Show Details for January 30th, 2007

This week’s Guests:

 –   POKEY ANDERSON’s montage of poetry, music and humor  

 –   RN JOYCE RILEY on illnesses affecting Gulf War veterans

  –   Architect RICHARD GAGE looks at the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers

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– Co-host POKEY ANDERSON’s montage of poetry, music and possibly humor

 

Well, we know many of you are missing Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and the Colbert Report due to the writers’ strike.

 

Fortunately, The Monitor writers aren’t on strike. So, as her last segment of 2007, Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson brings you this montage.

 

POEM:

Colleen Redman, reading her poem, “Dream for President Bush”

This poem was written 5 years ago, before the US invaded Iraq, while Colleen was in a cabin on a 3-day solo writers retreat. Colleen, a self-taught writer from Floyd, Virginia, blogs daily at LooseLeafNotes.com.  The poem can be read at http://silverandgold.swva.net/poetry2.htm

 

REFLECTIONS:

Kurt Vonnegut, from ”A Man Without a Country“

 

Joy Harjo, “Talking with the Sun,” from the book “This I Believe”

 

 

MUSIC:

Holly Near, “Wrap the Sun,” from the album “Fire in the Rain”

 

HUMOR:

Hide the children!  Written by Pokey herself.

 

SMIRK:

Bob Cesca picks, for the historical record, The Most Inappropriate Bush War Smirk of 2007:

January 16, 2007, PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
The quote: “If I didn’t believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn’t ask 21,000 kids — additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there.”

(More contending smirks at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-most-inappropriate-bu_b_78357.html )

 

 

– RN Joyce Riley on illnesses affecting Gulf War veterans

Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi talks with RN Joyce Riley about illnesses plaguing Gulf War veterans, including the effects of depleted uranium.  They’ll also look at experimentation on US troops.  (This segment aired previously on The Monitor.)

Ms. Riley produced and wrote the bombshell DVD, “Beyond Treason.”

She now serves as spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association whose purpose is to provide education and information for the Gulf War veterans and their families and to seek treatment for the illnesses that thousands of Gulf War veterans now suffer from.

She served as a Captain in the United States Air Force and flew on C-130 missions in support of Operation Desert Storm.

She is a graduate of the University of Kansas with a BS in Nursing. Her areas of nursing specialty are nursing administration, medical-surgical nursing and organ transplantation. She has presented at the National Institutes of Health, medical legal conferences such as the American Trail Lawyers Association, was host of her own radio talk show “Nurse Talk Radio-The Truth in Health Care”, and has guested on over 1500 radio and television shows. 

 

WEBSITE:
American Gulf War Veterans Association — http://www.gulfwarvets.com/index.html

 

DVD:
Beyond Treason: The U.S. Government’s Long History of Experimenting
On Military Troops & Their Own Documents That Prove It — http://www.beyondtreason.com

 

 

– Architect RICHARD GAGE looks at the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11

Mark Bebawi talks with Richard Gage about September 11, 2001.

Gage is the founding member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. He has been a practicing architect for 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings. He is employed with a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm and has most recently performed construction administration services for a new high school campus including a $10 million steel-framed gymnasium. Currently he is working on the design development for a very large mixed use urban project with about 1,200 tons of steel framing.

Gage became interested in the 9/11 World Trade Center high-rise “collapses” after hearing the startling conclusions of a reluctant 9/11 researcher, David Ray Griffin, on the radio in 2006, which launched his own unyielding quest for 9/11 Truth.  (The Monitor has had Griffin as a guest numerous times, beginning in March 2004.)

QUOTE:

“We call upon Congress for a truly independent investigation with subpoena power. We believe that there may be sufficient evidence to conclude that the World Trade Center buildings #1 (North Tower), #2 (South Tower), and #7 (the 47 story high-rise across Vessey St.) were destroyed not by jet impact and fires but by controlled demolition with explosives.”

WEBSITE:
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth — http://www.ae911truth.org/aboutus.php

 

DVD:
9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction  — http://www.ae911truth.org/store.php

 

Mentioned on the air – Bill Moyers on Steroids – from Crooks and Liars

Bill Moyers Journal: America on Steroids

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Bill Moyers finds parallels with the degradation of rampant steroid use in baseball to how degraded our country has become by those seeking quick ways to short cut and short circuit level playing fields.

