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The truth, the whole truth and nothing but ...
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - When all three major US newsweeklies - Time, Newsweek and US
News & World Report - run major features on the same day on possible
government lying, you can bet you have the makings of a major scandal. And
when the two most! important outlets of neo-conservative opinion - The
Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal - come out on the same days
with lead editorials spluttering outrage about suggestions of government
lying, you can bet that things are going to get very hot as summer
approaches in Washington. The controversy over whether the administration
of President George W Bush either exaggerated or lied about evidence that
it said it had about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in
Iraq before the US-led invasion has mushroomed over the past week.
 
 
Neo-Roman Wake Up Call

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Iraqi troops, tribes tell US leave or face war
REUTERS [ TUESDAY, JUNE 03, 2003 12:04:00 AM ]

BAGHDAD: Thousands of sacked Iraqi soldiers swarmed angrily around US
headquarters in Baghdad on Monday, as squabbling tribal leaders told the
Americans they could face war if they did not leave soon. "The entire Iraqi
people is a time bomb that will blow up in the Americans' face if they
don't end their occupation," tribal chief Riyadh al-Asadi told the media
after meeting a US official for talks on the future of Iraq after Saddam
Hussein.  "The Iraqi people did not fight the Americans during the war,
only Saddam's people did. But if the people decide to fight them now, they
are in big trouble." Its tribal leaders met representatives of the U.S-led
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), more than 3,000 sacked troops
marched on the CPA headquart! ers in a former presidential palace, vowing
violence unless they received compensation. Many said they wanted US and
British forces to leave Iraq.
 
 
Iraqis demand US troop withdrawal
04 June 2003 Wednesday 03 Rabi-us-Saani 1424

BAGHDAD, June 3: Religious leaders led thousands of protesters through
Baghdad's streets on Tuesday, telling US and British forces to withdraw or
face violence, as Iraqi political groups demanded more say in their
country's future. The Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella group of parties
that opposed Saddam Hussein mainly from exile, insisted that Iraqis rather
than Americans should pick the interim Iraqi leadership that will help
steer the country towards democracy.
 
 
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Iraqi "intelligence documents" likely planted

By Wayne Madsen

April 29, 2003-After the United States and Britain were shown to be providing bogus and plagiarized "intelligence" documents to the UN Security Council that supposedly "proved" Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program, the world's media is now being fed a steady stream of captured Iraqi "intelligence" documents from the rubble of Iraq's Mukhabarat intelligence headquarters.

The problem with these documents is that they are being provided by the U.S. military to a few reporters working for a very suspect newspaper, London's Daily Telegraph (affectionately known as the Daily Torygraph" by those who understand the paper's right-wing slant). The Telegraph's April 27 Sunday editi! on reported that its correspondent in Baghdad, Inigo Gilmore, had been invited into the intelligence headquarters by U.S. troops and miraculously "found" amid the rubble a document indicating that Iraq invited Osama bin Laden to visit Iraq in March 1998. Gilmore also reported that the CIA had been through the building several times before he found the document. Gilmore added that the CIA must have "missed" the document in their prior searches, an astounding claim since the CIA must have been intimately familiar with the building from their previous intelligence links with the Mukhabarat dating from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. Moreover, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, including Britain's MI-6, have refuted claims of a link between bin Laden and Iraq.

Gilmore also made it a point to declare he was not providing propaganda for the United States, a strange statement by someone who claims to be a seasoned Middle East correspondent. However, it is highly possib! le he was providing the propaganda for the benefit of a non-government actor, the neo-conservative movement, which uses the Pentagon as a base of operations, and employs deception and perception management tactics to push its sinister agenda.

The U.S. has been quite active in inviting Telegraph reporters into the Iraqi intelligence headquarters. Other documents "found" by the paper's reporters "revealed" Russian intelligence had passed intercepts of Tony Blair's phone conversations to Iraqi intelligence, that German intelligence offered to assist Iraqi intelligence in the lead up to the war, that France provided Iraq with the contents of US-French diplomatic exchanges, and that anti-war and anti-Bush Labor Party Member of Parliament George Galloway had solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars from Iraq, which were skimmed from the country's oil-for-food program.

