Archive 1986 – 2017

International – The NewsWhite House blocked probe of 9/11 – Saudi link Maureen Dowd, IHTThe return of the Terrifier in Chief William Pfaff, IHTThe pattern is global, but the causes are local The Wisdom FundNew ‘Prime Suspect in the Mass Murders of 9/11’ William M. Arkin, Yahoo newsDefenseFive Big American Blunders in Terror War Jim Lobe, Common DreamsSeeking Method in the Madness of Abu GhraibAn Interview with Belgian Philosopher Lieven De Cauter

Andrew Buncombe, Common Dreams‘I Saw Papers That Show US Knew al-Qa’idaWould Attack Cities With Airplanes’Whistleblower the White House wants to silencespeaks to The Independent Disinfopedia.orgColeen Rowley Public Accuracy.orgThe Katharine Gun CaseKatharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the “crime” of telling the truth. Ray McGovern, Counterpunch.orgBlowing Smoke on IntelligenceTurning Liability into Asset Daniel Ellsberg, Ellsberg.netSecrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Kata Kertesz, TruthoutEllsberg Urges Insiders to Leak Iraq Info

TFF associeret, Albert G Milbank professor emeritus i International Ret,, Princeton University; Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002 – 2004; formand for Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Falk har udgivet: “The great terror war”, 2003 og “Declining world order”, 2004. Se andre bøger af Richard Falk i “The 100 best books”. Den fordærvelse som udstilledes for verden i Abu Ghraib-fængslet stiller John Kerry overfor en historisk udfordring: Han må tilbyde Amerika noget som er mere politisk attraktivt end en “bleget republikaner” der søger adgang til Det hvide Hus. Det Amerika har et påtrængende behov for (eller ønsker) nu er ikke at han stiller sin kandidatur knapt en mikrometer til venstre for George W. Bush. Dette er den vigtigste præsidentvalgkamp i min levetid: Hvis vi ikke befrier landet og verden for Bush-ledelsen, er vore fremtidige muligheder uhyggelige og kan omfatte en glidning ned i global fascisme i udlandet og risikoen for...

TFF associeret, Albert G Milbank professor emeritus i International Ret,, Princeton University; Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002 – 2004; formand for Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Falk har udgivet: “The great terror war”, 2003 og “Declining world order”, 2004. Se andre bøger af Richard Falk i “The 100 best books”. Den fordærvelse som udstilledes for verden i Abu Ghraib-fængslet stiller John Kerry overfor en historisk udfordring: Han må tilbyde Amerika noget som er mere politisk attraktivt end en “bleget republikaner” der søger adgang til Det hvide Hus. Det Amerika har et påtrængende behov for (eller ønsker) nu er ikke at han stiller sin kandidatur knapt en mikrometer til venstre for George W. Bush. Dette er den vigtigste præsidentvalgkamp i min levetid: Hvis vi ikke befrier landet og verden for Bush-ledelsen, er vore fremtidige muligheder uhyggelige og kan omfatte en glidning ned i global fascisme i udlandet og risikoen for...

Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, UCSB, 2002-2004 and Chair, Board, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Falk is the author, of The Great Terror War (2003) and Declining World Order (2004). See other books by Richard Falk in “The 100 Best Books” The depravities displayed to the world at Abu Ghraib prison pose an historic challenge to John Kerry: He needs to offer America something more politically attractive than ‘a pale Republican’ seeking entry to the White House. Subtly positioning his candidacy but a micro-meter to the left of George W. Bush is not what America urgently needs (or wants) now. This is the most important presidential election of my lifetime: Unless we rid the country and the world of the Bush leadership, our future prospects are grim, and could include a slide toward global fascism abroad and the risk of a police state at...

Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University;Visiting Professor, UCSB, 2002-2004 and Chair, Board, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.Falk is the author, of The Great Terror War (2003) and Declining World Order (2004).See other books by Richard Falk in “The 100 Best Books” The depravities displayed to the world at Abu Ghraib prison pose an historic challenge to John Kerry: He needs to offer America something more politically attractive than ‘a pale Republican’ seeking entry to the White House. Subtly positioning his candidacy but a micro-meter to the left of George W. Bush is not what America urgently needs (or wants) now. This is the most important presidential election of my lifetime: Unless we rid the country and the world of the Bush leadership, our future prospects are grim, and could include a slide toward global fascism abroad and the risk of a police state at home. The precariousness of the situation...

