America: a Beacon, not an Empire	NEWS  OF  THE  AMERICAN  EMPIRE- (& Iraq)	Americans Against World Empire, Inc  Homepage

"....from the White House to the Pentagon (the State Department still has some good sense left), one hears repeatedly the siren call of "empire," like the lotus-eaters on the Isle of Djerba in ancient times crying out to Ulysses' sailors with their delicious narcotic treats and then holding them enchanted in the prisons of their desires."(1/07/03)  Georgie Anne Geyer

1/07/08  Bush: Bad for America, Bad for Israel  Haaretz on Bush visit to Israel-- "all we got from Bush: a more entrenched and brutal occupation with the open, or tacit, encouragement of the U.S.; a green light for another superfluous war in Lebanon;"

12/08/07  List of 'Willing' U.S. Allies Shrinks Steadily in Iraq  Kept in obscurity so as not to risk any casualties, rarely any combat--20 nations-- example 13 soldiers from Romania, 1 from Singapore.  Allies expect payoff later from America in aid or support

11/30/07  New Understanding- Reason for Firing Whole Iraqi Army and Civil Service It was not to wreck the country, but rather to eliminate nationalists who would object to U.S. companies taking over oil resources --(We rather subscribe to idea that it was not done out of stupidity by Rumsfeld-Feith, they were not stupid men, however it also served Feith's Likud loyalties).  Army was loyal to Iraq nation, unlike tribes and Shia leaders.  Garner was fired because he objected, wanted Army to maintain order and nationhood.

11/26/07  War Supporter Howard Defeated in Australia  last major Bush/Cheney ally for wars defeated, Australia to withdraw troops from Iraq, move away from Neocon American foreign policies

11/26/07  U.S. Incapable of Building Needed Refineries  Paralysis in Washington, environmental laws and laws to allocate refining to ethanol hinder economics --gasoline imports doubled to 10% of needs.

11/18/07  What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think. 250,000 bullets for each dead guerrilla - Joint Economic Committee estimates cost through '08 budget at $1.3 Trillion, CBO says $1 Trillion

11/18/07  Losing Afghanistan, One Civilian at a Time  firepower and nervous soldiers don't win guerilla wars

11/11/07  America's Imperial Shadow in Middle East, seen as continuation of European imperialism, but more self righteous

11/06/07  Court-Martial for Killing 3 Iraqis  fake weapons put out as "bait" - then Iraqis picking them up were killed, other cases of killing unarmed young men just for running away to build up body count

11/05/07  Trial in Iraq of Top Shiite for murder of Sunnis in Hospitals  interesting report on how militias got established, how they did killings

11/03/07  How Iraq's Elections Set Back Democracy by Ayad Allawi-- rush to proportional system, voters did not know names of candidates, could only vote for (mainly ethnic) party lists made by politicians, etc.   See proportional representation problems for more on this type of electoral system

11/03/07  State Dept., other agencies short changed as most money goes to military military setting up units for diplomacy, intelligence, oversight, language skills, etc, while AID, USIA, State, etc. decimated or destroyed.

10/30/07  Catastrophic Iraq Occupation the U.S. Media Rarely Reports Deaths, hospitals, bombing, etc.

10/19/07  Days After Claiming U.S. Less Safe Due To Iraq War, Counterterrorism Chief Suddenly Resigns     See Video of Interview

10/19/07  Head of Reconstruction Teams in Iraq Reports Little Progress Throughout Country  businesses shut down, scarce electricity, no maintenance of facilities built by U.S., few jobs, general misery without hope

10/16/07  Hatred of U.S. Drives al-Qaeda Recruiting  "occupied my country, destroyed it and made millions [of] refugees. It is an honor to fight this”

10/8/07  Top Iraqis Pull Back from Key U.S. Goal  Very detailed report on inability of Iraq government to reform itself or become effective -- because of the way the U.S. set up electoral system and power holding from the beginning

9/30/07  Washington Post Series  Dire fight to Beat War's Most Effective Weapon  IED's now spreading to Afghanistan and fears that they will come to other parts of the world  New type of bomb is unexpectedly lethal in Iraq  Insiders say billions spent on 'defeat the device' moves not doing enough  Saga of billions trying to neutralize IED's  trying everything, even 600 lb. doors on trucks, soldiers nearly immobilized inside giant armored new vehicles, constantly adapting intelligent enemy

9/04/07  Infiltration by Sjia of Iraq Police and Army  and Signing Up Sunnis  Two reports explaining Iraq situation and impossibility of any military resolution by Americans.  Situation only possible as long as U.S. troops stay.

8/30/07  GAO Report Finds Little Progress on Iraq Goals  Iraq fails to meet all but 3 of 18 Congress mandated benchmarks

8/12/07    Libby & the Intent to Destroy Iraq   American Prospect

8/7/07   As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates  Infighting, tribes, gangs vie for stealing oil money, British stay cooped up at main base

8/3/07  Total U.S. Ignorance of Iraq's Tribal Society  Maliki and his Dawa party govern as a tribe, no ability or experience in compromising with others, Dawa has not militia like other Shia tribes, no money to support Sunni area rebuilding  Gates--"U.S. Misjudged Iraqi Leaders Discord"  all this comes back to Neocon control of policies  GAO Report on Iraq Oil Sector

9/01/07  $150 Barrel Oil "easily managed" says Heritage Foundation but a million fewer jobs in 2008, then U.S. would allow drilling in Alaska.

7/17/07   Payback for NATO Expansion  by Ivan Eland-- U.S. violation of Two Plus Four agreement for Russians to evacuate East Germany

7/18/07  Report on Contractor (mercenary) "army" in Iraq   key support for US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilians have little oversight and, back home, little help.  New Associated Press Report on Contractors

6/23/07  U.S. Using Kurdish Infiltrators into Iran   to disrupt and try to cause ethnic conflict and chaos like in Iraq, 1200 Israeli Intelligence agents in Northern (Kurdish) Iraq

6/16/07  Report on Private Contractors  -- key role, 100 companies, 20-30,000 contractors, 14% of convoys being attacked, number rising over prior years, hundreds killed

6/14/07  U.S. Tries to Set Up Competent Intelligence Service in Iraq  problem Iranian influence in Shia organizations, Iranians also had lists of former Iraqi intelligence officials and many assassinated (note earlier reports (Jamestown Foundation) that pilots, engineers, former generals also murdered, Ed.)

6/10/07   Republican Presidential Candidates' Debates Show American Democracy Incapable of Intelligent Imperialism  appealing to Southern (war & religion) base, disaffecting the rest of America

6/10/07  Military Envisons Long Term (Smaller) Presence in Iraq -Leaving would take 3,000 large convoys 10 months to remove U.S. military gear and personnel.---"2005 election only made things worse, deepened sectarian divides," says U.S. general

5/30/06   Recapturing the Essentials of Counterinsurgency  well researched history of guerrilla warfare and listing of necessary measures for success.

5/24/07  Fortress Embassies Damage Diplomacy  Get out of our garrisons

5/16/07   What Bremer Got Wrong in Iraq  reinforced tribal culture, many soldiers and officers who wanted to co-operate with U.S. (and promised so in pre-war U.S. propaganda) were dismissed along with all other government officials

4/24/07  How to infuriate Russia and the European Union and waste $10 billion a year.  putting antimissiles in Europe to defend against Iran??

4/20/07   Training Iraqi Troops No Longer U.S. Priority  training and equipment give mainly to Shia militias with loyalty to their tribes-- training was basis of whole U.S. policy

4/12/07  $5 per Gallon Gasoline When U.S. Starts Bombing Iran

4/03/07  Iraqi Sunni Widow Murdered by Shiites  --futility- of U.S. efforts to protect Iraqis from ethnic cleansing - Sunnis being eliminated in Baghdad even after U.S. soldiers try to intervene - NY Times story

3/16/07  The Trillion Dollar Budget is Already Here  $1 million for each new soldier  --presumably includes equipment, perhaps not his pension

3/15/07  U.S Has Four Very Large Bases in Iraq ---each with housing for tens of thousands of troops, no plans to give them up, quarter billion dollars spent already on one, Balad Air Base, also occupies whole Northern quarter of Kuwait

3/14/07  National Guard Troops Never Signed Up for service overseas, Article I, Section 8; Clause 15: The Congress shall have Power ... To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

3/12/07  Terrorists Harder To Profile  new recruits among regular Europeans, other, no longer looking like Arabs or Middle Easterners

3/02/07  National Guard Major Equipment Shortages 88% of units "not ready" - billions of dollars equipment shortfalls, material left in Iraq or stripped for other units, shortage for training and emergencies

3/01/07  New Doubts On Nuclear Efforts by North Korea  U.S. Less Certain of Uranium Program

2/27/07  Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War  77% of Jews agree "US made Mistake in Invading Iraq"

2/26/07  American Views of Foreign Nations  poll data

2/20/07  Mercenaries Pervade Military and Defense Industries  here to stay

2/20/07  Young Arabs All over Muslim World  volunteering to fight Americans in Iraq, fear of future cadres of anti-U.S. fighters all over Muslim world and Europe  North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror  NY Times -- Al Qaeda training disaffected youths

2/18/07   Simple, Cheap "shaped" Explosives Wrecking Havoc with American Tanks EFP's (Explosively Formed Penetrators) made from cheap copper disks, easily manufactured

2/16/07   How Bush Wrecked U.S. Oil Interests  decling goodwill towards U.S., Rus-China alliance, losing out in Muslim world, empowering OPEC

2/15/07  Long Term Care for War Wounded Estimated at $350 Billion  another example of the incredibly high cost of empire

2/3/07  In Iraq, Kurds Train to Battle Iran question where money weapons come from

1/30/07   Reasons Why Afghanistan Pacification is Failing  U.S. put Tajiks in charge, anathma to majority Pashtun tribes, inability of Washington to run sophisticated occupations

1/28/07  Our Mercenaries in Iraq  Blackwater Corp

1/27/07  Shia Iraqi soldier beat Sunnis as US trainers watch  English paper broadcast GI filming of operation in Baghdad (Youtube) Will the "surge" just mean ethnic cleansing of Sunnis?

