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Said
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5, 2002
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Coulter At It Again:
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A
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Putin's
Georgian Gambit
March
4, 2002
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Nader
Dick
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How
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the Saudi Peace Plan
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for Shadow Govt. Bunker
David
Vest
Grammy's
of Constant Sorrow
March
3, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
War
on Terrorism for Dummies
Paul Cox
Boycott
Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"
Frederick
Hudson
Toward
a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest
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Christie Whitman:
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Why
the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America
March
2, 2002
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Sweat,
Sex, Feet and
the Working Class
March
1, 2002
Brendan
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What's
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David
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Nuclear
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February
28, 2002
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Baghdad,
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or Business?
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25, 2002
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at US Border
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Naked
from Sin:
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Ashcroft
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February
24, 2002
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Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
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Media Monopolies
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Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
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Axel
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Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
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and Death of a Folk Hero
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17, 2002
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Fisk
Lost
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16, 2002
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Cryan
Colombia
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From
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O'Brien
The
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Monbiot
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11, 2002
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March 12, 2002
American
Journal
When Billy Graham Planned
To Kill One Million People
By Alexander Cockburn
There's a piquant contrast in the press coverage
across the decades of Billy Graham's various private dealings
with Nixon, as displayed on the tapes gradually released from
the National Archive or disclosed from Nixon's papers. I'll come
shortly to the recent flap over Graham and Nixon's closet palaverings
about the Jews, but first let's visit another interaction between
the great evangelist and his commander in chief Back in April,
l989 a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It took the form
of a secret letter from Graham, dated April 15, 1969, drafted
after Graham met in Bangkok with missionaries from Vietnam. These
men of God said that if the peace talks in Paris were to fail,
Nixon should step up the war and bomb the dikes. Such an act,
Graham wrote excitedly, "could overnight destroy the economy
of North Vietnam".
Graham lent his imprimatur to this recommendation.
Thus the preacher was advocating a policy to the US Commander
in Chief that on Nixon's own estimate would have killed a million
people. The German high commissioner in occupied Holland, Seyss-Inquart,
was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for breaching dikes in Holland
in World War Two. (His execution did not deter the USAF from
destroying the Toksan dam in North Korea, in 1953, thus deliberately
wrecking the system that irrigated 75 per cent of North Korea's
rice farms.)
This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant
war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public
in 1989, twenty years after it was written. I recall finding
a small story in the Syracuse Herald-Journal. No one thought
to chide Graham or even question him on the matter. Very different
has been the reception of a new tape revealing Graham, Nixon
and Haldeman palavering about Jewish domination of the media
and Graham invoking the "stranglehold" Jews have on
the media.
On the account of James Warren in the
Chicago Tribune, who has filed excellent stories down the years
in Nixon's tapes, media, in this 1972 Oval Office session between
Nixon, Haldeman and Graham, the President raises a topic about
which "we can't talk about it publicly," namely Jewish
influence in Hollywood and the media.
Nixon cites Paul Keyes, a political conservative
who is executive producer of the NBC hit, "Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In," as telling him that "11 of the 12 writers
are Jewish." "That right?" says Graham, prompting
Nixon to claim that Life magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times,
the Los Angeles Times, and others, are "totally dominated
by the Jews." Nixon says network TV anchors Howard K. Smith,
David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite "front men who may not
be of that persuasion," but that their writers are "95
percent Jewish."
"This stranglehold has got to be
broken or the country's going down the drain," the nation's
best-known preacher declares "You believe that?" Nixon
says. "Yes, sir," Graham says. "Oh, boy,"
replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe
it." "No, but if you get elected a second time, then
we might be able to do something," Graham replies.
Magnanimously Nixon concedes that this
does not mean "that all the Jews are bad" but that
most are left-wing radicals who want "peace at any price
except where support for Israel is concerned. The best Jews are
actually the Israeli Jews." "That's right," agrees
Graham, who later concurs with a Nixon assertion that a "powerful
bloc" of Jews confronts Nixon in the media. "And they're
the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," Graham adds.
Later Graham says that "a lot of
the Jews are great friends of mine. They swarm around me and
are friendly to me. Because they know I am friendly to Israel
and so forth. They don't know how I really feel about what they're
doing to this country." After Graham's departure Nixon says
Haldeman, "You know it was good we got this point about
the Jews across." "It's a shocking point," Haldeman
replies, "Well," says Nixon, "it's also, the Jews
are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards."
Within days of these exchanges becoming
public the 83-year old Graham was hauled from his semi-dotage,
and impelled to express public contrition. "Experts"
on Graham were duly cited as expressing their "shock"
at Graham's White House table talk.
Why the shock? Don't they know that this
sort of stuff is consonant with the standard conversational bill
of fare at 75 per cent of the country clubs in America, not to
mention many a Baptist soiree. Nixon thought American Jews were
lefty peaceniks who dominated the Democratic Party and were behind
the attacks on him. Graham reckoned it was Hollywood Jews who
had sunk the nation in porn. Haldeman agreed with both of them.
At whatever level of fantasy they were all acknowledging power.
But they didn't say they wanted to kill a million Jews. That's
what Graham said about the Vietnamese and no one raised a bleat.
It's supposedly the third rail in journalism
even to have a discussion of how much the Jews do control the
media. Since three of the prime founders of Hollywood, were Polish
Jews who grew up within fifty miles of each other in Galicia,
it's reckoned as not so utterly beyond the bounds of propriety
to talk about Jewish power in Hollywood, though people still
stir uneasily. The economic and political commentator Jude Wanniski
remarked last week in his
web newsletter that even if the Jews don't control the
media overall, it iscertainly true to say that they control discussion
of Israel in the media here.
Certainly, there are a number of stories
sloshing around the news now that have raised discussion of Israel
and of the posture of American Jews to an acrid level. The purveyor
of anthrax may have been a former government scientist, Jewish,
with a record of baiting a colleague of Arab origins, and with
the intent to blame the anthrax on Muslim terrorists. Rocketing
around the web and spilling into the press are many stories about
Israeli spies in America at the time of 9/11. On various accounts,
they were trailing Atta and his associates, knew what was going
to happen but did nothing about it, or were simply spying on
US facilities. Some, posing as art students have been expelled,
according to AP. Finally, there's Sharon's bloody repression
of the Palestinians, and Israel's apparently powerful role in
Bush's foreign policy, urging him into action against at least
two of the axes of evil, Iraq and Iran.
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