Now that the 10th year after 9/11 has passed, the behind the scene questions about 9/11 are starting to come out. Citizens are always the last to know about the truth of world happenings.
Anyone who has read the Shock Doctrine will have an easier time understanding and realizing and then accepting the sad truth that the US and most other countries is being controlled by Corporatists.
Noam Chomsky on How the Military Is Bankrupting Us and Why Corporate Interests Want to Destroy Public Programs
NOAM CHOMSKY: I think what he said is completely uncontroversial. You can read it in government documents. You can find it in polls. Maybe people don’t like to hear it, but, as I mentioned before, it goes back to the 1950s. Actually, right after 9/11, the Wall Street Journal, to its credit, did a study of privileged Muslims, sometimes called "monied Muslims," people in the Muslim world who are deeply embedded in the U.S. global project—lawyers, directors of multinational corporations and so on, not the general population. And it was very much like what Eisenhower was concerned about, and the National Security Council, in the 1950s. There was a lot of antagonism to U.S. policy in the region, partly support of dictators blocking democracy and development, just as the National Security Council concluded in 1958.
Also, by 2001, there were much more specific things: very much a lot of anger about the U.S. backing for Israeli occupation of the Occupied Territories, settlements, the bitter oppression of the Palestinians, and also, something that isn’t discussed much here but meant a lot there—and remember, these are privileged Muslims, leaders —those who kind of carry out, implement the general U.S. economic and social policies in the region. The other thing, besides the support of Israeli crimes, was the sanctions against Iraq. This was 2001, remember. The sanctions against Iraq were brutal and destructive. They killed hundreds of thousands of people. Both of the international diplomats who administered the Oil-for-Food program, distinguished international diplomats—Denis Halliday, Hans von Sponeck, in sequence—both of them resigned in protest because they regarded the sanctions as genocidal. They were carrying out a kind of a mass slaughter of Iraqis. They were strengthening Saddam Hussein. They were compelling the population to rely on him just for survival. And these were major crimes of the 1990s. And privileged Muslims, monied Muslims, in the Saudi Arabia, elsewhere, were bitterly opposed to this, not because they hate our freedoms, because they don’t like murderous and brutal policies.
AARON MATÉ: Noam, before, you were quoting a CIA analyst saying that the U.S. had actually become Osama bin Laden’s biggest ally through being drawn into so many wars abroad, and talking about how all this engagement has undermined U.S. standing. What has this decade of war meant here at home for the domestic situation and how that relates to bin Laden’s goals of bleeding the United States?
NOAM CHOMSKY: Yeah, he was pretty explicit about that. He wanted to draw the United States into what intelligence agencies called a trap, which would inflame and incite hostility in the Muslim world, he hoped, help mobilize people for his cause—I don’t think that happened—but also bankrupt the U.S. at home. I mean, current estimates—there was a recent estimate, a study at Brown University, estimated the cost just of the two wars at about $4 trillion. If you count in the costs of, you know, homeland security and so on, probably doubles that. That’s pretty serious. Between the wars, the housing bubble and Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, that—it creates the economic crisis that we’re now in.
That's some interesting background.
I would also point you to read a Post on the Rec list:
Frontline, NYT, Maddow, 60 Min. all report CIA cover-up on 9/11 terrorists by Valtin
I would add that MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan has been on this story for awhile now also.
The Corporatists in the US have a long history of propping up dictators, arming them and then taking them down when convenient or angry. The CIA props up lots of double-agents, spies etc., (which have made for some good Hollywood movies and documentaries- Charlie Wilson, Bhutto, etc.: great Novels like Sen Bob Graham's Keys to the Kingdom, and well many dots are cleverly intertwined by media propaganda, whistle blower's books etc., etc.,
It would be great if there was one trusted place to get the truth, fill in the blanks connect all the dots but who can anyone really trust these days.
Truth seekers like the process of digging around for answers. Not only is it necessary for some of us, it's actually quite fun even though some of the truth that gets uncovered is MIND BLOWING, DEPRESSING, SCARY and HEART BREAKING.
But to the dis-believers, fear mongerers, nay-sayers, lock-step thinkers and followers,
who mostly haven't a clue and only bow down to the liars who often lead them..it's your loss.
Anyways, I have learned that at least by being AWARE of the horrible truths out there, even though I personally can do nothing to fix any of them, I can keep myself better prepared, safe and alert for my life's sake.
Maybe there will be a solution some day, but one does not have to be part of the problem by pretending America is the land of the fantasy free.
Some say "We can't know what we don't know." So I ask "Don't you want to Know? I want to know, hell I need to know.
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And then I start digging...