http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/military-spending-1962-to-date.html
Michel Chossudovsky, July 24, 2011 (It's just as applicable right now)
Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourself who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and the continuous corrupt politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people, and individual states of this federation, to look at a troubling set of facts. It seems there were “several” beneficiaries of 9-11 that don’t exactly fit the story line we were constantly fed by the propaganda machine and mainstream media as to how to connect the dots (which we were rhetorically asked to do).
Here is a list of peoples that benefited. Most of this list is factual. Some are more opinion but with strong support in reality-based argument:
1) The New York Port Authority was having difficulty renting out space in the Twin Towers. More importantly there was a huge asbestos liability. Surprisingly these Towers were sold to a new owner Larry Silverstein just three months prior—who managed to get an insurance contract for a big payout if any of the Tower buildings got hit by an airplane. This is a fact.
2) Our first international move was to bomb Afghanistan under the assumption that people there were involved. So the heroin industry of Afghanistan came back to life in a big way—that is international and local drug cartels rediscovered a gold mine of money supply. Bin Laden and the Taliban, because of their religious fanaticism, pretty much closed down the trade to a trickle. But after the bombing shake-up, people connected with the heroin trade in Central Asia reaped billion dollars rewards—including money-laundering groups of financiers—such as banksters, etc. (And this is pretty much all the U.S. military/ intelligence has really accomplished—despite all the rhetoric and high-sounding goals about exporting democracy.) This is fact and not fiction.
3) Investors of profitable corporations connected to the military industrial complex made a killing (pun intended). Obviously war has been profitable for some industries for eons as we are told by most war historians profits are an inevitable consequence of war for merchants of death yet they say profit is “not” the driving force behind war. Think again. For our American culture, since at least the Vietnam War, it seems to have become the driving force. (What else does America still manufacture?) Prior to 9/11 there was little in the way of war material inventories being depleted. But soon after 9/11 this all changed. In fact some corporate stocks immediately went up in value—as did some military contracts. Note as well that after the cold war both the Pentagon and the Intelligence apparatus should have cut their budgets in half. (But then no one would have been promoted and the Pentagon would have lost some of its clout.) That did not happen. Rather the budgets doubled in size. How is that for financial austerity? This is fact and not fiction.
4) Some powerful industry leaders and think tank politicos believed it was necessary for certain “companies” to “control” various strategic resources such as oil and gas. And not surprisingly the very countries in which we declared a war against terrorists are surprisingly the same countries that contain such resources—especially in the Middle East.
Gas and oil reserves are coveted by every industrial civilization and every military as a necessity. For example, there was a plan to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to ship out from the Indian ocean—requiring stable societies that don’t sabotage pipelines. Nevertheless despite things not going as planned oil companies for whatever reason reaped huge profits. Fact and not fiction.
5) Advocates, such as Paul Bremer, for extreme laissez faire economic policies, attempted to rewrite an Iraqi constitution to promote a free market system of neo-liberal economic principles to make it especially easy for foreign nations to own Iraq’s resources. And if you do your research you will come to learn that the U.S. did not have any gripes with Saddam Hussein until he kicked oil companies out of Iraq because they wanted to take the lion’s share of the profits. He nationalized oil. This is fact and not fiction.
Read more at:-
http://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-who-really-benefited/25762
What if the wars and 9/11 were never about Terrorism - they were always about Corporate Greed?
What if it had already been decided to invade Iraq soon after the possible invasion during the first Gulf war was called off in 1991.
What if Dick Cheney started working on plans to make this acceptable to public opinion soon after the first gulf war
What if Iraq had the 3rd largest oil reserves in the world.
What if enough influential people could be signed up to support these plans due to various reasons.
What if these plans were published in PNAC (the neocon agenda) in 1997
What if Saddam Hussein called on the Arab world to price oil in something other than dollars in 2000
What if the bankers could be persuaded to support this idea because it would mean the government borrowing more money and making them richer.
