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Blogs by Ronald Bleier:

Democracy Now Report Card

September 11th Journal

The Lonely Leader: A conversation with the Vice President

 

War Against Iraq: Converging U.S. and Israeli Agendas by Ronald Bleier
Summary:

"War Against Iraq" argues that the Bush administration’s war against Iraq is motivated by the twin agendas of supporting Israeli dominance in the Middle East and the Bush administration's agenda for permanent war. Highly placed hawks like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have for years advocated regime change in Iraq as a way of securing their militaristic program by means of advancing Israel’s regional goals.

The article argues that the war against Iraq is NOT primarily a war for oil because such a war, however misguided and immoral, would have the fundamentally rational goal of securing coveted resources. Rather the war against Iraq is ideologically propelled by a messianic belief in America’s mission. Similarly this is not a war in the service of imperialism which would otherwise use more circumspect, less aggressive means, but is rather a race toward world war and Armageddon.

 

Ronald Bleier, "No Laughing Matter: Simon and Stamberg on NPR"

 

Project Ploughshares, a Canadian based peace organization's Armed Conflicts Report 1999

Includes a listing of ongoing wars, a preface, maps, details, and more.

 

The National Defense Council Foundation

NDCF is a non profit think tank that studies defense and foreign affairs issues. It specializes in the study of low-intensity conflict, the drug war, and energy concerns. The NDCF publishes a list of the world's conflicts listing 65 conflicts in 1999, including a list of the new wars added and the wars deleted for the current year and relevant analysis.

 

100 Media links

 

International Security Network Virtual Library, ISN

ISN is an electronic clearinghouse for resources and institutions in the field of security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations.

 

U.S. Bureau of the Census

International Programs Center

World Population: 1950 to 2050

Historical Estimates of World Population

 

CIA World Factbook

 

Population Organizations and References

 

Millennium Institute

Can the year 2000 become a turning point? The Millennium Institute is building an alliance to make it so. Visit their site for State of the World Indicators, computer simulation tools for finding the path to sustainability, and information about year 2000 and millennium observance plans around the world.

 

Gaia Preservation Coalition

"Members of GPC recognize that centuries ago exponential growth in human activity started Gaian system destabilization. The organizations's Core Purpose is to explore and develop ways of reducing human activity by bringing about orderly negative growth in both population and industrial throughput."

 

Committee on the Middle East

 

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs