[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7542] Online Resources (fwd)

[Al Kagan]

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>Interesting...
>Fred
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:13:02 -0500 (EST)
>From: Jean E Dickson <dickson at acsu.buffalo.edu>
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>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:11:06 EST
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>FROM:
>http://www.hopedance.org/framecurrent.htm
>
>
>Disturbing Information, the Good Kind
>by Bob Banner
>
>
>  There is unusual, disturbing as well as "get oughta here" kinds of
>information in lieu of the attacks at the Pentagon and the WTC. In many
>situations, it is so much easier to rely on mainstream media for one's sense
>of truth, or one's sense of comfort. When we experience a free press, a real
>free press, we can be inundated with diverse opinions, varying assumptions,
>multifaceted agendas, and belief systems that stretch the credulity of most
>humans. Some of us thrive on divergent information; some want to hear news
>from all over the world, from all the varying political parties. Some are
>willing to dig deep to get to the truth. Some are content at what the
>dominant media sources have to say. Most of us can't afford the time to pour
>over voluminous documents. Some trust what the government or the main sources
>of media tell us. And often times there's no place to go besides what is
>readily available.
>
>Radio stations are often controlled by corporations that kow-tow to the
>government's PR. Television networks are controlled by the same folks [Six
>firms now dominate all American mass media: General Electric, Viacom, Disney,
>Bertlesmann (Germany), AOL Time Warner, and Murdoch's News Group
>(Australia).] The vast majority of newspapers (especially the dailies) are
>owned by corporations that have a vested interest in what gets out as news,
>different perspectives are ignored. There are alternatives:
>listener-sponsored radio, public access and cable TV channels offer a variety
>of viewpoints but they are rare... and becoming extinct quite fast.
>
>Then there's the internet! And thank God for the internet, since there is so
>much out there. One can easily gain access to the Pakistani News or Moscow's
>Pravda or the Hindu Times. Then there is the remarkable Independent and The
>Guardian out of London. Fortunately with the web, we now have immediate
>access to those dailies from around the globe so we don't have to subscribe
>or dig through the piles of dailies at the newsstand to find them.
>
>So, after all that, I simply want to say that we here at HopeDance have
>poured over hundreds of articles, news sources, radio shows, TV stations and
>numerous websites (as well as subscribing to various listservs) to find the
>"truth" about recent events. We published the "Voices" special supplement (in
>late September) because we knew that people who didn't have access to the web
>were not getting alternative information as well as dissenting opinions.
>Well, things haven't changed all that much since early October. In fact, I
>sense they are getting worse.
>
>This short piece is simply to publish some of the web sites that are tackling
>mainstream points-of-views as well as deeply investigating this major event
>of the 21st century. This is a time when we could go ahead and bomb every
>country that looks distastefully upon the US... or it could be a great time
>for us to learn our history well... to learn first hand why certain countries
>(their people as well as their governments) hate us with a passion.
>
>A warning: some of these web sources will challenge you, will disturb your
>sense of reasonableness, your sense of political appropriateness, your sense
>of reality. But it is extremely important that we open our eyes wide and see
>this crisis in the large historical and geopolitical context. We cannot
>simply sit back and allow our American self-interests, our very young
>history, or our fear balk at facts and information that go against the
>direction of our mainstream, that go against the president's wisdom. We need
>to ask some serious questions. We need to be prepared to be disturbed in the
>search for truth.
>
>A website will be listed in bold along with a brief explanation or summary
>and then perhaps an excerpt from that website. I hope this brief summary
>helps you in your search for the truth.
>
>Websites:
>Spell-breaking reports from journalists working outside the corporate mass
>media.
>
>
>www.copvcia.com/.../death_profits_pt1.html:
>a story about the CIA links to heavy trading days before 911
>PROFITS OF DEATH -- INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11 by Tom Flocco &#173; Edited by
>Michael C. Ruppert (mruppert at copvcia.com)
>
>
>www.counterpunch.com:
>Read Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's "Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and
>the Press" and discover how the CIA gave a helping hand to the opium lords
>who took over Afghanistan, thus ushering the Taliban into power.
>
>
>www.tenc.net:
>1. According to the BBC program, "Newsnight," the Bush administration told
>the FBI to back off from investigating the bin Laden family's terrorist
>connections before the attack on the World Trade Center.
>2. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher charged the Clinton administration with
>sabotaging efforts to arrest bin Laden.
