How Gulf War II Saves the Collapse of US$
So here is the reason for delay in posting this issue of the Newsletter - I just finished this piece:0)... it is still not complete; I have yet to put the links of sources of information, but have managed to compete the text
Why did Gulf War II happen? - WMDs? Liberation of Iraq? US's Geo-political ambtions? Control of oil resources? Violation of UN resolutions?... one reason discussed, neither in media nor in politics is the implications of Iraqi liberation for saving the beleagured US$ - the ultimate Weapon of Mass Consumption... specially recommended for those who think that US dollar is a "strong" currency, and US economy is the greatest of all (and have never thought, why it is so!). May help in understanding the motives of coalition, as their plans unfold...
http://www.geocities.com/madhukar_shukla/gulfwar2.html

"Lawrence of Arabia" on Liberation of Iraq - 1920
This is a deja vu experience. Once again Iraq is being liberated... Last time it was liberated - more than eight decades ago - from the Turkish Ottoman Empire, it was known as mosapotamia - and TE Lawrence (better known as the "Lawrence of Arabia") was an ex-Liut.Col of the liberating British army. This letter, which he wrote to The Sunday Times in August, 1920, is a testimony of Mark Twain's comment: "History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." In any case, now that Iraq has recaptured the public memory, it is worth recapturing the history of Iraq[1].
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918p/mesopo.html

Revisiting the "Liberated" - or Forgotten? - Afghanistan
Slightly just a little more than a year back, Afghanistan was "liberated" by the "international community" from the dreadful clutches of even more dreadful Talibans. Then what happened? How come we do not hear about Afghanistan anymore?... Did we get to know that much of the promised international aid was not honoured, including by the "liberator"[2]? that Taliban is gradually taking over once again[3]? that there was even an earthquake in Afghanistan last week[4]!!!?... public memory, they call it, which hops from one set of war-images on the TV to another set of war-images...
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA7HP7BGED.html

Hypocrisy, Everybody?
Who can not but admire Swaminathan Iyenger his 'alternative perspectives"; and who can not but envy him for his grasp of forgotten facts of history... so whether you are a pro-war/anti-war, pro-US/pro-"old Europe", pro-"liberation"/pro-Saddam, it worth doing a reality-check on these moral stands we take... or perhaps (at least so I would like to believe), in war, there is a no self-consistant moral stand either way....
http://www.swaminomics.com/articles/20030330_hypocrisy.htm

Destroying "the Cradle of Western Civilisation"
Iraq, or Mesopotamia, stands destroyed. Not by the undemocratic regime of a dictator, which was supposed to possess the "weapons of mass destruction"; not by the looting of the Iraq Museum and the National Library which followed the "liberation" of Iraq; not by the precision bombs, definitely... It was destroyed by another form of "weapon of mass destruction" - the UN sanctions - over last 12 years, the sanctions didn't allow the doctors to get medicines (to treat cancer patients courtsey depleted uranium bombs), to the civic authorities to get chlorine to clean water-supply, to the scientists to get books or journals... John Pilger filed this first-hand report back in March, 2000.... unfortunately, no one took notice then (3 UN officials had resigned by then, unable to carry the guilt of being part of this genocide)... perhaps, no one will, even now;-((
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,232986,00.html

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