Galloway immediately smelled the rat of a disinformation campaign when he responded to the Telegra! ph about the "found" document. "Maybe it's the product of the same forgers who forged so many other things in this whole Iraq picture . . . It would not be the Iraqi regime that was forging it. It would be people like you [Telegraph journalists] and the Government whose policies you have supported," Galloway said.

It is amazing that the U.S. military would be so open about letting favored journalists walk freely about the Mukhabarat building when the Pentagon has clamped tight security on the Iraqi Oil Ministry. The reason for this is obvious. While the Mukhabarat building can be salted with phony intelligence documents, the Oil Ministry is likely rife with documents showing the links between Saddam Hussein and Dick Cheney's old firm, Halliburton. The company signed more than $73 million in contracts with Saddam's government when Cheney was its chief executive officer. The contracts, negotiated with two Halliburton subsidiaries-Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll! Dresser Pump Co.- were part of the UN oil-for-food program, ironically the same program which figures prominently in the charges against Galloway.

But unlike the charges against Galloway, the reports about Cheney's links to Saddam Hussein's oil industry originated with relatively more mainstream media sources, including ABC News, The Washington Post, and The Texas Observer.

Gilmore told the BBC that he noticed that on the Mukhabarat documents he discovered, some information that was "erased." The erasures were apparently made with a combination of black marker ink and correction fluid. He said he scraped away at the paper with a razor and miraculously found the name bin Laden in three places. The standard procedure for redacting a classified document is to only use a black indelible marker to mask classified information. However, the proper procedure for trying to read through such markings is not to scrape away the ink as! if the document were an instant lottery ticket. Toner print often bleeds through the indelible marker ink. If one holds up such a sheet of paper at a 45 degree angle and under a bright phosphorescent light, the lettering under the ink can be "read" because the lettering almost appears to be "raised". If a razor blade were used to scrape away the markings, the indelible ink and the toner ink would be obliterated. Gilmore's claims appear to be spurious.

It was not long before the Iraqi-al Qaeda "smoking gun" document was reported around the world. America's right-wing propaganda channel, Fox News, featured the "found" document on its lead story on its Fox Sunday News program. Fox anchorman Tony Snow asked the ethically-tainted Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi about the document. Chalabi responded, saying the document provided enough information that Saddam Hussein was knowledgeable about the September 11 attacks on the United States, a canard that has been ! rejected by intelligence agencies around the world.

However, for those who forged or doctored the document it was mission accomplished.

To understand the process in disseminating such propaganda masked as news, it is important to understand the relationship between The Daily Telegraph and its parent company, the Hollinger Corporation, which is owned by British subject and former Canadian Conrad Black. Hollinger. Like Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, Hollinger is a mega-media company that spins right-wing propaganda around the world through 379 newspapers, including the Jerusalem Post. Tom Rose, the publisher of the Jerusalem Post, is a major supporter of Ariel Sharon's Likud Party and is a favorite guest on the right-wing talk shows on Clear Channel radio stations, including that of G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate infamy.

Clear Channel, headqua! rtered in Dallas, is owned by close Bush supporters and one-time business partners. To add to the spider's web, one of Rose's Jerusalem Post directors is Richard Perle, a member of Donald Rumsfeld's advisory board.

The "smoking gun" document on Galloway was further played up on Fox News Sunday. William Kristol, an ally of Perle and a dean of the neo-conservatives, and Fox's Brit Hume, a right-wing ideologue who masquerades as a reporter, said the documents implicating Galloway in accepting money from Saddam Hussein was the "tip of the iceberg". They then suggested that French President Jacques Chirac, other Western politicians, and Arab journalists working for such networks as Al Jazeera, would soon be "outed" by further Iraqi intelligence documents. For good measure, Fox also announced that Galloway may have given classified satellite imagery to al Qaeda. As is so often the case, the Fox News panelists provided no evidence for the! ir slanderous claims.

