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The
Attack against the World
Trade Center
in New York and the Pentagon
in Washington,
What is it, that really threatens Civilization and - what
kind of a Civilization is this?, by Wolfgang Fischer
-
The
awesome cruelty of a doomed
people
by Robert Fisk - On
the Bombings
by Noam Chomsky - Inevitable
ring to the unimaginable
by John Pilger - Folks
out there have a "Distaste of Western Civilization and
Cultural Values"
by Edward
S. Herman - Respond
to Violence: Teach Peace, Not
War,
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman -
TwinTowers,
by Uri Avnery, Acts
of Terrorism - Acts of War,
Venomous Butterfly - Emperor's Clothes comments:
'Washington's
Backing of Afghan Terrorists: Deliberate Policy' Article
from "Washington Post' -
'Taliban
Camps U.S. bombed in Afghanistan Were Built by
NATO'
Documentation from the 'N.Y. Times'. Combined U.S. and
Saudi aid to Afghan-based terrorism totaled $6 billion or
more - 'CIA
worked with Pakistan to create
Taliban'
- 'Osama
bin Laden: Made In USA'
(Excerpt from article on U.S. bombing of a pill factory
in Sudan in August, 1998. Argues that bin Laden was and
still may be a CIA asset)- 'Excerpts
from News Reports - Bin Laden in the
Balkans'
evidence that bin Laden aided or is aiding the
U.S.-sponsored forces in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia-
'Into
the Abyss'
by Rick Rozoff - 'Washington
Created Osama bin Laden'
by Jared Israel - 'Russian
Navy Chief Says Official 9-11 Story
Impossible'
-
September
11 And Its Aftermath
by
Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom -
The
Need for Dissent - Radicalism is retreating, but it's more
necessary than ever before
by George Monbiot - Welcome
to the Warnacular
by
Laura Flanders
- What
Kind of War?
by Michael T. Klare- America
Under Attack?
by
Dan Berger - White
House lied about threat to Air Force
One
by Jerry White - Tony
Blair's bin Laden dossier: a pretext instead of
proof
by Chris Marsden and Barry Grey - A
Brief (and partial) History of US Sponsored Terrorism
Abroad,
Mark Zapezauer - If
CIA and the government weren't involved in the September 11
attacks what were they
doing?
by Michael C. Ruppert - US
planned war in Afghanistan long before September
11
by Patrick Martin - Gaping
Holes in the 'CIA vs. bin Laden'
Story
by Jared Israel, Was
the US government alerted to September 11
attack?,
"What
really happend on
9-11?"
Jared Israel interviewed by Mark Haim (April
2002) (pdf.version)
see
also: Who
Is Osama
Bin Laden?
by Michel Chossudovsky
and: The
GW Bush - Osama Bin Ladin
Connection
Where
is the Bush administration taking the American
people?
By the WSWS Editorial Board (Sept.22.01)
Emergency,
Terrorism
and War
on ZNet
and: a
kind of different
statistics
WAR
- looking behind the smoke: War
of Lies
by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
The
Top Five Lies About This
War
Kill,
Kill,
Kill
by Russell Mokhiber
EMPEROR'S
CLOTHES ARTICLES ON 9-11
* A GUIDE
/
site
mirror here
The
Complete 9/11 Timeline
by Paul Thompson
9/11
WIDOW'S BUSH
TREASON SUIT
DISAPPEARS FROM MEDIA,by
W. David Kubiak (Dec. 03)
Why
Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? (02.06)
Pentagon
Strike - What hit the Pentagon on 911 ???
IRAQ
-
Occupation and Resistance
Report,
Psychoanalysts
for Peace and Justice
Senior
Military, Intelligence, and Government Officials
Question
9/11 Commission Report
Loose
Change (10. 06):
loosechange911.com
A
CALL TO ACTION FOR PEACE
The
Attack against the World
Trade Center
in New York and the Pentagon
in Washington and the Consequences
What
is it, that really threatens Civilization and - what kind of
a Civilization is this?
