Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125
Hey, Dawie, howzit? The problem here is, of course, not that industrial secrets are being stolen, but that industrial secrets are being kept in the first place. -D Would you care to expand on that a little? Or even a lot? Not picking a squabble, I'd like to know how you see it. I didn't think it was an of course. Also, I've never managed to find anything I'd argue about with William Blum. Bests Keith From: Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014, 0:52 Subject: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125 William Blum writes: ... So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States. Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of The World's Only Superpower. A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast, that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare, and Crikey (First Digital Media). ... The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to steal industrial secrets for a long time. The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded. Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s. British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start: Somebody's listening Duncan Campbell New Statesman August 1988 http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc? Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU) Duncan Campbell http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm pdf: http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf Up to now: Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin' Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON Tuesday 05 November 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-britains-secret-listening-post-in-the-heart-of-berlin-8921548.html UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation over 'secret Berlin listening post' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/germany-calls-in-britains-ambassador-to-demand-explanation-over-secret-berlin-listening-post-8923082.html --0-- snip ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125
William Blum writes: ... So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States. Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of The World's Only Superpower. A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast, that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare, and Crikey (First Digital Media). ... The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to steal industrial secrets for a long time. The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded. Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s. British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start: Somebody's listening Duncan Campbell New Statesman August 1988 http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc? Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU) Duncan Campbell http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm pdf: http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf Up to now: Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin' Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON Tuesday 05 November 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-britains-secret-listening-post-in-the-heart-of-berlin-8921548.html UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation over 'secret Berlin listening post' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/germany-calls-in-britains-ambassador-to-demand-explanation-over-secret-berlin-listening-post-8923082.html --0-- http://williamblum.org/aer/read/125 The Anti-Empire Report #125 By William Blum - Published February 4th, 2014 Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for 'objectivity'. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological. - Michael Parenti An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, about coverage of US foreign policy: Dear Mr. Farhi, Now that you've done a study of al-Jazeera's political bias in supporting Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, is it perhaps now time for a study of the US mass media's bias on US foreign policy? And if you doubt the extent and depth of this bias, consider this: There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States. Can you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was unequivocally opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam? Or even opposed to any two of these wars? How about one? In 1968, six years into the Vietnam war, the Boston Globe surveyed the editorial positions of 39 leading US papers concerning the war and found that none advocated a pull-out. Now, can you name an American daily newspaper or TV network that more or less gives any support to any US government ODE (Officially Designated Enemy)? Like Hugo Chávez of Venezuela or his successor, Nicolás Maduro; Fidel or Raúl Castro of Cuba; Bashar al-Assad of Syria; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; or Evo Morales of Bolivia? I mean that presents the ODE's point of view in a reasonably fair manner most of the time? Or any ODE of the recent past like Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, or Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti? Who in the mainstream media supports Hamas of Gaza? Or Hezbollah of Lebanon? Who in the mainstream media is outspokenly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians? And keeps his or her job? Who in the mainstream media treats Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning as the heroes they are? And this same mainstream media tell us that Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, et al. do not have a real opposition media. The ideology of the American mainstream media is the belief that they don't have any ideology; that they are instead what they call objective. I submit that there is something more important in journalism than objectivity. It is capturing the essence, or the truth, if you will, with the proper context and history. This can, as well, serve as enlightenment. It's been said that the political spectrum concerning US foreign policy in the America mainstream media runs the gamut from A to B.
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125
The problem here is, of course, not that industrial secrets are being stolen, but that industrial secrets are being kept in the first place. -D From: Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014, 0:52 Subject: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125 William Blum writes: ... So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States. Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of The World's Only Superpower. A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast, that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare, and Crikey (First Digital Media). ... The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to steal industrial secrets for a long time. The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded. Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s. British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start: Somebody's listening Duncan Campbell New Statesman August 1988 http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc? Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU) Duncan Campbell http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm pdf: http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf Up to now: Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin' Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON Tuesday 05 November 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-britains-secret-listening-post-in-the-heart-of-berlin-8921548.html UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation over 'secret Berlin listening post' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/germany-calls-in-britains-ambassador-to-demand-explanation-over-secret-berlin-listening-post-8923082.html --0-- snip ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #123
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/123 The Anti-Empire Report #123 By William Blum - Published December 3rd, 2013 - If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it. - Eduardo Galeano What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don't accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made? Well, we can proceed in one of two ways: * We can do our best to limit the greenhouse effect by curtailing greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) into the atmosphere, and if it turns out that these emissions were not in fact the cause of all the extreme weather phenomena, then we've wasted a lot of time, effort and money (although other benefits to the ecosystem would still accrue). * We can do nothing at all to curtail the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and if it turns out that these emissions were in fact the cause of all the extreme weather phenomena (not simply extreme, but getting downright freaky), then we've lost the earth and life as we know it. So, are you a gambler? Whatever we do on a purely personal level to try and curtail greenhouse gas emissions cannot of course compare to what corporations could do; but it's inevitable that the process will impinge upon the bottom line of one corporation or another, who can be relied upon to put optimization of profit before societal good; corporate personhood before human personhood. This is a barrier faced by any environmentalist or social movement, and is the reason why I don't subscribe to the frequently-voiced idea that Left vs. Right is an obsolete concept; that we're all together in a common movement against corporate and government abuse regardless of where we fall on the ideological spectrum. It's only the Left that maintains as a bedrock principle: People before Profit, which can serve as a very concise definition of socialism, an ideology anathema to the Right and libertarians, who fervently believe, against all evidence, in the rationality of a free market. I personally favor the idea of a centralized, planned economy. Holy Lenin, Batman! This guy's a Damn Commie! Is it the terminology that bothers you? Because Americans are raised to be dedicated anti-communists and anti-socialists, and to equate a planned economy with the worst excesses of Stalinism? Okay, forget the scary labels; let's describe it as people sitting down and discussing what the most serious problems facing society are; and which institutions and forces in the society have the best access, experience, and resources to offer a solution to those problems. So, the idea is to enable these institutions and forces to deal with the problems in a highly organized and efficient manner. All this is usually called planning, and if the organization of it all generally stems from the government it can be called centralized. The alternative to this is called either anarchy or free enterprise. I don't place much weight on the idea of libertarian socialism. That to me is an oxymoron. The key questions to be considered are: Who will make the decisions on a daily basis to run the society? For whose benefit will those decisions be made? It's easy to speak of economic democracy that comes from the people, and is locally controlled, not by the government. But is every town and village going to manufacture automobiles, trains and airplanes? Will every city of any size have an airport? Will each one oversee its own food and drug inspections? Maintain all the roads passing through? Protect the environment within the city boundary only? Such questions are obviously without limit. I'm just suggesting that we shouldn't have stars in our eyes about local control or be paranoid about central planning. - We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. - William James (1842-1910) So, George W. Bush is now a painter. He tells his art teacher that there's a Rembrandt trapped inside this body. 1 Ah, so Georgie is more than just a painter. He's an artiste. And we all know that artistes are very special people. They're never to be confused with mass murderers, war criminals, merciless torturers or inveterate liars. Neither are they ever to be accused of dullness of wit or incoherence of thought. Artistes are not the only special people. Devout people are also special: Josef Stalin studied for the priesthood. Osama bin Laden prayed five times a day. And animal lovers: Herman Goering, while his Luftwaffe rained death upon Europe, kept a sign in his office that read: He who tortures animals wounds the feelings of the German people. Adolf Hitler was also an animal lover and had long periods of being a vegetarian and anti-smoking. Charles Manson was a staunch anti-vivisectionist. And cultured people: This fact Elie Wiesel called the greatest discovery of the war: that Adolf