1/25/07  Spanish court issues search and capture warrant for American soldiers for killing journalist with tank shell fired on hotel full of journalists

1/24/07   The Low Ebb of American Soft Power by Joseph Nye

1/24/07  U.S. losing business travelers to Europe  Strict security measures on international visitors lead to drop, report shows

1/23/07  Views on U.S. Drop Sharply In Worldwide Opinion Poll  29% now say US has positive effect on the world, down from 40% two years earlier

1/22/07  War's Arab Supporters Bitter Over Its Results  Washington incompetence, abandonment of Palestine peace process, renewed support for dictators, reinforcement of fanatics

12/15/06  U.S. Army & Marines Being "Hollowed Out" Army Chief of Staff testimony, 10,000 additional soldiers cost $1.2 billion per yr up from $700 million in 2001 because of bonuses & incentives = $120,000 per man (plus maybe retirement benefits--not clear)

12/14/06  Farewell to Pax Americana  costing too much, allies going their own way, China rising, 72% against

12/08/06  Iraq Study Group Repudiation of Bush Policies   must deal directly with Arab-Israeli peace process, learn culture, only 6 of 1,000 in Embassy speak Arabic /Consensus from hundreds of sources &  Executive Summary

12/06/06 Census - 100,000 American contractors in Iraq breakdown of occupations incl. translators, bodyguards, etc, 650 killed

12/05/06   Another Disaster-- F-22 Below Expectations  "The F-22 fails to improve America's fighting force and degrades our combat capability"

12/05/06   Another Mess-- US Report finds Dismal Training of Afghan Police  most of $1.1 Billion spent on contract (mercenary) advisor company in America, Dyncorp-- $1.6 billion for Iraq and Afghan work for last 3 years

12/04/06  Tehran Court Does to America What America Does to Others  allows plaintiff to seize U.S. property (Embassy) for monetary damages. U.S. stripped Vienna Convention diplomatic immunity from nations on U.S. "sponsors of terrorism" list; Tehran court declares U.S. similarly a "sponsor of terrorism."  Iranian kidnapped by U.S. for trading with Libya when he was not subject to U.S. laws.

12/04/06   Election Devastates Republicans in Statehouse Races  down to 22 governors & loss of whole Northeast.  Governors agree reason was majority against all Republicans to show opposition to Bush Iraq war and Republican congress.

11/19/06   Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush  "Whole philosophy of using American strength for good in the world, for a foreign policy that is really value-based instead of balance of power bases,  I don't think is disproven by Iraq, but it is certainly discredited." Kenneth Adelman

11/10/06  Why We Can't Win  need for simplicity, ridiculous term "Islamofascism" equates all as enemies, thoughtful book

10/21/06  The New American Cold War  Discrediting democracy by equating it with NATO expansion/encirclement of Russia

10/07/06   Why America Can't Win Against Guerrillas  11 reasons--  F-22's instead of Arabic speakers, etc, etc

10/3/06   Anti-U.S. views Grow in Turkey    now because of  Kurdish terrorists with U.S. supplied weapons--100 Turkish security officers killed in '06 so far

9/29/06   NATO Allies in Afghanistan  various nations refuse to risk their soldiers lives, many different restrictions on use of troops-- of 26 nations only 6 allow unrestricted use of forces

9/24/06   Anger at U.N.  More Strident Than Ever  "crossfire? Bush, he's thinking of a Western, when people would shoot form the hip and somebody would be caught in the crossfire--not comparable to precision bombs of American empire and Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon--imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal" Chavez

9/20/06   Venice -- A Lesson in successful Empire  avoiding war and demanding trade

9/18/06  U.S. Holds 14,000 Iraqi prisoners without charges - doesn't know what to do with them

9/17/06  Iraq Government Unable to Purge Gangsters and Shiite Militia from Police Forces   Shiite militias, earlier armed and trained by U.S. military, as well as 1400 former criminals, no trust in uniformed police, Sunnis terrorized and murdered, Americans no longer allowed to inspect prisons, (NY TIMES- fair use)

9/17/06   The Children's Crusade  How Bush staffed early Iraq occupation jobs, 24 yr. old to re-create stock exchange, Bush-Cheney T-shirts, husband of National Review editor rates on political loyalty, no skills necessary, Arabic speakers irrelevant, Heritage Foundation interns, etc.  Then, of course, Bush's views on terrorism (ending evil in the world) come from a nursery school idea of good and evil

9/15/06   Army Desperation For Recruits  40% score in bottom half of aptitude test, paid tens of thousands in bonuses, foreigners offered citizenship, mental health issues, told how to cheat drug tests, gang members, criminal records,

9/11/06  Losing the Guerrilla War   militants beating technology, guerrillas winning by not losing, U.S. Vietnam style body count combat is creating inexhaustible supply of suicide bombers, safe training bases in Pakistan, terrorists learning faster than Western armies, America unable to protect soft targets, e.g. teachers, engineers, administrators

9/11/06  U.S. Losing in West Iraq, marine report, virtually already lost and irredeemable

9/10/06   Al-Qaeda: Lebanon's Unbloodied Victor by Michael Scheuer, former CIA Bin Laden expert

9/9/06  How Afghanistan Fell Apart  -- NY TIMES -- Disaster of part time, indecisive American rule, not enough police forces, little focus, littler interest in Washington except to chase Taliban & al-Qaeda, no taste for running the empire  9/10 Taliban Regrouped and Rearmed - WASH. POST report

7/24/06  The 4th Division in Iraq -- doing "everything" wrong, treating civilians as enemies, beating captives, humiliating Iraqis, swaggering, first combat action in decades, etc

7/23/06  Disaster Began With Early Occupation  American soldiers' no care for Iraq opinions, no lessons wanted from Viet Nam, dismissal of whole civil service and military, arrogance, stupidity (also took lessons from Israeli advisors, Ed)

7/10/06  China Buys 30-50% of Russian Military Exports  good news for TheWarParty

6/25/06  How Else Could America spend $320 Billion  so far on Iraq War, but some estimates go over $1 trillion

6/20/06  In Tribal Pakistan, a Tide of Militancy   Influence of Taliban Said to Be Spreading Beyond Border Areas Near Afghanistan

6/20/06  The Bush administration has wrecked the system for capturing and holding foreign enemies.  How to fix it?

6/4/06  Civilians Killed Daily   "They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on a suspicion or a hunch.”

6/4/06  "History Lessons for U.S. Officers" now being taught about past guerrilla wars

6/01/06   Marines Haditha Killing Civilians Rocks Washington  cover up and tactics, rage of soldiers, confusion, not trained for occupation, trained to search and destroy with maximum force, see also Bill Lind on effectiveness of IED's causing solders to go berserk and destroy good will with civilian populations, 4th generation warfare --why America can't run an empire

5/26/06   Bush Blair Concede Iraq Mistakes   including dismissal of whole army, police, civilian government infrastructure-- opposed by Generals   We argue that it could not have been such stupidity, that it was intentional Likud plan implemented by its ally Douglas Feith (Rumsfeld deputy) to intentionally bring about chaos --Feith also helped torpedo Oslo accords -- See  All Roads Lead to Feith  Ed. 

