7/21/10—Obama Is Preparing to Bomb Iran by Webster G. Tarpley

After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through the troubled Obama administration, are currently gearing up for a campaign of bombing against Iran, combined with special forces incursions designed to stir up rebellions among the non-Persian nationalities of the Islamic Republic. Naturally, the probability of a new fake Gulf of Tonkin incident or false flag terror attack staged by the Anglo-American war party and attributed to Iran or its proxies is also growing rapidly. [Continued]


7/15/10—Obama-Dodd-Frank FinReg Monstrosity Delays Derivatives Curbs until 2022! by Webster G. Tarpley

6/23/10—Towards the Eighteenth Brumaire of General David Petraeus? by Webster G. Tarpley

4/24/10—Fight the Derivatives Cancer with a Wall Street Sales Tax, Plus Bans on Hedge Funds, Credit Default Swaps, and Synthetic CDOs by Webster G. Tarpley

The Obama administration has been posturing this week about the life and death issue of Wall Street reform. Obama's predicament is that of a Wall Street puppet who has been put into the White House thanks among other things to almost $1 million of contributions from the infamous Goldman Sachs – but who now needs to make a show of fighting his own Wall Street patrons for political reasons. Of course, Obama's health-care reform was largely a bailout of insurance companies, which are themselves a key part of Wall Street. But Obama is now pretending to quarrel with Wall Street to shore up his waning credibility, partly because many House Democrats are desperately seeking anti-banker, economic populist street creds in order to avoid defeat in November. So far, the results have been largely feckless and inadequate. [Continued]


3/13/10—BRING ON THE ROBIN HOOD TAX — Everyone but the rich is outraged by the financiers' billowing wealth. At the budget, Labour can tip the balance back to the people. By Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

If a sales tax on financial transactions (Tobin tax, trading tax, securities transfer tax, Robin Hood tax) can bring the British Labour Party back from the dead, it can defeat Geithner, Summers, Bernanke, Wall Street, and the reactionary Republicans here in the US. It is time to make this a world-wide campaign to force the bankers to pay for the world economic depression they have created. More here and here.


2/10/10—STATE DEPARTMENT ADMITS: DETROIT CHRISTMAS BOMBER WAS DELIBERATELY ALLOWED TO KEEP US ENTRY VISA, BOARD HIS FLIGHT by Webster G. Tarpley

The Detroit Christmas bomber was deliberately and intentionally allowed to keep his US entry visa as the result of a national security override issued by an as yet unknown US intelligence or law-enforcement agency with the goal of blocking the State Department's planned revocation of that visa. This is the result of hearings held on January 27 before the House Homeland Security Committee, and in particular of the testimony of Patrick F. Kennedy, Undersecretary of State for Management. The rickety US government official version of the December 25 Detroit underwear bomber incident, which has been jerry-built over the past month and a half, has now totally collapsed, and key elements of the terrorism-spawning rogue network inside US agencies and departments are unusually vulnerable to a determined campaign of exposure. [Continued]


Gen. Keen

1/18/10—TO SAVE HAITI, FIRE GEN. "BROWNIE" KEEN, START AIR DROPS, CANCEL THE DEBT, AND KICK OUT THE IMF by Webster G. Tarpley

Just over five days or 120 hours after a major earthquake hit the area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it is increasingly clear that the US approach to organizing the delivery of emergency assistance and supplies is so ineffective that the general directing the distribution of emergency aid needs to be fired without further delay. The catastrophic blunder involved is the decision by the US military in the person of Gen. Ken Keen to insist on routing all external aid through a single substandard, inadequate, and partially destroyed landing field, the Toussaint L'Ouverture airport. This airport has a single runway, and room to park only about half a dozen medium to long range aircraft. The result is that once six aircraft are parked in the unloading area, all incoming traffic must be waved off until one of the six planes has taken off again, as a colonel on the ground explained in a press conference broadcast on C-SPAN radio here this afternoon.... General Keen seems to be determined to deliver vital aid to the Haitian population using an eye dropper. [Continued]


1/8/10—"Conspiracy or cock up?" White House reaction to ersatz bomber by Michael Collins

1/5/10—Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge by Webster G. Tarpley

1/4/10—Obama White House Probing Rogue Network of Moles Behind Christmas Detroit Patsy Fiasco, Reports Richard Wolffe on MSNBC by Webster G. Tarpley


Birgitta Jonsdottir

1/6/10—"Love and rage from Iceland": Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Leader of The Movement in Iceland's Parliament, Appeals for Worldwide Support Against the Financial Blackmail of the British and Dutch Governments and the IMF.
See also articles at 10/9/09, below.






12/29/09—NEWLY RELEASED VIDEO: "9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement." Dr. Graeme MacQueen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and founding Director, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada, delivered this speech at the conference "We Demand Transparency! For Peace, Truth, and a New Economics" in New York City on September 13, 2009. (Special Thanks to Joe Friendly for the videography).