Welcome to the new digital and satellite age McCarthyism. Phony documents are "dropped" into the hands of a right-wing London newspaper owned by Conrad Black. They are amplified by Black's other holdings, including the Jerusalem Post and Chicago Sun-Times. The story is then picked up by the worldwide television outlets of News Corporation, Time Warner, Disney, and General Electric and echoed on the right-wing radio talk shows of Clear Channel and Viacom. Political careers are damaged or destroyed. There is no right of rebuttal for the accused. They are guilty as charged by a whipped up public that gets its information from the Orwellian telescreens of the corporate media.

The media operating in concert with political vermin to whip up popular opinion to stamp out criticism is nothing new. It was practiced by Joseph Goebbels quite effectively in Nazi Germany.

I! t was a British-born actor named Peter Finch who so eloquently and prophetically warned us about the sorry state of today's media. In Paddy Chayefsky's excellent movie, "Network," Finch plays UBS TV news anchormen Howard Beale. When UBS's entertainment division decides to fire Beale because of low ratings, he begins to rant and rave on the air. He is then given his own television entertainment show, "The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves". The most famous scene in the movie is when Beale exhorts his viewers to go their windows and yell, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore".

We should all be mad as hell about the propaganda in the newspapers and on the airwaves; George Bush and Tony Blair; Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black; Clear Channel and Viacom; the neo-conservative think tank bottom feeders; Rumsfeld and his circle of Pentagon ghouls such as Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Newt Gingrich; and the religious fundamentalists who give aid and succor to America's! war machine. To paraphrase Howard Beale, "We should not take them anymore!"

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Wayne Madsen is a Washington-based investigative journalist and columnist. He is a co-author of the forthcoming book, "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II."
 
 
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Solving the enigma of media manipulation
Beware the Gatekeepers who distract from discovering true facts

By John Kaminski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

No mystery in American history is ever solved because the actual facts
of each case never reach the public for adequate examination and
resolution. I mean, we still haven't solved the questions of who
murdered Presidents Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln, never mind who
killed the Kennedy brothers or Martin Luther King.

   And this likely will be the fate of the investigation into the
tragedies of September 11, 2001 � we will never learn who did what: w! ho
planned it, who executed it, who made money off it � although we do have
a pretty good idea who is covering it up, since the perpetrators
regularly embarrass themselves in full public view with their endless
expectorations of false statements and lame lies.

   The real reason these mysteries are never solved is not because of
any coverup by government officials or rich power brokers. The reason
these mysteries are never solved is because of the pathetic state of our
news media, which are wholly controlled by the very same men who commit
these colossal crimes that injure us all.

   Most journalists have never told the truth about politics; they only
are allowed to say what their bosses let them say. And almost always, if
the newspaper or TV station is a big one, their bosses won't let them
tell the truth about practically anything.

   This is no idle complaint, no sour grape cocktail.
   We are prevented from acquiring the information necessary to live
honest and productive lives: prevented by our schools, which limit the
spectrum of functional data that shapes the way we think as we grow up;
by our hallowed institutions, which exist at the whim of power
structures whose real workings we have little cognizance of; and by the
public utterances of people we consider heroes, whose words may inspire
us at the time they are uttered, but whose achievements, considered from
the perspective of history, often do not match the deeds that made them
admired in the first place.

   Consider for a moment the historical perspectives of George
Washington, who eagerly endorsed the slaughter of natives for the
purpose of claiming land in the Ohio territory, or of Franklin
Roosevelt, who supposedly brought us out of the Great Depression but now
is better known for manipulating geopolitics to get us into World W! ar II
by creating the conditions that the led the Japanese to attack Pearl
Harbor.

   Now, as we wring our hands while America morphs from beacon of
liberty to the most sinister oppressor of all people in the world, we
come to another realization � if we are mature and wise enough to
understand the USA has always been a militaristic machine, first taming
a wilderness continent peopled by beings we called savages, now
conquering a world occupied by individuals we disparagingly regard as
inferior foreigners.

