November 25: End of the Cold War through 1st Gulf War

 

Read: Kolko,  Another Century of War, 1-85

 

Recommended 

For some of the discussion of soldier’s responsibility in times of war that we were discussing in Thursday’s class see

http://www.crisispapers.org/texts/UCMJ.htm

 

End of the Cold War

      Excerpt from Gunfighter Nation  the cowboy west in American Foreign policy-making

·         Noam Chomsky: How the Cold War Really Worked

·         Gaddis, Ronald Reagan’s Cold War Victory

 

·         The villains of today's news were heroes in the '80s http://www.fair.org/extra/0201/afghanistan-80s.html

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

 

Background to first gulf war

·        8 myths of the Gulf War  http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/papers/8myths/index.html

·        Royal Oil Families Finance our debt

·        One of two newspaper articles that have revealed that the U.S. Planned Poisoning Iraq’s Civilian Water Supply— http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/091700-01.htm

·        Professor Nagy’s summary of his findings: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NAG108A.html

·        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

·         Crude Vision Focus on answering the questions: why did the Reagan administration deal with Iraq after that government had used chemical weapons? What was the role of Bechtel in the Reagan Administration and with Rumsfeld? You can skim the chronology. Note: This is a PDF file; you need adobe reader. You can download this file from any NIU computer.

·         Royal Oil Families Finance Our Debt

·         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

·         http://www.nowarcollective.com/powellbio.htm Colin Powell’s biography--different from the way you usually see him portrayed

·         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

·         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