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December 3, 2003
Stan Goff
Feeling
More Secure, Yet? Bush, Security, Energy and Money
December 2, 2003
Matt Vidal
Denial
and Deception: Before and Beyond Iraqi Freedom
Benjamin Dangl
An Interview with Evo Morales on the Colonization of the Americas
Sam Bahour
Can It Ever Really End?
Norman Solomon
That
Pew Poll on "Trade" Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test
Josh Frank
Trade
War Fears
Andrew Cockburn
Tired,
Terrified, Trigger-Happy
December 1, 2003
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Unholy
Alliances: Zionism, US Imperialism and Islamic Fundamentalism
Dave Lindorff
Bush's
Baghdad Pitstop: Memories of LBJ in Vietnam
Harry Browne
Democracy Delayed in Northern Ireland
Wayne Madsen
Wagging the Media
Herman Benson
The New Unity Partnership for Labor: Bureaucratizing to Organize?
Gilad Atzmon
About
"World Peace"
Bill Christison
US
Foreign Policy and Intelligence: Monstrous Messes
November 29 / 30, 2003
Peter Linebaugh
On
the Anniversary of the Death of Wolfe Tone
Gary Leupp
Politicizing War on Fox News: a Tale of Two Memos
Saul Landau
Lying and Cheating:
Bush's New Political Math
Michael Adler
Inside a Miami Jail: One Activist's Narrative
Anthony Arnove
"They Put the Lie to Their Own Propaganda": an Interview
with John Pilger
Greg Weiher
Why Bush Needs Osama and Saddam
Stephen Banko, III
A Soldier's Dream
Forrest Hylton
Empire and Revolution in Bolivia
Toni Solo
The "Free Trade" History Eraser
Ben Terrall
Don't Think Twice: Bush Does Bali
Standard Schaefer
Unions
are the Answer to Supermarkets Woes
Richard Trainor
The Political Economy of Earthquakes: a Journey Across the Bay
Bridge
Mark Gaffney
US Congress Does Israel's Bidding, Again
Adam Engel
The System Really Works
Dave Lindorff
They, the Jury: How the System Rigs the Jury Pool
Susan Davis
Framing the Friedmans
Neve Gordon
Arundhati Roy's Complaint for Peace
Mitchel Cohen
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Ben Tripp
Capture Me, Daddy
Poets' Basement
Kearney, Albert, Guthrie and Smith
November 28, 2003
William S. Lind
Worse Than Crimes
David Vest
Turkey
Potemkin
Robert Jensen / Sam Husseini
New Bush Tape Raises Fears of Attacks
Wayne Madsen
Wag
the Turkey
Harold Gould
Suicide as WMD? Emile Durkheim Revisited
Gabriel Kolko
Vietnam
and Iraq: Has the US Learned Anything?
South Asia Tribune
The Story
of the Most Important Pakistan Army General in His Own Words
Website of the Day
Bush Draft
November 27, 2003
Mitchel Cohen
Why
I Hate Thanksgiving
Jack Wilson
An
Account of One Soldier's War
Stefan Wray
In the Shadows of the School of the Americas
Al Krebs
Food as Corporate WMD
Jim Scharplaz
Going Up Against Big Food: Weeding Out the Small Farmer
Neve Gordon
Gays
Under Occupation: Help Save the Life of Fuad Moussa
November 26, 2003
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: the Case of a Rape Foretold
Bruce Jackson
Media
and War: Bringing It All Back Home
Stew Albert
Perle's
Confession: That's Entertainment
Alexander Cockburn
Miami and London: Cops in Two Cities
David Orr
Miami Heat
Tom Crumpacker
Anarchists
on the Beach
Mokhiber / Weissman
Militarization in Miami
Derek Seidman
Naming the System: an Interview with Michael Yates
Kathy Kelly
Hogtied
and Abused at Ft. Benning
Website of the Day
Iraq Procurement
November 25, 2003
Linda S. Heard
We,
the Besieged: Western Powers Redefine Democracy
Diane Christian
Hocus
Pocus in the White House: Of Warriors and Liberators
Mark Engler
Miami's
Trade Troubles
David Lindorff
Ashcroft's
Cointelpro
Website of the Day
Young McCarthyites of Texas
November 24, 2003
Jeremy Scahill
The
Miami Model
Elaine Cassel
Gulag
Americana: You Can't Come Home Again
Ron Jacobs
Iraq
Now: Oh Good, Then the War's Over?