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #122
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/122 The Anti-Empire Report #122 By William Blum - Published November 7th, 2013 National Security Agency - The only part of the government that really listens to what you have to say The New York Times (November 2) ran a long article based on NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. One of the lines that most caught my attention concerned Sigint - Signals intelligence, the term used for electronic intercepts. The document stated: Sigint professionals must hold the moral high ground, even as terrorists or dictators seek to exploit our freedoms. Some of our adversaries will say or do anything to advance their cause; we will not. What, I wondered, might that mean? What would the National Security Agency - on moral principle - refuse to say or do? I have on occasion asked people who reject or rationalize any and all criticism of US foreign policy: What would the United States have to do in its foreign policy to lose your support? What, for you, would be too much? I've yet to get a suitable answer to that question. I suspect it's because the person is afraid that whatever they say I'll point out that the United States has already done it. The United Nations vote on the Cuba embargo - 22 years in a row For years American political leaders and media were fond of labeling Cuba an international pariah. We haven't heard that for a very long time. Perhaps one reason is the annual vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution which reads: Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. This is how the vote has gone (not including abstentions): YearVotes (Yes-No) No Votes 199259-2US, Israel 199388-4US, Israel, Albania, Paraguay 1994101-2 US, Israel 1995117-3 US, Israel, Uzbekistan 1996138-3 US, Israel, Uzbekistan 1997143-3 US, Israel, Uzbekistan 1998157-2 US, Israel 1999155-2 US, Israel 2000167-3 US, Israel, Marshall Islands 2001167-3 US, Israel, Marshall Islands 2002173-3 US, Israel, Marshall Islands 2003179-3 US, Israel, Marshall Islands 2004179-4 US, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau 2005182-4 US, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau 2006183-4 US, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau 2007184-4 US, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau 2008185-3 US, Israel, Palau 2009187-3 US, Israel, Palau 2010187-2 US, Israel 2011186-2 US, Israel 2012188-3 US, Israel, Palau 2013188-2 US, Israel Each fall the UN vote is a welcome reminder that the world has not completely lost its senses and that the American empire does not completely control the opinion of other governments. Speaking before the General Assembly, October 29, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez declared: The economic damages accumulated after half a century as a result of the implementation of the blockade amount to $1.126 trillion. He added that the blockade has been further tightened under President Obama's administration, some 30 US and foreign entities being hit with $2.446 billion in fines due to their interaction with Cuba. However, the American envoy, Ronald Godard, in an appeal to other countries to oppose the resolution, said: The international community cannot in good conscience ignore the ease and frequency with which the Cuban regime silences critics, disrupts peaceful assembly, impedes independent journalism and, despite positive reforms, continues to prevent some Cubans from leaving or returning to the island. The Cuban government continues its tactics of politically motivated detentions, harassment and police violence against Cuban citizens. 1 So there you have it. That is why Cuba must be punished. One can only guess what Mr. Godard would respond if told that more than 7,000 people were arrested in the United States during the Occupy Movement's first 8 months of protest 2 ; that their encampments were violently smashed up; that many of them were physically abused by the police. Does Mr. Godard ever read a newspaper or the Internet, or watch television? Hardly a day passes in America without a police officer shooting to death an unarmed person? As to independent journalism - what would happen if Cuba announced that from now on anyone in the country could own any kind of media? How long would it be before CIA money - secret and unlimited CIA money financing all kinds of fronts in Cuba - would own or control most of the media worth owning or controlling? The real reason for Washington's eternal hostility toward Cuba? The fear of a good example of an alternative to the capitalist model; a fear that has been validated repeatedly over the years as Third World countries have expressed their adulation of Cuba. How the embargo began: On April 6, 1960, Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #121
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/121 The Anti-Empire Report #121 By William Blum - Published October 7th, 2013 The War on Terrorism or whatever. U.S. hopes of winning more influence over Syria's divided rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed political opposition coalition and announced the formation of an alliance dedicated to creating an Islamist state. The al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, designated a terrorist organization by the United States, is the lead signatory of the new group. 1 Pity the poor American who wants to be a good citizen, wants to understand the world and his country's role in it, wants to believe in the War on Terrorism, wants to believe that his government seeks to do good What is he to make of all this? For about two years, his dear American government has been supporting the same anti-government side as the jihadists in the Syrian civil war; not total, all-out support, but enough military hardware, logistics support, intelligence information, international political, diplomatic and propaganda assistance (including the crucial alleged-chemical-weapons story), to keep the jihadists in the ball game. Washington and its main Mideast allies in the conflict - Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia - have not impeded the movement to Syria of jihadists coming to join the rebels, recruited from the ranks of Sunni extremist veterans of the wars in Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, while Qatar and the Saudis have supplied the rebels with weapons, most likely bought in large measure from the United States, as well as lots of what they have lots of - money. This widespread international support has been provided despite the many atrocities carried out by the jihadists - truck and car suicide bombings (with numerous civilian casualties), planting roadside bombs à la Iraq, gruesome massacres of Christians and Kurds, grotesque beheadings and other dissections of victims' bodies (most charming of all: a Youtube video of a rebel leader cutting out an organ from the chest of a victim and biting into it as it drips with blood). All this barbarity piled on top of a greater absurdity - these Western-backed, anti-government forces are often engaged in battle with other Western-backed, anti-government forces, non-jihadist. It has become increasingly difficult to sell this war to the American public as one of pro-democracy moderates locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria. Here's a brief survey: Afghanistan, 1980-early 1990s: In support of the Islamic Moujahedeen (holy warriors), the CIA orchestrated a war against the Afghan government and their Soviet allies, pouring in several billions of dollars of arms and extensive military training; hitting up Middle-Eastern countries for donations, notably Saudi Arabia which gave hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year; pressuring and bribing Pakistan to rent out its country as a military staging area and sanctuary. It worked. And out of the victorious Moujahedeen came al Qaeda. Bosnia, 1992-5: In 2001 the Wall Street Journal declared: It is safe to say that the birth of al-Qaeda as a force on the world stage can be traced directly back to 1992, when the Bosnian Muslim government of Alija Izetbegovic issued a passport in their Vienna embassy to Osama bin Laden. for the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade. 2 A few months later, The Guardian reported on the full story of the secret alliance between the Pentagon and radical Islamist groups from the Middle East designed to assist the Bosnian Muslims - some of the same groups that the Pentagon is now fighting in the war against terrorism. 3 In 1994 and 1995 US/NATO forces carried out bombing campaigns over Bosnia aimed at damaging the military capability of the Serbs and enhancing that of the Bosnian Muslims. In the decade-long civil wars in the Balkans, the Serbs, regarded by Washington as the the last communist government in Europe, were always the main enemy. Kosovo, 1998-99: Kosovo, overwhelmingly Muslim, was a province of Serbia, the main republic of the former Yugoslavia. In 1998, Kosovo separatists - The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - began an armed conflict with Belgrade to split Kosovo from Serbia. The KLA was considered a terrorist organization by the US, the UK and France for years, with numerous reports of
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #120
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/120 The Anti-Empire Report #120 By William Blum - Published September 3rd, 2013 Found at last! After searching for 10 years, the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have finally been found - in Syria! Secretary of State John Kerry: There is no doubt that Saddam al-Assad has crossed the red line. Sorry, did I just say 'Saddam'? A US drone has just taken a photo of Mullah Omar riding on a motorcycle through the streets of Damascus. 1 So what do we have as the United States refuses to rule out an attack on Syria and keeps five warships loaded with missiles in the eastern Mediterranean? * Only 11% of the British supported a UK military intervention; this increased to 25% after the announcement of the alleged chemical attack. 3 * British Prime Minister David Cameron lost a parliamentary vote August 29 endorsing military action against Syria 285-272 * 64% of the French people oppose an intervention by the French Army. 4 Before acting we need proof, said a French government spokesperson. 5 * Former and current high-ranking US military officers question the use of military force as a punitive measure and suggest that the White House lacks a coherent strategy. If the administration is ambivalent about the wisdom of defeating or crippling the Syrian leader, possibly setting the stage for Damascus to fall to Islamic fundamentalist rebels, they say, the military objective of strikes on Assad's military targets is at best ambiguous. 6 * President Obama has no United Nations approval for intervention. (In February a massive bombing attack in Damascus left 100 dead and 250 wounded; in all likelihood the work of Islamic terrorists. The United States blocked a Russian resolution condemning the attack from moving through the UN Security Council) * None of NATO's 28 members has proposed an alliance with the United States in an attack against Syria. NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that he saw no NATO role in an international reaction to the [Syrian] regime. 