12/28/09—VIDEO: Nigerian Terrorist Patsy Yet Another CIA Ploy in US-backed Buildup of al Qaeda in Yemen Civil War. Tarpley tells RT that the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is not a matter of unconnected dots, but rather that of a protected patsy or puppet deliberately used by the US intelligence community for a Christmas Day provocation designed to facilitate US meddling in the civil war in Yemen, which is where Umar Farouk allegedly trained and was given his PETN device. Banker's son Umar Farouk had been denied an entrance visa to Great Britain and had been denounced to the US Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria as a possible terrorist by his own father in mid-November. His one-way ticket to Detroit was bought in Ghana for $2800 in cash, and he reportedly entered Nigeria illegally. In Amsterdam, he was assisted at the Northwest Airlines gate by a "well-dressed Indian" who explained that Umar Farouk had no passport. He did have PETN, the same substance supposedly used by the mentally impaired shoe bomber Richard Reid in his abortive attack of eight years ago. In spite of all this, Umar Farouk's US entry visa was never revoked, he never made it onto the no-fly list, and he was never thoroughly searched. These egregious lapses in normal procedure show that Umar Farouk was part of an orchestration sponsored by the CIA, which has now yielded 4 solid days of media hysteria. Obama has formulated his new version of the Axis of Evil, composed of Afghanistan-Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. In Yemen, a civil war pits the Saudi-backed central government against the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, whom the US has bombed at least twice this month. The goal here is to play Iran against Saudi Arabia so as to weaken both the pro-Moscow Achmadinejad government in Iran, and also those Saudi forces that are fed up with their status as a US protectorate. The US is openly now sponsoring a regroupment of "al Qaeda" (the CIA Moslem legion) in Yemen, including by sending fighters direct from Guantanamo. The new CIA-promoted entity synthetic entity is "Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula" or AQAP, a gaggle of US patsies, dupes, and fanatics which is claiming credit for the Umar Farouk incident. The US hopes to further dominate the exit from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, while also easing pressure on the battered US dollar by jacking up the price of oil in an atmosphere of tension on the Arabian peninsula.


12/22/09—VIDEO: CIA black sites in Lithuania: The price of NATO membership was letting US trample national sovereignty. Tarpley is interviewed by RT's Lauren Lyster on the admission by a committee of the Lithuanian parliament that the country accepted secret CIA prisons, the so-called black sites. This is the first official confession by any country which had collaborated with the CIA in "global war on terror" operations including kidnapping, torture, and other crimes. Poland and Romania are also known to have set up similar secret jails, but they have denied involvement. The Lithuanian foreign ministry and former elected officials are still attempting to deny what the Lithuanian parliament has now openly admitted. Former President Paksas claims that he was impeached and ousted in 2004 because he opposed the black sites. This would have amounted to a NATO coup d'état.


12/21/09—VIDEO: RT's Dina Gusovsky interviews Webster Tarpley about very plausible Taliban charges that the CIA and Blackwater are behind the recent bombing atrocity in Peshawar, Pakistan. In a Dec. 21 interview with RT's Lauren Lyster, Tarpley explores the case of David Coleman Headley, born Daood Gilani, a convicted heroin smuggler of Pakistani background working undercover for the DEA who is now accused by the Indian Home Ministry of functioning as a double agent for the CIA. Headley is now in jail in Chicago on charges of planning terrorism in Denmark, but India wants him extradited and wants to hear the tapes of FBI taps on his phone. There is every indication that, far from being a rogue, Headley masterminded the Mumbai false flag terror attacks of November 2008 precisely because the CIA wanted them to happen — to solidify Indian political support for the widely opposed US-India nuclear deal, to play India against Pakistan, and to brand Pakistan as a strategic enemy of the US — the policy reflected in Obama's Dec. 1 declaration of war against Pakistan. The outcry and scandal in the Indian media about the CIA's protection of Headley now give that nation a chance to pull back from the role of expendable pawn of the US and UK against Pakistan and China.



12/12/09—OBAMA DECLARES WAR ON PAKISTAN By Webster G. Tarpley
WASHINGTON, DC Dec. 11, 2009—Obama's West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan. This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan, a country of 160 million people armed with nuclear weapons. In the process, Afghanistan is scheduled to be broken up. This is no longer the Bush-Cheney Afghan war we have known in the past. This is something immensely bigger: the attempt to destroy the Pakistani central government in Islamabad and to sink that country into a chaos of civil war, Balkanization, subdivision and general mayhem. The chosen strategy is to massively export the Afghan civil war into Pakistan and beyond, fracturing Pakistan along ethnic lines. [more]



Call to Action: EMERGENCY ANTI-ESCALATION RALLY
AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON DECEMBER 12, 11AM – 4PM
Tell Obama & Congress "NO YOU CAN'T!"
No Escalation • End the Wars • All US Forces Out Now


11/18/09—VIDEO: RT's Dina Gusovsky interviews Webster Tarpley about very plausible Taliban charges that the CIA and Blackwater are behind the recent bombing atrocity in Peshawar, Pakistan. This attack is coherent with the US policy of provoking all-out civil war in Pakistan to break up that country to prevent it from serving as an energy corridor between Iran and China. The Pakistani Taliban are a proxy of the CIA. If the government in Islamabad collapses completely, or especially if Taliban forces appear to be taking control of some of Pakistan's nuclear forces, Wall Street could also get something it would like very much: a spectacular world shock that could send the world's hot money fleeing into the supposed safe haven of the US dollar, which is otherwise near collapse. Inside the US, a wave of Islamophobia is being ginned up with the Fort Hood shootings, the KSM trial in New York CIty, the seizure of allegedly pro-Iranian mosques, the Zazi case, and the incendiary anti-Moslem statements of Pat Robertson, the patron of the new reactionary governor of Virginia. Obama is expected to announce another massive escalation of US forces in Afghanistan within days. If a Wall Street-CIA Operation Safe Haven is indeed at hand, it could also include a coup in Saudi Arabia, or a clash between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the civil war in Yemen. An Israeli attack on Iran, although much discussed, remains the least likely variation, with Pakistan still at the top of the US hit list.


Nidal Malik Hasan

11/14/09—NIDAL MALIK HASAN OF VIRGINIA TECH, BETHESDA, AND FORT HOOD: A MAJOR PATSY IN A DRILL GONE LIVE? By Webster G. Tarpley [17-page PDF]


11/7/09—OPEN LETTER FROM THE PEACE MOVEMENT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ON HIS UPCOMING DECISION REGARDING THE AFGHAN WAR [1-page PDF], by Laurie Dobson, 2008 independent candidate for Senate from Maine. Signed by Cynthia McKinney, et al. Also here.