   We come to understand that our prosperity is wholly dependent on
conquest and exploitation of those less alert than ourselves. That this
beastly attitude has been transformed into heroic legends is simply good
public relations. Everybody needs to feel good about themselves, no
matter what they are doing. Thus America has crafted for itself a
history packed with glorious campaigns and noble efforts.! The trail of
corpses this history has produced is seldom mentioned.

   And thus it is with 9/11.

   Many high officials of the current United States government clearly
know who planned and carried out the murderous attacks of September 11,
2001. The names of the perpetrators are clearly available in the records
of those agencies that monitor stock transactions, specifically the
"put" options bought by as yet publicly unidentified individuals in the
days immediately prior to 9/11, names kept secret by the confidentiality
laws of bankers.

   The sad fact is that these names are kept secret even though release
of them could shed cleansing light on the cynical murders of 3,000
Americans, 5,000 Afghanis and 10,000 Iraqis in the past two years. The
secrecy of banking laws trumps the necessity of bringing mass murderers
to justice. It always has and it always will. For the world is about
money a! nd exploitation, it is not about justice and honor. In America
especially, mass murder of innocents is not as serious a crime as
betraying financial trust, according to law.

   So, many individuals associated with the U.S. government know full
well who is responsible for 9/11. But they will go to their graves with
the secret, because too much money has been made from the deception, and
there is still a lot more money to be made in the overzealous military
response to a tragedy that was devised for that very purpose.

   And it's not merely those insider elitists who made money off their
timely investments, with full knowledge of the charade that was about to
be played, who are the killers.

   As researcher Walter Burien has pointed out, the guilty parties are
much closer to home, and more well known than anonymous moneymen
protected by secrecy laws of their own creation. Burien's words paint anominous picture:

   "If you look at "WHO" was holding the majority of "SHORT" derivative
positions on the domestic and international stock index markets prior to
9-11, and then reaped over a trillion dollars in profits within days
from the ensuing collapse of those physical markets, you will find in
that group who was responsible for 9-11. There is one problem in finding
this out. That being government controls the release of that information by the SEC and
CFTC. A small conflict of interest exists here, being that the results
of that study would show the U.S. Federal Government was holding the
majority of the international "SHORT" positions! The promoted airline
stock option transaction that most people have heard about in the news
is truly minuscule chump change in comparison.

   "Yes, government is preparing for an uprising in this country. They
need to direct the public eye to a faraway enemy so that th! ey can secure
control here. Greed has thrived within government circles. The result of
that greed has been obscene and the resulting damage to the morals and
health of this country in response is sickening.

   "The results of the takeover of the American wealth has been done
almost exclusively on paper through manipulation of the legislature and
the judiciary over the last 60 years with the cooperation of the
syndicated news media and education. With the conquest being  done by
transferring the wealth on paper, the consequences for the "takers" was
virtually nonexistent!"

   There you have real American history, not reported by any newspapers
or TV shows. It comes off a website in Arizona that is about to shut
down (June 12) for lack of money. The foregoing is an excerpt from
"Market Reality: Know What is Going On" by Walter J. Burien. Visit his
complete website here: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/cafr1/CAFR.html

   (And send him money, if you can, before it's too late. He's one of
the last of the real newsmen.)

   So we know who perpetrated 9/11. We know the Muslim hijacker rap was
just a deception aimed at creating sympathy for Israel, and allowing it
to continue its brutal genocide of the Palestinians while the world's
attention was distracted. The deception also provided breathing space
for the multinational oil giants who seek to carve up the geography of
the Middle East for their own advantage. So a few thousand Americans and
other assorted infidels had to die. That's just the way it is in the
real world, I'm sure Dick Cheney would tell you.

� � �

   Most intelligent Americans already know you can't trust what you see
on the TV news. But it's very important to point that out to your
friends and neig! hbors who think they can. If you base what you believe
on what you see on TV, you are guaranteed to be deceived.

   From the perspective of the future, I see Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather,
Peter Jennings and Wolf Blitzer as stick figure puppets dancing on the
strings of their masters, mouthing false words scripted by drooling
demons counting their money in advance of their latest robbery.

   How else can one explain the total absence of the most important
issues to all humanity on the TV news?

