled, bribed, and pushed into ...
The New Dealers’ War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Within World War IIby Thomas Fleming. “There was scarcely a branch of the American government, including the War, Navy, and Justice Departments, that did not have Soviet moles in high places, feeding Moscow information. ... Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services [OSS], the forerunner of the CIA, had so many informers in its ranks, it was almost an arm of the NKVD.”
Who Leaked Rainbow Five – and Why?by Thomas Fleming, in
American Heritage (back in 1987 when it used to
be American Heritage).
The Roosevelt Mythby John Flynn. Favorably reviewed in
The Objectivist Newsletter, December 1962. First published in 1948, the author helped found the America First Committee which opposed U.S. entry into the war.
(Amazon reviews)Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace“A critical examination of the foreign policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and its aftermath.” Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes, with essays by William Henry Chamberlin, Percy Greaves, George Lundberg, George Morgenstern, William Neumann, Frederic Sanborn, Charles Callan Tansill. The first edition was published by Caxton Press, a division of Caxton Printers. NBI Book Service carried the book in the early 1960s.
Saving England Wasn’t Worth ItReview of the evil consequences of having entered WWII, some of which Ayn Rand too had criticized. In spite of the title (but not the text), England would not have been lost had America stayed out of WWII. A better title would have been: “Taking America Back Starts With Taking Roosevelt Down.” By Scott Horton.
Who Really Won World War II?by Michael Kreca.
How Good Was the Good War?Essays by Scott McConnell, Thomas Woods, Andrew Bacevich, Stuart Reid, Christopher Layne, Ted Carpenter, Michael Vlahos.
Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermathby Herbert Hoover, edited by George Nash.
Pearl Harbor and FDRRoosevelt’s Road to Russiaby George Crocker. Favorably reviewed in
The Objectivist Newsletter, January 1964.
(Amazon reviews)How Franklin Roosevelt Lied America Into Warby William Henry Chamberlin.
Wall Street and FDRby Antony Sutton.
World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You TodayHigh school level text by Richard Maybury, author of
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? in the same series.
The Making of a Tyrantby Francis Neilson. Article from
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Contrasts Hitler before and after March 1939. Contains amazing quotes of Churchill about Stalin, and little known facts about Czechoslovakia.
Rethinking Churchillby Ralph Raico.
The Happy Warriorsby
James J. Martin.
President Roosevelt and the Coming of the Warby Charles Beard.
(Amazon reviews)Back Door to Warby Charles Tansill.
(Amazon reviews)AftermathDesperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the U.S., 1939-44by Thomas Mahl.
They Thought They Were Freeby Milton Mayer.
Roosevelt’s Secret Warby Joseph Persico. Booknotes interview. (video & transcript)
HiroshimaGerman ResistanceLeonard Peikoff neglects to mention German resistance groups in
The Ominous Parallels.
The White RoseFrom their third leaflet: “... why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks?”
(archive.org) Youth Resistance in Wartime GermanyAbout the group of Helmuth Hübener, pamphleteer at age 17, and other groups.
The Valkyrie ConspiracyGeneral Friedrich Olbricht, Col. Claus Graf Stauffenberg and other German military officers oppose Hitler, culminating in “July 20.”
Dresden Fire BombingThe Blood of Dresdenby Kurt Vonnegut.
Why was Dresden Destroyed?In August 1944, an RAF memorandum pointed out that “the total devastation of the centre of a vast [German] city…would convince the Russian allies…of the effectiveness of Anglo-American air power.” By Jacques Pauwels.
Revisionists challenge D-Day storyReview of Antony Beevor’s book
D-Day. Many American troops cannot be accurately described as liberators. By Hugh Schofield, BBC.
Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazisby Sam Roberts. Who are the good guys?
Target: PattonThe assassination of General George S. Patton. By Robert Wilcox.
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Spanish-American War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The conquest of the United States by Spain (pdf)A lecture from January 16, 1899 by William Graham Sumner.
