Who killed ‘Mr. Lebanon’?

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1418516,00.html Why ‘Mr Lebanon’ had many enemies Diplomats doubt that Syria would kill its former ally as evidence points to the billionaire being victim of an ‘ordinary bomb’ Peter Beaumont in London and Mitchell Prothero in Beirut Sunday February 20, 2005 The Observer In death, the world feted Lebanon’s … Read more

US missile defense system not doing so well

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Congressional_Research_Service_Skepticism_On_BMD_Grows_999.html MISSILE DEFENSE Congressional Research Service Skepticism On BMD Grows by Martin Sieff UPI Senior News Analyst Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2007 The U.S. armed forces have demonstrated no learning curve in their development of kinetic energy interceptors to destroy incoming ballistic missiles, an updated congressional report claims. The … Read more

‘NYT’ Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran Claims

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544369 ‘NYT’ Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran Claims By Greg Mitchell From the St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Bay, Florida Published: February 10, 2007 10:30 PM ET Friday updated Saturday NEW YORK Saturday¹s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web … Read more

* Daily Mail: 911 skepticism goes mainstream! *

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=435265&in_page_id=1811&ct=5#StartComments An explosion of disbelief – fresh doubts over 9/11 By SUE REID – Last updated at 22:07pm on 9th February 2007 Comments (16) The official story of what happened on 9/11 never fails to shock. Four American airliners are hijacked by Osama Bin Laden’s terrorists in an attack … Read more

Dahr Jamail: Official Lies over Najaf Battle Exposed

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000534.php#more January 31, 2007 Official Lies over Najaf Battle Exposed Inter Press Service Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily Read story from website NAJAF, Iraq, Jan 31 (IPS) – Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday stand exposed by independent investigations carried … Read more

Blowup? America’s Hidden War With Iran

2007-02-13 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021107B.shtml http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17086418/site/newsweek/ Blowup? America’s Hidden War With Iran By Michael Hirsh and Maziar Bahari Newsweek Monday 19 February 2007 Issue Jalal Sharafi was carrying a video game, a gift for his daughter, when he found himself surrounded. On that chilly Sunday morning, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy … Read more

US Holocaust in Iraq

2007-02-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “E.E. Daniel” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:23:56 -0700 Organization: Dept. Pharmacology Subject: [Sfpnotices] Fw: The clearest explanation of the Iraqi Holocaut caused by the USA. EED —– Original Message —– From: <•••@••.•••>E.E. Daniel Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: The clearest explanation yet of … Read more

Another US helicopter downed by missile

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Friends, Five helicopters down in two weeks, and 17,500 troops to be added to control Baghdad…doesn’t sound like the occupation is going very well. They didn’t have this kind of security problem in Saigon, back in Vietnam days. I wonder what’s really going on? “The al-Qaida-linked Sunni group claimed responsibility for the … Read more

Watada Court-Martial Ends in Mistrial

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707Z.shtml Watada Court-Martial Ends in Mistrial By Scott Galindez and Geoffrey Millard t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 07 February 2007 Fort Lewis, Washington – The court-martial of First Lt. Ehren Watada, a commissioned US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq on the … Read more

Sam Gindin: Is the Big Ship America Sinking?

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.socialistproject.ca/relay/relay15.pdf A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 42… February 8, 2007 Is the Big Ship America Sinking? Contradictions and Openings by Sam Gindin There’s something happening What it is ain’t exactly clear Buffalo Springfield, 1966 Are we in the midst of a momentous turn in world politics? Donald Rumsfeld … Read more

Michael Talbot: The holograph paradigm

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html TWM The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of … Read more

Libby Testimony Points Directly to Bush, Cheney

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707A.shtml Libby Testimony Points Directly to Bush, Cheney By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 07 February 2007 According to trial transcripts obtained by Truthout, former White House staffer I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby testified before a grand jury in … Read more

Iran to Announce “Giant Achievements”

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.realtruth.org/news/070208-001-iran.html NEWS BRIEF ­ FEBRUARY 8, 2007 Posted/Updated: 2007-02-08 15:42:34 GEOPOLITICS, STRATEGIES & ECONOMIES Iran to Announce ³Giant Achievements² Iran¹s Fars News Agency reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will unveil to the world ³giant achievements² on February 11, which marks the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic … Read more

Harmful vaccine forced on young girls

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://washingtontimes.com/business/20070202-100152-9747r.htm The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Vaccine center issues warning By Gregory Lopes THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published February 3, 2007 The National Vaccine Information Center yesterday warned state officials to investigate the safety of a breakthrough cancer vaccine as Texas became the first state to make the vaccine mandatory for … Read more

Bush’s Inner “Reality” Has Poisoned His Own Troop Plan?

