The Greanville Journal

BY DAVID CORN
BLOG | Posted 05/30/2002

THE DEBUNKING OF MICHAEL RUPPERT

Since 9.11 a veritable cottage industry of conspiracy theorizing has arisen not only in the US, where it has naturally found a fertile ground, but around the world. This article by David Corn is one of the most comprehensive efforts, so far, to examine the possible substance that such claims may have. —Eds.

On March 25, during a Pacifica radio interview, Representative Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, said, “We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11…. What did this Administration know, and when did it know it about the events of September 11? Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?” McKinney was not merely asking if there had been an intelligence failure. She was suggesting–though not asserting–that the US government had foreknowledge of the specific attacks and either did not do enough to prevent them or, much worse, permitted them to occur for some foul reason. Senator Zell Miller, a conservative Democrat from her state, called her comments “loony.” House minority leader Dick Gephardt noted that he disagreed with her. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer quipped, “The congresswoman must be running for the Hall of Fame of the Grassy Knoll Society.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called her a “nut.” Two months later, after it was revealed that George W. Bush had received an intelligence briefing a month before September 11 in which he informed told Osama bin Laden was interested in both hijacking airplanes and striking directly at the United States, McKinney claimed vindication. But that new piece of information did not support the explosive notion she had unfurled earlier–that the Bush Administration and/or other unnamed parties had been in a position to warn New Yorkers and had elected not to do so. [Read more →]

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The remains of an Iraq War victim (make that of an unnecessary Iraq War).

By KURT NIMMO | Dateline: January 21, 2005
REPOSTED AS AN ENTRY IN CLASSIC ESSAYS

On January 15th, at Kane Hall, on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, former L.A. cop and self-described 9/11 investigator Mike Ruppert told a standing-room only crowd the obvious:

“[Ruppert] believes that no sanctions, indictments or criminal prosecution [against the Bush warmongers] will ever be handed down. Rubicon [Ruppert’s book], he says, remains a base map of the decades before and the years since 9/11. But now he says we must look at the herd of elephants charging at us, instead of the one elephant that just ran us over,” Ken Levine summarizes on Ruppert’s From the Wilderness website. [Read more →]

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BY ERNEST STEWART, Editor, Issues & Alibis

“On the road again. I just can’t wait to get on the road again.”
On The Road Again ~~~ Willie Nelson

“Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!” ~~~ Senator Joseph Lieberman

Our national embarrassment has hit the road again and spent the week in Europe enraging and boring half a billion people. Some of the highlights of this latest State Department fiasco include…

The many brownie points that Putin scored ending Bush’s cold war stalemate by offering to build the “BMD” system for Bush and placing it in Azerbaijan. It made Putin seem magnanimous and compromising next to our little brain-dead. As Conan O’Brien said about Bush… “There was an awkward moment when Bush said, ‘I believe the correct pronunciation is Abracadabra.’”

Bush did miss a few meetings after he got loaded on beer and caught the hangover from hell. At least while he was retching into the commode he wasn’t doing worse things at the G-8 where as usual the rich got richer and the poor got screwed. Meanwhile outside the people fought a running battle with the German Gestapo while our rulers were protected from the people they enslave by thousands of miles of fences and Constantina wire. This time George didn’t molest the German Chancellor, or if he did at least not on camera. [Read more →]

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Richard Perle, Israeli agent by any standard, deeply embedded in the US foreign policy/media/political establishment, and bald-faced pusher for imperialist designs across the map, principally the Middle East. A Nuremberg-class war criminal to keep in mind.

BY BRYN LLOYD-BOLLARD

In an age in which the democratic mask is essential to legitimate plutocratic power with the benighted masses of the Anglo-American empire, the manner in which imperial designs are carried out today may be less obvious than in ancient times, but the results are practically the same.

It is common to hear talk of the Roman Empire, the British Empire, or the Soviet Empire, yet comparatively little is said about an American Empire. The reason is that it is often taken for granted that the era of imperialism ended with the collapse of communism, and that the near-universal extension of economic and political liberalism precludes any chance that Empire will again rear its ugly head. Empire is considered an outdated concept of little use for explaining the dynamics of a world increasingly integrated and globalized. Thus, Francis Fukuyama argues that we are witnessing the “end of history,” “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government” (Fukuyama, 39). The age of ideology is over, capitalism’s victory is absolute. Implicit in his view is the assumption that the free market is antithetical to Empire, and that imperialism cannot exist when liberal values are widely acknowledged as sacrosanct. Considerably less attention is therefore paid to the ways in which contemporary American power, as exercised on a global level, mirrors that of history’s greatest imperialist states. [Read more →]

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BY CAMILLO “MAC” BICA

 In Beyond PTSD: The Moral Casualties of War, Part One I argued that the readjustment difficulties suffered by active duty military and veterans because of their experiences in Iraq are not exhausted by references to trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To correctly diagnose and adequately treat our returning servicemen and women, we must appreciate the relevancy of moral values and norms to the war experience and recognize that soldiers suffer not only the effects of trauma – PTSD – but what I termed “moral injuries.”  [Read more →]

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