http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-GUQr4u8Q
The first ever TV interview with Osama (Usama) bin Laden. Conducted in 1997 by Peter Bergen and Peter Arnett. The history and origins of his hatred for the US.
Photographer: Peter Jouvenal
Clinton Orders Missile Attack (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mpWa7wNr5M
George H.W. Bush - Panama Invasion Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlaewpvuEAY&feature=related
OPERATION JUST CAUSE PANAMA 1989
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-k_NDpAfE&feature=related
George HW Bush's Puppet and CIA Agent Manuel Noriega Extradited to France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3spYU7l440
http://pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn011607.htm
Excerpt:
What’s inexplicable and in the end deliciously ironic is that Arnett’s Daughter is married to none other than John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer whose perversely imaginative legalisms invented the concepts of “enemy combatants” to get around Geneva Convention rules, who justified torture, who developed the president’s beloved “unitary executive” theory that has Bush acting like a little dictator (the theory posits that the executive is the paramount branch of the federal government, and what the president says, ultimately, goes). Then again, Yoo could be a wonderful man in person, even if in some cases it’s difficult to imagine such a brazenly (if mildly) fascistic theorizer as a tender loving husband and son-in-law. Elsa, the daughter, must have a rebellious streak in her.
The Arnett story is particularly relevant today, the fifteenth anniversary of a seminal event in American journalism (and, after all, history, since it seeded the poisoned tree we’ve been climbing ever since). It’s not quite one of those dates — like November 22, 1963 or 9/11 — absolutely everyone who was around remembers. January 16, 1991 was a more sensory affair, much more of an entertainment than a shock, a milestone in the annals of journalism because of its novelty. That was the day, the evening rather — about 7 p.m. in the Eastern United States, midnight in Britain — when CNN interrupted its regular programming and the voices of Peter Arnett, John Holliman and Bernard Shaw came on to tell us that Baghdad was being bombed, and they could see it all from their windows at the Rashid Hotel in the city. That wasn’t the evening of the green tracers lighting up the black Baghdad sky. They only had an audio link that first night, although I’d bet most of us remember the images as the opening-night show. The tracers actually began at 6:50 p.m., Arnett describing them as “tremendous lightning in the sky,” and at 7, Holliman declared it flatly: “The war has begun in Baghdad.”
How little he and any of us knew.
George H W Bush Announces War Against Iraq (January 16 1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFrnQHaQWoA
Photographer: Peter Jouvenal
Clinton Orders Missile Attack (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mpWa7wNr5M
George H.W. Bush - Panama Invasion Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlaewpvuEAY&feature=related
OPERATION JUST CAUSE PANAMA 1989
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-k_NDpAfE&feature=related
George HW Bush's Puppet and CIA Agent Manuel Noriega Extradited to France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3spYU7l440
http://pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/cn011607.htm
Excerpt:
What’s inexplicable and in the end deliciously ironic is that Arnett’s Daughter is married to none other than John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer whose perversely imaginative legalisms invented the concepts of “enemy combatants” to get around Geneva Convention rules, who justified torture, who developed the president’s beloved “unitary executive” theory that has Bush acting like a little dictator (the theory posits that the executive is the paramount branch of the federal government, and what the president says, ultimately, goes). Then again, Yoo could be a wonderful man in person, even if in some cases it’s difficult to imagine such a brazenly (if mildly) fascistic theorizer as a tender loving husband and son-in-law. Elsa, the daughter, must have a rebellious streak in her.
The Arnett story is particularly relevant today, the fifteenth anniversary of a seminal event in American journalism (and, after all, history, since it seeded the poisoned tree we’ve been climbing ever since). It’s not quite one of those dates — like November 22, 1963 or 9/11 — absolutely everyone who was around remembers. January 16, 1991 was a more sensory affair, much more of an entertainment than a shock, a milestone in the annals of journalism because of its novelty. That was the day, the evening rather — about 7 p.m. in the Eastern United States, midnight in Britain — when CNN interrupted its regular programming and the voices of Peter Arnett, John Holliman and Bernard Shaw came on to tell us that Baghdad was being bombed, and they could see it all from their windows at the Rashid Hotel in the city. That wasn’t the evening of the green tracers lighting up the black Baghdad sky. They only had an audio link that first night, although I’d bet most of us remember the images as the opening-night show. The tracers actually began at 6:50 p.m., Arnett describing them as “tremendous lightning in the sky,” and at 7, Holliman declared it flatly: “The war has begun in Baghdad.”
How little he and any of us knew.
George H W Bush Announces War Against Iraq (January 16 1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFrnQHaQWoA
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_C._Yoo
Excerpt:
John Choon Yoo served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice during the first term of the George W. Bush administration.
Along with Robert J. Delahunty, Yoo co-authored the controversial Legal Arguments for Avoiding the Jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions, a sweeping 42-page memo concluding that neither the Geneva Conventions nor any of the laws of war applied to the conflict in Afghanistan. This legal memo, developed without input from the military or the U.S. Department of State, was widely condemned as a reversal of established U.S. policy regarding the humane treatment of prisoners. [1]
Despite widespread criticisms of his work, Yoo continues to defend his position, frequently writing aggressive defenses in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal.
In 2003, Yoo returned to his position as professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1993. He had been on a leave of absence since 2001.
In 2001, Yoo provided legal review on legislation that was to become known as the Patriot Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arnett
When Arnett's remarks sparked a "firestorm of protest", NBC initially defended him, saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were "analytical in nature". A day later, though, NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic all severed their relationships with Arnett.[12]
In response to Arnett's statement on Iraqi TV, the corporation stated:
| “ | It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview with state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions. | ” |
Arnett responded:
| “ | My stupid misjudgment was to spend fifteen minutes in an impromptu interview with Iraqi television. I said in that interview essentially what we all know about the war, that there have been delays in implementing policy, there have been surprises. | ” |
— Peter Arnett |
Later that day, Arnett was hired by the British tabloid, The Daily Mirror, which had opposed the war. A couple of days later he was also assigned to Greek television channel NET television, and Belgian VTM.
[edit] Family
In 1964 Arnett married a Vietnamese woman, Nina Nguyen; they had two children, Elsa and Andrew. In 1983 Nina and Peter separated. They divorced more than 20 years later.http://www.hermes-press.com/criminality.htm
Excerpt:
A large number of American companies directly supported Adolph Hittler in his buildup of a German war machine: 3
- Chase National Bank (Rockefeller)
- National City Bank (Rockefeller)
- Standard Oil (Rockefeller)
- Texas [Oil] Company
- Davis Oil Company
- SKF Industries
- General Aniline and Film
- Sterling Products
- Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
- Ford Motors
- General Motors
- International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT)
- Alcoa, the Mellon-Davis-Duke monopoly
- Hearst newspaper syndicate
- Readers Digest magazine
- Du Pont
- The Saturday Evening Post
- Sullivan and Cromwell law firm (Allen Dulles)
The Panama Deception 1:31 (I haven't watched this yet but wanted to put it here asap) ...cal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWz20nDAyI
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