You don’t get a level playing field with performance enhancing drugs, any more than you get an honest government with political action committees and bundled contributions, or a fair economy with some derivatives, hedge funds, and private equity managers taxed at rates lower than their janitors. You get a level playing field only when the fans demand it. Suppose people stopped attending games in large numbers, stopped watching on TV, stopped buying the products hyped by the icons. The leveling would happen, or baseball as a money-making business would die. It’s not likely to happen. If we can’t organize to stop a brutal, bloody war in Iraq, or rectify an economic system that divides us further every day, we can hardly expect collective action from baseball fans.

There was a lesson in George Mitchell’s report that I’m not sure even he recognized. The day Americans don’t feel strongly enough about the need for level playing fields to fight for them — the day when cutting corners and seeking an edge become the national pastime — is the day democracy will be lucky even to find a seat in the bleachers.

The entire transcript available here.

Show Details for December 23rd, 2007

This week’s Guests:

— HARVEY WASSERMAN with new evidence on the Ohio election; also, a look at nuclear plants

– ELLIOT COHEN on electronic threats to privacy

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– HARVEY WASSERMAN with new evidence on the Ohio election; also, a look at nuclear plants

Ohio’s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has issued a report based on an in-depth study of election machines in Ohio. These are the same brands used all over the country. Discussing the report, she said,

“To put it in every-day terms, the tools needed to compromise an accurate vote count could be as simple as tampering with the paper audit trail connector or using a magnet and a personal digital assistant,”

In other words, someone with a Blackberry, or even a $6 magnet from the hardware store, could manipulate an election.

HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ohio-based activist and an author or co-author of a dozen books, responds, “Yippee.” He has reported extensively on the theft of the presidential election in Ohio, but the reports have too often fallen on deaf ears. Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will talk with him about the latest in a series of damning studies of voting machines.

We’ll also look at the disappearing evidence in Ohio — ballots have been destroyed in 56 of 88 counties in Ohio. Harvey says that officials

“destroyed their election ballots, destroyed all their election records, or most of them, making a pure recount impossible. This is in direct violation of a federal court injunction and standing federal law. So far, nobody has been prosecuted.”

Harvey discusses the many methods used in stealing the Ohio 2004 presidential election in a new documentary, “Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections,” by Emmy-winner David Earnhardt.

The coverage by Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis on the theft of the presidency has prompted Rev. Jesse Jackson to call them “the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election.”

We’ll also take a look at the status of new energy legislation — will taxpayers be forced to fund new nuclear plants? Harvey has been campaigning against nuclear energy for decades; in 1973, he helped pioneer a global grassroots movement against atomic reactors.

Harvey’s widespread appearances throughout the major media and at campuses and citizen gatherings have focussed since the 1960s on energy, environment, peace, justice, U.S. history and election protection. He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio.

SELECTED BOOKS:
How the GOP stole America’s 2004 election and is rigging 2008
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman

George W. Bush vs The SuperPower of Peace
How a failed Texas oilman hijacked American democracy and terrorized the world.
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman’s History of the United States

SOLARTOPIA: Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030

WEBSITES:
http://www.freepress.org
http://www.solartopia.org
http://www.nukefree.org

DOCUMENTARY FILM:
“Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections” by Emmy-winner David Earnhardt –
http://www.uncountedthemovie.com

– ELLIOT COHEN on electronic threats to privacy

ELLIOT D. COHEN will be Mark Bebawi’s guest today, discussing FISA and Total Information Awareness. They will also look at the news that came out yesterday (see Washington Post article below) that the FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Based in West Virginia, the FBI’s biometric database includes criminal history records, and communicates with the Terrorist Screening Center’s database of suspects and the National Crime Information Center database.

Dr. Cohen was a guest on the Monitor in July, when he discussed his new book, The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship.

