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Index of Topics: General · Afghanistan · Iraq · Iran · Other Foreign Interventions · Government Institutionalized Torture · 9-11 · The Anthrax Hoax · Past and On-going Government Corruption · Past Wars ( World War II , World War I , The Civil War ) · Arming Our Enemies · The Bush Presidency · The Obama Presidency · The Growing Police State · News and Commentary · Radio Talk Shows · Israel · Political Action · Energy · The “Ayn Rand Institute”
Rodney Stich
A former federal investigator for the FAA. The whistleblower other whistleblowers come to. He quotes eyewitness testimony of government agents who sooner or later refused to obey illegal orders.InterviewAbout himDefrauding AmericaThe Events of 9/11 and Government ComplicityThe Unfriendly SkiesDrugging America Comments on the news (blog)Book synopses:
Terrorism Against AmericaBlowback, 9/11, and Cover-UpsIraq, Lies, Cover-Ups, and ConsequencesLawyers & Judges – American Trojan HorsesSubverting America, Vol. I Vol. IIDavid vs. GoliathDefrauding AmericaDisavow (with Conan Russell)
Covert CIA CompaniesThose Ugly AmericansUnfriendly SkiesDrugging AmericaCovert CIA CompaniesFBI, CIA, the Mob, and TreacheryCongress and Other CesspoolsCrimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the MafiaAmerica’s Housing and Financial Frauds Printed or e-books from Lulu.comPrinted books from Amazon.com
James Bovard
Second Renaissance Books, now Ayn Rand Books, once carried his book Lost Rights. No longer, which is consistent.
David Martin
A.k.a. DC Dave, economist, news analyst, reviewer, and poet – unmasking propaganda in the press. Best known for “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,” and America’s Dreyfus Affair about the Vince Foster case, and Who Killed James Forrestal?
Sibel Edmonds
Exposing the sale of secret nuclear technology to the Middle East. Despite a U.S. gag order she has hinted that those involved include Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Eric Edelman, Marc Grossman, Brent Scowcroft, Larry Franklin, and congressmen Dennis Hastert, Roy Blunt, Dan Burton, Tom Lantos, Bob Livingston, Stephen Solarz, and think tank members Graham E. Fuller (RAND), David and Alan Makovsky (WINEP).
Catherine Austin Fitts
A former federal investigator who fought government corruption from within and got prosecuted for it. The occassional Christian fundamentalist phrase and leftist bromide annoy, but neither is essential to what she is saying.
Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col., ret.)
Quit the Pentagon to speak out against the Bush Administration’s “faith-based foreign policy.” She has said that “The way Israelis ... run their country in some respects is something Americans could take a lesson from. They put Israel first every time all the time. ... They put Israel number one, they never put Israel number two.”
Harry Browne
Twice the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate. Famous for one-liners like: Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, “See, if it wasn’t for us, you couldn’t walk.” We disagree with his position on immigration and Ayn Rand, among other things.
Future of Freedom Foundation
Their mission is to “advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.”
Scott Horton’s Interview Radio Show
Listen to interviews of Karen Kwiatkowski, Sibel Edmonds, James Bovard, Paul Craig Roberts, William Lind, Gary Webb, Ray McGovern, James Bamford, Seymour Hersh, Jude Wanniski, John Gatto, J. D. Cash and others.
Neoconservatives
“Ancient History”
U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention. By Sheldon Richman of the Cato Institute.
The Power of Nightmares
CIA torture training confused with a church social in the Muslim mind. We would have been better off without the torture. Documentary by Adam Curtis.
William Lind
Military advisor. At times trashy and vulgar.
Joel Skousen – World Affairs Brief
We don’t follow his “power of evil” outlook and some other aspects of his Christianity, nor his claim that the collapse of the Soviet Union was deliberate deception (though the effect may well be the same). We disagree with some of his conjectures about 9-11. Still, a literate commentator worth reading – critically.
Eeeek! Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
by Fred Reed.
Craig Murray
Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan (see “Other Foreign Interventions” section below).
How Would a Patriot Act?
by Glenn Greenwald.
Another “better sort of leftist” without whose post 9-11 analysis we would not recommend.
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
by Robert Pape.
Their Martyrs and Our Heroes
by John Feffer. Skip Tom’s introduction and scroll down to “Thoughts on Western Jihad.”
The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
by Peter Dale Scott. Comments on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard and private military contractors, such as Blackwater (now Xe Worldwide), Diligence LLC, Science Applications International Corporation(SAIC), Booz Allen, BAE systems.
This Will Lead to That (video)
Afghan Taliban Camps Were Built by NATO
New York Times title: “Afghan Camps, Hidden in Hills, Stymied Soviet Attacks for Years.”
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
About Far West, Ltd and Afghan-Kosovo drug traffic. Russia’s 9/11 refers to the 1999 bombings in Moscow together with Chechnya’s invasion of Russian Dagestanin. By Peter Dale Scott.
The War on the Afghans
by David Wright.
Funding the Taliban
by Jean MacKenzie.
A Dead Marine
About the photo by Julie Jacobson (AP) and the reaction to it. By Fred Reed.
NATO: Ah, nuts
Innocents in war and all that. Here’s $2,000, not that we owe you anything.
Arming Iraq: A Chronology of U.S. Involvement
Truth About War
Frozen at the start of the Iraq War.
James Bamford
The Israeli Origins of Bush II’s War
by Stephen Sniegoski.
Selective Intelligence
by Seymour Hersh.
Interview with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
Middle Eastern Chessboard: Arming Iraq
by Paul Joseph Watson.
Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War
by Chris Floyd.
Iraq Vets Bear Witness
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
by Warren Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers 10 March 2008.
Gag orders on the largest war profiteering in history?
by Jane Corbin, BBC News.
