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TIMELINES 4/20/04 TIMELINE: PATH TO PANDEMONIUM by Stan Goff - The waste of life and limb in America's latest Iraq War has been escalating wildly under Paul Bremer's watch. A few minutes with any text of Roman history makes it all too clear that the job of a proconsul is to keep his assigned imperial province quiet – but don't look to the Bush people for historical perspective. In this hard hitting and moving piece, Stan Goff, FTW Military and Veteran's Affairs Editor, reminds us that:"It is always important to ask why we start history when." When we do, "things take on a brand new aspect." Read Now 11/20/02 FTW issues a change to the "Oh Lucy" Timeline. Reward of $1,000 is replaced with a donation to The Childrens Defense Fund. Read Now 10/01/02 Timeline of notable pre-war voices arguing for or against U.S. invasion of Iraq. Read Now 09/16/02 Building on research begun last year by FTW, researcher Paul Thompson has dedicated full-time energy toward producing a remarkably comprehensive 9-11 timeline. This is the most thorough timeline on the Internet to date. Read Now 09/09/02 "Oh Lucy, You Gotta Lotta Splainin to Do!" - FTW's infamous timeline now has 16 new additions. Expanded and Revised 9/9/02 - Evidence of Bush Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Read Now WATERGATE II 6/8/04 ** FTW SPECIAL REPORT ** (Breaking News) COUP D’ETAT: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th -- Bush, Cheney Indictments in Plame Case Looming. - By Michael C. Ruppert, with additional reporting from Wayne Madsen in Washington. Read Now 1/30/04 IN YOUR FACE - The Connections Between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil are On the Table -- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained Through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney "Duck Hunts" with Scalia -- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective -- THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY FTW PUBLISHER/EDITOR MIKE RUPPERT IN MORE THAN TWO YEARS -- Want to know where the Empire is vulnerable and real change is possible? Can you handle the truth? Read Now 11/20/03 FTW Exclusive! MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH OF STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL Who Worked on Iraqi Intelligence - by Wayne Madsen. How Did a Senior Analyst at State's Intelligence Unit Fall from the Roof of State's Headquarters This Week and Why is No One Talking About It? State Department reveal that Kokal was worried about his security clearance. Read Now 10/20/03 BEYOND BUSH II by Michael C. Ruppert – Peak Oil Dominates --The Takedown of George Bush Continues - Wesley Clark Connected to Drug Money, Al Q'aeda, Waco and Another War Waged Over Fraudulent Evidence - Is Dan Sheehan Sabotaging the Kucinich Campaign? - Why Is Everyone After Howard Dean? A Look at the Democratic Challengers Who Will Bring Us More of the Same - Democracy Terminated in California Recall as Compromised Software Becomes Standard in US and Energy Looting Continues... The long-awaited sequel to Beyond Bush I is here! Read Now 09/25/03 KUCINICH BACKS CHENEY INTO A CORNER Dennis Kucinich, Ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, turns up the heat and tone on Dick Cheney for his misrepresentations to the American people. Rumors are spreading that Cheney will be dumped for the 2004 race. So who might replace him? One name being thrown around is Rudy Giuliani. One thing is certain. Cheney's position is getting weaker by the minute. Read Now 9/8/03 Michael Meacher, a former British environment minister, vindicates FTW's position on 9/11, the war on terrorism, and peak oil. Read Now 7/15/03 BLOOD IN THE WATER, (Watergate II) Just as in 1972-4 the press and the powers that be are allowing the Bush administration to hang themselves with their own statements. The July 11 confession from DCI George Tenet may have doomed the Bush administration. The cancer growing on the presidency will eat All the King's Men until Bush himself is consumed. There is blood in the water and the feeding frenzy has begun. Rice and Cheney have already been singled out as the next targets. Read Now 7/1/03 BEYOND BUSH - Part I Powers above the White House are deciding that it's time for the Bush gang to go. As a Watergate-style take down is being meticulously put into place, the question is not whether the Bush Administration will be removed before or after the 2004 election. The important questions are whether Bush's successor will address 9/11, Peak Oil, civil liberties, or any of the critical issues. What is being done even now to control the challengers in the Presidential election? A clandestine drama is unfolding and we'll help you understand it. This special free series is a must-read going into 2004. Read Now 4/1/03 WHAT IF? -- Something Priceless Has Been Lost Forever - A Sober Look From Europe at the Trap Closing on the U.S. - The Bush Administration Has Been Suckered Read Now 3/25/03 THE PERFECT STORM, Part 2 Strong Signals That The Powers That Be on Wall Street Are Laying The Groundwork to Sink Bush and His Entire Administration If There Is No Cheap Oil Quickly -- Russia, China and Europe May Have Set the US Up for Failure As Economic Signals and Oil Supplies Sink -- Tenet at CIA Distances Himself From the Administration -- "Et Tu Brutus?" Read Now 3/19/03 THE PERFECT STORM, Part I of a Special two-part series A Number of Factors Indicate that the U.S. Empire is in Trouble. With the UN Neutralized There is No Rulebook – Putin's Secret Weapon – The US Economy on the Brink – The Start of a Dangerous War Amid Signs That The Powers That Be Are Turning on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell – Bush’s Impeachment May be "Plan B" for the CFR and the Bilderberg Group. Read Now OIL & ENERGY 10/04/06 THE MARKETS REACT TO PEAK OIL - Industrial Society Rides An Unstable Plateau Before the Cliff - by Michael C. Ruppert & Michael Kane, FTW Energy Affairs Editor Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 08/28/06 BRITISH AIRLINE TERROR PLOT HOAX TO HIDE FUEL SHORTAGES, PROTECT MARKETS - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 08/23/06 TEETERING ACT - Last week's oil price drop was cyclical and hopeful--Not a trend - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 08/15/06 OPERATION “SLOW BURN?” - U.K. Terror Conveniently Forces Demand Destruction - Politics as Usual - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer - Research Contribution, by Jenna Orkin Read Now 08/02/06 PEAK ASPHALT, TOO? In a world where oil prices are escalating daily, obtaining a byproduct such as asphalt is having an impact on America's infrastructure. This article details how asphalt prices are about to skyrocket. - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 07/18/06 Teetering On The Brink - Peak Oil Conference in the Birthplace of Suburbia - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 06/21/06 Diesel Devastation -- High Fuel Prices, Stolen Fuel and Poor Crop Yields by FTW Staff Writer Michael Kane Read Now 05/03/06 ARE THE ANGELS LISTENING? Part One The People of the New Society - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 04/03/06 Discussing Energy With DoD - Conversation #1 - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 03/22/06 BREAKING: Iran Euro-Based Oil Bourse Opening “Delayed” In Surprise, Almost Unreported Move -- Nearby Qatar Announces Plans to Open Competing Bourse – Assume It Will be Dollar-Based – Explanations Sparse - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 3/17/06 JAPAN TO SLASH IRANIAN OIL IMPORTS - Game of Iranian Roulette Escalates Through Japan - More Pressure on Ghawar - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 03/16/06 Renewables - PART 4 - BIG SOLAR: Scarcity, Rising Commodity Prices and Reality - by Michael Kane Read Now 03/15/06 Another Peak Oil Prediction Comes True - Britain Surrenders Energy Sovereignty - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 03/10/06 SHELLGAME: DoE Claims Massive CO2 Injection Could Quadruple US Proven Oil Reserves - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 03/03/06 Shame on Alaska and Governor Frank Murkowski - Damning Revelations Surface in Alaska State Pipeline Negotiations - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 02/24/06 Hey US News - You Forgot Something - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 02/07/06 CRISIS: The Most Frightening Story I Have Seen in Four Years - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 01/20/06 Under Strains of Peak Oil and Gas, Ideology Stretches to the Limit - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 01/10/06 Winter Fuel Shortages - By Michael Kane - New England Fuel Crisis Exercise - Free Market Style Rationing? - Cold Weather Event Day Read Now 01/05/06 Ukraine, Russia, Natural Gas: Ideology or Hypothermia? - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 01/04/06 THE END of the GRID - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 12/08/05 “Peak Oil Is Not A Theory” - Congressional Hearing Explains Peak Oil - by Michael Kane with Jamey Hecht Read Now 12/07/05 Deffeyes at Caltech: “I’m not so worried about the next 15 to 20 years. I’m very scared about the next five.” - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 12/05/05 “THERE HAS TO BE A BIG CRISIS” - by Michael Kane with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 12/05/05 The Culture of Growth and the Culture of Limits - by Richard D. Lamm with comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 11/23/05 PEAK OIL CAUCUS FORMED - IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - A NEW BEGINNING AS THE CLOCK RUNS DOWN - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 11/23/05 The Demise of Business as Usual (Part 2 of 2) - An Apollo Project For Energy Can Succeed, But Not In A Market Economy - by Thomas L. Wayburn with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 11/17/05 PEAK OIL – CENTER STAGE: Behaving as if a Major Crisis Looms - ASPO-USA Conference, November 10-11, 2005 - by Michael C. Ruppert with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 9/16/05 Background on the Los Angeles Blackout - FTW Gets New LA Department of Water and Power Chief on Tape Less Than a Month before Los Angeles Blackout - by Michael C. Ruppert More Insight into What Is Facing America's Cities with Peak Oil and Gas Read Now 9/6/05 Renewables PART III - Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall Street - by Michael Kane Mike Kane enters the heart of the establishment and finds big investors, CIA men, and the descendents of presidents discussing renewable energy. Where will it lead? Read Now 9/1/05 OIL SHOCKWAVE: Torrance, CA Emergency Simulation Targets Big Business and Local Government Managers - by Zac Evans and Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/06/05 AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Roscoe Bartlett Meets Bush on Peak Oil - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/05/05 Rumsfeld provokes China, CNOOC eyes Unocal, Kissinger checks balance sheet - by Larry Chin Read Now 6/30/05 What's Up with That? Oil Prices and the IEA - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Dale Allen Pfeiffer looks into the boom in oil prices and a none-too-honest report by the IEA. Read Now 6/16/05 ASPO IN LISBON by Jamey Hecht So you understand Peak Oil. What next? Choke on coal fumes, risk exposure to atomic radiation, or participate in a community powerdown. Your choice. Read Now 6/7/05 $380 Oil? BANKS TALK OIL DEPLETION - by Michael Kane Banks are run by economists and business majors, not scientists. That these prestigious financial institutions are making any statement even hinting at peak oil is nothing short of a miracle. Global energy depletion and its implications for modern civilization flies in the face of their most cherished pet economic theories. That they are talking about it at all means that they can no longer ignore it. Now they will try to manage the problem so as to provide themselves with the greatest profits. There is no talk about financing research into substitutes, nor any mention of preparing for what is to follow. Their sole interest is in using the rising price of petroleum (due to depletion) to make a fast buck. Their actions will likely exacerbate the discrepancy between supply and demand along with the ensuing economic depression, while making it more difficult for the general public to prepare for the post-peak world. And amid all the confusion and obfuscation, it will probably appear to much of the public that this whole crisis was produced through the contrivance of the oil companies and other entrepreneurs. Read Now 5/4/05 Renewables PART 2: Emphasizing Proximity - by Michael Kane Clearly, a massive program of renewable energy construction is in order. But it is just as clear that neither the federal government nor the majority of American citizens has the insight or the will to undertake such a program - and someday soon (given the American monetary position in the world system), they may not even have the capital. John C. Pennie and others like him deserve respect for their prudence and foresight, and for the small but real contribution their renewables make to the environmental situation -- but their projects have little to do with the national emergency that FTW expects in the middle term. -JAH Read Now 3/25/05 From Adam Porter at BBC - International Energy Agency Proposes Ban-Rationing-Enforced Quotas on Oil Consumption - Measures Would Apply in US I had to read this story twice to understand its import for all of us. This should have been the number one story on every network and on the front page of every paper. Even as the hubris of the mind-numbing mass media is telling us there's only a slight problem with oil, the International Energy Agency is preparing measures that could result in police-enforced driving bans, rationing and quotas here in the US. It is clear that the IEA admits that some kind of immediate and drastic reduction in consumption is necessary to avoid a breakdown. This is the same IEA that has been saying for years, "Don't worry, There's plenty of oil." -MCR Read Now 3/21/05 China's Offshore Claims - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer FTW's Science Editor looks at the tensions currently building over Taiwan. Read No 3/18/05 Renewables, Part One: The problems of centralized power systems - by Michael Kane Read Now
