U.S. Media Circus and the Bush War For Oil: Government Watch 2002

The U.S. Media Circus and the U.S. War For Oil
CONSIDER THESE FACTS

But First
A Brief Sampling of the
Government Watch 2002 Website

Saddam Hussein Capture - Tempering the Self-Congratulatory Hysteria
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_hysteria.html

Bush Support and The Mainstream Herd Mentality
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/herd.html

Bush Selectively Doling Out Lucrative Iraq Re-construction Contracts to Cronies and Tax Cheats
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_tax_cheats.html

The Art of Scapegoating
A Pandering Tool In The Demagogue's Toolbox
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html#scapegoat_iraq

The Bush Regime & U.S. Media Propaganda GamePlan
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/gameplan.html

By The Herd Mentality U.S. Media ... The Media Which Has Repeatedly Lied To YOU ... With Claims Like ...... "We Never Turn-up The TV Volume For Commercials" ..... The American People Have Been Bashed and Battered With More agitprop U.S. Media Moonshine Supporting the Iraq War. In Response To This Unrelenting Onslaught of U.S. Media Sophistry ... We, at Government Watch 2002, Wish To Offer a Responsible Reply.

The U.S. Media's Perceived Patriotic Duty
To Act As a Bush Regime Propaganda Conduit For
MANIPULATING PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS
& BEHAVIOR
With Fraudulent Tripe

The U.S. Media Circus and the U.S. War For Oil
CONSIDER THESE FACTS

AMERICANS CANNOT RELY ON
U.S. MEDIA SOURCES

The theme of this page resounds in the question "Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?" Where are they? Where did they go? The wolves and the War Hawks are never hard to find. We see them everywhere ... as always. But the Shepherd ... where is he? Has he abandoned the flock ... like the U.S. Media has done? The U.S. Media was supposed to keep the wolves at bay. They swore an oath to be vigilant and on-guard ... to expose the Truth and chase away the charlatans and Hoodlums. Their allegiance once was to the flock ... but now they serve the wolves and the Swindlers who rape, pillage and plunder the countryside. The Shepherd has abandoned his flock.

The leading U.S. television stations have turned this lopsided absurdity (The Iraq War Spectacle) into a wind-fall lucrative U.S. Media circus, labeling this War "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (Accepting uncritically and then dispensing as Gospel This This NEWLY Concocted Characterization of a War that is as immensely Indefensible now as it has ever been under its previous, less glorifying stated objective of Hegemony.

No doubt the Bush Regime is immensely grateful to the U.S. agitprop media -- its obedient, subservient Partner in Arms. The Wise and the Educated correctly understand this cheap "Shock & Awe" carnival sideshow as a new all-time low for The U.S. Media, in a new millennium already plagued with all-time record lows for The U.S. Media (Quick, bring in the popcorn! This is GREAT! They're pounding Baghdad back the Stone Age) ... (U.S. Media declares 2001 Presidential Winner DESPITE THE FACT the vote counts do NOT support the declaration). This colossal episode of U.S. Media dishonesty, propaganda, sophistry and exploitation is so incredibly sleazy one can't imagine ever being able to get the bitter taste out of one's mouth.

In Reality, this War is a U.S. grab for control of Iraqi oil, and The U.S. Media is its its obedient, subservient propaganda partner. It is being waged under the guise of deposing a malignant tyrant. And its feigned successes (and The U.S. Media's sudden inexplicable obsessions with righteousness) are being erroneously attributed to the fact that Saddam is, indeed, a malignant tyrant. That fact, however, has absolutely nothing to do with the U.S. & British motives and objectives for this War. These facts are merely being opportunistically misrepresented as a pretext for waging a "War for Oil."

Take a look at this Chevron-Texaco Map of its Middle East Oil Interests.
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/chevron.gif
Note that Iraq and Iran are the only oil-rich countries in the Middle East where Chevron-Texaco has no interests whatsoever (No interest, control, ownership).

