But was this article published in the United States by the major outlets ? Nope, it was published by the Khaleej Times Online ...

Is there any hope for a real foreign policy, or real domestic policy for that matter when our best minds are ignored?

Long live the Corporatocracy !

Many thanks to Alternet for their republication.

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Isn't it something , when you're raised in a country with such propaganda? That we're good people, from honest, hard-working stock and a tradition of liberty and affirmation of life.

When you have good food, big plasma TVs, big SUVs, big waistlines, it's a reassuring, peaceful life. We can't be wrong and if we are it's only because we're misunderstood because, really, we don't wish to be interrupted in our hazy nirvana-on-earth, the USA.

That somewhere in the world, a small child is, at this very moment, standing and shimmering in 140oF heat, smeared with dirt and their mother's blood, screaming, limbs separated from torso, mouth wide, sucking superheated air, screaming I said, stunned and addled for the remainder of it's brief precious life, under the same sun that will shine, later this very day, on your family barbecue set amid amber waves of grain under purple mountains majesties above a fruited plain?

Shall we remember, will we know, you and I and our grandchildren, who we were, who we are, what we did? Because it wasn't us who roasted that small child in the desert, oh no, it was bad people, and I didn't vote for them, did you?

No, no one did, because you and I, we're good people and we worship a god and love our children and our dogs and we will sleep well and no one will harm us. Ever.

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Sharp and direct, as you would expect from Chomsky...But also concise and low on babbling rhetoric, which I don't always expect from him. This is one of his best writings I've seen.

As always, his blind faith in US public opinion is his weakest spot. Even if the "majority of the American people favor diplomacy and oppose the use of force", I suspect it's a casual interest at most, with a long list of caveats. Aside from a handful of progressives, nobody seems to be demanding a stop to the madness or laying down in front of the tanks.

And I think Chomsky's point about "no principled criticisms of the war" is at the heart of it: Most of the so-called "criticism" is about the botched implementation...which is kind of like saying the Nazis' heart was in the right place, if only they hadn't been so hasty in opening up that Eastern Front. He sums it up very nicely in the last paragraph, yet still clings to his faith in the US public who, at the very least, allowed it all to happen.

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I find it hard to believe that any person who has studied the history of WWI or WWII would have any trouble understanding the US's strategy vis a vis the middle east. Literally millions of lives have been lost throughout history in order to gain or retain control of the petroleum products of this area. One of the first products was bitumen which was used thousands of years ago by sailors to seal their ships and homeowners to waterproof their homes. Furthermore the Zorastrians and other ancient religions have long worshiped the flaming naphtha fires that burn continuously throughout the region. Before drilling for oil people would gather oil with rags and containers from the many open sources in this area. For further reading may I suggest Daniel Yergin's book "The Prize."

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The USA's Iraq War is just common jungle variety imperialism, the American boa constrictor squeezing Iraq for oil and preparing to squeeze Iran and whoever else may feed the ever-growing human appetite, all the while grabbing huge profits from no-bid war materials contracts -- and, as the citizens opposed the failure in VietNam, they support the apparent success in Iraq. For them it's not a question of morality, but strategy and logistics. Americans are a sports-minded people so they want their team to win all the games and become World champions.

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Chomsky's piece is excellent but it also draws my attention (yet again) to the apathy and actual complicity of the great American people, who look away from the tragedy of Iraq in a far worse way than they did from Vietnam. What has happened here, are we all so coddled and comforted by our big car, supersized fries, supersized houses and supersized credit balances to see someone else's need? Why do we look away from this horror and go back to reading Harry Potter escapism and watching crap on Fox TV? I hear people complaining about not being able to make it to Disney World this year because of the price of gas. All while the people of Iraq are brutalized by Bush/Cheney every day.

So Bush pats us on the head, sends us "stimulus checks" like a good papa handing out candy to a whining child, we shut up an the whole thing keeps going. In November we will have a new daddy who will do the same thing. Don't worry, America, we're still the best country with the best people, the benevolent giant who specializes in death and destruction.

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Thanks for publishing one of your most important articles ever!

I've included it in "IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!" which you can find on-line (until it's removed by the U.S. Department of Justice) at:

http://www.kycbs.net/Oil-Stupid.htm

Mahalo!

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Global economics does not speak to the public need for meaningful work, affordable housing, fulfilling education, adequate medical care, a clean environment, honest and accountable government, social and cultural renewal, or simple justice. All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life so alienated from common human reality I am convinced it is wrong and that most people would agree with me if they could perceive an alternative. We might be able to see that if we regained a hold on a philosophy that locates meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found -- in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in simple ceremonies and rituals, in curiosity, generosity, compassion, and service to others, in a decent independence and privacy, in all the free and inexpensive things out of which real families, real friends and real communities are built -- then we would be so self-sufficient we would not even need the material "sufficiency" which our global "experts" are so insistent we be concerned about. [emphasis added]

---John Taylor Gatto

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for the new US Empire's play for world domination. Without 9/11, there would have been no war, no invasion of Iraq. This is quite openly pointed out in the PNAC necon manifesto written before Bushco stole the election of 2000. Until Americans face up to the reality that 9/11 was an internal covert operation carried out by the military/industrial corporate complex in collusion with the media and the majority of both legislative houses, there is no sense looking for an end either to the "war" in the Middle East, or to the rapidly escalating police state that will replace whatever is left of that odd American experiment in representative government formerly known as "Democracy." The future does not look good.

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Duh, it was always about oil; and "W" could have pulled it off if only he wasn't so greedy. Let's say if today we were paying $1.00 at the pump. Would anyone in America be calling "W" anything other than the greatest president in our history. It would not matter if he violates our privacy; if he tortures prisoners; if he lowered taxes for the "Friends of "W""; he and Dick(head) could be caught having sex with a dog (or Dick's wife) and no one would care. But for "W" and Dick the smell of money was overwhelming. After their tenure we will discover that some how they both became billionaires during the reign of terror.

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What Chomsky writes is undoubtedly true: we invaded Iraq so that we could control its oil and set up permanent military bases to protect our investment. This is really no surprise. Several writers saw through the smokescreen and said the same thing before our invasion. I wrote a commentary in a local newspaper saying exactly that in 2003--and was excoriated by a swarm of right-wing letter writers.

Chomsky doesn't mention another facet to our invasion, which is that it was designed to strengthen Israel's hand, our military partner in the Middle East, one that could be depended on to inflict severe damage on Iran, Syria, or Lebanon, should these states protest against the American hegemony. In return for its help, Israel gets to run roughshod over Palestine and gobble up the entire West Bank--all this while Washington turns out fancy phrases in protest, as well as a blind eye.

What should also be obvious, but apparently isn't, is that Bush, Cheney, and the neocons were not alone in their illegal war. The American Congress, with only a few courageous exceptions, went along with their warmaking plans, and only recently have some of the war enablers come around to say the invasion was a mistake--Hillary Clinton being a notable example. My take on this is that Congress, as well, wanted us to control that oil and didn't care what means were used.

Even today, long after the Downing Street memo has proved conclusively that the intelligence was fitted around the policy, Nancy Pelosi is dragging her feet on Dennis Kucinich's impeachment articles, hoping to bury them in John Conyers' Judiciary Committee. Why would she do this? Why would Conyers sit on these articles? The only rational conclusion is that not only Republicans, but high-ranking Democrats, as well, were and are in collusion with the Bush Administration to steal another country's oil.

The American people aren't stupid. I suspect that low approval ratings for Congress are in large measure due to its hypocrisy in pretending to be against the Bush-Cheney war and occupation, but are in reality continuing to enable this Administration in its illicit behavior. These Democratic critics give lip service to a desire to remove our troops from Iraq, but they want a Status of Forces Agreement and a sweet oil deal no less than the Bush team does.

