April 27: From Cold War to Gulf War
Read
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Bring copy of
this Outline
to class Powerpoint version
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Iran/Contra and
CIA’s involvement with drug runners –review Give Me Liberty 1061-1064 for
background to this information
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Give Me
· The Planned Poisoning of Iraq’s Civilian Water Supply
What evidence do the National Security Archive
historians give for charging that the CIA was involved in drug running, and how
do you respond to this evidence?
What was the New World Order as proposed by George
Bush Sr.
What do you think are the most important of the 8
myths of the Gulf War, and why?
What is significant about knowing the strategy of
how the civilian water supply of
Recommended:
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Final
Report on Iran/Contra by
Walsh was the Republican who
investigated, prosecuted and gave the final full report. Though a staunch
Republican, he . He was never able to bring anyone to
face the justice he thought was needed to this issues.
Instead this extraordinary report is buried. It is critical however for the
issues facing us now that the George Bus
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Conclusions of Walsh
report Shows guilt of numerous
parties. “The disrespect
for Congress by a popular and powerful President and his appointees was
obscured when Congress accepted the tendered concept of a runaway conspiracy of
subordinate officers and avoided the unpleasant confrontation with a powerful
President and his Cabinet”
Browse, to see how Walsh showed how Bush and Reagan were implicated.
See how Elliot
Abrams, one of the constructors of current Iraq War, was implicated in this
undemocratic game
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Document
summaries from National security archives (Iran-Iraq) (20 years after the
hostages)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/index.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/
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Otto Reich and covert propaganda http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/
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Iran-Contra
chronology http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chron.htm
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Browse: The
Flow of Funds http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_v.htm
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Iran/Contra and
CIA’s involvement with drug runners –review Give Me Liberty 1061-1064 for
background to this information
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Reagan Press
Conference on Nicaragua
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Nicaragua:The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy
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Nicaragua 1981-1990
Destabilization in slow motion--
Excerpts from Bill Blum’s book
· Psychological Operation in Nicaragua –and the implications for our post-9/11 world—former CIA director William Colby: "the Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media."
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Terrorist
Training, American Style (on the School of the
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Training
Terrorists in Florida (story is
about mid-way down in the page)
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Middle East, Iran--
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/ConsequencesEmpire_MEast.html
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CIA and death squads and Red Herring of Left Wing
Terrorism
2nd and 3rd stories on page http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1984.html
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Terrorism
Watch A different approach
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Browse:
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Browse: Recent strikes at
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Recommended: Why the
http://www.fpif.org/progresp/volume5/v5n40.html
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Browse: The Arming of Iraq—Congressional
Testimony on the involvement of Brent Scowcroft, Henry Kissinger in profiting
from Arming Iraq (an expansion of some of the information in the Royal Oil
Families Finance Our Debt article on BNL bank of Atlanta http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/bnl.html
http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/iraqgate04.html#client
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CBS and NBC Spiked Footage of Iraq Bombing Carnage http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1991.html
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Professor Nagy’s site on
poisoning documents: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NAG108A.html
(this has overlapping information with the first, only it selects out more
detail from the document for analysis, then has a link to the actual document
as well)
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Why the
http://www.fpif.org/progresp/volume5/v5n40.html
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Recent strikes at
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War/Middle East
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Royal Oil Families Finance Our
Debt
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Tim Wise,The Racism of American Warmongering http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11522
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Read: Military Industrial Complex, Revisited
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/papers/micr/index.html
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American jihad, 1979-1992 http://members.aol.com/bblum6/afghan.htm
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10 things to know about the
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Prof. Michael Klare, author
of Resource Wars, interview in November 2001 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Oil_watch/Resource_War.html
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Chronology of Unocal interests in
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Patriot Act http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_7.11.shtml
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Oil Pipeline and negotiations with the Taliban http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
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Soviet records on
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The villains of today's news were heroes in the '80s http://www.fair.org/extra/0201/afghanistan-80s.html
· Excerpt from Warrior Dreams—the First “terrorist” scare of the 1980s; paramilitarism in the Reagan admin.
End
of the Cold War
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Excerpt from
Gunfighter Nation (one of my favorite books on American History) – the
cowboy west in American Foreign policy-making
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Excerpt from Gibson
Warrior Dreams: (Paramilitarism as State Policy in
the Reagan-Bush Era)
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Star Trek-Klingons and
Commies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/original/commies.shtml
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Missile defense shield is a fraud: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0315-06.htm
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Two Different perspectives on the end of the Cold War
n Noam Chomsky: How the Cold War
Really Worked
n Gaddis, Ronald Reagan’s Cold War Victory