5/19/06  Essay on Evolution of Muslim Religion  from Mohamed's egalitarianism and giving women rights and protections to the Ulama's stifling of inquiry, freedom & progress

5/19/06  Washington's Threats Against Syria Dry Out American Oil Companies  Asians and Russians move in

5/6/06   Lesson of Tal Afar  Excellent analysis of warfare methods and errors in Iraq by George Packer, author of "The Assassin's Gate"

4/30/06   League of Dictators   Russia and China getting together to thwart U.S. objectives and power  -- working with dictators

4/29/06  Cost of Putting Each Fighter in War Zone  $400,000 at end of 2005 for Iraq and-- Houston Chronicle 

4/29/06  Solzhenitsyn Criticizes U.S.--Nato  encirclement of Russia, defends Putin policies

4/20/06   Retreat from Freedom Agenda  Washington losing in Central Asia

4/20/06   Unforeseen Spending Wracks War Budget   weapons wearing out, now $10 billion per month for wars

4/15/06  The Dark Heart of Dick Cheney  Remember that the invasion, torture, the destruction of worldwide goodwill towards America, one of America’s greatest disasters, all come from Cheney and his neocon entourage,

4/9/06  Washington Booms from Defense Spending  Bin Laden's plan to bleed and bankrupt America proceeding apace-- as in Judo, leveraging America to fall--U.S. outspends him 10,000 to 1

4/9/06  Immigrants May Actually Boost U.S. Wages -- New Study --simplest  example--more jobs for truck drivers because immigrants available to pick vegetables

4/3/06  "Permanent" Bases in Iraq?? Camp Anaconda with 20,000 soldiers--only 1,000 go off base - House passes resolution stating "no plans for permanent bases" - Since fall of Berlin Wall 35 new US bases between Poland and Pakistan

4/3/06   Russians Sense New Cold War -- Washington's expansion of NATO to Russian borders, arrogance, fear of U.S. surprise attack capabilities (article writing that US could destroy Russian and China at little risk to America) mistrust of American government

3/24/06   Permanent Air Bases Being built in Iraq  Despite semi-denials of Bush team  Analysis by Jim Lobe

3/23/06   Bush Regime Stifles Voice of America  not propagandistic enough being cut for peanuts, its who budget = price of one half on one F-22 fighter plane

3/19/06   State Dept. Tries to Block Claimants  Undefended suits for $Billions in U.S. Courts against "terrorist" states, law passed Congress in 1996, prevents any future reconciliation, e.g. with Iran, will end U.S. oil interests in future.  then Congress offered $380 million from U.S. taxpayers to pay off claimants and their lawyers (up to 35% or more) in advance of any possible re-establishment of diplomatic relations.  (Note--most Congressmen are lawyers).  Another reason why America can't be a competent imperialist nation.

3/21/06   Too Much Manliness  American foreign policy's macho cowboys

3/20/06   Fortress America & Dubai Undertow  Consequences of Fortress America mentality

3/12/06   U.S. Spending Billions to Combat Roadside Bombs 

3/10/06   Proposal to Allow 20 -yr Old Soldiers to Drink Beer   on military bases

3/1/06   Al-Qaeda's Insurgency Doctrine for the War  by Michael Scheuer, former CIA Bin-Laden specialist, author of Imperial Hubris  (pdf document - scroll down to Scheuer analysis-- Jamestown Foundation)

3/09/06  American Special Ops Commandos Placed Secretly in U.S. Embassies  Conflict with CIA, fear of repercussions with foreign governments- soldiers killed robber in Paraguay

3/08/06  New U.S. Military Bases in Romania  -- allow launching attacks w/o Romania Government knowledge or approval

2/26/06  Alarming Loss of Goodwill for America by Arnaud de Borchgrave

2/26/06   Spreading Democracy by Force  very interesting analogy with French Revolution and Napoleon telling nations, e.g. Spain, that he was conquering their (autocratic) rulers in order to bring them freedom --

2/26/06   On the Brink of Chaos   interesting about internal Iraq situation, Wahabi in Saudi Arabia also wrecked Shia mosques

2/16/06  U.S. Unit Praised for Tactics Against Iraqi Fighters, Treatment of Detainees  rare instance of successful, effective rule --how occupation should be done, but rare and commanders rotated out of Iraq and so lose confidence of Iraqis, 3rd world is built on personal relationships

2/16/06  U.S. Army Detains Iraqi Militia Death Squads  Iraqi "Army" and "police" have first loyalty to Shia and Kurdish tribes, being used to kidnap and murder Sunnis

1/31/06   NATO Insists On Poking the Russian Bear  obligating America to defend insignificant states, flying fighter bombers minutes from St. Petersburg

1/21/06  U.S. Army Now Training to Fight Insurgencies  Officers being taught lessons ignored from Viet Nam; prior training was about how to fight big armies from nation states, i.e. still training to fight Russians

1/11/06   Ignorance of Enemy Culture, Arrogance-- Criticism of U.S. Military British officer views in Army journal --too gung-ho, too aggressive, too bureaucratic, too self rightous, too impatient, to ignorant

1/11/06  Lots of Bombing by U.S. Planes - Air Force expects to continue raids after U.S. Military leaves with targets selected by Air Force personnel attached to Iraqi units

1/09/06   Kurdistan -- A Gangster State not what Americans imagine or are told

1/09/06   What Happened to the American Century?  interesting

1/01/06   NSA Surveillance Update  sifting millions of chatter, process mainly out of date, how terrorists actually communicate, many potential best analysts (e.g. hackers) cannot get thru security clearance

12/30/05  Covert CIA Programs Updates  -- details on aggressive, pre-emptive anti-terror measures and policies

12/24/05   Vaunted Success in Training Iraqi Army is mainly setting up Shia & Kurdish units to fight and occupy Sunni areas

12/24/05   Italians Issue Arrest Warrants for 22 CIA Agents  for kidnapping--valid in 25 EU nations

12/16/05  Jihad Roots & Ripples by Arnaud de Borchgrave -- latest info wrap-up

12/8/05  "Enduring Bases" in Iraq  & Now Four   Administration has never repudiated original plan for long term bases in Iraq to replace Saudi ones

12/01/05  U.S. Army New Training for Post-wars Occupations 

11/28/06  Fewer & Fewer Americans Support "Go it Alone"  Now 42% say U.S. should mind its own business overseas, work with Allies

11/27/05  European Nations Outraged by Clandestine CIA kidnapping, renditions & hidden use of Europeon airports

11/26/05  Anti-China Hawks Gaining Ascendancy in Washington  Neo-cons and Wolfowitz Doctrine still riding high -- War Party needs a major enemy to justify budgets -- fighting terrorists and occupying Iraq is not enough to justify budget

11/08/05  Looted Iraqi Museum Relics Mostly Still Missing  Priceless archeological treasures from unprotected museums

10/30/05   Karen Hughes as "Diplomatic Toast"  stupidities....."like Arabs sending a woman in a black chador who had spent no time in the U.S. possesssed no knowledge of our history or culture, spoke no English...."  NEW REPUBLIC

10/22/05   Evidence of Voter Fraud in Iraq Constitution Election

10/20/05  The Weimarization of Washington  in fighting without quarter

10/20/05  Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for 3 GI's  for killing journalists  save right as U.S. courts exert for crimes in foreign nations, Pentagon no answer, possible forerunner for other cases of journalists killed by U.S. forces also claiming self-defense

10/2/05  Details Iraq Constitution + Background of Iraqi Prime Minister as Islamist

9/30/05  Gen. Odom   Iraq-- "the greatest strategic disaster in United States history"

9/26/05  Destabilization Concerns in Russia--Caucuses

9/19/05  Pentagon May Have Doubts on Preemptive Use of Nukes  criticism from Congress

9/14/05  Unraveling of U.S. Army   collapsing recruitment, proposals to hire foreigners

9/14/05  Bush Administration Plans for First Use of Nukes   against potential threats

9/12/05  Bill Clinton was the person who first undercut the ideas of the International Criminal Court, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. When George Bush became president, he stepped into space created for him by Bill Clinton. This isn't to demonize Clinton. It's just to show that our political system had already been corrupted by something we weren't reckoning with – and the shorthand for that something was "the Pentagon."  Interview with James Carroll

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• Al Qaeda Metastasizes into local Al Qaedas becomes a movement, not just an organization
• Al Qaeda Showing New Life --U.S. Surprised by Signs of Regrouping
• Al Qaeda Metastasizes into local Al Qaedas becomes a movement, not just an organization
• FEITH OUT --Pentagon Neocon --war promoter, architect of policy to dismiss whole Iraq Army & Civil Service, long time Likudnik  

9/10/05  Security Contractors in Iraq Raise Havoc killing and intimidating --America gets blamed

9/02/05 "Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?," author Will Bunch noted that the Times-Picayune had consistently reported over the past several years that the administration had slashed tens of million dollars for hurricane- and flood-control projects, and, in nine articles, had related the cuts explicitly to the unanticipated costs of the Iraq War.

8/30/05   Assassinations in Basra -- done by police, Shiia militia run police, put in by English occupation forces

8/27/05  U.S. Air Force Leaving Uzbekistan  "Wherever American bases crop up, so does a fundamentalist mood and so do enemies of America, and we don't want to be caught between the two," Nuriddin Zayniyev, governor of Kashkadarya region where the base is located, told parliament, according to the Associated Press.