DEBUNKING ABIOTIC OIL
1/28/05 No Free Lunch, Part 3 of 3: Proof, by Ugo Bardi & Dale Allen Pfeiffer This article concludes FTW's slaying of that mythical beast, Abiotic Oil. Goodbye, beautiful chimera. Read Now 1/12/05 No Free Lunch, Part 2: If abiotic oil exists, where is it? - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer In this second of three parts, FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer drags the abiotic oil hypothesis into the bright light of day -- where it quietly vanishes. Read Now 10/21/04 No Free Lunch, Part 1: A Rebuttal of Thomas Gold's Claims for Abiotic Oil, by Jean Laherrere; edited by Dale Allen Pfeiffer The following paper is a critique of the writings of Thomas Gold, written by Jean Laherrere. It is a scientific dialogue and contains many technical terms and references which may be nearly unfathomable to the layperson. However, it is a very important discussion because it lays bare many of the errors in Gold's arguments. Unfortunately, Thomas Gold is no longer with us to respond to these criticisms. However, this critique has been floating around in one form or another for a few years now, and it is not unreasonable to assume that Thomas Gold was aware of it. Read Now 10/04/04 Abiotic Oil: Science or Politics? - By Ugo Bardi Ugo Bardi offers a simple assessment of the abiotic theory. His logic is so clear, and the culmination of his argument is so cogent, that even a child could understand it. And the conclusion is inescapable — at least to honest enquiry — abiotic theory is false, or at best irrelevant. Read Now
1/28/05 GlobalCorp. - An Important Announcement by Michael C. Ruppert I AM NOT A POLITICIAN - THE FIRE IS NO LONGER ON ITS WAY - IT HAS BEGUN Read Now 2/28/05 FOOTPRINTS, by Dale Allen Pfeiffer See a remarkable set of maps from National Geographic with illuminating commentary from Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Read Now 1/25/05 The Beginning of the Oil End Game - featuring original FTW maps - by Michael C. Ruppert - Major Powers Jockey for Position and Risk All-Out War Before the 2007-8 Oil Cliff - Maps Reveal Rapid Global Realignment/Competition Read Now 1/05/04 The Russian Pipeline Decision by Michael C. Ruppert Putin plays his hand with characteristic brilliance in round one of his Eastern game. Read Now 12/29/04 Outlook 2005 - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Read Now 12/17/04 Who is Sam Bodman? And why did Bush Nominate Him for Secretary of Energy - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer FTW's Science Editor briefs subscribers on new energy secretary. Read Now 12/06/04 Persian Peril, Part Five: The Material Basis of Accumulation by Stan Goff In the final installment of Stan Goff's "Persian Peril" series, our world crisis is analyzed in the three dimensions of resource depletion, economic injustice, and the dynamics of political power in a period of systemic breakdown. Read Now 11/17/04 THE END OF THE AGE OF OIL, a new report from David Goodstein of CalTech. Read Now 11/17/04 NEW OIL PROJECTS CANNOT MEET WORLD NEEDS THIS DECADE, says the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC). Read Now 11/11/04 Bush Administration and Oil Companies Want Arctic Meltdown by Wayne Madsen. The loss of polar ice and the resultant opening of sea channels might be a good thing for the exploration and retrieval of oil and natural gas from the Arctic. But drowning under a meter of melted ice somehow takes the fun out of being rich. Read Now 10/07/04 Update on A Call for Action - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer The response to the essay A Call for Action has been tremendous. We received numerous submissions in the months following the release of this essay, and articles are still trickling in. In general, we are very pleased by the quality of these submissions and the practical advice they contain. At present, we are about halfway through the editing process on all of the essays received to date. Read Now 8/31/04 Michael C. Ruppert Speech at the Commonwealth Club, August 31, 2004 "Truth & Lies about 9/11" Click here 8/23/04 OVER A MILLION BARRELS OF OIL A DAY LOST TO DEPLETION This is the clearest proof that not only is Peak Oil here, but that it is hitting sooner and harder than expected. These are numbers that cannot possibly be argued with. Read Now 7/20/04 Global Climate Change & Peak Oil (Part III) - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer In parts one and two of this series on global climate change, Dale Allen Pfeiffer explained the evidence for serious ecological trouble in the coming decades, with prodigious weather events, rising sea levels, crop failures, and other wrenching consequences of a hotter biosphere. But in this installment, he pulls back the curtain on a more dire prospect: runaway global warming. The kind that once triggered the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the planet. Read Now 7/16/04 TO SAVE ALL, WE MUST RISK ALL -- A message from the inside. Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, Senior Expert of the Iranian National Oil Company speaks honestly about the coming impact of Peak Oil in his opening statement to May’s Berlin Peak Oil conference. Read Now 6/21/04 FTW SPECIAL REPORT -- Berlin Conference on Peak Oil: Peak Oil Revisited – The Bill Collector Calls Read Now 6/15/04 A CALL FOR ACTION - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer -FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Author of The End of The Oil Age, solicits contributions to a project aimed at answering this question: What measures can people of limited means undertake to ease their transition into a post-petroleum world? Unprecedented warnings from the scientific community indicate that the planet's ecosystems are stressed near the point of collapse; business as usual is no longer possible, and we have little time left to respond. Submissions will be published in a book, the profits of which will be used to inform people and possibly provide grants in order to help people prepare for the coming transition. Read Now 6/2/04 Saudi's Missing Barrels of Oil Production – by Julian Darley - Bush and Blair were lying about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Shell was lying about its oil numbers. And all the indications are that Saudi