Alexander Cockburn
Rupert Murdoch: Global Tyrant
November 14 / 23, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
Clintontime:
Was It Really a Golden Age?
Saul Landau
Words
of War
Noam Chomsky
Invasion
as Marketing Problem: Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
Stan Goff
An Open Letter to GIs in Iraq: Hold on to Your Humanity
Jeffrey St. Clair
Bush Puts Out a Contract on the Spotted Owl
John Holt
Blue Light: Battle for the Sweetgrass Hills
Adam Engel
A DC Lefty in King George's Court: an Interview with Sam Smith
Joanne Mariner
In a Dark Hole: Moussaoui and the Hidden Detainees
Uri Avnery
The General as Pseudo-Dove: Ya'alon's 70 Virgins
M. Shahid Alam
Voiding the Palestinians: an Allegory
Juliana Fredman
Visions of Concrete
Norman Solomon
Media Clash in Brazil
Brian Cloughley
Is Anyone in the Bush Administration Telling the Truth?
William S. Lind
Post-Machine Gun Tactics
Patrick W. Gavin
Imagine
Dave Lindorff
Bush's
Brand of Leadership: Putting Himself First
Tom Crumpacker
Pandering to Anti-Castro Hardliners
Erik Fleming
Howard Dean's Folly
Rick Giombetti
Challenging the Witch Doctors of the New Imperialism: a Review
of Bush in Babylon
Jorge Mariscal
Las Adelitas, 2003: Mexican-American Women in Iraq
Chris Floyd
Logical Conclusions
Mickey Z.
Does William Safire Need Mental Help?
David Vest
Owed to the Confederate Dead
Ron Jacobs
Joe: the Sixties Most Unforgiving Film
Dave Zirin
Foreman and Carlos: a Tale of Two Survivors
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, Albert, Greeder, Ghalib and Alam
Congratulations
to CounterPuncher David Vest: Winner of 2 Muddy Awards for Best
Blues Pianist in the Pacific Northwest!
November 13, 2003
Jack McCarthy
Veterans
for Peace Booted from Vet Day Parade
Adam Keller
Report
on the Ben Artzi Verdict
Richard Forno
"Threat Matrix:" Homeland Security Goes Prime-Time
Vijay Prashad
Confronting
the Evangelical Imperialists
November 12, 2003
Elaine Cassel
The
Supremes and Guantanamo: a Glimmer of Hope?
Col. Dan Smith
Unsolicited
Advice: a Reply to Rumsfeld's Memo
Jonathan Cook
Facility
1391: Israel's Guantanamo
Robert Fisk
Osama Phones Home
Michael Schwartz
The Wal-Mart Distraction and the California Grocery Workers Strike
John Chuckman
Forty
Years of Lies
Doug Giebel
Jessica Lynch and Saving American Decency
Uri Avnery
Wanted: a Sharon of the Left
Website of the Day
Musicians Against Sweatshops
November 11, 2003
David Lindorff
Bush's
War on Veterans
Stan Goff
Honoring
Real Vets; Remembering Real War
Earnest McBride
"His
Feet Were on the Ground": Was Steve McNair's Cousin Lynched?
Derek Seidman
Imperialism
Begins at Home: an Interview with Stan Goff
David Krieger
Mr. President, You Can Run But You Can't Hide
Sen. Ernest Hollings
My Cambodian Moment on the Iraq War
Dan Bacher
The Invisible Man Resigns
Kam Zarrabi
Hypocrisy at the Top
John Eskow
Born on Veteran's Day
Website of the Day
Left Hook
November 10, 2003
Robert Fisk
Looney
Toons in Rummyworld: How We Denied Democracy to the Middle East
Elaine Cassel
Papa's Gotta Brand New Bag (of Tricks): Patriot Act Spawns Similar
Laws Across Globe
James Brooks
Israel's New War Machine Opens the Abyss
Thom Rutledge
The Lost Gospel of Rummy
Stew Albert
Call Him Al
Gary Leupp
"They
Were All Non-Starters": On the Thwarted Peace Proposals
November 8/9, 2003
Kathleen and Bill Christison
Zionism
as Racist Ideology
Gabriel Kolko
Intelligence
for What?
The Vietnam War Reconsidered
Saul Landau
The
Bride Wore Black: the Policy Nuptials of Boykin and Wolfowitz
Brian Cloughley
Speeding Up to Nowhere: Training the New Iraqi Police
William Blum
The Anti-Empire Report:
A Permanent Occupation?
