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Frontline
Volume 28 - Issue 23 :: Nov. 05-18, 2011
INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
from the publishers of THE HINDU

http://www.frontline.in/stories/20111118282302400.htm

Scramble for Africa

JOHN CHERIAN

The neocolonial scramble for Africa has truly begun with the installation of the National Transitional Council in Libya.

THE installation of the National Transitional Council (NTC) government in Libya by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) could signal the beginning of an open neocolonial scramble for Africa. Suspicions about such a blueprint were first aroused when President George W. Bush set up the United States-Africa Command (AFRICOM) in 2008, months before demitting office. The demand for a permanent American military footprint on the African continent had come from right-wing think tanks that enjoyed great clout in the corridors of power during the eight years of the Bush presidency.

9/11 Theories: Expert vs. Expert

Why can't the experts get their stories straight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySUrEiVFIM

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Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers

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War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.

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Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush made $22.84 million last year.
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Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens made $21.89 million.
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Boeing CEO James McNerney: $19.4 million.

These guys use their corporations' massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. Last year, their companies spent a whopping $46 million on lobbying, corrupting our politics and ensuring that their bank accounts continue to fatten at our expense. These executives are some of the main reasons why we're wasting so much on war instead of rebuilding our own nation here at home.

Core Of Corruption: Echoes of Treason - Teaser Trailer, 2nd film in series. CoreOfCorruption.com

Announcing Core of Corruption 2: Echoes of Treason!

We are editing the film for completion and will be making announcements soon along with releasing the trailers/previews for the 2nd and 3rd installments of the series. This is exciting! Sorry it took so long everyone, stay tuned for our announcements... I hope to have some preview/trailers out for the sequels by the November holiday weekend, if not by Christmas for sure.

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http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/23/switching-focus-from-iraq-to-iran/

Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran
October 23, 2011

Exclusive: President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is a blow to the neocons who had long dreamt of permanent military bases. But the neocons are now trying to spin the Iraq disaster into another excuse to confront Iran, writes Ray McGovern.

By Ray McGovern

You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at the Washington Post or at least its editorial pages.

I have tried. But it seems that after almost a half century in Washington, and particularly after the recent rash of “wars of choice,” it is simply not possible. One has to keep an eye on what bloody mischief the neocons are devising.

The Post’s lead editorial on Sunday is ostensibly about Iraq and blaming President Barack Obama if things get worse after U.S. troops leave in December. But these days Iran is the main concern of the neocons who infect that editorial page.

In the wake of Obama’s withdrawal announcement on Friday, the Post’s neocon editors are worried that:

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" The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available at very high prices "

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZ_JfROhOE
PART 1- Meltdown - The men who crashed the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBlVBhv0ag&feature=related
PART 2- Meltdown - The men who crashed the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhAvUTW5ZE&feature=related
PART 3- Meltdown - Paying the Price

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZwMIIJLWOw&feature=related
PART 4- Meltdown - After the Fall

http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/10/14/who-ya-gonna-believe-would-you-buy-a-us...

Who Ya Gonna Believe: Would You Buy A Used Iran Terror Plot From The Man?
By Russ Baker on Oct 14, 2011

Leave it to the US military-industrial complex to create sympathy for Iran.

The recent allegation that Iran is behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on US soil has been met with considerable skepticism—even by the usually docile US corporate media. Not only are folks skeptical, but they’re also feeling bad for Iran, given the real possibility that Iran is the victim of character assassination.

9/11 Masterminds - Explosive Connections

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jnFtSElH4&list=FLg8oq6NqbldVOWxmyRxfjZg...

If you'd like to discuss this topic in detail go to: http://www.alienscientist.com/forum/showthread.php?332-9-11-Suspects-Who......

Most of the material for this video was adapted from Kevin Ryan's landmark article on who had "Demolition access to the WTC Towers":

Tenants:
http://www.911review.com/articles/ryan/demolition_access_p1.html
Security:
http://www.911review.com/articles/ryan/demolition_access_p2.html
Convergence:
http://www.911review.com/articles/ryan/carlyle_kissinger_saic_halliburto...
Clean Up:
http://www.911review.com/articles/ryan/demolition_access_p4.html

For blueprints of the WTCs with a list of all the suspicious tenants and connections check out:
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-09-10/explosive-connections-initial-draf......