Arabia is likely being less that forthright when it reassures the public that no shortages of oil are likely for the next several decades. Read Now 5/28/04 CRUDE TALK: US & VENEZUELA DANCE "THE JOROPO" - Suzan Mazur reports from the front lines of international oil politics with a new look at the Chavez moment in world affairs. That moment is far from over, and the consequence may lie anywhere on an unusually wide spectrum --- from a lifesaving redistribution of wealth through legitimate business, to a dangerously large regional war like today's oil-grab in Iraq. Read Now 5/27/04 The Peak in U.S. Coal Production LNG Import Issues Key – by Gregson Vaux - Under the radar of almost every environmental and energy-study group, The Christian Science Monitor reported on Feb. 25, 2004, "At least 94 coal-fired electric power plants - with the capacity to power 62 million American homes - are now planned across 36 states." As FTW has long predicted, oil and gas shortages would inevitably lead the US into short-term, knee-jerk, reversion to coal and nuclear options as means to put proverbial fingers into the leaking energy dike. Read Now 5/5/04 Global Climate Change & Peak Oil, Part II by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - In part 1 of this article, we looked at the abrupt climate change scenario leaked from the Pentagon. We noted the authors' recommendation that the President should elevate abrupt climate change to a national security issue. And we observed that the Pentagon's next move was an effort to back off from the report's conclusions and ultimately bury the report. The Bush Administration has ignored the report entirely, aided by a powerful global-warming-denial lobby which promotes junk science produced by industry. . . Read Now 5/4/04 "Toward A Petro-Apocalypse" - Le Monde - Translated from Le Monde, the title of this article could just as well have been "The Mother of All Oil shocks is Looming." Its author, Yves Cochet (Green), represents Paris in the National Assembly and is former land and environment minister (ministre du territoire et de l'environnement). . . Read Now 4/29/04 HAITI & VENEZUELA--COUP & EMPIRE: Part II by Stan Goff - Class and Complexity in Haiti: In this part of the world, it never pays to be intellectually lazy on these issues. They're tricky. Haiti has two predominant ruling classes, one based on land and one based on money. Read Now 4/22/04 Peak Oil: Debate or Feud? - Historic J.P. Morgan Investor Conference Marks Official Recognition of Peak Oil Issues By Financial Planners by Suzan Mazur - As the war on Iraq drives petroleum politics into the media mainstream, and gasoline prices hover over a summer that hasn't hit yet, more and more people are wondering whether there really is a geological miracle under the dunes. Those who believe world oil production has peaked, or will do so within the decade, argue with those who believe that oil is either inexhaustible or plentiful-but-inconvenient. In the latter case, they hope, technology will extend our reach far enough, and soon enough, that no major interruption of our industrial society will be necessary. In this story Suzan Mazur takes us through the recent JP Morgan conference call, "Peak Oil: Fact or Fiction," with a sharp survey of the issues and a few key players. Read Now 4/21/04 Jane's.com Reports Today: "World Oil Crisis Looms" Read Now 4/19/04 BBC Cites From The Wilderness as Source in Artlcle on Peak Oil - "When the Last Oil Well Runs Dry" by Alex Kirby, BBC News Online environment correspondent Read Now 4/14/04 Global Climate Change and Peak Oil: The Sword of Damocles Has Two Edges (Part I) by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - Like the withdrawal symptoms endured by an addict, the effects of the coming petroleum crisis will ravage the American body politic and work necessary but painful changes in the life of the entire human community. "Peak oil" is the crisis of getting off petroleum: "Climate change" is the almost irreversible legacy of two hundred years of fossil fuel pollution. At their center is an oil economy bound to militarism by the petrodollar money system. But wealth and weapons are not much use under seven meters of melted glacial seawater. The education of the public is the key to a safer world - so we're educating each other. In part one of this story, FTW energy editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer sets out a detailed picture of the climate change issue and its paramount importance. Read Now 3/23/04 HAITI & VENZUELA - Coup And Empire (Part I) by Stan Goff - White Supremacy Intersects With the Need for Oil. An incredible history and analysis of current and coming events by a retired Special Forces soldier who was sent to Haiti in 1994. Think you understand everything about how the world is evolving? Goff's incisive writing and first-hand experience portray a humanity that is sinking to the lowest common denominator. Past is future as Iran-Contra, Clinton Politics and Jim Crow laws intersect America 's march to control rapidly depleting oil supplies. There are many ways to defeat the Empire's enemies. Stealing their pride is one of them. Read Now 3/23/04 EATING FOSSIL FUELS by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - The most frightening article FTW has ever published is now a free story for all to read. Our paid subscribers read it last October. As Peak Oil and its effects become a raging national controversy it's time everyone reads the story that puts the most serious implications of Peak Oil and Gas into perspective. Your biggest problem is not that your SUV might go hungry, it's that you and your children might go hungry. What has been documented here is no secret to US and foreign policy makers as China experiences grain shortages this year and, as CNN's Lou Dobbs recently reported, the US and Canada will soon no longer be the world's breadbasket. Read Now 3/19/04 OIL MARKET TIGHTNESS IS LIKELY LONG TERM - The Reality of Peak Oil is starting to penetrate the financial markets. The chief economic reporter at Canada's prestigious Globe and Mail reports “Oil Market Tightness Is Likely Long Term”. Talk about Understatement! Read Now 3/17/04 Tale of Two Planets -A Report on the Conference “Future of Global Oil Supply: Saudi Arabia Held at CSIS, Washington DC, February 24th – Somebody's lying. Even as the New York Times reports that Saudi production may have already peaked Saudi Aramco says, “There's no problems here!” Energy investment banker Matt Simmons produces actual production reports showing that Saudi production may be on the brink of collapse, while the wildly optimistic Saudis paint a picture that even pollyanna would have a hard time believing – Special to FTW by Julian Darley Read Now 02/27/04 OIL SHORTAGES LOOK CERTAIN BY 2007; LNG TO THE RESCUE? By Dale Allen Pfeiffer - It takes about four years to bring a new oil field online after discovery. The Petroleum Review has