David Lindorff
A New Kind of Dancing in Iraq: from Occupation to Guerrilla War
Elaine Cassel
Bush's War on Non-Citizens
Tim Wise
Persecuting the Truth: Claims of Christian Victimization Ring
Hollow
Toni Solo
Robert Zoellick and "Wise Blood"
Michael Donnelly
Will the Real Ron Wyden Please Stand Up?
Mark Hand
Building a Vanguard Movement: a Review of Stan Goff's Full Spectrum
Disorder
Norman Solomon
War, Social Justice, Media and Democracy
Norman Madarasz
American Neocons and the Jerusalem Post
Adam Engel
Raising JonBenet
Dave Zirin
An Interview with George Foreman
Poets' Basement
Guthrie, Albert and Greeder
November 7, 2003
Nelson Valdes
Latin
America in Crisis and Cuba's Self-Reliance
David Vest
Surely
It Can't Get Any Worse?
Chris Floyd
An Inspector
Calls: The Kay Report as War Crime Indictment
William S. Lind
Indicators:
Where This War is Headed
Elaine Cassel
FBI to Cryptome: "We Are Watching You"
Maria Tomchick
When Public Transit Gets Privatized
Uri Avnery
Israeli
Roulette
November 6, 2003
Ron Jacobs
With
a Peace Like This...
Conn Hallinan
Rumsfeld's
New Model Army
Maher Arar
This
is What They Did to Me
Elaine Cassel
A Bad
Day for Civil Liberties: the Case of Maher Arar
Neve Gordon
Captives
Behind Sharon's Wall
Ralph Nader and Lee Drutman
An Open Letter to John Ashcroft on Corporate Crime
November 5, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Just
a Match Away:
Fire Sale in So Cal
Dave Lindorff
A Draft in the Forecast?
Robert Jensen
How I Ended Up on the Professor Watch List
Joanne Mariner
Prisons as Mental Institutions
Patrick Cockburn
Saddam Not Organizing Iraqi Resistance
Simon Helweg-Larsen
Centaurs
from Dusk to Dawn: Remilitarization and the Guatemalan Elections
Josh Frank
Silencing "the Reagans"
Website of the Day
Everything You Wanted to Know About Howard Dean But Were Afraid
to Ask
November 4, 2003
Robert Fisk
Smearing
Said and Ashrawi: When Did "Arab" Become a Dirty Word?
Ray McGovern
Chinook Down: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vietnam
Woodruff / Wypijewski
Debating
the New Unity Partnership
Karyn Strickler
When
Opponents of Abortion Dream
Norman Solomon
The
Steady Theft of Our Time
Tariq Ali
Resistance
and Independence in Iraq
November 3, 2003
Patrick Cockburn
The
Bloodiest Day Yet for Americans in Iraq: Report from Fallujah
Dave Lindorff
Philly's
Buggy Election
Janine Pommy Vega
Sarajevo Hands 2003
Bernie Dwyer
An
Interview with Chomsky on Cuba
November 1 / 2,
2003
Saul Landau
Cui
Bono? The Cuba Embargo as Rip Off
Noam Chomsky
Empire of the Men of Best Quality
Bruce Jackson
Midge Decter and the Taxi Driver
Brian Cloughley
"Mow the Whole Place Down"
John Stanton
The Pentagon's Love Affair with Land Mines
William S. Lind
Bush's Bizarre Korean Gambit
Ben Tripp
The Brown Paste on Bush's Shoes
Christopher Brauchli
Divine Hatred
Dave Zirin
An Interview with John Carlos
Agustin Velloso
Oil in Equatorial Guinea: Where Trickle Down Doesn't Trickle
Josh Frank
Howard Dean and Affirmative Action
Ron Jacobs
Standing Up to El Diablo: the 1981 Blockade of Diablo Canyon
Strickler / Hermach
Liar, Liar Forests on Fire
David Vest
Jimmy T99 Nelson, a Blues Legend and the Songs that Made Him
Famous
Adam Engel
America, What It Is
Dr. Susan Block
Christy Canyon, a Life in Porn
Poets' Basement
Greeder, Albert & Guthrie
October 31, 2003
Lee Ballinger
Making
a Dollar Out of 15 Cents: The Sweatshops of Sean "P. Diddy"
Combs
Wayne Madsen
The
GOP's Racist Trifecta
Michael Donnelly
Settling for Peanuts: Democrats Trick the Greens, Treat Big Timber
Patrick Cockburn
Baghdad
Diary: Iraqis are Naming Their New Babies "Saddam"
Elaine Cassel
Coming
to a State Near You: The Matrix (Interstate Snoops, Not the Movie)
Linda Heard
An Arab View of Masonry
October 30, 2003
Forrest Hylton
Popular
Insurrection and National Revolution in Bolivia
Eric Ruder
"We Have to Speak Out!": Marching with the Military
Families
Dave Lindorff
Big
Lies and Little Lies: The Meaning of "Mission Accomplished"
Philip Adams
"Everyone is Running Scared": Denigrating Critics of
Israel
Sean Donahue
Howard Dean: a Hawk in a Dove's Cloak
Robert Jensen
Big Houses & Global Justice: A Moral Level of Consumption?
