NEWS - alternatives in times of war
http://www.iraqwar.ru/
http://www.aeronautics.ru/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://english.aljazeera.net/
http://www.aljazeerah.info/
http://www.arabnews.com/
ANALYSIS
http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.de/
http://www.atimes.com/
The war that
may end the age of superpower by Henry C. K. Liu, Asia Times, April 5,
2003
- in German:
Der Krieg, der das Zeitalter der Supermacht beenden kann (at the site
Studien-von-zeitfragen )
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and some sardonic humour as a starter :
Reasons to invade irak now !
WAR SHOCK LATEST: IRAQI TROOPS NOW EATING LIVE BABIES
Oil,
Afghanistan and America's pipe dream
Why Washington Wants Afghanistan (Oil and : Position to finally dissolve
Russia)
A War in the
Planning for Four Years - A comment on Zbigniew Brzezinski's book “THE
GRAND CHESSBOARD – American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives,” ,
Basic Books, 1997
Mujahedin
separatists destabilise China
China readies for future U.S. fight
Economic Interests
My opinion: Oil is not only fuel: Oil is
POWER
-- US control of
oil is global control - over Europe, Japan, China, India etc:
Euro vs. dollar (as the "real" reason behind the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq)
My opinion: not likely
Iraq:
Baghdad Moves To Euro , by Charles Recknagel, Radio Free Europe
January 11, 2000
Contra:
Symptom vs.
Cause - Why the 2nd US-Iraq war is not
directly a war over
currencies , by Arno Mong Daastoel, April 8th 2003
Boneheads, Iraq
and the Artificial Dollar
by John Mauldin
www.investorsinsight.com,
March 28, 2003
Pro:
Killing the
Euro - Afghanistan Slash-and-Burn hides attack on EUROPE ,
by Wendell Solomons, Sri Lanka, 18
Oct. 2001 -
On the true commercial purpose of the war in Afghanistan
US dollar hegemony
has got to go , by Henry C K Liu , Asia Times, April 11, 2002
The European
Challenge to America , by William R. Hawkins, January 17, 2003
Bush's Deep
Reasons For War on Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars, and the OPEC Euro Question, by
Peter Dale Scott, updated 2/15/03 -
author of The War Conspiracy, 1970
The Real but Unspoken Reasons for the Upcoming Iraq War , by William Clarke, 9:54am
Sun February 2, 2003, wrc92@aol.com - Mirror :
Ratical ,
MediaMonitor
Oil-for-Food Plan Strikes at French, Russian Interests, Stratfor,
March 22, 2003
AILING DOLLAR STRIKES AT EURO IN IRAQ WAR, By Geoffrey Heard, Australia,
23rd March, 2003
THE PETRO-DOLLAR AND THE
EURO MONEY IS THE ROOT OF WAR, by SARTRE
April 4, 2003 issue of Ether Zone - Mirror : ZDnet
Defending the
dollar , by DUNCAN DU BOIS
The Natal Witness , April 4th 2003 - Mirror :
Antville
EU says
oil could one day be priced in euros
June 16, 2003, Yahoo Finance - UK
Oil
Pipelineistan by
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 26 Jan. 2002.
"It's no coincidence that the map of terror in the Middle East and Central
Asia is practically interchangeable with the map of oil."
Part 1: The rules of the game
Part 2: The games nations play
US hearings:
1 U.S.
INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS HEARING - HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
2 Hearing
On US Interests In The Central Asian Republics
US Strategic Energy
Initiative and The Geopolitics of Energy Into the 21st Century: A US
testimony and
an article
Jean
Laherrère on the Global Hubbert Peak - Oil in the Middle East and Central
Asia may soon loose out to other sources of energy, e.g. by using
American oil sand at 8-9 dollars a barrel, and reserves far greater
than Saudi Arabia only in Canada's Athabasca.
Interviews
Opinions - Interpretations
Edward Said :
The Clash of Ignorance
Wendell Solomons
(Sri Lanka) : Geopolitics - the true commercial purpose of the
war: Killing the Euro
Arno Mong Daastøl
(Norway) : "King on the Heap"
geopolitics - controlling / destabilising the Central Asian "heartland"
Saudi
Friends, Saudi Foes
+ The
Saudi Connection
US Policy
Split in the US political elite
"I'm not sure which planet they live on"
Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq,
says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
The coming
war - in Washington, by Mark Perry, published on
http://www.palestinereport.org ,
February 27, 2003
A 'Road Map' for Israeli-Palestinian Amity, by ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI and
BRENT SCOWCROFT local copy
US Imperial Aspirations
Reality Check : A New American Century, Robin Rowland, CBC News Online,
March 17, 2003
Behold Caesar. George W. Bush & the American Empire, By Richard Heinberg,
MuseLetter #128, October 2002.
The
staggering bill for Bush's empire in Middle East, by Pat Buchanan, LA
Times. March 23 2003
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "A Republic, Not an
Empire" and editor of The American Conservative.
The weird men behind George W Bush's war , 7th April 2003
by Michael Lind,
The New Statesman
(How neoconservatives conquered Washington -- and
launched a war)
Human Rights
Geneva Conventions, Use and Misuse , by
Abeer Mishkas, Arab News,
4/1/03
US Freedoms
Is the US moving towards fascism?
Protecting Civil Liberties at a Time of Crisis by
Morton H. Halperin,
Senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations
U.S. Media Applaud Bombing of Iraqi TV
March 27,
2003, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New York,
Websites of Al Jazerah and
Yellow Press -
closed down by
US server owners , March 28th 2003, Daily Mirror
You will need RealPlay to
listen to it. To the
start of the program.
US State Terrorism
When U.S. Joint Chiefs Planned Terror Attacks on America
- The US faking Cuban attacks - as pretext to invade
9:11 as the US' new Pearl Harbour and Reichtags fire
- to rally the American People behind the war mongers for American Empire
Bush's 9/11
Reichstag Fire by Harvey Wasserman, September 13,
2002, CommonDreams.org
The Pearl Harbour analogy by
Derek Brown,
Wednesday September 12, 2001, The Guardian
Terrorism as the "perfect enemy" for perpetual war
ANONYMOUS letters on the need for
a new threat - according to Condoleeza Rice
Saddam Hussein as the "perfect enemy"
Bin
Laden as the "perfect enemy"
What did Dubya do in the war, daddy? Nov. 17, 2002.Toroto Star