8/26/05   Lack of interpreters severe Handicap U.S. forces  paid $400 per month (while bodyguard "contractors" get $10,000)

8/21/05  Shiite and Kurdish Militias Running Country  --U.S. trained and supplied, but now run for own ends --terrorizing & murdering Sunnis & Christians - Shiias run by mullahs, Kurds run by tribal leaders

8/20/05   Muslim Converts in American Prisons --new concerns

8/19/05  Aid cuts for countries that refused to shield Americans from the International Criminal Court are generating resentment  costing empire efforts, especially in Latin America  --also Venezuela Ceases Co-operation in Drug War for same reason

8/15/05   Democratic Leaders Still Support War although polls show most Americans Against it

8/10/05  How Foreign Lobbies Imperil America

8/9/05   Al Qaeda Using Internet (2)  super sophisticated-- posting videos of attacks on U.S. Army, etc.

8/7/05   Al Qaeda Using Internet  for training, co-ordination, propaganda, motivation, recruiting, international cooperation

8/3/05   State Dept Warns Americans  danger of overseas travel because of hatred from Iraq war

8/02/05   Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion   $314 Billion so far

7/27/05  Little Concern in Congress for Public Diplomacy  -- Congress runs on lobbies and no big lobby for explaining America to the world --(but lots of lobbies to sell weaponry--U.S. Information Agency shut down by former Sen. Helms-Ed)

7/19/05  Pentagon Clamps Down on Foreign Students' Research

7/18/05   Gaza - A quarter Million per Settler  U.S. pays for settlements, for occupation and then for removal

7/17/05   More Kurdish Terrorism in Turkey  trying to disrupt tourism, Turks complain U.S. permits Kurdish terrorist bases in Iraq 

7/17/05  Iran - Iraq Shiites Making Alliances  -- was this reason for Bush war?  Washington disturbed   Religous police and gangs demand head scarves, brutalize and beat students and Christians

7/15/05  Opium Trade Not Easily Uprooted  Afghans grow it at record rates

7/14/05  U.S. Permanent Bases in Iraq --sticky, how many? building continues  The Lure of Empire  How the Empire Wanters Fantasized in 2002

7/07/05  U.S. Criticized for Allowing Afghan War Criminals Tribal Chiefs into New Government --men who killed and destroyed Afghanistan

7/06/05  80,000 "Contractors" in Iraq  guards, drivers, laundry, cooks, etc for U.S. forces -- questions of legal status --carrying weapons, etc

7/05/05  Pentagon May Shift Forces to Domestic Defense

6/26/05  Italians Outraged over CIA Kidnapping (Rendition for torture in Egypt)  Italians Detail Lavish CIA expenditures   best hotels, extra vacations luxury detailed  And Canadians Complain of U.S. Kidnapping Suspects

6/23/05  The insurgency in Iraq is creating a new type of Islamic militant who could go on to destabilise other countries       leaked CIA report says

6/22/05  The Other War We Are Losing  Afghanistan  by Bill Lind

6/20/05  9-11 Response - Controls Hurting U.S. Science

6/20/05  Upheaval Ahead  anti-war candidate with give Democrats strength by Pat Buchanan

6/08/05  Weaknesses in American Schooling Forbode Ill for Future - 47% of Detroit adults functionally illiterate

6/2/05  An Empire of Bases  where they all are

5/30/05  Muslims Protest Against America Throughout Asia

5/29/05  U.S. Is Set to Test Missile Defenses Aboard Airlines  $10 billion

5/23/05  Al Qaeda Wins One in Pakistan -- Gov. approves Iran gas pipeline over U.S. objections -after drone attack

5/23/05  Desertions Plague Army --thousands face penalties

5/21/05  U.S. Plans 4 Major Air-Army Bases in Iraq  After defeating insurgency for long term control of region

5/21/05  Israeli Arsenal Vexes Nuclear Negotiators

5/16/05  Russia Military Sales to China -subs, destroyers, planes

5/15/05  America's Drug Plan Collapses in Chaos after $3 Billion in Colombia

5/09/05  Latin - Arab Summit Bothers Washington -- fear it may unify Latins in criticizing U.S. Mid-East policies

5/03/05   U.S. Called Unprepared for Nuke Terrorism  Experts Critical of Evacuation Plans

4/27/05  U.S. Foreign Policy Deprives American students of sex in Europe  THE ONION

4/25/05 Iraqi Guerrillas Keep Improvising Bombs  - offsetting new anti-bomb techniques

4/25/05  Iraqi forces desert posts as insurgent attacks are stepped up    U.S. can't protect Iraqis who help U.S. forces

4/2405   Enrollment in Army ROTC Down in Past 2 School Years  serious decline in numbers of future trained officers

4/18/05  U.S. Outreach to Islamic World Slow Start --nothing till Fall, no Muslims, mainly Arab Christians

4/14/05  More Spies = Worse Intelligence -- with every crisis Congress throws more money at CIA to make it bigger, but good spy agencies need to be smaller --NY Times

4/13/05  Security Spending Waste --allocating to states becomes pork, another reason democracies can't run empires -more for North Dakota per capita than New York

4/10/05  The Teetering Empire   "Blowback--resentment against us for policies most Americns don't know about or understand"

4/10/05  Many Turks Now See U.S. as an Enemy  40% -best seller depicts U.S. attack on Turkey and retaliation with nuke in White House

3/19/05  Army Drained by Iraq War  manpower, equipment, recruiting all stretched thin --little capacity for another war

3/13/05 Europeans Investigate American Kidnapping of Suspects in Germany, Italy & Sweden

3/13/05 Amputees Get Special Recovery Help

3/13/05  Systematic Looting of Weapons Machinery in Iraq  -- American army ignored risk, sophisticated machinery a reason America started war

3/10/05  The Invisible Wounded flown in at night to various locations, no pictures allowed

3/8/05  U.S. Checkpoints Kill Many Civilians -- outrage Iraqis, but soldiers say their safety comes first  U.S. Killing Italian Security Agent stokes Anger in Italy Against War

3/07/05  U.S. Adopts First Strike Policy Against Foreign Terrorist Groups

2/25/05  Pentagon Wants to  Bypass Ambassadors  launching secret raids and kidnappings without Embassies' knowledge

2/25/05  Europe Will Sell Weaponry to China  over U.S. objections

2/21/05  Money and Lobbying in Congress  -- policies follow donations --unlimited need for money by Congressmen (even thou little risk of defeat)-- reason democracies can't run empires

2/20/05  United Europe vs. U.S.      is it good for America--U.S. Lears to live with new Europe?  NY TIMES

2/14/05  Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision 

2/14/05  Falluja Destroyed  "All the houses are destroyed....But these people, the majority of them deserved it because they didn't help get rid of the insurgents," U.S. Marine officer  See also Falluja--little Stalingrad

2/10/05  Almost $ half billion to "pay off" iraq war allies  for alliance of the "bullied and the bribed"

2/03/05  What Bin Laden Sees in Hirshima     he thinks a nuke on an American city would result in quick surrender like Japan  (that is removal of U.S. military from Middle East)  Washington Post analysis

2/3/05  Air Transport Asso, Jack Evans n 2004 said that in 2004 airlines and their passengers spent $15 Billion for airport security--  Washington Post Feb.6,'05

2/3/05  Dismissal of Iraq Governing Infrastructure -- still breeds resentment, unused talent, guerrillas, government incompetence  --One of Doug Feith (Rummsfeld Deputy) legacy

1/27/05  Costs of War Consuming Bush "Capital"  with higher world oil costs, sky rocketing U.S. budget deficits

1/14/05  Iraq Replaces Afghanistan is Training Ground for Terrorists

1/10/05  El Salvador-style 'death squads' to be deployed by US against Iraq militants  Desperation plan being proposed --  no comparison to El Salvador, e.g. a foreign (American) invading army compared to a civil war

1/05/05   General John Shalikashvili released a letter to the Judiciary Committee noting that Gonzales" recommendations "fostered greater animosity toward the United States, undermined our intelligence gathering efforts, and added to the risks facing our troops serving around the world."