11/5/09—VIDEO: RT's Cedric Moon interviews Webster Tarpley as he outlines the landmark Milan verdict in which 23 CIA personnel have been found guilty of kidnapping in the case of Imam Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was abducted from a Milan street in 2003. The Moslem cleric was drugged, taken to Aviano air base, tortured, transported to Ramstein air base, and then moved to Cairo, where he was tortured and held for four years. This operation had been approved by Condolleezza Rice and George Tenet. Twenty-two CIA personnel were found guilty of kidnapping and sentenced to five years. Bob Lady, the Milan station chief, was given 8 years. All were fugitives tried in absentia. Also charged were 7 officials of SISMI, the Italian military intelligence, including SISMI boss Nicolò Pollari and anti-terror boss Marco Mancini. Five of the SISMI defendants got off because the evidence against them was classified as state secrets, but two were convicted as accomplices and given three-year sentences. Pollari and Lady were key players in the 2003 Niger yellowcake forgeries which were used by Bush in his 2003 State of the Union speech to set the stage for the Iraq war; Pollari is generally recognized as the person who delivered these forged documents to the White House. This is the world's first verdict on "extraordinary rendition," which indeed turns out to be kidnapping. It is the first major CIA trial in Italy in over 40 years of criminal abuses. It is also the most thorough juridical exposure of CIA covert operations ever carried out in a courtroom. Italian prosecutors Armando Spataro and Guido Salvini have struck a blow for the rule of law. Will Italian Justice Minister Alfano now finally request the extradition of the 23 CIA figures? If he does, will the US extradite them? In the meantime, kidnapping-rendition, black sites, and torture flourish under Obama.


11/3/09—VIDEO: In an interview with RT's Dina Gusovsky, Webster G. Tarpley comments on news from the London Guardian that an aircraft belonging to the infamous CIA pirate fleet used for illegal kidnap-renditions over several years has been observed in a rendezvous with British Special Air Services commandos at Birmingham airport. Obama's executive order of January 22, 2009 explicitly allows such illegal renditions, so this should be no surprise. Also, Obama's order leaves a gaping loophole for the maintenance of US "black site" secret prisons/torture chambers, as long as the inmates are moved around periodically. The implication is that the identified black sites at Stare Kiejcuti in Poland and in Romania are still functioning. This is strong circumstantial evidence that the US is still delivering prisoners to countries where torture is routinely practiced. This was the case of Imam Nasr of Milan, in which a score of CIA employees, including Rome station chief Bob Lady, have been indicted by Italian prosecutors, and top officials of the Italian military intelligence SISMI arrested. The change is from Bush's open brutality to Obama's cynical hypocrisy. Human Rights Watch, which condemned rendition under Bush, now supports it under Obama.


10/20/09—VIDEO: RT interviews Webster Tarpley in Washington DC as he exposes the role of the CIA and British intellgence in yesterday's terror bombing in Iran's Baluchistan region which killed several key commanders of the Iranian Pasdaran Revolutionary Guards. Tarpley locates the US-UK strategy in the attempt to break up Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran in favor of the microstates and ministates demanded by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the grey eminence of Obama's foreign policy. Baluchistan is the location of the strategic port of Gwadar, which could become a key to solving China's need for imported oil—a perspective the Anglo-Americans are determined to block. Tarpley also cites the role of current US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the foundation of "al Qaeda."


10/11/09—California Economic Recovery: La Jolla Democrats Approve 1% Tobin Tax on Derivatives
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 11, 2009—As California confronts a growing economic crisis, a new idea is emerging: use a small sales tax or "Tobin tax" on derivative financial transactions to help finance a fiscal stability, curb reckless speculative bubbles, and encourage investment into productive manufacturing. [more, including Resolution] See also entry at 6/30/09 below.


10/9/09—A DEBT MORATORIUM FOR ICELAND Instead of sending money abroad, Iceland should launch a program of economic recovery and full employment to fight the world economic depression now radiating out from the US and UK.

10/7/09—ICELAND POLITICAL LEADER CALLS FOR DEBT MORATORIUM AS GOVERNMENT CRUMBLES By Webster G. Tarpley
Added 10/22/09—Download 3-page PDF: Address on Iceland and the IMF, Debt Moratorium, and Tobin Tax, Delivered by Birgitta Jonsdottir of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, October 5, 2009

9/30/09—ONLY A DEBT MORATORIUM CAN SAVE ICELAND By Webster G. Tarpley

REYKJAVIK, Sept. 30, 2009— The Icelandic banking crisis must be seen not as an isolated event, but rather as a feature of a new world economic depression of unprecedented severity. The crisis of the Icelandic crown, combined with the insolvency of the three leading banks Kaupting, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, can only be understood as a by-product of the universal derivatives panic of 2007-2009 which precipitated the bankruptcy of virtually the entire Anglo-American banking system, including such large institutions as Countrywide, Northern Rock, IndyMac, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual, AIG, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, and untold others. Many US money center banks are presently insolvent (thus the term zombie banks) and are being kept alive under the "too big to fail" policy, which itself involves a violation of federal law. As the saying goes, you can?t tell who is swimming naked until the tide goes out. Great embezzlers are frequently discovered in the midst of financial panics, and this is what has happened in the case of Iceland. [more]


Call to Action: SUPPORT THE STELLA D'ORO BAKERY WORKERS' DEMONSTRATION AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS ON SEPTEMBER 25!
Call For a 1% Tobin Tax on the Wall Street Derivatives Monsters


ObamaFraud

8/12/09—NEEDED: A LEFT ANTIWAR OPPOSITION TO OBAMA
Seven months into the new administration, it is clear that Obama is on his way to failure and worse, potentially dragging a whole range of progressive causes down to defeat. For so many disappointed activists, the honeymoon is over and the thrill is gone, and what remains is a trail of broken promises and betrayals. The question is no longer how to save Obama, but how to defend causes that were here long before Obama arrived, and will be here long after he is gone...." [more]


Call to Action: ACTindependent Leaflet for Congressional Town Halls
DEMAND YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS SUPPORT A 1% TOBIN TAX ON WALL STREET TO KEEP OUR HOSPITALS OPEN — ZOMBIE BANKERS MUST PAY FOR THE DEPRESSION THEY CREATED!