>3. The sacred soil that the U.S. "infidel soldiers" supposedly "desecrated"
>(bin Laden's words) in Saudi Arabia was located in a series of top secret
>facilities built during the 1980s by the U.S. military at a cost (mostly to
>Saudi Arabia!) of - are you ready? - over 200 BILLION dollars. This was the
>largest U.S. military construction project ever attempted outside the
>continental USA. As a Public Television program reported in 1993: "Scott
>Armstrong: A $200 billion program that's basically put together and nobody's
>paying attention to it. It's it's the ultimate government off the books...
>(see FRONTLINE Show #1112 Air Date: February 16, 1993 "The Arming of Saudi
>Arabia." Scott Armstrong is a top investigative reporter for the "Washington
>Post").
>4. CIA AGENT ALLEGEDLY MET BIN LADEN IN JULY. Translation of article from "Le
>Figaro" can be read at: http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htm
>5. See the government documents that prove that if no fighters responded to
>protect the Pentagon, it was because they were ordered not to.
>
>
>www.island.net/~lbnews/9_11/AFD.html:
>Some "facts":
>1. Flight 93 was shot down over Pennsylvania.
>2. None of the alleged hijackers named by the FBI appear on the passenger
>lists of the four hijacked aircraft. One has been dead for two years. Two
>others still fly for Arabian airlines.
>3. Among the 257 people onboard the four doomed airlines, none had Middle
>Eastern names or originated from Middle Eastern countries.
>4. Senior FBI officials and the Attorney General intervened to terminate
>investigations into known terrorist suspects after receiving numerous
>warnings from their own agents and foreign intelligence services.
>5. A CIA official met with an ailing Osama bin Laden in an American hospital
>in Saudi Arabia last July, as U.S. officials announced their intentions to
>attack the Taliban. U.S. and British forces were pre-positioned in the region
>before Sept. 11.
>6. The FBI was directly involved in the first WTC bombing in 1993.
>7. Eyewitness testimony and hard evidence that the Murrah Building in OKC was
>brought down by internal explosives was covered up by the FBI.
>8. Testimony by at least 183 witnesses who saw a missile strike Flight 800
>was placed under wraps by the FBI, who also removed crucial pieces of
>wreckage stained by missile residue and refused to release radar tapes
>showing the strike.
>9. A FEMA emergency response team arrived in NYC on the night of Sept. 10 and
>was the first rescue team to go into action the following morning.
>
>Journalist William Thomas has recently written a book that delves into the
>above disturbing "facts," All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and
>Persuasion. Email him for details at willthomas at telus.net.
>
>
>http://emperors-clothes.com
>1. Bush took FBI agents off Laden family trail (from "Times of India," 7
>November 2001) by RASHMEE Z AHMED [TIMES NEWS NETWORK] an excerpt: <<LONDON:
>America was itself to blame for the events of September 11 because the US
>administration was using "kid gloves" in tracking down Osama bin Laden and
>"other fanatics linked to Saudi Arabia", a special BBC investigation has
>alleged in a damning indictment of the two presidents Bush and American
>foreign policy.
>
>The report, which the BBC claimed was based on a secret FBI document,
>numbered 199I WF213589 and emanating out of the FBI's Washington field
>office, alleged that the cynicism of the American establishment and
>"connections between the CIA and Saudi Arabia and the Bush men and bin
>Ladens" may have been the real cause of the deaths of thousands in the World
>Trade Center attacks.>>
>
>See the original story above at : http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp
>
>Other stories on the BBC Newsnight report:
>www.guardian.co.uk/...4293682,00.html
>www.hindustantimes.com/...dlame43.asp
>or go to http://emperors-clothes.com and start browsing.
>
>
>http://globalresearch.ca/.../CHO109C.html
>: "Who Is Osama Bin Laden?" by Michel Chossudovsky (Professor of Economics,
>University of Ottawa)
>>From Caroline Casey [see the review of her latest work in this issue] about
>the above article: "This is essential reading. There is nothing more
>democratic than truth. This well documented article, delineates the CIA's
>funding and creation through Pakistani Intelligence of the Taliban, and its
>cultivation of the Golden Crescent Drug Trade to finance CIA encouragement of
>a fundamentalist Islam- in order to take out the Russians... And now what the
>US Government was complicitous in creating turns back against the US
>population. Crucial to be informed so that we need not face off with anyone,
>but simply ask, 'did you know...?' Highly effective manner of truly serving
>the ongoing crucial experiment of democracy..."