Colin Powell, Bagman
Mai Lai, Iran-Contra, then Iraq.
The Three Trillion Dollar War
By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes.
Marketing an Invasion
“The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold.” By Jeffrey St. Clair.
Erik Prince
Two articles by Jeremy Scahill.
An Unjust War
by Charley Reese.
The Police State America Built
by Chris Floyd, a benighted leftist who doesn’t know what capitalism means, but does know police state apparatus when he sees it.
The CIA in Iran
by James Risen, New York Times 2000. (Multipage article: see the table of contents at middle right.)
The Clinton-Bush air disaster cover-up plan
In 1988 the USS Vincennes shot down a commercial Iranian airliner, killing all 290 passengers. By Jack Cashill.
The forgotten USS Vincennes attack on Iran
Why does Iran dislike the United States?
by Andisheh Nouraee.
Next stop, Iran
by Stephen Sniegoski.
Iran: The Next War
by James Bamford.
Israeli General urges US-Israel strike against Iran
CIA coup, 1953
If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran)
America above could be any other country. Iran and America are not equivalent but after abstracting from the differences the coup of 1953 was a criminal enterprise. By J. L. Bryan.
No Iran Attack? Don’t Be So Sure
Never overestimate the sanity of a neocon.
Tehran isn’t exactly the sticks
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies
“Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.” Afterwords (C-Span2 BookTV) interview with the author, by Barbara Slavin.
The Fuel Behind Iran’s Nuclear Drive
One of Iran’s goals in building a nuclear power plant may be nuclear weapons, but an argument other than possession of oil is necessary. (See also the section on Energy below.)
The Mystery of American Foreign Policy
The Secret War Against Iran
Has War With Iran Already Begun?
In the “campaign to destabilize Iran, the U.S. is allying itself with some pretty loathsome elements.” By Justin Raimondo.
U.S. Government Enriches Companies Helping Iran
by Jo Becker and Ron Nixon, New York Times 2010.
| Other Foreign Interventions |
Uzbekistan: The Banality of Evil by Craig Murray.
GeorgiaChile by Peter Kornbluh.
Uganda: The Making of Idi Amin by Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch.
Israel helped Idi Amin – Not to mention MI6 and the CIA.
Ethiopia and Somalia by Thomas Barnett.
Pakistan’s Thug by Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
Mexico - weaponry supplied by U.S. per Merida Initiative by Gregory Berger.
Indonesia - MI6 installs killer – With help from the CIA.
History of U.S. Interventions
Killing Hope – Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Zaire. By William Blum. (An America-hating leftist, but focus on the facts rather than his motivation for digging them up.)
U.S. Backed Coups
U.S. helps Chinese Interrogators
The CIA’s Third World War: Part I Part II – Lecture by John Stockwell, a retired CIA official. Video and transcript.
| Government Institutionalized Torture |
McClatchy torture investigation
James Bovard
Torture from the Top Down
by Scott Horton.
Interrogation in Afghanistan and Iraq
Details of Two Afghan Inmates’ Deaths
by Tim Golden.
A Question of Torture
“CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror” by Alfred McCoy.
The Dark Side
by Jane Mayer.
Review of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side
by Jennifer Schuessler, NYT. The principal instigators were vice president Cheney, and his legal counsel David Addington and J. Yoo.
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
by Steven Miles. (book)
The President Authorized CIA to Detain and Interrogate Terror Suspects Overseas
Torture and Truth
Interview of Mark Danner.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
New York Times review of the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody, by the International Committee of the Red Cross. By Mark Danner.
Kidnapped by the CIA
by Peter Bergen.
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights
by Trevor Paglen and A. C. Thompson.
Yoo’s 2003 Memo On Interrogation
by Dan Eggen. “Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail.” An immigrant we could have done without?
Yoo Two
by Scott Horton, Harper’s April 3, 2008. “... I want to look not at the contents of the memo, but at the contextual questions. Why was it sought, and how was it used.”
John Yoo, Totalitarian
by Paul Craig Roberts.
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
by Stephen Grey.
Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project
ACLU torture investigation
The Torture Question
Frontline video in six parts.
Interview of Seymour Hersh about Abu Ghraib (audio)
Conducted by Charles Goyette. Discusses the torture of innocents at Abu Ghraib, the persecution of general Taguba who led the initial investigation, and the cover-up of the torture being ordered from the very top. 23 June 2007.
Murat Kurnaz
Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences
by Chris Floyd.
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
What’s done always exceeds what’s explicitly allowed. By Scott Shane, David Johnston, James Risen.
Detainees Hidden from Red Cross
“If the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.”
A flippant remark by Jonathan Fredman, CIA, on “harsh” interrogation techniques.
U.S. Torture Techniques Copied from Communists
by Thomas Eddlem.
On Torture and American Values
NYT editorial, Oct. 7, 2007.
Defendant Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense sued for torture
This article, by Nat Hentoff, was written in 2005. Former secretary Rumsfeld asserted that he was immune from responsibility for any acts of torture and abuse. On March 27, 2007 Chief Judge Thomas Hogan, D.C. Federal District Court, dismissed the case.
Torture of Iraqi Detainees by 82nd Airborne Division
Inside the Wire
by Erik Saar, a translator for interrogation sessions at Guantanamo.
“Extraordinary rendition” from Italy
Abuse of Detainees at Afghanistan Bases
U.S. Contractor Leads Torture Training in Mexico
by Kristin Bricker.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s memo and the betrayal of American values
by Phillippe Sands.
Truth, Torture, and the American Way
by Jennifer Harbury.
Retired Military Leaders Opposing Torture (video)
Court Rules CIA May Hide Torture Protests
By Mr. Greenwald
Torture Workshop
American Psychological Association, RAND and the CIA.
