[…] accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN and withholding crucial information about Saddam Hussein’s arsenal. Led by Senator Carl Levin, the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not […]
[…] a company devoted to producing better equipped American children, making educational software available to schools – at a price. Consultants to the firm include Bill Brock, former senator and chair of the Republican National Committee; Bob Stearns, a George W. appointee to a Texas technology board; Peter Su, a former presidential campaign advisor, and […]
[…] Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retd.), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility […]
Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an … Read more
[…] The slaughtered villagers were recorded as enemy dead and Kerrey received the Silver Star for the massacre. He went on to become governor of Nebraska, a US senator and a university president in New York.(10)There were hundreds of such raids and everyone killed was claimed as Vietcong. The large number of women killed were […]
[…] the Gemstone File. Words cannot adequately describe its unsettling aura of psychopathology. Much of the page features a photocopied portrait shot of Joan Kennedy (at the time, Senator Edward Kennedy’s wife), as originally printed in Good Housekeeping. Above it, Roberts reproduces the magazine’s masthead, then pens in the following indicia: ‘PUBLISHED BY HEARST CORP. […]
[…] I presume, in seeing Richard Tomlinson rubbished, which chapter 16 of the Paget report does.) Israeli lobby In December 2006 a letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, about the Israeli lobby in the US, began circulating on the Net. Its most striking paragraph was this: ‘I can tell you from […]
[…] concern about foreign influence or interference.(13) The Lugar Report I draw these criteria from The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance, a 2006 report prepared by the NED for Senator Richard G. Lugar(14) who is dumbfounded that all the US’s largesse is rejected. But even though the report tells us that democracy building as a policy […]
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
[…] and drug consultant to, the Center for International Development Policy, gathering information in support of the investigation into Drugs and Foreign Policy conducted at that time by Senator John Kerry. In that capacity I consulted with a number of experts in Washington inside and outside government. I was also a personal eyewitness to the […]
