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Subject: "Prof. Anthony J. Hall: 'Edmonton Questions 9/11'"

Date: Oct 12, 2008 10:48 AM

"The incorporation of Hitler's anti-communist brain trust into the
CIA's
espionage, assassination, torture, and thought control operations was
just one aspect
of a more elaborate history that made many of the largest US cartels
and financial
institutions, including Ford, IBM, and the J.P. Morgan/Rockefeller
concerns, major
participants in the industrial rise of the fascist axis.[v]"


Yep:
http://www.actionlyme.org/KISSINGER_NAZI_PAPERCLIP.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/johnloftusbushnazi.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm

"Brain Trusts" intend to re-educate America:
http://www.actionlyme.org/REECE_NON_PROFITS.htm
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/regionalism/dodd.htm

OSS-->CIA, at Rockefeller Center:
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid/dp/9993990795

http://www.actionlyme.org/ROCKEFLLER_UNIVERSITY.htm
The Biology of Parasitic Spirochetes:
"The ability of the borrelia, especially tick-borne strains to persist
in the
brain and in the eye after treatment with arsenic or with penicillin
or even after
apparent cure is well known (1). The persistence of treponemes after
treatment
of syphilis is a major area which currently requires additional study
(3,5,10,11).
-Jay Sanford, US Military Hospital, Bethesda

http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOWEAPONEERS_CORIXA_YALE_TLRS.htm
Question: If spirochetes, when driven into the cyst form, replicate,
do we end
up with even more spirochetes than we would have had we not taken
antibiotics?

Fikrig mentions that OspA vaccination makes the spirochete population
(of sans B31
OspA) increase in ticks in the presence of OspA antibodies:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=7729870

CDC officer Alan Barbour says vaccines wil fail due to
antigenic variation, even OspA vaccines in 1992:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BARBOUR_MUTANTS_1992.htm

CDC officer Alan Barbour says permanent spirochetal infections of
the brain are incurable with antibiotics in 1986:
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICOCHRON.htm


Net result? Totally ridiculous brain-scrambled nonsense
from the NIH, CDC, DHHS, FDA, USDOJ, HomeLame Stupidity,
and, um, AMERICAN "journalists." The Rockefellers were
very successful in creating this failed tard nation.

They, the Rockefellers, always admitted to not being very
smart, themselves. So, they thunk up an education actionplan
for the rest of us. I can tell you why they're stupid,
these Rockefellers: they're the most paranoid people on earth.

They're world-class cowards. Like Dick Cheney.


Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.relapsingfever.org
==================================

http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7456&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

The Lies and Crimes of 911 - A Canadian View of the War on Terror's
Origins

Prof. Anthony J. Hall - Paper Presented at 'Edmonton Questions 9/11':
Convention
and Film, Stanley A. Milner Public Library Theatre on September 6,
2008.

Framing the Issues

During this, the season of the seventh anniversary of 911, we must
continue to increase
the effectiveness of our transnational peace lobby aimed at extending
the Nuremberg
process towards an international investigation into the war crimes and
crimes against
humanity committed in the name of the War on Terror. Such an
investigation must
begin by asking some foundational questions about the underlying crime
that gave
rise to the War on Terror. Were the events of 911 orchestrated by a
very different
cast of characters and for very different motives than those
identified in the trial
by media that began with unseemly haste on the very day of the Great
Shock?[i] Is
the War on Terror a War on Truth? Did the official conspiracy theory
originate in
a web of lies, distortions and cover-ups expressed to this day in the
dense shroud
of public mythology surrounding the events of 911? We must empower a
credible international
tribunal of esteemed jurists with sufficient independence to asses on
its own merits
the growing body of evidence to indicate that the destruction of the
Twin Towers
and World Trade Centre 7, together with the hit on the Pentagon, were
caused by
something considerably more elaborate than the actions of nineteen
young Saudis
equipped with nothing but box cutters, flight training and jihadist
zeal.

www.PEJ.org


Too much state terror and too much state criminality has occurred
since 911 not
to revisit the scene of the crime that created the springboard for
such systemic
and unrelenting abuses of authority and sacred trusts vested in our
governments.
Was the whole 911 operation really planned and instigated by a band of
Islamic extremists
acting alone? Was the whole undertaking really planned and coordinated
in distant
Eurasian caves, ones conveniently located on planned pipeline routes
meant to tap
the last large reserves of unexploited Middle Eastern oil? Was the
role of Wall
Street in the events of 911 confined to that of victim? Or are some
central figures
in America's commercial capital more implicated in the crime's
planning,
execution and outcomes than our governments and the commercial media
would have
us believe? Who benefited most from the events of 911? Who had the
motives and who
had the means? Wouldn't any truly independent inquiry into what
actually transpired
on 911 begin by addressing such fundamental questions and then work
from there?

From Manifest Destiny to the Cold War to the War on Terror

The War on Terror continues old patterns that developed in the
transcontinental,
hemispheric and global expansions of the United States. This twenty-
first century
war without end gives new expression to the old mythology of American
Manifest Destiny.
The term Manifest Destiny is a code to identify the idea that God
himself has given
ample manifestation of his wish that the people, government and
corporations of
the United States have a special role to play in realizing the
hegemonic destiny
of Western civilization. In the nineteenth century the public
mythology of Manifest
Destiny generated broad public support for the US annexation of Texas,
Mexico, Hawaii,
and the Philippines. The adherents of Manifest Destiny also planned to
acquire the
northern portion of North America. My country, however, was saved from
falling under
the reign of the Stars and Stripes. As I outline in considerable
detail in The American
Empire and the Fourth World, my country retained its sovereignty
because a strategic
alliance between Great Britain and the very effective fighting forces
of Tecumseh's
Indian Confederacy repelled the US Armed Force's invasion of Canada
during the
War of 1812.[ii]

By presenting the conflict as an epic struggle between savagery and
civilization,
the War on Terror is being sold to the public in much the same guise
as the US Indian
wars and the scores of similar invasions that have stripped Indigenous
peoples of
their lands and resources around the world. The War on Terror's
propagandistic
subtext would picture our soldiers as champions of democratic
salvation shining
the light of Judeo-Christian civilization even into those dark
Eurasian caves where
Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the axis of false and evil
religion are said
to dwell.

As Kevin Phillips has outlined in American Theocracy, there are strong
motivations
behind these dangerous flirtations with the imagery and substance of
religious warfare.[iii]
The imagery of militant Christianity in armed confrontation with
demonic Islam helps
energize the evangelical base, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, of
the governing
Republican Party in the United States. Similarly the War on Terror's
religious
symbolism helps Canada's Public Safety Minister, Stockwell Day,
deliver some
evangelical gravy to his own Born-Again constituency. Many of those on
the religious
right of western Canada played a central role in the founding of the
Alberta-based
Reform Party, now in a fragile alliance with the supposedly extinct
Progressive
Conservatives.