7 * The Arab League has not publicly endorsed support of US military action in Syria; nor have key regional players Saudi Arabia and Qatar, concerned about a possible public backlash from open support for US intervention. 8 * We don't even know for sure that there was a real chemical attack. Where does that accusation come from? The United States? The al-Qaeda rebels? Or if there was such an attack, where is the evidence that the Syrian government was the perpetrator? The Assad regime has accused the rebels of the act, releasing a video showing a cave with alleged chemical-weapon equipment as well as claiming to have captured rebels possessing sarin gas. Whoever dispensed the poison gas - why, in this age of ubiquitous cameras, are there no photos of anyone wearing a gas mask? The UN inspection team was originally dispatched to Syria to investigate allegations of earlier chemical weapons use: two allegations made by the rebels and one by the government. * The United States insists that Syria refused to allow the UN investigators access to the site of the attack. However, the UN request was made Saturday, August 24; the Syrian government agreed the next day. 9 * In rejecting allegations that Syria deployed poison gas, Russian officials have argued that the rebels had a clear motivation: to spur a Western-led attack on Syrian forces; while Assad had every reason to avoid any action that could spur international intervention at a time when his forces were winning the war and the rebels are increasingly losing world support because of their uncivilized and ultra-cruel behavior. * President George W. Bush misled the world on Iraq's WMD, but Bush's bogus case for war at least had details that could be checked, unlike what the Obama administration released August 29 on Syria's alleged chemical attacks - no direct quotes, no photographic evidence, no named sources, nothing but trust us, points out Robert Parry, intrepid Washington journalist. So, in light of all of the above, the path for Mr. Obama to take - as a rational, humane being - is of course clear. Is it not? N'est-ce pas? Nicht wahr? - Bombs Away! Pretty discouraging it is. No, I actually find much to be rather encouraging. So many people seem to have really learned something from the Iraqi pile of lies and horror and from decades of other American interventions. Skepticism - good ol' healthy skepticism - amongst the American, British and French people. It was stirring to watch the British Parliament in a debate of the kind rarely, if ever, seen in the 21st-century US Congress. And American military officers asking some of the right questions. The Arab League not supporting a US attack, surprising for an organization not enamored of the secular Syrian government. And NATO - even NATO! - refusing so far to blindly fall in line with the White House. When did that last
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #116
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/116 The Anti-Empire Report #116 By William Blum - Published May 3rd, 2013 Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs? I'm speaking about American military personnel of course, on the ground, in the air, or directing drones from an office in Nevada. Do not the survivors of US attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere, and their loved ones, ask such a question? The survivors and loved ones in Boston have their answer - America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston bomber has said in custody, and there's no reason to doubt that he means it, nor the dozens of others in the past two decades who have carried out terrorist attacks against American targets and expressed anger toward US foreign policy. 1 Both Tsarnaev brothers had expressed such opinions before the attack as well. 2 The Marathon bombing took place just days after a deadly US attack in Afghanistan killed 17 civilians, including 12 children, as but one example of countless similar horrors from recent years. Oh, an American says, but those are accidents. What terrorists do is on purpose. It's cold-blooded murder. But if the American military sends out a bombing mission on Monday which kills multiple innocent civilians, and then the military announces: Sorry, that was an accident. And then on Tuesday the American military sends out a bombing mission which kills multiple innocent civilians, and then the military announces: Sorry, that was an accident. And then on Wednesday the American military sends out a bombing mission which kills multiple innocent civilians, and the military then announces: Sorry, that was an accident. Thursday Friday How long before the American military loses the right to say it was an accident? Terrorism is essentially an act of propaganda, to draw attention to a cause. The 9-11 perpetrators attacked famous symbols of American military and economic power. Traditionally, perpetrators would phone in their message to a local media outlet beforehand, but today, in this highly-surveilled society, with cameras and electronic monitoring at a science-fiction level, that's much more difficult to do without being detected; even finding a public payphone can be near impossible. From what has been reported, the older brother, Tamerlan, regarded US foreign policy also as being anti-Islam, as do many other Muslims. I think this misreads Washington's intentions. The American Empire is not anti-Islam. It's anti-only those who present serious barriers to the Empire's plan for world domination. The United States has had close relations with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar, amongst other Islamic states. And in recent years the US has gone to great lengths to overthrow the leading secular states of the Mideast - Iraq, Libya and Syria. Moreover, it's questionable that Washington is even against terrorism per se, but rather only those terrorists who are not allies of the empire. There has been, for example, a lengthy and infamous history of tolerance, and often outright support, for numerous anti-Castro terrorists, even when their terrorist acts were committed in the United States. Hundreds of anti-Castro and other Latin American terrorists have been given haven in the US over the years. The United States has also provided support to terrorists in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iran, Libya, and Syria, including those with known connections to al Qaeda, to further foreign policy goals more important than fighting terrorism. Under one or more of the harsh anti-terrorist laws enacted in the United States in recent years, President Obama could be charged with serious crimes for allowing the United States to fight on the same side as al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Libya and Syria and for funding and supplying these groups. Others in the United States have been imprisoned for a lot less. As a striking example of how Washington has put its imperialist agenda before anything else, we can consider the case of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan warlord whose followers first gained attention in the 1980s by throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. This is how these horrible men spent their time when they were not screaming Death to America. CIA and State Department officials called Hekmatyar scary, vicious, a fascist, definite dictatorship material. 3 This did not prevent the United States government from showering the man with large amounts of aid to fight against the Soviet-supported government of Afghanistan. 4 Hekmatyar is still a prominent warlord in Afghanistan. A similar example is that of Luis
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #115
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/115 The Anti-Empire Report #115 By William Blum - Published April 8th, 2013 Would you believe that the United States tried to do something that was not nice against Hugo Chávez? Wikileaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary: During his 8 years in power, President Chavez has systematically dismantled the institutions of democracy and governance. The USAID/OTI program objectives in Venezuela focus on strengthening democratic institutions and spaces through non-partisan cooperation with many sectors of Venezuelan society. USAID/OTI = United States Agency for International Development/Office of Transition Initiatives. The latter is one of the many euphemisms that American diplomats use with each other and the world - They say it means a transition to democracy. What it actually means is a transition from the target country adamantly refusing to cooperate with American imperialist grand designs to a country gladly willing (or acceding under pressure) to cooperate with American imperialist grand designs. OTI supports the Freedom House (FH) Right to Defend Human Rights program with $1.1 million. Simultaneously through Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), OTI has also provided 22 grants to human rights organizations. Freedom House is one of the oldest US government conduits for transitioning to democracy; to a significant extent it equates democracy and human rights with free enterprise. Development Alternatives Inc. is the organization that sent Alan Gross to Cuba on a mission to help implement the US government's operation of regime change. OTI speaks of working to improve the deteriorating human rights situation in Venezuela. Does anyone know of a foreign government with several millions of dollars to throw around who would like to improve the seriously deteriorating human rights situation in the United States? They can start with the round-the-clock surveillance and the unconscionable entrapment of numerous young terrorists guilty of thought crimes. OTI partners are training NGOs [non-governmental organizations] to be activists and become more involved in advocacy. Now how's that for a self-given license to fund and get involved in any social, economic or political activity that can sabotage any program of the Chávez government and/or make it look bad? The US ambassador's cable points out that: OTI has directly reached approximately 238,000 adults through over 3000 forums, workshops and training sessions delivering alternative values and providing opportunities for opposition activists to interact with hard-core Chavistas, with the desired effect of pulling them slowly away from Chavismo. We have supported this initiative with 50 grants totaling over $1.1 million. Another key Chavez strategy, the cable continues, is his attempt to divide and polarize Venezuelan society using rhetoric of hate and violence. OTI supports local NGOs who work in Chavista strongholds and with Chavista leaders, using those spaces to counter this rhetoric and promote alliances through working together on issues of importance to the entire community. This is the classical neo-liberal argument against any attempt to transform a capitalist society - The revolutionaries are creating class conflict. But of course, the class conflict was already there, and nowhere more embedded and distasteful than in Latin America. OTI funded 54 social projects all over the country, at over $1.2 million, allowing [the] Ambassador to visit poor areas of Venezuela and demonstrate US concern for the Venezuelan people. This program fosters confusion within the Bolivarian ranks, and pushes back at the attempt of Chavez to use the United States as a 'unifying enemy.' One has to wonder if the good ambassador (now an Assistant Secretary of State) placed any weight or value at all on the election and re-election by decisive margins of Chávez and the huge masses of people who repeatedly filled the large open squares to passionately cheer him. When did such things last happen in the ambassador's own country? Where was his country's concern for the Venezuelan people during the decades of highly corrupt and dictatorial regimes? His country'a embassy in Venezuela in that period was not plotting anything remotely like what is outlined in this cable. The cable summarizes the focus of the embassy's strategy's as: 1) Strengthening Democratic Institutions, 2) Penetrating Chavez' Political Base, 3) Dividing Chavismo, 4) Protecting Vital US business, and 5) Isolating Chavez