Links and sources for things mentioned in the video:

Is Obama Admin Fabricating Iranian Assassination Plot To Distract From Fast & Furious Investigation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsWIoO2CPc&feature=player_embedded

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/anthrax-files/

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

The Story:
Homegrown Terror Threat “Manufactured”: NYU Study
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/10/10/homegrown-terror-threat-ma...
The Study:
Targeted and Entrapped: Manufactuing the “Homegrown Terror Threat” in the United States
http://www.chrgj.org/projects/docs/targetedandentrapped.pdf

Homegrown Terror Threat “Manufactured”: NYU Study

The threat of homegrown terror in America has been “manufactured” by entrapping Muslim men into crimes they otherwise would not commit, a recent study from the New York University School of Law has concluded.

The study, Targeted and Entrapped: Manufactuing the “Homegrown Terror Threat” in the United States, focuses on three recent convictions of Muslim-Americans who attempted to commit acts of terror on US soil. The cases are: a man convicted in 2006 of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station; five men convicted in 2008 of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J.; and four others convicted last year of trying to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and planning to fire missiles at military aircraft.

http://www.alternet.org/story/152670/how_the_fbi%27s_network_of_informan...

Mother Jones / By Trevor Aaronson

How the FBI's Network of Informants Actually Created Most of the Terrorist Plots "Foiled" in the US Since 9/11
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?
October 9, 2011 |

UPDATE: On September 28, Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old graduate of Northeastern University, was arrested and charged with providing resources to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to destroy national defense premises. Ferdaus, according to the FBI, planned to blow up both the Pentagon and Capitol Building with a "large remote controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives."

The case was part of a nearly ten-month investigation led by the FBI. Not surprisingly, Ferdaus' case fits a pattern detailed by Trevor Aaronson in his article below: the FBI provided Ferdaus with the explosives and materials needed to pull off the plot. In this case, two undercover FBI employees, who Ferdaus believed were al Qaeda members, gave Ferdaus $7,500 to purchase an F-86 Sabre model airplane that Ferdaus hoped to fill with explosives. Right before his arrest, the FBI employees gave Ferdaus, who lived at home with his parents, the explosives he requested to pull off his attack. And just how did the FBI come to meet Ferdaus? An informant with a criminal record introduced Ferdaus to the supposed al Qaeda members.

To learn more about how the FBI uses informants to bust, and sometimes lead, terrorist plots, read Aaronson's article below.

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The Crisis of Civilization - Trailer

What is The Crisis of Civilization ?

http://crisisofcivilization.com/

The Story So Far…

by Dean Puckett

‘The Crisis Of Civilization’ began with a chance meeting between myself and international security analyst & author Nafeez Ahmed, at a political rally in St James Park, London during October 2010. Nafeez was there to discuss some of the ideas expressed in his new book “A Users Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It“. We chatted briefly and arranged that I would film a short interview for use on his website. I took my video camera along and met with him at his house in West London shortly afterward. After five hours of expansive interview with Nafeez explaining; in depth, the interconnected nature of global crises, I realised it had the potential to be a feature length documentary.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-%e...

Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted”
Posted on October 8, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog

anon flag1 Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co Opted”Preface from Washington’s Blog: Both mainstream Democratic and Republican parties are working furiously behind the scenes to co-opt the Wall Street protests. But as the Associated Press notes, the protesters are fed up with both mainstream parties, as are most of the American people.

A P.R. professional says that the mainstream media’s ridicule of the protests for failing to have a specific list of demands is a dishonest tactic.

And Yves Smith notes that the movement is effective even without demands:

I’ve noticed both here and on some news stories I heard in passing on MSNBC on Friday that the OccupyWallStreet movement has already succeeded in expanding the space of what is now being discussed as remedies.

By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus.com [See this for DeGraw's role in organizing the Wall Street protests.]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26875

Al Qaeda versus Iran 'War of Words": 9/11 Truth Wielded as a Political Trump Card

by Larry Chin

Global Research, September 30, 2011

Iran is engaged in a surreal global shouting match with so-called Al-Qaeda figures over who and what was responsible for the atrocities of 9/11.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began by publicly pronouncing that 9/11 was a US government false flag operation. Al-Qaeda responded by accusing Ahmadinejad of being a conspiracy theorist---a “9/11 truther”. Iran then replied in kind by pointing to CIA involvement with Al-Qaeda.

