Anti-war.com: Slyly Justifies War On Islam

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Anti-war.com: Slyly Justifying The War On Islam
by Carol A. Valentine
Curator, Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
http://www.public-action.com/

December 12, 2001 — Justin Raimondo of anti-war.com claims to be a great skeptic of the government, a libertarian. Many consider Raimondo the Internet's leading anti-war voice. Still more people go to anti-war.com for their news, believing that anti-war.com is an alternate to the shamelessly pro-war American news media. But I believe Raimondo and anti-war.com are part of the fake opposition.

* Fake Opposition? What's That? *

For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. This is true in physics and true in warfare.

When a war is planned, the designers know some will oppose the war effort. The designers want to control the opposition so that it does not get out of hand. Their aim is to squash it, to mute it, or to see that the opposition is led into futile activities.

In advance, those planning the war covertly set up conduits to channel opposition. We can call these channels "designated" opposition, or fake opposition.

When the war starts, the fake opposition is already in place, well-funded and able to reach vast numbers of would-be resisters. The fake opposition deplores the war, but covertly promotes war propaganda. "Osama bin Laden and his people were responsible for the 9-11 attacks" is war propaganda. This lie is the basis upon which the war is justified.

The resisters, believing the fake opposition to be genuine, unwittingly swallow the pro-war propaganda. Their outrage over the war is neutralized: After all, Osama and his people were responsible for the 9-11 attacks, right?

Now back to Justin Raimondo and anti-war.com.

For the three months since September 11, I have been reading Raimondo's columns. To my knowledge, that great skeptic and libertarian has never questioned the US claim that Osama bin Laden and his people directed the 9-11 attacks, even though that claim justifies the war Raimondo says he hates.

Moreover, Raimondo continually promotes the US government's lie that justifies the war. Witness his December 7, 2001, column: "Fear Has Its Uses." http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120701.html Deploring the endless alerts of terrorist attacks issuing forth from Tom Ridge's Office of Homeland Security, Raimondo says:

"The government claims these warnings are not based on thin air, but on intercepted messages exchanged by the terrorists. This raises all sorts of questions, the first one being: don't the terrorists realize they're being eavesdropped on? Surely they do. In that case, it seems this might be a tactic to instill fear and demoralize the American populace."

Then Raimondo says:

"By trumpeting these threats, Ridge is merely playing into their hands. Just as the Bin Ladenites used our vaunted technology against us, turning airliners into deadly weapons ..."

See? According to Raimondo, the Bin Ladenites did it ... Now, would it occur to Raimondo that the beneficiaries of the 9-11 attack — the Israelis — might have pulled the job off, and set the Arabs up as fall guys? Never. While Raimondo criticizes Israel, he never broaches the BIG question.

Just one day before the attack, the Washington Times ran a story in which the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies was quoted, predicting the Mossad might just pull off such a caper — pull off a terrorist attack on the US and blame the Arabs. ("US troops would enforce peace under Army study," Washington Times, September 10, 2001.) The story was broadly circulated on the Internet, but somehow the story escaped Raimondo's attention.

When the fake al-Jazeera video of bin Laden was released in early October (see "Taliban Home Video," below) Raimondo swallowed it hook, line and sinker. He said bin Laden's remarks were tantamount to a confession. Yet just a week before, the Pakistani newspaper, the Daily Ummat, published an authentic interview with bin Laden , in which bin Laden deplored the 9-11 attacks. Curiously, anti-war.com news coverage did not pick up the Daily Ummat interview. Readers of anti-war.com remained ignorant. So anti-war.com readers got news of the fake (incriminating) interview, the fake interview was accorded credibility, and news of the real (exonerating) interview was squashed.

In fact, anti-war.com and Raimondo have ignored many well-researched and documented articles on the 9-11 attacks — articles which have flooded the Internet in the last several months. These articles demolish the following US claims:

* That the US Air Force was caught unawares and was unable to intercept the renegade flights.

* That the 9-11 airline jets were flown by suicide pilots.

* That the World Trade Center collapse was caused by fires ignited by jet fuel.

* That Osama bin Laden praised the attacks and/or claimed responsibility for those attacks.

Here are some URLs Raimondo & company ignore:

* Operation 911: NO SUICIDE PILOTS http://www.public-action.com/911/robotplane.html
* The Taliban Home Video http://www.public-action.com/911/hvideo.html
* Bin Laden: AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html
* MUSLIMS SUSPEND LAWS OF PHYSICS http://www.public-action.com/911/mcmichael.html
* Osama bin Surplus http://www.public-action.com/911/obsurplus.html
* Osama bin CIA Agent http://www.public-action.com/911/ob_cia.html
* Guilty for 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm

Remember: Raimondo presents himself as a skeptic of the government. Does he act like one? No, he acts like a member of the fake opposition.