1/05/05  "Army Reserve Rapidly Degenerating into a Broken Force," warns General

1/01/05   Iraq War is Wrecking Army Morale  no end in sight

12/23/04  "Virtual Intelligence Meltdown" Iraqis fear to cooperate with U.S. troops, translators fear to work-- soldiers try to find Iraqis with broken English and sign language

12/12/04  12 More Months for Army Reserves (which are most of forces in Iraq) --then must be demobilized by law and not enough for Iraq by Gen. McCaffrey on MEET THE PRESS --Generals agree that army must be larger for "this kind of foreign policy"

12/10/04  Army Equipment Wearing Out Fast --$9 billion for repairs --desert, constant use, combat  --2 years needed to bring back to readiness    12/13  Update--Repair Chaos Described  & Combat Described-- if over 30 minutes to repair, trucks abandoned

12/10/04  Kurds' Cash    $1.4 Billion --using U.S. law firms with former Bush 1 Administration officials

12/9/04  Sabotage of U.S. Reconstruction  one town's story of wrecking U.S. projects

12/9/04    More Wounded Survive Than Any Previous War --horrendous injuries create new problems for rehabilitation and psychological damage

12/9/04   Growing Recognition that Iraq War is Lost

11/19/04  Why Iraq Will End Same As Vietnam --by Martin van Crefeld, distinguised Israeli historian

11/18/04  Chinese Move to Eclipse U.S. Appeal in Asia  while U.S. obsessed with Islamists

11/17/04  Base in Kyrgyzstan becomes permanent -- precursor of "lily pad" strategy--troops isolated from natives, provide ready ability to attack on short notice

11/17/04  7 Top Generals Decry Bush Strategy   disaster in the making--keeping neocon advisors

11/11/04  Evolving Al Qaeda Metastasizing "now a global insurgency, rather than traditional terrorist organization," says "Anonymous" author Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

11/08/04  Growing Concern About 4 Thousand of Missing Anti-Aircraft Missiles from Iraq

11/02/04  GI's Lack Bullets, Armor, Radios - CBS News-- Army accounts that pay for training, maintenance and repairs are being raided by Congress to pay for pork-barrel spending. But lots of money for F-22's and new submarines irrelevant to fighting terrorism or occupying conquered lands.

10/25/04  Most Guantanamo Prisoners Small Fry   just the slow who got caught, used to store prisoners with no where else to put them, "Al Quaeda Claus"-100 years old, very little evidence against most, Administration doesn't know what to do

10/24/04 7 Habits of Highly Effective Imperialists  --how to run an empire -- basic rules

10/24/04  Tons of Super Sophisticated Explosives Missing -- U.S. never secured hundreds of explosive storage sites --1 pound knocked down PanAm 103 -- not enough troops

10/21/04  Bremer and Neocons Ordered Disolution of Iraqi Army leaving nation denuded main reason for chaos and guerrilla strength

10/21/04  How Iraq War Detracted From War Against Terror -- denuding special forces from Afghanistan, mestastasizing Al Qaeda, shar increase in anti-American sentiment in Europe and Mid East  --Wash. Post

10/14/04  U.S. Runs Secret Prison in Jordan --to hold Al Qaeda suspects  --outside U.S. & international laws

10/10/04  American Soldiers Views of Iraq- battlefield

10/8/04  Bin Laden's Dream Becoming Reality   --America proving to be what he forecast

The Retreat from Empire  by Pat Buchanan & Why Americans Can't Sustain Empire

Collaborators with U.S. in Iraq   Being killed or frightened off

9/25   U.S. Soldiers to Face Courts-marshall for Patronizing Prostitutes Overseas conquering the world without beer (if under 21) or sex

9/01/04  "New" Conservatives Alienate Reagan Idealists   don't agree to Big Government and empire wanting

8/29/04  Making United Nations Subservient to Washington weakens its integrity and ability to function --makes it appear hypocritical to Muslim world and endangers its staffs

8/25/04  Reason Washington Declared War on "Terrorism" Instead of War on Islamists  purpose was to include Arab groups fighting Israel to make them declared enemies of America, e.g. Hamas was not on original terrorist list of organizations--- arrested man in Virginia because Hamas carried out bombings in Israel

8/24/04  What Went Wrong in Iraq  -FOREIGN AFFAIRS detailed analysis for the record --incompetence of American empire building

8/20/04  Americans Who Can't Be Imperialists --decent guys blow whistles -confound empire wanters

8/19/04  Pension Funds Pressed to End Investments in Major Foreign Corporations --blow to globalization, e.g. Hyundai, Norwegian, French largest oil companies, etc. for trade with many major Muslim nations, splitting America from Europe, another effort led by Sharon-Likud promoters such as Center for Security Policy

8/17/04  No Way Out   Tactical Victories Yield Strategic Setbacks

8/02/04   Transfers from Main Page     

•  NATO not much help  Afghanistan shows its tactical weakenesses
• "Remarkable Change in U.S. Foreign Policy"   says Gerhardt Schroder,  At the Sea Island Summit, a Sea Change in U.S. Diplomacy  Washington now actively working with allies
• Describing Indonesia --polls show US favored by people 75% in 2000, now 83% against U.S.- U.S. dismantled USIA Information Agency
• 150,000 U.S. Troops in Iraq = 28,000 for policing--combat divisions not designed for occupation
• Chaos Expected after U.S. Invasion  by Bruce Fein
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• U.S. Airbases in Central Asia to Become Permanent--Chicago Trib report 
• And Disaster for American Foreign Policy --Cordesman Memo
• America's Loss of "Soft Power"
• War Fiascos Swell Al Qaeda's Ranks  make world less safe and will bring more terrorism --Christian Science Monitor
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• Why U.S. Always Gets it Wrong by Bill Lind
• Blowback   The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
• U.S. Economy on Debt --will undercut the Empire --Repbulican spendthrifts underming America
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• Occupation Chaos and Lessons from other nations --need for rule of law before chaos reinforces radicals & criminal elements
• Army Division (101st) Trying to Get Back in Shape -"With battered gear and nerves, a third of the Army is 'unfit to fight' but preparing to return."
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• Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears  mess from poor planning, harsh realities replace high hopes
• Moldova Region Hotbed of Weapons Black Market --including anti-aircraft missiles and "dirty bombs" See also Black Market Nukes from NEWSWEEK
• U.S. Flubs Relations with Turkey -was 60% pro-American, now in teens
• How and Why America is Becoming Imperialist  --Replacing the "open door" and "Atlantic Charter" with 19th Century Europe theories of "blood and iron" ---the Empire wanters  

8/2/04   Iraqi Interpreters Constantly Murdered

7/31/04  American "contractor" deaths barely reported over 100 killed, hundreds wounded

7/26/04  Empire Building is Nasty Work

7/25/04  Congress Debates $100 Billion Iraq War Costs

7/22/04  Russia Continues Developing & Exporting Superb Military Technology  --no longer so friendly because U.S. moves to influence neighboring nations in Central Asia

7/22/04  In the face of stubborn insurgency, troops scale back patrols  making new enemies by ignorance of culture, insults to tribal leaders

7/19/04  Al Qaeda Leaders Still At Large  on U.S. wanted list

7/14/04  U.S. Military's Problems Bode Ill for Future Georgie Anne Geyer

7/12/04  Analysis of Iraqi Resistance by Scott Ritter --Saddam Hussein's regime shifted toward an amalgam of Islamic fundamentalism, tribalism and nationalism...meticulous planning for resistance

7/9/04  Reserves and National Guard Being Pushed to Breaking Point

7/6/04  U.S. Army Changed by Iraq

7/5/04  State Dept. Warns Americans to Leave Bahrain --Base of Fleet, 4th July celebrations cancelled, State Dept. and Military families leaving

7/5/04  More  Americans Fear Terorists are Winning

7/4/04   U.S. Retreat "When we had half the world and the other guys were really nasty, our imperial power was often seen as a good thing," said Charles S. Maier, a historian at Harvard. "But when you are one of one, it looks less attractive and more conspicuous."  NY TIMES

7/4/04  Analysis of Future Basing of U.S. Forces  where and how large, new skeleton bases, electronic surveillance from American home base

7/03/04  Costs of Iraq War Compared --already $1,600 per U.S. Household = to provide health insurance for 82 million children

7/01/04  Iraq is worse off than before the war began  GAO Report

7/01/04   "The defense appropriation itself is about $420 billion. That doesn’t include another $125 billion, which is the cost of Afghanistan and Iraq. Then another $20 billion for nuclear weapons in the Department of Energy. Add in another $200 billion or so for military pensions and for health benefits for our veterans.......... 725 military bases in 138 foreign countries," Johnson 7/3/04

6/30/04  Thai Troops Pulling Out Early

6/28/04  Iraq Erodes Bush Doctrine  Washington not so keen to attack other countries

6/24/04  The Toll of "No More Iraqs"  "The souring of America on intervention abroad has major strategic implications for the United States and for the world. The threshold for preventive war, for example, will be raised significantly for the immediate future. Intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and the intentions of dictators or terrorist gangs that seem to possess them are unlikely to be sufficiently clear to meet the standards for action demanded by the post-facto doubts and recriminations on Iraq. Intelligence analysis will become even more cautious and ambiguously stated to policymakers. Vulnerability to surprise attack could grow again."

6/23/04  U.S. abandons Effort for War Crimes Exemption   for U.S. soldiers on U.N. missions

6/23/04  15,000 Young Saudis in Islamic Extremist Groups  in Northern Ireland 300 terrorists kept half British Army pinned down for quarter century   by Arnaud de Borchgrave

6/18/04  Thousands of Americans Leaving Saudi Arabia Some "victory?"