By
Wolfgang Fischer
(
german
version
) (spanish
version)
The
attack against the WTC and the Pentagon.
The
sorrow and suffering of the innocent victims of this attack
and of their relatives and friends is added to the pain of
all people, who have had to suffer since ages from the fact,
that 'Justice', as meted out by those in power - is robbing
the powerless majority of a viable future.
What
is really threatening civilization, the attack itself or the
historically developed causes and backgrounds, which drive
people into humiliation to such an extent, that it is
motivating them to deadly and suicidal attacks?
Have
we really been confronted with a new dimension of violence
on Sept. 11. 2001 or is a well known dimension only showing
up at quite an unexpected location?
Are
not, for example, the Iraqi people suffering from daily
bombardements and what else have been those two bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki than acts of terror?
We
must allow such questions if we do not totally want to
forfeit any hope for a peaceful future.
So
why all this violence?
On
the one hand we have politically motivated violent expansion
of power against the vital interests of human beings and
whole peoples, who are being deprived of their living space
and material as well as spiritual nourishment. And what is
no less reprehensible: - people of questionable moral
motivation are being financed and strategically used by
secret services to satisfy the criminal interests of the
investors.
And
on the other hand we find the resistance against all the
insanity of the world, acts of despair committed by people,
who want to draw attention to the hopelessness and
desperation of their existence. Permanent humiliation gives
birth to the courage of despair and hatred, the spirit of
ultimate destruction.
Violence
must come to an end.
Only
a politics considering the basic interests of Life, treating
peoples of all different religions, races and nations as
equal - a politics which respects Life and takes care of
Nature as our basic source of existence will instantly lead
to a termination of violence. If, however, we fail to move
in this directionof an 'Infinite Justice' by means of
actions such as used by Gandhi, further losses of freedom
and quality of Life around the globe are
inevitable.
The
US-built anti-terror alliance named their answer to the
attacks of Sept.11.: "Enduring Freedom"
According
to the goals of capitalism the motto seems correct as this
war is only trying to reinforce the freedom of exploitation
and suppression by the industrialized countries. Pretending
to be guided by humanistic motivations in waging this kind
of war is pure lie and hypocrisy.
Privatised
Violence in the Service of State
Terrorism
is Threatening World Peace
(w.f.,
21.12. 2001)
For
decades, and ever more aggressively, the US through their
secret service agencies have been supporting sources of
conflict all over the world with a view to destabilising
certain situations to suit their own interests. This is a
clear-cut strategy, thought out by clever heads like former
Security Adviser Brzezinski ("The Grand Chessboard: American
Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives") and supported by
scenarios like those designed by US historian Huntington
("The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World
Order")
If
such views are familiar to our former State Secretary of
Defence and Federal Research Minister Andreas von
Bülow, who publicised them in book form ("In the Name
of the Government - CIA, BND and the Criminal Intrigues of
the Secret Services"), and if he claims without any official
denial, that even in 1993 when the first bombing of the WTC
took place, the primer had been supplied by the FBI, then a
man like Schily, our Minister of the Interior, cannot be
ignorant of them. Speaking of a "war beyond nations", Otto
Schily is showing his true face as a collaborator with
terror, and the same goes for all other politicians who
support this manipulative interpretation.
On
the one hand, they cover up for all those who, with profits
from the trade with heroin and cocaine, are financing the
terror at the cost of an army of millions of addicts,
thereby in contravention of international law globally
preventing peaceful coexistence. And on the other hand, they
have a terrorising effect upon citizens at home, whose basic
human rights continue to be abrogated through so-called
anti-terror" legislation.
more
(source: http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform.htm)
A
CALL TO ACTION FOR PEACE
The
Nowar Collective
Our
government has stolen from us the time to
grieve.
They
have made it clear they want war -- on anyone, at any price,
with seemingly no thought for the consequences.