The health care controversy in this summer's congressional town hall meetings is unreal. Obama and the Republicans are both hiding the obvious fact that, in this world depression, most US health insurance companies are bankrupt because of derivatives — the toxic assets you've heard so much about. AIG is the largest insurance company, and it is bankrupt. The Hartford just took $3.5 billion from the Treasury and is bankrupt. MetLife just lost $1.5 billion in three months, all because of derivatives. The other insurers are in varying stages of bankruptcy, which is why they now support Obama's "corporate state" health care plan, even bringing back Harry and Louise to help dupe you. Republicans and assorted right-wingers accuse Obama of wanting a government takeover of health care. Obama's goal is quite different: he'll make sure that there's no single payer option, and no public option, thus betraying the Democratic base. Instead, everyone will be forced at gunpoint to buy insurance for lousy care from the bankrupt private companies, giving them a colossal permanent bailout — a windfall bonanza. Medicare and Medicaid will be looted and destroyed in the process. Seniors will be told to die early to save the bottom line. Obama's plan comes straight from Wall Street, where the bankers are already getting a bailout of $24 trillion under his administration. This is why Obama has brought out his goons to beat up protesters who don't want euthanasia and genocide. [more: PDF, 1 page]


8/6/09—The Second Wave Of The Depression — Hyperinflation Likely By Webster G. Tarpley
"Whatever the ideological fanatics of the discredited Austria and Chicago schools of economic analysis may claim, there is no automatic business cycle capable of lifting the modern world out of serious economic disintegration. The depression will end when adequate New Deal style policies are implemented, and not before...." [more]

Russia Today interviews Webster Tarpley:
"Dollar's future unstable"
(05 August 2009)

7/19/09—CIA'S IRANIAN COUP FACTION EXPOSES OBAMA-BRZEZINSKI AGENDA: "DEATH TO RUSSIA, DEATH TO CHINA" By Webster G. Tarpley
"....Currently, the CIA, MI6 and their allies are attempting to overthrow the Ahmadinejad government in a classic people-power coup, color revolution, or postmodern coup, using a gaggle of malcontents grouped around the bloody-handed Mousavi, the corrupt Ayatollah Rafsanjani, and the beknighted clerics of Qom, including Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. In the most recent Friday prayers in Teheran, the Mousavi-Rafsanjani faction has dropped its mask by eagerly and publicly embracing their assigned kamikaze role in the CIA game plan: that of a spear point against Russia and China. The real nature of this faction now stands exposed. While the pro-Ahmadinejad faction chanted the tried and true (and even clichéd) "Death to America," Mousavi supporters countered with "Death to Russia" and "Death to China." [more]

6/22/09—VIDEO: IS OBAMA A WALL STREET PUPPET? Russia Today's Washington DC correspondent Alyona Minkovski interviews Webster Tarpley on Obama as a Wall Street puppet, US imperial strategy, the depression, the derivatives bubble, and related topics.


SurvivingtheCataclysm

New, updated edition
SURVIVING THE CATACLYSM: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History
by Webster Griffin Tarpley.

Here is the indispensable handbook for the present breakdown crisis and disintegration of the world financial, currency, and banking system. Webster Tarpley builds on his prophetic work of 1999, calling for a return to the American System of political economy as exemplified by such figures as Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. He shows the criminal futility of the Bush-Paulson-Bernanke bailout of the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives bubble, now continued under cynical and demagogic left cover by the Obama-Geithner-Summers-Bernanke clique. Obama is exposed as the worst Wall St. puppet in recent US history, an anti-FDR peddling a New Deal in reverse for the benefit of zombie bankers, while the American people get the crumbs. Surviving the Cataclysm advances a benchmark program for world economic recovery, full employment, scientific and technological progress, third world development, and the defense of our threatened civilization. It is a call for wiping out derivatives, banning foreclosures, and nationalizing the failed Federal Reserve System. A special chapter discusses ways individuals and families can survive the crisis. (Paperback), 668 pages, $29.95. Available at Progressive Press and Amazon.com.


CAmap

6/3/09—DRAFT EMERGENCY ACTION PROGRAM FOR CALIFORNIA
The budget crisis in California and most other states plus the bankruptcy and collapse of the US auto industry are signals that the United States and the world are sinking into an economic depression of awesome destructive power. Who should pay for this depression? Clearly the Wall Street, Chicago, and San Francisco bankers and speculators who caused the crisis must pay. There are limitations on what any state can do, but we here in California can and must take a stand for a real economic recovery. We must grab the attention of the corrupt Sacramento and Washington politicians and start to lead this country out of the crisis. We therefore demand:... (8-point plan, 2-page PDF)