“In this chilling account of an America in political and cultural decline, media critics Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser show how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America. Cohen and Fraser show in blunt terms how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us have been systematically manipulated, deceived, and divested of our freedom. … [T]his book tells the story of an America quietly being stripped of its democratic way of life on its way to becoming a full-blown authoritarian state. “

Dr. Cohen is a media ethicist and critic, and has written extensively on the media and other areas of applied ethics. He was the 2006 first-place recipient of the Project Censored Award for a Buzzflash article (“Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”). He is the director of the Institute of Critical Thinking, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and ethics editor for Free Inquiry magazine. He got his Ph.D. from Brown University, and lives in Florida.

RELATED NEWS ARTICLE:
“FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics”
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post
Saturday 22 December 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122207A.shtml

BOOKS:
The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government
Are Turning America into a Dictatorship
edited by Elliot D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser (May 2007)

News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy
by Elliot D. Cohen, editor (Hardcover – Feb 2005)

Show Details for December 16, 2007

This week’s Guests:

 –  Veteran DC journalist ROBERT PARRY on current news

 –  PROF. ROBERT JENSEN on masculinity and pornography (part two)

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– Veteran DC journalist ROBERT PARRY on current news

 

 

Our first guest tonight, ROBERT PARRY, has appeared on The Monitor a number of times.  Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will discuss recent news with him, including Michael Mukasey as Attorney General and the CIA toture tapes controversy.  We’ll also take a look at Bob’s article this week on Iraq — US forces have collected biometric data on one million Iraqis, and are preparing to use a data file housed in West Virginia to allow soldiers in the field to decide on the spot whether to execute someone.

 

We’ll also discuss big media’s continuing attempts to “slime” Al Gore, as Parry calls it.

 

Robert Parry is a veteran of Washington journalism, with a career spanning three decades.  He broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. Parry has won numerous awards including the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984, the Pultizer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 1985 and was a Emmy finalist for Best Explanatory Work on Breaking News in 1994.

 

His new book is Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry.

 

He left mainstream journalism to start his own news service, Consortium News in 1995 because, as he writes, “I was distressed by the silliness and downright creepiness that had pervaded American journalism by the mid-1990s.”

 

WEBSITE:
Consortium News — http://www.consortiumnews.com

 

 

QUOTE by Robert Parry:

“Despite all that’s happened, including the ongoing disaster in Iraq, many people still don’t understand that the fight for honest information is a battle for the future of American democracy.”

BOOKS:
Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry (2007)
Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004)
Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth.’  (1999)

 

SELECTED ARTICLES BY ROBERT PARRY:
Why Big Media Slimes Al Gore
October 16, 2007
Consortium News
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/101607.html

Surprise! Mukasey Covers Up Torture
December 15, 2007
Consortium News.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/121507.html

Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death
December 13, 2007
Consortium News.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/121307.html

 

– PROF. ROBERT JENSEN on masculinity and pornography (part two)

Today’s second guest will be ROBERT JENSEN, an associate professor at University of Texas in Austin.  Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will discuss with him his new book, “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.”  This is a continuation of last week’s discussion.

 

Prof. Robert Jensen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade.

 

Prof. Jensen has done work on the topic of pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality for over a decade. He has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.  In speaking and writing he has challenged American assumptions of patriotism and empire, and he is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

His undiluted views have stirred controversy; in 2004 he was named on a “professor watch list” published  by Young Conservatives of Texas.  

A native of Fargo, North Dakota, he obtained his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Austin.

RECENT BOOKS:
“Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”
“The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege”
“Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity”

 

WEBPAGE:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html

Show Details for December 9th, 2007

Today’s Guests:

 

— Ms. Magazine publisher ELLIE SMEAL looks back at feminism

– PROF. ROBERT JENSEN on masculinity and pornography

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– Ms. Magazine publisher ELLIE SMEAL looks back at feminism

Our first guest will be Ellie Smeal, who has played a leading role in both national and state campaigns to win women’s rights legislation for over two decades. Smeal is president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which publishes Ms. Magazine. As Ms. celebrates its 35th anniversary, Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will discuss with feminism with her — the past, and looking to the future.

After the first regular issue of Ms. hit the newsstands in July 1972, network news anchor Harry Reasoner said:

 

“I’ll give it six months before they run out of things to say.”