HOW OIL INTERESTS PLAY OUT
IN U.S. BOMBING OF AFGHANISTAN
The United States is Resource Poor and the Largest Consumer of Oil. The United States has only 3% of the world's known oil reserves. (4). Imports accounts for 60% of America's daily oil consumption, 13% of that comes from Persian/Arabian Gulf States which produce 18% of the world's supply of oil. With less than 5% of the world's population, the US accounts for over 25% of the world's oil consumption (5). The United States would like to control Caspian Sea and Central Asian oil in order reduce dependency on oil from the Persian/Arabian Gulf, which it cannot control. (Click below for Information Source and to read Original Report)
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_08/1.html

Note that Iraq is the only oil-rich country in the World in which wealthy U.S. Oil companies have absolutely no interests whatsoever. And only Shell has any interests in Iran, a very limited interest. Also worthy of note, is the fact that President Bush appointed a former aide to the American oil company Unocal, Zalmay Khalilzad, as special envoy to Afghanistan. The nomination was announced December 31, nine days after the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai took office in Kabul.

Are we to believe that, with the immense resources which the U.S. television Media possesses, NO ONE IN The U.S. Media HAPPENED TO SEIZE UPON ANY OF THESE CONSPICUOUS, TROUBLING FACTS? It certainly goes a long way to explain Bush's Wild West Gun-Slinger Swagger --Click Here--, his ultimatums and his taunts of Saddam, which were cunningly drafted to make sure they were too impudent for Saddam to accept .

Look for these maps to change swiftly and radically, with Mobile, Exxon, Conoco, BP (British Petrolium), Shell Oil, American Oil, and Chevron-Texaco suddenly blanketing the Iraq portion of these maps (Bush's old buddies). Expect that Iran will either capitulate or it will soon be demonized (Remember this statement -- this prediction was made in January 2003. It didn't take long for Bush to make it come true.). Don't expect The U.S. Media to pay any particular attention to these facts. Do NOT expect The U.S. Media to discern any particular significance from these facts. The U.S. Media is brain-dead, with conclusive evidence of its flat brain-wave readings becoming grotesquely apparent over the past few years (e.g., the 2000 elections, where it stood by silently during the first Whitehouse coup in U.S. history).

In a recent CBS News interview Ephraim Halevy, Head of Israel's National Security Council, said this Iraq War is much bigger than just the situation in Iraq, and much bigger than most U.S. citizens realize. He said he believes this War is calculated to send a loud alarm to the entire Middle East. Halevy said when this Iraq War is over there will be a radical shift in Iran's government in order to align itself more with U.S. interests in the region. Halevy supports the Iraq War. Bush and Powell are lobbying to get a "pro-U.S." leader in Iraq after the War. Observers say if Bush conservatives have their way, "...we can expect someone like Ahmed Chalabi to be installed by the U.S. military to unite the country's various factions. Chalabi is the head of the exiled Iraqi National Congress and a close associate of some high powered U.S. officials, including, Richard Perle (chair of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board), U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney." (Dr. W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta, Canada). Halevy told CBS News he personally believed that the Iraq War signals the beginning of World War III.

READ MORE ABOUT
BUSH OIL OBJECTIVES

Bush Selectively Doling Out Lucrative Iraq Re-construction Contracts
To Bush Cronies and U.S. Tax Cheats
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_tax_cheats.html

BBC Report -- Who is winning the Iraq contracts?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3201680.stm

The Art of Scapegoating
A Pandering Tool In The Demagogue's Toolbox
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html#scapegoat_iraq

The Bush Regime and U.S. Media Devaluation Of Life
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar2.html#value_life

NBC News - Tom Brokaw Perpetrate A Banner Headline Fraud
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/nbc_fraud.html

NBC and National Geographic Sack
Pulitzer Prize Winning
Veteran Newsman Peter Arnett
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/nbc_hype.html

Do not expect the U. S. Media to connect the dots. Do not expect the U. S. Media to wake-up, "smell the coffee" -- and realize that the only two remaining oil-rich countries on the planet where the wealthy U.S. Oil Corporations have no interests, are being targeted by Bush and his Oil Corporation buddies. Don't expect the U. S. Media to ever undergo a great eureka where the lightbult goes on and they realized that this is a Bush \ U.S. War for oil, and has absolutely nothing to do with "Liberating the Iraqi People."