   � The most critical issue of the continuing massacre of innocents in
Iraq � and one tragically close-to-home for deceived Americans � is the
impact of radioactive ammunition on those who did not die in the
high-tech bloodbath. All who participated in that murderous charade face
a guaranteed future of agonizing disease and death from uranium
poisoning, the sick legacy of cruel cynics making money off the
rec! ycling of carcinogenic nuclear waste into armor-piercing ordnance.

   We already know how this story goes from the first Gulf War. Three
hundred thousand American veterans sickened, ten thousand already dead.
Servicemen's wives with radioactive uteruses, American babies
grotesquely
deformed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis crippled by cancer or born
with burned-out brains.

   The government and its media whores deny a connection. Uranium
poisoning incidence recently reported much higher in Afghanistan, after
the U.S. did its nuclear raindance there. And yet to be discovered
higher still in Iraq.

   And not a single word about it on television. Anywhere. A sickening
silence they call American freedom.

   � The greatest case of treason in U.S. history is the massive
silence of virtually the entire power structure about the inside
knowledge of what has come to be known as 9/11, ! which was quickly
followed by the equally treasonous demolition of the U.S. Constitution
known as the Patriot Act.

   The deliberate standdown of the air defenses, allowing thousands of
Americans to be slaughtered for the crass purpose of abetting the
takover of Middle Eastern oil; the facile lies of leaders who say they
didn't know it
was coming yet produced the names of the purported perps on a moment's
notice; the billions made by those who did know it was coming and who
remain smugly satisfied with their poisoned riches like that smirking
Texas vampire ...

   That 9/11 was an inside job known and planned well in advance of
this mind-crushing assault on the world's senses is no longer just a
crazed conspiracy theory � it's a whole encyclopedia of provable facts,
observable
criminal behavior and stonewalled investigations ... it is a certainty.

   Yet not a single peep about any of it! on TV. Instead, the evil
Muslims who "hate our freedom" are blamed, as we psychologically prepare
our pampered populace for an endless invasion of the Arab world.

   It is the conversion of the world into an armed prison of masters
and slaves, and excuse to steal Islamic treasures on the trumped-up
charge that they are the enemies of the West. But don't count your
blessings just yet: it's only a matter of time before the plunderers aim
their weapons inward toward the conquest of the docile American
citizenry.

   For all the tragic epiphanies about how our faith in democracy and
American honesty is a completely manipulated illusion, there is
something far worse to contemplate. Suddenly, the view down this
sociological well of hopelessness is about to get a lot darker.

   Because when you realize what's happening, you'll begin to
understand that a lot of key people � people you think you admir! e, seek
out for guidance, and try to support � people that you thought were
working for us, working for freedom, are actually working for them, and
working for something other than freedom.

   It is the dark flowering of our worst nightmare, because it takes
away our belief in those who we thought were helping us.

   The real tragedy of our wholly corrupt news gathering apparatus is
that many of those who appear to helping the cause of human freedom are
actually preventing it in a very subtle and deceitful way.

   The recent flap between Mike Ruppert, crusading creator of the
highly respected From the Wilderness website, and Amy Goodman, crusading
interviewer of the much-listened-to radio program Democracy Now, is
especially revealing as to the sublety of the deception.

   Ruppert has consistently complained about harassment from the
so-called left media, which claimed he was a ! hysterical conspiracy
theorist because he asked embarrassing yet wholly evidence-based
questions about the unanswered questions concerning the tragic mystery
and coverup of 9/11.

   Let it be known now that Ruppert is one of the more conservative and
respected analysts of the 9/11 enigma. He refuses to speculate about
what might have been and instead concentrates on what is empirically
obvious. Yet he has been the target of ridicule and scorn from virtually
all the left commentators, Goodman and Nation columnist David Corn in
particular, and the spectrum of all those supposedly progressive
magazines like Mother Jones and The Progressive, and supposedly
progressive websites like Common Dreams and Alternet, none of whom will
touch the 9/11 issue with a ten-foot pole.