 

Cover of Ms. Magazine in 1972

Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion, the first to explain and advocate for the ERA, to rate presidential candidates on women’s issues, to put domestic violence and sexual harassment on the cover of a women’s magazine, to feature feminist protest of pornography, to commission and feature a national study on date rape, and to blow the whistle on the undue influence of advertising on magazine journalism. Ms. was the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public.

Ellie Smeal has fought for passage of landmark legislation such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Credit Act, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Violence Against Women Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991. She has pushed to make Social Security and pensions more equitable for women, and to realign federal priorities by developing a feminist budget. She has campaigned to close the wage gap and to achieve pay equity for the vast majority of women who are segregated in low-paying jobs.

When she was president of the National Organization for Women, she fought for the ERA. She led the first national abortion rights march in 1986, drawing more than 100,000 participants to Washington, D.C.

WEBSITES:
Feminist Majority Foundation — http://www.Feminist.org
Ms. Magazine — http://www.msmagazine.com

– PROF. ROBERT JENSEN on masculinity and pornography

Today’s second guest will be Robert Jensen, an associate professor at University of Texas in Austin. Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will discuss with him his new book, “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.”

Prof. Robert Jensen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade.

Prof. Jensen has done work on the topic of pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality for over a decade. He has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism. In speaking and writing he has challenged American assumptions of patriotism and empire, and he is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.

His undiluted views have stirred controversy; in 2004 he was named on a “professor watch list” published by Young Conservatives of Texas.

A native of Fargo, North Dakota, he obtained his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Austin.

RECENT BOOKS:
“Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”
“The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege”
“Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity”

WEBPAGE:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html

Mentioned on Air: Article on Blue Dog Dems

David Sirota:
Blue Dog Democrats: Conservative, Or Just Plain Corrupt?

Show Details for December 2nd, 2007

 

This week’s Guests:

  –  BOB RANDALL of Urban Harvest on planting the seeds for food-growing

  –  JOSEPH GERSON on bases, bombs and empire

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– BOB RANDALL of Urban Harvest, planting the seeds for food-growing

Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson welcomes our guest, Dr. Bob Randall, tonight, joining us live in our studio.  He is executive director of Urban Harvest, which he founded in 1994.

We will talk with Bob about the intensely-local aspect of food growing and his group’s nurturing of area farmers (backyard and larger).  On a macro level, Bob also can help us understand how world hunger relates to agricultural and trade policies. And, we’ll look at peak oil and how Houston can plan ahead for its future food supply.

Urban Harvest is the fourth largest community gardening program in North America.  It is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening communities through shared gardens and orchards, while promoting sustainable land use and earth-friendly, efficient, horticulture practices. Bob started with one community garden in 1987.  Now, Urban Harvest works with more than 150 gardens in the Houston metropolitan area, including donation gardens, school gardens, and market farms and gardens.
Urban Harvest offers year-round classes on how to create community gardens and outdoor classrooms, how to grow fruit and vegetables organically, and how to use land in a sustainable manner.
An upcoming event for Urban Harvest will take place at their farmers market, Bayou City Farmers Market.  Citrus Fest will be on two consecutive Saturdays, December 8 and December 15, 2007.  Held at the peak of the citrus season in the Houston area, Citrus Fest will feature many varieties of locally-grown citrus fruit, including oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, satsumas, kumquats, limequats, limes, Meyer lemons, and other unusual citrus varieties that are not available in stores. “Citrus Professors” will be on hand to give information on how to grow your own citrus. Many varieties grow well in this area and are well-suited to backyard planting.

Next month, Urban Harvest’s annual Fruit Tree Sale will be held, January 19, 2008.
Bob is author of “Year Round Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers for Metro Houston – A Natural Organic Approach Using Ecology.” It’s perhaps the best selling gardening book in Houston, now in its 11th edition and is widely recognized as the “bible” for vegetable and fruit gardening in the Greater Houston Area.  Bob’s doctorate is in Ecological Anthropology, and he has lived in places like the edge of the Sahara Desert, and the Philippines.  He was recognized in 2006 by St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities as the recipient of their Annual Community Leadership Award.
“If my contribution has been anything, it has been getting people to work together so they can see that their efforts make a difference,” Randall says, as he nears retirement early next year.
BOOK:
Year Round Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers for Metro Houston – A Natural Organic Approach Using Ecology

WEBSITE:
Urban Harvest — http://www.urbanharvest.org

EVENT:
Citrus Fest
Saturday, December 8 and 15
8 am until noon, at the Bayou City Farmers Market
3000 Richmond at Eastside (between Kirby and Buffalo Speedway),
in the back parking lot behind the building.

