[CTRL] Bush's Hit List At the United Nations
-Caveat Lector- This story has been forwarded to you from http://www.alternet.org by [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bush's Hit List At the United Nations http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13088 The U.S. has mounted a systematic campaign to oust top United Nations officials opposed to the war on terrorism.brnbsp; - A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Once-Secret Nixon
-Caveat Lector- This story has been forwarded to you from http://www.alternet.org by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tricky Dick Puff the Dragon - Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12666 Lumping marijuana, homosexuality, Jews and Commies into one grand conspiracy, a paranoid Richard Nixon launched America's war on pot 30 years ago. Here are the tapes to prove it. - A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Revolving door poses danger to defense
-Caveat Lector- From: Alamaine Revolving door poses danger to defense By James J. Zogby August 7, 2001 WASHINGTON - The Senate's confirmation of Douglas J. Feith as undersecretary of defense for policy is a classic illustration of the dangerous abuses inherent in the revolving door that operates between government and private industry. Mr. Feith is a political appointee who has used his time in government to build relations that can be used for business purposes, and then returns to government. As the Pentagon's policy chief, his responsibilities include: - Developing policy on the conduct of alliances and defense relationships with foreign governments and their military establishments. - Coordinating and overseeing the implementation of international security strategy and policy on issues that relate to foreign governments and their defense establishments. - Providing oversight of all Pentagon efforts related to international technology transfer. This is a powerful position and holds great potential for conflicts of interest. With previous Pentagon experience under President Ronald Reagan and as special counsel to Richard Perle, who was an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, Mr. Feith accumulated friends in and out of government who have U.S. defense contracts and relationships. Most recently, Mr. Feith was an attorney with the Washington firm of Feith and Zell. His biography says that he specializes in technology transfer, joint ventures and foreign investment in the defense and aerospace industries. His firm has one international affiliate, in Israel. More than two-thirds of all of its reported casework involves representing Israeli or other foreign interests. In light of Mr. Feith's new appointment, one of these cases deserves some attention. As described on the firm's Web site, Mr. Feith represented a leading Israeli armaments manufacturer in establishing joint ventures with leading U.S. aerospace manufacturers for manufacture and sale of missile systems, to the U.S. Department of Defense and worldwide. Mr. Feith has also been a registered foreign agent for Turkey, seeking to promote the objective of U.S.-Turkish defense industrial cooperation through a company called IAI. At the time, Mr. Perle, Mr. Feith's former boss, disavowed IAI's efforts, claiming that I find very distasteful this business where people leave the government and, the next thing you know, they're on the other side of the table negotiating with the U.S. This did not stop Mr. Perle from being IAI's highest-paid consultant. More recently, Mr. Feith and Mr. Perle teamed to represent the Bosnian government. According to Richard Holbrooke, the principal U.S. negotiator at the 1995 Dayton peace talks, Mr. Perle and Mr. Feith worked for and advised the Bosnians during the talks. This time, however, they did not register with the Justice Department, as foreign agents are required to do. Mr. Feith also represented the Loral Corp., which the Pentagon accused of selling sensitive technology to China. Mr. Feith argued Loral's case before the Senate. On the political front, Mr. Feith sees the world in ideological dualistic terms - the forces of absolute good confronting the forces of absolute evil. He is especially adept at fitting the Middle East into this paradigm. A prolific writer, Mr. Feith has left a long paper trail of vehemently anti-Arab tracts and diatribes against those who challenge or seek to question Israeli policy or as he says, Israel's moral superiority over the Arabs. At his initial Senate hearing, several senators raised their concerns with Mr. Feith's previous statements about the Middle East, his support for scrapping existing arms control agreements and his support for unilateral development of a missile defense shield. Now that the Senate has confirmed Mr. Feith's nomination, his work and the policies he creates must be closely scrutinized. His pattern of behavior and obvious conflicts of interest should have disqualified him from such a sensitive post; the issues raised at his confirmation hearing demonstrated that. He is now shaping policy at the Pentagon. Unfortunately, he is the wrong person to do so. James J. Zogby is president of the Arab American Institute. Copyright (c) 2001, The Baltimore Sun Link to the article: http://www.sunspot.net/bal-op.feith07aug07.story Visit http://www.sunspot.net A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no
