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October
6, 2003
JoAnn
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The
New Unity Partnership:
A Manifest Destiny for Labor
October
3 / 5, 2003
Tim Wise
The
Other Race Card: Rush and the Politics of White Resentment
Peter
Linebaugh
Rhymsters
and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW
Gary Leupp
Occupation
as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
Bush Ideologues v. Big Oil in Iraq
John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
Madsen
Can the Republicans Get Much Worse? Sure, They Can
M. Junaid Alam
The Racism Barrier
William
Benzon
Scorcese's Blues
Adam Engel
The Great American Writing Contest
Poets'
Basement
McNeill, Albert, Guthrie
October
2, 2003
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
What's
So Great About Gandhi, Anyway?
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
The
Ashcroft-Rove Connection
Doug Giebel
Kiss and Smear: Novak and the Valerie Plame Affair
Hamid
Dabashi
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said (1935-2003)
Elaine Cassel
Chicago Condemns Patriot Act
Saul Landau
Who
Got Us Into This Mess?
Website of the Day
Last Day to Save Beit Arabiya!
October 1, 2003
Joanne
Mariner
Married
with Children: the Supremes and Gay Families
Robert
Fisk
Oil,
War and Panic
Ron Jacobs
Xenophobia
as State Policy
Elaine
Cassel
The
Lamo Case: Secret Subpoenas and the Patriot Act
Shyam
Oberoi
Shooting
a Tiger
Toni Solo
Plan Condor, the Sequel?
Sean Donahue
Wesley
Clark and the "No Fly" List
Website of the Day
Downloader Legal Defense Fund
September
30, 2003
After
Dark
Arnold's
1977 Photo Shoot
Dave Lindorff
The
Poll of the Shirt: Bush Isn't Wearing Well
Tom Crumpacker
The
Cuba Fixation: Shaking Down American Travelers
Robert
Fisk
A
Lesson in Obfuscation
Charles
Sullivan
A
Message to Conservatives
Suren Pillay
Edward Said: a South African Perspective
Naeem
Mohaiemen
Said at Oberlin: Hysteria in the Face of Truth
Amy Goodman
/ Jeremy Scahill
Does
a Felon Rove the White House?
Website
of the Day
The Edward Said Page
September 29, 2003
Robert
Fisk
The
Myths of Western Intelligence Agencies
Iain A. Boal
Turn It Up: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!
Lee Sustar
Paul
Krugman: the Last Liberal?
Wayne Madsen
General Envy? Think Shinseki, Not Clark
Benjamin
Dangl
Bolivia's Gas War
Uri Avnery
The
Magnificent 27
Pledge
Drive of the Day
Antiwar.com
September
26 / 28, 2003
Alexander
Cockburn
Alan
Dershowitz, Plagiarist
David Price
Teaching Suspicions
Saul Landau
Before the Era of Insecurity
Ron Jacobs
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and
the Patriot Act
Brian
Cloughley
The Strangeloves Win Again
Norman Solomon
Wesley and Me: a Real-Life Docudrama
Robert
Fisk
Bomb Shatters Media Illusions
M. Shahid Alam
A Muslim Sage Visits the USA
John Chuckman
American Psycho: Bush at the UN
Mark Schneider
International Direct Action
The Spanish Revolution to the Palestiniana Intifada
William
S. Lind
How $87 Billion Could Buy Some Real Security
Douglas Valentine
Gold Warriors: the Plundering of Asia
Chris
Floyd
Vanishing Act
Elaine Cassel
Play Cat and Moussaoui
Richard
Manning
A Conservatism that Once Conserved
George Naggiar
The Beautiful Mind of Edward Said
Omar Barghouti
Edward Said: a Corporeal Dream Not Yet Realized
Lenni Brenner
Palestine's Loss is America's Loss
Mickey
Z.
Edward Said: a Well-Reasoned Voice
Tanweer Akram
The Legacy of Edward Said
Adam Engel
War in the Smoking Room
Poets' Basement
Katz, Ford, Albert & Guthrie
Website
of the Weekend
Who the Hell is Stew Albert?
September
25, 2003
Edward
Said
Dignity,
Solidarity and the Penal Colony
Robert
Fisk
Fanning
the Flames of Hatred
Sarah
Ferguson
Wolfowitz at the New School
David
Krieger
The
Second Nuclear Age
Bill Glahn
RIAA Doublespeak
Al Krebs
ADM and the New York Times: Covering Up Corporate Crime
Michael
S. Ladah
The Obvious Solution: Give Iraq Back to the Arabs
Fran Shor
Arnold and Wesley
Mustafa
Barghouthi
Edward Said: a Monument to Justice and Human Rights
Alexander Cockburn
Edward Said: a Mighty and Passionate
Heart
Website
of the Day
Edward Said: a Lecture on the Tragedy of Palestine
The Great Alejandro Escavedo Needs Your Help!
September 24, 2003
Stan Goff
Generational
Casualties: the Toxic Legacy of the Iraq War
William
Blum
Grand Illusions About Wesley Clark
David
Vest
Politics
for Bookies
Jon Brown
Stealing Home: The Real Looting is About to Begin
Robert Fisk
Occupation and Censorship
Latino
Military Families
Bring Our Children Home Now!