It is a progressive's hope hope that a new Administration will sweep away all the Congressional war enablers, remove our troops from Iraq, dismantle our bases, tell Israel to pull in its horns, and begin to search for peace in the Middle East and not another country's natural resources. Judging from past experience, however, the chances are slim.

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No wonder the right wingnuts and neocons HATE Noam Chomsky!

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Stop all this WE crap. The government of this country, led by an installed ruler, sent troops to invade and plunder a country. WE didn't go to war, WE aren't building bases. Apathy? The Bush admin, as far as I'm concerned, is THEY. And THEY can toy with my life any way they please, lawfully and with best regards to my freedom. (Another word for imagination) THEY can take office without due process, THEY can tear down regulation, THEY can ignore the constitution, THEY can murder their own retarded citizens and sleep deeply, THEY can torture, maim and kill for Wal-Mart's bottom line, and THEY can erase the intellectual footprint of an entire society in less than a decade. I'm not apathetic... I'm terrified!

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If we Americans decided to demand from Congress a real 9/11 investigation we would finally BEGIN to see some exercise of justice. This horrendous, unending "war on terrorism" is completely against the identity that we Americans cling to but HINGES on 9/11. Don't you see the connection?

It's a simple thing we can ALL easily agree on and actually DO. A real, independent, fully funded investigation with subpoena power. Hello, why wasn't this already done? Once we (the average American citizen) understand the truth we will see to it that those really responsible will be held accountable (including the complicity of the press).

Until that happens, we will continue to debate the details, nuances, troop levels, time tables, number of deaths, number of injured, cost per week, cost per day, blah, blah, blah of this atrocity of the unending "war on terror" across the world including here in our own country. Let's get to the bottom of it! For God's sake and our own - we can at least demand a REAL investigation!!!

People, call and write to your representatives weekly, daily! Apply the pressure. WE need to know the truth - and what we do know is that our government has continually, brazenly lied to us about 9/11. Come on, we can do this.

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http://www.janes.com/security/international
_security/news/fr/fr030416_1_n.shtml

16 April 2003
Oil from Iraq : An Israeli pipedream?

"Israel stands to benefit greatly from the US led war on Iraq, primarily by getting rid of an implacable foe in President Saddam Hussein and the threat from the weapons of mass destruction he was alleged to possess. But it seems the Israelis have other things in mind.

An intriguing pointer to one potentially significant benefit was a report by Haaretz on 31 March that minister for national infrastructures Joseph Paritzky was considering the possibility of reopening the long-defunct oil pipeline from Mosul to the Mediterranean port of Haifa. With Israel lacking energy resources of its own and depending on highly expensive oil from Russia, reopening the pipeline would transform its economy.

To resume supplies from Mosul to Haifa would require the approval of whatever Iraqi government emerges and presumably the Jordanian government, through whose territory it would be likely to run. Paritzky's ministry was reported to have said on 9 April that it would hold discussions with Jordanian authorities on resuming oil supplies from Mosul, with one source saying the Jordanians were "optimistic". Jordan, aware of the deep political sensitivities involved, immediately denied there were any such talks.

Paritzky said he was certain the USA would respond favourably to the idea of resurrecting the pipeline. Indeed, according to Western diplomatic sources in the region, the USA has discussed this with Iraqi opposition groups.

It is understood from diplomatic sources that the Bush administration has said it will not support lifting UN sanctions on Iraq unless Saddam's successors agree to supply Israel with oil.

All of this lends weight to the theory that Bush's war is part of a masterplan to reshape the Middle East to serve Israel's interests. Haaretz quoted Paritzky as saying that the pipeline project is economically justifiable because it would dramatically reduce Israel's energy bill.

US efforts to get Iraqi oil to Israel are not surprising. Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the US guaranteed all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis. The MoU, which has been quietly renewed every five years, also committed the USA to construct and stock a supplementary strategic reserve for Israel, equivalent to some US$3bn in 2002. Special legislation was enacted to exempt Israel from restrictions on oil exports from the USA.