This spectacle would be uproarious, if the actual stakes were not so high; if this war of words was not part of a much larger and very real war that places the future of the entire world at risk.

What we are witnessing is a typical propaganda battle in which truth, lies and half-truths have been liberally mixed. Only the most clear-minded and astute observers can see the battle lines clearly.

Looking past the noise, putting aside the reliability of the figures making it, there are clear and undeniable historical facts:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29273.htm

Is The War On Terror A Hoax?

By Paul Craig Roberts

September 30, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the “war on terror.” Washington’s attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing today.

Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion dollars--one third of the accumulated public debt--resulting in a US deficit crisis that threatens the social safety net, the value of the US dollar and its reserve currency role, while enriching beyond all previous history the military/security complex and its apologists.

Perhaps the highest cost of Washington’s “war on terror” has been paid by the US Constitution and civil liberties. Any US citizen that Washington accuses is deprived of all legal and constitutional rights. The Bush-Cheney-Obama regimes have overturned humanity’s greatest achievement--the accountability of government to law.

If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself, assuming we accept the government’s improbable conspiracy theory explanation, there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August 23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered that the domestic “terror plots” hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/29/fbi_terror/...

Thursday, Sep 29, 2011 14:30 ET
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot
By Glenn Greenwald

The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade -- much of it valid -- but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots. Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29217.htm

Mission Accomplished.
The Iraq War Is a Smashing Success

By Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti'swebsite http://michaelparenti.org/

September 26, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- A reader recently reported on my Facebook wall that President George Bush had admitted to singer Tony Bennett that the Iraq war had been a "mistake." I beg to differ.

The Iraq war has not been a mistake. There was a miscalculation, it being assumed that the US invasion would be quick, easy and dearly welcomed by appreciative Iraqis. Instead the US has faced a bitter, destructive, protracted and costly conflict. There was a "mistake" in terms of operational expectations but Bush achieved what he intended and Obama is faithfully carrying on with the mission. The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld think tank, Project for a New American Century, had called for an invasion of Iraq over a year before 9/11. Iraq had to be taken out either with a quick easy war or a long tough one. In any case, the invasion and destruction of Iraq was not a "mistake."

Live coverage of "OCCUPY WALL STREET"

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Pandora’s Box

Pandora's BoxIt began with a weapon created by scientists that threatened to destroy the world. But then a group of men who were convinced they control the new danger began to gain influence in America. They would manipulate terror.

To do so, they would use the methods of science. Pandora’s Box was a six part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.

Curtis’ later The Century of the Self had a similar theme. The title sequence made extensive use of clips from the short film Design for Dreaming, as well as other similar archive footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6t5JA7OBA&list=PL137DFECB8ACDDE4F&featu...

http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/09/22/saudi-royal-ties-to-911-hijackers-via-f...

Saudi Royal Ties to 9/11 Hijackers Via Florida Saudi Family?
By Russ Baker on Sep 22, 2011

Hijackers

WhoWhatWhy has found evidence linking the Saudi royal family to Saudis in South Florida who reportedly had direct contact with the 9/11 hijackers before fleeing the United States just prior to the attacks. Our report connects some of the dots first laid out by investigative author Anthony Summers and Florida-based journalist Dan Christensen in articles jointly published in the Miami Herald and on the nonprofit news site BrowardBulldog.org.

In early September of this year, Summers and Christensen reported that a secret FBI probe, never shared with Congressional investigators or the presidential 9/11 commission, had uncovered information indicating the possibility of support for the hijackers from previously unknown confederates in the United States during 2001.

Now WhoWhatWhy reveals that those alleged confederates were closely tied to influential members of the Saudi ruling elite.

The House

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/7524-focus-big-media-...