2007-02-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707R.shtml Why Bush’s Inner “Reality” Has Poisoned His Own Troop Plan By John P. Briggs, M.D., and JP Briggs II, Ph.D. t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributors Wednesday 07 February 2007 The president has included an extraordinary fatal flaw in his plan for additional … Read more

‘Escaping the Matrix’ reviewed in Rachel’s Weekly!

2007-02-09 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:27:43 -0500 (EST) From: •••@••.••• To: Richard Moore <•••@••.•••>, •••@••.••• Subject: Re: Rachel’s News #893: Escaping the Matrix Wow, richard, this is a truly remarkable boost for your book! Editor Montague’s review of your work is the lead story in the current issue. Congratulations. Rachel’s News … Read more

A Framework for Community Democracy (2.1)

2007-02-08 Richard Moore Friends, Please checkout the new version of the Framework document. It is on our website: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework2.1.html The document has been much improved, and the URL will be included in the signature of future postings, as shown below. best wishes, rkm — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy … Read more

Congress becoming Cuba friendly?

2007-02-07 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:51:45 -0500 (EST) From: Global Exchange – Cuba Update <•••@••.•••> Subject: A Critical Moment for New Cuba Policy Cuba Update GLOBAL EXCHANGE Dear Global Exchange Cuba Supporter, As you may have heard there is new movement within Congress to change policy toward Cuba. While we have … Read more

From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the Dots with Oil

2007-02-07 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/47489/ From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the Dots with Oil By Richard W. Behan, AlterNet Posted on February 5, 2007, Printed on February 5, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/47489/ In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. … Read more

Nick Turse: America’s Secret Air War in Iraq

2007-02-07 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=163152 a project of the Nation Institute compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt Tomgram: Nick Turse, America’s Secret Air War in Iraq This post can be found at http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=163152 Just last week, in a typical air strike of the Iraq War, two missiles were fired at targets somewhere in … Read more

Mike Whitney: The Great Dollar Crash of ’07

2007-02-07 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/405/2/ The Great Dollar Crash of Œ07 Tuesday, 06 February 2007 By Mike Whitney The massive equity bubbles which arose from artificially low interest rates and the deliberate destruction of the dollar by reckless increases in the money supply have shifted trillions of dollars from working class Americans to … Read more

Mickey Z : United States of Aggression

2007-02-07 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/MickeyZ05.htm Forgotten February (A Brief Peek at America’s Unrestrained Brutality) by Mickey Z. www.dissidentvoice.org February 5, 2007 Just in case anyone needs reminding that “USA” has always stood for “United States of Aggression,” here are a forgotten few from February’s Files: February 1898 In 1897, Teddy Roosevelt stated bluntly, … Read more

Charles Bear: Who are we?

2007-02-07 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/306/2/ Who are we? Saturday, 03 February 2007 By Charles Bear Who are we, the empty men and women of America, the cowards who deny we are imperialist and deny we¹re trying to remake the world in our image. We have become the New Fascists, the Americans who demand … Read more

America: From Freedom to Fascism- a review…

2007-02-06 Richard Moore …alternate Subject line: “Right-wing ‘propaganda’ and mind control” __________________________ Watch Russo’s film on Google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&q= “America: From Freedom to Fascism” A documentary by Aaron Russo http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo (“The Rose,” “Trading Places”) set out on a journey … Read more

* Steven Malik Shelton: American Genocide *

2007-02-05 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/headlines/american_genocide American Genocide by Steven Malik Shelton (Thursday July 15 2004) “Modern, state sponsored genocide is, perhaps, the least obvious because it is always shrouded in patriotic covers and obscured with nationalistic platitudes and slogans. The mass media of nations that systematically erode the humanity of others, is usually … Read more

Black Propaganda on UK’s Channel 4 TV

2007-02-05 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:46:39 +0000 From: Rory Winter <•••@••.•••> Subject: Black Propaganda on UK’s Channel 4 TV Jonathan Rugman presented a biased anti-Iran report on “Iran invites journalists to nuclear site” on Channel 4 News on Saturday 3rd Febraury. While showing monitoring cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency … Read more