TOP DOZEN VEGGIES TO PLANT IN HOUSTON:
Bob Randall’s top vegetables for Houston gardens are ‘Chioggia’ beets, ‘Nantes’ carrots, collard greens, cucumbers, green beans, lettuce, ‘Cream’ and ‘Sugar Snap’ peas, tomatoes, sweet corn and sweet potatoes. Let him add a fruit for a round dozen, and it will be ‘Ambrosia’ cantaloupes [Source: Brenda Beust Smith, Houston Chronicle].

VARIOUS FARMERS’ MARKETS IN HOUSTON:
Including central, Katy, and the Woodlands — http://tofga.org/index.php?page=22&idArticle=38:

 – JOSEPH GERSON on bases, bombs and empire

Our second guest tonight will be DR. JOSEPH GERSON.  Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will discuss bases and empire with him, including the latest on US bases in Iraq. 

His latest book, his fourth, is “Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.” In it, he explains why atomic weapons were first built and used, and how the United States uses them today to preserve its global empire.

Dr. Gerson has served the American Friends Service committee since 1976 and is currently Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program for the AFSC in New England. His program work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony: its preparations for and threats to initiate nuclear war, and its military domination of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

He has been involved in the U.S. justice and peace movements since the mid-1960s, when he became active on the margins of the Civil Rights Movement. As a Vietnam-era draft resister, he was Director of Arizonans for Peace and Field Representative for Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam. Following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, he joined the staff of the War Resisters’ International in London and Brussels, where he worked with extraordinary people who had resisted World War I, Nazi rule and occupations, leading figures from across the Middle East working for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian and other regional conflicts, and with people who later launched the European nuclear disarmament movement of the 1980s. While in Europe, he served on the board of the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace.

His work with AFSC has included helping to launch the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, preventing New England harbors from being transformed into nuclear weapons bases, helping to build the U.S. and global anti-bases and nuclear weapons abolition movements, and helping to create peace and anti-war coalitions in the Boston area, across New England, and to a lesser extent nationally and internationally.

His recent work has focused on ending the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, preventing nuclear war and advancing the struggle for nuclear weapons abolition, and peaceful resolution of the U.S.-DPRK and U.S.-Iran nuclear confrontations. In association with Focus on Global South, he has worked to help launch the “No U.S. Bases” network, a network that includes more than 100 organizations in more than 40 countries. He is currently working with AFSC, Peace Action and the N.H. Council of Churches to influence the content of the 2008 presidential election – especially on U.S. nuclear weapons and war policies.

QUOTES by Joseph Gerson:

“With the media focused on Annapolis, little attention has been paid to an arrangement which will commit the next U.S. president to indefinitely maintaining a 50,000 strong U.S. foreign legion in Iraq. … Since shortly after the invasion, the U.S. has been building an infrastructure of permanent military bases — 14 in number — from which, over the long term, it can influence the political dynamics of Iraq and threaten military attacks against other oil-rich Middle East and Caspian Sea nations.” –  November 28, 2007

“The threat [from Iran] is not to the U.S., but to its hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East.” — Speech to World Conference Against A&H Bombs,
August 2006

BOOK:
Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World  (March 2007)

LINKS to more speeches, etc. by Joseph Gerson:
http://www.afsc.org/newengland/nepeace.htm

RELATED ARTICLE:
“Planet Pentagon: How the Pentagon Came to Own the Earth, Seas, and Skies”
By Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
July 11, 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071107G.shtml

STAT:
According to a previous Monitor guest, Chalmers Johnson,
the US military has 725 bases in 132 countries. In addition,
the US spends 37% of all the military money spent anywhere in the globe.