This alliance between the Reform Party's constituency and the
Progressive Conservatives
came about in direct violation of the precise terms of a signed
agreement between
David Orchard and Peter MacKay. MacKay is the ex-leader of the
Progressive Conservatives
whose willingness to sabotage his Party resulted in his appointment by
Prime Minister
Stephen Harper as Foreign Affairs Minister and now as Minister of
National Defence.
Hence MacKay's violation of his signed promise to David Orchard and
his supporters
not to join Stephen Harper's Alliance Party forms the underlying
episode of
fraud and deceit that created Canada's current minority government, a
government
that has invested considerable political capital in elaborating a
Canadian version
of the War on Terror. Make no mistake about it. Canada's contribution
to George
Bush's War on Terror is enormous because the ecologically brutal
assault on
the Alberta tar sands is now the source of more energy for the United
States than
the oil wells of Saudi Arabia. It is largely Canadian energy that is
fueling the
rise of the US terror economy and the building of the global police
state.

Even more than the well orchestrated psychological warfare on the
capitalist side
in the Cold War, the War on Terror's propagandists renew, amend and
exploit
some of the most deep-rooted symbols to emerge from the
transcontinental expansion
of the United States. The mythology of this saga of Manifest Destiny
served to lionize
the US Armed Forces, but especially during the era when its main
military function
was to clear the land of hostile Indians in order to prepare the
ground for the
operation of railway companies, land speculators and Euro-American
settlers. From
its inception the close partnership between the US military
establishment and the
largest US corporations has had as its goal the creation of a New
World Wealth Machine.
[iv] This partnership between business and the Armed Forces formed the
essential
axis of collaboration in building up an Anglo-American superpower to
the point where
it could replace many of the functions of imperial Europe after its
internal wars
exhausted its capacity to dominate and exploit colonized peoples.

The open ended construction of a never ending War on Terror assures a
constant supply
of new enemies to justify the unbroken expansion of the most heavily
militarized
economy the world has ever seen. The US government has continued to
finance its
permanent wartime economy ever since the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbour in 1941.
After emerging victorious from the Second World War, the US government
extended
its imperial control over its informal empire by building the
machinery of the national
security state, the core polity in charge of capitalism's primary
police force.
At the jurisdictional core of the national security state resides the
executive
power of the US president. Throughout the Cold War the CIA would
emerge as one of
the most active agencies of the national security state. In its early
years the
CIA integrated much of the anti-communist apparatus of the defeated
Nazi regime
into its own worldwide anti-Soviet, anti-communist crusade.

The incorporation of Hitler's anti-communist brain trust into the
CIA's
espionage, assassination, torture, and thought control operations was
just one aspect
of a more elaborate history that made many of the largest US cartels
and financial
institutions, including Ford, IBM, and the J.P. Morgan/Rockefeller
concerns, major
participants in the industrial rise of the fascist axis.[v] Many of
the largest
US corporations and financiers, therefore, invested in the military
industrialization
of both sides during the Second World War. This fact goes far to
explain the totalitarianism
implicit in the Pentagon's preoccupation with objectives like Full
Spectrum
Dominance and Total Information Awareness'[vi] The fascistic thrust
inherent
in this kind of dark enterprise has derived so much momentum from the
authoritarian
deployment of fear that it will continue no matter who is elected as
president of
the United States or as Prime Minister of Canada this autumn. As long
as the truth
of 911 continues to be subordinated to the political exploitation of
the event's
public mythology we shall continue to see the evaporation of the
freedoms and civil
liberties some of us have so long taken for granted .

In Iran, Guatemala, the Congo, Iraq, Indonesia, Chile and many, many
other polities,
the CIA and other branches of the national security state intervened
covertly to
oust and kill those leaders who sought to express the principles of
decolonization
by attempting to nationalize their peoples' indigenous natural
resources. The
War on Terror now extends and intensifies the Cold War's heritage of
illegal
intervention in the sovereign self-governance of Indigenous peoples
the world over.
The War on Terror continues to provide cover for the continued
promotion of an unjust
regime of property relations that empowers an entitled minority at the
expense of
a disentitled majority. This phony War on Terror entails one of the
most ambitious
and insidious campaigns of psychological warfare ever mounted. It
provides a justification
for entrenched elites everywhere to jail, torture and kill their
opponents in the
name of quelling terrorism. The War on Terror helps draw attention
away from the
huge and pressing threats to humanity's environmental security, our
health security,
our food security, and our education security. This diversionary war
is being mounted
at a crucial moment when our very survival depends on our collective
capacity to
plan and implement coordinated global solutions to the very real
menaces we collectively
face. Most of this threat emerges from the accelerating pace of the
industrial degradation
of Earth's ecosystems, the only true source of healthy life and
genuine wellbeing
available to humanity.

Although the National Security Act was passed in 1947, it was not
until the presidency
of Dwight D. Eisenhower that the vast and elaborate national security
state went
seriously into the business of assassinating foreign leaders and
covertly changing
regimes in order to protect and advance the global business interests
of US corporations.
Given his background as America's most celebrated general in the
Second World
War and his experience as a two-term Republican president, Eisenhower
well understood
the elaborate links connecting the US military establishment to the
interests of
capitalism's biggest corporations. As Eisenhower was passing the
presidential
torch to his doomed young successor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the
departing Commander-In-Chief
coined a telling phrase to identify the tight convergence of political
and economic
power in a single US sector. Eisenhower warned against the betrayal of
democratic
ideals through the concentration of too much influence in something he
called 'the
military-industrial complex.'

Eisenhower's flagging of the military-industrial complex's potential
to
generate tyranny is even more apt on the seventh anniversary of the
events of 911
than it was in 1960. In the post 911-world the military-industrial
complex appears
more and more like a force of global mayhem than an asset to protect
humanity's
collective security. In the post-911 world the vast influence of the
military-industrial
complex and the national security state extends deep into the
commercial media extending
the psychological warfare that began in the Cold War to new extremes
of censorship,
perception management, and outright thought policing. The depth of the
problem is
well illustrated in the striking unwillingness of any major commercial
news venues
to report in a serious and unrelenting way on the growing disconnect
between the
published evidence on 911 and the public mythology of 911. [vii] But a
critical
mass of informed public opinion is at this very moment coalescing on
the events
of 911 and on the appalling litany of lies shot through virtually
every aspect of
the so-called War on Terror. Some reckoning, however, with all the
self-censorship
and strategic silence on the part of those with the responsibility to
keep the public
well informed cannot be postponed indefinitely. The chips shall fall
where they
will. Indeed, I predict that the day is not too far distant when many
of our most
influential opinion makers will be in a hurry to declare retroactively
that they
knew all along that something was terribly inconsistent between the
compelling visual
evidence of controlled demolitions on 911 and the implausible official
explanation
that makes burning jet engine fuel, melting steel and the force of
gravity the basis
of the pancake theory of the Twin Towers' demise.