Anti-war.com is a well-organized, expensive operation. I wonder who pays for it?

— Carol A. Valentine
President, Public Action, Inc.
http://www.public-action.com/

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Submitted by LatinAmericanview on Mon, 2007-09-10 01:09

Ralp Schoeneman and Mya Shone were quick to place the blame for middle east problems on the Global elite. They suggest that Bush and Cheney are the culprits in 911. They push forward the thesis of American imperialism. They have catchy phrases like crony capitalism which contain the debate within very neatly defined boarders. Moreover, I read part of the "The Hidden History of Zionism" and I was impressed several years ago. However, now I ask more savvy I ask where does the intellectual architecture for racial supremacy come from? If Israel is a racist state then what is it justification? They are Jews why not expose Talmudic Doctrine? Maybe, they have answered these questions but I have long stopped listening to them. These people always give half answers. They always stop at the Richard Pearl, Dick Cheney, and Krystals of the world and never go beyond these figureheads. I have never heard them dicuss the Federal Reserve! To use the vernacular: "the struggle continues my sister"

This speculation but I suspect that Schoeneman was part of the secret society the Fabians. I think that he was groomed as a replacement for an aging Bertran Russell. If memory serves me Schoeneman was part of the students movement to investigate the Kennedy assignation.

LatinAmericanview | Mon, 2007-09-10 19:38

If any of us wanted to understand each others position then we would have begin with a starting point. Now, what should that point in time be? What I am really taking about is memory. Individual and collective memories from which we must choose a moment. In order for the debate to be relevant it must be a shared memory. For example, I recall when the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up! I remember when Regan was shot. I can recount watching on television when Billy Stewart was Shot by Somoza's guards.

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Bill Stewart was a reporter for ABC news who was summarily shot by government forces in Nicaragua.

An experienced foreign correspondent, Stewart had been in Nicaragua for a month reporting on the civil war between the American-backed government and the leftist Sandinistas.

On June 20, 1979 Stewart was traveling in a van in the capital city of Managua with his camera crew when they were stopped at a checkpoint run by the National Guard, the main force of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

The young lieutenant in charge of the checkpoint saw Stewart peer out of the passenger window and came and ordered him out of the vehicle. Stewart was accompanied by Juan Espinosa, his interpreter. While Stewart was escorted a few meters away from the van his cameraman, Jack Clark, began filming the scene. Clark filmed as Stewart was forced first to kneel and then to lie face down on the ground. The lieutenant then put his rifle to the back of Stewart's head and fired, killing the reporter instantly. Espinosa was killed moments later.

The video footage shocked colleagues at ABC, and it and the other US networks ran the footage in their evening news broadcasts. Over the next few days the footage was broadcast repeatedly in the United States and around the world. This horrified the American public and ultimately caused the US government to turn openly against Somoza's tottering regime.

Before the shooting, Nicaragua had been a controversial subject. Most Republicans argued Somoza and his regime must be kept in power as a bulwark against Communism. The dramatic surge in public anger following Stewart's murder made that position untenable. Support for Somoza was withdrawn and he was toppled less than a month later on July 19.

There was never any explanation as to why Stewart had been shot. The lieutenant disappeared. It is assumed that the soldiers knew Stewart was an American reporter. But at that point with the regime collapsing the soldiers were tired, angry, and badly led and may not have appreciated or cared about the damage the killing would inflict on the regime.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_(journalism)

