American War Machine полностью

16. Len Colodny and Tom Schachtman, The Forty Years’ War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama (New York: Harper, 2009), 275; Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), xiii; L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team: the CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973).

17. At the end of this book I shall describe the activity of a small number of key individuals who act as drug traffic protectors, shielding the kingpins of the U.S. drug connection from arrest or public scrutiny. They are an important aspect of the U.S. war machine but by no means central to it.

18. Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996), 153–91.

19. Richard Viguerie, a cofounder of the Moral Majority that helped elect Reagan in 1980, had first emerged as a fund-raiser for the Young Americans for Freedom and then as a key player in the Far East Lobby’s campaign to block U.S. recognition of communist China. In 1977 he earned nearly a million dollars from a direct-mail campaign on behalf of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (Sara Diamond, Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right [Boston: South End Press, 1989]); Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 318, citing Joseph Trento, Prelude to Terror, 171–72. Cf. Scott, Deep Politics, 237–38).

20. Phillips and Huff, “Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex.” I have slightly amended the reference to Anschutz, who acquired the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch only in June 2009. Cf. Dick Smillie, “The Stealth Media Mogul,” Forbes, June 29, 2009, http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/28/anschutz-weekly-standard

-business-media-examiner.html: “Anschutz’s latest acquisition, The Weekly Standard, loses an estimated $5 million annually.”

21. Jon Gorvett, “Turkey’s ‘Deep State’ Surfaces in Former President’s Words, Deeds in Kurdish Town,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2006, http://www.washington-report.org/archives/Jan_Feb_2006/0601037.html. The ongoing crisis pitting Turkish Islamists against secularists has complicated this duality still further: “Each side accuses the other of operating a ‘deep state,’ or shadow government activities. The secularists accuse the AK party of quietly seeking to overhaul Turkey’s secular order, while the ruling party says the secular establishment will do anything to maintain that order—even a coup d’etat or murder” (Gulnoza Saidazimova, “Turkey: Constitutional Crisis Pits ‘Deep State’ vs. ‘Deep State,’” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 26, 2008, http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1079691

.html).

22. Ruth Goring, “Executing Justice: Which Side Are We On? An Interview with Colombian Human Rights Activist Padre Javier Giraldo, S.J.,” Equipo Nizkor, April 2003, http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/colombia/doc/giraldo1.html.

23. Although “war machine” is a more helpful term for those not familiar with what I am describing, “dominance machine” is more accurate. The aim of the machine is not really “perpetual war for perpetual peace,” as the disenchanted critic Harry Elmer Barnes once wrote. The machine aims—or professes to aim—at perpetual dominance, supported by periodic wars when necessary.

24. John Nichols, “Obama’s Campaign Merits a Peace Prize,” The Nation

(blogs), October 10, 2009, http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/482916/obama_s

_campaign_merits_a_peace_prize.

25. The National Emergencies Act, one of the post-Watergate reforms, specifies that “not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated” (50 U.S.C. 1622, 2002). Yet in nine years Congress has not once met to discuss the state of emergency declared by George W. Bush in response to 9/11. Appeals to the Congress to meet its responsibilities have fallen on deaf ears (cf. Peter Dale Scott and Dam Hamburg, “To All Readers: Help Force Congress to Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!” 911Truth.org, March 24, 2009, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090324183053848).