“We have beaten Spain in a military conflict, but we are submitting to be conquered by her on the field of ideas and policies. Expansionism and imperialism are nothing but the old philosophies of national prosperity which have brought Spain to where she now is. Those philosophies appeal to national vanity and national cupidity. They are seductive, especially upon the first view and the most superficial judgment ...”
The Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Richard Barlow
Thrown out of the CIA when he exposed U.S. aid to Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
Interview of her with Philip Giraldi. See also Sibel Edmonds above, under “General.”
America’s Pro-Terrorism Foreign-Aid Program
by James Bovard.
The CIA and the atomic black market
by William Broad and David Sanger.
East Minus West = Zero: Russia’s Debt to the Western World
by Werner Keller. Also known as Are The Russians Ten Feet Tall? Originally in German. Favorably reviewed in The Objectivist Newsletter, November 1962. (Amazon reviews)
From Major Jordan’s Diaries
“I want to put in permanent form the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to June 1944 ... .” By George Racey Jordan.Review by David Martin: “How We Gave the Russians the Bomb.”
Full text of book (we could do without the website’s introduction).
Antony C. Sutton
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 1968 to 1973.
How America Fell
Giving the Chinese secret military technology began in the Reagan administration. By Robert Parry.
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.’s lobbyists for hire
by Ken Silverstein, Harper’s Magazine. See also the author’s reply to letters, Sept. 2007 page 5.
Guns ‘R’ Us
Written in 1997: “... the last five times that the United States has sent troops into conflict ... American forces faced adversaries that had previously received U.S. weapons, military technology, or training.” “Currently, 6,500 full-time government employees in the Defense, Commerce, and State Departments are engaged in promoting and financing weapons exports through a maze of programs.”
Conversation with a University Professor
U.S. Higher Education: The Great Global Giveaway.
A criminal conspiracy.
Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq
by Robert Parry. (Amazon reviews)
The Bush Record After Three Years
World Affairs Brief.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey
by Rodney Stich.
Bush Jokes about WMD (video)
Ohio 2004 election fraud
With special reference to Michael Connell.
The same criminal conspiracy with a smoother front.
Obama Sends Signal to Suckers Still Believing in the Rule of Law
by Chris Floyd.
Administration Files To Dismiss Case Against John Yoo
by Jonathan Turley.
Obama and Republicans worked together to end torture investigation
by David Corn.
Former Obama Aide Heads AIPAC
Transcript: Obama’s Speech at AIPAC June 4, 2008
“Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is non-negotiable.”
Obama issues Imigration “Dream Act” by executive order
by Dave Gibson.
How Obama is Transforming America Through Immigration
by Mark Krikorian.
Obama Halts Deportations
by John Hill.
President Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
The “Homeland Battleground” provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Obama continues to grant amnesty ... piece by piece
by Dave Gibson.
Awlaki & Son
“So we just killed an American teenager and his teenage cousin by drone-bombing them to death? They merely join a very long list of similar recent victims — a list that, paradoxically, makes less of an impact the longer it becomes.”
Jokes About Predator Drones (video)
Correction, not a smoother front.
“Homeland Security” isn’t the first time a police state has used security as an excuse. 1790s France had Robespierre’s “Committee of Public Safety.” It may not affect you, until resistance is futile.
Asleep at the Wheel: The U.S. Becomes What It Wasn’t
by Fred Reed.
Three Dangerous Provisions of the Patriot Act
After ten years, Section 215: “any tangible thing,” National Security Letters, “sneak-and-peek” warrants.
National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA)
Indefinite military detention.
In Some States Public School “Terror Drills” Now Required
by Alexander Higgins.
The Martial Law Mind-Set
by William Norman Grigg.
Patriot Act strips 16 year old of due process
by Amanda Lamb.
Operational Shield
The DHS Gestapo, armed with automatic weapons and sniffer dogs, demanded IDs from local residents visiting their local Social Security office.
Brigade homeland tours
“Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army.” By Gina Cavallaro, Army Times.
U.S. Military collaborates with Wyoming police to combat drunk driving
You don’t want drunk driving do you?
Domestic Surveillance
Brad Manning Has Rights!
by Karen Kwiatkowski.