>
>
>www.jmcc.org/media/reportonline/report.html:
>report on Palestinian affairs
>
>
>www.stopstarwars.org/...archive4.html:
>a major website that updates the movement to stop space wars.
>
>
>www.alternativeradio.org:
>Alternative Radio with David Barsamian with hundreds of transcripts and audio
>tapes.
>
>
>http://members.aol.com/democracyU:
>Video tapes for $5 including 8 hours of taped speeches from political
>analysts. Check out the one that includes Chomsky, Parenti, Zinn and others
>after 911 (Democracyu at aol.com, or call (213) 747-6345).
>
>
>www.whatreallyhappened.com:
>Includes all mainstream articles that pertain to the possibility that the US
>was complicit in the WTC attacks on 911. No strange or weird websites, only
>stories from around the world's major newspapers, i.e., Pakistani news,
>Pravda (Moscow), NY Times, LA Times, etc.
>
>An excerpt from a story: << It's been six months since the US Government told
>India there would be an invasion of Afghanistan in October: (See the Special
>Report in the Public Affairs Magazine: indiareacts.com called "India in
>anti-Taliban military plan," June 26, 2001)
>
>It's been five months since BBC heard about the planned invasion of
>Afghanistan: (See the BBC News' article by George Arney quoting Niaz Naik,
>former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, who was told by senior American officials
>in mid-July that military action would go ahead by the middle October,
>September 18, 2001.)
>
>It's been nine months since Jane's Defense News got word of the planned
>invasion of Afghanistan: (See artcle by Rahul Bedi called "India joins
>anti-Taliban coalition" March 15, 2001.)>>
>
>
>www.Hermes-Press.com:
>
>Good reviews and updates of deeply investigative reports. Includes a lengthy
>review of Chalmers Johnson's very accurate and poignant book called Blowback,
>a CIA term meaning that a country gets back what they deserve.
>
>
>www.votery.com:
>has an interesting slant to the 911 attacks. It includes the topic of
>sustainability in its exploration of what we can do.
>
>
>www.commondreams.org:
>news of the progressive community. I first learned about the website because
>they were listing a number of progressive literary people who initially
>responded to the 911 event. Many inspirational and moving contributions.
>
>
>www.dqc.org/~ben/:
>a website that includes photos of bombed villages and homes, dead and maimed
>children due to the current bombing.
>
>
>www.thirdworldtraveler.com/...books.html:
>read excerpts from politically radical books from people like Parenti,
>Chomsky, McChesney, Mander, Nader, Holly Sklar....
>
>
>www.citizen.org/congress/.../articles.cfm?:
>A year after the sham of the last election, Congress is working on an
>election reform bill. Go here to learn more about it. (Public Citizen's
>website)
>
>
>www.proparanoid.com
>Some stories:
>
>Afghanistan War Planned Months Before Suicide Air Attacks; Motive is Oil
>Profits for Multinational War Partners; May be tied to OKC blast and
>Operation Northwoods. CIA meets with Osama bin Laden weeks before 911; Bush
>Gets bin Laden Money; bin Laden Invests in Biomedicine - or Biowarfare?; Bush
>Gives Taliban Money While Negotiating War; Same Investors, Oil Companies
>Merge; Yet More War Profits in Biowarfare?
>
>
>http://rense.com/general13/ech.htm:
>The US ignored early warnings
>
>The CIA knew via Echelon at least 3 months in advance that we were going to
>be attacked by planes used as weapons:
>"Echelon Warned US & Israeli Intel Hijacked Planes Were To Be Weapons" by Ned
>Stafford (BizReport.com). U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received
>warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were
>planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important
>symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's
>daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
>
>The FAZ, quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon
>spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist
>threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance
>warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as
>far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were
>receiving information that such attacks were being planned.
>
>
>www.rense.com:
>
>an excerpt: <<lt;The Air Force spokesman confirmed that after the alerts and
>requests for intercepts of the aircraft were received from FAA/ATC, orders
>from the HIGHEST LEVEL of the executive branch of the federal government were
>received, demanding that the Air Force stand down and NOT follow through with
>established scramble/intercept procedures that morning until further notice!