The U.S. Media sold-out its integrity ... going for the big bucks of sleazy tabloid sensationalism. Keeping the public terrorized is good for the Terrorists, good for Bush and a boon for The U.S. Media. The U.S. Media makes a good agitprop slave when mutual interests intertwine like this. Wrapping themselves in the flag with sanctimonious lip-service as they blather Cheap Grace that 'talks-the-talk' without having to 'walk-the-walk' ... The U.S. television media ... Beating their gums about Homeland Security ... Knowing There is No money for states and cities to implement the empty rhetoric .... Never challenging Massive cuts in programs for the elderly and the poor ... While massive welfare aid packages for the immensely wealthy Disney and Tourist Industry were being implemented.

The U.S. television media ... Disgustingly excessive, insincere adulations and canonizations of U.S. soldiers by Pious U.S. Media Pimps hustling their disingenuous platitudes, making a mockery of the sanctity of Life . . . Death and Truth ... Doling out Contrived Unctuous Homage ... Synthetic Platitudes of the 'Worker Bees' (soldiers) by U.S. Media Sycophants ... Strategically dispensed for Public Consumption (to pump up support for an Indefensible War) ... knowing all the while that, despite all their bombastic rhetoric, this country has repeatedly screwed-over its veterans ... refusing to acknowledge War related injuries suffered in the Vietnam War and in the Gulf War, in order to dishonestly shirk the financial and medical responsibilities which it promised them then, and which it pays lip-service to now. That's how much The U.S. Media and the government really care about its soldiers.

For effect, the manipulating U.S. Media Hucksters pour on their disingenuous Plaudits in gobs, donning it proudly the way Tammy Faye Baker wears her make-up. The denser the vanity (pretense) the more shallow the heart it pretends to allude to.

This demagogic pretense has absolutely nothing to do with conveying sincere expressions of gratitude to the soldiers. It's solely designed to win-over public approval for an unjustifiable and unpopular War under suspect circumstances, while silencing the critics with threatening and maligning McCarthy Era proclamations that they are UNAMERICAN for criticizing or voicing disagreement (See Peter Arnett Story). The U.S. Media, especially the television media, erroneously believes that its mandatory Patriotic Duty is to become the propaganda wing of the government.
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There are several ways The U.S. Media is coaxing the public to eat its pabulum (buy into the legitimacy of this War). The leading U.S. Media ruse is citation to bogus "Polls and Studies" which purportedly show the public supports the War
(Click Here).

A second equally significant U.S. Media ruse is the deployment of "Selective Cognition and Selective Dissemination" of information. A recent example of this gimmickery is The U.S. Media's in-lock-step cooperation with Bush in widely publicizing outrage at Iraq's alleged violation of Geneva Convention rules, even though it is common knowledge the Bush regime has patently thumbed its nose at those rules in its handling of prisoners at the Guantanimo Bay POW camp, where POW's are being held indefinitely without ever being charged, without any right to legal counsel, without any right to contact anyone 'on the outside,' without any U.S. government duty to ever disclose who they are holding. Another example is The U.S. Media's excessive exploitation of loved-one's concerns for their U.S. soldier son, while virtually ignoring, squelching broad public concern for all innocent victims.
(Click Here).

