Posted on 10/06/2004 2:42:28 AM PDT by kattracks
Thanks.
There mere fact that JFKerry is polling at and above 45% this bunch may well pull their "shadow" move off.
Good idea and timely too since I've been trying to find that amid all my files. Can't believe I misplaced it.
There was another press meeting with Kerry or maybe it was this one which was also attended by DU and Truthout's William Pitt, I believe. Have you seen a reference to it? He's the guy associated with Scott Ritter's book.
nevermind- that was in an article on Truthout's site by william Rivers Pitt. My mistake, the name was just familiar.
fyi
Erik Gustafson Erik Gustafson is a veteran of the Gulf War and founder of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC). In 1997 and 2000, he witnessed firsthand Iraq's humanitarian crisis. In 1998, he founded EPIC, an organization that works to improve humanitarian conditions and human rights in Iraq. He has testified at congressional briefings, policy forums and has delivered lectures across North America on Iraq. His letters and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, LA Times and USA Today.
later....
JUNE 14, 2003 : (WASHINGTON, DC : GLEN RANGWALA TAKES PART IN EPIC IRAQ FORUM EVENING LECTURE SERIES "CONSEQUENCES of WAR & OCCUPATION" )Glen Rangwala, PhD is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University, UK. He has been a coordinator of the Campaign against Sanctions on Iraq for the past five years. His work on the allegations made about Iraq's prohibited weapons have been covered by every major news outlet, most notably when he discovered that the "intelligence" dossier released by the British government had been plagiarized from a PhD student's thesis. He acts as an advisor to British parliamentarians on policy towards Iraq. He is beginning an in-depth academic study on Iraq's changing society from 1990 to the present day, and will be assessing the outcomes of the US-led reconstruction attempts. Hear Glen Rangwala now.Or download and listen.
NOMINATION OF MORTON HALPERIN -- HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON (Extension of Remarks - September 21, 1993
Mr. Speaker, President Clinton has made a very ill-advised decision to nominate Morton Halperin to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy and Peacekeeping. A review of Mr. Halperin's record clearly displays that he is not one of the President's `New Democrats.' Indeed, Mr. Halperin is a typical new leftist, meaning, a far-left type. . .I thank the Speaker for the time and would like to insert a few pages of quotes from Mr. Halperin for the Record. `The Soviet Union apparently never even contemplated the overt use of military force against Western Europe * * *. The Soviet posture toward Western Europe has been, and continues to be, a defensive and deterrent one. . .'. . .Halperin favorably reviewed Philip Agee's book Inside the Company: CIA Diary saying that in it `we learn in devastating detail what is done in the name of the United States.' The review made no mention of the fact that the book contained some thirty pages of names of U.S. covert operatives overseas or that the author acknowledges in his preface the help he received from the Cuban Communist Party. Halperin concluded the review by pronouncing: `The only way to stop all of this is to dissolve the CIA covert career service and to bar the CIA from at least developing any allied nations.' . .In response to government attempts to close down the Washington offices of the PLO: `It is clearly a violation of the rights of free speech and association to bar American citizens from acting as agents seeking to advance the political ideology of any organization, even if that organization is based abroad. Notwithstanding criminal acts in which the PLO may have been involved, a ban on advocacy of all components of the PLO's efforts will not withstand constitutional scrutiny.' (The Nation, October 10, 1987)
I don't remember that one. Looks like you found the information you were looking for in Post #24?
Rangwala again. . .
Bookmarked.
Back to Soros' IAC :
AFP: Anti-war protesters regroup
SAY THEIR NEW FOCUS IS "ANTI-OCCUPATION"
EPIC Press Room | Press Release Archive
Agence France-Presse
April 10, 2003
WASHINGTON (AFP) Far from celebrating the presumed quick end to the war in Iraq, US peace activists say they are outraged at the prospect of a lengthy military occupation there, and are gearing up for more protests. Massive rallies had been planned for this weekend to call for an end to the US and British-led war, across the United States and in major cities around the world.
Now organizers say the rallying cry of those protests will be an end to the impending occupation of Iraq by coalition forces.
"It's more urgent and more important than ever that there be a mobilization" said Sara Flounders, co-director of the New York-based International Action Center who is helping to organize the demonstration.
She insisted that despite the fast-changing events in Iraq, this weekend's world-wide protest "is absolutely going forward -- if anything with greater determination and greater clarity.
"Only now the focus is, 'no' to colonial occupation," said Flounders.
This weekend's protests are organized by ANSWER coalition, a confederation of anti-war and social action groups that was a key organizer of many of the massive demonstrations held in the weeks before the start of the war. Protests are planned in San Francisco, Washington and several other US cities as well as 40 countries including Britain, Italy, Japan and Korea, said Flounders. Some groups say they are also pushing for the United Nations to take the lead in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
Anti-war organizer Medea Benjamin of the San-Francisco based group Global Exchange,[see also Code Pink] said coming protests will lambaste US-led efforts "to privatize humanitarian aid instead of using more traditional channels like the Red Cross and NGO's (non-governmental organizations)."
"We would like to see the UN take charge of the transition, which would strengthen the rule of law, not the rule of force."
"If the Iraqi people are to have a chance for democracy and a better life, the model that the US is trying to use is not going to lead them there," Benjamin said.
Another group, the Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) this week launched the latest of numerous online petition drives, calling on their supporters to flood Congress with e-mails calling on legislators keep funding for Iraq humanitarian and and reconstruction out of the hands the US military.
"The State Department, in partnership with the UN and our allies, is the appropriate authority for US funds related to post-war Iraq," EPIC said in an action email sent to supporters.
Anti-occupation activists have wasted no time launching salvos at the planned interim government to be headed by former US general Jay Garner. Their new website -- stopjaygarner.com -- was up and running long before the Garner has even set foot in Iraq.
Garner, 64, who is awaiting confirmation of Saddam Hussein's downfall to make his move to Baghdad, is a retired three-star general who has come under fire for his links to defense industry and his ardent pro-Israel stance. He is also a former assistant deputy chief of staff during the 1991 Gulf War, has directed several major Defense Department programs including the Patriot anti-missile system, and is a personal friend of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
But peace activists said none of those credentials qualify him to set up a peaceful Iraqi interim government. "As a former Army General who until recently was building weapons systems now being used in the Iraq war, Jay Garner is no man of peace. In fact, he's just the man to inflame Iraq and the region," according to the stopjaygarner.com site. "It is not too late to make a change," the statment said.
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I had incorrectly thought Pitt attended the meeting but I think that was only because I'd read an article he wrote abvout the meeting and the name just stuck in my head.
Thanks- I'll link to that info.
See Pitt's article at http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1103326/posts?page=188#188
Thanks kattracks! Bookmarked.
Add to this mess a President Kerry with a billionnaire internationalist wife and you get the full picture.....
To the extent that the Shadow Party can be said to have an official launch date, July 17, 2003 probably fits the bill.[10] On that day, a team of political strategists, wealthy donors, leftwing labor leaders and other Democrat activists gathered at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long Island. Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute – part of Soros’ global network of Open Society institutes and foundations located in more than 50 countries around the world. Given Halperin’s history, the appointment revealed much about Soros’ political goals.
Now see Fedora's find:
. .Halperin favorably reviewed Philip Agee's book Inside the Company: CIA Diary saying that in it `we learn in devastating detail what is done in the name of the United States.' The review made no mention of the fact that the book contained some thirty pages of names of U.S. covert operatives overseas or that the author acknowledges in his preface the help he received from the Cuban Communist Party.
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