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by William Marina
The fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, will certainly produce an outpouring of politically motivated media presentations ranging from conspiracy theories to justifications for pursuing the “War on Terror.”
I would like to use the occasion, however, to give renewed attention to the significance of a previous September 11, sixty-one years ago, the day that retiring Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s top-secret, eight-page, memorandum was sent to President Harry S (…)

Craig Murray’s appeals for scepticism regarding the latest supposed Muslim plot to carry out terrorist attacks have marked a possible turning point in popular attitudes towards the so-called war on terror.
His blog has apparently been inundated with hits suggesting, as he puts it, that he has struck a nerve. Evidently, not everyone keeps swallowing this terror stuff uncritically. But his stance also has significance from another point of view: Murray is something of a hero on the left, but (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com
The CIA missed so many opportunities to interrupt the Al Qaeda 9/11 plot that there is much plausibility to the suspicion that its inner circle wanted the hijackings to occur. Making myself unpopular with many conspiracists, I highlight the fact that they did not expect suicide crashes into buildings. As the CIA’s memo to Bush (August 6, 2001) demonstrates, they expected any hijacked airliners to be landed for negotiation (…)

UN details massive US arms sales to Taiwan
Monday, 11 September, 2006, 09:56 AM Doha Time
TAIPEI: The UN Conventional Arms Registry (UNCAR) shows that the US has sold huge amounts of weapons to Taiwan in the past decade to help defend Taiwan against China, the Central News Agency (CNA) said yesterday.
CNA said that the US has reported its arms sales to UNCAR from 1995 to 2005, but has been asked by the UN to stop the reporting as Taiwan is not a UN member.
In line with the UN (…)

watch this Greg Palast video report...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram
London: United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed
BBC2’s Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks which showed that despite claims (…)

The popes 6-day visit in Germany costs more than 50 Million Euro
link is in german: http://linkszeitung.de/content/view/53144/72/
HOLY KITSCH - Pope Takes Marketing Cue from FIFA World Cup
By Alexander Linden and Peter Wensierski
As the pope prepares for his upcoming visit to Bavaria, the Vatican has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to market the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. By selling official fan paraphernalia, the church plans to turn a profit from the hype (…)

watch this Greg Palast video report... http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram
London: United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed
BBC2’s Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks which showed that despite (…)

By Patrick Cockburn in Jerusalem
09/09/06 "The Independent" — — The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies.
"The pressure and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise," Karen Abuzayd, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency is said to have warned. "But rather they have created mass despair, anger and a sense (…)

Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Volume 5, Issue 11
Preface
When David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic leaders from North America, Japan and Europe.
Few people believed us when we wrote about their nefarious plans back then. Now, we look back and clearly see that (…)

A Day a Camp Democracy I woke up at 5:30 AM to catch a 6:20 train to Philly, where I caught a train from Philly’s 30th street station to Washington’s Union Station. I walked about half mile from there to the mall where Camp Democracy was set up. Entering it, there was a 30 foot high inflated figure, like one of thsose parade floats, in the shape of George Bush, with a very long nose and a a big sign on it— "impeach me." They called it Bushnoccio.
There’s a great lecture by Steven Zunes (…)