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #114
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/114 The Anti-Empire Report #114 By William Blum - Published March 11th, 2013 Hugo Chávez I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende: Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed in an especially provocative costume - a Marxist constitutionally elected who continued to honor the constitution. This would not do. It shook the very foundation stones upon which the anti-communist tower is built: the doctrine, painstakingly cultivated for decades, that communists can take power only through force and deception, that they can retain that power only through terrorizing and brainwashing the population. There could be only one thing worse than a Marxist in power - an elected Marxist in power. There was no one in the entire universe that those who own and run United States, Inc. wanted to see dead more than Hugo Chávez. He was worse than Allende. Worse than Fidel Castro. Worse than any world leader not in the American camp because he spoke out in the most forceful terms about US imperialism and its cruelty. Repeatedly. Constantly. Saying things that heads of state are not supposed to say. At the United Nations, on a shockingly personal level about George W. Bush. All over Latin America, as he organized the region into anti-US-Empire blocs. Long-term readers of this report know that I'm not much of a knee-reflex conspiracy theorist. But when someone like Chávez dies at the young age of 58 I have to wonder about the circumstances. Unremitting cancer, intractable respiratory infections, massive heart attack, one after the other It is well known that during the Cold War, the CIA worked diligently to develop substances that could kill without leaving a trace. I would like to see the Venezuelan government pursue every avenue of investigation in having an autopsy performed. Back in December 2011, Chávez, already under treatment for cancer, wondered out loud: Would it be so strange that they've invented the technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years? The Venezuelan president was speaking one day after Argentina's leftist president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. This was after three other prominent leftist Latin America leaders had been diagnosed with cancer: Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff; Paraguay's Fernando Lugo; and the former Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Evo take care of yourself. Correa, be careful. We just don't know, Chávez said, referring to Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, both leading leftists. Chávez said he had received words of warning from Fidel Castro, himself the target of hundreds of failed and often bizarre CIA assassination plots. Fidel always told me: 'Chávez take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat a little needle and they inject you with I don't know what. 1 When Vice President Nicolas Maduro suggested possible American involvement in Chávez's death, the US State Department called the allegation absurd. 2 Several progressive US organizations have filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA, asking for any information regarding or plans to poison or otherwise assassinate the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who has just died. I personally believe that Hugo Chávez was murdered by the United States. If his illness and death were NOT induced, the CIA - which has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, many successfully 3 - was not doing its job. When Fidel Castro became ill several years ago, the American mainstream media was unrelenting in its conjecture about whether the Cuban socialist system could survive his death. The same speculation exists now in regard to Venezuela. The Yankee mind can't believe that large masses of people can turn away from capitalism when shown a good alternative. It could only be the result of a dictator manipulating the public; all resting on one man whose death would mark finis to the process. It's the end of the world again The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) recent convention in Washington produced the usual Doomsday talk concerning Iran's imminent possession of nuclear weapons and with calls to bomb that country before they nuked Israel and/or the United States. So once again I have to remind everyone that these people - Israeli and American officials - are not really worried about an Iranian attack. Here are some of their many prior statements: In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that in her opinion Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel. She also criticized the exaggerated use that [Israeli] Prime Minister
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #113 - William Blum
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/113 The Anti-Empire Report #113 By William Blum - Published February 7th, 2013 American Foreign Policy - Have our war lovers learned anything? Over the past four decades, of all the reasons people over a certain age have given for their becoming radicalized against US foreign policy, the Vietnam War has easily been the one most often cited. And I myself am the best example of this that you could find. I sometimes think that if the war lovers who run the United States had known of this in advance they might have had serious second thoughts about starting that great historical folly and war crime. At other times, however, I have the thought that our dear war lovers have had 40 years to take this lesson to heart, and during this time what did they do? They did Salvador and Nicaragua, and Angola and Grenada. They did Panama and Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan and Iraq. And in 2012 American President Barack Obama saw fit to declare that the Vietnam War was one of the most extraordinary stories of bravery and integrity in the annals of military history. 1 So, have they learned nothing? When it comes to following international law, is the United States like a failed state? The Somalia of international law? Well, if they were perfectly frank, the war lovers would insist that the purpose of all these interventions, and many others like them, was to keep the atheists out of power - the non-believers in America's god-given right to rule the world - or to at least make life as difficult as possible for them. And thus the interventions were successful; nothing to apologize for; even the Vietnam War achieved its purpose of preventing that country from becoming a good development option for Asia, a socialist alternative to the capitalist model; precisely the same reason for Washington's endless hostility toward Cuba in Latin America; and Cuba has indeed inspired numerous atheists and their alternatives for a better world. If they were even more honest, the war lovers might quote George Kennan, the legendary State Department strategist, who wrote prophetically during the Cold War: Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy. 2 But after all these years, after decades of American militarism - though not a day passes without some government official or media acolyte expressing his admiration and gratitude for our brave boys - cracks in the American edifice can be seen. Some of the war lovers, and their TV groupies would have us believe that they have actually learned something. One of the first was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in February 2011: In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined. And here's former Secretary of State George Shultz speaking before the prestigious Council of Foreign Relations last month (January 29): Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be the template for how we go about dealing with threats of terrorism. A few days earlier the very establishment and conservative Economist magazine declared: The best-intentioned foreign intervention is bound to bog its armies down in endless wars fighting invisible enemies to help ungrateful locals. However, none of these people are in power. And does history offer any example of a highly militaristic power - without extreme coercion - seeing the error of its ways? One of my readers, who prefers to remain anonymous, wrote to me recently: It is my opinion that the German and Japanese people only relinquished their imperial culture and mindset when they were bombed back to the stone age at the end of WWII. Something similar is the only cure for the same pathology that now is embedded into the very social fabric of the USA. The USA is a full-blown pathological society now. There is no other cure. No amount of articles on the Internet pointing out the hypocrisies or war crimes will do it. So, while the United States is busy building bases and anti-missile sites in Europe, Asia and Africa, deploying space-based and other hi-tech weapons systems, trying to surround Russia, China, Iran and any other atheist that threatens American world hegemony, and firing drone missiles all over the Middle East I'm busy playing games on the Internet. What can I say? In theory at least, there is another force besides the terrible bombing mentioned above that can stop the American empire, and that is the American people. I'll continue trying to educate them. Too bad I won't live long enough to see the glorious transformation. Afghanistan: Manufacturing the American Legacy A decade ago, playing music could get you
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report - William Blum
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer112.html The Anti-Empire Report January 8th, 2013 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? France no longer recognizes its children, lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions produce jihadists capable of attacking a kosher grocery store? 1 I ask: How can the country of Henry David Thoreau, separation of church and state, and family Thanksgiving dinners produce American super-nationalists capable of firing missiles into Muslim family reunions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia? Does America recognize its children? Indeed, it honors them. Constantly. A French state prosecutor stated that A network of French Islamists behind a grenade attack on a kosher market outside Paris last month also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria. 2 We can add these worthies to the many other jihadists coming from all over to fight in Syria for regime change, waving al-Qaeda flags (There is no god but God), carrying out suicide attacks, exploding car bombs, and singling out Christians for extermination (for not supporting the overthrow of the secular Syrian government.) These folks are not the first ones you would think of as allies in a struggle for the proverbial freedom and democracy. Yet America's children are on the same side, with the same goal of overthrowing Syrian president Bashir Assad. So how do America's leaders explain and justify this? Not everybody who's participating on the ground in fighting Assad are people who we are comfortable with, President Obama sad in an interview in December. There are some who, I think, have adopted an extremist agenda, an anti-U.S. agenda, and we are going to make clear to distinguish between those elements. 3 In an earlier speech, Secretary of State Clinton acknowledged the scope of the threat from such movements. A year of democratic transition was never going to drain away reservoirs of radicalism built up through decades of dictatorship, she said. As we've learned from the beginning, there are extremists who seek to exploit periods of instability and hijack these democratic transitions. 