Neve Gordon
Sharon's
Preemptive Zeal
Website
of the Day
Bands Against Bush
September
23, 2003
Bernardo
Issel
Dancing
with the Diva: Arianna and Streisand
Gary Leupp
To
Kill a Cat: the Unfortunate Incident at the Baghdad Zoo
Gregory
Wilpert
An
Interview with Hugo Chavez on the CIA in Venezuela
Steven
Higgs
Going to Jail for the Cause--Part 2: Charity Ryerson, Young and
Radical
Stan Cox
The Cheney Tapes: Can You Handle the Truth?
Robert
Fisk
Another Bloody Day in the Death of Iraq
William S. Lind
Learning from Uncle Abe: Sacking the Incompetent
Elaine
Cassel
First They Come for the Lawyers, Then the Ministers
Yigal
Bronner
The
Truth About the Wall
Website
of the Day
The
Baghdad Death Count
September
20 / 22, 2003
Uri Avnery
The
Silliest Show in Town
Alexander
Cockburn
Lighten
Up, America!
Peter Linebaugh
On the Bicentennial of the Execution of Robert Emmet
Anne Brodsky
Return
to Afghanistan
Saul Landau
Guillermo and Me
Phan Nguyen
Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie
Gila Svirsky
Sharon, With Eyes Wide Open
Gary Leupp
On Apache Terrorism
Kurt Nimmo
Colin
Powell: Exploiting the Dead of Halabja
Brian
Cloughley
Colin Powell's Shame
Carol Norris
The Moral Development of George W. Bush
Bill Glahn
The Real Story Behind RIAA Propaganda
Adam Engel
An Interview with Danny Scechter, the News Dissector
Dave Lindorff
Good Morning, Vietnam!
Mark Scaramella
Contracts and Politics in Iraq
John Ross
WTO
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Justin Podur
Uribe's Desperate Squeals
Toni Solo
The Colombia Three: an Interview with Caitriona Ruane
Steven Sherman
Workers and Globalization
David
Vest
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October
6, 2003
Fourth Reich?
The
Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus
By
BOB FITRAKIS and HARVEY WASSERMAN
George W. Bush's grandfather helped finance the
Nazi Party. Karl Rove's grandfather allegedly helped run the
Nazi Party, and helped build the Birkenau Death Camp. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's Austrian father volunteered for the infamous
Nazi SA and became a ranking officer.
Together, they have destabilized California
and are on the brink of bringing it a new Reich. With the Schwarzenegger
candidacy they have laid siege to America's largest state, lining
it up for the 2004 election.
The Bush family ties to the Nazi party
are well known. In their 1994 Secret War Against the Jews, Mark
Aarons and John Loftus use official US documents to establish
that George Herbert Walker, George W. Bush's maternal great-grandfather,
was one of Hitler's most important early backers. He funneled
money to the rising young fascist through the Union Banking Corporation.
In 1926, Walker arranged to have his
new son-in-law, Prescott Bush---father of President George Bush
I, grandfather of George Bush II---hired as Vice President at
W.A. Harriman and Company. Prescott became a senior partner when
Harriman merged with a British-American investment company to
become Brown Brothers Harriman. In 1934 Prescott Bush joined
the Board of Directors of Union Banking.
The bank helped Hitler rise to power.
It also helped him wage war. As late as July 31, 1941---well
after the Nazi invasion of Poland---the U.S. government froze
$3 million in Union Banking assets linked to Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen
was noted in the American press as a "German industrialist
and original backer of Adolph Hitler."
Loftus writes that Thyssen's "American
friends in New York Cityâ¤|[were] Prescott Bush
and Herbert Walker, the father and father-in-law of a future
President of the United States." That would be the current
president's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, also the former
CIA director.
On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government
ordered the seizure of Nazi Germany's banking operations in New
York City, which were under the direction of Prescott Bush. The
government seized control of Union Banking Corporation under
the Trading with the Enemy Act. The liquidation yielded a reported
$750,000 apiece for Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker.
The book, The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law and Genocide,
goes into exhaustive detail on Bush-Harriman Nazi money laundering.
More recently, Michael Kranish covers the same Bush-Nazi relationships
in The Rise of the Bush Family Dynasty published in the Boston
Globe. Loftus documents that "Prescott Bush knowingly served
as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Bank's
books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian
in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951."
Often ignored are the Bush family's post-World
War II dealings with former Nazis. John Foster Dulles, who had
worked with the Bush family in the Harriman Company in laundering
money for Nazi Germany, was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of
State. His brother Allen became CIA director.
As Martin Lee documents in The Beast
Reawakens, American intelligence recruited numerous top Nazis
to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. Many established connections
to the Bush family that had helped finance their original rise
to power. In 1988 Project Censored, in its top award, noted "how
the major mass media ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least
ten critical stories reported in America's alternative press
that raised serious questions about the Republican candidate,
George Bush, dating from his reported role as a CIA 'asset' in
1963 to his presidential campaign's connection with a network
of anti-Semites with Nazi and fascist affiliations in 1988."
