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JK Galbraith
Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and the slaughter in Iraq [delve]
US intelligence loses the plot
The ghosts of Vietnam are returning [delve]
Policy is the victim in Washington's bloodsport
For anyone who watches American politics as if it were a competitive sport [delve]
30% of black men in US will go to jail
Gary Younge in New York. Tuesday August 19, 2003 [delve]
Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret
Whoever killed the Hamas official in Dubai ˆ let's speak frankly [delve]
US rethink on Iraq tactics
"iron-fisted" approach to hunting Iraqi suspects was alienating the wider Iraqi public and provoking retaliation [delve]
US experts debate 'mini-nukes'
[delve]
USA have gotten itself into the business of empire
Robert D. Kaplan on how the United States projects power around the world˜and why it must [delve]
Justification for Iraq war is now 'palpably absurd'
says Robin Cook, the former UK foreign secretary [delve]
How To Stop America
[delve]
The growing storm of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Disception (WMD)
[delve]
American power cannot make America safe
Clare Short on the future of the UN [delve]
US secret plan to rule Iraq
[delve]
'Pull out of bloody, unjust war'
Robin Cook, 30 March 2003 [delve]
The courage of women under fire
Joan Smith 30 March 2003 [delve]
Al-Jazeera has changed everything ?
By Fergal Keane. 29 March 2003 [delve]
'Iraq will become a quagmire for the Americans'
24 March, 2003. Fisk [delve]
Falling at the Feet of Power
Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media [delve]
The Project for the New American Century
The wisdom behind the Iraq war [delve]
"Regime Stabilisation And Leadership Change"
The Mother of all Coups [delve]
The War of Misinformation has Begun
Robert Fisk March 16 [delve]
Not just the end of Saddam, but the creation of a new world
Fergal Keane [delve]
US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
UN Security Council delegations subjected to aggressive surveillance operation [delve]
Powell speaks with forked tongue
Language, the first casualty of the West's war against terrorism [delve]
The New Vassals
Iraq has exposed both the splits in western Europe and the ease with which former eastern bloc states have been drawn into the US orbit [delve]
Plagiarism row casts shadow over UK govt's Iraq dossier
A journalistic cut and paste job rather than high-grade intelligence analysis [delve]
The credibility gaps in Colin Powell's story
At the UN, 6 February 2003 [delve]
Mandala's anti-Bush speach
"It is a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing in Iraq," [delve]
Anti-Bush feeling is spreading
The sad murder of a USAID official in Jordan [delve]
Moscow: a stronger and larger group of terrorists have been
[delve]
The Truth About Refugees
Dann Kolthoff speaks out [delve]
George Bush's speech on Iraq
Transcript: Cincinnati 7 Oct 02. "Nuclear holy warriors" [delve]
Is the state re-constructing global civil society?
Peter Kitchenman's PhD Bibliography, international relations [delve]
How big oil got in bed with big politics
[delve]
A World Without War
Concentrated power pursues the war relentlessly, and very self-consciously [delve]
Bush's Titanic War On Terror
This gets weirder and weirder [delve]
FBI and CIA fight it out
who was to blame for September 11 blunders [delve]
The axis of nonsense
...new targets and new justifications for attack on the menu for military action. [delve]
The Cult of Efficiency
[delve]
The Real History of the Crusades
[delve]
America's Imperial War
The dangerous and illiberal people who control the US military machine have won. [delve]
How We (US of A) Lost Afghanistan
Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month [delve]
Enron probe focuses on White House
Investigations into the collapse of the energy giant Enron have focused on the White House for the first time. [delve]
The B61 (Mk-61) Bomb
radiation implosion weapon [delve]
Itchy fingers on the trigger
Growing number of US advisers who now advocate the use of nuclear weapons? [delve]
U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
Bush administration has directed the military to prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries and ... [delve]
Root causes of violent conflict in developing countries
Poverty and political, social, and economic inequalities predispose [delve]
Pentagon's new black propaganda unit
Covert news and disinformation campaign [delve]
Report from the Kangaroo Court at The Hague
International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic [delve]
Bush Appoints Family Planning Ambassador to China
[delve]
'Fallen misanthrope' in the dock
Slobo's Yugoslavia was different from everyone else's [delve]
British arms sales to Africa soar
200m in 2003, 52m in 1999 [delve]
Terrorism As Cannibalism - By Vandana Shiva
Year 2001 will be etched in our memory as a year in which the vicious cycle of violence was unleashed worldwide. Of the Taliban bombing the two thousand year old images of peace, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. [delve]
As Enron scandal spreads
US starts to question cash for influence culture [delve]
More evidence that the enron scandal points to Bush
The Enron scandal has revealed many ties to the Bush White House and members of Congress, and shouts the need for campaign finance reform. [delve]
Who Is Responsible for 9/11?