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-Caveat Lector- Alamaine spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk The ruins Tony Blair should visit Forget Cancun, globalisation has destroyed the real Latin America Special report: globalisation Isabel Hilton Tuesday August 07 2001 The Guardian Tony Blair is unlikely to be troubled on the beaches of Cancun in Mexico - where he is taking a much needed holiday - by any challenge to the vision of global prosperity that he promoted in his brief tour of Latin America. Cancun is an affluent resort, much favoured for Latin American summits and well endowed with that combination of natural beauty and comfortable surroundings that our leaders favour when they gather to order our lives. But perhaps the prime minister might notice that the benefits of the economic liberalisation that most countries in Latin America have pursued over the past 15 years are less evident to those around him than he might hope. In fact, as a senior UN development programme official put it two years ago: For the millions of poor, the slum dwellers, globalisation now has the face of cruelty, of unemployment and marginalisation... The distribution of wealth and income in the region is the most unequal in the world and the rise in daily criminal violence ... continuing drug-related problems, as well as the incidence of official corruption [are], in part, a manifestation of the unequal pattern of development. It is not a great moment for advocates of globalisation in Latin America. Argentina, for instance, was until lately a country cited as a fine example: it had a president who, despite his Peronist label, had implemented the policies of the free market, pegged the local currency to the dollar, controlled inflation and carried out wholesale privatisation. Argentina appeared to blossom and bankers and financiers sang the praises of Carlos Menem from New York to Zurich. Now, though, ex-president Menem faces criminal charges, Argentina's external debt has reached a staggering #163;90bn, unemployment stands at 18% and the country is bankrupt. In Brazil, things are only slightly better. There, too, the president is a liberaliser, but after a promising start, the economy has been plagued by recurring crises. Two years ago, with inflation running at nearly 20% and a general collapse in middle-class incomes, more than 100,000 people marched in Brasilia to demand the resignation of the president and an end to IMF reforms. Then there is Peru - another case of a promising start gone wrong. Alberto Fujimori's regime ended last year in chaos, but he also was once the darling of international finance - a man who appeared to have tamed inflation and was liberalising the economy. Today he is hiding out in Japan, a country of which he recently admitted to being a citizen. (If he had owned up 10 years ago, of course, he would have been disqualified the presidency of Peru.) His government collapsed in a corruption scandal of breathtaking proportions and he is reduced to posting messages on his website, singing his own praises. Colombia also has a president who is keen on liberalisation - but his main preoccupation is the fact that his country has become, with Plan Colombia, the latest arena for the theatre of American military illusions. Plan Colombia has notched up the achievement of uniting most Colombians against the environmental disaster of enforced aerial spraying of toxic chemicals and further victories are in the pipeline - a growth of paramilitary human rights abuses, escalation of military activity and the likely export of Colombia's problems to her neighbours are all on the cards. But there is one major Latin American country that is bucking the trend of liberalisation: in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the still popular president of the country that boasts one of the largest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, offers an interesting exception to the general rule. In most of Latin America it is the poor and the newly impoverished middle classes - the teachers and health workers who no longer have jobs, the pensioners who no longer have pensions - who articulate the opposition to economic liberalism. They have the bad grace to point out that, so far at least, it has brought dramatic increases in inequalities in the distribution of incomes and assets. In Venezuela, though, it is the president who says so. Chavez is an old-fashioned nationalist caudillo who prefers the company of Fidel Castro to that of George Bush or Tony Blair. Chavez seems determined to introduce to Venezuela some Cuban-style social control though, so far, this does not seem to have dented his domestic ratings. He's a wild card who might not matter but for those oil reserves. In the 50s and 60s, behaviour such as Chavez's would certainly have invited destabilisation and a military
[CTRL] A State Agency with the Power to 'Kidnap with Impunity'
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