Since Eisenhower's day the military economy of the United States and
its satellites
is becoming a privatized terror economy dominated by companies like
Halliburton
and the Blackwater Mercenary Army Corporation.[viii] For the
propagandists of the
War on Terror and for the primary beneficiaries of the terror economy,
even the
CIA is seen as too liberal to be trusted in the engineering the New
World police
state whose capacity for domination is strategically poised on how the
public perceives
the events of 911.

911 in the Political Culture of Canada, the Public Mythology of the
United States,
and in the Popular Culture of the Internet

While the War on Terror recycles many old patterns of US conduct in
the Indian Wars
and in the Cold War, there is, nevertheless, something unprecedented
in the intensity
of the undisguised contempt displayed by many of the top figures in
the US executive
branch for the rule of law and the ideals of universal human rights.
The official
conspiracy theory of the events of 911 has been deployed to bring us
to this point
where we are being walked through a series of steps that Naomi Wolf, a
child of
Holocaust survivors, has recently identified as the classic points of
transition
along the road to fascism.[ix] The national security state is creating
the basis
of a global police state that violates the sovereign status of every
national government
on earth. We live in an era when the US government has asserted the
unique authority
of its president to designate unilaterally any person anywhere in the
world as an
unlawful enemy combatant. We can guesstimate that possibly tens of
thousands of
individuals have already been rounded up and transported to known and
unknown locations
around the world on the basis of the illegitimate claim that the US
executive branch
possesses some sort of worldwide jurisdiction that supersedes the
sovereign character
of all national entities. Those targeted by the national security
state are being
jailed in a global network of gulags and secret concentration camps
where they may
be tortured or even eliminated without any prospect of receiving a
fair trial.

In this country on the eve of a national election, the minority
government of Stephen
Harper seems thoroughly complicit with many US incursions on Canada's
national
sovereignty. Indeed our Prime Minister seemed perfectly content to run
his minority
government as some sort of franchise or branch plant operation of
George Bush's
White House. When has Prime Minister Stephen Harper uttered even a
hint of criticism
directed at US violations of international law and global human rights
inflicted
in the name of 911 and the War on Terror' The ongoing incarceration of
Canadian
citizen Omar Khadr in the infamous US concentration camp at Guantanamo
Bay epitomizes
the problem. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire recently condemned
Khadr's US jailers
and their Canadian enablers for violating those laws and treaties that
prohibit
the abusive treatment of child soldiers. Khadr was fifteen when he was
apprehended
in 2002 by US forces in Afghanistan.[x] Dallaire's insistence on the
need to
respect international law contrasts dramatically with the attitudes
displayed by
Gordon O'Connor, a retired Brigadier General in the Canadian Army who
served
for two years as the Harper government's Minister of National Defence.
In January
of 2007 O'Connor was called upon to justify the Canadian commitment of
almost
3,000 soldiers to serve the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan.[xi]
O'Connor
said, 'When the Taliban or al-Qaeda came out of Afghanistan, they
attacked the
Twin Towers and those in the Twin Towers, 25 Canadians were killed
[sic]. The previous
government and this government will not allow Canadians to be killed
without retribution.'[xii]

O'Connor's comment brings us to the core issues we have come to
address
at this convention. On what basis did Gordon O'Connor or anyone else
in the
Canadian government decide who is responsible for the attacks on the
Twin Towers
and those in the Twin Towers' What is the evidentiary base of the
Canadian government's
contention that the portion of the Afghani people who identify
themselves as Taliban
or supporters of the Taliban are the primary culprits responsible for
the crimes
of 911 including the murder of 25 Canadians? Why has not the Canadian
government
undertaken its own independent investigation to decide for itself the
identity of
those most responsible for the death of our citizens in the explosive
pulverization
of the Twin Towers? In this season when many politicians in North
America are asking
us for our vote, what can we do to exact a commitment that a proper
investigation
will yet take place, ideally in a way that helps stimulate a larger
international
process aimed at bringing to justice those genuinely responsible for
the crimes
of 911?

The Canadian investigation will have to address the issues involved in
keeping our
soldiers in a civil war zone where the factions known variously as the
Taliban,
al-Qaeda and the Northern Alliance have all in recent times been
united mujahadeen
backed and armed by the US government in order to overthrow a Soviet-
backed puppet
regime. This US government's backing of the mujahadeen through
Pakistan's
Inter-Service Intelligence agency was one episode of a more pervasive
pattern during
the Cold War when the US national security state encouraged, helped
organize, and
richly financed religious extremists of all stripes in the name of
opposing the
atheism of Godless Marxism. In the Canadian investigation of the
genesis, events
and outcome of 911, careful consideration must be devoted to the role
and legacy
of CIA agent Osama bin Laden as well as to the background of Hamid
Karzai, the current
CIA agent and pipeline consultant in charge of the US-client regime in
Kabul. Careful
consideration must be given to the great increase in the export of
opium from Afghanistan
since the US-backed Northern Alliance ousted from Kabul the governing
Taliban.[xiii]
Does it make sense to continue to put our sons and daughters in harm's
way in
order to visit Canadian 'retribution' on Afghani citizens, Taliban or
not?
We need our own Canadian inquiry, emphasizing our own national
perspectives and
our own national interests?

As we mourn the terrible loss of our Canadian soldiers, diplomats and
aid workers
we must not lose sight of those Afghanis who have been killed and
maimed because
of the way the events of 911 have been interpreted, spun and
exploited? How many
Afghani lives have been lost or ruined because of the actions our own
military personnel?
How many of those Afghanis detained by our own people have ended up in
torture chambers,
including those reported to exist in the US Armed Force's notorious
Bagram Theatre
Internment Facility? How many Afghanis have been wrongfully subjected
to the same
kinds of nightmares visited on Maher Arar. Arar and his wife, Monia
Mazigh, are
Canadian heroes with ample cause to understand the kinds of injustice
that can occur
when overzealous officials abuse the arbitrary powers invested in them
by this so-called
War on Terror?[xiv] Why should we betray our national identity and
international
reputation as peacemakers and peacekeepers on the basis a foreign
government's
absurd proposition that warfare diminishes terror. How is terror being
diminished
by the US weaponization of space, by the US financing of newer and
ever more devastating
technologies of mass destruction, or by the massive privatization of
state violence
through the large-scale deployment of mercenary armies empowering
contractors with
guns?

The fast and circus-like media trial that almost immediately assigned
blame for
the crimes of 911 formed a rude introduction to the attempt by the US
executive
branch to extinguish habeas corpus—the basis of the principle that
individuals are
innocent until proven guilty. The appearance of official duplicity and
cover-up
only grew in 2002 when President George W. Bush tried to appoint Henry
Kissinger
as the White House's main investigator into the crimes of 911. As a
prime candidate
himself for the role of the accused in possible war crimes tribunals
of the future,
Kissinger's appointment proved unacceptable.[xv] But the effort to
make Kissinger
the US agent in charge of covering up what happened on 9/11
established patterns
that continued until the 9/11 Commission released its final report.
From its inception
the Bush White House's 9/11 Commission had everything to do political
protection
of the powerful and nothing to do with the substance of an impartial
judicial review.
The work of the 9/11 Commission was shot through with evasion, fraud
and cover-up
from beginning to end.