6/18/04  The Coming Implosion of the American Empire  by Gary North "For americans, War is a One Night Stand" --popular as long as cheap and easy

6/17/04  Pentagon Waste in Iraq May Total Billions  LA TIMES

6/16/04  Al-Qaeda's New Guard Second Generation of terrorist leaders stepping into Bin Laden's shoes

6/16/04  Pregnant Soldiers in Iraq --Army hides statistics, widespread, good benefits for single moms, army pays millions in benefits and lost training

6/15/04  New Europe Cools on America on Iraq War -- 70-80% opposed

6/11/04  How Terrorists Think  and how Bush fell into Bin Laden's trap--Financial Times

6/11/04  "Remarkable Change in U.S. Foreign Policy"   says Gerhardt Schroder,  At the Sea Island Summit, a Sea Change in U.S. Diplomacy  Washington now actively working with allies

6/7/04  U.S. Seeks Help Tracking Shoulder Fired Missiles

6/6/04 Torture is the Essence of Empire  -an old Marxist view--they know  See also Torture News Fine

6/6/04  Losing Hearts and Minds --report from the front lines in Iraq --reconstruction teams

5/30/04  Bush Policies Create More Terrorism  --needed a definition of "terrorism" - for Bush just means all "bad guys" --Bush excuses dictators all over the world as "fighting terrorism"

5/30/04  State Dept. Urges Americans to Leave Saudi Arabia  one really wonders how easily State says for Americans to leave rather than for U.S. to change its policies which bring forth so much hatred against America.   What would be economic consequence for major U.S. oil companies?

5/28/04  Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq?  Based on laws, rules and precedents established or supported by U.S. Government

5/27/04  Even Hawks Decry Blunders & Incompetence  "managed with an apparently deliberate contempt for history, strategy, and thought." Mark Halprin in Wall Street Journal

5/27/04  U.S. Policies Called "Danger to World"  Amnesty International Countries Detailed

5/26/04  Former V.P. Gore Speech Attacking Administration War Policies  Salon

5/26/04  Psychological Warfare Lesson      how to win or lose      by William Lind

5/25/04  Al-Qaeda ranks boosted by war on terror, Iraq --study sees more attacks on U.S. which is prime target

5/25/04  Holy Shite Shrine Damaged in Najaf  perhaps damage done by rebel forces, but fighting near it makes Americans seem responsible = more hatred--story broadcast to Muslim world --problem was making town a battleground in the first place

5/24/04  Torture Tarnishs America's Purity of Motive To acknowledge that Americans torture their prisoners would contradict everything this administration has invited the public to believe about the virtue of American intentions and America's right, flowing from that virtue, to undertake unilateral action on the world stage.

5/23/04  A Foreign Policy, Falling Apart  Wash Post

5/23/04   Staffing the Empire  No planning, Kids running billions in Iraq

5/17/04   Army Division (101st) Trying to Get Back in Shape --decimated equipment, divorce, out of training--With battered gear and nerves, a third of the Army is 'unfit to fight' but preparing to return

5/15/04  Iraq War Images Spur Muslim Attacks a World Away

5/13/04  Military & Contractor Civilians in Iraq Mixed Together  little discipline over civilians

5/10/04  Red Cross Report on Torture of Iraq Prisoners -- widespread, from Rumsfeld & top Pentagon Neocons (Pentacons) who ignored many reports

5/8/04   Col. Hackworth Helped Soldier's Family Blow Whistle 17 Congressmen, gov, ignored information --parents wanted protect son from only enlisted men being scapegoated-letter read on Meet the Press TV

5/05/04  British Disputing American Strategy  warned U.S. to avoid mess and chaos

5/04/04  Washington Tries to Limit Damage from Photos

5/03/04  Details of Abuses to Iraqis  same methods as Israelis or Germans --how else to run an empire? and The NEW YORKER Torture at Abu Ghraib  by Sy Hersh

4/30/04  Evolving Disaster   by Arnaud de Borchgrave

4/30/04  U.S. Troops Become Hated   'uncaring, dangerous and lacking in respect.' 

4/27/04  A new Foreign Policy Group in Washington opposed to Empire  and quotes from the empire wanters AEI meeting

4/27/04  50 Former British Ambassadors Blast Blair for following Bush policies' cave in to Sharon & America's "doomed" Mid East policies

4/19/04  Private Security Companies (Mercenaries) raise problems for Military costing U.S. billions in Iraq --not supervised, possibly illegal combatants, major roll defending contractors and even soldiers

4/16/04  Interesting Polling on American and Foreign Views of America

5/15/04  Bin Laden Tape Offers Europe Peace --says America started the wars

3/25/04  Indonesian Islamists "Keep Regenerating"

3/14/04  14 'Enduring' (Permanent?) U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

3/24/04  African uranium forgery  became the object of widespread, and bitter, questions in Europe about the credibility of the United States --CIA using such blatant forgery --see details

3/23/04  Israeli Assassination of Hamas Leader ---Brings Threats of Retaliations Against Americans

3/18/04  Hundreds of soldiers evacuated with Leishmaniasis Parasite Disease leaves huge ulcerated nodules on skin ---Disease casualties not included in battle statistics of wounded

3/18/04  Al Qaeda Mutates into Decentralized Web of Terrorists

3/16/04  Allies Number of Troops in Iraq  listed by country

3/15/04  Bush's Pyrrhic Victory --$200 Billion and counting

3/15/04  U.S. Military Helping Algerian Government, moving into North and West Africa to fight Muslim fundamentalists

3/14/04  American Military Stretched Thin &

3/14/04  Merceneries in Iraq   by Tucker Carlson  what they do, how they do it, guards for $150,000 per year

3/8/04  Chalabi taking over key positions in Iraq

3/8/04   Check points and U.S. occupation stories in Baghdad

2/29/04  Comparing Iraq to German assault on France in 1914  --one never knows where war leads --Cheney and the Schlieffen Plan

2/27/04  Al Qaeda Ideology Spreading   CIA warns of new enemies and hatred against America -risks not less than before  NY Times report

2/21/04  Garner says purpose of war was to get permanent U.S. bases  compares it to Phillipine conquest in 1898

2/15/04  Assassinations Destroying Iraq's Educated Class

2/7/04  Russians Planning Nuke Practice while Bush sets off new Arms race

2/02/04  Need to Restore Trust in America  by Zbigniew Brzezinski--America tremendously weakened in whole world

1/25/04  Europe's Muslim Minorities combine with opposition to American unilateralism to isolate America

1/22/04  Missile Defense Program Not Working --building with failed test results--follow the  (billions) money, now claim maybe work against a North Korean missile-test failures kept secret

1/21/04  Deep Divide over Safety in the Skies  "a large part of the international community believes that the United States is making the world unsafe for everyone else."

1/21/04  Iraq Arms Issue Severe Damage to U.S. Credibility Overseas Washington Post

1/20/04  U.S. Military to Georgia --will stay forever -further antagonizing Russia

1/05/04   Seaports Eye Terror Threat -protections in progresss

12/31/03  Cheney Christmas Card   -- God aids rise of American empire -- so he must have also favored the mongols or Stalin in their day?

12/31/03   Guardian (UK) on Israelis training American military in occupation methods  more hate against America --Gen. Boykin involved --More info      Interesting report on Mossad training   and  Ivan Eland on U.S. Use of Israeli Methods

12/31/03  Head or Heart of American Foreign Policy --torn between pursuit of national interests and moralistic imperialism --good analysis but no mention of ethnics based foreign policy

12/15/03  Failure in Iraq is an Option   by Arnaud de Borchgrave

12/14/03  Al Qaeda's Finances Ample, Say Probers  Foreign nations not obeying Washington's demands, after all they don't have a dog in this fight

12/14/03  Big Problems in Building New Iraq Army   Soldiers desert, barely trained, fearful of resistance --Pentacons (Pentagon neocons) dismissed all of old Army and police, U.S. trying to build from scratch

12/12/03  The Economic Threat to the Empire --debts, deficits, dangers

12/03/03  An Empire Needs Friends  by Thomas Friedman

12/01/03  America Against the World --dated article but still relevant

11/27/03  Holy War 101  what America is facing --new enemies by the millions

11/25/03  Iraqi Recruits Live in Fear --will be killed if U.S. leaves--targets of guerrillas

11/19/03  Curioser and Curioser -- Bush Foreign Policy -- Korean policy just doesn't make sense

11-03  Pencils, once symbol of American Blockade, get to Iraq schools, gift from America  journey describes perils of transport on roads

11/16/03   Europeans Vindicated But Fearful About Iraq   But fear a humilated America might withdraw back to isolationism --want America to succeed in Iraq

11/10/03   Iraqi Insurgents Use Classic Sun Tzu Strategy --follow Afghan model

10/31/03  Winning Contractors were Big Political Donors --growing corruption of the empire (just like Rome)