4 Extremist ... radicalism ... No mention of terrorists (which is what Assad calls them). No mention of jihadists or foreign mercenaries. Or that they were preparing their movement to overthrow the Syrian government well before any government suppression of peaceful protestors in March of 2011, which the Western media consistently cites as the cause of the civil war. As far back as 2007, Seymour Hersh was writing in The New Yorker: The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda. Nor any explanation of what it says about the mission of the Holy Triumvirate (the United States, NATO and the European Union) that they have been supplying these jihadist rebels with funds, arms and training; with intelligence and communication equipment; with diplomatic recognition(!); later we'll probably find out about even more serious stuff. But President Obama is simply uncomfortable with them, because Assad, like Gaddafi of Libya, is a non-Triumvirate Believer, while the Jihadists are the proverbial enemy of my enemy. How long before they turn their guns and explosives upon Americans, as they did in Libya? Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing Is it easier for a believer to deal with a tragedy like the one in Newtown, Connecticut than it is for an atheist? The human suffering surrounding the ending of life forever for 20 small children and six adults made me choke up again and again with each news report. I didn't have the comfort that some religious people might have had - that it was God's will, that there must be a reason for such profound agony, a good reason, which you would understand if you could receive God's infinite wisdom, if you could be enlightened enough to see how it fit into God's Master Plan. How could God let this happen?, asked a Fox News reporter of former Republican governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee. Well, replied Huckabee, you know, it's an interesting thing. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability? That we're not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand before a Holy God in judgment. If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that. So the former governor is
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer111.html The Anti-Empire Report December 11th, 2012 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic - our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens 1 The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves ... the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods ... ever more powerful, ever new records being set. Something must be done of course. Except if you don't believe at all that it's man-made. But if there's even a small chance that the greenhouse effect is driving the changes, is it not plain that, at a minimum, we have to err on the side of caution? There's too much at stake. Like civilization as we know it. Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere must be greatly curtailed. The three greatest problems facing the beleaguered, fragile inhabitants of this lonely planet are climate change, economic crisis, and the violence of war. It is my sad duty to report that the United States of America is the main culprit in each case. Is that not remarkable? Why does Barack Obama not pursue the battle against climate change with the same intensity he pursues war? Why does he not seek to punish the American bankers and stockbrokers responsible for the financial calamity as much as he seeks to punish Julian Assange and Bradley Manning? In both cases he's putting the interests of the corporate world before anything else. No amount of fines or penalties will induce corporate leaders to modify their behavior. Only spending some hard time in a prison cellblock might cause the growth in them of their missing part, the part that's shaped like a social conscience. Only prosecuting George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their partners in bombing and torture will discourage future American war lovers from following in their bloody footsteps. The recent election result can only embolden Obama. He likely took it as an affirmation of his policies, although only 29.3% of those eligible to vote actually voted for him. And an unknown, but certainly significant, number of those who did so held their nose while voting for the supposed lesser of two evils. Hardly indicative of impassioned support for his policies. Last week the United Nations Climate Summit was held in Doha, Qatar. The comments which came from many of the activists (as opposed to various government officials) were doomsdayish ... Time is running out ... time has already run out ... the climate has already changed ... Hurricane Sandy, rising sea levels, the worst is yet to come. The Kyoto protocol is still the only international treaty stipulating cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. It's a touchstone for many environmentalists. But the United States has never ratified it. At the previous conferences in Copenhagen and Durban, the US blocked important global action and failed to honor vital pledges. At the Doha conference the US was acutely criticized for failing to take the lead on planet protection, especially in light of its standing as the largest historic contributor to the current levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. (The most obdurate bully in the room, declared the Indian environmentalist, Sunita Narain. 2) What motivates the American representatives, now as before, as ever, is concern about corporate profits. Cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions can hurt the bottom line. A suitable epitaph for the earth's tombstone. Shamus Cooke, writing on ZSpace, sums it up well: Thus, if renewable energy is not as profitable as oil - and it isn't - then the majority of capitalist investing will continue to go towards destroying the planet. It really is that simple. Even the best-intentioned capitalists do not throw their money away on non-growth investments. A brief history of Superpowers From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the Allies invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and 'civilize', to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony. They have been deadly serious. In 1918, for example, some 13 nations, including France, Great Britain, Rumania, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Japan, and the United States, combined in a military invasion of Russia to strangle at its birth the nascent Bolshevik state, as Winston Churchill so charmingly put it. And following World War 2, without any concern about who had fought and died to win that war, the Western powers, sans the Soviet Union, moved to create the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO, along with the European Union, then joined the United States in carrying out the Cold War and preventing the
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report - The universe unraveling
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer110.html The Anti-Empire Report November 1st, 2012 by William Blum www.killinghope.org The universe unraveling The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and the State Department alone could take credit for engineering coups at least once in each of the years 1958, 1959 and 1960. No study of Laos of this period appears to have had notable success in untangling the muddle of who exactly replaced whom, and when, and how, and why. After returning from Laos in 1961, American writer Norman Cousins stated that if you want to get a sense of the universe unraveling, come to Laos. Complexity such as this has to be respected. 1 Syria 2012 has produced its own tangled complexity. In the past 18 months it appears that at one time or another virtually every nation in the Middle East and North Africa as well as members of NATO and the European Union has been reported as aiding those seeking to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, while Russia, China, and several other countries are reported as aiding Assad. The Syrian leader, for his part, has consistently referred to those in combat against him as terrorists, citing the repeated use of car bombs and suicide bombers. The West has treated this accusation with scorn, or has simply ignored it. But the evidence that Assad has had good reason for his stance has been accumulating for some time now, particularly of late. Here is a small sample from recent months: * It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s - with one unsettling difference. In the background hang two flags of Al Qaeda, white Arabic writing on a black field ... The video, posted on YouTube, is one more bit of evidence that Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are doing their best to hijack the Syrian revolution. (New York Times, July 24, 2012) * A leading German newspaper reported that the German intelligence service, BND, had concluded that 95% of the Syrian rebels come from abroad and are likely to be members of al Qaeda. (Die Welt, September 30, 2012) * A network of French Islamists behind a grenade attack on a kosher market outside Paris last month also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria ... Two suspects were responsible for recruiting and dispatching people 'to carry out jihad in some countries - notably Syria', a state prosecutor said. (Associated Press, October 11, 2012) * Fighters from a shadowy militant group [Jabhat al-Nusra] with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syrian rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern Syria on Friday, according to activists and amateur video. ...The videos show dozens of fighters inside the base near a radar tower, along with rows of large missiles, some on the backs of trucks. (Associated Press, October 12, 2012) * In a videotape posted this week on militant forums, the Egyptian-born jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri ... urged support for Syria's uprisings. (Associated Press, October 28, 2012) According to your favorite news source or commentator, President Assad is either a brutal murderer of his own people, amongst whom he has had very little support; or he's a hero who's long had the backing of the majority of the Syrian population and who is standing up to Western imperialists and their terrorist comrades-in-arms, whom the US is providing military aid, intelligence, and propaganda services. Washington and its freedom fighters de jour would like to establish Libya II. And we all know how well Libya I has turned out. Of backward nations and modern nations Page one of the October 24 Washington Post contained a prominent photo of a man chained to a concrete wall at a shrine in Afghanistan. The accompanying story told us that the man was mentally ill and that legend has it that those with mental disorders will be healed after spending 40 days in one of the shrine's 16 tiny concrete cells, living on a subsistence diet of bread, water and black pepper. Every year hundreds of Afghans bring mentally ill relatives to the shrine for this cure. Immediately to the right of this story, constituting the paper's lead story of the day, we learn that the United States is planning to continue its policy of assassinating individuals, via drone attacks, for the foreseeable future. This is Washington's cure for the mental illness of not believing that America is the savior of mankind, bringing democracy, freedom and happiness to all. (The article adds that the number of militants and civilians killed in the drone campaign over the past 10 years will soon exceed 3,000 by some estimates, surpassing the number of people killed on September 11.) Undoubtedly there are many people in
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report 3-7-12