3/25/09—MYRON SCHOLES: "BLOW UP OR BURN OUT" CDS DERIVATIVES
Myron Scholes, the creator of the infamous Black-Scholes model for pricing derivatives which won the Nobel Prize and then almost destroyed the world banking system with the Long Term Capital Management bankruptcy of 1998, has now partially understood that his derivative creations are a Frankenstein monster. He recommends wiping out the current crop of toxic CDS derivatives. The only hope of world economic recovery is indeed by wiping out, freezing, deleting, shredding, and otherwise destroying ALL of the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives bubble. Otherwise, the London G-20 will repeat the failure of the June 1932 Lausanne Conference, which needed to wipe out reparations and war debts left over from World War I in order to end the First World Depression. To end the Second World Depression, wipe out and permanently ban derivatives now! —WGT
MYRON SCHOLES, INTELLECTUAL GODFATHER OF THE CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP, SAYS BLOW 'EM ALL UP by Justin Fox, 3/6/2009

3/22/09—ACT-INDEPENDENT STATEMENT TO G-20 SUMMIT, LONDON, APRIL 2, 2009
FREEZE THE $1.5 QUADRILLION DERIVATIVES BUBBLE AS THE FIRST STEP TO WORLD ECONOMIC RECOVERY
(PDF, 3 pages)

Call to Action: START A MASS MOVEMENT TO WIPE OUT THE
DERIVATIVES CANCER AND SHUT DOWN THE ZOMBIE BANKS!

— Thanks to Mark Fiore!

3/8/09—OBAMAVILLES IN AMERICA, by Webster G. Tarpley
In the depression of the 1890s, the term for a breadline was a Cleveland Cafe, named after the Wall Street puppet who turned the government over to JP Morgan, London, and their cross of gold. In the 1930s, a shanty town was a Hooverville. In this depression, the wretched victims of foreclosure by Obama's pals at Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan live and die in OBAMAVILLES....

  • Tent cities spring up in LA (BBC video, 1:33)
  • Southern California Shanty Town/Tent City (4:17)
  • The Other America: Tent Cities on the Rise (2:18)
  • 2/19/09—BARACK "HOOVER" OBAMA, by Bruce R. Marshall

    2/16/09—OBAMA SEEKS A RUSSO-IRANIAN WAR, by Bruce R. Marshall

    11/20/08—END THE FED — END WALL STREET BANKSTER RULE — END THE DERIVATIVES DEPRESSION, by Webster G. Tarpley

    11/10/08—WASHINGTON ECONOMIC SUMMIT NOV. 15 — SECRET PLAN FOR IMF WORLD DICTATORSHIP, by Webster G. Tarpley


    Special Section

    THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA

    Order both books today!

    ObaCoupObabio

    11/8/08—Barky's First Choices: No Seat at the Table for Labor and the Third World, by Webster G. Tarpley

    11/3/08—Advice for Voters: Defeat Obama at All Costs — How an Obama Victory Would Take This Country and the World Towards Catastrophe, by Webster G. Tarpley

    10/30/08—Video: Berg Asks Supreme Court to Stay Election Until Obama Shows Original Birth Certificate Proving He Is "Natural Born" U.S. Citizen (Part 1 of 7). Updates here.

    10/19/08—Sir Colin Powell, Who Lied to the World About Iraq, Now Lies About Obama — Gen. Powell 2008 in the Nepotistic Footsteps of Field Marshall Von Hindenburg 1933, by Webster G. Tarpley

    VIDEO FROM WHOLE TRUTH COALITION
    A two-part interview with Webster Tarpley describing the Obama phenomenon, the people behind it and their plans for the future. A must watch with brilliant historical insight and analysis. (Taped in late July 2008)

    Part One

    Part Two

    9/21/08—Obama Supporters Call Police to Arrest Student for Asking Questions by Greg Nixon

    8/22/08—Philip J. Berg, Esq. Files Federal Lawsuit Requesting Obama Be Removed as Candidate for Failing to Meet the Qualifications for President

    Complaint and other documents here

    Obama Section continues below*


    10/2/08—FORCE THE FED TO OPEN A MAIN STREET LENDING FACILITY FOR PRODUCERS, NOT WALL STREET PARASITES — $1 TRILLION IN CHEAP FEDERAL CREDIT FOR DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND HUMAN NEEDS, by Webster G. Tarpley

    9/27/08—DUPED MCCAIN FALLS INTO WALL STREET BAILOUT TRAP SET BY PAULSON OF GOLDMAN SACHS by Webster G. Tarpley

    9/27/08—McCAIN WIMPS OUT ON $700 BILLION DERIVATIVES BAILOUT, LETS BARKY OFF THE HOOK by Webster G. Tarpley

    9/24/08—TELL MCCAIN: OPPOSE DERIVATIVES BAILOUT OR DROP WHITE HOUSE BID ; A GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST THE BAILOUT IS URGENT by Webster G. Tarpley

    9/23/08—NO TO THE PAULSON-BERNANKE DERIVATIVES BAILOUT: Bail Out the American People, Not Wall Street! An Economic Recovery Strategy for Protectionists, Dirigists, Mercantilists, and Populists by Webster G. Tarpley

    9/9/08—Russian Television to Broadcast 9/11 Debate by International Experts by Webster G. Tarpley

    8/24/08—Motormouth Joe Biden: Warmonger, Wordmonger, and Political Hit Man by Webster G. Tarpley

    8/10/08—Brzezinski's Georgia Puppets Attack Russia — World War Three in Sight by Webster G. Tarpley

    8/1/08—US-UK Intel Readies Turkestan Islamic Terror Gambit For Beijing Olympics by Webster G. Tarpley


    *Special Section

    THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA cont'd

    7/5/08—PUMA Call to DNC Delegates by Will Bower

    6/20/08—Obama is Fascism, Mr. Paul Craig Roberts! by Bruce Marshall

    6/6/08—Air Force Purge Shows Brzezinski's Trilaterals Rule Through Principals' Committee in Washington; Bush-Cheney Neocons Are Out