Overseas, Expectations Build for Torture Prosecutions
by Scott Horton.
Americans Want Torture Inquiry, Obama Doesn’t
“President Obama’s actions are fast diverging from his public rhetoric.” By Thomas Eddlem.
The Stories of Torture Sounded Made Up
by Carol Leonnig.
Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death
by Stephen Webster.
Obama Shields Torturers
by Chris Floyd, addressed to those who still think Obama meant change for the better.
The Question of Torture (pdf)
The Legal and Ethical Implications of the Torture Opinion of Jay S. Bybee. By Gerald Shea.
Torture and the American Conscience
by Paul Craig Roberts.
Recently Released Gitmo Detainee
ABC news article.
Invisible Men
Held at Guantanamo Bay.
FBI documents describe CIA jails
They took one look and fled. Partly declassified? By Scott Shane and Charlie Savage, NYT.
Transcript of Ali Shalal’s Testimony
In his book The Ominous Parallels Leonard Peikoff denounced this sort of thing just for itself, but he came to see his error. Can’t you tell the difference between Nazis and Israelis?.
Torture probably killed more Americans than 9/11
Medical Evidence of Torture (PDF)
Interrogation Enhanced
by Matthew Alexander, the officer who cracked the Zarqawi network.
Guantánamo Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Released In Kuwait
Twelve weeks after Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered his release. By Andy Worthington.
Jeppesen Dataplan
The suit against this Boeing Company subsidiary, which helped the CIA in its “extraordinary rendition” program, will not be heard. “I understand you think it’s not fair, but so what?” – Chief Judge Alex Kozinski.
The Guantánamo “Suicides”
by Scott Horton, Harper’s.
The Guantánamo Files: Stories of 774 Detainees
by Andy Worthington.
9/11 Timeline
Review of “Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth”
As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The reader can judge if there is such evidence.
Kurt Sonnenfeld
9/11 Myths
Evidence that a Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon on 9/11
Peter Dale Scott
The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11
Book by John Farmer, Chief Counsel of the 9/11 Commission.
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission (archive.org)
Interview with Lee Hamilton, co-author of this book along with Thomas Kean, respectively vice chairman and chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins.
The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts
by Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch.
9/11: The Case Isn’t Closed
A different view from Mr. Cockburn’s.
Pilots For 9/11 Truth
An organization of pilots and other aviation professionals who seek the truth surrounding the events of 11 September 2001. They focus on the four flights, the maneuvers performed and the reported pilots. They do not conjecture about the purpose of the attacks or who was ultimately responsible.
Interview With Robin Hordon (video)
Former Air Traffic Controller: “... all of those aircraft were always tracked all the time by the FAA air traffic control centers.” Air traffic controllers insistently tried to alert military command structures (e.g. NORAD).
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Hijacker had post-9/11 flights scheduled, files say. By Larisa Alexandrovna.
WTC “Investigation?”
“We are literally treating the steel removed from the site like garbage, not like crucial fire scene evidence.” Fire Engineering, January 2002.
Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
Our friend in the Middle East? By Michel Chossudovsky.
World Affairs Brief
by Joel Skousen.
9/11 “Smoking Guns” Found in the Mainstream Media
Links to 275 articles.
9/11 Press for Truth
Documentary, gets interesting about 20% in. The blatant sob story treatment annoys.
What Did Israel Know?
by Christopher Ketcham.
The Israeli “Art Students”
An Israeli Trojan Horse
by Christopher Ketcham.
Gerald Shea’s Memo to the 9/11 Commission
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
DEA report. Begins some distance from top of webpage. (Also included in memo above.)
Interview with Daniel Hopsicker
Conducted by Sander Hicks.
WTC Chief Engineer Hyman Brown?
by Patrick Marks. Strange if true.
The Catch and Release of Wolfgang Bohringer
by Daniel Hopsicker.
FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
by Larisa Alexandrovna.
Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years?
Review of the book Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? It’s a shame on mainstream media that promotion of this question has been left to vulgar tabloids like (?) the Daily Mail. (David Ray Griffin can’t be recommended without reservation either.)
Why is the government lying?
An interview with Sibel Edmonds. See also Sibel Edmonds above under “General.”
The anthrax attacks that occurred soon after 9-11, killing five people, helped get the first Patriot Act passed. It turned out to be a false flag operation designed to make Iraq look the culprit when in fact the anthrax came from a U.S. government lab.The Anthrax Files
Review by Christopher Ketcham.
By Mr. GreenwaldA Government Insider Speaks Out
Francis Boyle, former U.S. bioweapons advisor.
Interview with Francis Boyle
Audio plus transcript of highlights, 23 Dec 2006. (You can use the slider to skip the stupid commercials.) Francis Boyle is now a law professor at the University of Illinois.
One Suspect is Too Hot to Touch
by Delinda Curtiss Hanley.
Bruce Ivins Wasn’t the Anthrax Culprit
by Richard Spertzel.
The Federal Bureau of Invention: CASE CLOSED
by Meryl Nass, M.D.
By Mr. RaimondoWhat Ever Happened to the Anthrax Murder Case? (archive.org)
Case not closed
Editorial from the journal Nature.
| Past and On-going Government Corruption |
The time ARI spends worrying about Israel would be better spent worrying about America.
The Vince Foster Affair
The Downing of TWA Flight 800
Oklahoma City Bombing
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb.
The CIA and Drugs
by William Blum.
The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush (Sr.)
by Peter Brewton. (Amazon reviews)
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
by Alfred McCoy. (Amazon reviews)
CIA Drug Planes
by Daniel Hopsicker.