The suspicion generated by George Bush's original choice of Kissinger
led to
the appointment of Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton as Chair and Co-Chair
of an investigation
where the real substance of the process was left to the Commission's
hired staff.
Kean and Hamilton began their own book looking back on the work of the
Commission
by declaring that they had been 'set up to fail' by the White House.
[xvi]
And fail they certainly did. The key figure who drafted much of the
report was the
9/11 Commission's executive director, Philip D. Zelikow. Zelikow is a
professor
as well as an insider in the Bush White House. He was a member of the
Project for
a New American Century, a member of President Bush's transition team
and a very
close associate of Condolezza Rice with whom he co-authored an
academic book. Accordingly,
Zelikow's many conflicts of interest could not be more clear. He used
his position
to shield his political patrons in the White House from political
harm.

Zelikow's own academic specialty involved studying the relationship
between
terrorist attacks and the making of public mythology. This background
made him the
White House's ideal candidate for his role as the guardian of the 911
myth.
The 9/11 Commission didn't even address the sudden demolition at 5:20
in the
afternoon of September 11 of World Trade Centre 7. WTC 7 was the 47
story building
that instantly plunged to the ground without being hit by any
airplane. Many of
those who have studied the 9/11 Commission report in greater detail
than I have
see it as a farce that is totally unworthy of the gravity of the event
it addresses.
For instance Benjamin DeMott wrote in Harper's Magazine, hardly a
radical or
a marginal publication, that the 9/11 report is a 'whitewash' a cheat
and
a tremendous fraud.' It is full of 'evasive manoeuvres that
infantilize
the audience, transforms candor into iniquity, and conceals realities
that demand
immediate inspection and confrontation.' DeMott concludes, 'The
Commission,
in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—
and in doing
so dangerously re-energizes a national relish for fantasy.'[xvii]

The absence of any disinterested third-party investigation and
arbitration of the
crimes of 911 together with the timidity, laziness, or outright
complicity of the
commercial news media have opened up a huge field for the intervention
of a concerned
citizenry who do not buy the officially-sanctioned conspiracy theory.
This convention
hosted by Edmonton 911 Truth is one expression of the vitality of our
fast-spreading
grass roots movement. The quest for some measure of truth about the
genesis and
events of 911 have created a virtual cottage industry of research,
book writing,
and digitally published movies, texts and radio shows. Increasingly
the lies and
crimes of 911 are the subject of raprock music videos and all manner
of artistic
interpretation As a former student of Marshall McLuhan I find this
whole phenomenon
to be of huge academic interest quite apart from the specifics of the
information
being presented. It represents a classic display of what McLuhan meant
when he said
the medium is the message.

The 911 Truth Movement is creating one of the most lively and
interesting districts
of critical inquiry on the Internet. Of course the material presented
in the New
Media is of uneven merit and quality. But in its totality, this
complex of web sites
together with the related books and DVD's has become the basis of vast
and extremely
accessible public archives on a huge array of topics joined by their
critical importance
to the public interest. The topics include, for instance, assessments
by engineers
of the demolitions that took down the three World Trade Centre
structures, the double
dealing that goes on to this day in the CIA-backed Inter-Service
Intelligence Agency
in Pakistan, the complex business dealings in and around the events of
911, and
the many military drills that were planned to coincide with the
attacks of 911.
These drills drew the US Air Force away from intercepting the attack
airplanes and
the projectile that hit the Pentagon. Yet another rehearsal for a
terrorist attack
just happened to put in downtown New York on September 10 scores of
agents of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA had a major role in
coordinating the removal
of the structural evidence from the scene of the mass murder as
quickly as possible
once various caches of gold, including one belonging to the Bank of
Nova Scotia,
were removed. The role of Rudolf Guiliani in this part of the 9/11
cover-up operation
incensed many members of the New York Fire Department who were
prevented from finding
the remains of their killed brethren by the rush to cart off to the
dump the evidence
of the 911 crime scene.[xviii]

In my estimation there has never been anything quite like this digital
challenge
to the authority of many institutions, but particularly to the
traditional role
of commercial news venues as the gatekeepers of information deemed
suitable for
public consumption. As I have been preparing for this presentation
over the summer
I have been especially impressed by the many You Tube productions
depicting small
groups of activists, some of them obviously new to the political
process, heading
out into their communities, pamphlets and DVDs in hand. As far as I
can see their
quest is animated for the most part by the simple and sincere hope
that the Big
Lie of 911 can be transcended so that justice will prevail. Along the
journey towards
911 truth the seekers attempt to engage their fellow citizens in
meaningful dialogue
about the importance of connecting the dots. They encourage those they
encounter
to see through the official conspiracy theory and its huge negative
consequences
for all humanity. Doesn't this kind of community-based and web-based
activism
epitomize how honest political transactions are supposed to take place
among the
members of responsible citizenries who understand their civic duty to
be as well
informed as they can be on the major issues of the day? Doesn?t this
example point
to an exit from, rather than a manifestation of, 'the great
derangement'
that Rolling Stones journalist Matt Taibbi wrote about in his
satirical literary
romp that is none-too-flattering to the 911 truth movement.[xix]

The experience of looking through a representative sample of the many
thousands
of Internet sites and the many hundreds of Internet movies, all
devoted to the quest
for 911 truth, is giving me some hope that a new form of citizens'
journalism
is replacing the form of paid investigative journalism that once was
fairly common
even in the commercial media. But make no mistake about it. The best
of the contributions
seeking to explain key elements of the most visually dramatic crime
ever committed
serve as a marker of how retrograde the commercial media has become in
keeping up
with an extremely consequential and fast-breaking story. After all
their early involvement
in helping to create and cultivate the public mythology of the events
of 911, what
commercial or publicly-funded news venue would dare now to assume the
enormous responsibility
of confronting the lies of 911? Who in the commercial media would be
willing to
the lead an unrelenting exploration of the scenario that the War on
Terror may be
based on the criminal acts of individuals who learned their black arts
not in some
distant caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan but in locations much closer
to home?
Nevertheless the chips shall eventually fall where they will. I
predict that they
day is not too far distant when many of our most influential opinion
makers will
be in a hurry to declare retroactively that knew all along that
something was terribly
inconsistent between the compelling visual evidence of controlled
demolitions and
the official explanation that would make burning jet engine fuel,
melting steel
and the force of gravity the basis of the pancake theory of the Twin
Towers'
demise.

