Frank Morales of the Centre for Research on Globalisation writes a disturbing article that the CIA and Donald Rumsfeld may be purposely trying to provoke acts of terrorism against Americans and others.

The Provocateur State:
Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"--and Global Terrorism?
by Frank Morales

The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable "anti-terrorist complex" is the essence of the new US militarism.

What is now openly billed as "permanent war" ultimately serves the geo-political ends of social control in the interests of US corporate domination, much as the anti-communist crusade of the now-exhausted Cold War did.

Back in 2002, following the trauma of 9-11, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted there would be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. How could he be so sure of that? Perhaps because these attacks would be instigated on the order of the Honorable Mr. Rumsfeld. According to Los Angeles Times military analyst William Arkin, writing Oct. 27, 2002, Rumsfeld set out to create a secret army, "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" network that would "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception," to stir the pot of spiraling global violence.

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It's what I've suspected for awhile, it's just terrible...

Of course this article also doesn't mention that John Negroponte, now in charge of all our intelligence, was ambassador to Honduras, where he played a key role in coordinating US covert aid to the Contra death squads in Nicaragua and shoring up a CIA-backed death squad in Honduras.... And he was made ambassador to Iraq right before the insurgency really got going. Shortly after he arrived in Bhagdad, the Hondurans pulled out of Iraq, they remember what happened to their families. So is Iran-Contra now Iraq? I did read about the Pentagon considering the "Salvador Option". It gave me the chills. In fact found it here...

"Now, Newsweek has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration's battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success-despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras.)

A little further into the article:

"Also being debated is which agency within the U.S. government-the Defense department or CIA-would take responsibility for such an operation. Rumsfeld's Pentagon has aggressively sought to build up its own intelligence-gathering and clandestine capability with an operation run by Defense Undersecretary Stephen Cambone. But since the Abu Ghraib interrogations scandal, some military officials are ultra-wary of any operations that could run afoul of the ethics codified in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. That, they argue, is the reason why such covert operations have always been run by the CIA and authorized by a special presidential finding. (In "covert" activity, U.S. personnel operate under cover and the U.S. government will not confirm that it instigated or ordered them into action if they are captured or killed.)"

From Newsweek Saturday 08 January 2005

Tinfoil hat time? I think not.

With Negroponte in charge of all our intelligence -- and yesterday a news story came out that he is requiring all station chiefs around the world to report directly to him, circumventing CIA head, Porter J. Goss (made him mad too), and if we end up with Bolton as ambassador to the UN (gulp) they could manipulate the intelligence ridiculously. These people are all as corrupt as they get.

Bright Blessings!