Alexander Cockburn
Paul
Krugman: Part of the Problem
October 29, 2003
Chris Floyd
Thieves
Like Us: Cheney's Backdoor to Halliburton
Robert Fisk
Iraq Guerrillas Adopt a New Strategy: Copy the Americans
Rick Giombetti
Let
Them Eat Prozac: an Interview with David Healy
The Intelligence Squad
Dark
Forces? The Military Steps Up Recruiting of Blacks
Elaine Cassel
Prosecutors
as Therapists, Phantoms as Terrorists
Marie Trigona
Argentina's War on the Unemployed Workers Movement
Gary Leupp
Every
Day, One KIA: On the Iraq War Casualty Figures
October 28, 2003
Rich Gibson
The
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Uri Avnery
Incident
in Gaza
Diane Christian
Wishing
Death
Robert Fisk
Eyewitness
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Toni Solo
Authentic Americans and John Negroponte
Jason Leopold
Halliburton in Iran
Shrireen Parsons
When T-shirts are Verboten
Chris White
9/11
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October 27,
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William A. Cook
Ministers
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David Lindorff
The
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Scalia's Contemptus Mundi
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Occupational Schizophrenia
John Chuckman
Banging Your Head into Walls
Seth Sandronsky
Snoops R Us
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George
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James Bunn
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Should Limbaugh Do Time?
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Latin America's Archives of Terror
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December
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Bush's Operation Clean
Sweep
A
Nightmare Scenario
By JOHN STANTON
Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote
in the US presidential election of 2004, his electoral college
victory seems assured. With Republican party governors firmly
in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and supported
by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million,
dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed
Martin and other defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com),
it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office
through the back door that is the Electoral College. And if not
the Electoral College then by benefit of a rebel attack on US
soil which kills thousands of Americans and leads to the suspension
of the US Constitution. That according to General Tommy Franks,
USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine Cigar Aficionado that
the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of a military
style of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander
Hamilton would have been appalled at such a statement, as would
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But these are mediocre times
in history; particularly, and dangerously, in America where its
people have eliminated those who might have continued to wage
a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as
well as engage the world through international treaty building.
Mediocre times produce the very worst
that the world has to offer: Reagan, Bin Laden, Bush, Hussein,
Sharon, and Blair. None but the feeble minded could draw inspiration
from such a ghastly lineup of "leaders". This is the
world as it has become absent the shortened lives of John and
Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X and Yitzhak
Rabin, all of whom were murdered for their beliefs, or, rather,
for the threat they posed to the established interests. Even
Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in the then USSR in
1964 for trying to push his country towards a more peaceful coexistence
with the rest of the world. The threats these titans of history
posed to the established order of their day was not so much monetary
as it was ideology. Each of them planted in the minds of those
who would listen the thought that the established order of war,
racism, poverty, and income and wealth disparity could and should
be questioned. However, those who pull the strings could not
stand an ignorant populace that questioned the order of things.
And so their fate was, it seems, preordained by disgruntled individuals
agitated by those portions of business and government who were
wedded to the status quo. And so, JFK and Khrushchev, King and
RFK, and Malcolm X and Rabin were terminated and Americans, and
the world, found themselves at the mercy of Bush and Bin Laden,
Hussein and Blair, and Reagan and Sharon.
