Iranian Involvement in Iraq by Philip Giraldi (Originally written back in 2008) Introduction: The United States government has been arguing since 2005 that Iran is “interfering” in neighboring Iraq. At a political level, the interference is alleged to involve...
by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com December 4, 2006 President George W. Bush meets today with Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shiite fundamentalist party that is strongly tied to Iran. In so...
Via NarcoNews. Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras Published: Aug. 18, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterFOR THE BETTER PARTÂ of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and...
Via NarcoNews Role of CIA-linked agents a well-protected secret until now Published: Aug. 19, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterIF THEY’D BEEN INÂ a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ”Freeway Rick” Ross would...
Via NarcoNews Contra case illustrates the discrepancy: Nicaraguan goes free; L.A. dealer faces life Published: Aug. 20, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterFOR THE LAST YEARÂ and a half, the U.S. Department of Justice has been trying to explain why nearly...
by Alfonso Chardy, Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional...
[Having recently received a 404 error at the IASPS site’s version of this piece, I figured it better be saved from the Google cache before it’s gone forever. -Scott] Companion piece “Coping With Crumbling States” here. Following is a report...
[Having recently received a 404 error at the IASPS site’s version of this piece, I figured it better be saved from the Google cache before it’s gone forever. -Scott] Companion piece “A Clean Break” is here. For related reading: “Ultimate...
by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from...
 If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest...
CHAPTER ONE War Is A Racket War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses...
To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and surprising alteration in their habits of thought. In...
Part One THE ANCIENT DESIGN I We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night; the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: “You...
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those...
Chapter 1. The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Penguin, 2003. On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent...
Friends and fellow citizens, Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have...
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for...
Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with...