The argument we are hearing is that the Iraq War is a Bush \ U.S. War for control of Middle East oil, and has absolutely nothing to do with "Liberating the Iraqi People." The argument goes like this. Bush spin-doctor strategists needed to package the War in a way that the public would buy into it. Starting a war in order to give powerful U.S. Oil corporations control over more oil would never sell to the public as a legitimate basis for starting a war. And the fact Saddam is a homicidal misanthrope, by itself, would not be enough because there were no recent episodes and Saddam's prior atrocities were not anywhere near global in scale. So the strategy the Bush Regime decided to use is the ages-old scheme of "Scapegoating," which historically has virtually always worked immensely well.

- Scapegoating- is best defined and described in this way: "A scheme in which political leaders focus on an extremely horrible, lamentable set of prevailing conditions and falsely blame all of the public's woes and suffering from those lamentable conditions on a particular category or group of people who have nothing to do with causing the lamentable conditions. The ruse red-herring scheme is designed for the explicit purpose of giving the public a focused target for ventilating all of its hostility, rage, hatred, anger against and fear of this false "enemy" (the purported cause of the lamentable conditions) ...... while at the same time serving to foster the false impression that the politician is ahead of the curve, is on top of the situation and is stridently and effectively engaged in an "all-out" campaign to rid the public of this horrible "enemy," thus rescuing the public from its horrific plight." Many unscrupulous carpetbagging politicians have handsomely profited from this sick, twisted self-serving dupery (Thank you U.S. agitprop media -- They could never have succeeded without your complicity).

The above Scapegoating description is precisely accurate and applicable to the Iraq War. Its key objectives are two-fold. First it serves as a "Red-Herring" decoy-distraction which tricks the public into directing its attention away from "THE REAL CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM" and the fact the politicians have done absolutely nothing to address it. Secondly it serves to advance the stature and political fortunes of the politicians who successfully execute the ruse. History tells us that the "Scapegoating Scheme" is astonishingly successful in duping the public during times of extreme crisis, primarily because it is so easy to spook the Herd into a panic stampede or a blind rage. There is no greater example of it than Hitler's and Gerbil's Scapegoating of the Jews during harsh economic times in Germany. In the US, loyal law-abiding Japanese-Americans were scapegoated for mistreatment "to appease the gods" and give the public a false sense of security (Internment of Japanese-Americans who the U.S. KNEW had done nothing wrong). After WWII Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Nixon became tremendously successful, gigantic political icons nearly overnight, by singling out communists as the "Greatest Evil on Earth" ... while keeping the public in a chronic, unrelenting state of terror and fear of imminent demise at the hands of this largely concocted "enemy." Be sure to read, "The Manipulable Mainstream Herd Mentality."

By now the remarkable parallels with the current Bush Regime "Scapegoat Propaganda GamePlan" are ridiculously obvious. Bush with his "Axis of Evil" rhetoric to inflame the public with hatred, fear, hostility, anger and resentment against an Iraq Regime. Bush fraudulently transferring to the Iraq Regime blame for the 9\11 attacks on the US, when there has been no credible evidence that Saddam is linked either to the events of 9\11 or to world-wide terrorism generally (Saddam's atrocities have been quite localized). Notably, Bush's political fortunes were rapidly disintegrating up until 9\11. Stoking the flames of public fear and hatred have been immensely fortuitous for the Bush Regime. Be sure to read about the lack of a case against Saddam Hussein in the article: "Saddam Hussein Capture - Tempering the Self-Congratulatory Hysteria With Reality"

The Bush Regime 'Scapegoating' Scheme (scam) shapes up like this. By fraudulently linking Iraq with the events of 9\11 he has given the public a focused target for venting all of its pent-up hatred and anger for the 9\11 attacks. This scam is frequently seen being used by police when a dangerous serial killer is on the loose. The public pressure to capture the perpetrator becomes so intense that police frequently start looking for anyone to "pin the crime on" simply so they can relieve the pressure and appease the public with the often misguided notion that "the streets are now safe."

By stirring the US public into an incredible hysterical frenzy and by giving the US public someone to Blame, the Bush Regime has managed to completely reverse its dwindling 'nosedive' political fortunes, while advancing "THE REAL OBJECTIVES" just beneath the surface of things, namely, advancing the Middle East oil interests for his legendary buddies in the US Oil Industry.