Crippled Opposition
With the election of Bush II in 2004,
the ideological and economic fracturing of America will be complete
and, for the foreseeable future, permanent. The three branches
of the US government, corporations, and the majority of state's
governors and state houses will be controlled by those Republicans
and Democrats who have become indistinguishable in their belief
that the government's only role in America is to make it safe
and ludicrously easy for small and large corporations to make
a profit without the drag of government regulations, programs
and taxes that, in their view, steal from the bottom line. With
those folks at the helm, 2002 and 2003 saw the US federal and
state governments give the business community trillions of dollars
of hand-outs in the form of tax cuts, regulatory relief and legislation
that allowed businesses to rape and pillage the American landscape
and its middle and lower classes. The latter group's struggle
is getting worse. Even as its industrial, service and information
technology jobs are exported to other countries, these Americans
are being forced to work longer hours, endure more expensive
privatized health and welfare benefits, and higher prices for
feeding, clothing and educating their children. Slowly but surely,
Americans from the middle and lower classes find themselves at
an increasing distance from their rulers, yet must bear the burden
of profit and war for these same dastardly people. But those
that rule have in their malleable plebian audience a strange
group of middle and lower class acolytes. Among them, the notorious
Christian right and an estimated 5 to 9 million American-Muslims
who handed Bush II over 90 percent of their vote in the last
presidential election. That group, along with neo-con Latinos
and Asians, seem to have forgotten the struggles they waged to
reach, what once was, a republic with a semblance of representative
democracy. Are they trying to recreate the religious-military
dictatorships of their own home countries? Bush II certainly
has obliged them in that effort.
The invincible political-corporate-state
apparatus (PCS) that George Bush II and his supporters have created
will be opposed by a loose affiliation of hundred's of local
and urban communities-- supported by a handful of wealthy donors,
actors and retired military personnel--who have refused to accept
the destruction of the federal and state governments, the Iraq
War and the draconian Patriot Act I and II, or, for that matter,
the legitimacy of the Bush II presidency. But the deck is stacked
against them.
Catholics and Muslims
of the World: Unite!
Thanks to the Patriot Act, elements of
the Bush PCS can now enter the homes of protestors that question
opposition to the established order on the street, the Internet,
in high schools, on television, in the newspapers, and even in
common conversation. The Pentagon has its own domestic intelligence
service that has begun working with the FBI who, in turn, is
ramping up its efforts to build databases of Americans who oppose
the Bush PCS machine. Even local police, like the Miami Police
Department, have become tools of the hideous juggernaut that
has been created by the powerful and paranoid of the land. The
Miami Police Department received $8.5 million from the $87.5
billion Pentagon appropriation for the Iraq War. The $8.5 million
from that Pentagon appropriation was used for the defense of
Miami against anti-globalization protestors in the same way it
is used by the US military to quell disturbances in Iraq. The
Miami protestors were made up of a broad spectrum of America
society representing unions, teachers and the young and old alike.
That event should be burned into the minds of Americans and the
world as the Bush PCS has made it clear that it makes no distinction
between the Iraqis demonstrating for a free press, or a US steelworkers
demonstrating against a "Free" Trade Agreement. Antiwar,
anti-globalization, pro-labor, pro-women's rights, pro-environment,
pro-national healthcare movements should be cautious post-2004
as they take to the streets to protest. America has become a
police state.
And so the Bush-led PCS will continue
to dress its god, its profits, its worldview in the colorful
and flammable costume that is patriotism. The rallying cries
are very persuasive to simple minds: Fight 'Em There Rather than
Here! America is Safer Now! The Economy is Recovering! Do Your
Duty and Buy! Cheaper Oil and Gas for Americans! Help Freedom
Loving Iraqi's Rebuild! God Bless America! Go Team! That same
sort of infantile rationale will continue to be used to not only
further the economic and ideological divide in America, but to
attack nations who, coincidently, have large oil and gas reserves,
sit in the path of energy pipelines, or who happen to believe
in Islam. But wait! The Catholic and oil rich nations of Venezuela
and Colombia find themselves targets of the Bush PCS. Now there's
a coincidence: Roman Catholics and Muslims the target of an Evangelical
Christian American government. Catholics and Muslims Unite!
2004-2008: Operation
Clean Sweep
Shortly upon taking office in 2004, Bush's
PCS will move rapidly on a number of fronts. Unbound by the constraints
of campaigning, the real work of the Bush PCS will begin. First,
the Bush PCS will continue to rupture federal and state programs
that assist the middle and lower classes of America and their
culture and environment. The US Supreme Court will eliminate
a woman's right to choose. Constitutional amendments banning
gay rights, women's rights and civil rights/affirmative action
will be proposed by the Bush PCS and, in all likelihood, will
succeed. An additional amendment to the constitution concerning
military rule in case of an attack on US soil by any foreign
individual or state will be added easing the way towards military
rule in America.
While the nation debates these issues,
Bush will quietly issue an edict supporting a return to the draft.
