War on Terror Smokescreen Created By The Ultimate Terrorist, US: Observer (Barf Alert Level Red)

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LONDON, July 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Following the attack by U.S. author Gore Vidal on U.S. President George W. Bush’s so-called war on terror, John Pilger launched yet another attack in his book ‘The New Rulers of the World.’

“The rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and lies about the 'war on terrorism' - when the most enduring menace, and source of terror, is them,” Pilger said in an article published Sunday, July 15, 2002, in the British daily newspaper, The Observer.

The Observer quoted the Sydney-born writer as saying that instead of targeting the terrorists who attacked the United States, more than 5,000 civilians, mostly women and children, have been bombed to death in stricken Afghanistan, the latest in a wedding party of 40 people. Not a single Al-Qaeda member has been caught there.

After the U.S. “stunning victory” in Afghanistan, he said, hundreds of prisoners were sent to “an American concentration camp” in Cuba, where they have been held against all the conventions of war and international law.

No evidence of their alleged crimes has been produced, he added, and the FBI confirms only one as a genuine suspect. In the United States, more than 1,000 people of Muslim background have “disappeared” and none has been charged in the process.

“Having swept the Palestinians into the arms of the supreme terrorist Ariel Sharon, the Christian Right fundamentalists running the rampant in Washington, now replenish their arsenal in preparation for an attack on the 22 million suffering people of Iraq,” Pilger added, The Observer reported.

He mentioned that the new target of the U.S. ‘war on terror’ is Iraq - “a nation held hostage to an American-led embargo” for more than 10 years because of the leadership which Iraqis have no control on.

Contrary to propaganda orchestrated from Washington and London, the coming attack has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein's ‘weapons of mass destruction', if these exist at all, Pilger said. The reason is that America wants a more compliant thug to run the world's second greatest source of oil, he added.

The “stream of rumors and lies” by the journalists of the propaganda campaign have ranged from false claims about an Iraqi connection with the anthrax attacks in America to a discredited link between the leader of the 11 September hijacks and Iraqi intelligence, he continued. When the attack comes, these consorting journalists will share responsibility for the crime.

Pilger said it was British Prime Minister Tony Blair who served notice that imperialism's return journey to respectability was under way:

“Hark to Blair’s 'abiding' concern for the 'human rights of the suffering women of Afghanistan' as he colluded with Bush who, as the New York Times reported, 'demanded the elimination of truck convoys that provide much of the food and other supplies to Afghanistan's civilian population'. Hark to his compassion for the 'dispossessed' in the 'slums of Gaza', where Israeli military, manufactured with vital British parts, fire their missiles into crowded civilian areas.”

Pilger further attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi whom he accused of reviving the imperial idea of ‘the other’ and described as an “ally of crypto-fascists”. The new imperialists share a concept whose true meaning relies on a xenophobic or racist comparison with those who are deemed uncivilized, he said, adding that the question is how best 'we' can deal with the problem of 'them'.

The most important taboo is the permanence of the U.S. as both a terrorist state and a asylum for terrorists, maintained Pilger. That the U.S. is the only state on record to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (in Nicaragua) and has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law, is unmentionable.

In recent months, the Bush regime has torn up the Kyoto treaty, which would ease global warming, to which the U.S. is the greatest contributor. The U.S. has threatened the use of nuclear weapons in 'pre-emptive' strikes (a threat echoed by British Defense Minister Geoffrey Hoon). It has tried to abort the birth of an international criminal court.

The U.S. has further undermined the United Nations by blocking a U.N. investigation of the Israeli assault on the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, Pilger added, and it has ordered the Palestinians to replace their elected leader [Yasser Arafat] with an American puppet.