Guidelines Would Give FBI Broader Powers
by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times.
The FBI vs. Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo.
Homeland Security monitors journalists
ADL Law Enforcement Training
Articles from ADL’s Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network. See also The Frame-up of Edgar J. Steele.
One Homeland Security “fusion center”
Missouri state police memo says Ron Paul supporters may be terrorists. In the face of protests the memo was first defended, then retracted. The defense sounded more sincere.
Fusion Center labels OKC Bombing investigators terrorists
by Andrew Griffin, Red Dirt Report, Oklahoma.
DHS Research to Get Public to Accept a Police State
Commentary on Loughborough University press release: “IMPRINTS (Identity Management: Public Responses to Identity Technologies and Services) aims to assess how and why UK and US publics will engage with particular future practices, services and technologies of identity management, while resisting others.”
From One Assault on the Constitution to Another
by Paul Craig Roberts.
We’re the Defense Intelligence Agency
About a video produced by the DOD.
The Politics of the REAL ID Revival Bill
The PASS Act is just the Real ID Act under a new name.
Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of Government
by James Bovard.
U.S. FEMA Administrator Meets With Israeli IDF Home Front Command
Our current government’s ally.
The president’s private army
Excerpt from the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.
Obama’s Secret Police
by Justin Raimondo.
Pentagon Would Post Active Military Personnel in U.S.
400,000 for starters. By Matthew Rothschild.
Local police need assault rifles in case of terror attack
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids
by Radley Balko.
DHS: your best friend may be a terrorist
The Defense Authorization Act of 2006
by James Bovard.
Sonic weapons at townhall meetings in San Diego county
These weapons – also known as Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) and “sonic cannons” – may be non-lethal but they are not mayemless. Elsewhere, cruise ship captain Michael Groves suffered permanent hearing loss when he used one to repel a pirate attack, and he was behind it rather than in front. At full volume the noise level directly in front is 150 decibels, and even at 300 yards it permanently damages hearing.
What type of country the U.S. has become
Internet Acts
Internet Licensing
Microsoft executive urges government to license websites. Time magazine commentator agrees.
Internet Use Taxation
Another Microsoft executive suggests that the government tax Internet usage. A Microsoft spokesman then both denies and admits it. A study in how a violation of freedom in one sphere leads to it in another. Not to mention that some big businesses are in the vanguard of socialism/fascism.
House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history
by Eric Dolan.
ADL and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to Fight Hate Crimes
Though the focus is on the Alex Jones Show the danger pointed out applies to all of us.
The “Stability Police Force”
RAND study prepared at the behest of the U.S. Army. SPF would be a “hybrid” military and law enforcement corps within the U.S. Marshals Service for “crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups” both at home, “augmenting state and local agencies,” and abroad. It “provides significant domestic policing and homeland security benefits by providing thousands of additional police officers across the United States.”
IDF, National Guard to share ideas
It belongs in this section.
Dred Scott II: Obama & Supreme Court Endorse Slavery
by Chris Floyd. Good article except for the ending with its assumption that M. L. King advocated freedom.
Establishment of the Council of Governors
Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
“A citizen may not gain standing [before the court] by claiming a right to have the government follow the law.” – U.S. District Judge.
National Emergency and “Continuity of Government”
by Peter Dale Scott.
U.S. Supreme Court 2010: the executive branch may abduct anyone for any reason
Ninth Circuit Court Approves “Extraordinary Rendition”
by Andy Worthington.
Federal Police Force
Institute of Terrorism Research and Response
War Against Terrorism mission creep
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Department of Homeland Security
COICA
Enables feds to shut down a website without due process. They will start with criminal websites and branch out from there like every growing thing.
Joe Miller’s Private “Guards” Were Active-Duty Military
A GOP politician has a reporter arrested for asking questions he didn’t want to answer.
Ray McGovern battered by police as Hillary Clinton talks about “freedom”
“The rights of individuals to express their views freely … are universal.” – Hillary Clinton. Just don’t go around wearing a teeshirt with “Veterans for Peace” on the front. Partly caught on video.