10/27/03  U.S. Focus on Terrorism Gives China Big Boost in Trade Competition

"This time, however, a gap between words and deeds could be disastrous. Raising expectations that the United States will "create a balance of power that favors human freedom" and then failing to do so will feed the cynicism about American motives that pervades the Middle East and much of the world. Worse yet, leaving behind a new Iraqi leadership that provides stability but no justice will only further fuel the resentment and anger that have attracted so many young men to Osama bin Laden's cause. Given these risks, the president would do well to decide on his aims for Iraq before the fighting begins."  THE WASHINGTON POST 10/27/03

10/24/03  Press Under-reporting on Wounded in Iraq

10/20/03  The American Prison Camp  Guantanamo --international law only applies to rest of the world, not America

10/16/04  Rumsfelt Memo on winning or losing war on terror

10/02/03  "I Am Not for World Empire" by Norman Mailer

10/03   Project for a New American Century --who and how

10/8/03  How Bush Gets His News  doesn't read news --just gets interpretaions from his advisors and then tells interviewers  See also      Bush Reads A Book

9/30   IFJ Condemns Secrecy and “Denial of Justice” As US Clears Soldiers Who Killed Journalist in Iraq

9/28   Cutting off Money Flow to Terrorists Suffers Setbacks  Europeans won't use U.S. measures

9/27   Marrying Cousins --Problems of tradational Societies-- why evolving to democracy is (very) slow

9/17  Losing Dollars & Sense in Iraq   Senator Byrd

9/12  Reports that Mossad Delegation Visited Iraq  to coordinate with U.S. occupation

9/7  Why Europe Won't Join U.S. Empire --learned to like peace--see Washington as threat to world order --don't have a dog in U.S. fight (with most of Muslim world)

9/7   Tom Delay calls himself a "Christian Zionist"   most powerful man in U.S. Congress

9/7  Will We Look Like the Soviets When We Leave Iraq?

9/7   Getting UN Support Won't Help Much -US pays 40,000 to over 100,000 for each foreign soldier

8/28  U.S. Finds Tables Turned at United Nations -- seeking help--Bush had said U.N. would be irrelevant if didn't support American attack

7/11   Few Arabic Speakers-- Neo-cons killed careers of Arabic speakers in State and CIA-- "Arabists" ridiculed, careers dead-ended

Following is from http://stratfor.com    We highly recommend subscribing to their intelligence service for thinking outside the box.   STRATFOR'S MORNING INTELLIGENCE BRIEF Geopolitical Diary: Friday, May 30, 2003

"U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, in a Vanity Fair interview, said the public justification for the invasion of Iraq was not primarily based on the fear of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Wolfowitz was quoted as saying, "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." Of lesser importance but explosive nevertheless was a BBC report that the British had deliberately exaggerated the presence of WMD in Iraq. The two stories, emerging on the same day, inevitably combined to create a shock in the international system. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld scrambled, later in the day, reasserting in a radio interview the original administration position.

"Wolfowitz's admission is an argument that Stratfor has made from the beginning: The United States invaded Iraq for strategic reasons -- to exert power against surrounding Islamic countries -- and used the issue of weapons of mass destruction to build an international coalition. The invasion would have taken place had no weapons of mass destruction existed. Wolfowitz's statement is no surprise to us at all. What is a surprise is that all of this is leaking out now, let alone while the United States is in a confrontation with Iran over the same issue and U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to visit the Middle East.

"It always seemed to us that the cover story was not as effective as the real reason, but the administration seemed to believe that the international community and the American public would be more likely to rally around the WMD argument rather than the strategic one. Having given that as the prime answer, the administration found it difficult to switch gears in the middle.

"Wolfowitz's statement strikes us as generally true, although his explanation about withdrawing U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia as the prime goal is woefully insufficient. Why he felt a compulsion to tell the truth is more difficult to understand. Perhaps it is a trial balloon by the administration for explaining the failure to find WMD. If there is no firestorm, it becomes the postwar rationale. If there is a firestorm, Wolfowitz looks for an exciting new career."

8/20   U.S. Army Losing its Cool --torture and killing by nervous soldiers making U.S. hated

7/12   No Planning for Iraq Occupation --Neocons controlled operation--State and CIA experts excluded

7/11   Few Arabic Speakers in U.S. Government --used to be a dead end for careers to know about Arab world--Neoconservatives suspected anyone with language might develop sympathies

6/30   U.S. Developing New Weapons to Reach from U.S.  --so as not to need foreign bases for attacks

-----U.S. Navy cutting shore leaves -- Mediterranean- "steel beach parties"         Also NEW REPUBLIC 4/7/03 reports, "very few ports are considered safe enough to dock given the high level of anti-American sentiment (in Mediterranean)."

6/10    Chaos and Incompetence in U.S. WMD search --any existant WMD  stolen during chaos or military knew that Iraq didn't have WMD

6/2    Russia Questions Israel Nukes in answer to U.S. pressure on Iran reactor

5/1    Trying to Explain the (white) American's Adoraton of War    by Norman Mailer  --reaction to an emasculated society??

4/27   Why Americans Can't Rule the World -not like England, we want to stay home
& Consequences of using Israeli methods of suppression

4/16  Never has one president destroyed so much goodwill for America by so many nations in so short a time-- Charley Reese

4/10    How Neoconservatives (The War Party) took over Washington

4/6      How and Why America is Becoming Imperialist  --Replacing the "open door" and "Atlantic Charter" with 19th Century Europe theories of "blood and iron" ---the new British Empire wanters --Kissinger's role

3/29    De Borchgrave on What Comes After "Victory"

3/29    Supply convoys in chaos --10,000 trucks using secondary roads, littered with broken down trailers --BUSINESS WEEK

3/29    U.S. in Middle of Afghan Feuding  choosing sides--making enemies

3/28      Perle Resigns Pentagon Advisory Panel --10 more have business interests with Pentagon--more wars mean more business

3/23    Europeans Boycotting American Consumer Goods and Boycotting Microsoft & Amazon

3/16      American Firms Abroad Losing Business  retaliatory boycotts may mean end of globalization   & Yale Study

BLOWBACK --LA Times on Consequences for America if mass killing of Moslems

++ Missing Debate on Defense WASH. POST--Starving Diplomacy for War--militarization of civilian policy making--the Pro-consuls 

3/16      How Bush Isolated America  --by listening to Neoconservatives  WASH POST

3/16    The Arrogant Empire  NEWSWEEK  never U.S. so alone in world

3/14       Military Historian compares American Empire to others

3/11      U.S. Army Fears Post-War Occupation Duties  Wash. Post

3/9      What Would Gengis (Kahn) Do?   Pentagon Study by Maureen Dowd -NY TIMES

3/9/03     Saudi government won't reform & U.S. supports (Obedient) Arab Dictators -- "The government doesn't want the [religious police] to grumble too much about Saudi support for U.S. policies in Iraq, so they keep them happy by letting them chase women instead."

2/24/03   Bush Faces Terrible Image Overseas  Most Europeans see America as greatest threat to world peace

2/21/03   Administration Draft Dodgers Tell Europeans they are Cowards    IHT

2/8/03     Back to 1913    “….is the seeming sideshow of the Middle East exposing significant divisions among today’s leading nations…

2/8/03     Sharon Tells Bush to Take Out Iran After He Finishes with Iraq  (and, of course, there's the Wolfowitz Doctrine declaring that China is next after the Moslem world)  

Ha'aretz reports: "U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterwards."

2/7/03   Germany Splits from American Empire 

1/27/03  Senator Lugar Proposes Intelligent, Realistic "Beating Terrorism" Foreign Policy

1/27/03   Wanted: Enemy to Justify $344 Billion War Budget  by Ben Cohen (www.businessleaders.org).

1/25/93   Decline and Fall of the American Emprie  "Rather than appear as a benign hegemon, we appear predatory. We appear to lose our legitimacy......

1/24/03     Military Uses More Civilian Contractors ---to do "special" work, not subject to Military laws & rules

1/24/03  Israel to Train U.S. Military for Urban Occupation

1/02/03  Taking on the Moslem World Understanding Moslem fanatacism by Arnaud de Borchgrave

12/29  Bush and the New American Hubris  by Stanley Hoffman @ Harvard

12/29    Bush and North Korea   threats by Bush/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld leave little incentive for North Koreans to co-operate and little room to negotiate 

12/26   U.S.. use of Torture Overseas --often delivered to friendly Arab dictatatorships for "questioning"--Wash. Post

12/13   U.S. Hypocrisy (on weapons sales) Undermines World Support  Toronto Star

11/28    Alliance with Saudis is Fracturing  U.S. Congress, Neo-cons & Saudi nationalists inflame mistrust

11/25    Subverting the U.N.   fighting Washington to retain an international order based on multilateralism, the rule of law and the United Nations itself.

11/15    America and the United Nations    America legitimizes its overwhelming might

11/10     How the Hardliners Lost  --wanted to avoid inspections

10/26    Washington Will Get Security Council Support  easy to intimidate smaller nations for vote

11/18   Bali bomber says Americans were the targets, didn't know bar had mainly Australians

10/18   American Policymakers Awash in Fantasy  Herald Tribune International

11/18   Pat Buchanan on Empire   "American empire is an intellectual construct of scribblers and think-tank denizens more familiar with the hazards of graduate school than of gunnery school."