Moreover, the USA agreed to divert oil from its home market, even if that entailed domestic shortages, and guaranteed delivery of the promised oil in its own tankers if commercial shippers were unwilling or not available to carry the crude to Israel. All of this adds up to a potentially massive financial commitment.

The USA has another reason for supporting Paritzky's project: a land route for Iraqi oil direct to the Mediterranean would lessen US dependence on Gulf oil supplies. Direct access to the world's second-largest oil reserves (with the possibility of expansion through so-far untapped deposits) is an important strategic objective."

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That was obvious when the US military posted soldiers to guard the Iraq Oil Ministry building while doing nothing to prevent the looting of 7,000 years of human history at the Iraq National Museum!

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"O.I.L." Operation Iraq Liberation?

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The bottom line (regarding the American Public) is simple, we'll tolerate virtually any behavior from our government as long as the oil flows and allows us to continue to enjoy our way of life. How else can we explain our actions in the Middle East? And notice I say "our actions" because Bush & Company are elected by us and we are responsible for their actions. We have a great deal to atone for but I doubt we will do so, we're to self absorbed in our own lives to care about those half a world away.

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There have been many comments here blaming the American people for the fix that we are in. This is a cop-out and an excuse for inaction. Chomsky's piece highlights the fact that the American people are also victims of the practices of our governing apparatus, and don't really have a seat at the table. Resistance to the crimes of the Empire is being stifled in many ways, but perhaps most importantly by systematic manipulation of what the people are allowed to see and know.

We now have the tools- with a certain amount of time, effort and practice, and with the help of sites such as this one - to learn much of what is happening in the world, and then, by searching on Yahoo News or Google News, to determine which stories were covered by which news outlets. I have done this now for several months, and the results are startling.

In case after case, news stories that a reasonable person would agree are interesting and important or significant are being killed, completely ignored, by the entire corporate media. This happens so frequently and thoroughly that it cannot be dismissed as an accident, the result of pressure from advertizers or a mere convergence of opinion among editors. Among those most cruelly deceived by this practice are people who rely on the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR and the BBC and who think they are getting the real news that the masses are being denied. Over the last few months, without exception, when FOX and CNN don't carry a story these elite news organs don't either!

Sometimes a story is carried by Reuters or AFP and is headlines all over Europe - but not here. Sometimes a story that should have been national news will be carried by a few regional dailies in Seattle, Baltimore or Boston. But the networks and the national dailies appear to be presenting a solid front.

A dramatic example is the story of House Continuing Resolution 362, which in strong language calls on the President to institute a blockade of Iran, which would require stopping Iran-bound ships on the high seas - an act of war under the UN Charter. This resolution was introduced in late May, and had over 100 Co-sponsors by June 19, when the blog Daily Kos, followed soon by the rest of the alternative press, broke the story. Thousands of people knew about it, including every member of Congress, yet not one news report had appeared anywhere! UPI carried a story on it on July 7, but as of today, July 12, it still hasn't been covered or even mentioned by any of the networks or national dailies, and it could come to a vote at any time now!

The one exception, the one national mass circulation news source that frequently breaks rank and carries a story that has been silenced by the rest of the Corporate Media, is Yahoo News. For whatever reason, Yahoo is now under vigorous assault by Microsoft and other high-rollers, with bids in the tens of billions of dollars in play. Whether Microsoft were to keep its news division (msn news and MSNBC are among the outlets that I have never seen break ranks on a news blackout) or as rumored it gets spun off to Rupert Murdoch, this window to the news would snap shut.

So the American people are regularly and systematically being denied access to essential information. What good does it do us to blame them and whine about their stupidity and bad ideas? Rather, we should be focusing on ways to systematically get good information into the hands of the tens of millions. Would they then make good choices ? I urgently hope and believe so, but we cannot know until it's tried.

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that America is killing hundreds of thousands? and destroying the lives of millions? for oil just as irrefutable evidence arrives that burning oil will destroy life as we know it.

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America has been hooked on scarcity since the late 1970s. Instead of realizing the need to try something different for a change back in 1980, it chose to stay the course and buy into the "oil glut" scam of the 1980s. There was never an oil glut. All it was about was borrowing another country's resources and calling it their own "capital". Excessive capitalism badly needs materialism to thrive. Renewable sources of energy including even Greg Pal's environmentally friendly renewable petroleum weaken materialism which in the eyes of a greedy "capitalist" is a "threat". Until the American people wake up to this and stand up to materialism, things will only get worse.

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Don't forget, they could have invaded any oil rich-country - oil was part of it - but Saddam had threatened to switch to the Euro. Why do you think Germany and France are sitting on the fence like two crows waiting for the U.S. to bankrupt itself?

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Just remember , what the US is doing in Iraq, it can and will do here!!!!!!

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There are not a lot of current news articles re the politics of the pipelines in relation to the large oil reserves in the surrounding countries in the mid-east and Asia.

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After foreign oil companies like Halliburton and Exxon rebuild Iraq's petroleum infrastructure -- repair well-heads, install new pipelines, etc. -- who do you suppose the Bahgdad big whells will sell their crude to?

The HIGHEST BIDDERS, of course -- China and India -- and there won't be anything Cheney and his greedy pals can do to stop it.

If you think gasoline costs too much now, just wait two years.

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America is a corporacy-not a democracy.
We have one political party running America.

The REPUBLICRATS-A republicrat is a self serving
ego-maniac whose sole existence is for power and money.

They have no qualms about eliminating Democracy and Freedom if Corporations and the Rich can make more money.

But alas the American people are also self-serving and cannot see the forest for the trees.

They will sit by and complain but in the end all American will be less free and soon a 3rd world country like Mexico

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Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed, maintained for a time that WMDs were the root cause of the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Then in September of last year Greenspan changed his mind and stated it was OIL, and it was oil all the time.

Greenspan tactically lied not once but twice about the true reasons for the illegal war in Iraq. Greenspan is fully aware that the invasion was about more than just oil and the control of oil. Chomsky also knows this, but he never mentions it. He deliberately evades and avoids it.

On 9/11 Chomsky dismissively utters in his monotone voice: "Who cares who did it."

Who indeed.

On the Iraq invasion and those who lobbied for it, maybe Chomsky would utter: "Who cares who lobbied for it."

Of course, he never said those words because he simply refuses to discuss who ACTIVELY campaigned and vigorously lobbied for an illegal war in which over 1m people have died, including thousands of young American soldiers.

The oil lobby did not lobby for this war. It was the Israel lobby that lobbied for war against Iraq, and are now busy lobbying for war against Iran... in which many more thousands of young American troops shall perish.

Perhaps Chomsky was only telling the truth about the influence of his Zionist childhood when he said "perhaps this personal history distorts my perspective." (Peace in the Middle East, p49-51)

He's certainly not telling the truth now. Chomsky has a reputation on the left that is undeserved. He is an agent of disinformation, and his refusal to discuss AIPAC and its impact on the US Congress is telling to say the least.

James Petras doesn't intentionally deflect the left

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It's the only thing that matters to this administration...and the next one better toe the line, also. This is NOT a democracy anymore and the only "public opinion" that matters is that of the citizens of Texas, Oklahoma, and other energy-powered states. They're loving it, believe me!

JEB, anyone?

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The so-called bible belt have their addiction to religion and don't give a damn if thousands of A-rabs have their BLOOD spilled all over the sand. The IPOD generation have their addiction , sheepishly following every technological toy that is pushed in their faces and soccer moms want it all , money ; lattes ; and plasma tvs and plenty of junk food to satisfy their loud , spoiled brats . And then there are a few people inform themselves and take the time out to acknowledge that our foreign policy , is more corrupt than the mafia and even more deadly .
So called reality TV has taken the place of thinking and just when you think American "entertainment" has taken a new low , they come up with a show about a eating contest and who BARFS first .
The Rockefellers , military industrial complex and bankers greatest illusion , is the illusion of choice , because OBAMA KNOWS the U.S. is in Iraq for OIL , but is too cowardly to publicly admit it and when he said on 60 minutes that we " Need troops in Iraq to protect out interests" THAT SAYS IT ALL , Mission Accomplished .

