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Barnett, whose program is revealed in his book, The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002), was trained by only the best Cold War liberals at Harvard, the school that gave us napalm. He has been called a George F. Kennan for the new century. He seems more a reduced James Burnham for a very brief century.

Such a leak occurred recently with the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which was prepared in July. Reports of the estimate's existence and overall pessimism - but not its actual conclusions - have prompted a long-overdue debate on the realities and prospects of the war. But its judgments of the relative likelihood and the strength of evidence pointing to the worst possibilities remain undisclosed. Since the White House has refused to release the full report, someone else should do so.

The Wall Street Journal has called him "The Lenin of the Republican Party". Other distinguished conservatives say that this title is an exaggeration, but it is beyond doubt that at the age of 48, Grover Norquist, outside consultant to the White House, has now become the dominant force in American economic policy.

"I always say that it was Israeli-Labour that made Palestine unliveable for Palestinians. What Likud does is to make Israel also unliveable for many Jews. Likud-led governments always constitute an embarrassment to their supporters abroad." Safieh pointed out that, "in Parliament today each time the issue of Palestine/Israel is addressed there is a proportion of 4-1 in our favour."

In other words, while the corporate media was ignoring the slaughter, torture, and dispossession of Palestinians, while it was ignoring a presidential cover-up that dwarfed Watergate in its significance, while it was ignoring the attempts of abandoned vets to get recourse from their government, while it was ignoring multitudes of stories of potentially world-shaking importance about Israel and its actions, Project Censored was, too.

In war, you deny information, spread lies and use psychological warfare. An expert on military information operations explains how Bush has mastered this technique -- and used it against the American people.

Le Nouvel Observateur's Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser. Published 15-21 January 1998 - Translated by Jean Martineau

And who is Porter Goss? Porter Goss, (R-FL) is surprise! a former CIA agent who left the CIA under clouded circumstances. He was a field agent but was actually forced out because of a trail of bodies that got tagged to him, literally, all over the world. And here is, as they say, the rest of the story...

The fact is, though, that the folks wearing donkey lapel pins these days are not your father's Democrats. Oh, they still talk about looking out for the little guy. Trouble is, they don't look out for the littlest guys -- in fact, they don't even acknowledge that these little people are people. You know who I'm talking about. Fetuses. Products of conception. Blobs of tissue. Right. Preborn babies.

Commentary by Frosty Wooldridge
September 17, 2004

CNN's Lou Dobbs speaks about this national crisis weekly. O'Reilly dabbles in it with reluctant flippancy. FOX NEWS ignores it. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald support it. La Raza, a national Hispanic pro-illegal alien and open-borders organization, licks its lips at the speed of this invasion. But, finally, TIME MAGAZINE exposed it with sobering pictures and interviews.

Illegal aliens bring Americans Third World Momentum. That includes crime, drugs and diseases. Sooner or later, every American community and millions of Americans will be affected as we allow three million illegal aliens breaching our borders annually without regard to their health, criminal background or drug expansion endeavors.

In TIME'S "WHO LEFT THE DOOR OPEN?" September 12, 2004, journalists Barlett and Steele exposed the ugly side of this invasion...

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by Frosty Woolridge
September 17, 2004

"From October 1, 2003 to July 20, 2004, the border patrol?s Tucson sector stopped 9,051 person crossing illegal who had criminal records in the U.S., meaning they committed crimes here, returned to Mexico, then were trying to re-enter the country," Time magazine wrote. "A minimum of 378 had active warrants for their arrest."

Most go undetected.

"The numbers suggest that tens of thousands of criminals, quite possibly hundreds of thousands, treat the border as a revolving door to crimes of opportunity," Steele wrote. "The situation is so out of control that 400,000 illegal aliens who have been ordered deported, 80,000 have criminal records, but Homeland Security does not have a clue as to the whereabouts of any of them, including those from countries that support terrorism."...

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Re: China Ocean Shipping Co.

COSCO has,since the signing of an EXECUTIVE ORDER by President Benedict Bill Klinton in January of 1998, taken over and totally controls the former U.S. Naval Port Facilities at Long Beach. This port is the largest container port on the West coast of North America and is a major conduit through with our technology is being transferred to China. What most people DON'T KNOW is the fact that COSCO is 100% owned by the PLA--the PEOPLES' LIBERATION ARMY of RED CHINA. COSCO has other facilities up and down both the West and East coasts of the U.S. and the Gulf Coast along with the newest port facility that they have at Freeport,The Bahamas,which is the largest container port in the World. COSCO is intimately linked with the WAMPOA-HUTCHINSON GROUP of Hong Kong which is 100% owned by Li Kai Sheng, of the very powerful LI family of China, Kai Sheng is a very close associate of Chinese President Zhao Zemin. The WAMPOA-HUTCHINSON GROUP controls the PANAMA CANAL and is linked to the PLA like a Siamese Twin. This is a main reason WHY OUR COUNTRY is in such deep peril-at the hands of our TRAITOROUS Politicians, Democrat or Republican notwithstanding.