done a detailed analysis in a world where discovery of "mega" fields has fallen off to almost nothing and looked at what's coming online in the next few years. The conclusion: by 2007 the world will start to feel the real bite of Peak Oil. When it comes to LNG as a savior for the economy and home heating, every analysis says that whatever LNG arrives will be too little, too late. In both cases, the madness of the markets may actually produce temporary price drops which will remove the capital needed to fund alternatives right out of the equation and make the end result more deadly for everyone. Until the last second, false hopes will be fueled by market numbers hiding a grim truth. Read Now 1/30/04 IN YOUR FACE - The Connections Between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil are On the Table -- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained Through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney "Duck Hunts" with Scalia -- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective -- THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY FTW PUBLISHER/EDITOR MIKE RUPPERT IN MORE THAN TWO YEARS -- Want to know where the Empire is vulnerable and real change is possible? Can you handle the truth? Read Now 1/19/04 NATURAL GAS UPDATES -- A DARK AND COLD FUTURE With CNN reporting electrical power stations running out of natural gas; with officials warning of possible rolling blackouts; with almost all new homes heated by gas; and with Australia touting a $50 Bn LNG project while acknowledging a severe US energy crisis, at least five people have frozen to death because there was no heat. It is time to re-examine current natural gas production and reserve figures. Immediately after the CNN story, Connecticut officials tried to spin the shrotages by saying that power companies had sold their gas on the spot markets for profit. But, as FTW Energy Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer reports, the numbers tell a completely different story. The crisis we have predicted is here, and it will only get worse. North America is almost out of gas. Read Now 1/17/04 PROOF OF PEAK OIL AND GAS – CNN REPORTS BLACKOUTS IMMINENT AS PLANTS RUN OUT OF NATURAL GAS DUE TO NORTHEAST HEATING DEMAND – For almost two years FTW has warned its subscribers that diminishing, irreplaceable supplies of natural gas might cause people to freeze to death this winter. As CNN reported yesterday, six people have already died and officials are concerned about a power grid that has no fuel substitutes and people who have no other way to keep warm. Read Now 12/3/03 Bottom of the Barrel The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk about it? Read Now 12/1/03 DRAWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE - Part 2 The Agricultural Crises in North Korea and Cuba - Part II. Both Cuba and North Korea are "Communist" countries. Yet the people of one country are eating while the people of the other are starving. Why? In taking a deeper look, we see in Cuba a form of capitalism and private ownership centered around local communities. Forget the labels. As dwindling supplies of oil and gas are beginning to impact global food supply - about a decade ahead of predictions, the difference between eating and starving takes on a whole new meaning - even for Americans. Read Now 12/21/03 China's rising grain prices could signal global food crisis - It's Happening Faster Than We Expected The Agence France-Presse Is reporting that a major famine may be looming for China and that their purchases of US grain could multiply. The AFP Story does not address the serious Peak Oil and Gas issues raised by Dale Allen Pfeiffer in Eating Fossil Fuels or acknowledge that US grain harvests are falling. It does add the new wrinkle of how Global Warming (caused by burning oil and gas) continually reduces crop yields. On top of a recent CNN report announcing that soon the US will not be able to export any grain at all, it is clear that the effects of Peak Oil and Gas have begun to hit sooner than anyone expected. Read Now 11/17/03 DRAWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE Part I of a Special Two Part Series by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - We have been asked, so often, "What can the people do about Peak Oil?" Now FTW looks at the effects of drastic oil shortages in two different countries that have seen their supplies of oil and gas cut to almost nothing, North Korea and Cuba. One, North Korea, is a bitter lesson about what happens to complex systems when the oil and gas run out. Because its economy is top-down, like the US, its devastating failure to adapt is an omen for what we can look forward to, unless we change the financial incentive system and ownership in this country. On the other hand, Cuba, with rapidly increasing local ownership and control, with government decentralization and an imperative on maintaining standards of living in local areas is a model of success and the embodiment of Catherine Austin Fitts' Solari model for place-based equity and financing. Read Now 10/14/03 KOREA, CHINA, AND THE US According to The Asia Times, China Has Just Moved 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea and is widening the roads for armor. Former West Point instructor and retired Special Forces veteran Stan Goff makes sense of an increasingly dangerous situation. Read Now 10/14/03 THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY Journalist Jim Rarey confirms the suspicions held by many that British Microbiologist David Kelly -- at the center of Britain's intelligence scandal -- was murdered. Rarey has done the hard methodical work of deconstructing the official version. Not only is the Blair government teetering as a domino that may fall towards Washington, another world-class microbiologist has died under mysterious circumstances. Part I Read Now 11/14/03 Oil Demand Soaring, China to Pass Japan Next Year When World Consumption Will Use a Billion Barrels in Less Than Ten Days Time Read Now 11/14/03 Shell Announces Closure of Refinery in Bakersfield Read Now 10/3/03 EATING FOSSIL FUELS by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. As CNN, The Independent and Jane's Defence Weekly acknowledge the reality of Peak Oil and Gas, admitting that actual global reserves may be 80% less than previously reported, FTW publishes the most important and frightening story in its history. Impeccable research shows that US food production is requiring more and more hydrocarbon energy to produce less and less food. Until now, no one has really reported how much oil, gas and fresh water (pumped by hydrocarbons) we need to feed ourselves and the planet and what we can look forward to as the crisis starts to hit home. Read Now 10/02/03 CNN CONFIRMS PEAK OIL Read Now 9/8/03 Michael Meacher, a former British environment minister, vindicates FTW's position on 9/11, the war on terrorism, and peak oil. Read Now 