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Even Bush and McCain have at times conceded one reason for the Iraq War is the vast preponderance of the world's petroleum reserves in the region.

Why did FDR meet with King Saud in WWII? Why Eisenhower's focus on the Saudis,and his antipathy to Nasser?

Great powers protect their interests. All great powers.


This is not newsworthy, Prof.Chomsky. You are getting old. When the US gets out, Iran will get in. Then Russia, Then China. It's what nations do. Without energy resources, nations cannot survive, and nations that want to run world affairs do what the US has done. The US can't financially afford Iraq military dominance financially much longer; it will be replaced by other would be imperialists.

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most people when asked out in the streets of America, ''why do you think we attacked Irac,and the answer generally was for the oil , or to get Haussein out of the picture so we could run the country and be in control of their oil, then of course their were those who really believed Hussein was behind or at least part of the terrorist group that gave us 911, [I call them the Jerry Springer show crowd] now it's certainly nice that Noam Chomski put his seal of validation on it,some people really need this [must have had some deep seated doupts] I wasn't one of those, I'm very well aware of the games this country plays and what they'll do to get what they want, and they really don't give two shits if you lost son,daughter,mom or dad to get it,they pay you the complimentary lip service!!....yep ,like McCain said,100 years he expects we'll be there!!!that's a hell of a long time to be expecting anything in this day and age!!

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...it's all amazingly simple. The obvious questions, as Chomsky notes, are never asked in the media. The obvious motives are hardly discussed. The lies remain unchallenged. Our hope must be that tyranny always carries the seeds of its own destruction - inflicting misery which inevitably incites resistance. We are seeing the enormous costs of this insane foreign policy. While many are getting rich off the misery, many more are becoming impoverished and are suffering, and if they don't already know (particularly in the US) eventually they will realize what is going on.

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Mr. Chomsky and Naomi Klein are obviously on the same page. US foreign policy consists of doing whatever it takes to open markets for corporate investment. Invade a country to steal their oil and destroy all their own economic policies. Whatever it takes.

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For his stance on 9/11

Stupid is rather hard to believe

So all I can think is that he is part of the agenda - as is this website

You don't need a degree in physics to analyse 9/11

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Please remember that America is a pseudo capitalist society when the market is there the technology will follow and visa versa. True capitalists don’t take government subsidies and lobby for import tariffs, they just build superior products for the marketplace.

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Was there ever any doubt as to what the Bushco boy's intentions were over five years ago? It took
awhile but why do we have to bother with offshore drilling when we have all of that black stuff oozing out of the ground in Iraq and also in Iran.
A huge embassy, countless bases, and billions of dollars. Don't get rid of your SUV yet.

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Apparently Chomsky thinks people must be blind or he must really love the masturbatory feeling of preaching to the choir and having everyone praise him like no one else could have figure out this "well duh" idea.

There are those of us who rarely read Chomsky but still have a firm grasp on the political ideas he puts forward. It doesn't exactly take a Ph.D. in Linguistics to figure these things out if you read the news regularly.

Slavoj Zizek, as always, has something to say about this, too:

"Chomsky and people like him seem to think that if we just got the facts out there, things would almost take care of themselves. Why is this wrong? Why aren’t “the facts” enough?

Let me give you a very naive answer. I think that basically the facts are already known. This is what I’ve referred to as “postmodern cynicism.” Let’s take Chomsky’s analyses of how the CIA intervened in Nicaragua. Ok, a lot of details, yes, but did I learn anything fundamentally new? It’s exactly what I’d expected: the CIA was playing a very dirty game. Of course it’s more convincing if you learn the dirty details. But I don’t think that we really learned anything dramatically new there. I don’t think that merely “knowing the facts” can really change people’s perceptions."