As the Enron organized crime scandal keeps accelerating out of control, the Bush Oil Cartel is faced with startling accusations into their co-operation with fundamentalist terrorists. [delve]
The year revolved around a day when nothing changed
Certainly that day's events were extraordinary and morbidly spectacular. And didn't the news channels know it? 28 December 2001 UK Independent [delve]
Hell to Pay
Enron - Some time just before January 7th, 2002, an asteroid capable of pulverizing a good-sized nation flashed through the void, passing perilously close to Earth. [delve]
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
A timeline surrounding September 11th - If CIA and the government weren‚t involved in the September 11 attacks what were they doing? by Michael C. Ruppert [delve]
Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) and September 11
Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? [delve]
Is Cataclysmic Terrorism Ahead?
Prophetic? Patrick J. Buchanan Jan 12, 1999 [delve]
What will the Northern Alliance do in our name now?
'Why do we always have this ambiguous, dangerous relationship with our allies?' Robert Fisk: UK Independent, 14 Nov 2001. [delve]
Will Russia protect Iraq from the U.S.?
As Bush and Putin cozy up at the Crawford ranch, Russia is still blocking American moves against Saddam Hussein, because of billions to be made doing business with him. By Eric Boehlert, Nov. 15, 2001. Salon.com [delve]
BUSH AND BLAIR'S HIDDEN AGENDA
America's economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of military attack on any country. That is a truth the modern imperialists will not spell out [delve]
Hypocrisy, hatred and the war on terror
In a dusty Peshawar street, Robert Fisk happened upon a remarkable bookshop fighting a desperate rearguard action to preserve Afghanistan's literary heritage in the face of Taliban hostility. Robert Fisk: 09 November 2001 UK Independent. [delve]
An imperial nightmare
Precious little acknowledgement of the relentless and bloody repression that maintained a quarter of the world's population under British rule until barely half a century ago. 8 Nov 2001. Seumas Milne. [delve]
Power grows out of the barrel of a gun
Britains influence in Europe [delve]
Controlling Kabul
Political and strategic interests divide world leaders over the future government of Afghanistan, writes Simon Tisdall. Thursday October 25, 2001 [delve]
America's Pipe Dream
America's Pipe Dream The war against terrorism is also a struggle for oil and regional control By George Monbiot. [delve]
SUPPRESED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD TO CIA
Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. [delve]
The algebra of infinite justice
As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengeance. [delve]
Bush has lost the talking war
Robert Fisk, 10 Oct,2001 [delve]
War of ideas
Washington Post. 9 Oct, 2001 [delve]
20,000 in anti-war protest in London
Marches also in Glasgow, in a number of other countries including Germany and Australia. [delve]
Patrick J. Buchanan. Jan 1999
America is the only nation on Earth to claim a right to intervene militarily in every region of the world. [delve]
Astute Bin Laden raises the stakes
On the streets there was a strong mood running in favour of Osama bin Laden [delve]
Noam Chomsky. 29 Sept, 2001
The one hope they have for recruiting others to their horrendous cause. [delve]
The Greater Terror
It is this kind of terror that has consigned the bulk of humanity to poverty and destitution, to perpetual debt and to the ravages of preventable diseases; to the mercy of sanctions and embargoes and the whims of the market and xenophobic policy paradigms. [delve]
Robert Fisk: Our friends are killers, crooks and torturers
07 October 2001. Almost four weeks after the crimes against humanity in New York and Washington, we are playing politics on the hoof and allying ourselves to some of the nastiest butchers around. [delve]
Tackling the Taleban
By BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson in north Afghanistan. Sunday, 7 October, 2001, 20:05 GMT 21:05 UK. [delve]
Military Assistance to the Afghan Opposition
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder. October 2001 [delve]
How to defeat bin Laden
The U.S. should drop its war rhetoric and convince the Islamic world that he is a dangerous fugitive from justice. By Michael T. Klare [09/13/01] Salon.com [delve]
Ashes to ashes
Oct. 4, 2001. Christopher Ketcham on Salon.com [delve]
Taliban suspects secretly jailed in NZ
Two Afghans originally suspected of plotting an attack on Sydney's nuclear reactor in the lead up to the Olympic Games have been secretly jailed in New Zealand, it was reported. [delve]
About those Black Boxes: Something's Up...
