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The 9-11 bombings Are Not Acts of War

The 9-11 bombings Are Crimes Against Humanity

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"A more ambitious project would be to confront US multinationals on the ambivalent nature of their own patriotism. Air the facts and name the names. If the companies are truly global and without responsibility to this particular nation, then why are US taxpayers expected to subsidize their success and bail them out of failure? The legislative vehicle for forcing a debate on these questions would be recurring amendments to cut off the firms unwilling to accept explicit obligations to nation and citizens. One might describe these measures as "homeland security."         Critical questions about global corporations are no longer abstract propositions. As is already clear from recent actions in Washington, some Americans are regarded as special in crisis -- and awarded billions of dollars in protection from malign market forces. Other Americans are told to keep a stiff upper lip. This malformed definition of national unity is ripe for attack by the true patriots. --William Greider, Pro Patria, Pro Mundus--It's Time to Ask "Borderless" Corporations: Which Side Are You On?, The Nation, 26 October 2001

War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler War is Just a Racket, General Smedley Butler, USMC, 1933 Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War in Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth, by William Clark, 26 Jan 2003; updated: January 2004 Market Will Attempt to Predict White House Moves, by American Action Market, 1 Aug 2003 SITE REPLICA: Policy Analysis Market - PAM War, Inc., by Mike Ferner, April 2002 Too much of a good thing - Underlying the US drive to war is a thirst to open up new opportunities for surplus capital, by George Monbiot, The Guardian, 18 Feb 2003 The Machine, by Eduardo Galeano, Znet, 27 Apr 2002 Saving Tennessee - There is $3.3 Trillion Missing From HUD & DOD in FYs1998-2001 by Catherine Austin Fitts, 4 Jul 2002 U.S.'s Missing $Trillions Make Mainstream At Last, Scoop, 26 May 2003 The Carlyle Group: Heady times for Carlyle in the wake of chaos and grief that gripped a nation, by Dan Briody, UK Times Online, 8 May 2003 How Carlyle buys respectability and profits,, by Dan Briody, UK Times Online, 9 May 2003 The Carlyle Group, by Victor Thorn, Babel Magazine, 6 Oct 2002 Republican-controlled Carlyle Group poses serious Ethical Questions for Bush Presidents but Baltimore Sun ignores it, by Alice Cherbonnier, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, 3 October 2001 Secretive Carlyle plans, by Tina-Marie O'Neill, Business Post, 2 Jun 2002 Carlyle's way--Making a mint inside the iron triangle of defense, government, and industry, by Dan Briody, Red Herring, 8 Jan 2002 Weapons Industry: Source of Terrorism, Post 9/11 analysis of the military industrial complex's impact on security and world peace by Charles Mercieca, 3 Jul 2002 Oh, no - Pentagon loses $2.3 trillion, by Uri Dowbenko, Online Journal, 17 Feb 2002 Details of U.S. victory are a little premature, by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, 22 Dec 2002 Pro Patria, Pro Mundus--It's Time to Ask "Borderless" Corporations: Which Side Are You On? by William Greider, 26 Oct 2001 A Volatile Economic Future--Capitalist Crisis and Corporate Crime, by Walden Bellow, 22 Jul 2002 The twin debacles of globalization --Stage For Counteroffensive Against Globalization, by Walden Bellow, January 2002 Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline, BBC, 4 Dec 1997 Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team, by Wayne Madsen, democrats.com, January 2002 Oil has always been top of Bush's foreign-policy agenda, by Ritt Goldstein, 7 Oct 2002 Is Enron Behind The War In Afghanistan? from Robert Lederman, 5 Feb 2002 by Pepe Escobar: Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game, Asia Times, 25 Jan 2002 Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play, Asia Times, 26 Jan 2002 A War in the Planning for Four Years, by Michael Rupert, From the Wilderness, 11 Nov 2001 by Larry Chin: Enron: ultimate agent of the American empire composite article, February 2002 Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire: Part 1: Money to get power, power to protect money, 1 Feb 2002 Part 2: Enron, the Bush administration, and the Central Asian war, 7 Feb 2002

"I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.         ". . . I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. . . . I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. . . .         "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.         "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. --Major General Smedley Butler (USMC), War is Just a Racket, 1933

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