Trying to Move Towards the Truth in Telling the Story of 911

Although I have been documenting the so-called War on Terror from its
inception,
this presentation is my first formal address on the lies and crimes of
911. In stepping
forward I'm aware that Canadians have made many substantial pioneering
efforts
in the rich scholarship on this topic. For instance Barry Zwicker and
Michel Chossudovsky
were among the earliest and most clear and consistent scholarly
commentators to
identify the gross deceptions installed into the public mythology of
911. In putting
together the ingredients in 2004 of the Toronto International Citizens
Inquiry into
9/11 Zwicker and Chossudovsky helped push the boundaries to create the
framework
for the kind of citizens' movement epitomized by this event and the
hard work
of its organizers. I want also to make special mention of the academic
contributions
of John McMurtry's and Peter Dale Scott. Both are hugely accomplished
senior
academics who helped establish the framework of critical 911 studies.
Interestingly
both men come from illustrious Canadian families whose members have
played significant
roles in the academy, in the law, and in social activism at its
finest.

A member of the Royal Society of Canada, McMurtry is a retired
philosophy professor
at the University of Guelph whose very original explorations into the
concept of
values drew him towards the analysis of how what he calls the life
economy is assaulted
by the market economy. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and a
retired Professor
of English at the University of California in Berkeley. In his work on
the assassination
of John F. Kennedy, Scott developed the concept of 'deep politics.'
This
study drew him to explore the intertwined role of oil and drug cartels
in the complex
workings of our secret governments. Like Chossudovsky and Zwicker,
McMurtry and
Scott spent decades developing lines of analysis that flowed almost
organically
into 911 studies. Scott is the son of F.R. Scott, the great
constitutional authority,
civil libertarian, and poet. Among his many posts, F.R. Scott was once
Dean of the
McGill Law School. McMurtry's brother, Roy, is a former Attorney
General and
Chief Justice of Ontario. The third brother, Bill, who recently passed
away, was
a legendary lawyer who fought urban sprawl, helped found the Toronto
International
Film Festival, and made significant strides advancing the legal case
for Aboriginal
and treaty rights.

My continuing work with Splitting The Sky forced me to realize I could
not indefinitely
postpone some sort of scholarly reckoning with the lies and crimes of
911. Among
the various projects on which Splitting the Sky and I have
collaborated is the case
of the United States versus James Pitawanakwat. In 2000 I wrote the
expert report
for the Pitawanakwat's government-assigned lawyer in the Federal
Public Defender's
Office in Portland Oregon. Pitawanakwat is veteran of the Indian war
that took place
at Gustafsen Lake British Columbia in 1995. The Canadian government
put in a request
to the US government to extradite Pitawanakwat back to Canada. After
hearing the
evidence that we put forward Judge Janice Stewart decided not to grant
this request.
She overruled the US State Department. Judge Stewart agreed with our
contention
that Pitawanakwat had been criminalized largely for political reasons
in a conflict
where the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led a media campaign of
'disinformation
and smear.' The governments of BC and Canada used the media spin
doctoring of
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to stigmatize the Gustafsen Lake sun
dancers as
terrorists rather than deal with the serious constitutional arguments
they tried
to bring forward through their lawyer, Dr. Bruce Clark. Clark was
later disbarred
by the Law Society of Ontario for his unrelenting efforts to represent
his clients
under extremely difficult circumstances.

Last spring I invited Splitting The Sky to speak to my class on his
years of research
into the events of 911. In the process I spent two days with my friend
extending
my own research into various sites in and around the 911 Truth
Movement. The next
thing I knew Kevin Barrett, the erudite Dean of 911 Studies, invited
me to speak
on his Truth Jihad radio show on the Internet. Wayne Prante of Fraser
Valley 911
Truth wrote a brief web news story on the webcast. Wayne's story, I
beleve,
led to the invitation from Doug Brinkman to address you here today.
Splitting The
Sky the Sky, a frequent contributor to Kevin's audio broadcasts, is
starting
to hit his stride exposing the web of Wall Street and other
connections in and around
the events of 911. As I've come to know him over the years, I
appreciate more
and more how closely Splitting The Sky's own harsh experiences reflect
the history
of ruthless repression of Indigenous peoples over five centuries of
colonization
in the Americas. This history of repression is now being globalized
through the
mechanisms of the terror economy and the so-called War on Terror.

When he was nineteen years old Splitting The Sky was charged with
killing a guard
in the Attica Prison uprising ending with the murder of 39
individuals, most of
them inmates. Since then Splitting The Sky has been at the centre of
many major
controversies involving core issues in the relationship of the ruling
class to the
underclass. Splitting the Sky's growing contributions to the 911 Truth
Movement
embodies the links with the larger quest to transcend the injustices
of slavery,
colonialism and economic exploitation. The quest for 911 Truth,
therefore, carries
forward a heritage of resistance against the forces of imperial
globalization that
gathered force with the genocide and dispossession of the Indigenous
peoples in
the course of inventing America as a promised land for immigrants and
their descendants.
I have attempted to elaborate some of these connections in my text,
The American
Empire and the Fourth World.

I wrote the core text of the preface to that volume one week after the
illegal US
invasion of Iraq began in 2003. It was quite clear to me that the
invasion of Iraq
continued many patterns of US conduct in the Indian wars. I did
revisions on the
preface after viewing live the spectacle of political propaganda on
board the USS
Abraham Lincoln beginning with George Bush imitating the Hollywood
imagery of the
US president in Independence Day. Bush began the spectacle by landing
his fighter
jet on the deck of the giant aircraft carrier. Bush emerged in his
combat suit to
declare that his mission of freeing the Iraqis had been accomplished.
By staging
the event on board a US instrument of warfare named after the author
of the Gettysburg
Address, Bush's propagandists sought to convey that the US president
had freed
the Iraqis as Lincoln has freed the slaves; that Bush was handing over
the government
of those formerly 'enslaved' by Saddam Hussein to a regime 'of, for
and by the Iraqi people.'[xx]

The kinds of lies and distortions of the Bush White House go very far
beyond the
fiction that Saddam Hussein menaced the whole world with his deadly
weapons of mass
destruction. The obvious implication, I believe, is that the 911 Truth
Movement
and the anti-war movement must merge. We must join forces to continue
our international
quest for a world governed by the rule of law and the self-
determination of peoples
rather than by the brute force of the military-industrial complex in
conjunction
with the lawless national security state. I have tried to develop
these ideas in
Volume 2 of my Bowl With One Spoon series published by McGill-Queen's
University
Press. The American Empire and the Fourth World is volume one of the
series. Volume
2, which we hope to have on bookshelves by this time next year, is
entitled Earth
into Property: Aboriginal History and the Making of Global History.

Earth into Property is not a 911 book. It is not specifically about
the events in
and around the tragedy of 911 although it does touch on them here and
there. As
in The American Empire and the Fourth World, in Earth into Property I
try to present
a sweeping panorama of both imperial and anti-imperial globalization
in the genesis
of world history over more than five centuries. Since working with
Splitting The
Sky last spring I felt the need to introduce revisions into the draft
text of Volume
2 that do specifically address the subject matter of this convention.