    5/31/08—Dean-Brazile Minority Coup Splits Democrats; Senator Clinton is the Real Democratic Party

    5/20/08—Barack Obama: Ventriloquist's Dummy — Zbigniew Brzezinski: Ventriloquist

    3/21/08—Confirmed on MSNBC: Obama is Puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Trilateral Revanchist

    3/11/08—Elitist Obama Hysteria Broken By Votes of Working People in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island

    2/23/08—Brzezinski Seizing Control Over US Policy in Slow-Motion Creeping Coup

    2/17/08—Barack Obama Fronts Wall Street's Infrastructure Swindle: What Change Really Means

    2/8/08—Obama Candidacy Means No Impeachment of Bush-Cheney

    2/8/08—Obama's Plan to Privatize Social Security and Other Right-Wing Economics

    2/8/08—After Super Tuesday: Why Obama is a Sure Loser — and the Prelude to a McCain-Lieberman Disaster

    2/3/08—Obama Campaign Linked to Chechen Terrorism; Grant Of Taxpayer-Funded US Asylum For Chechen Terror Envoy Gave Obama Foreign Policy Guru Zbigniew Brzezinski "One of the Happiest Days of My Life" by Webster G. Tarpley

    Addendum: Obama Economic Controller Is Skull And Bones Member: Austan "The Ghoul" Goolsbee, Yale '91

    2/1/08—Coup and Counter-Coup in New Hampshire: Brzezinski Clan Color Revolution vs. Diebold Vote Fraud by Webster G. Tarpley (1/19/08)


    Exclusive from ACTindependent—

    FOUR-POINT EMERGENCY ENERGY STABILIZATION PLAN (EESP)

    75% of the Oil Price is Hedge Fund Speculation—
    Time For Tax Measures and a Surprise Attack to Shut Down the Speculators
    and Cut Prices for the Consumer

    We propose to stop the speculators. Urgent action is now required to enact the following:

    • Windfall tax on super-profits of the oil cartel...
    • A Tobin tax or securities transfer tax (STT) of 1% paid by the seller...
    • Impose a 75% tax on all speculative profits...
    • Sneak attack to destroy speculators...
    It is estimated that this package of measures will reduce the price of gasoline by about 40-50% within two weeks, and by 65-75% over six months.

    [READ FULL ARTICLE.]


    1/21/08—18-Point Draft Emergency Economic Recovery Program to Stop the Bush Depression (105K pdf)

    1. Stop all foreclosures immediately for at least five years and for the duration of the depression by means of a compulsory federal law carrying criminal penalties. No foreclosures on homes, family farms, factories, public utilities, hospitals, transportation and other infrastructure. Outlaw adjustable rate mortgages.

    2. Raise the federal minimum wage immediately to a living wage of at least $15 per hour, with the short-term goal of attaining a federal minimum wage of at least $20 per hour.

    3. Immediate enactment of a securities transfer tax (STT) or Tobin tax of 1% to be imposed on all financial turnover in all financial markets to include the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, the Amex, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the market in federal securities, the foreign exchange market, the New York Mercantile Exchange, and all other financial markets. This tax will be paid by the seller. This tax will be extended to the notional value of all derivatives, including over-the-counter derivatives, exchange traded derivatives, structured notes, designer derivatives and all other financial paper. Derivatives will become reportable under penalty of law....

    [Continued, through #18]


    10/23/07—Internet COINTELPRO Alert


    10/8/07—The Kennebunkport Warning and the Rogue B-52 - Confirmation with a Vengeance


    10/07/07—No Attack on Iran For Any Reason; Beware Cheney False Flag; Impeachment Urgent For War Avoidance: A Response to "Leading Americans"

    We welcome the October 2 statement issued by David Swanson entitled "Leading Americans Ask U.S. Military to Refuse Orders to Attack Iran" and signed by a group of well-known personalities, which will generate new action to stop this critical threat to civilization as we have known it. At the same time, we regret that this new statement neither adequately conveys the depth of the strategic crisis, as seen through the events of the last five weeks, nor indicates the necessary scale of political mobilization on the part of anti-war forces. Recent events, above all the case of the rogue B-52, establish beyond any doubt that the grave threat to humanity identified in the August 26 Kennebunkport Warning was and continues to be real. The massive evidence of this danger which existed at the end of August has become still more massive over the past five weeks, and we are glad that these signers have seen their way clear to launch this initiative. [more]


    9/22/07—Laurie Dobson Comments on KW Attacks (See below)


    9/20/07—The Ford Foundation Attacks the Kennebunkport Warning by Webster G. Tarpley


    9/16/07—Chossudovsky: "Punitive bombings" directed against Tehran could be launched within the next few months.

    "The antiwar movement is in many regards divided and misinformed on the nature of the US military agenda. In the US, United for Peace and Justice tacitly supports US foreign policy. It fails to recognize the existence of an Iraqi resistance movement. Moreover, these same antiwar organizations, which are committed to World Peace tend to downplay the implications of the proposed US bombing of Iran....

    "Debate and discussion must also take place within the Military and Intelligence community, particularly with regard to the use of tactical nuclear weapons, within the corridors of the US Congress, in municipalities and at all levels of government. Ultimately, the legitimacy of the political and military actors in high office must be challenged." [more]


    9/13/07—Duty, Honor, Country 2007: An Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation
    by Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., National Commander, The Patriots

    "[S]hould some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal....

    "Also in hindsight, President Bush could be court-martialed for abuse of power as Commander-in-Chief. Vice President Cheney could probably be court-martialed for his performance as Acting Commander-in-Chief in the White House bunker the morning of September 11, 2001.