So, are my perceptions changed by actually seeing the big oil deal going down in Iraq? Not really, I have been waiting on this big oil deal to happen ever since we invaded and began the most privatized war in history. It wasn't exactly rocket science to figure it out.

I'm not saying its necessarily bad for Chomsky to write such articles, but when they are directed at a community that already agrees with his statements, the purpose of spreading the message to people who don't seems half-assed at best.

Anyway, why are we all sitting around listening to a guy rant about politics when his educational background is firmly linguistics, and whose linguistic theories have been slapped down by science in favor of Deleuzian theories of linguistics. I mean, seriously, guys.

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I've read a lot of Chomsky... (mostly because it's painful to listen to him speak - but pretty good if you're out of sleeping pills and you need a quick way to fall alseep) I've never seen him write anything positive about the Soviets... even the pre-Stalin purge old Bolsheviks, and that includes Trotsky... Where did you find this information? Just curious.

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I'm sure most people know that America is a dinosaur economy. We have a savage appetite for everything. And, if anything gets in our way, we will neutralize the opponent. In Vietnam, we just dropped napalm. We did not mince any words. If that did not work, we called in artillery. If that did not work, we called in a B-52 strike. And, if that did not work, we would eventually spray the area with Agent Orange. The U.S. Government is barbaric.
When I came back from Vietnam, I eventually found myself screaming on a psyche ward that everything was a lie. When the nurses came running into my room, I gave them a history lesson about what their country did in a beautiful country called Vietnam. I was like a knife, I slaughtered their belief systems. When I was done, there was total silence in the room. The hate came out of me like a raging hurricane. When I was done, I felt wasted inside. When the intellect can no longer censor the soul, the truth is born.

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kindly.

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..... because they are STEALING your country, by day and by night.
Your troops die in foriegn lands for a foriegn power... it's not for OIL, it's for Israeli hegemony of the Middle East.
The Muslims have done nothing to the USA, no harm whatsoever, nothing at all.

Stand up to the Zionists in the USA... they are destroying your nation.

By night and by day...

Grow balls ya kunts...

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is that even tho things didn't quite work as planned in Iraq, bush, cheney, etal STILL came up aces. Even tho the rest of us are f*cked (especially the Iraqis) these murdering, thieving, lying bastards are sitting pretty. How much did cheney profit from his Halliburton stock? Something like 1300 (or was it 13000) percent? Not only that, a helluva lot of Americans are now ASHAMED of America in what it has done, and what it has become. How much more WILL WE TAKE?!

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The answer is found in Obama's FISA vote. Chomsky is right on as usual. Is anyone else realizing that Obama's multiple, recent flip flops indicate he will toe Corporate America's wishes? Actual populists, as Kucinich, never get anywhere near the nomination from the two-major parties. The health ins. industry will not allow single payer national health care. Obama knows it. The drug companies will continue to fleece the American consumer. Obama knows it. The Bush crime family will never appear in a court of law to be prosecuted for their thousands of crimes against humanity. Obama knows this.The military-industrial-congressional complex will keep us on permanent Iraqi bases. We aren't leaving Iraq. Obama knows it. When a Democratic nominee tells the country supporting the Constitution is optional, we best ask ourselves: What do we know and what can we, if anything, do about it.

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Of course they did, they are not stupid and now they are very RICH off oil proceeds. Once again the American Sheeple are Duped. Way to go there Dictator Bush.

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Lets be honest here 50% of america voted for these sons-bitches (republicans) and they are getting ready to do it again; the average republican is not intelligent enough to be ashame. The government, the econmony ,education ,food, toys, oil, gasoline are all in shambles, there has to be a reason why americans are dam ignorant, it should be crime for so many people to be so dam ignorant. What is happening to all that higer education we are paying for; OOPS! Iam sorry I forgot everything will be just fine when football season starts.

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Mishma is right on the money!