It is depressing enough to see a politician like Bush execute such a duplicitous coup, given that his only claim to the Whitehouse comes by way of his Regime's execution of an elections coup which trampled the Constitution and the electoral process. But it is equally depressing to have to come to grips with the fact that such a large segment of the public can be this easily 'duped' ... sandbagged, snowed, deceived, scammed, sucked-in, sucker-punched. There seems to be absolutely NO learning curve for society as a whole. So many of them seem to be the same 'follow the herd' cerebral sloths we've read about in the history books when we have rhetorically posed the question to ourselves: "How could such a thing ever happen?"

... so many of them ... so easily panicked ... so easily stampeded over the edge of the cliff, as each blindly and obediently follows the tail in front of them.

And so the Bush Regime Propaganda Game Plan strategy that worked so well for McCarthy and Gerbils, is taken out of mothballs once again, to dupe the most educated society in history. When will it ever stop being the perennial -Game Winner- strategy?

Two things we know for sure since the 2000 elections. This no longer is a Democracy (Of the People, by the People, for the People) and The U.S. Media is no longer the Fourth Branch of the Government. We now live in a "Corporatocracy" ... A government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation, with the idea that what's good for business is good for everybody because the crumbs they leave behind will be more numerous. And The U.S. Media has long-since been bought 'lock-stock-and-barrel' by the corporations.

For those who are not on drugs (and apparently there aren't many), a Corporatocracy has reality standing on its head, given the fact that a corporation is a legal fiction, while THE PEOPLE have a concrete palpable reality. But television's stock and trade has always been to blur the lines between fiction and reality. It has made its incredible fortunes peddling fiction like snake-oil, as though it had a legitimate reality (it's called 'Propaganda'). Not surprising, then, that the public should become so fickle, lost and confused, with the most powerful influences in their lives (Governments, Corporations and The U.S. Media) brainwashing them ad nauseam with their self-serving flim-flam fictions.

Are we talking about a global conspiracy of psychotic, schizophrenic proportions? No! (no aliens involved ... that we know of). Are we talking about a conspiracy ... an epidemic of greed, ignorance, narcissism, superficialities and megalomania? That is the only way to describe what the World has been seeing as of late. Swindler's are successful because their schemes are based on the ordinary person's deep-seated need to believe that human intentions are fundamentally honest - sincere - genuine. With Bush's coup of the Whitehouse the Corporate Coup (swindle) is finally complete.

This entire episode, and especially The U.S. Media's role in selling this toxic trash to the public as 'potable,' is so repugnant ... so utterly reprehensible, that a full recovery is entirely implausible. No matter what the outcome for the U.S. military, THE U.S. MEDIA LOST THIS WAR. And like this War, they will leave behind a toxic wasteland.

Americans Cannot and Should Not Rely

ON U.S. MEDIA INFORMATION SOURCES

NBC and National Geographic Sack
Pulitzer Prize Winning
Veteran Newsman Peter Arnett
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/nbc_hype.html

Page 2 - What Bush & the U.S. Media Aren't Telling You
Continue to U.S. War For Oil - Page 2 --Click Here--

NBC News - Tom Brokaw Perpetrate A Banner Headline Fraud
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/nbc_fraud.html

Colin L. Powell "Remarks to the United Nations Security Council"
New York City
February 5, 2003
(Highlighted Version: Highlights "weapon of mass destruction" Terms & Issues
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/powell_un.html

Secretary Colin L. Powell
"Remarks to the United Nations Security Council"
New York City
February 5, 2003
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030205-powell-un-17300pf.htm

CBS News
Poll: "Worries Over War And Economy"
New York, Feb. 13, 2003
Highlighted Local Version
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/war_poll_feb03.html

CBS News
Poll: "Worries Over War And Economy"
New York, Feb. 13, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/13/opinion/polls/main540574.shtml