    "We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup. If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation. In 2007, this is what is meant by "Duty, Honor, Country." [more]


    THE KENNEBUNKPORT WARNING
    Presented by a Group of US Opposition Political Leaders Gathered in Protest at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 24-25, 2007

    To the American people, and to peace loving individuals everywhere:

    Massive evidence* has come to our attention which shows that the backers, controllers, and allies of Vice President Dick Cheney are determined to orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11 terror incident, and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin war provocation over the coming weeks and months. Such events would be used by the Bush administration as a pretext for launching an aggressive war against Iran, quite possibly with nuclear weapons, and for imposing a regime of martial law here in the United States.

    We call on the House of Representatives to proceed immediately to the impeachment of Cheney, as an urgent measure for avoiding a wider and more catastrophic war. Once impeachment has begun, it will be easier for loyal and patriotic military officers to refuse illegal orders coming from the Cheney faction.

    We solemnly warn the people of the world that any terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction taking place inside the United States or elsewhere in the immediate future must be considered the prima facie responsibility of the Cheney faction. We urge responsible political leaders everywhere to begin at once to inoculate the public opinion of their countries against such a threatened false flag terror operation.

    *Click to download document (68 pages, 316K)
    Supplement to Massive Evidence.doc (58 pages, 420K—9/2/ through 9/22/07)
    Supplement 2 (since 9/22/07, updated regularly)

    LIST OF SIGNATORIES AND SUPPORTERS(pdf)

    (Names will be added as they are received. Please send endorsements or requests for removal to info@actindependent.org. No names will be removed except by direct request to this email from the individual signatories.)

    Original document showing signatures: [Scan] [Photo]

    SELECTED STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT(pdf)

    Gillian Norman AvanteFilms, Australia:
    "Detractors attempting to undermine the credibility of the Kennebunkport Warning—an impeachment petition intended to avert a second 9/11—should take care that they do not meet their own demise when the sky actually does fall." LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR/FALSE FLAG ALERT—Sydney 9/9 (1.5MB pdf)

    DL Abrahamson False Flag News:
    "Those who seek to discredit the Kennebunkport warning exhibit a devastatingly tragic myopia (or worse), as they selfishly attempt to engineer a divisive conflict entirely of their own creation, while foolishly ignoring the material substance of the document." FALSE-FLAG TO WORLD WAR (32K doc)

    Captain Eric H. May Military Correspondent:
    "...Ron Paul, Ann Wright, Cindy Sheehan and Peter DeFazio deserve full credit for preceding Webster Tarpley and me in making the points used in The Kennebunkport Warning. No doubt each of them has come under attack for his or her courageous words, but steadfastness in adversity is what defines character." FORESHADOWS OF "THE KENNEBUNKPORT WARNING" (pdf)

    [From email 9/20/07] "I believe that...the more prolific of our antagonists in the Kennebunkport Warning matter were professional agitators. To take one example, 'Colonel Jenny Sparks' was harassing both the Oregon Truth Alliance and Portland Nuclear Inquest (which I lead) in the weeks before the Kennebunkport Warning. In typical agitator fashion, she claimed to do so in order to defend the 911 Truth Movement and debunk our "alarmism" for alerting Portland to the dangers the nuclear simulation, Operation Noble Resolve. She and cohorts infiltrated both group lists and hurled monkey wrenches in every direction before getting the boot. As a lasting memorial of the encounter, they then set up their own user group, made up of a mixed set of a dozen agitators and useful idiots, largely dedicated to damning me and browbeating [other local activists]. Every once in awhile I read it for amusement.

    "The rapidity with which the same set (with additions) focused their efforts against The Kennebunkport Warning—while making the same tired arguments of "rescuing" the 911 Truth Movement—is more proof of the same modus operandi. I am ashamed of the four signatories to that bold document for wimping out and turning tail. Given that the disinformation campaign that they thereby invited was professional, the most charitable opinion I can offer is that they were leaned on by professional pushers (or pulled along by professional handlers).

    "The peanut gallery of critics against each of us is still in force, but is also irrelevant. The only reason they hammer away at us is that we are having an effect. Every time times get tough, serious adherents to a cause become more resolute, while the weak-willed fall away."

    THE KENNEBUNKPORT REALITY CHECK: The Danger of World War III is the Much-Neglected Heart of the Matter


    9/22/07—LAURIE DOBSON, Camp Alex organizer and eyewitness to the KW signing, comments on recent attacks

    Comment on the Daily Kos, Sat Sep 22, 2007 at 12:23:05 PM PDT:

    "Ridiculous and unreal
    In the last few weeks, I have tried unsuccessfully to respond to the calumny from some posts to '911 blogger', 'after downing street' and 'truth action'. I wasn't able to have posts printed in which I tried to provide evidence about the signers and to clear the slanders put out about me, when I decided to stand by the document, the K'port Warning. I have finally started my own blog: lauriedobson.blogspot.com. If people want evidence, they will see that I have provided it there. . . ."

    One of the four deniers admits signing the document:

    "Fwd: Re: kport warning
    Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Jamilla El-Shafei, jamillaelshafei@XXX
    Subject: Re: kport warning
    To: lauriedobson@XXX
    Hi Laurie,
    This document was presented to me as it was a petition to IMPEACH CHENEY and because I was distracted and pulled in a hundred different directions I DID NOT READ IT. I signed something but I did not read what I signed, which was stupid, I admit!!...."