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=4347
This article is as relevant today as it was when published more than a year ago by Michel Chossudovsky. Check out his Canadian website. It usually has quite thoughtful and well-researched pieces that don't make it into the US except via the internet.///

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Bravo! The Bush administration had assured Saudi Arabia that the Sunni power structure in Iraq would be kept intact, after the invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein, to preserve public order. The Baathists, however, would not have accepted the status of client state of America demanded by the Bush administration. Oil, then, appears to have triggered the insane decision to disband the Iraqi army and security services, turning hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed, and armed, men loose on the streets - - leading directly to the insurgency and the expenditure of hundreds upon hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars in the effort to calm things down so the oil deals can go forward.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

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More welfare for the rich!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We know what the Iraq thing is all about - shame on the 'war mongurs'. More Importantly we should be pillaring the Detroit Auto Makers exec's and our politians for NOT taking the leadership to provide us with alternative transportation power sources - that's the GREATEST TRAVESTY worked on the American public in the last decades!

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This article is a good start, however, I think that most Americans have forgotten those basic civics class (which is no longer taught).

The founding fathers having been pushed past their limits by a despot deliberately created this government so that injustices, crimes, and the treason that this administration have created should be checked by Congress.

The unfortunate part of all this is that no one realized that "the aquiring of money and therefore power" would be at the evil root of all of our ills.

What makes this "Mis-administration" believe that it has the power to perform these treasonous acts with impunity is that the electorate is so diverted with the extraneous acts of acquiring and dumbing down by the MSM that no one is really paying attention to nor are there enough protests for our basic liberties and those of the body human in other countries.

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Chomsky continues to deny that 9/11 was an inside job. I have no use for a man of logic that refuses to use it on the most important issue of our time. He is obviously playing the role of left gatekeeper for the media. I'm beginning to wonder is he has Israeli alliances and that he pretended all these years to be progressive just to get our support so he could shoot us down on 9/11. Noam hasn't even seen most of the evidence and dismisses it without consideration. He may also be embarrassed that he was so wrong about 9/11. He did write several books that supported the official story and now we know they are patently false. Whatever the reason, Chomsky has proven himself a colossal fraud on 9/11 and hence has most my respect for life.

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The only way to avoid living in the corpocracy is to vote for someone that rails against
that control. Nader has ALWAYS pursued that end for the benefit of the constitution, and
all of the people in this country. I'm not proud to be american, I'm shocked by how this
country has ignored the transformation to ignorance. Dwight Eisenhower tried to warn us,
control of this country is no longer the peoples', and if we don't vote our conscience now,when will we? We as a people, should display a society that believes in and promotes
fairness and justice in this country as an example for other governments to emulate. This is America's responsibility.
Beware the military / industrial / corporate complex.

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after the next election we certainly might prosecute. Simply, don't elect anybody next fall that won't support prosecution. Bush and company think that they are scott free when they leave office. They may be free from impeachment, but not from criminal prosecution.

It needs to be done. We need to be sending a message to all of the impending Bushi of this world. George Bush needs to be jailed and then followed by each of his henchmen. I contend that if you don't believe this, you just aren't a patriot.

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As they make record profits at the pump, they call for new oil drilling in the Gulf, as they suck trillions from our economy, they give billions of our tax dollars to drug companies, chemical companies, corporations,private security armies and insurance companies, as they cut Medicare by 10 per cent, as they wiped out all accountability, protections and safety nets, as they out sourced our jobs and one in a hundred Americans are in jail and as they destroy our constitution! Get used to it. We are getting screwed from both ends and our economy and Democracy are melting away as fast as the glaciers.

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..I keep bumping into Links talking about "Illuminati"..they are creepy...but really make me wonder...Does anyone have input on this stuff..?
I wish Naom would write me about this...
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Check out THIS (found while searching for something else)
BLOG:
http://quantumspectrum.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

VIDEO:on YouTube - Aaron Russo:"Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchipped Population" (http address would not fit on this post:(

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