Website Copy of
Letter to Charlie Rose
"Charlie Rose - Bob Woodward Interview: Is Rose Getting Senile?"
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/rose_woodward.html

The Memory Hole
Photos of Military Coffins (Casualties From Iraq)
at Dover Air Force Base
"The Somber Task of Honoring the Fallen"
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/

Seattle Times
"Woman loses her job over coffins photo"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html

The Washington Post
"Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins"
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 21, 2003; Page A23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55816-2003Oct20¬Found=true

Bush "Intelligence-Gathering Errors" Excuse
Just Another Regime Fraud - WMD
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/bush_fraud.html

Martin Luther King
Argument Against Vietnam War
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/vietnam_king.html

Saddam Hussein Capture
Tempering the Self-Congratulatory Hysteria
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_hysteria.html

Bush Selectively Doling Out Lucrative Iraq Re-construction Contracts
To Bush Cronies and Tax Cheats
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_tax_cheats.html

BBC Report -- Who is winning the Iraq contracts?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3201680.stm

Perspective on the $87 Billion Iraq Reconstruction Costs
The Bush Regime Has Squandered
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/cost_87bill.html

Saddam Hussein Capture
Tempering the Self-Congratulatory Hysteria
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/iraq_hysteria.html

U.S. Media Sophistry
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/rahrah.html

The U.S. Media Circus and The U.S. War For Oil - Consider These Facts
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html

The Buying of the President 2004
By Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/index.asp?L1=20&L2=24&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

Bush Support and The Mainstream Herd Mentality
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/herd.html

Americans' Profound Apology to France
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/liberty.html

The Bush Regime and U.S. Media Devaluation Of Life
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar2.html#value_life

The Art of Scapegoating
A Pandering Tool In The Demagogue's Toolbox
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html#scapegoat_iraq

Non-U.S. World News Media Sources
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html#world_news

What Bush and the U.S. Media Aren't Telling You
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar2.html

U.S. Media Selective Cognition
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/selective.html

NBC & National Geographic Assassinate Their Own
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/nbc_hype.html

NBC News - Tom Brokaw Perpetrate A Banner Headline Fraud
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/nbc_fraud.html

The Bogus Domino Theory
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/domino.html

The Bush Regime & U.S. Media Propaganda GamePlan
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/gameplan.html

The Media's Patriotic Duty - As Propaganda Spin-Doctors
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/duty.html

The Science of Bogus Polls & Studies
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/polls.html

The Truancy of 'Them Versus Us' Compassion
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe/solipsist.html

Americans' Apology to France - E-mail Apology to France
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/liberty2.html

The U.S. War For Oil - Anti-War E-mail and Website Links
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/oilwar.html#email_links

The Art of Scapegoating
A Pandering Tool In The Demagogue's Toolbox

NON-U.S. World News Media Sources

Iraq War: Charlie Rose Sophistry
Reflects U.S. Media's Defects
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch2002/rose_wrong.html

NBC and National Geographic Sack
Pulitzer Prize Winning
Veteran Newsman Peter Arnett
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/nbc_hype.html

"The news media has been pushing this War for six months straight, shoving it down the American public's throat," actor Tim Robbins told Fox affiliate KTTV in Los Angeles.

Is A U.S. War Against Iraq Illegal? By Jon Bonn‚ MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/887480.asp?cp1=1

War Without Anyone's Permission By Michael Kinsley
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080455/

AntiWar.Com
http://www.antiwar.com/

No Blood For Oil Peace Links
http://www.nobloodforoil.org/PeaceLinks.htm

Peace Now Anti-War Links
http://www.peacenow.org/links.html

The Nation Anti-War Links
http://thenation.com/directory/view.mhtml?t=040307

Stop The War Anti-War Links
http://stopWar.org.uk/links.asp

Green Party U.S.
http://www.greenpartyus.org/

Green Party Global
http://www.greenparty.org/

Green Party United Kingdom
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/

Green Parties World Wide
http://www.greens.org/

Green Party Australia
http://www.greens.org.au/

Green Party France
http://www.les-verts.org/

13Myths.org 13 Myths about the case for War in Iraq

Americans Against War with Iraq [AAWWI] Newspaper ad: Bush's weapon of mass Distraction: War with Iraq.