The massive military campaign that is sure to follow will require
millions of US military personnel that can only be had forcibly
through conscription. As early as the Christian holiday of Christmas
in December 2004, or more likely, the Christian Easter Holiday
in April 2005 (celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ),
the Bush PCS will attack. Syria will be attacked by American-British-Israeli
coalition forces, primarily from its Western, Southern and Eastern
flanks. There will be no prolonged bombing campaign in this operation.
The air campaign will be concomitant with an amphibious assault
on Syria's Western shores, accompanied by a land invasion from
the Southern and Eastern flanks. The forces of the American led
coalition will crush the dilapidated Syrian military within 10
business days. The Palestinians will likely be granted a piece
of the former Syria and will be relocated there by the US and
Israel.
Simultaneously with invasion of Syria,
Iran will be subjected to an extraordinary air and cruise missile
assault led by American forces. This operation will include additional
military elements from the Turkish and Afghani military who will
have been promised a piece of Iran once it is defeated. A withering
air assault will come from the Northwest through Turkey, from
the West from US controlled Iraq, from the East from the air
bases in Afghanistan, and from carrier groups and cruise missile
launching submarines, to include an Israeli submarine, in the
Persian Gulf. Within 60 business days, Iran will be defeated
by US-led forces. And should Iran successfully test a nuclear
weapon prior to that time, the Bush PCS will accelerate its timetable
for attack opting to use tactical nuclear weapons to take out
Iranian nuclear weaponry.
Since the Bush PCS believes that North
Korea cannot be allowed to exist, it will attack North Korea
simultaneously with its invasion of Syria and Iran. China will
have been dealt with during back channel negotiations. The price
China will demand of not intervening against the US invasion
(Chinese troop strength at 100 million) will be Taiwan. The Bush
PCS will turn a blind eye to China's takeover of Taiwan, which
had become a bad US hangover from the Cold War. The US will be
glad to rid itself of support for Taiwan. Vladimir Putin may
sign on to the US-led invasion and commit Russian troops which
will incur from the Northeastern portion of North Korea's border.
Participation with Bush in this effort would allow Russia basing
rights on the Eastern shores of North Korea. The US and South
Korean military will attempt to neutralize the North Korean military
with low yield tactical nuclear weapons which will be used primarily
along the heavily fortified Southern border. This conflict will
see the massive deployment of ordnance with calmative agents
meant to literally put to sleep the North Korean military. An
electromagnetic pulse weapon or weapons will be used to knock
out North Korea's command and control infrastructure. Ground
operations will be simultaneous with air and sea assault but
the conflict will rage on for 12 business quarters as weather
and terrain complicate the US led attack.
Meanwhile in Colombia, US military forces
will openly engage in combat against the FARC and indigenous
peoples movements there. Over in Venezuela, the US will finally
topple Hugo Chavez (if not prior to 2004). The aged leaders of
Cuba and Libya will be no match for the Bush PCS, and they will
likely be toppled in US led coups. In each of these cases, Bush
PCS friendly dictators will be installed and US corporations
will quickly move to capitalize each of those societies, just
as they are doing in Iraq.
All of this, it seems, is a fait accompli.
John Stanton
is a Virginia-based writer specializing in political and national
security matters. He is the author, along with Wayne Madsen,
of America's Nightmare. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com.
Weekend
Edition Features for Nov. 29 / 30, 2003
Peter Linebaugh
On
the Anniversary of the Death of Wolfe Tone
Gary Leupp
Politicizing War on Fox News: a Tale of Two Memos
Saul Landau
Lying and Cheating:
Bush's New Political Math
Michael Adler
Inside a Miami Jail: One Activist's Narrative
Anthony Arnove
"They Put the Lie to Their Own Propaganda": an Interview
with John Pilger
Greg Weiher
Why Bush Needs Osama and Saddam
Stephen Banko, III
A Soldier's Dream
Forrest Hylton
Empire and Revolution in Bolivia
Toni Solo
The "Free Trade" History Eraser
Ben Terrall
Don't Think Twice: Bush Does Bali
Standard Schaefer
Unions
are the Answer to Supermarkets Woes
Richard Trainor
The Political Economy of Earthquakes: a Journey Across the Bay
Bridge
Mark Gaffney
US Congress Does Israel's Bidding, Again
Adam Engel
The System Really Works
Dave Lindorff
They, the Jury: How the System Rigs the Jury Pool
Susan Davis
Framing the Friedmans
Neve Gordon
Arundhati Roy's Complaint for Peace
Mitchel Cohen
Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Ben Tripp
Capture Me, Daddy
Poets' Basement
Kearney, Albert, Guthrie and Smith
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