   Even as mainstream media and the timid alternative press toss out
tidbits of information that acknowledge questions exist about the
offic! ial 9/11 story (the Bob Graham campaign gambit is the latest, in
which the Florida senator, who is up to his ears in the conspiracy
himself, is hinting that Bush has something to hide), Ruppert himself
has a credibility gap, ever since he went to New York City in the weeks
following the attacks and announced with certainty that Israel had
nothing to do with them. In his defense, he had no evidence. In his
indictment, he overlooked the obvious existence of the not-so-invisible
giant of Jewish power over U.S. politics and media.

   So there you have the two litmus issues that can help you
distinguish whether a particular news source is on the up-and-up, or
simply pretending to be progressive or patriotic, but really just
distracting people from the real
focus of the story with tantalizing bits of evidence that will
ultimately lead nowhere, which ultimately deflects the public from
perceiving the right questions to ask.
   There are two distinct methods by which you can tell if a story is
legitimate or not. They are:

   1. Does the story admit there is something radically wrong with the
whole sorry official explanation about 9/11? If it does, it might be
true; if it doesn't it is disinformation, designed to distract you from
not only finding the right answers but even asking the right questions.

   2. Does the story have a tangent to Israel's role in the deception
of the world? If there is no mention of Israel being intimately involved
with 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq, the story is probably disinformation;
if Israel is at least mentioned, there is a fighting chance the story
may be honest.

   The best discourse on this whole subject of deception among news
sources can be found on the quality website questionsquestions.net,
which contains a whole series of articles about the Gatekeeper syndrome,and provides a new and valuable perspective of which media outlets are
telling the objective truth, and which are likely not (i.e., virtually
all of the popular left alternative choices).

   Being a nominal leftie, this is hard for me to say. But you can't
trust most of the left websites because they treat Israel like an
innocent bystander, without beginning to acknowledge the colossal impact
Jews (most of whom support Israel's criminal behavior) have on the
American systems of media and education, and on America as a whole. Just
ask Cynthia McKinney, latest honest voice expelled from public discourse
by Jewish power.

   And in case you haven't noticed these past few years, America's
objectives in the world are Israel's. Just take another look at Iraq,
please, and the continuing push the U.S. is exerting throughout the
Middle East. The chief beneficiary of all this U.S. tax money, as well
as the outcry ! following 9/11, is Israel.

   Then take a look at how leftie publications (forget about the
mainstream: The New York Times, Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times are
all Zionist operations) neglect, deride or downplay the two key litmus
issues that allow you to determine whether a news gathering operation is
legit or a Gatekeeper.

   The Gatekeeper series on questionsquestions.net, written by Bob
Feldman and Brian Salter, is a virtual checklist of how to tell the
legit publications from the phonies.

   Feldman's "Alternative Media Censorship: Sponsored by the CIA's Ford
Foundation," describes the deceptive dilemma millions of Americans face
by trusting such leftie icons as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Norman
Solomon, all of whom downplay the 9/11 conspiracy angle and Israel's
involvement in it.

   "The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation's historic relationship to
the Central ! Intelligence Agency [CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica's
DEMOCRACY NOW / Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, on the
WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation Institute's RADIO NATION show,
on David Barsamian's ALTERNATIVE RADIO show or in the pages of
PROGRESSIVE, MOTHER JONES and Z magazine. One reason may be because the
Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations subsidize the
Establishment Left's alternative media gatekeepers / censors."

   In addition, Feldman asks: "Perhaps Amy Goodman should finally make
full disclosure of all foundation grants that either the Pacifica
Foundation, WBAI, Democracy Now, WBAI, KPFA, the Indymedia Centers, Free
Speech TV, Deep Dish TV, the Pacifica Campaign or the Downtown studio
from which she broadcasted in 2000 and/or in 2001 have received since
1992? "

   Just from that information alone, you should be starting to perceive
a pattern and a reason ! why these shows and publication aren't treating
seriously the very credible notion that 9/11 was an inside job.