The Black Box and the Indestructible Passport: by Sam Youssef

All four Black Boxes were supposedly destroyed and rendered unusable in spite of the fact that they are designed specifically for plane crashes which result in insurmountable conditions...yet one of the hijackers' passports supposedly survived fire and heat of over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and is found in perfect shape in the rubble around the WTC towers. [delve]


No News is Bad News - by Robert Jensen and Rahul Mahajan
Nearly three weeks have passed since Sept. 11, and the United States has yet to launch a military offensive in the new unlimited global war on terrorism that President Bush declared on Sept. 20. [delve]
Scoop Link: White House Lied About Air Force One
By JERRY WHITE - The White House has been caught in a lie about the alleged terrorist threat against Air Force One [U.S. President's official airplane] which it had cited as the reason for President Bush's absence from Washington for most of September 11. According to reports by CBS News and the Washington Post, White House officials have stated that the Secret Service never received a phone call warning of a direct threat to the President's airplane. The government's reversal has gone largely unreported in the media. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/bush-s28.shtml [delve]
"whoever exactly it is we're at war with here."
President Bush vowed that the U.S. would defeat ... [delve]
US role in WTC attacks - Investigation called for
From Indymedia: Evidence is mounting that the Bush administration may have deliberately provoked a terrorist attack on the U.S. as a means of justifying its plans to replace the Taliban in Afghanistan with a puppet government friendly to gas and oil development in the region. [delve]
Many Decisions, Many Risks
As the (Bush) campaign unfolds, almost every decision he makes could risk unraveling that coalition and eroding his political support at home. [delve]
Noam Chomsky, 21st Sept 2001
How do you see the media coverage of this event? Is there a parallel to the Gulf War in "manufacturing consent?" [delve]
Inclusive Security: A Statement on the Terrorist Attacks
by Swanee Hunt. Women Waging Peace [delve]
The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with Osama
14 Sept, 2001 statement by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) [delve]
No Preparation For Where We're Going
This war, the president declares, won't be brief. He has committed himself to rooting out terrorists all over the world. That's a noble goal, and incredibly ambitious. [delve]
US ready to strike without UN mandate
by Ewen MacAskill.  September 22, 2001. Failure to secure the support of the 15-member UN security council risks opening up a debate similar to that during the Kosovo war, where Nato went ahead without UN approval [delve]
Bush address to Congress
September 21, 2001.  Extracts of US President George W Bush's rallying cry against international terrorism in a speech to both houses of the US congress [delve]
What the Pakistan papers say
September 21, 2001.  Derek Brown looks at how Pakistan's press views the latest developments in the terrorism crisis [delve]
Prime Suspect. Osama bin Laden
BBC Panorama documentary: For three years, Panorama has been investigating Osama Bin Laden. He's on the FBI's most wanted list with a $5m price on his head. Jane Corbin reports on the Saudi-born dissident turned terror mastermind [delve]
Special forces to target bin Laden's strongholds
By Paul Peachey, 22 September 2001.  President Bush hinted yesterday that covert special forces will play a lead fighting role against the Afghan regime as the first scant details emerged of the closely-guarded United States war plans [delve]
Kofi Annan: We must recognise our common enemies
22 September 2001.  'At a time like this, the world is defined not only by what it is for but by what it is against' [delve]

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