Americans for Peace Now [APN] American pro-peace and pro-Israel group to help Shalom Achshav [Peace Now], an Israeli group that favors a negotiated end to the conflict in the Middle East.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) A Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.

Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a national organization of Jews committed to a negotiated settlement to Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence Independent national peace network to honor Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coalition For World Peace Peace, Anti-War, Los Angeles based coalition of over 20 peace and justice groups.

Fellowship of Reconciliation Largest and oldest U.S. interfaith peace organization committed to active nonviolence, peace, and justice.

Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL] Quaker lobby in the public interest to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government.

Hugs for Peace Australian based international peace group. World Peace Day

Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace - Over eighty Southern California organizations against waging War on Iraq.

International Answer (Demonstrations Info) Stop War on Iraq before it Starts. National March on Washington.

Iraq Action Coalition An online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the War against the people of Iraq.

Iraq Peace Pledge Sponsored by a growing coalition of national and local anti-War groups.

Iraq Peace Team Plan to send seasoned nonviolent activists to take up residence in Iraq, before and during a US attack, should such an assault occur.

The Nation - No War With Iraq resources

The National Council of Churches, founded in 1950, is the leading organization in the movement for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States.

No Blood For Oil An anti-authoritarian coalition of New York-based activists opposed to the New American Imperialism. (Not related to NoBloodForOil.org)

No Iraq Attack Academic community opposed to invasion of Iraq.

Nonviolence.org Source for up-to-minute news and commentary on peace, antiWar and nonviolence.

No War! No Way! National student action against the War in Iraq. Campus affiliates. Boston Mobilization.

Pax Christi USA National Catholic peace movement.

Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze) The largest membership and activist peace network in the country.

Peaceful Tomorrows Advocacy organization founded by family members of September Eleventh victims to seek effective nonviolent responses to terrorism.

Peace Roots Alliance Promotes peace through non-violent means.

Stop the War Coalition Major British coalition of groups opposed to American and Britain waging War against Iraq.

Tikkun Campus Network: Interfaith organization of students and faculty for peace and justice.

Traprock Peace Center Western Mass.

United for Peace and Justice Collaboration of national and international peace and social justice organizations and scores of local places of worship, peace centers, and community organizations. Lists all protests by states.

Veterans for Peace Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace!

Voices in the Wilderness Joint US/UK campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq.

WagingPeace.org Website of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

War Resisters League Advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of War, racism, sexism, and human exploitation.

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM [WILPF]
First international peace organization founded by women organized in Europe.

United for Peace and Justice is doing all it can to help keep up the antiWar pressure. Check out their site, make a donation, and help volunteer in a United for Peace office.

The Pledge of Resistance is staging nonviolent direct action to stop the flow of business as usual as long as the bombs continue falling.

The National Youth and Student Coalition is sponsoring a series of campus protest events beginning the morning of March 20.

The Campus AntiWar Network is asking all students to work on immediate public education, lobbying and direct action activism, and is sponsoring a nationwide day of student protest on April 5.

International ANSWER and Not In Our Name are organizing emergency protests and calling on people to take off work in order to spend the next week trying to convince others that stopping the War is our most urgent priority, both as US citizens and as human beings.

On Monday, March 24, the Veterans Against the Iraq War is conducting emergency lobbying of Congressional members. VAIW is asking all military veterans, active-duty GI's, reservists, and family members who oppose the War to participate. Veterans are asked to wear their medals, ribbons, parts of their uniforms, and to bring American flags, banners, and protest signs.

You can also find numerous antiWar ideas and campaigns at ActNow.