Let me share some excerpts from those revisions. The following excerpt
concludes
the second chapter. In it I return to a discussion earlier in the
first chapter
of the text about the frontier theory of Frederick Jackson Turner.
Turner introduced
his famous essay on the significance of the US frontier in the making
of American
history at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The
event was
meant to commemorate and celebrate the 400th anniversary of
Christopher Columbus's
'discovery' of America. I write,

In the years before he became the disgraced former governor of New
York state, Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer made his name and fame as the Sheriff of Wall
Street—as a
gun slinging investigator with an urge to prosecute some striking high-
profile examples
of executive criminality. Through his efforts and those of other law
enforcement
agents a few high-profile CEO's were eventually prosecuted for insider
trading
and for stealing corporate assets. The convicted included press baron
Conrad Black
and the media darling of American domesticity, Martha Stewart. While
the public
were served up a few show trials, however, there is little doubt that
much of malfeasance
during the Wild West years of maximum deregulation on Wall Street went
largely uninvestigated,
unprosecuted, and unconvicted. Moreover, the wholesale commodification
of new frontiers
mind and matter continued unabated. As The New York Times proclaimed
in a headline:
'Enron's Other Legacy: The Idea That Anything Can Be Traded.'[xxi]

The prospect of even larger political scandals coming to light in the
unfolding
of the Enron debacle may have been significantly diminished when,
during the late
afternoon of September 11, 2001, World Trade Centre 7 (WTC 7) fell to
the ground
in a well filmed episode still widely displayed on the Internet. The
fall of WTC
7, reported by the BBC fully twenty minutes before it actually
occurred, shows all
the attributes of a controlled demolition. No airplanes crashed into
WTC 7. The
official explanation given for the instant destruction of the 600 foot
structure
is that the building had been damaged by fires caused earlier in the
day when World
Trade Centers 1 and 2 plunged to the ground at the speed of a free
fall. Interestingly,
WTC 7 held the offices of the Security Exchange Commission that was
then investigating
Enron on a number of fronts, including its possible role in apparently
manipulating
supplies of electricity in California in order to advance its push to
elevate profits
through further deregulation and privatization of that lucrative
energy market.
Key records in Enron's investigation, along with those demonstrating
possible
infractions in the business activities of about 3,000 other companies,
were destroyed
in the destruction of WTC 7. WTC 7 also held the New York Offices of
the Internal
Revenue Service, the CIA, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, the
Defense Department,
as well as the New York Mayor's Office of Emergency Management.

The events of 911 seem to have been anticipated by some traders on the
New York
Stock Exchange.[xxii] While some corporations suffered heavily after
911, others
benefited greatly. The heightened fear of terrorism, for instance,
provided a bonanza
for the global insurance industry. Moreover the US government's quick
declaration
of a global War on Terror significantly heightened the budgets and
quickly advanced
the further privatization of the world's largest military-industrial
complex
through vehicles such as the Blackwater Corporation.[xxiii] Blackwater
was one of
a whole generation of corporate entities whose operatives are well
positioned to
benefit most from the rapid development of the post-911 terror
economy. The rapid
increase in military budgets occurred even in the face of Defense
Secretary Donald
Rumsfield's admission made on September 10, 2001 that the Pentagon's
accountants
could not explain the disappearance of $2.3 trillion from the books of
the US government's
military spending.[xxiv]

These suggestive facts together with many, many more of their ilk
suggest the continuing
validity of Frederick Jackson's Turner's insights on the importance of
violence
and lawlessness in those moving zones of frontier interaction where
the political
culture of the United States takes form. In the first decade of the
twenty-first
century some of the leading frontiersmen of the capitalist superpower
continued
to move out in front of the law in order to avoid regulation. In the
anything-goes-atmosphere
of New World fortune seeking, the frontiersmen of business
deregulation staked their
claims to new forms of wealth in a globalized Indian Country where the
attributes
of the Wild West's new incarnation would extend to the quest to gain
expanded
ownership and control over the oil fields of the Middle East and
Eurasia.[xxv]

In the fifth chapter I make additional references to the frontier
historian Frederick
Jackson Turner Wall and to Eliot Spitzer. The former Attorney General
and Governor
of New York, Spitzer recently faced his own lewd trial by media. This
following
excerpt from the forthcoming Earth into Property concludes a long
narrative where
I document in considerable detail the role of US business and finance
on both sides
of the Second World War. From the relevant evidence I develop the
thesis that the
military-industrial complex emerged from both the fascist Axis and
from and the
social democracy of Roosevelt and the United Nations. I write,

The dubious official conspiracy theory to explain the events of 911
gave the Republican
Party of George W. Bush and the bipartisan leadership of the military-
industrial
complex some evocative, yet conveniently vague and elastic imagery of
an ethnically
and religiously defined enemy. Conveniently absent from day one was
even a hint
from the official sources that there might be some sort of domestic
and/or economic
motivation woven within the complex texture of an extremely elaborate
and multi-faceted
crime. As with the Kennedy assassination, those said to be the
culprits were identified
almost immediately forming the basis of an explanation that was
quickly reified
in report after report. The enemy appeared just when it was needed to
give the US
president a rallying cry and the US executive branch a justification
for continuing
the enormous military expenditures that have continued to grow ever
since the United
States adopted its permanent wartime economy after the Japanese
government attacked
the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. The mythology of 911 gave the
United States
yet another savage other against which to develop its self-
understanding of its
own civilization's superiority.[xxvi] As Richard Cizak of the National
Association
of Evangelicals saw it, many of his constituents responded to the
official explanation
of 911 by substituting Islam for the Soviet Union. 'The Muslims have
become
the modern-day equivalent of the Evil Empire,' Cizak declared. One
poll of right-wing
Christian leaders found that two-thirds of those questioned agreed
that Islam is
'dedicated to world domination.' They agreed that Islam is ' a
religion
of violence.'[xxvii]

The official interpretation of the events of 911 created a perfect
basis to renew
the alliance between Christian fundamentalists and Cheney-style
business hawks that
ushered in the anti-New Deal presidency of Ronald Reagan. In ways that
were completely
antagonistic to the social democracy of Roosevelt and Keynes, the War
on Terror
opened the door to ratcheting up right-wing tactics for the expanded
reach of government
into every facet of human interaction. Patterns began to be repeated
that had earlier
been deployed when the fascist Axis had first been fashioned as an
anti-communist
laboratory of totalitarian capitalism.[xxviii] Now terrorism replaced
communism
as the all-purpose demon to be manipulated as deemed necessary in
order to fend
off any challenge to the omnipotence of finance capital and those who
control it.
Even more than the wars on communism, the war on terrorism evoked the
mythological
encounter between savagery and civilization that Frederick Jackson
Turner had identified
at the World's Columbian Exposition as the formative interaction in
shaping
his country's political culture.