Government
officials speak openly of going after "high-value" targets
such as capital cities in countries that "harbor"
terrorists. There are calls for carpet-bombing a country of
25 million people. In a world where no objections are raised
in the halls of power to such plans, our task is clear:
We
must fight for the soul of our nation. We have no choice but
to begin speaking out and organizing for peace as we grieve.
The best way we can honor those who have died is to make
sure no more innocents are killed, here or abroad.
If
we win, there is the possibility of a new movement for
peace, a new hope for justice. If we lose, the escalating
cycle of hatred may usher in a new era of unending war.
Officials
think they have the support of an angry, blood-thirsty
public, and many in the United States are calling for
vengeance. But there is also great fear, not just for our
own safety but for what such a war will unleash in the
world.
Military
actions that kill civilians will also multiply tenfold the
number of people willing to die to wreak havoc on the United
States. We have already paid a terrible price. What will
happen when we arouse further anger with a blatantly unjust
and destructive retaliation?
Many,
even in the peace movement, are saying, "Now is not the time
to talk politics; the country needs time to heal."
Just
the reverse is true: Now is the time, before it is too late.
We,
the undersigned organizations, are calling for Sunday,
September 23, to be a National Day of Action for Peace with
Justice. We will call for a peace based not on terror and
death but on recognition of our common humanity. In each
locality, people concerned about the drive to destruction
should gather in public, as close to 2 p.m. as possible.
We
will gather -- in churches and in parks, in homes and
universities, public squares, streets and living rooms --
with banners and signs, with black armbands and candles, in
fear and in hope.
While
a single gathering will not itself change policy, it signals
the mood of the public and will help build a movement.
September 23 will be not the end, but the beginning of more
vigorous organizing for peace and a just world.
We
have already seen spontaneous demonstrations of thousands of
people across the country. There is new interest in the
consequences of our foreign policy. People are listening.
Now
is the time: For action. For organization. For change.
Organizations
that want to sign onto this call should write to
worker-nowar@lists.tao.ca.
In
Solidarity, The
Nowar Collective
/
http://www.nowarcollective.com
Special Onward Editorial:
America
Under Attack?
By
Dan Berger
Shortly
before press time, four American commercial airplanes were
hijacked and crashed in what is being heralded as the
largest terrorist attack ever. Two planes demolished the
World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon and one was forced
down in a crash outside of Pittsburgh. Thousands have died
and many more are injured. Everyone is on edge and wondering
'what does this mean?'
These
are dangerous times and we have to be clear on what has
happened, what is currently going on and what the future
holds. The attacks are being attributed to anti-American,
CIA-trained, Afghanistanian nationalist Osama bin-Laden. The
as of yet unknown assailants' attacks are indefensible; many
of those killed or affected by these actions are working
class people with little role in US policy. If it is to be
done and done right, armed struggle must be doubled with a
revolutionary strategy based in a deep sense of
humanitarianism and respect for human life.
While
the methods used were certainly careless in the brutality
they inflicted on unsuspecting and innocent people, if the
attack was indeed carried out by Arab nationalists, we must
be clear as to why this incident occurred. As anarchists, we
must be loud and present on the role of US imperialism,
militarism, nationalism, capitalism and racism. As
anti-racists, we must be vigilant in standing in solidarity
with Arabs, Arab Americans and other peoples of color
currently being assaulted for their race, ethnicity and/or
skin color. The state and its media are relentless in their
references to Pearl Harbor (even though the current attack
was not planned by a nation) and their persistence in claims
of Arab involvement. Just like the days following Timothy
McVeigh's attack on the Oklahoma City Federal Building,
people of color throughout North America are being
assaulted. We must be active in pushing back this racist,
militarist assault.
