Interview (audio) – from jail, on David Livingston’s The Space Show, May 6, 2007.
NASA Caught Manipulating Climate DataThen animated by their Scientific Visualization Studio? Where your tax dollars go.
True and False Securityby Bruce Schneier.district ju
A Dinosaur Named Sue1992 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 RememberedAn account of yet another hypocrisy of the Reagan administration. As for Schlossberg, almost certainly a crank.
David KellyCorruption in Britain.
Family of Secretsby Russ Baker. Bush Sr. and the "shadow government.
The link between SSRI drugs and rampagesPoliticians use these rampages to promote gun control while the thoughtful denounce the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Neo-Nazi leader was MI6 agentAnd you thought G. K. Chesterton’s ending to
The Man Who Was Thursday was silly.
The FBI’s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plotby Graham Rayman,
The Village Voice.
NASA hiding climate dataAbout 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.General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The “Greatest Generation” was fooled, bribed, and pushed into ...
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.
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 muchRichard 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 Programby James Bovard.
East Minus West = Zero: Russia’s Debt to the Western Worldby 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. SuttonResearch Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 1968 to 1973.
How America FellGiving the Chinese secret military technology began in the Reagan administration. By Robert Parry.
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.’s lobbyists for hireby Ken Silverstein,
Harper’s Magazine. See also the author’s reply to letters, Sept. 2007 page 5.
Conversation with a University ProfessorU.S. Higher Education: The Great Global Giveaway.
A criminal conspiracy.
Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraqby Robert Parry.
(Amazon reviews)The Bush Record After Three YearsWorld Affairs Brief.
Attorney General Michael Mukaseyby Rodney Stich.
Bush Jokes about WMD (video)Ohio 2004 election fraudWith special reference to Mike Connell.
The same criminal conspiracy with a smoother front.
Obama Sends Signal to Suckers Still Believing in the Rule of Lawby Chris Floyd.
Administration Files To Dismiss Case Against John Yooby Jonathan Turley.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/
Confidant Cass SunsteinIt may not affect you, until too late.
Asleep at the Wheel: The U.S. Becomes What It Wasn’tby Fred Reed.
The Martial Law Mind-Setby 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 SurveillanceGuidelines Would Give FBI Broader PowersBy 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 Anotherby Paul Craig Roberts.
We’re the Defense Intelligence AgencyAbout a video produced by the DOD.
The Politics of the REAL ID Revival BillThe PASS Act is just the Real ID Act under a new name.
Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of GovernmentBy James Bovard.
U.S. FEMA Administrator Meets With Israeli IDF Home Front CommandOur current government’s ally.
Obama’s Secret Policeby 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 attackSonic weapons at townhall meetings in San Diego countyThese 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 becomeThe InternetADL and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to Fight Hate CrimesThough 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 ideasIt belongs in this section.
Dred Scott II: Obama & Supreme Court Endorse Slaveryby Chris Floyd. Good article except for the ending with its assumption that M. L. King advocated freedom.
Establishment of the Council of GovernorsJudge 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 LicensingMicrosoft executive urges government to license websites. Time magazine commentator
agrees.
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 StoryCounterPunchAntiWar.comThe Last DitchMorning NewsProject CensoredAmericans Against World EmpireConsortium NewsThe War PartyThe National ExpositorWho, What, WhyGlobal ResearchGenerally 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 FinkelsteinOne of the 101 most dangerous academics in America! — according to neocon David Horowitz.
Alfred LilienthalWe could do without his sucking up to the king of Saudi Arabia.
Victor OstrovskyFormer 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 IsraelThis is illegal for U.S. companies (see above link).
Khiam Prison: Israel’s Torture DenIsrael’s Technology Transfers to Chinaby 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 ArchivePhotostats 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 LobbyDangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationshipby Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn.
(Amazon reviews)Washington Report on Middle East AffairsThe Transparent CabalThe Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel — by Steve Sniegoski.
IDF at workVideo 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 LibertyAbout a Study On Noam Chomskyby James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator.
The Other IsraelThe Israeli peace movement.
The Case Against Israelby Michael Neumann. A rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz.
The Israel Lobbyby 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 Policyby 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 IsraelThis time via Greece.
My Impressions of Israelby Joel Skousen.
AIPAC at WorkAIPAC on Trialby James Petras.
Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman of the American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeCouncil for the National InterestFounded 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 Weaponsby Warner Farr, Lt. Col., U.S. Army.
Madison’s Warning and the Israel Lobbyby Michael Scheuer.
Libya bombingJane HunterPublisher and editor of the newsletter
Israeli Foreign Affairs 1984 - 1993.
Freedom in the AirA 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-SemitismAlexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, eds.
(Amazon reviews)Politics UnspunWebsite by Greg Felton of Canada.
Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diariesby Suad Amiry. Life in the “occupied territories.”
(Amazon reviews)The Holy Land Unveiledby Jenifer Dixon. More life in the “occupied territories.”
(Amazon reviews)PalestineRemembered.comIncludes
Zionist quotes.
Mid-East RealitiesHuman Rights WatchLebensraumGreater Israel, one arson attack at a time.
The 1967 War and the Israeli OccupationIsrael ShahakHe 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.”
VandalsTales of BrutalityThe 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 Terrorismby Edna Hunt.
Indiscriminate killingThe one who makes people talkAbout the IDF around 1990.
Pulled JTA articles boasting of pro-Israel congressmenUnfortunately the Internet Wayback Machine archived only the first parts.
Joan Peter’s From Time ImmemorialDeir Yassin Rememberedby 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. WrightThe Israel LobbyAIPAC 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 interrogationShin 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-soldiersYour 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.
My Personal Experience with the Israeli occupationby Khalid Amayreh.
Israeli settlersby James Hider.
Israeli army targets family over filmby 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 HaTorahBy Meg Laughlin,
St. Petersburg Times.
The case of Charles FreemanA political hack dares to mildly criticize Israel, and gets the treatment.
Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s InterestsNot so consistently, but in any case Israel had another interest in mind. By Barbara Crossette.
Spy TradeHow Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy. By Grant Smith. Foreword by Michael Scheuer.
Freedom of the press the Israeli wayAnti-Americanism in IsraelBorder 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 IsraelSecurity Solutions International – SSI – takes cops and others on a tour of Israel, all expenses paid (by you via DHS).
Israel as a Mental CaseThe time has come to send Israel for psychiatric observation. By Gideon Levy.
DefamationFilm review by Gilad Atzmon. (Blocked in US by source, must use foreign proxy.)
Trafficking in Human Organs, the case of Levy-Izhak RosenbaumAbout 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”Downsize DCSupports 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 LibertyBlack Box VotingElections 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 AssociationHow to nullify a bad law when on jury duty.
J.A.I.L. for JudgesThe 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 LibertyOathKeepersDissention within the ranks. Founded by Stewart Rhodes.
The County Sheriff: America’s Last HopePamphlet 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.Immigration reformMAPLight – money and politics: illuminating the connectionLaw Enforcement Against ProhibitionHacking Democracy(Diebold is now Premier Election Solutions, recently acquired by ES&S.)
Alliance for the Separation of School and StateCenter For Small GovernmentRon PaulU.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.
Good NewsOil 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 Crisisby 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 Fallacyby 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 EnergyThe 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 Nuclearby Petr Beckmann.
(Amazon reviews)Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear PowerIt’s cheap, clean, safe – and doesn’t depend on the Mideast. By Peter Huber and Mark Mills.
Trashing the Planetby 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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