9/02/03 IMMINENT PERIL (Part II) In the conclusion of this two-part special series, FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer builds upon the wealth of scientific research describing the civilization-threatening consequences of Peak Oil and Gas by taking a look at the existing obstacles to effective change, as well as that hard look that mankind - and especially the industrialized nations - must take if the human race is to survive. He concludes that every "sacred cow" must be on the table, and that our only hope is making sustainability our number one priority. Read Now 8/21/03 FTW EXCLUSIVE, "Behind The Blackout" Energy Investment Banker, Government Energy Advisor and CFR member Matthew Simmons offers candid and explosive observations on the Northeast Blackout, Peak Oil and Gas and tells the truth about America's energy supplies. Will politicians rise to the challenge? Simmons says, "What that means in the starkest possible terms is that we are no longer going to be able to grow. It's like with a human being who passes a certain age in life. Getting older does not mean the same thing as death. It means progressively diminishing capacity, a rapid decline, followed by a long tail." Read Now 8/21/03 BRAGGING RIGHTS Dennis Kucinich gets a well deserved "I told you so" for remarkable integrity and a heavy price paid 25 years ago in a battle against the company that started the blackout on Black Thursday, August 14. His own words speak volumes about the current state of the union. Now if only… Read Now 8/18/03 IMMINENT PERIL (Part I) The Northeast power grid failure demonstrates that the environment and Peak Oil and Gas have now formed a deadly alliance. Yet detailed, even prophetic warnings and analyses of energy issues are now coming true with stark precision. FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer, takes a detailed look at a record that foresaw the crises we are seeing today and leads us in the direction of paths that can help address energy issues that have just begun to eat at the fabric of society. The only way out comes from a complete revision of the way society works, starting with an overriding commitment to sustainability (a reduction of consumption) and a commitment to policy, which means political leadership. The latter is perhaps more scarce a commodity than natural gas. Read Now 8/18/03 Why Hydrogen is No Solution - Scientific Answers to Marketing Hype, Deception and Wishful Thinking A look back at more than a year of FTW's examination of the hard science on hydrogen and why it is no solution to today's problems. A very handy reference and reality check on the mythical "Hydrogen Economy". Read Now 8/15/03 SMOKING GUN: THE CIA'S INTEREST IN PEAK OIL (special to FTW) Professor Richard Heinberg, author of the revolutionary new book The Party's Over, has found and dissected a newly declassified 1977 CIA report on the peak of oil production in Russia. What it reveals is a stark acknowledgment of the reality of Peak Oil for the entire planet and the fact that its implications have been of concern to the CIA for a long time. Read Now 7/12/03 Washington, DC Emergency Natural Gas Summit Hints At Coming Crisis When Markets Fail - America Leaps Off the Gas Cliff Without A Parachute Environmental and Energy Activist Julian Darley Attends DOE Conference on Natural Gas and Questions Spencer Abraham. It's a mixture of myth, madness, denial and the inability of America's political and economic system to function in the real world when corporate priorities and political need drive decision making. As Peak Oil and Gas continue to intrude on the American psyche it is becoming clear that chaotic government responses may become the rule as geology and physics trump economic theory intended to support the markets. Read Now 6/23/03 NATURAL GAS CRISIS - FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Looks Deeply into the Peak Oil-Related Natural Gas Crisis That Is Hitting the US His research explains why Alan Greenspan recently addressed the shortage at the Federal Reserve and why an Emergency Summit is being held in Washington this week. Your job may be on the line now and this winter may see people freezing in the US. Understand why Natural Gas can't be imported and the truth about how fast we are running out. Read Now 6/12/03 Revealing Statements from a Bush Insider about Peak Oil and Natural Gas Depletion: FTW EXCLUSIVE Bush energy advisor to the secret Energy Task Force headed by Dick Cheney before 9/11, Matthew Simmons, spoke candidly about Peak Oil at a recent Paris conference attended by FTW Editor Mike Ruppert. The transcribed remarks of this CFR member at this exclusive conference are chilling affirmations of the only issue driving world events since 9/11. "The uh, I think basically that now, that peaking of oil will never be accurately predicted until after the fact. But the event will occur, and my analysis is leaning me more by the month, the worry that peaking is at hand; not years away. If it turns out I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. But if I'm right, the unforeseen consequences are devastating...But unfortunately the world has no Plan B if I'm right. The facts are too serious to ignore. Sadly the pessimist-optimist debate started too late." Read Now 6/9/03 Financial Times Reports US Natural Gas Supplies at Critical Lows Greenspan to address economic threat posed by possible imminent shortages and brownouts Read Now 5/31/03 Paris Peak Oil Conference Reveals Deepening Crisis Bush Advisor Matt Simmons who advised Cheney's Energy Task Force confirms Peak Oil is major concern of Bush Administration. Peak Oil symptoms more apparent. Recoverable reserves may be less than hoped. Natural gas shortages may appear in US this year. Hydrogen vastly overrated and not likely to offer solution. Read Now 5/27/03 NINE CRITICAL QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES Before jumping into the many lifeboats being offered as a replacement for hydrocarbon energy, shouldn't we see if they float? Here is a simple list of questions you can use to see if what is being promoted will take care of you, not to mention your children. Read Now 5/27/03 CANADIAN TAR SANDS DISASTER For all the people touting tar sands as a solution to the pending apocalypse of Peak Oil, a little experience with reality should help them understand that the books on energy are as cooked as the books of Enron, WorldCom and Halliburton. When business tells you there's plenty of oil it is only to protect the financial markets. One more time Canada gets screwed as tar sands oil production proves to be a non-cost effective and environmentally destructive concept. Read Now 5/15/03 SAUDI ARABIA, WEST AFRICA -- NEXT STOPS IN THE INFINITE WAR FOR OIL Predicted Saudi Destabilization Nine Months Ago. As venerable progressive icons like Pacifica radio's "Democracy Now" belatedly discover the inconsistencies and lies of 9/11, the moves