Amidst
cries of "God Bless America," "Revenge," and an unending
stream of American flags and reports of feeling "closer to
fellow Americans," it is clear that much of the distress
over what happened on Sept. 11 is not because thousands of
people died, but because thousands of white Americans (the
two are often used interchangeably) died. The sanctity,
safety and privilege of being a 'white American' have been
shattered. The United States has and continues to perpetuate
acts of immeasurable cruelty and violence against
predominantly people of color throughout the world. Now that
a measurably small number of those people have struck back
at the world bully, the United States and its citizens are
calling for blood. We must be clear that the US started this
through its settler-imperialist policies that date back to
the genocide of Native Americans.
We
are sorry for all the lives that have been needlessly and
carelessly lost in this event. We are angry at the loss of
lives that spawned this event and we are raging at the
deaths that are likely to occur from modern-day lynch mobs
and/or US-sponsored war. We remain, however, hopeful about
the potential for mass resistance to the onslaught of racist
militarism and the possibilities for a mass movement capable
of bringing about revolutionary change throughout the world.
Our
task as revolutionaries, as anti-racists and as anarchists,
is to fend off the racist calls for blood and "heightened
security" (read: the taking of civil liberties and the open
squashing of all dissent). We must counter the state and
media propaganda with a revolutionary analysis and strategy.
Now is not the time to bury our collective head in the sand.
We must continue our fight for a new social order based on
freedom, direct democracy and the elimination of all
hierarchy. That is our task. It's time to build.
For
up to date information and analysis, see www.indymedia.org,
www.zmag.org,
www.ainfos.ca,
www.commondreams.org,
www.alternet.org,
and www.infoshop.org
(this is by no means a complete listing).
Dan
Berger is a community organizer, student and member of the
Onward Collective. Contact him c/o ONWARD or at
dan@onwardnewspaper.org.
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THE
TOP FIVE LIES ABOUT THIS WAR
Produced
by the Anti-War Committee of Students in Solidarity at the
University of Pittsburgh
How
many people do you know who claim to be skeptical, who pride
themselves on their distrust for authority, who like to
pretend that they're wise to the ways of the world -- and
then, every time there's a war, they swallow the lies of the
government with all the gullibility of a three-year-old
child in the lap of a department store
Santa
Claus? Don't fall into that trap yourself! Learn to identify
and refute official misinformation when you see it. Let's
count down some of the common misconceptions about this war:
Lie
5: "We're not at war with the Afghan people -- look, we're
bringing them food!"
Reality:
Afghanistan is in the midst of a severe drought which
threatens literally millions of people with starvation. Even
before the threat of US bombing, the World Food Program
(WFP) said that nearly 6 million people were in need of
immediate food assistance. When the threat of war caused
massive movements of refugees and internally displaced
people, the WFP raised that number to 7.5 million. UN
agencies were keeping huge numbers of people alive, but the
war danger -- as well as the US demand that Pakistan seal
its border with Afghanistan -- caused the WFP to suspend
deliveries of wheat flour to the country. We have no idea
how many people have already died as a result. Meanwhile,
the US dropped 37,000 individually-wrapped packages of food
from the sky. You do the math. That's enough to feed about
37,000 people for one day, in a country where seven and a
half million are in danger of starvation. Additionally, the
spokesman for an international charity active in Afghanistan
told the London Independent that "Random food drops are the
worst possible way of delivering food aid. They cause more
problems than they solve." Not the least of which is the
fact that Afghanistan has the highest number of unexploded
land mines in the world. There are already 10 or 15 mine
incidents every day, and with people scrambling into
mine-ridden areas to pick up random packages of food dropped
from US planes, that number is only going to go up.
Lie
4: "Oil? Who said anything about oil?"
Reality:
The Caspian Sea region has potentially the world's largest
oil reserves, likely making Central Asia the next Middle
East. The problem is piping it out. Afghanistan occupies a
strategic position between the Caspian and the markets of
the Indian subcontinent and east Asia. It's prime territory
for building pipelines, which is why the oil company Unocal
-- as well as the US government -- welcomed the Taliban's
rise to power in 1996 as a promising source of "stability."