Brasscheck TV: The war on terror fraud

2007-02-05 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Brasscheck TV” <•••@••.•••> http://www.brasschecktv.com/ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 05:19:47 -0500 Subject: Brasscheck TV: The war on terror fraud Keith Olbermann of MSNBC seems to be catching on… And his corporate owners seem to be OK with him telling it like it is. I have to admit it’s kind of … Read more

Heinberg on sustainability

2007-02-05 Richard Moore Original source URL: ——————————————————– From: <•••@••.•••> Subject: MuseLetter for February Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:49:34 -0800 MuseLetter #178 / February 2007 Five Axioms of Sustainability My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a … Read more

Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs

2007-02-05 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm Tuesday, 10 April, 2001, 16:01 GMT 17:01 UK Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs Rabbi Yosef is known for his outspoken comments The spiritual leader of Israel’s ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs. “It is forbidden … Read more

EU plans far-reaching ‘genocide denial’ law

2007-02-05 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=APGGRTNIPZGWNQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/02/02/weu02.xml EU plans far-reaching ‘genocide denial’ law By Bruno Waterfield Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 02/02/2007 People who question the official history of recent conflicts in Africa and the Balkans could be jailed for up to three years for “genocide denial”, under proposed EU legislation. Germany, current holder of the … Read more

Bush replacing government with corporations

2007-02-05 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/washington/04contract.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin February 4, 2007 In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever By SCOTT SHANE and RON NIXON WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 ‹ In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the … Read more

Michael Hasty: Paranoid shift

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://onlinejournal.org/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html Opinion Paranoid shift By Michael Hasty Online Journal Contributing Writer Download a .pdf file for printing. Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Click here to download a free copy. January 10, 2004-Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a … Read more

YouTube Video: Bush Forms N. American Union with Mexico

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amLEl_aNkhY Why do some stories only reach us through right-wind channels? Could that be a way to discredit the stories? Think about it. — ——————————————————– Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Blogs: cyberjournal forum http://cyberjournal-rkm.blogspot.com/ Achieving real democracy http://harmonization.blogspot.com/ for … Read more

Pilger on Iran: The War Begins

2007-02-02 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:48:13 -0500 Subject: Iran: The War Begins From: The Wisdom Fund <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: •••@••.••• <http://www.twf.org>THE WISDOM FUND February 5, 2007 New Statesman (UK) Iran: The War Begins John Pilger [John Pilger is a renowned author, journalist and documentary film-maker. A war correspondent, his writings have appear … Read more

Russia to grill Washington on Mideast policy

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/28/top16.htm Russia queries US military role in ME MOSCOW, Jan 27: Russia expects the United States to explain its growing military presence in the Middle East when the countries next meet to discuss the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian news agencies on Saturday. ³I have seen … Read more

Russia opposes US missile escalation in Europe

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012701370.html U.S. Missiles in E. Europe Opposed by Locals, Russia Kremlin Calls Proposed Interceptors a ‘Clear Threat’ By Bruce I. Konviser Special to The Washington Post Sunday, January 28, 2007; A16 PRAGUE — A Bush administration plan to deploy a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe is drawing protests … Read more

Pentagon expands imperialist role in Africa

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=297060&area=/insight/insight__comment_and_analysis/ The Pentagon hunkers down in Africa Charles Cobb Jnr 26 January 2007 09:18 The stance of the United States with respect to the rest of the world has changed radically under the ³conservative² administration of George W Bush. The latest indication of the militarisation that is at the … Read more

Chalmers Johnson: Empire Vs. Democracy

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/31/empire_vs_democracy.php Empire Vs. Democracy Chalmers Johnson January 31, 2007 Chalmers Johnson is a retired professor of Asian Studies at the University of California, San Diego. From 1968 until 1972 he served as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. Nemesis: The Last Days … Read more

Celebrities, veterans join anti-war protest

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21130573-401,00.html Celebrities, veterans join anti-war protest By Deborah Charles in Washington January 28, 2007 07:03am Article from: Reuters CHANTING “bring our troops home,” tens of thousands of anti-war protesters rallied in front of the US Capitol building overnight to pressure the government to get out of Iraq. Veterans and … Read more

Brzezinski bombshell: Bush seeking pretext to attack Iran

2007-02-02 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/brze-f02.shtml A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran By Barry Grey in Washington DC 2 February 2007 Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered … Read more