    Laurie Dobson's post at the Daily Kos, Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 08:40:38 AM PDT:

    Dear Editor,
    I ran Camp Alex (Camp Casey Two) out of my farm during the Aug. 24-26 Peace Rally in K'port, Maine. I can verify the legitimacy of the Kennebunkport Warning. Many of us at the camp signed it—I saw the one with Sheehan and the others while it was in the process of being signed—before, during and after. It was the same as the one we all signed, which is posted on 911blogger.
    I had at least 75 campers stay here who would probably be able to attest to their awareness of the document and many would be able to share their evidence, if they chose to get involved, to prove that the document was authentic. Fifty of us heard Bruce speak about it while we were waiting to board the bus to go to the peace rally. We were all, it seemed to me, in general agreement about the dire state of the nation due to the Cheney faction. We were mostly all together at camp during much of the time when it was being signed at camp and many of us were witnesses to it being signed by others at the rally—myself included, as I had a stage pass and was there at the stage tent when they were being asked to sign. There are pictures on the web which will verify my presence, talking to Kucinich's staff person, Michael Klein.
    Based on emails I have received, it is obvious to me that the big name people are afraid, but I believe that they should not defame those who asked them to sign the petition. In my view, this accusation of falsified documenting casts a cloud of suspicion over the brave efforts of those signators who are standing by their decision to sign the petition. I stand with those who signed it who are not backing down.
    Laurie Dobson


    Cheney and Chertoff are warning us of another 9/11 attack in the U.S. A new false-flag event—a pretext to attack Iran—could plunge America into dictatorship and martial law, and the world into nuclear war.

    It's time to confront the cancer of deception and corruption within our government, and to stop the ruthless war machine.

    A tidal wave of truth seekers is rising in America—united by purpose, not politics—that will descend on New York City and Washington DC, and throughout the country on September 11th, to honor the victims of 9/11 and of the wars that followed.

    JOIN THE REVOLUTION—BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

    CHENEY DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN U.S. WITH WMD THIS SUMMER.

    "HELICOPTER BEN UNLEASHES DOLLAR HYPERINFLATION"
    Webster Tarpley hits the nail on the head bridging the gaps between the current financial meltdown, false flag terror, and the brink of war with Iran.


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    On July 4, 2007, over 300 delegates from diverse activist organizations and concerned citizens across America joined together at the Philadelphia Emergency Antiwar Convention to form a United Front, dedicated to resolving our national crises of endless war and presidential dictatorship.

    These organizations included: Allentown Armory Activists, Alliance for a Sustainable Future, Boston 9/11 Truth, Coalition for Voting Integrity, DCOI Youth Group, DC 9/11 Truth, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, Family Victims of 9/11, Granny Peace Brigade, Green Party Philadelphia, Green Party Vermont, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Los Angeles National Impeachment Center, Military Families Speak Out, Northeast 9/11 Truth, Peace Action - Delaware Valley, Philly 9/11 Truth, Restore the Republic, Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Troops Out Now Coalition, Vermont 9/11 Truth, Vermont Coalition for 9/11 Truth, We Are Change, World Can’t Wait Philadelphia, Washington Grove Institute, 911truthsquads.org.

    This is only the beginning; others are welcome to add their names and work toward our common goals. Write to info@actindependent.org.

     


    At the end of the convention, the Philadelphia Platform was discussed, amended and adopted by unanimous acclaim. The following are abbreviated highlights of the five policy goals and five action points detailed in the Platform. See full text of document.

    FIVE POLICY GOALS

    We appeal to leftists, progressives, conservatives, libertarians, independents, and those entering or re-entering politics to transcend the artificial divisions that have diminished their impact. The antiwar, impeachment, anti-globalization, labor, civil rights, veterans, anti-tax, civil liberties, honest election, and 9/11 truth movements—along with civic and progressive religious groups and other issue groups—have been weakened too long by single issues and narrow focus. It is time for these movements to unite as a national coalition on a common platform for independent action. We call for a united front of all organizations and persons of good will based on the following:

    1. Impeach, remove, and indict Bush, Cheney and their henchmen.

    2. End all wars. All U.S. troops must be brought home at once from Afghanistan and Iraq by any means necessary, including the immediate cutoff of funding.

    3. No Bush police-state dictatorship. Repeal the Patriot Act, restore full habeas corpus, respect the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Convention.

    4. Government by the People, not by cliques of bankers and financiers.

    5. 9/11 truth. Publish the full 9/11 documentation, and re-open the investigation.

    FIVE ACTION POINTS

    At a minimum, we aim to shape the climate of public opinion. We may become the focal point of a new political regroupment. These questions will be decided in the struggles that lie ahead. We suggest that questions of economic and social policy be deferred for now, and that they become the object of ongoing discussion. We also urge that organizational questions be postponed until a later time. We call on all organizations to join in launching the following urgent actions in support of the policies outlined:

    A. We will nominate and support independent political candidates for public office at all levels of government in the 2007 and 2008 elections. Because of the problems of ballot access, such candidate may need to enter the primary elections of the Republican, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, or other political parties.

    B. Truth squad interventions taking advantage of the new media (using camcorders to capture political content which is then posted on the internet) to intervene in the ongoing presidential primary campaigns of the Democrats, Republicans, and others, to focus public attention and political debate on the urgent questions outlined above, rather than on the divisive and artificial wedge issues preferred by the corporate media.

    C. Mass political education through internet web sites, conferences, books, DVDs, and a sustained campaign to write our own fairness doctrine by using radio, cable access, and call-ins to take back the public air waves from the right-wing extremists and left gatekeepers.

    D. This united front will exist as a process of political discussion, deliberation, mass organizing, and open debate open to political forces of all types who agree with its platform of ideas. Special attention will be given to campus organizing.

    E. Carefully selected legal actions, as typified by the civil RICO suit against Bush-Cheney as a continuing criminal enterprise.

     


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