Appeals court OKs warrantless GPS tracking
Likely to go to Supreme Court.
The government’s One-Way Mirror
Western internet censorship
Plans of Australian and German governments, partly in place in Norway, Denmark and Finland: ISP censorship software that spies on each citizen’s attempt to read on the Internet and compares requested pages to those listed on a secret government blacklist.
Hackers Are Everywhere. Panic!
by John Dvorak, PC Magazine. “... false flag events ... are staged by a government usually to distress the public, so the government can do something that the public would otherwise disapprove.”
Smart Grid
The end components of Smart Grid are the smart meter, a meter that measures the flow of electricity or other utility into your house, and subsidiary meters inside house thermostats and appliances, all of whose readings are continuously transmitted via radio to a central database.
The Smart Grid and PrivacyTechnocracy (video)A longwinded and at times annoyingly boastful lecture by Patrick Wood who eventually, after wasting about five minutes getting to the point, provides a larger historical perspective than the above. The term “technocracy” – rule by technicians – is misleading. The evil is plain old aristocracy, with engineers and technicians merely in its service.
TSA – Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Courtesy of the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and friends, about which see The Underwear Bomber above.
Some of these sites cast a wide net, a random article might be worthless. A few of these sites say some stupid things about Ayn Rand. Some have a contradictory Leftist or religious orientation. Use critically.
AntiWar.com
The Last Ditch
Americans Against World Empire
Who, What, Why
Generally avoid:NewsMax — a neocon disinformation outlet for the vulgar.
Accuracy in Media — though they’ve done good work on TWA flight 800, this is just window-dressing. You know something’s fishy when they advertise a documentary film on Iraq as praised by a former Israeli ambassador, and promote neocons like Ann Coulter and Frank Gaffney (the latter signed the June 3, 1997 “Statement of Principles” from the Project for the New American Century).
Drudge Report — the news it leaves out is its news.
From The Wilderness (Michael Ruppert) — these days in large part nutty.
Rense — a mixture of wisdom and nuttiness.
Much of the “9/11 truth movement” — the truth about the cover-up is bad enough without exaggerating it.
WorldNetDaily — dosed with Rapturists/Zionists.
The Huffington Post — we might be able to stomach the leftist slant were it not for
Arianna’s friends.
What Really Happened — embraces the contradiction of Marxism and the Bill of Rights. Revels in doom.
Henry Makow — “A depraved satanic cult called the Illuminati is waging a covert war against humanity.” Whenever I hear the word “Illuminati” I release the safety-catch on ... I meant to say my eyes glaze over. Truth mixed with a lot of nonsense.
Rollye James — formerly of WWCR.Jay Diamond — formerly of WABC, WOR, WEVD, WRKO.
Norman Finkelstein
One of the 101 most dangerous academics in America! — according to neocon David Horowitz.WebsiteBBC interview (RAM audio)Beyond ChutzpahThe Holocaust IndustryA Nation on Trialwith Ruth Bettina Birn. An analysis of Daniel Goldhagen’s
Hitler’s Willing Executioners.
Israel’s Thumb-to-the-Nose Attitude Toward U.S. Interests
by Rodney Stich.
Alan Hart
Former foreign correspondent for Britain’s “News at Ten” and the BBC.
Alfred Lilienthal
We could do without his sucking up to the king of Saudi Arabia.
Victor Ostrovsky
Former case officer, or katsa, at Israel’s Mossad.By Way of Deception (with Claire Hoy).
(Amazon reviews)The Other Side of DeceptionWRMEA articlesInfluence of Intelligence on Politics (videos)Selections from a talk, date unknown.
Company fined $6,000 for not reporting customer’s question
“Is any of this stuff made in Israel?”
Export regulations regarding Israel
Per www.bis.doc.gov.
Boycott Israel
This is risky for U.S. companies (see above links).
Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interests
Not so consistently, but in any case Israel had another interest in mind. By Barbara Crossette.
Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy
by Grant Smith. Foreword by Michael Scheuer.
Khiam Prison: Israel’s Torture Den
Israel’s Technology Transfers to China
by Donald Neff. This is our ally?