What if the arms companies could be persuaded to support this idea because it would allow them to sell more arms.
What if the oil companies could be persuaded to support this idea because it would increase the price of oil and they could grab Iraq's oil cheaply.
What if Israel's supporters could be persuaded to support this idea because they thought it would remove a threat to Israel.
What if something major happened to get the majority of Americans to support an invasion of Iraq.
What if it was deliberate policy to provoke Islamic anger by having no post invasion plans and fewer troops than required in order to cause chaos and anarchy in Iraq.
What if it was decided to dismantle all existing Iraqi government structures to further encourage factional in-fighting.
What if Iraqi prisoner abuse was deliberately encouraged to provoke more Islamic and Iraqi anger.
What if basic utilities such as electricity were deliberately removed from the people.
What if there was high unemployment to stoke up fury and resentment.
What if Iraq civil war was deliberate policy.
What if the civil war was deliberately stoked up by the use of depleted uranium, white phosphorous and large numbers of civilian casualties.
What if general Islamic anger could further be stoked up by the use of torture, illegal kidnappings and indefinite detentions.
What if the Iraqi civil war went on long enough to destabilize the whole region.
Read more at :-
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-if-wars-were-never-about-terrorism.html?q=what+if+Corporate+Greed
Real American and World History for the last 20 years
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/list-of-us-accomplishments-since-1992.html
The Recent Results of US Foreign Policy under Obama
Pakistan has gone from 25% of the population in 2005 who consider America to their enemy to 92% now.
The reason most often cited in polls is the drone warfare program.
Egypt went from a secular state to one ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
(Neither Obama or McCain were overjoyed when the Muslim Brotherhood were overthrown in July 2013 by a popular uprising of 20 to 30 million Egyptians protesting on the streets.
People Power can still win - but it takes tens of millions of Moderates actually doing something tangible and visible and becoming Activists in the real world, not cyberland.)
Libya has gone from a secular state to one now ruled by Islamic Extremists.
The civil war in Yemen has been greatly exacerbated.
Yemen is fertile recruiting ground for Jihadists. It has a large population of unemployed young males.
As the recent Yemeni witness to Congress stated - the Jihadists had been trying to turn his village into their supporters for many years and failed.
One drone strike did the Jihadists job for them.
The Syrian "rebels" are almost exclusively comprised of Islamic Extremists.
Many other Muslim countries have seen a rise in support of Islamic Extremists and a fall in support for America.
The drone warfare program is a primary recruiting tool for the Jihadists.
At least 176 children have been killed in Pakistan alone.
While the pictures of the horrific injuries are hidden in the West, they are widely used as recruitment posters by the Jihadists.
The wars are being expanded into West Africa - starting with Mali.
Algeria and Nigeria are obvious next targets to increase support for Islamic Extremism.
Libya now serves as a secure base for the Islamists.
Obama is moving US troops into 35 more African countries in 2013.
He has already agreed to set up a drone a base in Niger with their government.
The legitimate government of Mali was overthrown in a US/French sponsored military coup in 2012.
Read more at:-
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-recent-achievements-of-us-foreign.html
The purpose of the NSA Mass Surveillance programs are to suppress domestic political dissent.
Exactly the same reason that the Statsi conducted Mass Surveillance on their population.
The suppression of dissent is required to undermine basic democratic processes of peaceful protests and a free press.
(The official reason for the collection of all electronic communications for every American - that it is some kind of anti terrorism measure is just a smoke screen. Mass Surveillance is very ineffective for anti terrorism - see Boston.)
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-primary-purpose-of-nsas-mass.html
Should Mass Domestic Surveillance and the intended blackmail and intimidation that goes with it, prove insufficient to suppress political dissent a whole series of other measures have been taken over the last few years.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-civil-rights-violations.html
What does it take to wake Americans up and get millions of protesters out marching on the streets against the government - as happened in Egypt?
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