As in both the Nazi-led and US-led versions of the war on communism,
in the War
on Terror business cartels were once again dealt lucrative licenses to
derive large
profits from their expanded function as privatized agents of the
state's expanding
claims to police, propaganda and military powers. The Patriot Act of
2001, the Homeland
Security Act of 2002, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the
amendments of
2008 to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are prominent
projectiles in the legislative
arsenal aimed at piercing the fragile protections of universal human
rights both
inside and outside the United States.[xxix]

Plans to eliminate habeas corpus—the basis of the principle that
individuals are
innocent until proven guilty—were already well advanced before the
events of 911
created the necessary psychological environment to trigger military
invasions abroad
and police state transformations at home. The invocation of the ideals
of Homeland
Security conjured up the same language used by the White minority
regime during
the height of South African apartheid even as it exposed the outward
orientation
of so-called national security. In the United States, national
security has always
meant going outside the so-called Homeland to meddle in other people's
sovereign
business. The remarkably quick enactment of the Patriot Act barely a
month after
the events of 911 suggests that its drafting was already well in the
works even
before the Twin Towers were instantly pulverized as if in a controlled
demolition
energized by the coordinated explosions of many thousands of thermite
charges. Similarly
the growth of the apparatus of so-called Homeland Security applied
principles already
outlined in January of 2001 in the reports of the United States
Commission on National
Security co-chaired by Gary Hart and Warren D. Rudman.[xxx]

The technological engines of capitalism have changed significantly
since the era
when the German subsidiary of IBM Corporation handled the data
processing for the
Nazi assault on European Jewry. Since the early 1980s much of the most
sophisticated
intelligence gathering has been done with computer software such as
PROMIS and Echelon.
These and other programs have enabled spy agencies and banking
institutions secretly
to observe each other's data bases, current communications and ongoing
transactions
through myriad forms of back door access.[xxxi] High-tech spying can
also extend
to outright manipulation of digital traffic. Indeed, software
companies like Ptech,
Mitre and AMDOCS have been well positioned to enhance, disrupt or
monitor the flow
of communications between core agencies in the military-industrial
complex. Ultimately
it all comes down to who possesses the computer codes or access to
technology powerful
enough to obtain or break through these codes. This transformation of
the so-called
intelligence industry in the era of the Internet developed
simultaneously with the
digitalization of financial transactions in stock markets, venues of
buying and
selling that make information about what to expect in the future the
most valuable
of all commodities. Technological transformations such as these have
dramatically
altered the nature of capitalism during this era of an ascendant
terror economy.
The terror economy invests tremendous financial advantages in those
who possess
insiders' knowledge about the inner workings of the global police
state that
is being constructed in the War on Terror's name. Indeed, transactions
on stock
markets are key sites for the gathering of crucial intelligence about
the identity
of those interests that sponsor, promote, or exploit major changes in
the alignment
of geopolitical power.

The core elements of the terror economy informed the compelling script
of A Few
Days in September. Written and directed in 2006 by Santiago Amigorena,
this dramatic
feature film focuses on the intrigues swirling around an imaginary
cartel of investors
who seek to exploit their prior knowledge about how the pretext for
the War on Terror
would be created. Why has there been no serious public investigation
into the activity
of the New York stock market to identify those who may have exploited
prior knowledge
about the global transformations that would be set in motion after the
events of
September 11, 2001? What insights do Wall Street insiders have about
the events
of 911? Why did Eliot Spitzer, the former New York state Attorney
General who clearly
enjoyed his persona as the Sheriff of Wall Street, not seriously
investigate the
911 crime scene, the site of a terrible mass murder that decimated the
lives and
destroyed the morale of thousands of functionaries who inhabit the
very core of
the commercial capital's financial district?

Rather than demonstrate due diligence by ordering a thorough
investigation of the
scene of the crime, the Attorney General forfeited his claim as a
disinterested
law enforcement officer by submitting an amicus brief to a New York
court arguing
that the Larry Silverstein, the lease holder of the World Trade Centre
buildings,
should receive a $4.5 billion settlement from insurance companies for
two separate
terrorist attacks rather than one. Silverstein's finances were deeply
integrated
into a complex set of legal and financial arrangements confused by the
fact that
the Twin Towers, which were initially nicknamed David and Nelson after
their Rockefeller
brother builders,[xxxii] had become giant liabilities because they
were infested
with industrial asbestos that would have cost a fortune to remove.
[xxxiii] The evidence
at the crime scene was removed as quickly as possible after 911 by
operatives of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency whose agents began arriving in
New York
on September 10 for a drill named Tripod II on how to respond to a
biochemical terrorist
attack.[xxxiv] The failure of the US Air Force to identify and
intercept the attackers
was similarly explained by the coincidence of several drills on
September 11 involving
mock responses to terrorist attacks.[xxxv] In the months after 911
Silverstein appeared
on a PBS documentary where he seemed to refer to the decision to
'pull'
a mechanism triggering the quick fall of World Trade Center building
number 7 in
a fashion that epitomized all the attributes of a controlled
demolition. This demolition
required the insertion of explosives within the structure before its
demise.[xxxvi]

The genocide of North American Indians helped clear the way for those
who sought
to erase the past in their rush to achieve a New World Order. There
are striking
elements of continuity linking the westward expansion of the United
States into
Indian Country and the Hitlerian drive to acquire Lebensraum at the
expanse of the
Slavic nations and the Soviet Union. Similarly there are some
undeniable threads
of continuity linking the financial and industrial backers of the
fascist Axis's
rise and those with the largest interest in promoting the national
security state's
so-called War on Terror. The national security state points humanity
away from the
Fourth World principles of peoples' security, environmental security,
health
security, educational security and global security. The citizens of
the Fourth World
seek a third way between those who would idealize or obliterate the
past. The Atlantic
Charter and the international institutions and covenants to which it
gave rise still
point towards the possibility of a world governed by law rather than
force. They
still point to the possibility of a planetary regime of biocultural
diversity governed
democratically by a confederacy of many sovereigns. [text removed]
They point towards
extensions of the vision of Roosevelt and away from the heritage of
Hitler.

I'll include one more excerpt from Earth into Property. When I wrote
the initial
drafts of this section I accepted the reports that Osama bin Laden was
behind the
attacks. I took the liberal line that the attacks had more to do with
the injustices
imposed on the colonized world than with political Islam. I emphasized
this point
by highlighting the conference which had taken place in Durban just
days before
911. The South African government hosted this World Conference against
Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. In my initial
draft I advanced
the idea that the attacks might not have taken place if the very
serious issues
raised at the Durban assembly had been more seriously addressed. While
I still want
to emphasize the importance of creating more just regimes of human
relations as
the best guarantee of global security, I also had to incorporate my
changing understanding
of the crimes and lies of 911. He's an excerpt from the revised text.