That turned out to be a pipe dream (so to speak), but people
like our Commander-in-Chief and the oil men around him have
never given up on the tremendous profit possibilities that
Central Asia offers. And if you don't think such
considerations are crossing their minds at this time of
crisis, may we suggest a refresher course in The Facts of
Life?
Lie
3: "The US is trying to liberate the people of Afghanistan
from Taliban tyranny."
Reality:
The US, Russia, and Iran have been aiding a rough coalition
of armed groups called the Northern Alliance. The Northern
Alliance's fighters are drawn mainly from ethnic minority
groups in Afghanistan who have been persecuted by the
Taliban. But their record is also a bloody one. Groups like
the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(RAWA), which have been fighting against fundamentalism and
for democracy in Afghanistan for years, have publicly stated
that the fundamentalist gangsters of the Northern Alliance
are not an acceptable alternative to the fundamentalist
gangsters of the Taliban. No wonder: Human Rights Watch
implicates the Northern Alliance in "indiscriminate aerial
bombardment and shelling, direct attacks on civilians,
summary executions, rape, persecution on the basis of
religion or ethnicity, the recruitment and use of children
as soldiers, and the use of antipersonnel landmines." By now
everyone knows that Osama bin Laden was among the mujihadin
recruited by the CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Meet the next generation.
Lie
2: "America is coming together."
Reality:
Tens of thousands of people have been laid off in the
airline industry alone. The government quickly responded to
the airline industry crisis with a multi- billion-dollar
bailout package for the companies in order to keep afloat
the profits of shareholders and the salaries of CEOs, but
when it came to aiding the thousands of workers laid off,
Congressman Dick Armey said that that would be contrary to
"the American spirit." Maybe it is. Maybe it's the "American
spirit" to make common working people pay for a crisis and
to bear the burdens of an expensive war. But it certainly
doesn't have anything to do with "togetherness."
And
the biggest lie of them all . . .
Lie
1: "It's possible to win a 'war against
terrorism.'"
Reality:
Terrorism is a tactic, not a political or social force in
and of itself. Anyone can use it, and the idea that you can
wage a "war" against it is as dishonest as the idea behind
the "War on Drugs." The use of food as a political weapon,
indiscriminate aerial bombardment, and the arming of
gangsterish groups of religious fanatics all count as
"terrorism" by any reasonable definition of the word, and
the United States has long employed all of them -- and more.
This war is really about sordid material interests and power
(see especially Lies numbers 2 and 4, above), and in defense
of these interests the US is prepared to shift the label
"terrorist" as it sees fit, to apply to all manner of
dissident political movements and not just marginal bands of
fanatics like bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Conversely, it's
willing to call its own terrorists "freedom fighters" (see
Lie number 3 above). Maybe some of them will get transformed
into "terrorists" again in a few years. It's a sick game and
a charade, and the government is manipulating the very real
grief and anger of the people of the United States after the
September 11 atrocities to get us all to fall for it again.
Don't believe them for a second.
The Crows Eye is a monthly alternative
newsletter from the westcoast of bc (Coast Salish
Territory), providing alternative news relevant to struggles
against authoritarianism in all its forms. (tao.ca/~resist/TheCrowsEye.html)
see
also: The
United States and Middle East:
Why
Do They Hate Us?
A
Brief (and partial) History of US Sponsored Terrorism
Abroad
1946
- U.S. opens School of the Americas in Panama. Now located
in Fort Benning, Georgia, the School of the Assassins has
taught over 60,000 personnel from some of the worlds most
brutal regimes how to subvert the truth, to muzzle union
leaders, activist clergy, and journalists, and to make war
on their own people.
