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In this October 11 Democracy Now interview, Susan Burke of the Center for Constitutional Reform and Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explain details of a wrongful death lawsuit filed in US district   more...court by survivors of three Iraqi civilians killed in a September 16 shooting in Baghdad.  less

The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army.
the world's most powerful mercenary army.

The World of Blackwater: Private Wars for Public Money

{col. writ. 9/20/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal

The news running off the wire was unexpected in its rarity: the Iraqi 'government' announced   more...that the U.S. private security company, Blackwater, would no longer be able to function in the country, following the killing of over 20 Iraqis by Blackwater personnel.

According to published reports, the U.S. State dept. will essentially ignore the Iraqi order, announcing that Blackwater would continue to work in the country. Blackwater provides security for many Americans working in Iraq, as well as some of its chosen puppets. (So much for 'a sovereign nation.')

The recent Blackwater shootout wasn't the first, and unless I miss my guess, it won't be the last.

For folks who've been following the American security company (and others like them), it should surprise no one that this company was involved in the shooting of civilians.

According to some researchers and reporters, Blackwater was getting down similarly -- in the U.S.!

Think back to 2005, when the winds, rains, and gushing waters from Lake Pontchartrain swept through New Orleans, another force beset the already besieged town.

Blackwater was one of the number of such companies, armed with automatic weapons and contracts from the Dept. of Homeland Security. They were allowed to play cowboy when people were suffering from this natural disaster.

Several years ago, writer and "Democracy Now!" correspondent, Jeremy Scahill reported a conversation he had with a man from one of those private security companies during the height of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Scahill described his conversation with a man named Michael Montgomery, who worked with an Alabama-based company known as Bodyguard and Tactical Security (BATS). This guy told Scahill that he was in New Orleans on the second night of the catastrophe. As Scahill explained:

They got stopped in the ninth ward. He said they came under fire from a group of people on an overpass that he described as black gang bangers. He said, "At the time I was on the phone with my business partner." I said, "What did you do then?" He said, "I dropped the phone and opened fire." I said, "With what kind of weapons?" --"AR-15 assault rifles and Glock 9's." Fired up at the people he described as black gang bangers on this bridge. I said, "Then what happened? Did you kill them?" He said, "Well, let's just put it this way, I heard a lot of moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. Enough said. "

Scahill was making his remarks on the Friday, Sept. 23 rd, 2005 edition of the nationally broadcast program, "Democracy Now!"

According to Scahill, these and other such groups were functioning in Louisiana, without licenses to operate in the state. What they had were contracts from the Homeland Security Dept., and a letter from the Governor of Louisiana! Thus, armed with automatic weapons, they patrolled the property of the rich, while they waged war against the poor.

Scahill explained that after the shooting, army officers and Louisiana State Troopers came on the scene - but neither agency filed a report. Scahill continued:

So this is the climate of impunity.....[H] ow do we know that he was fired upon? How do we know what that incident was? Why wouldn't law enforcement file any kind of report on a shootout in which this guy is openly bragging to having shot up a bunch of people he described as black gang bangers on an overpass?

There are almost as many contractors working in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers -- but the Blackwater people make a whole lot more money, and are better equipped.

That's because they aren't fighting for 'democracy', they're fighting for good old American money. They are fighting for those who can afford them.

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Iraq's Bastille Day
by Felicity Arbuthnot
On the 14th July 1958, a popular revolution overthrew the British imposed royal regime, which had opened the door wide for Western monopolies to plunder the country's   more...oil wealth, under unjust concesssions.

In fact, it took until the 17th of July 1968 before the country's oil was rescued from the control of international capital. It was subsequently consolidated in the Oil Nationalisation Bill in 1972.

Lesson to Bush, Blair and now Brown: Listen to history.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.ph...

Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America:
Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?


How to reverse the tide?

The threat of a Second Al Qaeda "Attack on America" is being used profusely by the Bush administration to galvanize public opinion in support of a global military agenda.

Known and documented, the "Islamic terror network" is a creation of the US intelligence apparatus. The "war on terrorism" is bogus. The 911 narrative as conveyed by the 911 Commission report is fabricated.

The Bush administration is involved in acts of cover-up and complicity at the highest levels of government.

Revealing the lies behind 911 would serve to undermine the legitimacy of the "global war on terrorism" which constitutes the main justification for waging war in the Middle East.