The Franklin Scandal
Innocent civilians really have been victims of a witchhunt. Some guilty politicos claim they are too. The Franklin “scandal” (rather too innocuous a word) takes its name from a bank in Omaha focused on loaning to Blacks.
WacoNo More WacosWaco: The Rules of EngagementWaco: A New Revelation Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum – maintained by Carol Valentine,
an emotional individual who if read must be read critically. She argues that the videos above (produced by Michael McNulty) not only contain errors and weak arguments, these are deliberate in “an effort to misdirect and muffle protest over Waco under pretense of protest and opposition.”New Lies for Old by Joel Skousen.
Book reviews by Gary McGath:
PanAm 103 (Lockerbie)
Defense Spending Fraud
Ruby Ridge
Parents Against Corruption and Cover-up (archive.org)
Inspired by the murder of Tommy Burkett. This link is to an archived version, the original is no longer online.
M + others Aligned for Military & Murder Accountability (archive.org)
The military has a homicide problem. The author sometimes undercuts her effort by trying to be both tragic and lighthearted at the same time. The current website is www.goldstarmother.wetpaint.com . By Jan Beimdiek.
October Surprise
During the 1980 presidential race between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr. (Reagan’s running mate and CIA director during the Ford administration) and William Casey (Reagan’s campaign chief and later CIA director) held secret meetings with mullahs of Iran. Bush and Casey negotiated a delay in the release of 52 American hostages, who otherwise would have been released in October, until after the election. (The “surprise” was that the hostages where not released in October.) The intent was to prevent President Carter from looking good and thus to increase Reagan’s chance of victory.
Review of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & “Project Truth”
About Iran-Contra. By Robert Parry. See also the section on Israel below.
Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
About the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993.
The Columbine Massacre
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. (Amazon reviews)
Narco-colonialism in the 20th Century
DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcotics Traffickers
About a memorandum by Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent.
The Function of the Drug War
by J. Orlin Grabbe.
Prosecutorial Misconduct
by Bill Moushey.
The FBI — Past, Present & Future
Collection of links.
The Fear Factory
“The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts?” By Guy Lawson.
FBI lured dimwits into terror plot
by Tony Allen-Mills.
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
by Daniele Ganser. The armies, called “stay-behinds,” were operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO. They had access to military equipment originally intended for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead the armies carried out terrorist attacks across mainland Europe, killing hundreds of civilians as part of a “strategy of tension.”
The Child Abuse Industry
Bordergate
Statement by Darlene Fitzgerald, former Customs Special Agent, at a National Security Whistleblower Press Conference, later presented to a Senate committee.
The death of James Forrestal
James Forrestal was Secretary of the Navy during WWII, later the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. He opposed Communist and Zionist influence within the Truman administration. The first link below is a critical review of the writing about Forrestal’s death. The second is the report of the Navy’s investigation, which as you will see was anything but investigative.
FBI COINTELPRO
Deborah Jeane Palfrey (the D.C. madam)
The Pentagon directs propaganda at America
Walter Anderson
A telecommunications and space industry entrepreneur. He established FINDS, the Foundation for the International Non-governmental Development of Space; funded the CATS (Cheap Access To Space) Prize of the Space Frontier Foundation; and his MirCorp arranged for the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station. Faced with virtually life in prison for alleged tax evasion and fraud, denied bail and consequently unable to properly defend himself, he entered a plea agreement and was recently sentenced to prison for from four to nine years.
Climategate
True and False Security
by Bruce Schneier.
A Dinosaur Named Sue
1992 interview with Terry Wentz and Peter Larson about the 1990 confiscation of the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
KAL Flight 007 Remembered
An account of yet another hypocrisy of the Reagan administration. As for Schlossberg, almost certainly a crank.
David Kelly
Corruption in Britain.
Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker. Bush Sr. and the "shadow government.
The link between SSRI drugs and rampages
Politicians use these rampages to promote gun control while the thoughtful denounce the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Neo-Nazi leader was MI6 agent
And you thought G. K. Chesterton’s ending to The Man Who Was Thursday was silly.
The FBI’s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot
by Graham Rayman, The Village Voice.
NASA hiding climate data
About efforts to see it by Chris Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.
How a Spaniard Became Bin Laden
“The photos are an important example how science and technological advancement is used to find fugitives and bring them to justice.” – the FBI. Yeah right. English translation below original german. The FBI now admits it. Victim comments.
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The New Dealers’ War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Within World War IIby Thomas Fleming. “There was scarcely a branch of the American government, including the War, Navy, and Justice Departments, that did not have Soviet moles in high places, feeding Moscow information. ... Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services [OSS], the forerunner of the CIA, had so many informers in its ranks, it was almost an arm of the NKVD.”
Who Leaked Rainbow Five – and Why?by Thomas Fleming, in
American Heritage (back in 1987 when it used to
be American Heritage).
The Roosevelt Mythby John Flynn. Favorably reviewed in
The Objectivist Newsletter, December 1962. First published in 1948, the author helped found the America First Committee which opposed U.S. entry into the war.
(Amazon reviews)Saving England Wasn’t Worth ItReview of the evil consequences of having entered WWII, some of which Ayn Rand too had criticized. In spite of the title (but not the text), England would not have been lost had America stayed out of WWII. A better title would have been: “Taking America Back Starts With Taking Roosevelt Down.” By Scott Horton.
Who Really Won World War II?by Michael Kreca.
How Good Was the Good War?Essays by Scott McConnell, Thomas Woods, Andrew Bacevich, Stuart Reid, Christopher Layne, Ted Carpenter, Michael Vlahos.
The Final Secret of Pearl HarborAn essay by John Flynn.
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harborby Robert Stinnett, who approves of FDR’s deceit.
