April 27: From Cold War to Gulf War

Read 

·         Bring copy of this Outline to class  Powerpoint version

·         Iran/Contra and CIA’s involvement with drug runners –review Give Me Liberty 1061-1064 for background to this information

·         Give Me Liberty 1069-1077

·         8 myths of the Gulf War  

·        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 Iraq was targeted in the first Gulf War?

 

Recommended:

 

Understanding Iran Contra

·         Iran Hostage Timeline http://www.decades.com/Timeline/16_0_2079.htm

·         Final Report on Iran/Contra by Lawrence Walsh

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

·         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       

·                        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/

·        Otto Reich and covert propaganda http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/ 

·         Iran-Contra chronology http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chron.htm 

·         Browse: The Flow of Funds http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_v.htm

·           Iran/Contra and CIA’s involvement with drug runners –review Give Me Liberty 1061-1064 for background to this information

·         Reagan Press Conference on Nicaragua

·         Nicaragua:The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy

·         Nicaragua 1981-1990  Destabilization in slow motion-- Excerpts from Bill Blum’s book

·         Psychological Operation in Nicaraguaand the implications for our post-9/11 worldformer CIA director William Colby: "the Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media."

·         Terrorist Training, American Style (on the School of the Americas, established by the U.S. and training ground for Latin-‘American military

·         Training Terrorists in Florida  (story is about mid-way down in the page)

·         Middle East, Iran-- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/ConsequencesEmpire_MEast.html

·         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

·         Terrorism Watch A different approach

 

Iraq

·         My Iraq page

·         Browse: Iraq: 10 years after http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol6/v6n01iraq.html

·         Browse: Recent strikes at Iraq http://fpif.org/briefs/vol1/iraq_body.html

·         Recommended: Why the US didn’t overthrow Saddam Hussein at end of Gulf War

http://www.fpif.org/progresp/volume5/v5n40.html

·                        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

·         CBS and NBC Spiked Footage of Iraq Bombing Carnage http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1991.html

·         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)

·          Why the US didn’t overthrow Saddam Hussein at end of Gulf War

http://www.fpif.org/progresp/volume5/v5n40.html

·         Iraq: 10 years after http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol6/v6n01iraq.html

·         Recent strikes at Iraq http://fpif.org/briefs/vol1/iraq_body.html

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War/Middle East

·         Royal Oil Families Finance Our Debt

·         Tim Wise,The Racism of American Warmongering http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11522

·         Read: Military Industrial Complex, Revisited

http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/papers/micr/index.html

·         American jihad, 1979-1992 http://members.aol.com/bblum6/afghan.htm

·         10 things to know about the Middle East http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11608

·         Prof. Michael Klare, author of Resource Wars, interview in November 2001 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Oil_watch/Resource_War.html

·         Chronology of Unocal interests in Afghanistan http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm

·         Patriot Act http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_7.11.shtml

·         Oil Pipeline and negotiations with the Taliban http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm

·         Soviet records on Afghanistan http://cwihp.si.edu/pdf/afghan-dossier.pdf

·         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

·         Excerpt from Gunfighter Nation (one of my favorite books on American History) – the cowboy west in American Foreign policy-making

·         Excerpt from Gibson Warrior Dreams: (Paramilitarism as State Policy in the Reagan-Bush Era)

·         Star Trek-Klingons and Commies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/original/commies.shtml

·         Missile defense shield is a fraud: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0315-06.htm

·         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