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12/30/00
Because the President and the Senate choose who heads up the departments
of government with whom they do business.
No matter which candidate wins, our tax money is channeled to companies
who back him.
This is the permanent wealth transfer scheme we exist for. Under Corporate
Capitalism, wealth is drained from the Middle Class and the Working Class,
and transferred to the Rich who own the Military Industrial Complex which
Eisenhower warned us about.
Nurev
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Subject:
Rumsfeld: Star Wars Booster
Date:
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:51:54 -0600
From:
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Friday, December 29, 2000
Rumsfeld: Star Wars Booster
WILLIAM HARTUNG, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports.html
Senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute and co-author of the
recent report "Tangled Web: The Marketing of Missile Defense, 1994-2000,"
Hartung said today: "Donald Rumsfeld has a reputation as a moderate, dating
back to his days as secretary of defense in the Ford administration in the
mid-1970s, but during the 1990s he has become a darling of right-wing
Republicans and a member in good standing of the Star Wars lobby. As Newt
Gingrich and Trent Lott's handpicked chairman of a congressionally-mandated
commission on Third World ballistic missiles that bore his name, Rumsfeld
grossly exaggerated the ballistic missile threat to the United States posed
by so-called rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. At the same time
that he was providing this allegedly objective assessment of missile
threats, Rumsfeld was a close associate of Frank Gaffney's Center for
Security Policy, a corporate-financed, ideologically driven think tank that
serves as the nerve center of the missile defense lobby. He also served on
the board of Empower America, which ran misleading, pro-Star Wars ads
against Democratic senators who opposed the plan during the 1998 mid-term
elections. Before Rumsfeld is confirmed as secretary of defense, he needs
to answer some tough questions about whether he has the temperament and the
objectivity to be entrusted with decisions about a National Missile Defense
system that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and spark a new
nuclear arms race in the bargain."
KARL GROSSMAN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk
Author of the forthcoming "Weapons In Space" and professor of journalism at
the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, Grossman said
today: "Star Wars has received a huge push with the assumption of power by
the Bush-Cheney administration, intimately linked to corporate interests
committed to expanding space military activities. The goal, as U.S.
military documents state [e.g., http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace], is to
have the U.S. 'control space' and from space 'dominate' the Earth below.
That's why, in November 2000, some 160 nations voted in the United Nations
-- the U.S. abstained -- to reaffirm the Outer Space Treaty, the basic
international law on space, enacted in 1967 to keep war out of space. Now
the U.S. would push full-speed-ahead to make space a new arena of war.
Spearheading the drive will be Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, a former member
of the TRW board. His wife, Lynne Cheney, remains on the Lockheed Martin
board but is on a 'leave of absence.' (Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest
weapons manufacturer, and TRW are major Star Wars contractors -- and have
spent many millions of dollars lobbying for the program.) A main player,
too, will be National Security Council deputy director-designee Stephen J.
Hadley, a Star Wars advocate whose Washington law firm represents Lockheed
Martin. And they will be working from a foreign policy platform put
together at the Republican National Convention by a committee chaired by
Bruce Jackson, vice president for corporate strategy and development at
Lockheed Martin."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020
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