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer106.html The Anti-Empire Report July 3rd, 2012 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Julian Assange I'm sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any way of knowing how it would turn out. He might be forced to be there for years. That'll teach him to mess with the most powerful country in the world! All you other terrorists and anti-Americans out there - Take Note! When you fuck around with God's country you pay a price! How true. You do pay a price. Ask the people of Cuba, Vietnam, Chile, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Haiti, etc., etc., etc. And ask the people of Guantánamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram, and a dozen other torture centers to which God's country offers free transportation. You think with the whole world watching, the United States would not be so obvious as to torture Assange if they got hold of him? Ask Bradley Manning. At a bare minimum, prolonged solitary confinement is torture. Before too long the world may ban it. Not that that would keep God's country and other police states from using it. You think with the whole world watching, the United States would not be so obvious as to target Assange with a drone? They've done it with American citizens. Assange is a mere Aussie. And Ecuador and its president, Rafael Correa, will pay a price. You think with the whole world watching, the United States would not intervene in Ecuador? In Latin America, it comes very naturally for Washington. During the Cold War it was said that the United States could cause the downfall of a government south of the border ... with a frown. The dissolution of the Soviet Union didn't bring any change in that because it was never the Soviet Union per se that the United States was fighting. It was the threat of a good example of an alternative to the capitalist model. For example, on January 21, 2000 in Ecuador, where almost two-thirds live in poverty, a very large number of indigenous peasants rose up in desperation and marched to the capital city of Quito, where they were joined by labor unions and some junior military officers (most members of the army being of indigenous stock). This coalition presented a list of economic demands, seized the Congress and Supreme Court buildings, and forced the president to resign. He was replaced by a junta from the ranks of the new coalition. The Clinton administration was alarmed. Besides North American knee-reflex hostility to anything that look or smells like a leftist revolution, Washington had big plans for a large military base in Manta (later closed by Correa). And Colombia - already plagued by leftist movements - was next door. The US quickly stepped in to educate the Ecuadorean coalition leaders as to the facts of Western Hemispheric imperial life. The American embassy in Quito ... Peter Romero, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America and Western Hemispheric Affairs ... Sandy Berger, National Security Adviser to President Clinton ... Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering ... all made phone calls to Ecuadorian officials to threaten a cutoff in aid and other support, warning that Ecuador will find itself isolated, informing them that the United States would never recognize any new government the coalition might set up, there would be no peace in Ecuador unless the military backed the vice president as the new leader, and the vice president must continue to pursue neoliberal reforms, the kind of IMF structural adjustment policies which had played a major role in inciting the uprising in the first place. Within hours the heads of the Ecuadorian army, navy and air force declared their support for the vice president. The leaders of the uprising fled into hiding. And that was the end of the Ecuadorian revolution of the year 2000.1 Rafael Correa was first elected in 2006 with a 58% majority, and reelected in 2009 with a 55% majority; his current term runs until August 2013. The American mainstream media has been increasingly critical of him. The following letter sent in January to the Washington Post by the Ecuadoran ambassador to the United States is an attempt to clarify one of the issues. Letter to the Editor: We were offended by the Jan. 12 editorial Ecuador's bully, which focused on a lawsuit brought by our president, Rafael Correa, after a newspaper claimed that he was guilty of ordering troops to fire on innocent citizens during a failed coup in 2010. The president asked the publishers to release their evidence or a retraction. When they refused, he sued, as any citizen should do when recklessly wronged. No journalist has gone to prison or paid a significant fine in the five years of the Correa presidency. Media criticism - fair and unfair, sometimes with malice - of the
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report - William Blum
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer103.html The Anti-Empire Report March 5th, 2012 by William Blum The Saga of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks, to be put to ballad and film Defense lawyers say Manning was clearly a troubled young soldier whom the Army should never have deployed to Iraq or given access to classified material while he was stationed there ... They say he was in emotional turmoil, partly because he was a gay soldier at a time when homosexuals were barred from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. (Associated Press, February 3) It's unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning's attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way any more than Bradley should be tried as a criminal or traitor. He should be hailed as a national hero. Yes, even when the lawyers are talking to the military mind. May as well try to penetrate that mind and find the freest and best person living there. Bradley also wears a military uniform. Here are Manning's own words from an online chat: If you had free reign over classified networks ... and you saw incredible things, awful things ... things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC ... what would you do? ... God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms. ... I want people to see the truth ... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public. Is the world to believe that these are the words of a disturbed and irrational person? Do not the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Geneva Conventions speak of a higher duty than blind loyalty to one's government, a duty to report the war crimes of that government? Below is a listing of some of the things revealed in the State Department cables and Defense Department files and videos. For exposing such embarrassing and less-than-honorable behavior, Bradley Manning of the United States Army and Julian Assange of Wikileaks may spend most of their remaining days in a modern dungeon, much of it while undergoing that particular form of torture known as solitary confinement. Indeed, it has been suggested that the mistreatment of Manning has been for the purpose of making him testify against and implicating Assange. Dozens of members of the American media and public officials have called for Julian Assange's execution or assassination. Under the new National Defense Authorization Act, Assange could well be kidnaped or assassinated. What century are we living in? What world? It was after seeing American war crimes such as those depicted in the video Collateral Murder and documented in the Iraq War Logs, made public by Manning and Wikileaks, that the Iraqis refused to exempt US forces from prosecution for future crimes. The video depicts an American helicopter indiscriminately murdering several non-combatants in addition to two Reuters journalists, and the wounding of two little children, while the helicopter pilots cheer the attacks in a Baghdad suburb like it was the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. The insistence of the Iraqi government on legal jurisdiction over American soldiers for violations of Iraqi law - something the United States rarely, if ever, accepts in any of the many countries where its military is stationed - forced the Obama administration to pull the remaining American troops from the country. If Manning had committed war crimes in Iraq instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today, as are the many hundreds/thousands of American soldiers guilty of truly loathsome crimes in cities like Haditha, Fallujah, and other places whose names will live in infamy in the land of ancient Mesopotamia. Besides playing a role in writing finis to the awful Iraq war, the Wikileaks disclosures helped to spark the Arab Spring, beginning in Tunisia. When people in Tunisia read or heard of US Embassy cables revealing the extensive corruption and decadence of the extended ruling family there - one long and detailed cable being titled: CORRUPTION IN TUNISIA: WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE - how Washington's support of Tunisian President Ben Ali was not really strong, and that the US would not support the regime in the event of a popular uprising, they took to the streets. Here is a sample of some of the other Wikileaks revelations that make the people of the world wiser: * In 2009 Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano became the new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which plays the leading role in the investigation of whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons or is working only on peaceful civilian nuclear energy projects. A US embassy cable of October 2009 said Amano took pains to emphasize his support for
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer102.html The Anti-Empire Report February 3rd, 2012 by William Blum www.killinghope.org The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of threats. The Grand Ayatollah of nuclear menace. As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being the only nuclear power in the Middle East is a great card for Israel to have in its hand. But - in the real, non-propaganda world - is USrael actually fearful of an attack from a nuclear-armed Iran? In case you've forgotten ... In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that in her opinion Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel. She also criticized the exaggerated use that [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. 1 2009: A senior Israeli official in Washington asserted that Iran would be unlikely to use its missiles in an attack [against Israel] because of the certainty of retaliation. 2 In 2010 the Sunday Times of London (January 10) reported that Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam, war hero, pillar of the Israeli defense establishment, and former director-general of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, believes it will probably take Iran seven years to make nuclear weapons. Early last month, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a television audience: Are they [Iran] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No, but we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability. 3 A week later we could read in the New York Times (January 15) that three leading Israeli security experts - the Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo, a former Mossad chief, Efraim Halevy, and a former military chief of staff, Dan Halutz - all recently declared that a nuclear Iran would not pose an existential threat to Israel. Then, a few days afterward, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in an interview with Israeli Army Radio (January 18), had this exchange: Question: Is it Israel's judgment that Iran has not yet decided to turn its nuclear potential into weapons of mass destruction? Barak: People ask whether Iran is determined to break out from the control [inspection] regime right now ... in an attempt to obtain nuclear weapons or an operable installation as quickly as possible. Apparently that is not the case. Lastly, we have the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, in a report to Congress: We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons. ... There are certain things [the Iranians] have not done that would be necessary to build a warhead. 4 Admissions like the above - and there are others - are never put into headlines by the American mass media; indeed, only very lightly reported at all; and sometimes distorted - On the Public Broadcasting System (PBS News Hour, January 9), the non-commercial network much beloved by American liberals, the Panetta quote above was reported as: But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability, and that's what concerns us. Flagrantly omitted were the preceding words: Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No ... 5 One of Israel's leading military historians, Martin van Creveld, was interviewed by Playboy magazine in June 2007: Playboy: Can the World live with a nuclear Iran? Van Creveld: The U.S. has lived with a nuclear Soviet Union and a nuclear China, so why not a nuclear Iran? I've researched how the U.S. opposed nuclear proliferation in the past, and each time a country was about to proliferate, the U.S. expressed its opposition in terms of why this other country was very dangerous and didn't deserve to have nuclear weapons. Americans believe they're the only people who deserve to have nuclear weapons, because they are good and democratic and they like Mother and apple pie and the flag. But Americans are the only ones who have used them. ... We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us. We cannot say so too openly, however, because we have a history of using any threat in order to get weapons ... thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the U.S. and Germany. And throughout these years, regularly, Israeli and American officials have been assuring us that Iran is World Nuclear Threat Number One, that we can't relax our guard against them, that there should be no limit to the ultra-tough sanctions we impose upon the Iranian people and their government. Repeated murder and attempted murder of Iranian nuclear scientists, sabotage of Iranian nuclear equipment with computer viruses, the sale of faulty parts and raw materials, unexplained plane crashes, explosions at Iranian facilities ... Who can be behind this but USrael? How do we know? It's called plain common sense. Or do you think it was Costa Rica? Or