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NON-U.S. WORLD NEWS MEDIA SOURCES
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When we heard the story that Veteran newsman Peter Arnett was sacked by NBC for telling the truth about the war we were not surprised. When we heard that this Pulitzer Prize winner immediately joined the Daily Mirror, a media news source outside of the U.S. we were not surprised. When we heard that this Pulitzer Prize winner was fired by National Geographic, we all cancelled our National Geographic subscriptions and removed ALL of the National Geographic weblinks from our websites. We value neutral, objective, accurate news reporting. We loath propaganda agitprop ragsheets as a dangerous precedent that is antithetical to any legitimate notion of 'True' journalism.

It has said that it is only in times of crisis that people and institutions show their "True Colors." The colors that National Geographic, Fox and NBC have shown in this crisis are as agitprop obscene as it can possibly become. National Geographic will never again be in our home, in our children's home, in our siblings' homes or in our grandchildren's homes. We do not want their propaganda trash anywhere near our children. Our children are going to have an Truthful, accurate, unmolested account of current events and history. We will not permit the U.S. Media to feed them their pabulum flim-flam propaganda drivel, masquerading as Truth.

This Iraq War has demonstrated conclusively that the U.S. Media cannot be trusted as a news source. The U.S. Media believes it has a Patriotic Duty to Manipulate Public Perceptions as the propaganda wing of the Bush Regime. Americans who DEMAND accurate, objective, unmolested World News can Never amd should Never rely on U.S. Television or print Media news sources (There are a very few limited exceptions).

Most U.S. Print Media sources are unreliable, with some exceptions (NY Times & Washington Post). Otherwise, the U.S. Media have all trashed their credibility. WN -WORLD NEWS -, AP, UPI, Reuters, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC Television News, National Geographic are all U.S. Media which tend to present one-sided, agitprop, unreliable propaganda accounts of the news because they are hand-fed by Bush spin-doctors and then proceed to dispense that rubbish as though it was gospel ... like their news coverage banner: "Operation Iraqi Freedom." They erroneously believe it is their Patriotic Duty to Manipulate Public Perceptions as the propaganda wing of the Bush Regime. In that misguided fervor they have totally trashed their credibility.

The War-Hawk U. S. TV and print Media insist on labelling the banner headline for their War coverage "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Obviously calculated to pump-up War support. Obvious flim-flam ... because when a 'Liberator' proposes to help a people and improve their lot, they do NOT proceed with a policy predicated on their expendability and exploitation. They do NOT express a willingness to annihilate large numbers of them in order to 'Help them.' Bush and the War-Hawk U. S. TV Media trumped up the idea of "The U. S. as Liberators" in a Propaganda coup designed to counter opponents' claim that this was a U. S. War For Oil.

This is an exceptionally good selective list of Non-US World News resources -Links- for discriminating readers who DEMAND Accurate Reliable, Unmolested news reporting AND who have come to realize that the US Media CANNOT BE TRUSTED to provide such news. The U.S. Media erroneously believes it has a Patriotic Duty to Manipulate Public Perceptions pursuant to the Bush Regimes propaganda strategy. They have trashed their credibility. It is a scathing impeachment of the integrity of the U.S. Media ... a consortium of profoundly unreliable one-sided agitprop propaganda ragsheets.

Americans who DEMAND accurate, objective, unmolested World News can rely on the remarkable list of International Media Sources below. This is an exceptionally good, selective list of Non-US World News resources (and Links) for discriminating readers who DEMAND Accurate Reliable Unmolested news reporting AND who have come to realize that the US Media CANNOT BE TRUSTED to provide such news.

NBC and National Geographic Sack
Pulitzer Prize Winning
Veteran Newsman Peter Arnett
http://www.geocities.com/blubakhe777/nbc_hype.html

BBC News Americas

AntiWar.Com

Christian Science Monitor

Michael Moore.Com

Center for American Progress

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

Harpers Magazine

Guardian Unlimited

Alternet.org

The Onion

CBC NEWS Canadian Broadcasting