1951-
CIA is involved in a coup to overthrow nationalist
primeminister Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq in Iran. Supports
Iranian military in massacre o Mossadeq supporters and
returns the Shah to power. In 1976, Amnesty International
concluded that the Shah's CIA-trained security force, SAVAK,
had the worst human rights record on the planet, and that
the number and variety of torture techniques the CIA had
taught SAVAK were "beyond belief."
1951-
CIA involved in terror campaign against democratically
elected acobo Arbenz in Guatemala. After Arbenz government
is overthrown, CIA backed regimes murder more than 100,000
Guatemalans over the next 40 years
1961
- CIA recruits 1500 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and
overthrow the Castro regime. The Pay of Pigs invasion would
be a disaster, however the CIA would continue with more than
two dozen attempts to kill Castro.
1963
- The CIA have South Vietnemese president Ngo Dinh Diem
overthrown and assasinated for supporting negotiations with
the north. After 20 years of covert war the U.S. turns to
direct military invasion, in a war that costs tens of
thousands of Vietnemese, Cambodian and U.S. lives
1963
- CIA recruits Iraqi Baath Party (including a young Saddam
Hussein) to assasinate the new leader, Abdul-Karim Kassem.
After the coup, the CIA gave the Baath a long list of
communists and others to liquidate. During the 1980s the CIA
would go on to help provide weapons to both Iraq and Iran in
a war that would kill over one million people.
1965
- CIA provokes a coup that leads to the overthrow of
Indonesian leader Sukarno, who is replaced by General
Suharto. In the following weeks between 500,000 and one
million people are murdered by death squads using lists
provided by US State Department.
1973
- After interfering in Chilean elections in 1958 and 1964,
the CIA begins a campaign of sabotage and terror after
leftist Salvadore Allende is elected president in 1970. In
1973 , a CIA supported coup overthrew and assassinated
Allende and installed fascist General Pinochet, resulting in
thousands of murders over the next two decades. This year in
France, former U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger was
served a (mostly symbolic) warrant for arrest as a war
criminal for his role in the coup.
1979
- After Nicaraguan dictator Samosa is overthrown in 1979,
the CIA helps to train Samosas National Guard into death
squads known as the Contras. The Contras are used to
terrorize rural Nicaragua while the US military blockades
Nicaragua s harbours with mines. In 1989, after 10,000
deaths, the US is successful in ousting the Sandanista
government.
1989
- US invades Panama to overthrow and arrest Manuel Noriega,
who has been on the CIA payroll since 1966 and supported
through decades of drug running, political assassination and
corrupt elections. After the invasion, which included the
fire bombing of an entire urban ghetto, human rights
observers uncover mass graves and estimate that over 4,000
died during the invasion.
1991
- US and allies (mostly Britain) invade Iraq after U.S./CIA
supported Sadam Hussein invades Kuwait. 200,000 Iraqis are
killed, including over 400 civilians killed by two U.S.
missiles in the Al-Amerya air shelter. Over the next 10
years another 400 tons of explosives will be dropped on Iraq
killing another 300 civilians, and hundreds of thousands
more starved through U.S. imposed sanctions. The U.S. forces
Saudi Arabia to allow thousands of U.S. military to remain
indefinetely within its boarders.
1998
- Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan is bombed
without warning by 13 U.S. cruise missiles killing a
janitor. The attack deprives Sudan of desperately needed
medical drugs and potentially killing tens of thousands of
people. The CIA later admits that information linking the
plant to Osama bin Laden was probably incorrect.
Due
limitations of space I have not included the U.S. support
of Israeli acts of terror against Palestinians, the
atomic bombing of 200,000 civilians in Nagasaki and
Hiroshima, the numerous other U.S. invasions south of the
Rio Grande, the invasion of Grenada ,the 19th century war
of terror against U.S. indigenous peoples or the 200
years of slave trade.
Source:
The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark Zapezauer, Third World
Traveller http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/
Emanzipation
Humanum,
version 11. 2001, Criticism, suggestions as to form and
content, dialogue, translation into other languages are all
desired
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