This moment is history is pivotal since it change the public perception of Somoza and the Nicaraguan revolution. Imagine all the related perturbations of history that followed this insignificant incident. The ripple in history can be felt even today. Here are some of the consequences of this forgettable narrative.
There was Reagan's October Surprise and the Iran Contra Scandal which had its roots in Nicaragua.
I digress since this conversation is about Justin Raimondo. I became familiar with Raimondo's work during the run up to Iraq war. I believe that I was first introduced to his work by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now. I mention this since it has been years since I listen to her or any of the mainstream media. The mainstream and alternative media lost enormous credibility when they fail to adequately investigate 911.
It appears that we have reach our starting point. For many of us 911 is a defining moment in our political consciousness. The official fiction regarding what transpired that day is not reconcilable with our most naive interpretations of reality. The government cover story is riddled with holes which require mental contortions worthy of a Circus Sole' act. The cognitive dissonance which developed caused many of us to search for better answers.
Some answers are better than others. Imagine that we are detective seeking the culprits of 911. Our initial inquires began with a drag net. We quickly discover that usual suspects were not sufficient in explaining our observations. We continued to refine our search until we found basic truths. The following are a list of a few:
1. Hydrocarbon fires are insufficient to bring down the Twin Towers.
2. The hijacked airplanes were allowed to reach their intended destinations.
3. Elements within the Military intelligence communities are aware of the actual events related to 911.
3. Zionist/Israeli operatives were involved in the planing and execution of the 911.
4. Zionist controlled media fails to investigate even the most basic elements of 911.
5. History is constantly being written and rewritten to meet the needs of the present.
6. Zionist control of America can be traced back to the Wilson Administration.
7. Americans and other citizens of the world are routinely subjected to sophisticated mind control techniques coined "Double Think" at an unconscious level.

I suspect that Raimondo has access to information which we
are not privy to. Still Raimondo continues to debated our current state of affairs within government sanction parameters of thought. If this is intentional or unintentional on the part of Raimondo is unknowable but it is clear that he has been officially sanction by the state since his ideas are published and endorsed by high profile personalities such as Pat Buchanan.
http://antiwar.com/raimondo/book1.html
False dichotomies are the hallmark of disinformation. Raimondo uses propaganda techniques like the Hegelian Dialectic. Hegelian Dialectic is a tool which aims to engage the thinker into form of circular reasoning. A thesis is introduced and then a anti-thesis is argued resulting in a synthesis. The Synthesis now becomes the "New Thesis" which is balanced with a antithesis and the whole process begins anew. Here is a visual representation:
www.calvertonschool.org/waldspurger/pages/hegelian_dialectic.htm
The use of outdated dichotomies such as the liberal and conservative debate only serve to intellectually exhaust the honest truth seeker.

Meanwhile while the truth seeker is distracted by "Punch and Judy" show the real politics continue. Never falling to capitalize on the opportunity created by our divided attentions. So this begs the question is Raimondo purposely distracting us with his prose or just a misguided idiot? Does he really believe that there are political difference between candidates when they are both owned and controlled by Zionist interest?
Once you have reached a certain point in your political development their is only one power that moves chess pieces on the grand chess board in order to consolidate economic and political power.
I started this essay with Billy Stewart and how is murder changed the political climate in America. The murder of 3000 Americans on 911 changed the geopolitical climate globally. The Sandinista Revolution and the War on Terror both had antecedents long before Stewart's murder and the attacks on 911. In my estimation 911 has never been adequately explained by anyone and especially by those that would try to stop the war in Iraq without attacking the official fiction which became the rationale for the entire "War on Terror." Destroy the foundation and tower Babel will fall.

A good place to start:
Douglas Reed's "Controversy of Zion"

LatinAmericanview | Mon, 2007-09-10 18:34

He is not the fake, "the reaction", but I could make a few guesses about others who are.

Matthew 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Peacetroll | Mon, 2007-09-10 13:00

They actually were in Lebanon, when the Israeli´s were committing mass-murders there in the 1980s.

It was them who did a lot of the best reporting on the Israeli occupation, and what they reported was absolutely shocking, Sabra and Shatila for instance.

Their "the Hidden History of Zionism" is the most scathing, accusing and best researched account of the topic I have read so far.

These two reporters were actually on the ground and risked their lives to report a truth most media in the west still refuses to address.

So my question is once again: Why do you attack people who have been the most diligent and most influential anti-Zionists?

In its senselessness it reminds me of one of my experiences in Palestine:
Who would hit a Christian monk in Jerusalem, just because he is too slow to get out of the way?

erlenda | Mon, 2007-09-10 09:58

Raimondo was one of the first to start talking about Israel being behind 911, in contrast to what Carol Valentine proposes. (I was resistant to the idea at first, but there was too much circumstantial evidence to deny. JR helped lead me to the truth.)

To say that Raimondo fails in some way because he doesn't talk about the young turks or the bolsheviks is weak. JR doesn't trace Trotsky to the neocons? So what?