Without 911, the war criminals in high office do not have a leg to stand on. Their entire National Security construct collapses like a deck of cards.


http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?co...  less

"Our boys were sent off to die with *beautiful ideals* painted in front of them. No one told them that *dollars and cents* were the real reason they were marching off to *kill and die*."
--Gen.   more...Smedley Butler, 1934




In the earlier half of the 20th Century, when the U.S. invaded the Philippines, it proclaimed its duty as bringing "civilization" to the benighted peoples of the islands. There, Filipino rebels were waging an independence war against the Spaniards and were on the verge of winning their freedom. Lo and behold, the U.S. stepped in, and
proclaimed that they too were on the side of "freedom." Spain, reading the handwriting on the wall, rather quickly capitulated. Under the fog of "freedom", however, lay other motives, ones expressed openly by Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge, who
announced:

"The Philippines are *ours forever... and just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets....* The Pacific is *our ocean.*" [Source: Howard Zinn, *A People's History of the United States* (1995), p. 306.] (more)  less

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Seeking the support of their regional puppets... As their imperial plans crumble to ashes!

Knowing what we now know about the lies that led to a war that has meant death for tens of thousands of people, can you blindly trust the government? Can any court that claims to defend the Constitution   more...allow an American citizen to be consigned to a U.S. dungeon, simply on the president's say-so? If the *Padilla* case is any example, the answer is yes. The implications of this should send shivers down your spine. This Government, which has brought Chaos into being since its 'election', now decides who it can detain, and why. Essentially forever. This is a judicially-approved recipe for Madness.


"There is no bar to this Nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. In [*Exparte] Quirin*, [a case involving Nazi saboteurs--maj], one of the detainees, Haupt, alleged that he was a naturalized United States citizen... We held that '[c]itizens who associate themselves with the military arm of the enemy governments, and with its aid, guidance and direction enter this country bent on hostile acts, are enemy belligerents within the meaning of ... the law of war.' ... While Haupt was tried for violations of the law of war, nothing in *Quirin* suggests that his citizenship would have precluded his mere detention for the duration of the relevant hostilities." [2004 WL 1431951 *8] (more)  less

Ex-CIA officer Slams US Allegations against Iran as Sham
US Creating False pretexts for Another War

In an alarming exposure of the acceleration and urgency of the American war party's push towards catastrophic   more...war with Iran, Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter terrorism officer, in an interview [1] on 24th July with Anti War Radio debunked the NeoCons' repeated myth of Iran's support for AlQaeda as a pretext for war. Whilst acknowledging Iran's helpfulness in trying to establish security in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Giraldi spoke of the United States' hypocritical and illegal support for terrorist separatists groups inside Iran, and various plans and scenarios which have been drawn up to destroy Iran's military and economic infrastructure by massive bombardment, with the use of nuclear bombs a real and stated possibility.

Giraldi refuted the assumption that sharing hostilities towards the US, placed Iran and AlQaeda in the same camp and sharing similar agenda, arguing that Iran followed a very different agenda in its dealings with the US. He emphasised both the fact of Iranians' helpfulness in Iraq, in terms of pushing for greater stability, and also their help and cooperation in Afghanistan, as well as the reality of the deep hostilities between Shiia Iran and Sunni extremism of AlQaeda. Giraldi recalled the major attack against the Iranian consulate general in Afghanistan by the Taliban, a close ally of AlQaeda, in which 11 Iranian diplomats were killed, and the regular AlQaeda violent attacks against Shiia population in Iraq, and concluded that a Shiia Iranian-AlQaeda alliance was not a plausible possibility.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?co...


The Cold War Between Washington and Tehran
by Noam Chomsky




In the Cold War-like mentality that prevails in Washington, Tehran is portrayed as the pinnacle in the so-called Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon, through Shiite southern Iraq and Syria. And again unsurprisingly, the "surge" in Iraq and escalation of threats and accusations against Iran is accompanied by grudging willingness to attend a conference of regional powers, with the agenda limited to Iraqmore narrowly, to attaining U.S. goals in Iraq.




Presumably this minimal gesture toward diplomacy is intended to allay the growing fears and anger elicited by Washington's heightened aggressiveness, with forces deployed in position to attack Iran and regular provocations and threats.




For the United States, the primary issue in the Middle East has been and remains effective control of its unparalleled energy resources. Access is a secondary matter. Once the oil is on the seas it goes anywhere. Control is understood to be an instrument of global dominance.

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"You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures   more...and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead."

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

http://hnn.us/articles/31332.html


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The first Gulf War was just as stage-managed and scripted as the current invasion and occupation. Same shit, different Bush.

interesting statements about democracy, from "matrix of power"
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Alex Jones interview with Jordan Maxwell

part 3 of 3.

Recorded 11-29-2005

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Alex Jones interview with Jordan Maxwell

part 2 of 3.

Recorded 11-29-2005

http://www.infowars.com/

http://www.prisonplanet.com/

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