John M. Cole: Failure to prosecute Israeli espionage in the U.S.
Reviews of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
Published by the Council on Foreign Relations, this book claims that socialist Israel is a good model for economic growth. It conveniently ignores U.S. foreign aid, subsidies, Israeli industrial espionage, etc.
The Israeli Lobby Archive
Photostats of original documents.
Israel in American media
Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby
Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship
by Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn. (Amazon reviews)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
IDF at work
Video of a routine operation in the “occupied territories.”
What Right to Exist?
The West Bank invasion of 2002. By Wolf DeVoon.
Attempted sinking of the USS Liberty
About a Critque of Noam Chomsky
by James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator.
The Case Against Israel
by Michael Neumann. A rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz.
The Israel Lobby and American Society
What the Israel Lobby really is, how it hurts the USA, what to do about it. Outline of a lecture by Joachim Martillo.
Campaign video: U.S.-Israel bond unbreakable
Typical republicans & democrats outdo one another in praise of Israel.
The Israel Lobby
by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.Short versionLondon Review of Books, 23 March 2006.
Long version (pdf)“... saying that Israel and the United States are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: rather, the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other way around.”
“... the mere existence of the Lobby suggests that unconditional support for Israel is not in the American national interest. If it was, one would not need an organized special interest group to bring it about. But because Israel is a strategic and moral liability, it takes relentless political pressure to keep U.S. support intact.”
Interview“The Israel lobby and its influence has been a taboo subject for too long. It is very important for the national interest that this matter be discussed at length and in a serious way in the media and on Capitol Hill. Too much is at stake to continue treating the lobby and Israel like two elephants in the room.”
They Reply to Critics
Israel Lobbying: The Attack on Mearsheimer and Waltby Stephen Sniegoski.
The Second Wave Against Mearsheimer and Waltby Stephen Sniegoski.
The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in LebanonStephen Walt and John Mearsheimer talk, Aug 28, 2006.
Videos:
Stephen Walt,
John Mearsheimer,
Interview
The Storm over the Israel Lobbyby Michael Massing,
The New York Review of Books. (First paragraph free.)
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.Amazon reviewsFirst ChapterInterviewBBC interviewThe Lobby Strikes Back Debate on Al Jazeera 4 April 2008. Prof. Mearsheimer maintains that were it not for Israel the U.S. would not have invaded Iraq. Prof. Finkelstein disagrees, maintaining that U.S. and Israeli leaders had a coincidental interest in invading Iraq, that at worst Israel helped U.S. leaders implement their own decision. Starts 3:15 minutes into Part 1.
The Israel Lobby and American Society“Mearsheimer and Walt fail to describe the full magnitude of the problem.” ... “... the book is flawed by acceptance of too many Zionist and Jewish claims at face value.” By Joachim Martillo, preface by Israel Shamir.
Administration caves in to Israel Lobby
Charles Freeman, a political hack, dares to mildly criticize Israel, and gets the treatment. By Ray McGovern. See also this and this.
Israeli leader’s appearance before a joint session of Congress
Making a list, checking it twice. Netanyahu was interrupted by applause 56 times, 26 of which were standing ovations. The best Congressmen money can buy.
More arms for Israel
This time via Greece.
U.S. to store another $400M of military equipment in Israel
$1.2 billion total by 2012. See also Defense News.
My Impressions of Israel
by Joel Skousen.
MEMRI’s Bias
About the Middle East Media Research Institute, based in the U.S. MEMRI’s president and cofounder is the Israeli Yigal Carmon, who spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers. The other cofounder is Meyrav Wurmser, who directs the center for Middle East policy at the neoconservative Hudson Institute. At one time, of the six on its staff three had worked for Israeli intelligence. By Brian Whitaker.
An Alarming Video
An example of MEMRI fraud.
AIPAC at Work
Oct. 22, 1992 conversation between David Steiner (AIPAC) recorded without his knowledge by Haim (Harry) Katz.
AIPAC on Trial
by James Petras.
Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Council for the National Interest
Founded by Republican Congressmen Paul Findley and Paul McCloskey. Though their motivation may be questioned, their motivation is irrelevant to the validity of their facts and arguments about Israeli influence in American government.
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
by Warner Farr, Lt. Col., U.S. Army.
The diversion of US weapons-grade uranium to Israel (audio)
Interview with Grant Smith. How Israel and its U.S. supporters established the front company, NUMEC Inc. in Apollo, PA, to steal weapons grade plutonium for Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program. Declassified files reveal how the FBI kept tabs on Zalman Shapiro, NUMEC’s president; David Lowenthal and Abraham Feinbergand, investors; and Israeli spies and nuclear weapons scientists whom Shapiro invited to visit. The Department of Energy still lists 269 kg of NUMEC’s bomb-grade material as “unaccounted for.”
Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads
by Chris McGreal. Israel tried to stop South Africa from declassifying the minutes of a 1975 meeting at which South Africa asked for warheads and Israel’s Shimon Peres responded by offering them in three sizes.
Madison’s Warning and the Israel Lobby
by Michael Scheuer.
Libya bombing and Lockerbie
Jane Hunter
Publisher and editor of the newsletter Israeli Foreign Affairs 1984 - 1993.
Freedom in the Air
A Brit criticizes Israel’s invasion of Gaza and gets indicted. By Israel Shamir, a kind of socialist who will offend just about everybody. Some of his work is worth reading.
Mondoweiss
“The War of Ideas in the Middle East.” Managed by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz.
The Politics of Anti-Semitism
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, eds. (Amazon reviews)
Politics Unspun
Website by Greg Felton of Canada.
Who made the desert bloom in the 1940s?
The bombing of the King David Hotel
July 22, 1946.
Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries
by Suad Amiry. Life in the “occupied territories.” (Amazon reviews)
The Holy Land Unveiled
by Jenifer Dixon. More life in the “occupied territories.” (Amazon reviews)
Some zionist quotes
Lebensraum
Greater Israel, one arson attack at a time.
The 1967 War and the Israeli Occupation
Israel Shahak
He criticizes Zionism and Israel, and for that gets “the treatment.” He’s a “self-hating Jew,” to which he has replied: “That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”
Vandals in an airport
Tales of Brutality
The IDF murders one of its own
“ ‘... the killing of [First Sergeant Eli Isha, mistaken for an Arab] was carried out according to the normal procedure now used by combat units of the Israeli army, called a “certification of death” (veedoo hamavet ...), according to which wounded enemies are routinely shot in the head.’ ” By Frank Collins.
The Many Faces of Terrorism
by Edna Hunt.
Indiscriminate killing
Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
Rather like a fatwa. By Jonathan Cook.
The one who makes people talk
About the IDF around 1990.
Pulled JTA articles boasting of pro-Israel congressmen
Unfortunately the Internet Wayback Machine archived only the first parts.
Lumière brothers movie of Palestine in 1896
Before World War I when it was part of the Ottoman empire. With later narration.
Joan Peter’s From Time Immemorial
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Martin Gilbert
Book review by Michael Breen.
Deir Yassin Remembered
by Daniel McGowan, a bleeding heart liberal, but don’t confuse the messenger with the message.
The Israel Lobby (video) 1 2 3 4 5 last
Dutch documentary.
Edwin M. Wright
A State Department official in the 1940s.
Stalin’s Jews
“An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name ‘Genrikh Yagoda’ ” (not to mention Lazar Kaganovich and Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, though the latter is a.k.a. Leon Trotsky). By Sever Plocker.
American Zionist Council
Documentation of Israel’s propaganda effort from 1960 to 1962.
The Israel Lobby
AIPAC acts like its predecessor, the AZC.
The Iran-Contra Connection
“Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.” Israel was heavily involved in Iran-Contra. By Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Hunter. Perhaps one of the victims was Uwe Barschel.
Israeli Soldiers Speak Out (video)
Interview with two veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces who served during the second intifada.
Shin Bet at work
“Now you are paralyzed, as we promised.” By Gideon Levy.