‘We showed weakness and weak people are beaten,’ said President Vladimir Putin after surveying the wreckage of the battle scarred school in Beslan. Now we know what President George W. Bush meant when he said after his first meeting with Putin that he had looked into his eyes and had seen his soul. He had indeed found a soul mate. The meek, they both believe, shall not inherit the earth. Who fights with Dragons, said Nietzsche, shall himself become a dragon. But the other horn of the dilemma is he who does not fight with dragons may be devoured by them. War is sometimes perhaps necessary. But in too many cases it degrades the fighter and his cause. The resort to force is too often crudely instinctive, as in Iraq despite the thinness of the arguments for war. In this latest case the lack of sophistication of the Russian troops,...

Paul Krugman, AlterNetA reckoning for the media machine Howard Kurts, Washington PostOn WMD – Prewar articles questioning threat often didn’t make front page Greg Palast, the ObserverWhy Venezuela has voted again for their ‘negro and indio’ President TruthOutThe environment – The big picture C. J. Chivers, International Herald TribuneGeorgia’s leader walks a separatist tightrope Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy StudiesThe roller coaster of relevance: The Security Council, Europe and the US War in Iraq Robert E. Hunter, Christian Science MonitorUS troop withdrawal costly to alliances The United Nations57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference. Millennium Development Goals: Civil Society Takes Action – 8-10 September 2004 United Nations Headquarters, New York Tarq Ramadan, International Herald TribuneWhat does America have to fear from me? Global IssuesUS backs out of nuclear inspection treatyCodes of conduct on arms trade weakerChaves won the referendumEmbedded journalism a propaganda technique – and much more Jonathan Steele, The GuardianUS claims over...

Nye terrortrusler mod DanmarkJyllands-Posten Socialdemokratiet søger borgfred om IrakPolitiken Socialdemokratiet kræver langsigtet plan for IrakstyrkenPolitiken “Motståndet i Irak behöver politiskt stöd”Samtal med Sammi Alaa, Irakiska patriotiska alliansen och ordförande för den danska Kommitén för ett fritt IrakProletären Udenlandsk støtte til Frank Grevil – samtale med Daniel EllsbergInformation Iraks regeringschef: Terrorister vælter ind i IrakJyllands-Posten

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LONDON – “The moral arm of the universe is long”, Martin Luther King once said in one of his memorable speeches. “It bends towards justice”. But it is doubtful if the people of Cambodia, the site of the original “Killing Fields”, feel that this is likely. Yet their understandable cynicism may about to be confounded. Cambodia‚” National Assembly is poised to approve a government decision to ratify a treaty, over a decade in the making, that will empower a special court to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the communist movement that was seized with a mission to refashion the social and economic structure of their country by the sword and the bullet. Cambodia incarnates the worst horrors of being caught in the crossfires of war. It was heavily bombed in secret by the Nixon administration. Then when the Vietnamese invaded in 1979 Washington had the audacity to line up...

. In our Western culture one is judged to be either fully engaged with one’s emotions and one’s deeds or one is dangerously pathological. No one has epitomized this dilemma more than Robert McNamara whose steely tenure as U.S. Secretary of Defense under both president Kennedy and Johnston is still the subject of awed conversation. Imagine the sang froid of the present incumbent, Donald Rumsfeld, and then square it. He presided over the Pentagon during both the Cuban missile crisis and during the great build up in Vietnam when he initiated the concept of “body counts” to measure the progress U.S. forces were making. He obviously did sleep at night, despite his self-confessed “moral tension”, until one day on November 2nd, 1965, a young Quaker, a father of three, burned himself to death within 40 feet of McNamara’s office window. This act, McNamara, later confessed, took him to “the breaking...