Big Media Blacks-Out Wall Street Protests

By Will Bunch, Attytood Blog

21 September 11

RSN Special Coverage: Occupy Wall Street

hat do you think was running in the pro-government, pro-Mubarek newspapers in Egypt back in February, when crowds of unhappy and often un- or under-employed citizens began crowding into Tahrir Square? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say there probably wasn't a lot of coverage of what was happening in Tahrir Square, at least at first. They were probably running cute feature stories about an old-time falafel stand in a changing Cairo neighborhood, or maybe articles on parking problems at the Great Pyramids. They certainly weren't going to call attention to the elephant in the room that was about to knock over a corrupt and decadent society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29126.htm

The September 11 Orgie

By Michael Parenti

September 14, 2011 - -For more than a week--and extending into September 12 and probably continuing a while longer-- the media have saturated the airwaves with 9/11 stories including sad tragic tales of friends of people who knew relatives who were lost or affected in some way by the terrible attacks of ten years ago. We kept hearing how we as a people and a nation "were never the same after 9/11." (So might as well go bomb Afghanistan for ten years and destroy Iraq and now Libya.)

Again and again we heard "What were you doing when you first heard the news?" "How did it make you feel to confront such a loss? "Do you still grieve for him or have you achieved closure?" "And what of that generation that was too young to remember 9/11? What are they thinking now?" and on and on, all day, all week.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/09/the-truthers-are-out-there-toron...

The truthers are out there: Toronto Hearings on the events of September 11
Matthew Sherwood for National Post

Matthew Sherwood for National Post

Megan O'Toole Sep 9, 2011 – 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 8, 2011 11:09 PM ET

As people across Canada and the United States publicly remembered the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this week, a small group at Ryerson University were examining another angle altogether: the “myth” of 9/11. The four-day Toronto Hearings kicked off Thursday with a trio of experts and academics offering their opinions on why the official narrative of 9/11 as a terrorist attack is flawed. The Post’s Megan O’Toole looks at the day’s highlights.

THE LEGAL ANGLE

Russ Baker, Sunday Night, Radio Everywhere (Coast to Coast): 9/11 Unanswered Questions

Russ Baker talks about unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: Coast to Coast AM, radio stations everywhere. 11pm-2am Pacific Time, Sunday 9/11; 2-5am Eastern Time Monday.

For stations in the US, Canada etc (and online worldwide), see this list: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations

The Shorthorn - The University of Texas-Arlington Student Newspaper
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.php/entertainment/todo/27721-two-group...

Two groups for 9/11 explore the destruction and collapse of Twin Towers

Wednesday, 07 September 2011 - Page 1 of 2
Lindsey Juarez, The Shorthorn staff

After seeing the Twin Towers in New York City diminished to nothing but rubble 10 years ago, many didn’t question whether two planes could topple the tallest buildings in the world.

After seeing the velocity and motion at which Building 7 of the World Trade Center came down later that day, some experts did question whether burning debris could flatten a building in seconds.

Now, groups like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and North Texans for 9/11 Truth are wondering if the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 were planned.

However, if there is one thing David Berrera wants people to know, it’s that the members of North Texans for 9/11 Truth are not conspiracy theorists.

“What we’re more into is looking at the facts and taking those facts where they lead us,” Berrera, a member of North Texans for 9/11 Truth, said. “What we’re looking at is more of a forensic style of investigation.”

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20110903123552173

9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed
Although Dr. Griffin had hoped that his new book would be available for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, he has just learned from his publisher (Interlink Books) that the printer will probably not get copies to Interlink until September 12 (which would mean that it would not reach Amazon.com and most bookstores until several days later). But Dr. Griffin has provided to 911Truth.org the book's table of contents and its introduction.
– Ed.

David Ray Griffin
September 2, 2011

Table of Contents

Introduction: 9/11 Ten Years Later

1. Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?
2. The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why Have Otherwise Rational Journalists Endorsed Miracles?
3. Why Have Bill Moyers and Robert Parry in Particular Endorsed Miracles?
4. Building What? How State Crimes Against Democracy Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight
5. Phone Calls from the 9/11 Planes: How They Fooled America

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29007.htm

America’s FBI Goes Rogue

By Lawrence Davidson

Entrapment as Government Policy

September 01, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Here is an important question: What single organization is responsible for more terror plots in the USA than any other? Possible answers: Al Qaida. That would no doubt be the popular answer but it would be wrong. The KKK. Way past their prime, so that is not it. The Jewish Defense League. Good guess, but still not it. So what is the correct answer? It is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, AKA the FBI. Don’t believe me? Well, just read Trevor Aaronson’s expose entitled “The Informants” published in the September/October 2011 issue of Mother Jones.