A window on interrogation
Shin Bet, Israel’s FBI, arrests Khotri. He denies the charge. Under torture he confesses. After more torture he names several men as co-conspirators. Then Shin Bet arrests them. And so it goes. (A citizens’ group got Khotri a judicial hearing regarding his injuries. The judge ordered medical treatment, but failed to order an investigation of Shin Bet. Torture in Israel is only nominally illegal.) By Gideon Levy.
Cyber-soldiers
Your foreign aid tax dollars at work. (archive.org)
We shall deal with them with “might, power, and beating.”
– Yitzhak Rabin, as reported in the Washington Post, January 22, 1988.
Gaza flotilla raidIsrael sends commandos, fully armed, in the middle of the night, to drop onto a ship, and then complain that they were attacked.
Israeli settlers
by James Hider. (archive.org)
Israeli army targets family over film
by Jonathan Cook.
Gaza invasion vignette
“The IDF trains its soldiers to minimise injuries to civilians and to respect all civilians on the battlefront.” — Israeli PR boilerplate. (archive.org)
“Obsession” video funded by Aish HaTorah
by Meg Laughlin, St. Petersburg Times. About the Clarion Fund, producers of America-democracy-freedom double-talking propaganda documentaries.
U.S. Evangelicals Embrace Israel
About Christians United for Israel. By Bill Berkowitz.
Freedom of the press the Israeli way
Anti-Americanism in Israel
“... to the suggestion that Israel should start ‘selling sensitive equipment that Washington opposes distributing internationally’: when did they ever stop?” By Justin Raimondo.
Border Police upload their abuse to YouTube
“Forcing Palestinians to sing is a common occurrence and is perceived by Border [Policemen] as quite humorous ... .” YouTube removed the linked video, but not before it was copied on Blip.tv .
The Dept. of Homeland Security and Israel
Security Solutions International – SSI – takes cops and others on a tour of Israel, all expenses paid (by you).
Israel as a Mental Case
The time has come to send Israel for psychiatric observation. By Gideon Levy.
Zev William Barkan
Zev William Barkan charged in Cambodia with running a studio that made pornographic “snuff” movies of “executions of city vagrants.”
Hollywood Producer Exposed as Covert Agent for Israel
About Arnon Milchan, the piece of trash who produced the piece of trash “Natural Born Killers.” By Dave Gahary.
Americans Pay to Keep Israel’s Nuclear Secrets Secret
About the NUMEC toxic waste dump in Pennsylvania. By Grant Smith.
Russia sentences Israeli for sex trafficking
The standout sentence is: “In the six months since his [earlier] arrest the Israeli prosecutors did not produce an indictment or even an indictment deadline.” The Israel government doesn’t give a damn.
Jewish Bolsheviks
Israel bringing up Nazi Germany as its raison d’être gives this article relevance here. Yes, many of the Bolsheviks’ victims were Jews: though you see what you eat you don’t always eat what you see. By Mark Weber. Besides Trotsky et al he might also have mentioned Yagoda and Kaganovich.
Trafficking in Human Organs, the case of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum
About the principal U.S. broker in an international kidney trafficking ring controlled by Israelis. The victims included Moldavians who were promised jobs in the U.S. and then coerced into giving their kidneys to recipients who posed as relatives.
“Plundered for their organs”Israeli Organ Harvesting by Alison Weir.
The Forgotten Autopsy Surgeon by Jonathan Cook.
The World Owes it to Us by Alison Weir.
Israeli admits to organ harvesting by Charlotte West. As in the Pollard affair, admission after denial and denial makes you wonder about the next denial.
The Body Snatchers by Israel Shamir.
Marred by his socialism at the end. There are reasonable arguments against organ transplantation (e.g. the recipient will be on debilitating anti-rejections drugs for the rest of his life) but the following is not among them: The thousands of his dollars a man would spend to prolong his life can be taken by the State and used to feed the starving. That, too, is an act of cannibalism.
Downsize DC
Supports the “Read the Bills Act” requiring Congressmen to read every word of a bill before they vote in favor of it, the “One Subject at a Time Act” forbidding irrelevant amendments to a bill, seeks repeal of the “Real ID Act” and similar enabling acts.