The author uncovered the McCollum Memorandum of October 7, 1940, the authenticity of which even his critics acknowledge. The memo’s significance isn’t that FDR followed it – there’s no hard evidence he read it – but rather that the memo was undoubtedly written to “please the boss.” Such a belligerent series of proposals – culminating in “If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.” – never would have been put on paper had they not been in the air, the atmosphere of the Roosevelt administration.Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret Warby George Morgenstern.
(Amazon reviews)Pearl Harbor: Antecedents, Background and Consequencesby James J. Martin.
Pearl Harbor After a Quarter of a Centuryby Harry Elmer Barnes.
Pearl HarborA collection of links.
Pearl Harbor: facing factsStephen Sniegoski.
Roosevelt’s Road to Russiaby George Crocker. Favorably reviewed in
The Objectivist Newsletter, January 1964.
(Amazon reviews)How Franklin Roosevelt Lied America Into Warby William Henry Chamberlin.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace“A critical examination of the foreign policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and its aftermath.” Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes, with essays by William Henry Chamberlin, Percy Greaves, George Lundberg, George Morgenstern, William Neumann, Frederic Sanborn, Charles Callan Tansill. The first edition was published by Caxton Press, a division of Caxton Printers. NBI Book Service carried the book in the early 1960s.
Wall Street and FDRby Antony Sutton.
Review of Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decisionby Charles Hiles.
World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You TodayHigh school level text by Richard Maybury, author of
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? in the same series.
(Amazon reviews)The Making of a Tyrantby Francis Neilson. Article from
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Contrasts Hitler before and after March 1939. Contains amazing quotes of Churchill about Stalin, and little known facts about Czechoslovakia.
The Happy Warriorsby
James J. Martin.
President Roosevelt and the Coming of the Warby Charles Beard.
(Amazon reviews)Back Door to Warby Charles Tansill.
(Amazon reviews)A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of East European Germansby Alfred-Maurice de Zayas.
(Amazon reviews)Other Lossesby James Bacque.
(Amazon reviews)An Eye for an Eyeby John Sack.
(Amazon reviews)Poles Review Postwar Treatment of GermansSolomon Morel fled to Israel and now lives in Tel Aviv. By Craig Whitney,
NYT.
Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the U.S., 1939-44by Thomas Mahl.
They Thought They Were Freeby Milton Mayer.
Roosevelt’s Secret Warby Joseph Persico.
Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriationby Julius Epstein.
Hiroshima: Was It Necessary?by Doug Long. In particular see
Those who disagreed with the Hiroshima bombing.
How We Bungled the Japanese Surrenderby Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN (Ret.).
The Atomic Bombing of Japanby Kevin Young.
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bombby Gar Alperovitz.
(Amazon reviews)Stalin’s War of Exterminationby Joachim Hoffmann. This was our ally?
(Amazon reviews)The White RoseLeonard Peikoff neglects to mention German resistance groups in
The Ominous Parallels. From their third leaflet: “... why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks?”
Youth Resistance in Wartime GermanyAbout the group of Helmuth Hübener, pamphleteer at age 17, and other groups.
The Valkyrie ConspiracyGeneral Friedrich Olbricht, Col. Claus Graf Stauffenberg and other German military officers oppose Hitler, culminating in “July 20.”
The Blood of Dresdenby Kurt Vonnegut.
Why was Dresden Destroyed?In August 1944, an RAF memorandum pointed out that “the total devastation of the centre of a vast [German] city…would convince the Russian allies…of the effectiveness of Anglo-American air power.” By Jacques Pauwels.
Revisionists challenge D-Day storyAccording to Antony Beevor’s book
D-Day, many troops were not welcomed as liberators. By Hugh Schofield, BBC.
Target: PattonThe assassination of General George S. Patton. By Robert Wilcox.
World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The man who knew too much
Richard Barlow, thrown out of the CIA when he blew the whistle on U.S. aid to Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
Interview of her with Philip Giraldi. See also Sibel Edmonds above, under “General.”
America’s Pro-Terrorism Foreign-Aid Program
by James Bovard.
East Minus West = Zero: Russia’s Debt to the Western World
by Werner Keller. Also known as Are The Russians Ten Feet Tall? Originally in German. Favorably reviewed in The Objectivist Newsletter, November 1962. (Amazon reviews)
From Major Jordan’s Diaries
“I want to put in permanent form the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to June 1944 ... .” By George Racey Jordan.Review by David Martin: “How We Gave the Russians the Bomb.”
Full text of book (we could do without the website’s introduction).
Antony C. Sutton
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 1968 to 1973.
How America Fell
Giving the Chinese secret military technology began in the Reagan administration. By Robert Parry.
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.’s lobbyists for hire
by Ken Silverstein, Harper’s Magazine. See also the author’s reply to letters, Sept. 2007 page 5.
Conversation with a University Professor
U.S. Higher Education: The Great Global Giveaway.
A criminal conspiracy.
Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq
by Robert Parry. (Amazon reviews)
The Bush Record After Three Years
World Affairs Brief.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey
by Rodney Stich.
Bush Jokes about WMD (video)
Ohio 2004 election fraud
With special reference to Michael Connell.
The same criminal conspiracy with a smoother front.
Obama Sends Signal to Suckers Still Believing in the Rule of Law
by Chris Floyd.
Administration Files To Dismiss Case Against John Yoo
by Jonathan Turley.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/Confidant Cass Sunstein
It may not affect you, until too late.
Asleep at the Wheel: The U.S. Becomes What It Wasn’t
by Fred Reed.
The Martial Law Mind-Set
by William Norman Grigg.
Brigade homeland tours
“Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army.” By Gina Cavallaro, Army Times.
Domestic Surveillance
Guidelines Would Give FBI Broader Powers
By Eric Lichtblau, New York Times.