The Durban conference highlighted issues that would be swept from the
headlines
only days later when the events of September 11, 2001 changed history.
There is
a growing body theory, some of it serious and well informed and some
of it spurious,
that the events of 911 were a false flag operation.[xxxvii] Although
uneven in substance,
the lively citizens' investigations into these matters on the Internet
cannot
be categorically dismissed. In false flag operations acts of violence
are perpetrated
or purposely misinterpreted through the covert activity of
governments, corporations
and their agents in order to turn public opinion against a previously
targeted group.
Acts of violence are engineered and portrayed in the media in ways
that cause the
public to look to their own authorities for protection from groups
that those in
control want demonized and attacked. The bombing of the Reichstag in
Berlin in 1933,
for instance, is now generally understood as a false flag operation to
prepare public
opinion in Germany for Adolf Hitler's totalitarian rule as initially
justified
in the name of waging an internal war against a phantom conspiracy of
communist
Jews. Many media outlets inside and outside Germany, including Lord
Beaverbrook's
Daily Express, helped to repress any alternative interpretations of
the fire's
causes. Operation Gladio was a similar covert operation where right-
wing operatives
planted bombs to blame and demonize left-wing groups in Italy. False
flag operation
like Operation Gladio or the Tonkin incident in Vietnam took place
fairly frequently
throughout the Cold War to justify various forms of intervention and
aggression.

Regardless of the identity of the true pratongonists behind the events
of 911—regardless
of whether 911 was a false flag operation or not-- that episode
provided the primary
justification for significant changes in the world's political economy
in the
name of the War on Terror. The War on Terror has been used to explain
many intiatives
including military invasions, the curtailing of civil liberties, and
the further
elevation of the national security state and its corporate extensions
to positions
far above the laws that most common folk are compelled to follow. The
psychological
dimension of this strange war without end has been mythologically
constructed to
focus attention on religious and ethnic antagonisms even as it draws
attention away
from those forms of inequality that regularly materialize in the
economic violence
that permeates global capitalism. While Arab and Muslim people
globally suffer most
obviously from the kind of profiling and targeting that flows
naturally from the
War on Terror's embrace of the theory that the world is engulfed an
inevitable
clash between discordant civilizations, the engendered prejudices do
not end there.[xxxviii]
The War on Terror helps protect the claims of the rich to large
concentrations of
property even as it helps downplay the plight of those whose
marginalized socio-economic
status gives them the greatest reason to reject assertively the
proprietary status
quo. For all these reasons the War on Terror is first and foremost the
most concerted
and most broadly cast campaign of psychological warfare ever attempted
in the global
community. The aim of this so-called war is to perpetuate oligarical
governance
rooted in popular fears and thereby counter the possibility of anti-
authoritarian
governance rooted in popular hopes.

The main modus operendi of this dubious campaign of control through
fear is to manufacture
consent for a continuing license for global domination as policed
through the instruments
of the national security state and its attending military-industrial
complex. The
War on Terror's propganda, as epitomized by the work of David Frum and
Richard
Perle, lend legitimacy to entrenched plutrocacies everywhere even as
it arouses
suspicion that those who question authority are outright evil.[xxxix]
Hence the
global War on Terror gives cover to the propensity of ruling elites to
repress rivals
and dissenters through the denial of civil liberties and suppression
of the rule
of law. The War on Terror gives credence to the erroneous assumption
that history
is approaching an end; that there can be no basis for any legitimate
revolutionary
challenges to the proprietary advantages enjoyed by those who have
gained disproportionate
amounts of influence over the dominant means of political, economic,
military and
technological exploitation in today's world.[xl]

It makes no sense to try to vanquish terror from the world through
increased warfare,
more systematic and broadly applied methods of torture, or the
militarization of
space. In the long run global security through peace is only
attainable through
concerted efforts to ease the maladies identified at gatherings such
as the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and
Related Intolerance.

Concluding Reflections

The people and government of Cuba are engaged in their own War on
Terror. Only for
them the terrorists are often anti-Castro Cubans who work with the US
government
to inflict arbitrary murder and mayhem in the effort to undermine and
destroy the
Cuban Revolution. The most blatent example of this pattern was the
full-fledged
US military invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. But the
violent interventions
did not end there. It is widely known that Fidel Castro has faced
literally dozens
if not hundreds of US-engineered and US-backed assassination attempts
since his
revolutionary government replaced the US-puppet regime of Fulgencio
Batiste in 1959.

Luis Posada Corriles is for many Cuban people the very personification
of terrorism.
In 1976 this Cuban-American CIA agent engineered the bombing of a Air
Cubana passenger
jet killing 73 innocent people. This expert in explosives is also
thought to have
been responsible for many other bombings including those that rocked
the tourist
district in Havanna in 1997. The Cuban government has sound reason to
believe that
over 3,000 of its citizens have been murdered and about 2000 maimed in
US-engineered
or US-backed terrorist terrorist incidents. Several Cuban citizens
went to Florida
to investigate the possibility of more terrorist attacks directed
against their
own brothers, sisters, children and parents. Five of them were
arrested to face
a broad range of charges including those of espionage and conspiracy
to commit murder.
Like the US legal proceedings surrounding the case of Poseda Corrlies,
the legal
proceedings surrounding the Cuban Five illustrate the deep internal
corruption plaguing
the criminal justice system and its political masters in the United
States.[xli]

Given their own experience with US-engineered and US-backed terrorism
there is nothing
particularly surprising in the lies and crimes of 911 from the
perspective of many
people in Cuba and in Latin America more generally. There is nothing
to arouse dismay
among the millions who have refused, and continue to refuse, the
inevitability of
the universalization of capitalism as the primary goal and end of
history. The same
cannot be said, however, for millions of us who have grown up in the
relative comfort
of the predominantly White, middle class of North America. It was
predominantly
for us that the public mythology of 911 was created. It is
predomonately in our
communities in North America where the public mythology of 911 has
acquired the
strongest hold over the symbolic cosmologies of the imagination that
inform our
basic sense of right and wrong, good and bad. Until we can replace the
mythology
of 911 with the truth of 911, however difficult that inevitably will
be, the terror
economy shall continue to engulf us all with the devastating
implications that it
must have for humanity's future and for that of our many relatives in
life's
fragile interconnected web.


Endnotes

[i] Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
(New York:
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007)

[ii] Anthony J. Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World
(Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2005)

[iii] Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of
Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2006)

[iv] John C. Edmunds, 'Securities: The New World Wealth Machine,'
Foreign
Policy, September, 1996

[v] The literature on this subject is vast and detailed. See , for
instance, Max
Wallace, American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, and the Rise of
the Third
Reich (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003); Edwin Black, IBM and the
Holocaust:
The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most
Powerful Corporation
(New York: Crown, 2001)

[vi] John Markoff and John Schwartz, Many Tools of Big Brother are Now
Up and Running,
The New York Times, 1 September, 2008 at

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html'res=9500E6DA173CF930A15751C1A9649C8B63

Rahul Mahajan, Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond
(New York: Seven
Stories Press, 2008)

[vii] Federally-backed propaganda in the United States goes back at
least as far
the First World War, when President Woodrow Wilson appointed
journalist George Creel
in 1917 to head up the US Committee on Public Education. More recent
surges of activity
to manipulate public opinion built on the foundation of the US Central
Intelligence
Agency's very broad and deep infiltration of the domestic and
international
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