Vote Fraud
“He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything.” – attributed to Joseph Stalin.
Fully Informed Jury Association
How to nullify a bad law when on jury duty.
Young Americans for Liberty
Oath Keepers
Dissention within the ranks. Founded by Stewart Rhodes.
The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope
Pamphlet by Richard Mack. When the Clinton administration demanded county sheriffs enforce provisions of the Brady Bill gun control law, he was the first of seven sheriffs (out of about 3,000 in the country) who fought it – and won, though he lost his job through the efforts of Morris Dees (Southern Poverty Law Center) and the ADL. He argues that the county sheriff has the authority to protect citizens from federal agents. See also this video of him.
Tenth Amendment Movement
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Immigration reform
Or anti-reform. The problem began with Edward Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965.
MAPLight – money and politics: illuminating the connection
PowerBase
A wikipedia of lobbyists and press agents.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
Center For Small Government
The Rutherford Institute
John W. Whitehead, president. This particular article is about the TSA.
Ron Paul
U.S. Congressional Representative (Texas, nominally Republican), perhaps the only congress-critter walking on two legs. It’s been said that when you see a vote of 434 to 1, you know the 1 was Ron Paul. Unfortunately he waffles on the immigration issue, and has little sense of government corruption beyond socialism.
The Constitution
Some interesting thoughts by Tom Mullen. The Declaration of Independence was the greatest document in human history. As for the Constitution (pre-Bill of Rights), one has to wonder about some of its authors’ motivation.
OpenSecrets.org
Look up the influence of various lobbying groups.
FedUpUSAGood News
Contact a Congress-critter
Electronic Privacy Information Center
This particular article is about the TSA scanners.
How not to fight the IRS
About Joe Stack, by Dave Duffy of Backwoods Home Magazine.
The Tea Party
Oil is a vital commodity, but there is no oil crisis and any alleged dearth of oil is not a legitimate foreign policy issue. Even were there an oil crisis, there is nuclear power and who knows what other technical innovations that could flourish in a county free from crazy regulations and confiscatory taxation.
The Energy Non-Crisis
by Lindsay Williams. (Originally The Key to the Energy Crisis.) At a Ford Hall Forum lecture question period in 1976, when oil prices were record high, Ayn Rand said “I don’t believe there is an energy crisis.” This book presents evidence that the oil crisis of the 1970’s was manufactured by elements within the government. There is vastly more oil under Alaska’s North Slope than all of Saudi Arabia.
The Oil Reserve Fallacy
by Prof. Robert Kovarik.
“Proven reserves are not a measure of future supply.”
“... the Middle East does not have two thirds of the world’s oil reserves.”
The two thirds estimate refers “to a narrow category of ‘proven’ oil reserves, not to ‘every ... barrel of oil in the world’ ... .”
“According to a US Geological Survey report quietly published in 2000, there is more oil outside the Middle East than inside the region.” Saudi Arabia, to take one country, “may have one quarter of the world’s identified oil reserves ..., but it has only about 16 percent of all ultimately recoverable reserves ... .”
Abiotic Oil ?
I was brought up on the idea that oil came from prehistoric plants, “fossil fuel” you know, and that therefore the amount of oil underneath the earth is necessarily very limited. But the notion that oil comes from prehistoric vegetation is largely conjecture, and it has competition. Some Russians maintain that oil is produced by an ongoing abiotic process, a process not involving living things, and at a rate that even today exceeds consumption. Apparently they have some good evidence.
Access to Energy
The newsletter founded by Petr Beckmann (the spelling is correct) and now published by Arthur B. Robinson. “A Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Free Enterprise Monthly Newsletter.”
The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear
by Petr Beckmann. (Amazon reviews)
Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power
It’s cheap, clean, safe – and doesn’t depend on the Mideast. By Peter Huber and Mark Mills.
Here are links to ARI and other alleged Objectivist websites. We agree with much of what these people say, the problem is their hypocrisy saying it given the rest.
Last modified 2 February 2012