Part 2 of a two-part series
The complicity connection: What did the Bush administration know and when did it know it?

May 29, 2002—In May 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave $43 million to the Taliban because under its regime poppy growing was drastically reduced. Despite its human rights abuses, the "gift," in addition to other aid, made the U.S. the "main sponsor of the Taliban" at the time, according to a column by Robert Scheer in the Los Angeles Times May 22.

Focused like a laser

May 29, 2002—When George W. Bush was campaigning for president, the Bush team told us that it wasn't important that the Shrub was not a detail oriented man. Bush's managerial style was to delegate.

Beyond Politics
Alternative media and the new paradigm

May 29, 2002—Now we see papers like the New York Times feebly voicing some dissent against the reckless insanity in Washington, and I do mean feebly. They seem to be the frog in the boiling water that never jumped out because the water heated up too slowly for it to notice. One might even go so far as to say the Times is awake, barely. But that is not nearly enough.

U.S. nuclear policy: Fast track to Armageddon

May 29, 20002—A state police sergeant stands in the middle of the highway looking toward the west. Behind him, a number of other troopers walk around the roadblock nervously; making idle chatter in a vain attempt to lighten up the atmosphere.

The sum of all fabrication

May 29, 2002—For decades, novelist Tom Clancy, has been a cheerleader for the American war machine. Although production of his latest cinematographic accolade of white boy intelligence hero, Jack Ryan, in The Sum Of All Fears, began well in advance of September 11, next weekend's release of the movie is certain to both delight and vindicate Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.

The message has been "Get over it," now use your anger to let them know you haven't

May 29, 2002—I find it odd that the Bush Department of Justice has just come out with an action to sue several counties in Florida over votes not being counted or people being purged from the voter rolls during the 2000 presidential election.

Part 1 of a two-part series
The complicity connection: What did the Bush administration know and when did it know it?

May 23, 2002—Former president George H. W. Bush on December 7 told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: "On September 11, our nation suffered another surprise attack . . .."

Which terrorists? (or "The Very Hungry Conspiracy")

May 23, 2002—May 15, 2002, may become the most significant day in the history of journalism. On that day, the tapestry of lies that has camouflaged the most reprehensible conspiracy in the history of America began to unravel.

Wall Street Journal attempts White House damage control and fails miserably

May 23, 2002—The Wall Street Journal this week has engaged in a laughable attempt to salvage the political rear end of the Bush administration, lest the mushrooming scandal revolving around foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks threatens portfolio values (and unsettles the cabalist minds) of WSJ's subscriber base.

September 11: The case gathers steam

May 23, 2002—With the White House admitting that George W. Bush was briefed on the possibility of a terrorist attack, much of the corporate media is finally asking the questions they should have been asking all along. This news has emboldened those who had been cowed by knee-jerk patriotism to abandon their silence and put the case before the public. Finally, their voices are starting to join with those of us who have been calling for a full investigation to get at the truth.

The paradoxical "right to life"

The "right to life" faction is not prepared to support the best proven means of reducing abortions and teen pregnancies. In fact, the very concept of "right to life" is beset with paradoxes that are troublesome to the conservatives.

Part 5 of a five-part series
A case history in the culture of lies: The Washington Post

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All the desperate lies and spin don't change the fact that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks

May 19, 2002—George W. Bush knew. And his administration knew. The transparently dishonest denials issued by the White House do not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. They are lying. A simple examination of existing information, gathered from reliable, open sources proves it.

U.S. plans for martial law, tele-governance, suspension of elections

May 16, 200—Since September 11, 2001, the Bush Regime, the US Congress and senior personnel in the U.S. military have been busy planning their escape routes from Washington, DC, and surrounding communities in the event that the continental United States is attacked by another 19 global insurgents possessing little more than wit, dedication, an unrepentant animosity towards America, and an ample dose of radioactive material packed inside an explosive-laden metallic suitcase.

THE TRUTH IS OUT: BUSH KNEW!

May 16, 2002—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have committed an atrocity worse than those who hijacked four airliners last Sept. 11, crashed two of them into the World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon and the fourth in a field in Pennsylvania: They and the whole administration lied to the American people and the world about what they knew about the events leading up to that fateful day. If ever there was an impeachable offense, this is it and we must not let them spin away their complicity by foisting the full blame on the FBI. Nor must we allow the corporate media that could no longer ignore the truth make another turn to help the Bush administration let the man behind the desk in the Oval Office, his second in command and his cabinet escape the consequences of their actions, inactions and lies.

And to think that those of us who could not make what was known prior to Sept. 11 square with the official line from the Bush administration—an official line swallowed whole by the corporate media—were called "conspiracy theorists," "conspiracy wackos" and "conspiracy nutters." Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) was vilified not just by the right wing but some in her own party, when she called for a full investigation into Sept. 11 to get to the bottom of what Bush knew and when he knew it. Well, fellow "conspiracy theorists," the corporate media through yesterday's disclosures have admitted we weren't "wackos" or "nutter" after all.

Now you know why on the morning of Sept. 11, when Chief of Staff Andrew Card came into that Sarasota, Florida, classroom and whispered in Bush's ear, Bush registered no surprise, shock or outrage—"somber" was the way every media outlet reported his reaction. Would not any other chief executive—even an unelected one installed in the White House by the Felonious Five on the Supreme Court—have immediately concerned himself about the safety of the children and staff in that school, then departed to attend to his duties as the nation's leader? Bush did none of those things. Instead, he sat, for another 20 or so minutes, listening to the second-graders read a story about a pet goat. Is this the actions of a person who didn't know what was going down? Would any reasonable person in similar circumstances show no regard for his own safety or the safety of those in his company, unless he knew he was in no jeopardy?

Did Bush have to stay in the classroom, until his father, a former president who just happened to pay a visit to the White House that day, and Cheney figured out what to do next, in order to make their version of events palatable to the American people? Hence, the image of Bush II flying hither and thon around the country and finally taking refuge in a missile silo, while the American people awaited some words of comfort and reassurance from the man who claimed to be their leader, instead all they had gotten were some hastily delivered words—"somber," as the corporate media described them—the first of which were mumbled in Sarasota, then in an airport hangar before Air Force One departed for the rabbit hole in Nebraska. That insane exercise was hardly presidential. Meanwhile, back at the White House, Cheney was fed Cipro—and that was before anyone even mentioned anthrax—and spirited off to an "undisclosed location," and the White House and Capitol were evacuated. It wasn't until late that evening that Bush crept back to Washington.

For years we have heard the cries of some that it wasn't a matter of if but when a terrorist act would be carried out on US soil, yet, despite all the warnings from intelligence agencies around the world, the concerns of two US flight schools over Arab nationals suddenly seeking commercial flight training, the arrest of suspected terrorist Zacaria Moussaui last August, suspected terrorist Mohamed Atta and his merry band learning to fly commercial jetliners at two flight schools in Venice, Fla., and the concerns raised by the FBI's Phoenix, Ariz., office that the World Trade Center might be a target, the Bush administration would have us believe there was nothing definitive to clue them as to what was about to take place. How stupid do they think we are?

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