These facts will no doubt support the idea of 'anti-Americanism', Pilger concluded. As Noam Chomsky has pointed out, the Nazis silenced argument and criticism with 'anti German' slurs. Of course, the United States is not Germany; it is the home of some of history's greatest civil rights movements, such as the epic movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

The writer, who was in the U.S. last week, glimpsed that other America, the one rarely seen among the media and Hollywood stereotypes, and what was clear, he said, was that it was stirring again. In an open letter to their compatriots and the world, almost 100 of America's most distinguished names in art, literature and education wrote this:

“We say this to the world. Too many times in history people have waited until it was too late to resist. We draw on the inspiration of those who fought slavery and all those other great causes of freedom that began with dissent. We call on all like-minded people around the world to join us.”

“Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression… We, too, watched with shock the horrific events of September 11. But the mourning had barely begun when our leaders launched a spirit of revenge. The government now openly prepares to wage war on Iraq - a country that has no connection with September 11.”
“We say this to the world. Too many times in history people have waited until it was too late to resist. We draw on the inspiration of those who fought slavery and all those other great causes of freedom that began with dissent. We call on all like-minded people around the world to join us.”

The above heap of steaming BS from the thread's lead article is from the N.I.O.N. petition, er, "Statement of Conscience."

In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience. Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.

Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have also signed or endorsed the statement. NION organizes marches and other protest activities in its support.

However, Not In Our Name is deeper than the latest academic babblers and limosuine liberals. NION professes peace, yet it is involved - directly as well as indirectly - with terrorist organizations and anti-American propaganda campaigns headed by fanatical Communist and Muslim groups. NION has cemented alliances with bona fide radical organizations like the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Revolutionary Communist Party.

...Not In Our Name (NION) requests donations on its website, yet on this site donors are asked to make checks payable to NION/IFCO. IFCO is the acronym for the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. NION states that the “ Interreligous Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)… is our fiscal sponsor.” Fiscal sponsorship by IFCO means Not In Our Name receives donations that are tax deductible because of IFCO’s 501c(3) (charitable, federal tax-exempt) status. IFCO charges a fee for this service. ...

...The Interreligous Foundation for Community Organization is a pro-Castro proxy group. Members of their staff such as Lucius Walker (Executive Director), Marilyn Clement (Treasurer) and Ellen Bernstein (Grants Administrator) are all Castrophiles In Havana in November 2000, Lucius Walker proclaimed, “Long live the creative example of the Cuban Revolution! Long live the wisdom and heartfelt concern for the poor of the world by Fidel Castro!" This was a follow-up to his pro-Castro speech in 1996, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Communist Party USA.

Marilyn Clement is a co-organizer of the WILPF’s Sister-to-Sister Cuba project. The WILPF also issued a condemnation of Clinton’s Cuba policy in 1998. [Ellen] Bernstein was also quoted as saying she believes Cuba is the paradigm of democracy.

IFCO does not limit its activity to pro-Castro factions, though. Its management maintains relationships with extremist Islamist groups as well. [Lucius] Walker travels frequently to Iraq, usually alongside Ramsey Clark. IFCO is a member of ANSWER Steering Committee.) [Ellen] Bernstein is a member of the American Muslim Council’s campaign against the use of secret evidence. Clement met with Palestinians during a WILPF “solidarity” conference in May 2002. IFCO is also a fiscal sponsor of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF). The co-founder of NCPPF was the recently indicted terrorist financier Sami Al-Arian.
However, NION’s links with Muslim terrorists are not just indirect, through IFCO. NION invited both Sami Al-Arian and Lynne Stewart to address their October 6, 2002 rally in Central Park. Stewart was indicted for passing messages on behalf of her terrorist client Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. ...

As disturbing as NION’s relationships with IFCO and Muslim organizations are, just as disturbing is its relationship to the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Not In Our Name’s administration cadre comes from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), through such luminaries as C. Clark Kissinger and Mary Lou Greenberg, both of whom are Directors of NION and members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Clark Kissinger, co-director of NION and the RCP, was quoted as saying that when the RCP took over, “it would be necessary to shoot everyone who didn't agree with them."
------See "Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web," By Michael Tremoglie, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 19, 2003

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