One Homeland Security “fusion center”
Missouri state police memo says Ron Paul supporters may be terrorists. In the face of protests the memo was first defended, then retracted. The defense sounded more sincere.
From One Assault on the Constitution to Another
by Paul Craig Roberts.
We’re the Defense Intelligence Agency
About a video produced by the DOD.
The Politics of the REAL ID Revival Bill
The PASS Act is just the Real ID Act under a new name.
Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of Government
By James Bovard.
U.S. FEMA Administrator Meets With Israeli IDF Home Front Command
Our current government’s ally.
Obama’s Secret Police
by Justin Raimondo.
Pentagon Would Post Active Military Personnel in U.S.
400,000 for starters. By Matthew Rothschild.
Local police need assault rifles in case of terror attack
The Defense Authorization Act of 2006
by James Bovard.
Sonic weapons at townhall meetings in San Diego county
These weapons – also known as Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) and “sonic cannons” – may be non-lethal but they are not mayemless. Elsewhere, cruise ship captain Michael Groves suffered permanent hearing loss when he used one to repel a pirate attack, and he was behind it rather than in front. At full volume the noise level directly in front is 150 decibels, and even at 300 yards it permanently damages hearing.
What type of country the U.S. has become
The Internet
ADL and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to Fight Hate Crimes
Though the focus is on the Alex Jones Show, not my cup of tea, the danger pointed out applies to all of us.
The “Stability Police Force”
RAND study prepared at the behest of the U.S. Army. SPF would be a “hybrid” military and law enforcement corps within the U.S. Marshals Service for “crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups” both at home, “augmenting state and local agencies,” and abroad. It “provides significant domestic policing and homeland security benefits by providing thousands of additional police officers across the United States.”
IDF, National Guard to share ideas
It belongs in this section.
Dred Scott II: Obama & Supreme Court Endorse Slavery
by Chris Floyd. Good article except for the ending with its assumption that M. L. King advocated freedom.
Establishment of the Council of Governors
Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
“A citizen may not gain standing [before the court] by claiming a right to have the government follow the law.” – U.S. District Judge.
Internet Licensing
Microsoft executive urges government to license websites. Time magazine commentator agrees.
Internet Use Taxation
Another Microsoft executive suggests that the government tax Internet usage. A Microsoft spokeman then both denies and admits it. A study in how a violation of freedom in one sphere leads to it in another. Not to mention that some big businesses are in the vanguard of socialism/fascism.
Barefoot and Panty-Scanned: The Soviet Union Arrives
by Fred Reed.
Some of these sites cast a wide net, a random article might be worthless. A few of these sites say some very stupid things about Ayn Rand. Some have a contradictory Leftist or religious orientation. Use critically.
Raw Story
CounterPunch
AntiWar.com
The Last Ditch
Morning News
Project Censored
Americans Against World Empire
Consortium News
The War Party
The National Expositor
Who, What, Why
Generally avoid:NewsMax — a neocon disinformation outlet for the vulgar.
Accuracy in Media — though they’ve done good work on TWA flight 800, this is just window-dressing. You know something’s fishy when they advertise a documentary film on Iraq as praised by a former Israeli ambassador, and promote neocons like Ann Coulter and Frank Gaffney (the latter signed the June 3, 1997 “Statement of Principles” from the Project for the New American Century).
Drudge Report — the news it leaves out is its news.
From The Wilderness (Michael Ruppert) — these days in large part nutty.
Rense — a mixture of wisdom and nuttiness.
Reason Magazine — asleep at the switch.
Much of the “9/11 truth movement” — the truth about the cover-up is bad enough without exaggerating it.
WorldNetDaily — dosed with Rapturists/Zionists.
The Huffington Post — we might be able to stomach the leftist slant were it not for
Arianna’s friends.
What Really Happened — embraces the contradiction of Marxism and the Bill of Rights. Revels in doom.
Rollye James — weeknights 10 pm - 1 am (ET).
Jay Diamond — formerly of WABC, WOR, WEVD, WRKO.
Norman Finkelstein
One of the 101 most dangerous academics in America! — according to neocon David Horowitz.
Alfred Lilienthal
We could do without his sucking up to the king of Saudi Arabia.
Victor Ostrovsky
Former case officer, or katsa, at Israel’s Mossad.By Way of Deception (with Claire Hoy).
(Amazon reviews)The Other Side of DeceptionWRMEA articles
Company fined $6,000 for not reporting customer’s question
“Is any of this stuff made in Israel?”
Boycott Israel
This is illegal for U.S. companies (see above link).
Khiam Prison: Israel’s Torture Den
Israel’s Technology Transfers to China
by Donald Neff. This is our ally?
Failure to prosecute Israeli espionage in the U.S.
Marc Grossman and others under investigation by the FBI for treason in the service of Israel are allowed to escape. Comments by FBi officials including John Cole, former FBI counterespionage manager and author of the forthcoming book While America Sleeps.
The Israeli Lobby Archive
Photostats of original documents.
Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans?
And why isn’t AIPAC registered as an agent of a foreign country? AIPAC throws Rosen to the wolves and Rosen objects. By Grant Smith.
Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby
Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship
by Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn. (Amazon reviews)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The Transparent Cabal
The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel — by Steve Sniegoski.
IDF at work
Video of a routine operation in the “occupied territories.”
What Right to Exist?
The West Bank invasion of 2002. By Wolf DeVoon.
Attempted sinking of the USS Liberty
About a Study On Noam Chomsky
by James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator.
The Other Israel
The Israeli peace movement.
The Case Against Israel
by Michael Neumann. A rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz.
The Israel Lobby
by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.Short versionLondon Review of Books, 23 March 2006.
Long version (pdf)“... saying that Israel and the United States are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: rather, the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other way around.”