>The U.S. Air Force's hands (wings) were DELIBERATELY TIED on the morning of
>September 11, until such time that the horrifying treacherous, murderous
>deeds had been carried out by the BushMob. Our informant has told us in no
>uncertain terms that as much as seventy percent of Armed Forces officers with
>the NOTABLE exception of most of the U.S. Navy are VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED to the
>treacherous, murderous actions carried out by profoundly corrupt and demonic
>elements somewhere within the federal government on 9.11, and to the
>wholesale treachery and demolition of the U.S. Constitution which said
>elements have now undertaken.>>
>
>
>http://www.voy.com/36093/617.html
>
>"OSAMAGATE" by Michel Chossudovsky (Professor of Economics, University of
>Ottawa)
>
>An excerpt: <<The main justification for waging this war has been totally
>fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled
>by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects
>our collective future.>>
>
>
>http://cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm:
>
>The US now has killed as many civilians as were killed on 9/11. The number of
>Afghan civilian deaths is up to 3700.
>
>THE DISTURBING FACTS:
>
>by William Douglas (findtruth38 at hotmail.com)
>
>"OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER"
>- Martin Luther King
>
>I realize this information will be upsetting. But, it must be looked at.
>
>[Each fact is footnoted with a URL link to a credible respected news site.
>Those who perished on 9-11 deserve to have the whole truth be known, whatever
>that truth may be. The burden lies on our shoulders and depends on what we do
>right now.]
>
>1. The Bush Administration forced the FBI to back off of the Bin Laden
>investigation months before 9-11. [BBC transcript BUSH -- BIN LADEN HIDDEN
>AGENDA!!!] http://news.bbc.co.uk/.../1645527.stm
>
>2. The CIA station chief in Dubai met with Bin Laden 7 weeks before 9-11, and
>at a time when Bin Laden was supposedly "wanted" by the CIA. (German Trans.)
>http://www.orf.at/orfon/011031-44569/index.html (US Wash Times Artcl:
>www.washtimes.com Report: bin Laden treated at US hospital Elizabeth Bryant
>UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published 10/31/2001
>
>3. INSIDER TRADING PROFITS off of 9-11 were frenzied over by the US media
>when they thought it was Arab terrorists . . . but then the story
>mysteriously died. Until, the UK Independent reveals that it leads to a firm
>chaired by the 3rd highest man in the CIA (and stranger still is that $2.5
>million of the "winnings" are still unclaimed (see below for URL to entire
>story). http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html . Info confirmed by
>Independent Newspaper in UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp
>
>4. ABC News.com's May/2001 story resurfaces about how the US Joint Chiefs of
>Staff have in the past ACTUALLY DESIGNED a plan to committ domestic terror on
>Americans to whip them into a war hysteria, to support war efforts by the
>govt. http://abcnews.go.com/.../jointchiefs_010501.html
>[The National Security Archive has a PDF version of the Operation Northwoods
>plan, which author James Bamford says "may be the most corrupt plan ever
>created by the U.S. government." It can be found at
>http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430]
>
>5. Strangely Anthrax is sent to (not the President, or Republicans) but to
>the top Democrat and to the media. A foriegn terrorist would probably want to
>"divide" the country, not unite the opposition and the media in the war
>effort. - New Science Journal says Anthrax sent to Daschle is NOT Russian or
>Iraqi, but likely US military strain.
>
>6. San Francisco Chronicle reports, the anthrax strain produced in US
>University is destroyed on ok of FBI (they had studied this for years, some
>at university question the timing of the destruction of those anthrax spores
>. . . right now of all times (?)) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi.
>
>7. Bush Admin. declares they will "seal the records of presidents beginning
>with Father Bush/Reagans (an act never before done in US presidential
>history)." AND What bizarre timing. In the midst of a war and an economic
>disaster -- they find the time and "the desire" to seal the records of the
>Reagan/Bush admin, just as info is surfacing about Bush/Bin Laden connections
>from years back. (Details in Scripps-Howard News Service, appearing in Chico,
>CA paper on 11/5/2001)
>
>"It is not a stretch to wonder if this White House is up to something that it
>doesn't want known 12 years from now or anytime thereafter." [A direct quote
>from the piece carried by Scripps Howard News Service regarding Bush's
>sealing of presidential records for the first time in U.S. history.]
>For an Action Kit, please contact William Douglas at findtruth38 at hotmail.com
>
>  http://www.hopedance.org/framecurrent.htm

-- 


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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