Tim White, Viet Nam Vet/Concerned Citizen


COSCO Long Beach's Maiden Voyage Celebrated

COSCO Long Beach, one of COSCO's new series of 8000-TEU vessels, successfully concluded her maiden voyage to the Port of Long Beach on 25 August 2004...

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Lutheran pastor and paleo-con journalist Mark Dankof shares the questions and answers to a Personality and Ideological Test administered to him recently by a Philadelphia-based clinical psychologist with an expertise in helping victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The psychologist, a Vietnam veteran of counterinsurgency warfare with the 101st Airborne several generations ago, joins Mark in inviting you to take the test with your friends and colleagues, free of charge. May it help in self-understanding, dialogue, and the comparison of each Weltanschaung.

Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America is the novel that a neoconservative would write, if a neoconservative could write a novel.

This is a repellent novel, bigoted and libelous of the dead, dripping with hatred of rural America, of Catholics, of any Middle American who has ever dared stand against the war machine. All that is left, I suppose, is for the author to collect his Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Brigadier General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq

In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky suggested that our leaders, facing the choice in the book's title, might well opt for hegemony over survival. "There is ample historical precedent," he wrote, "for the willingness of leaders to threaten or resort to violence in the face of significant risk of catastrophe. But the stakes are far higher today. The choice between hegemony and survival has rarely, if ever, been so starkly posed."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence report prepared for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a deterioration into civil war, government officials said on Thursday.

The alarming possible future in Iraq as outlined in the classified National Intelligence Estimate is in line with the view of many analysts and members of Congress, and the Bush administration has slowly begun to shift away from an optimistic tenor to a more realistic one. ...

What I mean is the neoconservatives, who used to be allies of the old conservatives, they have themselves in positions of power in the administration. They have an agenda that Perle and Wolfowitz and Wurmser and the others, working with Netanyahu, had an agenda for war with Iraq that was going nowhere.

9/11 happens, and they put this agenda before a president, who in my judgment was untutored, as his father was not. Reagan would not have done this. I don't think his father would have done this.

They captured Rumsfeld, and they captured Cheney, and I think they captured the president...

The Pentagon notified the US Congress Monday of an Israeli request for the construction of two infantry training bases and a storage and logistics base for a reserve armored division for Israeli troops withdrawing from the West Bank.
The project was valued at an estimated 350 million dollars.

There were 900 arrests on Tuesday . . . It shouldn’t obscure the fact of how necessary these demonstrations are, how vital it is that they grow. As the convention illustrated beyond a doubt, one of America’s great political parties has wholeheartedly embraced policies that put the country on a collision course with much of the world, in the process transforming a marginal fundamentalist Muslim thug into a hero for billions. The demos were part of a voice saying “no” to those policies—a brake, a spur.

Law professor Elaine Cassel speaks with Scott Horton about the Bush/Ashcroft assault on American civil liberties. Interview conducted Sept. 4, 2004.

The CONVAR data salvage has made it completely clear that more than $100 million in insider credit card transactions took place in the hours and minutes before the twin towers collapsed. The mainframe computers in the towers processed these transactions; and the credit card data would have been lost forever had it not been for the successful data reconstruction of the CONVAR specialists.

Pat Buchanan spoke with Bill Maher on Sept. 3 about Iraq and the "War on Terror." The following is a transcript from Real Time With Bill Maher.

Standing armies are standing curses in every country under the sun, where they are more powerful than the people.

Longman cannot make up his mind as to whether economic disincentives or existential despair account for collapsing birthrates. He offers an economic explanation as follows: In traditional society children were an asset, a source of cheap farm labor in the present and the equivalent of a pension later on. In the modern world, children are a cost. Because parents and non-parents both will receive pensions paid by the next generation, no individual has an incentive to make sacrifices to bring the next generation into the world. In the absence of economic incentives to reproduce, "Faith is increasingly necessary as a motive to have children."

Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world—and a military strategy to accompany it. Now there’s a leading contender. It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community.

Islamabad: Terrorist mastermind and al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and his other top associates could be arrested anytime, as the recent spate of Al Qaeda arrests in Pakistan have provided significant clues, a senior US official has claimed.

Everything is in place and a little bit is needed to localise these people and catch them, the US State Department's coordinator on counter-terrorism J. Cofer Black said during a briefing for selected senior journalists at the American Information Centre here.

Was this bio-terrorism a case of an Arab attack on Americans because 'they hate our freedom'? Was it the work of a 'domestic terrorist' motivated by hate of the US media or government? You're about to hear the evidence, and the evidence points to none of these things: Instead it points to the anthrax attacks being an operation of a foreign intelligence service with capabilities and motives identical to those of the murderous Israeli Mossad. Listen to the evidence and decide for yourself as American Dissident Voices presents “The Anthrax Murders, the Israeli Connection,” part 1.