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer100.html The Anti-Empire Report December 2nd, 2011 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Some thoughts that OCCUPY my mind When the Vietnam War became history, and the protest signs and the bullhorns were put away, so too was the serious side of most protestors' alienation and hostility toward the government. They returned, with minimal resistance, to the restless pursuit of success, and the belief that the choice facing the world was either capitalist democracy or communist dictatorship. The war had been an aberration, was the implicit verdict, a blemish on an otherwise humane American record. The fear felt by the powers-that-be that society's fabric was unraveling and that the Republic was hanging by a thread turned out to be little more than media hype; it had been great copy. I mention this to explain why I've been reluctant to jump with both feet on the Occupy bandwagon. I first thought that if nothing else the approaching winter would do them in; if not, it would be the demands of their lives - they have to make some money at some point, attend classes somewhere, lovers and friends and family they have to cater to somewhere; lately I've been thinking it's the police that will do them in, writing finis to their marvelous movement adventure - if you hold the system up to a mirror the system can go crazy. But now I don't know. Those young people, and the old ones as well, keep surprising me, with their dedication and energy, their camaraderie and courage, their optimism and innovation, their non-violence and their keen awareness of the danger of being co-opted, their focusing on the economic institutions more than on the politicians or political parties. There is also their splendid signs and slogans, walking from New York to Washington, and not falling apart following the despicable police destruction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. They've given a million young people other ideas about how to spend the rest of their lives, and commandeered a remarkable amount of media space. The Washington Post on several occasions has devoted full page or near-full page sympathetic coverage. Occupy is being taken increasingly seriously by virtually all media. Yet, the 1960s and 70s were also a marvelous movement adventure - for me as much as for anyone - but nothing actually changed in US foreign policy as a result of our endless protests, many of which were also innovative. American imperialism has continued to add to its brutal record right up to this very moment. We can't even claim Vietnam as a victory. Most people believe that the US lost the war. But by destroying Vietnam to its core, by poisoning the earth, the water, the air, and the gene pool for generations, Washington in fact achieved its primary purpose: preventing the rise of what might have been a good development option for Asia, an alternative to the capitalist model. It has greatly helped Occupy's growth and survival that they have seldom mentioned foreign policy. That's much more sensitive ground than corporate abuse. Foreign policy gets into flag-waving, our brave boys risking their lives, American exceptionalism, nationalism, patriotism, loyalty, treason, terrorism, anti-American, conspiracy theorist ... all those emotional icons that mainstream America uses to separate a Good American from one who ain't really one of us. Foreign policy cannot be ignored permanently of course, if for no other reason than that the nation's wealth that's wasted on war could be used to pay for anything Occupy calls for ... or anything anyone calls for. The education which Occupy has caused to be thrust upon the citizenry - about corporate abuse and criminality, political corruption, inequality, poverty, etc., virtually all unprosecuted - would be highly significant if America were a democracy. But as it is, more and more people can learn more and more about these matters, and get more and more angry, but have nowhere to turn to, to effectuate meaningful change. Money must be removed from the political process. Completely. It is my favorite Latin expression: sine qua non - without which, nothing. USrael and Iran There's no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of DD - Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model.. But the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste. The preparation of minds was just as fervent before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. And when it turned out that Iraq did not have any kind of arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) ... well, our power elite found other justifications for the invasion, and didn't look back. Some berated Iraq: Why
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm Anti-Empire Report, August 10, 2007 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life August 10, 2007 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Separation of oil and state On several occasions I've been presented with the argument that contrary to widespread opinion in the anti-war movement and on the left, oil was not really a factor in the the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. The argument's key, perhaps sole, point is that the oil companies did not push for the war. Responding to only this particular point: firstly, the executives of multinational corporations are not in the habit of making public statements concerning vital issues of American foreign policy, either for or against. And we don't know what the oil company executives said in private to high Washington officials, although we do know that such executives have a lot more access to such officials than you or I, like at Cheney's secret gatherings. More importantly, we have to distinguish between oil as a fuel and oil as a political weapon. A reading of the policy papers issued by the neo-conservatives since the demise of the Soviet Union makes it clear that these people will not tolerate any other country or group of countries challenging the global hegemony of the world's only superpower. A sample -- In 1992 they wrote: We must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.[1] And in 2002, in the White House National Security Strategy paper: Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States. ... America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed. ... We must deter and defend against the threat before it is unleashed. ... We cannot let our enemies strike first. ... To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively. As the world has been learning in great sorrow, the neo-conservative world-dominators are not just (policy) paper tigers. Japan and the European Union easily fall into the categories of potential competitors or potential adversaries, economically speaking. They both are crucially dependent upon oil imports. To one extent or another so is most of the world. The Bush administration doesn't need the approval of the oil companies to pursue its grandiose agenda of world domination, using the vast Iraqi oil reserves as one more of its weapons. For those who would like to believe that there's a limit to the neo-cons' imperial arrogance, that even the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Rice, and the rest of the gang would never treat Europe as anything like an enemy, I suggest a look at a recent article by the former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, which appeared in the Financial Times of London. In it, the Cheney intimate and current senior fellow at the neo-con citadel, American Enterprise Institute, berates British prime minister Gordon Brown for implying that the UK could have a special relationship with both the United States and the European Union (which Bolton refers to as the European porridge). Like a hurt lover, Bolton exclaims that Britain has been brought to a clear decision point. ... What London needs to know is that its answer will have consequences. The article is entitled: Britain Cannot Have Two Best Friends. Bolton goes on to ask: Why does a 'union' with a common foreign and security policy, and with the prospect of a real 'foreign minister' have two permanent seats on the UN Security Council and often as many as three non-permanent seats out of a total of 15 council members? France and Britain may not relish the prospect of giving up their unique status, but what is it that makes them different -- as members of the 'Union' -- from Luxembourg or Malta? One Union, one seat. Mr Brown cannot have it both ways (nor will President Nicolas Sarkozy). The Empire has not yet made Europe an ODE (Officially Designated Enemy) like Iran, but, Bolton declares, If Mr Bush decides that the only way to stop Iran is to use military force, where will Mr Brown come down? Supporting the US or allowing Iran to goose-step towards nuclear weapons?[2] Washington's exquisite imperial mentality, its stated determination to act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed, sees potential adversaries in China and Russia as well of course. The United States -- with hypocrisy breathtaking even for the Bush administration -- regularly castigates China for its expanding military budget; and tries to surround Russia with military bases, missile shields, and countries with ties to