“... the mere existence of the Lobby suggests that unconditional support for Israel is not in the American national interest. If it was, one would not need an organized special interest group to bring it about. But because Israel is a strategic and moral liability, it takes relentless political pressure to keep U.S. support intact.”
Interview“The Israel lobby and its influence has been a taboo subject for too long. It is very important for the national interest that this matter be discussed at length and in a serious way in the media and on Capitol Hill. Too much is at stake to continue treating the lobby and Israel like two elephants in the room.”
They Reply to Critics
Israel Lobbying: The Attack on Mearsheimer and Waltby Stephen Sniegoski.
The Second Wave Against Mearsheimer and Waltby Stephen Sniegoski.
The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in LebanonStephen Walt and John Mearsheimer talk, Aug 28, 2006.
The Storm over the Israel Lobbyby Michael Massing,
The New York Review of Books. (First paragraph free.)
The Real Israel LobbyOutline of a lecture by Joachim Martillo.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.Amazon reviewsFirst ChapterInterviewBBC interviewThe Lobby Strikes Back Debate on Al Jazeera 4 April 2008. Prof. Mearsheimer maintains that were it not for Israel the U.S. would not have invaded Iraq. Prof. Finkelstein disagrees, maintaining that U.S. and Israeli leaders had a coincidental interest in invading Iraq, that at worst Israel helped U.S. leaders implement their own decision. Starts 3:15 minutes into Part 1.
The Israel Lobby and American Society“Mearsheimer and Walt fail to describe the full magnitude of the problem.” ... “... the book is flawed by acceptance of too many Zionist and Jewish claims at face value.” By Joachim Martillo, preface by Israel Shamir.
More arms for Israel
This time via Greece.
My Impressions of Israel
by Joel Skousen.
AIPAC at Work
AIPAC on Trial
by James Petras.
Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Council for the National Interest
Founded by Republican Congressmen Paul Findley and Paul McCloskey. Though their motivation may be questioned, their motivation is irrelevant to the validity of their facts and arguments about Israeli influence in American government.
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
by Warner Farr, Lt. Col., U.S. Army.
Madison’s Warning and the Israel Lobby
by Michael Scheuer.
Libya bombing
Jane Hunter
Publisher and editor of the newsletter Israeli Foreign Affairs 1984 - 1993.
Freedom in the Air
A Brit criticizes Israel’s invasion of Gaza and gets indicted. By Israel Shamir, a kind of socialist who will offend just about everybody. Some of his work is worth reading.
Mondoweiss
“The War of Ideas in the Middle East.” Managed by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz.
The Politics of Anti-Semitism
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, eds. (Amazon reviews)
Politics Unspun
Website by Greg Felton of Canada.
Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries
by Suad Amiry. Life in the “occupied territories.” (Amazon reviews)
The Holy Land Unveiled
by Jenifer Dixon. More life in the “occupied territories.” (Amazon reviews)
PalestineRemembered.com
Includes Zionist quotes.
Mid-East Realities
Human Rights Watch
Lebensraum
Greater Israel, one arson attack at a time.
The 1967 War and the Israeli Occupation (archive.org)
Israel Shahak
He criticizes Zionism and Israel, and for that gets “the treatment.” He’s a “self-hating Jew,” to which he has replied: “That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.”
Vandals
Tales of Brutality
The IDF murders one of its own
“ ‘... the killing of [First Sergeant Eli Isha, mistaken for an Arab] was carried out according to the normal procedure now used by combat units of the Israeli army, called a “certification of death” (veedoo hamavet ...), according to which wounded enemies are routinely shot in the head.’ ” By Frank Collins.
The Many Faces of Terrorism
by Edna Hunt.
Indiscriminate killing
The one who makes people talk
About the IDF around 1990.
Pulled JTA articles boasting of pro-Israel congressmen
Unfortunately the Internet Wayback Machine archived only the first parts.
Joan Peter’s From Time Immemorial
Deir Yassin Remembered
by Daniel McGowan, a bleeding heart liberal, but don’t confuse the messenger with the messege.
The Israel Lobby (video)
Dutch documentary. “The influence of AIPAC on U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Edwin M. Wright
The Israel Lobby
AIPAC acts like its predescessor AZC.
The Iran-Contra Connection
“Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.” Israel was heavily involved in Iran-Contra. By Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Hunter.
Israeli Soldiers Speak Out (video)
Interview with two veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces who served during the second intifada.
Shin Bet at work
“Now you are paralyzed, as we promised.” By Gideon Levy.
A window on interrogation
Shin Bet, Israel’s FBI, arrests Khotri. He denies the charge. Under torture he confesses. After more torture he names several men as co-conspirators. Then Shin Bet arrests them. And so it goes. (A citizens’ group got Khotri a judicial hearing regarding his injuries. The judge ordered medical treatment, but failed to order an investigation of Shin Bet. Torture in Israel is only nominally illegal.) By Gideon Levy.
Cyber-soldiers
Your foreign aid tax dollars at work.
We shall deal with them with “might, power, and beating.”
– Yitzhak Rabin, as reported in the Washington Post, January 22, 1988.
Israeli settlers
by James Hider.
Israeli army targets family over film
by Jonathan Cook.
Gaza invasion vignette
“The IDF trains its soldiers to minimise injuries to civilians and to respect all civilians on the battlefront.” — Israeli PR boilerplate.
“Obsession” video funded by Aish HaTorah
By Meg Laughlin, St. Petersburg Times.
The case of Charles Freeman
A political hack dares to mildly criticize Israel, and gets the treatment.
Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interests
Not so consistently, but in any case Israel had another interest in mind. By Barbara Crossette.
Spy Trade
How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy. By Grant Smith. Foreword by Michael Scheuer.
Freedom of the press the Israeli way
Anti-Americanism in Israel
Border Police upload their abuse to YouTube
“Forcing Palestinians to sing is a common occurrence and is perceived by Border [Policemen] as quite humorous ... .” YouTube removed the linked video, but not before it was copied on Blip.tv .
The Dept. of Homeland Security and Israel
Security Solutions International – SSI – takes cops and others on a tour of Israel, all expenses paid (by you via DHS).
Israel as a Mental Case
The time has come to send Israel for psychiatric observation. By Gideon Levy.
Defamation
Film review by Gilad Atzmon. (Blocked in US by source, must use foreign proxy.)
Trafficking in Human Organs, the case of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum
About the principal U.S. broker in an international kidney trafficking ring financed by Israel. The victims included Moldavians who were promised jobs in the U.S. and then coerced into giving their kidneys to recipients who posed as relatives.
“Plundered for their organs”
Israeli Organ Harvesting by Alison Weir.
The Forgotten Autopsy Surgeon by Jonathan Cook.
The World Owes it to Us by Alison Weir.
Israeli admits to organ harvesting by Charlotte West. As in the Pollard affair, admission after denial and denial makes you wonder about the next denial.
The Body Snatchers by Israel Shamir.
Marred by his socialism at the end. There are reasonable arguments against organ transplantation (e.g. the recipient will be on debilitating anti-rejections drugs for the rest of his life) but the following is not among them: The thousands of his dollars a man would spend to prolong his life can be taken by the State and used to feed the starving. That, too, is an act of cannibalism.
Downsize DC
Supports the “Read the Bills Act” requiring Congressmen to read every word of a bill before they vote in favor of it, the “One Subject at a Time Act” forbidding irrelevant amendments to a bill, seeks repeal of the “Real ID Act” and similar enabling acts.
Campaign for Liberty
Black Box Voting
Elections watchdog group. Bev Harris, founder and director. See also the testimony of Clinton Curtis during the Congressional hearing on vote fraud, 13 December 2004, Columbus, Ohio.
Fully Informed Jury Association
How to nullify a bad law when on jury duty.
J.A.I.L. for Judges
The Judicial Accountability Initiative Law is “a single-issue national grassroots organization designed to end the rampant and pervasive judicial corruption in the legal system of the United States.”
Young Americans for Liberty
OathKeepers
Dissention within the ranks. Founded by Stewart Rhodes.
The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope
Pamphlet by Richard Mack. When the Clinton administration demanded county sheriffs enforce provisions of the Brady Bill gun control law, he was the first of seven sheriffs (out of about 3,000 in the country) who fought it – and won, though he lost his job through the efforts of Morris Dees (Southern Poverty Law Center) and the ADL. He argues that the county sheriff has the authority to protect citizens from federal agents.
The Tenth Ammendment Center
“The powers not delegated ... .”
Immigration reform
MAPLight – money and politics: illuminating the connection
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Hacking Democracy
(Diebold is now Premier Election Solutions, recently acquired by ES&S.)
Alliance for the Separation of School and State
Center For Small Government
Ron Paul
U.S. Congressional Representative (Texas, nominally Republican), perhaps the only congress-critter walking on two legs. It’s been said that when you see a vote of 434 to 1, you know the 1 was Ron Paul.
The GOP’s tea party fraud
The Constitution
Some interesting thoughts by Tom Mullen. The Declaration of Independence was the greatest document in human history. As for the contstition, one has to wonder about the some of the authors’ motivation (pre-Bill of Rights).
Good News
Oil is a vital commodity, but there is no oil crisis and any alleged dearth of oil is not a legitimate foreign policy issue. Even were there an oil crisis, there is nuclear power and who knows what other technical innovations that could flourish in a county free from crazy regulations and confiscatory taxation.
The Key to the Energy Crisis
by Lindsay Williams. At a Ford Hall Forum lecture question period in 1976, when oil prices were record high, Ayn Rand said “I don’t believe there is an energy crisis.” This book presents evidence that the oil crisis of the 1970’s was manufactured by elements within the government. There is vastly more oil under Alaska’s North Slope than all of Saudi Arabia.
The Oil Reserve Fallacy
by Prof. Robert Kovarik.
“Proven reserves are not a measure of future supply.”
“... the Middle East does not have two thirds of the world’s oil reserves.”
The two thirds estimate refers “to a narrow category of ‘proven’ oil reserves, not to ‘every ... barrel of oil in the world’ ... .”
“According to a US Geological Survey report quietly published in 2000, there is more oil outside the Middle East than inside the region.” Saudi Arabia, to take one country, “may have one quarter of the world’s identified oil reserves ..., but it has only about 16 percent of all ultimately recoverable reserves ... .”
Abiotic Oil ?
I was brought up on the idea that oil came from prehistoric plants, “fossil fuel” you know, and that therefore the amount of oil underneath the earth is necessarily very limited. But the notion that oil comes from prehistoric vegetation is largely conjecture, and it has competition. Some Russians maintain that oil is produced by an ongoing abiotic process, a process not involving living things, and at a rate that even today exceeds consumption. Apparently they have some good evidence.
Access to Energy
The newsletter founded by Petr Beckmann (the spelling is correct) and now published by Arthur B. Robinson. “A Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Free Enterprise Monthly Newsletter.”
The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear
by Petr Beckmann. (Amazon reviews)
Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power
It’s cheap, clean, safe – and doesn’t depend on the Mideast. By Peter Huber and Mark Mills.
Trashing the Planet
by Dixie Lee Ray. Included here for its chapters on the safety and advantages of nuclear power. (Amazon reviews)
Here are links to ARI and other alleged Objectivist websites. We agree with much of what these people say, the problem is their hypocrisy saying it given the rest.
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