10/17   Rumsfeld/War Party Takeover of Foreign Policy

10/16  Senator Kennedy on Bush also rebuts Cuba arguments

9/30  UN Inspectors were American spies in 1998 --set cameras and then gave info for bombing targets

9/30   Col. Hackworth on 150,000 admitted service disabilities from first Gulf War Syndrome

9/24  The Morning After--  "a diversion from real issues of dysfunctional security agencies, a sinking economy, devastated budget and a tattered relationship with our allies."  NY TIMES / Krugman

9/23   Gore says Iraq attack "a distraction from the war on terrorism that has ''squandered'' international support for the U.S."    

9/23   Bush Planned attack on Iraq before 9/11 & also "regime change" for China (SUNDAY HERALD)

9/23   Germans Balk at Serving American Empire  won't help attack Iraq

9/23   Estimates of Costs and Troop numbers to Conquer and Occupy Iraq --Washington Post

9/27  Chronology of the Empire's Growth

9/19   Washington War Wanters are Civilians, nearly all never served in military

9/16  Iraq Oil Concessions and U.S. Invasion     just old fashioned imperialism?

9/8  Bush Mis-states (Lies) about UN report on Iraq

9/8    56% of American high school grads can't read simple math question  -why we need educated immigrants

8/28  Afghan Situation Deteriorating Rapidly  --higher U.S. casualties, losing local allies, Al-quaeda regrouping --go to bottom of page for article.  http://www.stratfor.com/standard/analysis_view.php?ID=205937

8/28  Double Standards Make Enemies  Salmon Rushdie "(Bush attack on Iraq) unleash a generation-long plague of anti-Americanism that could make the present epidemic look like a time of rude good health."

8/28  Bush Reads a Book   Neo-cons give him a book, want him to ignore Generals--we think of Hitler as one who followed such advice and took over military campaigns from his generals

8/25  Newsweek Reveals War Atrocities --murder of POW's

8/25 Iraq War May cost up to $100 billion

8/24   Colombia's Problems with U.S. Immunity Request from World Court  --Stratfor.com

8/23   Resistance to empire wanters grows among Republicans

8/20  Losing our Best Allies in War on Terror  NY TIMES   Asian student, "American democracy require suppression of democracy in rest of world?"

8/13   English views --lots of good links alos on understanding American Empire Wanters

8/13   Conquering Iraq as Prelude  to then take on and change regimes in Iran and Saudi Arabia--dreams of the empire wanters

De Borchgrave --risk of World economic chaos from Iraq attack & De Borchgrave Update      Majority in England oppose helping U.S.

8/5     Hypocrisy on Democracy for Arab World --NY TIMES   Washington supports dictators' supression of peaceful protests

8/1      The questions to consider in attacking Iraq by Samuel Berger

7/30    Bush administration's decisions will lead to more terror  -now Iran  by George Anne Geyer, Chicago Tribune
7/22   "Savage Wars of Peace" by Max Boot & "Supreme Command" by Elliot A. Cohen analysis of America empire building , lessons from past, the "Post Powell doctrine" NY Times (needs registration)

7/18    How the Empire Got Started by Jude Wanniski

7/18    Through the Looking Glass at the Morality of Empire   by Sarah Shields

7/14     Dept. Homeland Security Plans Cause Concern for Chaos Moving bureaucracies, Businesses fear government paralysis

7/04      U.S. has strange allies in opposing world court jurisdiction

7/01  "We are going to be destroyed by the hatred of the rest fof the world........  with one billion Moslems hating us, and the contempt of all of Europe,"   Gore Vidal on the empire

7/01    The Drug Was as an Extension of Empire --Killing in Bolivia

U.S. Military Replaces Diplomats --7,000 trainers in 60-70 nations --the growing empire

6/28     Moslems who view America as blind Cyclops & Bin Laden as Ulysses --Salmon Rushdie in WASH. POST.

6/27    U.S. Enemies Spreading to Asian Muslims --good news for The War Party

6/20   Going it Alone --Fallacies of the Bush-Wolfowitz Doctrine of a new Roman Empire

6/17   Why Bush First Strike Will Surely Backfire  U.S. Abandoning international law will lose co-operation, lose allies, leave U.S. alone--Washington Post

6/13     Robert Fisk on the Forbidden Question --Why do they hate us?

6/9       Humble no Longer --Bush West Point Speech --Growing the Empire & Describing Attack Plans--John Bolton's

5/28     Neo-cons Bash and Fear Indpendent Europe by Paul Gottfried

5/28   Hesitant Hawks by Mary McGrory --a leftist view of empire growing pains

5/27    Foreign Students Abandoning U.S. Flight Schools --now studying overseas-- NY TIMES -requires registration) (Another Bin Laden "victory" against U.S. world influence

5/26     U.S.-Europe Divide    over Washington Unilateralism & Empire Building

U.S. Military Replaces Diplomats --7,000 trainers in 60-70 nations --the growing empire

5/30  Iran's Factions Coalescing Around Pro-Europe Policy  Stratfor.com A new policy of engagement with Europe in hopes of offsetting the United States may not be dramatic, but at least all sides may support it.   Diplomatic initiatives, especially Europe-aimed measures such as a recent $460 million bond issue being handled by German and French banks, are meant to increase the outside world's stake in Iran and strengthen support against U.S. belligerence.


5/19  $28 Billion for Afghanistan Military costs Media Monitors Network    In 1919 Joseph Schumpteter described ancient Rome in a way that sounds eerily like the United States in 2002.

"There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, the allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest -- why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbours...The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies, it was manifestly Rome's duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs."  

5/19  U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues  Pentagon free hand w/o Congress or any oversight

5/16   New Nations on the Hit List   There is now not the slightest pretence that the scope of the US's regime-change wishlist is in any way tethered to the attacks of September 11

5/16    Comparing American Empire to Athens  American liberty is being sacrificed to the security needs of maintaining an empire, we can’t help but wonder – is it worth it?

5/16  Dual Citizenship --A problem for the Empire  Almost anyone can get it, foreign governments want loyalty too

5/15  IN EYES OF WORLD, U.S. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ISRAELI POLICIES by Georgie Anne Geyer in Chicago Tribune

4/22  Central Asia Air Bases --Thousands of U.S. troops are headed to Central Asia, and they're not leaving anytime soon

4/22   Wounded Goliath --Australians look at the mighty empire--"on a rampage – armed to the teeth, adored by the polls, unfettered by law, answering to no-one and licensed to kill."

4/1   It Takes an Empire  --comparison to Rome and England --  Int. Herald Tribune

3/18  Crisis Looms Between U.S., Russia    See bottom of page for the STRATFOR.COM Report

3/18  New Neo-Con War Promotion with Bill Bennett  lots of money from War Party

3/11  Bush vs Saddam: The empire strikes back After U.S. Attack--Likely Consequences in Iraq

3/8   From Suez to the Pacific     US expands its presence across the globe

3/6  Axis of Hubris by Doug Bandow --our "gobbledy-gook commitments"

2/28  Russia Objects as Washington expands the empire into Central Asia & former Soviet nations

2/17  An Endless War on Evil --The Bush Worldview --"Waging War without End, always a new battlefield"  Shades of 1984, heavy Neo-conservative influence, "Our moral values make us Vulnerable"

2/17  Pentagon News Handling Unmasked --Reporters as threats, sensitivity, "America is always Good"

1/23  Robert Fisk on Washington "Lawlessness" --bases, prisoners, kidnappings, etc. becoming what Bin Laden's accused us of

1/22 America's 3rd World Allies May Want a Long War --old U.S. issues --human rights, economic liberalization, anti-corruption will all be sacrificed

9/21/01  Debate on American Empire  Washington Post

An imperial nightmare    English imperialists who dream of America following with new empire + a shor history/critique of British imperialism as a model for America


U.S. Ready to Deploy Troops in 15 more Nations --says Rumsfeld

Secret Empire- U.S. Military Abroad---MSNBC  Graphics Report

Pentagon wants $6 Billion more for Intelligence/Spying

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslim men and boys are being subjected to strip searches in freezing, standing room only detention centers in southern California after being arrested for routine visa irregularities, immigration lawyers said on Thursday.

They estimated that between 1,000 and 2,500 males, some as young as 16, were spending their fourth day locked up in what they called inhumane conditions after voluntarily presenting themselves at immigration offices to register under new anti-terrorism rules.

"The situation in the detention centers is absolutely horrifying. In one center, they were ordered to strip down and given a strip search. They were only given a prison jumpsuit, without any underwear, T-shirts, socks or shoes. They were not given blankets. They are freezing," Iranian-American lawyer Sohelia Jonoubi told Reuters.