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And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe Eg.: ... The meeting in November was arranged by Human Rights First, a non-profit organisation that has launched a campaign against torture both in the real world and on television. It says that since the terror attacks of September 11, the incidence of torture in television shows has soared. In 2000 there were 42 scenes of torture on prime-time US television while in 2003 there were 228. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2264632.ece Independent Online Edition Americas US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else! By Andrew Buncombe in Washington Published: 13 February 2007 Fantasising about torture??? That's a lot worse than barbaric. :-( I'm a bit gobsmacked that the US military would see fit to tell someone else such a thing, since so many people have been telling it to them but they take no notice. Best Keith Barbarian, etymology (possibly misquoting the OED): Not a Greek; not a Roman; not a Western European; someone of a rude and uncivilised nature; a native of the Berbery Coast in Morocco. D. Mindock wrote: snip A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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Aztec, Inca, Maya, I believe two of those flourished, and met their demise sometime before, the European discovery of the new world. I just don't remember by world history as well as I should. I was in High School, when I figured out those indigenous to the American Continents, where no less civilized, and no more barbaric than the Europeans who discovered them. However that was not the conditioning expected of me. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. Jason Katie wrote: i thought the South American empires were wiped out by the europeans before they had the chance to kill themselves off? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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might I recommend "Stolen Continents" by Ronald Wright? From:Doug Younker [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire ReportDate:Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:41:53 -0600Aztec, Inca, Maya, I believe two of those flourished, and met theirdemise sometime before, the European discovery of the "new world". Ijust don't remember by world history as well as I should. I was in HighSchool, when I figured out those indigenous to the American Continents,where no less civilized, and no more barbaric than the Europeans who"discovered" them.However that was not the conditioning expected of me.Doug, N0LKKKansas USA inc.Jason Katie wrote: i thought the South American empires were wiped out by the europeans before they had the chance to kill themselves off?___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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I'm sure that's what the bible thumpers want us to believe, but I'm not sure that is the case. Ever notice how those who seek to use the bible to say America is doomed always use words from the bible that don't require them to change. Always the other persons fault. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. Joe Street wrote: And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe D. Mindock wrote: snip A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
You mean the Roman Empire. Or any of the south american ones. Or. Nah, we are civilized now I tell you. It could never happen to us. Z On 2/15/07, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe D. Mindock wrote: snip A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
i thought the South American empires were wiped out by the europeans before they had the chance to kill themselves off? - Original Message - From: Zeke Yewdall To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report You mean the Roman Empire. Or any of the south american ones. Or. Nah, we are civilized now I tell you. It could never happen to us. Z On 2/15/07, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe D. Mindock wrote: snip A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/687 - Release Date: 2/14/2007 4:17 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/687 - Release Date: 2/14/2007 4:17 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
I can't quite remember the details any more, but I seem to remember that they were in a pretty odd position beforehand, which prevented them from being able to kill only a few hundred Europeans. Jared Diamonds two books Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse had lots of stuff -- but I just don't recall the details any more. Same think with the Roman empire -- technically it fell to the barbarians, but only because it was almost ready to collapse already. Z On 2/15/07, Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i thought the South American empires were wiped out by the europeans before they had the chance to kill themselves off? - Original Message - *From:* Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org *Sent:* Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:11 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report You mean the Roman Empire. Or any of the south american ones. Or. Nah, we are civilized now I tell you. It could never happen to us. Z On 2/15/07, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up to the collapse of previous empires? Joe D. Mindock wrote: snip A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/687 - Release Date: 2/14/2007 4:17 PM --_NextPart_000_0410_01C75144.F370F240-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/687 - Release Date: 2/14/2007 4:17 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
And don't forget my hero, Alan Turing, likewise punished beyond belief, in a so-called civilized country, for being homosexual. We fool ourselves if we think we (Americans Brits) deserve to be called civilized. We have yet a long way to go. A truly civilized country wouldn't need a Bill of Rights. But our Decider is trashing it anyway, along with the original document. The war on terrorism has rapidly devolved into a war onto the very things that are essential to a civilized country. I think we are back at the level of barbarism... Peace, D. Mindock - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report Since when is 'America' a country?? Frank Navarrete wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in civilized England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that any Western nations have a civil history. Frank On 2/4/07, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde -- ! -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
Since when is 'America' a country?? Frank Navarrete wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in civilized England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that any Western nations have a civil history. Frank On 2/4/07, *Kirk McLoren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk */Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.21/665 - Release Date: 2/2/2007 11:39 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43909/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
What nations have had an entirely civil history? - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report Since when is 'America' a country?? Frank Navarrete wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in civilized England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that any Western nations have a civil history. Frank On 2/4/07, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.21/665 - Release Date: 2/2/2007 11:39 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
Always a good read is Bill Blum. -- http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer42.htm Anti-Empire Report, February 3, 2007 The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends February 3, 2007 by William Blum Full Spectrum Dominance It is not often that the empire is put in the position of one its victims, in fear of the military and technical prowess of another country, forced to talk of peace and cooperation, just as Iraq and others, hoping to put off an American attack, were forced to do over the years; just as Iran now. No, China is not about to attack the United States, but the Chinese shootdown of a satellite (an old weather satellite of theirs) in space on January 11, has made a US attack on China much more dangerous and much less likely; it's made the empire's leaders realize that they don't have total power to make any and all other nations do their bidding. Here's how the gentlemen of the Pentagon have sounded in the recent past on the subject of space. We will engage terrestrial targets someday -- ships, airplanes, land targets -- from space. ... We're going to fight in space. We're going to fight from space and we're going to fight into space. -- General Joseph Ashy, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Space Command, 1996[1] With regard to space dominance, we have it, we like it, and we're going to keep it. -- Keith R. Hall, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space and Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, 1997[2] US Space Command -- dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict. ... During the early portion of the 21st century, space power will also evolve into a separate and equal medium of warfare. ... The emerging synergy of space superiority with land, sea, and air superiority will lead to Full Spectrum Dominance. ... Development of ballistic missile defenses using space systems and planning for precision strikes from space offers a counter to the worldwide proliferation of WMD [weapons of mass destruction]. ... Space is a region with increasing commercial, civil, international, and military interests and investments. The threat to these vital systems is also increasing. ... Control of Space is the ability to assure access to space, freedom of operations within the space medium, and an ability to deny others the use of space, if required. -- United States Space Command: Vision for 2020, 1997[3] Space represents a fundamentally new and better way to apply military force -- U.S. Strategic Command, 2004[4] And now along comes China, with the ability to make all this proud talk look somewhat foolish. At a State Department press briefing a week after the shootdown, the department's deputy spokesman Tom Casey stated, presumably without chuckling: We certainly are concerned by any effort, by any nation that would be geared towards developing weapons or other military activities in space. ... We don't want to see a situation where there is any militarization of space. He spoke of the peaceful use of space, and was concerned about the threat to modern life as we know it, because countries throughout the world are dependant on space based technologies, weather satellites, communications satellites and other devices. A reporter asked: Has the United States conducted such a test destroying a satellite in space? Yes, said Casey, in 1985. But that was different because there was a Cold War that was being engaged in between the United States and the Soviet Union and there were much fewer satellites moving about space.[5] Cong. Terry Everett, senior Republican on the House armed services subcommittee on strategic forces, said China's test raises serious concerns about the vulnerability of our space-based assets. ... We depend on satellites for a host of military and commercial uses, from navigation to ATM transactions.[6] Even prior to the Chinese test, the Washington Post pointed out: For a U.S. military increasingly dependent on sophisticated satellites for communicating, gathering intelligence and guiding missiles, the possibility that those space-based systems could come under attack has become a growing worry. ... The administration insists that there is no arms race in space, although the United States is the only nation that opposed a recent United Nations call for talks on keeping weapons out of space. ... Although the 1967 U.N. Outer Space Treaty, signed by the United States, allows only peaceful uses of space, some believe that the United States is moving toward some level of weaponization, especially related to a missile defense system.[7] Tom Casey, the State Department spokesperson, tried his best to give the impression that the United States has no idea why China would do
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.21/665 - Release Date: 2/2/2007 11:39 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started!___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in civilized England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that any Western nations have a civil history. Frank On 2/4/07, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk *Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.21/665 - Release Date: 2/2/2007 11:39 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started!http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43909/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/services?promote=mail ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Fwd: Anti-Empire Report, May 21, 2006
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