Investigative reporter Russ Bellant established ties between
the Republican Party and former Axis Nazis and fascists.
In 2000 and 2001 the Columbus Alive published
a series of articles documenting further links between Bush,
Sr. and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his own fascist networks
in Japan and Korea.
Karl Rove has parallel ties. The shadowy
Rove serves as "Bush's Brain" in the current White
House. He is the political mastermind behind the California coup,
and is now in the headlines for outing Valerie Plame, the CIA
wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson. A consummate strategist, Rove
may have outed Plame in retaliation for Wilson's failure to back
up the Bush claim that Saddam Hussein was buying nuclear weapons
materials in Africa. According to some published reports, as
many as seventy CIA operatives have been put at risk by Rove's
retaliatory strike.
According to Wilson, and to Retired U.S.
Navy Lt. Commander Al Martin (www.almartinraw.com), Rove's grandfather
was Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. Roverer was
Reich-Statthalter---Nazi State Party Chairman---for his region.
He was also a partner and senior engineer in the Roverer Sud-Deutche
Ingenieurburo A. G. engineering firm, which built the Birkenau
death camp, at which tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, dissidents
and other were slaughtered en masse.
Rove, who has been based in Utah and
associated with the Mormon Church, is widely viewed as the chief
engineer of the current Bush administration. He and Tom DeLay
are attempting to force the Texas legislature to redistrict its
Congressional delegations, adding seven sure seats to the Republican
column. By controlling the state houses in New York, Florida,
Texas and California, the GOP would have a lock on the four largest
states in the union, and thus the ability to manipulate vote
counts and strip voter registration rolls in the run-up to the
2004 election.
Rove is a prime behind-the-scenes mover
in the Schwarzenegger campaign. On May 1, 1939, a year after
the Nazis took control of Schwarzenegger's native Austria, his
father Gustav, voluntarily joined Hilter's infamous Strumabteilung
(SA), "brown shirt" stormtroopers. This was just six
months after the brown shirts played a key role in the bloody
Kristallnacht attacks on Germany's Jewish community.
The Vienna daily Der Standard noted recently
that "Gustav, a high-ranking Nazi, brought up the bespectacled,
rather frail boy with an iron fist and quite a few slaps in the
face." Arnold's father favored a Hitler-style mustache in
photos.
On October 3, ABC News broke the story
of Schwarzenegger's 1977 interview in which he was asked whom
he admired. Schwarzenegger replied, "I admire Hitler, for
instance, because he came from being a little man with almost
no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such
a good public speaker and for what he did with it."
To cover himself, Schwarzenegger has
made substantial donations to the Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal
Center, which tracks down ex-Nazis. Arnold has also renounced
Hitler.
But he has not renounced his friendship
with fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, the one-time head of the
United Nations with known Nazi ties. The book Arnold: An Unauthorized
Biography, documents Arnold toasting Waldheim, who had participated
in Nazi atrocities during World War II, at his wedding to Maria
Shriver. "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name,
because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy,"
Arnold said. "But I love him and Maria does to, and so thank
you, Kurt."
On May 17, 2001, Schwarzenegger also
met with Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay of Enron at the Peninsula
Hotel in Los Angeles. Through the utility deregulation plan signed
into law by Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger's chief advisor, California
was destabilized, bankrupting the state government and opening
the door for Tuesday's recall election. Lay has been George W.
Bush's chief financial backer, and a close associate of Karl
Rove's.
According to Bob Woodward's Bush at War,
Bush attended a New York Yankees game soon after the September
11 World Trade Center disaster. He wore a fireman's jacket. As
he threw out the first pitch, the crowd roared. Thousands of
fans stuck out their arms with thumbs up. Karl Rove, sitting
in the box of Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, likened the roar
of the crowd to "a Nazi rally."
He would know.
Bob Fitrakis's Spooks,
Nuke & Nazis is now available at www.freepress.org.
He is co-author with Harvey Wasserman of The SuperPower of Peace
v. Bush et. al.. available November 1.
Harvey Wasserman
is author of Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States
and co-author (with Bob Fitrakis) of The Superpower of Peace
v. Bush, et. al., soon available from www.freepress.org.
Wasserman can be reached at: harvey@freepress.org
Weekend
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Peter
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Gary Leupp
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as Rape-Marriage
Bruce
Jackson
Addio
Alle Armi
David Krieger
A Nuclear 9/11?
Ray McGovern
L'Affaire Wilsons: Wives are Now "Fair Game" in Bush's
War on Whistleblowers
Col. Dan Smith
Why Saddam Didn't Come Clean
Mickey
Z.
In Our Own Image: Teaching Iraq How to Deal with Protest
Roger Burbach
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John Chuckman
Wesley Clark is Not Cincinnatus
William S. Lind
Versailles on the Potomac
Glen T.
Martin
The Corruptions of Patriotism
Anat Yisraeli
Bereavement as Israeli Ethos
Wayne
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Adam Engel
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