You go on to say: "If Raimondo is convinced that Israelis were involved with 911 then why not expose it as a false flag operation which was driving force behind our current wars." -->You miss the obvious point that JR was exposing the israeli involvement in 911. He is reporting the facts and calling for an investigation. That is the way you expose a false flag operation.
As for the "force behind our current wars", you will notice that JR was reporting on the israeli involvement starting in 11/2001. The article I cited was from 3/8/2002, a full year before the Iraq war.
I really have to wonder why you want to pick on Raimondo when he has the story right, and way ahead of the MSM.
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Christopher Marlowe | Mon, 2007-09-10 08:05

Anti-war.com is a well-organized, expensive operation. I wonder who pays for it?

Even the most cursory of glances at antiwar.com will show that it is associated with the Randolph Bourne Institute and that its funding comes both from the Institute and regular funding drives. It is not a secret. Carol Valentine has proven herself to be less than thorough when researching this piece.

Sullivan | Mon, 2007-09-10 07:36

Greg Bacon
i go to Anti-war.com site's regularly and enjoy reading the articles there, including Justin Raimondo.

If he's some type of disinformation specialist, he's doing a damn good job of not breaking cover.

JR lays it on the line and doesn't cut anyone any slack when it comes to the illegal and immoral war.

As far as his views on 9/11, i don't know.

But i do know that no matter how hard the 9/11 Truth Movement tries--and i wish them well--they'll never convince everyone of their beliefs and findings about the country and people behind 9/11(HINT: It's a ME country, that is always saying how they're our bestest buddy).

If you would try and convince everyone that 9/11 was an inside job and castigate those who don't believe you, then how are you different from the goosestepping, REICH-wing Republicans and neoCONs?

Greg Bacon | Mon, 2007-09-10 06:31

Over the years I have frequented various websites. Different sources of information have yielded unique pieces of the puzzle. For example, I used to listen and contribute monetarily to Taking Aim with Ralph Shoneonman and Mya Shone. Although they provide ample information cooperate corruption and the military industrial complex they fall short in explaining how all the pieces fit together. The hallmark of all these mainstream and semi-mainstream pundits is they fail to create a body of work which explains how Zionists have wormed their way into the halls of power in various countries. Additionally, they all hide behind well established paradigms such as the Neocons, liberals, democrats and other groups. In other words they limit the debate by establishing a frame work in which the debate is conducted. To understand my dissatisfaction with these researchers one must understand that the conspiracy has visible roots with very tangible causal lines of consequences. If Raimondo is capable of tracing connections to Jabotinsky then why not continue the line of inquiry and ask "What is the relationship between Jabotinsky and the Young Turk Movement?" What is the relationship between Leo strauss and the Boleshvik revolution? What is the relationship between Trotsky and the Neocons? Remember that all of the Neocon essential came Chicago University and are students of Strauss. If Bush is a puppet then why address him as a center of power? Who is the unseen power behind the presdiency? Instead what we get is a debate that sounds enlighten but fails to engage beyond the superficial. If Raimondo is convinced that Israelis were involved with 911 then why not expose it as a false flag operation which was driving force behind our current wars. Expose the lie of 911 and undermine the rationale for the war! However, I suspect that we will have to go through a series of articles debating Bush/Cheney and their failed policies. As Raimondo debates within the political structure he gives it creditability. An act of omission give the false opposition power.

LatinAmericanview | Mon, 2007-09-10 05:08

Or look at this article of Raimondo's from May 2002, reposted June 2003, about Netanyahu, Jabotinsky, Bibi Netanyahu's father Benzion's links to Jabotinsky, Meir Kahane, Noam Federman, etc:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j061103.html

In May 2002, phony 'anti-Zionists', such as one who boasts about being a top Zionist exposer, were Zionist deniers.

Poseidon | Mon, 2007-09-10 02:42

from 2001 that is no longer relevant. Raimondo has looked to Israel being the real culprit behind 911 from as early as 2002:
See: 911 the Real Truth Comes out.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j030802.html

Is this article supposed to be an ironic by providing disinformation about disinformation? (snapping fingers)
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Christopher Marlowe | Mon, 2007-09-10 02:08

Raimondo has been sceptical of the official story, and he has pointed his fingers at Israeli intelligence being involved.

And for anybody who doesn´t believe me, just go through his archives.

He is not the fake, "the reaction", but I could make a few guesses about others who are.

Not everybody who disagrees with the truth-movement is fake, but those who deliberately play in the hands of the war-party by sabotaging the peace-party are most likely fake.

Raimondo is not a conspiracy theorist. His anti-war argument comes from a more main-line point of view.
And he influences many people in America, that´s your Israeli friends hate him so much, they find it necessary to smear him, as they smear anybody else, who is influential in the anti-war or the 9/11 truth movement.

erlenda | Mon, 2007-09-10 02:06