   In addition, separate stories by Feldman examine Big Oil's
connection to PBS and CIA links to Northwestern University (a famous
training ground for journalists), Counterpunch and the Nation magazines,
as well as Project Censored. All of these operations are suspect because
they receive laundered money from corporate giants under the supervision
of the CIA.

   Feldman also writes: "The FAIR/COUNTERSPIN/Institute for Public
Accuracy alternative media gatekeepers/censors � which includes
COUNTERSPIN co-hosts/producers Steve Rendall and Janine Jackson,
Institute for Public Accuracy/MAKING CONTACT executive director Norman
Solomon, MSNBC/DONAHUE SHOW PRODUCER Jeff Cohen and WORKING ASSETS RADIO
show producer Laura Flanders � have also been subsidized by the Ford
Foundation and other Establishment f! oundations in recent years."

   Salter concludes the series with a question:"Is it likely that the
Ford Foundation would fund the kind of alternative media which would be
inclined to look deeply into the long-running control over US foreign
policy exerted by the private and secretive Council on Foreign
Relations, given the fact that the CFR counts among its funding sources
the Ford Foundation and Xerox? Or would the Ford Foundation more likely
favor those who could be relied upon to toe the party line that the CFR
(and other elite policymaking NGOs like the Trilateral Commission and
Bilderberg Group) functions only as a stuffy intellectual debate
society, and that anyone who argues otherwise is a "paranoid nut"?

   " .... Judging by the journalism being offered (and not offered) by
Nation magazine, FAIR, Pacifica, Progressive magazine, IPA, Mother
Jones, Alternet, and other recipients of their funding, the bi! g
establishment foundations are successfully sponsoring the kind of
"opposition" that the US ruling elite can tolerate and live with."

   Read the Gatekeeper series closely, and analyze what Walter Burien
has to say as well (while you can).

   By noticing who the participants are, what they say, and how they're
funded � and what the implications are of that funding � most
intelligent people will conclude that two litmus questions exist in
determining whether stories are legitimate attempts to ferret out the
truth, or sophisticated deceptions designed to distract readers into
peripheral issues that will actually lead you away from the truth.

   The two questions, again, are: Is 9/11 being treated as the criminal
inside job it really is, and what is the impact of
Jewish/Israeli/Zionist manipulation on the whole effort? That is how you
tell the real journalists from the Gatekeepers.

 ! ;  I must say one more thing about Jewish influence. There is no part
of my warning about Jewish/Israeli/Zionist dominance of American media
on the questionsquestions website, and should some wish to bash me with
the anti-Semitism brush, this shallow smear should not be extended to
the research of Feldman and Salter.

   As it is my fervent conviction that the evidence concerning 9/11
(articulated by me elsewhere) clearly points to a high-level conspiracy
(as evidenced most recently by efforts to thwart a legitimate
investigation into aspects of the tragedy), it is also my sincere belief
that Jewish influence on American media in the single greatest obstacle
to finding the truth about recent political events, which is why you
hear none of it in the mainstream, corporate media.

   Since Israel (and to a lesser extent, the multinational but
primarily American oil industry) is the chief political beneficiary! of
both the 9/11 disaster and the immoral invasion of Iraq disaster, it
would be disingenuous of me, considering the power the Israeli lobby
wields in Washington, to fail to allege that Israel was the country that
helped a criminal cabal of American fatcat industrialists perpetrate a
grievous, treasonous crime against the American people in order to
continue their staggering plans to rob the entire world of its
resources.

   And stories that don't recognize this reality are simply not
credible, in my mind.

   Forewarned is forearmed. We will never find the right answers if we
can't ask the proper questions.


   John Kaminski is a journalist who lives on the coast of Florida and
is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," soon to be published by
Dandelion Books.
 
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"In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of
custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the
ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life &
vitality, the community has to brave certain perils & must countenance a
measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at
all."
 � Herbert Read, anarchist beknighted by the Queen of England
 
 
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious,
makes you so SICK AT HEART, that you can't take part;  and you've got to
put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers,
upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop.
--  Mario Savio
 
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity."
--George Bernard Shaw
 
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
-- H. G. Wells
 

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