for the next conquests are already in play. Deployment of US troops for the Iraqi invasion was also the preparation for the seizure of Saudi Arabia's reserves, the largest in the world. And the smaller but more accessible prizes of West African reserves have become predictably threatened by rebel uprisings and - Surprise! - al Qaeda. Peak Oil is confirmed yet again. Read Now 5/11/03 House Ties US Investment in Mexican Oil to Immigration Mexico Outraged – More Proof of Peak Oil as the Empire Bludgeons Its Way to Control Dwindling Reserves. Read Now 5/01/03 U.S., U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says Read Now 4/29/03 DEBUNKING MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S LIES ABOUT OIL FTW Contributing Editor for energy Dale Allen Pfeiffer deconstructs Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Yergin's recent San Francisco Chronicle story about world oil reserves and oil politics. It's not difficult to prove that we are all being misled, once you know the right questions to ask. Everything that's happening is about oil, and the facts – understandable by any American - are there to prove it. Read Now 4/20/03 DID A 1965 TV SHOW FORETELL PEAK OIL? Was it just a writer's fantasy? Or did they know something... FTW takes a fun peek into a time when TV shows actually had plots. Read Now 4/16/03 CRUNCHING NUMBERS With Saddam removed, a sobering look at U.S. energy and economic prospects confirms a long-term campaign and dashes hopes for a quick economic recovery - The U.S. has no Intention of leaving Iraq and Iraqi looting and destruction of infrastructure may be a part of the U.S. plan - OPEC backs the U.S. into a corner - Global production as a weapon of war - A major warning shot gets fired across the administration's bow. Read Now 4/10/03 MIKE RUPPERT TO ATTEND PARIS CONFERENCE ON PEAK OIL FTW Editor Mike Ruppert to attend May Paris Conference of Oil Industry Experts on Peak Energy Issues. American journalists and scholars encouraged to attend. Read Now 4/4/03 "PEAK OIL" AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PLANET. Read Now 3/31/03 PLAN COLOMBIA: THE PENTAGON'S SHELL GAME Clearing the Land for the Oil Companies - Veteran journalist Peter Gorman, no stranger to FTW, takes a look at one of the next conquests coming for the Empire, oil-rich Southern Colombia. Gorman finds a massive depopulation and deforestation campaign using chemicals that, when burned, produce Hydrogen Cyanide – the same gas used in Nazi Concentration Camps. Not surprisingly, the carnage is horrifying. AS IRAQI OIL BECOMES MORE ELUSIVE, COLOMBIAN OIL BECOMES ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT. Read Now 3/07/03 U.S. INTENTIONS FTW’s Contributing Editor for Energy, Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer reveals that the Bush administration was aware of Peak Oil and what it meant before taking office. He also takes a hard look at the condition of Iraqi oil fields and blows away the Wall Street fantasy that a U.S. occupation of Iraq will produce a quick fix for the markets and world oil supply – As NATURAL GAS prices triple around the country Pfeiffer also confirms (again) what FTW has been saying for a year. Natural Gas depletion may tank the U.S. economy in a one-two punch along with oil prices. Read Now 1/30/03 EMPTYING THE LARDER The First Real Pains of Peak Oil and Natural Gas Depletion Are Hitting Home in the U.S. As Ranchers Pick Up Rifles and Oil Stocks Hit 27-Year Lows. Can $3.00 Gasoline Be Far Behind? Read Now 12/10/02 Venezuelan Crisis indicates U.S. oil price spikes and recession imminent AL GIORDANO AND NARCONEWS BREAK THE MEDIA CARTEL WITH ACCURATE REPORTS FROM CARACAS. Click Here 12/30/02 VENEZUELA: INTERVENTIONS 'R' US A column by FTW energy expert Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Read Now 12/5/02 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING – Dale Allen Pfeiffer discloses a hidden reality behind the new war fever in U.S. foreign policy. Over the last 24 months, in spite of billions in commitments and research, drilling results have shown that the great Caspian/Central Asian oil bonanza is a bust. Even the majors are pulling out of the region. Coming oil shortages are now more certain and severe, and the oil in Iraq and Saudi Arabia is more important than ever. ALSO – Bursting Hydrogen’s Bubble – As awareness of Peak Oil starts to sink in the government is trying to sell people that hydrogen will save everyone at the last minute. It’s a scientific myth. See why. Read Now 10/28/02 Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans For Iraq. Administration Making Riskier, More Volatile Moves to Begin "All or Nothing" Gamble for Iraqi Oilfields. Read Now 10/23/02 FTW Exclusive Interview: Colin Campbell on Oil - Perhaps the World's Foremost Expert on Oil and the Oil Business Confirms the Ever More Apparent Reality of the Post-9-11 World. Read Now 10/11/02 The Unseen Conflict War Plans, Backroom Deals, Leverage and Strategy -- Securing What's Left of the Planet's Oil Is and Has Always Been the Bottom Line Read Now 9/25/02 IS CHINA THE ENDGAME FOR OIL? A disturbing new analysis by FTW Contributing Editor for Energy Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Read Now 8/08/02 IS THE EMPIRE ABOUT OIL? Some critics have steadfastly argued that the events of 9-11 and since have nothing to do with oil but rather with containment of Russia. By ignoring the obvious and resorting to personal attacks they have missed the obvious. FTW's Dale Allen Pfeiffer, a geologist, puts things in perspective on the eve of a major war in the Middle East. Read Now 7/17/02 PIPELINEISTAN by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - A Detailed Study of the Record Since 9-11 Shows That Pipeline Construction is Moving Ahead at Full Tilt. Read Now 6/21/02 Leaping of the Natural Gas Cliff More evidence of coming oil and gas shortages by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Plus a word about the foolishness of Ethanol. Read Now 4/4/02 Oil and Recession. World Oil Production May Have Already Peaked. We May Have Ten Years of Rapid Up and Down Oil Prices Before the Big Crunch Hits. There is NO Abiotic Oil. Why Do Bush and Cheney Have Private Homes in Texas and Wyoming That Are Fully Prepared for What May be Coming? Read Now 4/4/02 The Elephant in the Living Room (Part I) - John Ashcroft has serious conflicts of interest around two grand juries investigating two of his biggest 2000 campaign donors, ExxonMobil and BP Amoco. He recused from Enron but not in this case. Both Companies Got Into the Still Secret Energy Task Force Headed by Dick Cheney. The Charges Have to do with Kazakh Oil That the Majors Couldn't Get to Market. When the Crimes Were Committed Dick Cheney Sat on the Kazakh Government's Oil Advisory Board. Read Now 1/29/02 What Next. The Coming Oil Crisis Will be Worse Than You Expect. Scientific research material supports plausibility of a plan to murder 3-4 billion people. Read Now 12/18/01 THE BACKGROUND IS OIL A global oil crisis that cannot be postponed or evaded is upon us. Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer explains -- in layman's terms a context for recent events that makes the inexcusable actions of the Bush administration understandable. Some groups will do anything to avoid letting go of power, including killing millions of people. Whos next? Read Now POST PEAK LIFESTYLE 08/01/06 COOKING ON THE ROAD TO COLLAPSE: THE TERMINAL TRIANGLE RULES, - By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 07/25/06 Think Small, Think Local - THE GATEWAY PROJECT: Sustainable bioregional planning - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 06/06/06 DEAD WRONG: “Too Hot Not to Handle” Dangerous Renewable Energy Propaganda from the mainstream - by Michael Kane Read Now 04/25/06 YELLOW STARS and RED FLAGS - by Scott McGuire Read Now 04/19/06 LEARNING TO LOCALIZE - by Lindsay A. Gerken Read Now 04/07/06 Williams, Oregon Seed Swap a Growing Success - by Lindsay A. Gerken Read Now 03/22/06 THE FUTURE AT WAR WITH THE PAST - While South Central's Urban Farmers Face Eviction, Peak Oil Threatens Global Food Supply - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 02/16/06 To The Wilderness - NYC Peak Oil Meet-Up Group Ventures Beyond City Life - by Michael Kane Read Now 02/08/06 L.A.’s “Havana Experiment” Farm Threatened by Industry and Government - A Model for Adaptation to Peak Oil - 350 Poor Families Fed From Farm in So. Central LA - by Jan Lundberg (Special to From the Wilderness) Read Now 01/03/05 Wood Scavenging in the Suburbs - By Michael Kane Read Now 11/21/05 EATING LOCALLY IS HARDER THAN YOU THINK: A Sonoma County Exercise Provides Valuable Planning Lessons - This Isn't as Easy as We Might Hope - "I Hate Peak Oil" Cookies - by Wendy Talaro with comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/19/05 Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century (PART THREE OF THREE) - By Dmitry Orlov - Special to From the Wilderness Read Now 6/28/05 Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century (PART TWO OF THREE) - By Dmitry Orlov - Special to From the Wilderness With comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 6/4/05 Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century (PART ONE OF THREE) - By Dmitry Orlov - Special to From the Wilderness Several months ago, Dmitry Orlov suggested writing an essay for www.survivingpeakoil.com relating how the people of Russia survived the collapse of the Soviet Union. I heartily welcomed the idea, and that was the last I heard from Dmitry for some time. I had just about given up on the article when it finally did appear a few weeks ago. In reading through this article, I quickly ascertained that Dmitry had far exceeded his goal. It was clear that this article deserved a larger readership than I could give it at survivingpeakoil.com. As science editor at From The Wilderness, I passed this article on to Mike and Jamey, and they readily agreed that it should be published by FTW. Through his comparison and contrast of the Former Soviet Union to the U.S., Dmitry provides us with one of the most penetrating analyses of post-peak that I have read. This article is packed with original insights derived from personal experience. The picture which Dmitry paints is unsettling, but it is far better than jumping feet first into darkness. The impending breakdown of the US and world economies is here clarified to the point that you can begin to prepare for this eventuality. And this article gives some of the most practical suggestions on how to prepare. I gained a great deal from this article, and I would like to personally thank Dmitry for sharing it. -DAP Read Now CIVIL LIBERTIES 09/21/06 CORRECTION ON INTERVIEW WITH CYNTHIA MC KINNEY - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/19/06 THE EMBODIMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY… - AN FTW EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CYNTHIA MC KINNEY - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 11/23/04 The Power of Delusion, by Dale Allen Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Anne Pfeiffer How does the Bush machine do it? Millions regard Dubya as some sort of virtuous hero, rather than the "mentally ill empty suit" one reads about in Crossing the Rubicon. Here are fifteen techniques used by the image-managers and their elite employers to convince decent people that 2 + 2 = 22. "The Power of Delusion" is especially rich in sources for further reading. Read Now 7/29/04 Coup D'Etat in America? Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa Economics Department is the author of The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, and of War and Globalization, the Truth Behind September 11. Here he surveys some of America's new bureaucratic infrastructure for "crisis management," and finds it well-suited to martial law. Read Now 1/4/04 NYC 9-11 Truth Takes Back Ground Zero “The Bush Regime Engineered 9-11” – Lessons from Activist Trenches -- Overwhelming Majority of New Yorkers Supports the Truth Movement! -- Police Illegally and Forcibly Move Two People Holding a Sign -- Respectful Dialogue on the Streets of NYC -- Homeland Security Spies? -- Next Event, January 10 th by Michael Kane. A young, dedicated, and whip-smart activist reports on what it's like to try and reach the masses. His observations may surprise you. Read Now 2/25/03 PATRIOT II, Latest Updates; A Trial Balloon? – "Five to Ten Times Worse Than the Patriot Act" Secret Bush Legislation Sent to Cheney, Hastert, Deepens Assault on Constitution - DoJ Locked in No Comment Mode. Read Now 11/20/01 THE 'F' WORD - The Patriot Act: What "Imperial" Decisions by Bush and Ashcroft have done to your Civil Liberties since 9-11. Read Now INFINITE WAR 09/28/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Part VI - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/15/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Part V - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/06/06 BALOCHISTAN & THE NEW WORLD ORDER - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 09/05/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Part IV - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 08/30/06 THE STRETCH: AMERICA’S BACK DOOR DRAFT - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 08/24/06 THE US-ISRAELI DEFEAT IN LEBANON - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 08/14/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Part III - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 08/09/06 THE GLOBAL ELITE ABANDON THE NEO-CONS - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 08/04/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Part II - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 07/31/06 MULTI-POLAR DISORDER Continues… WITH ENERGY AND RISING GLOBAL TENSIONS - by Michael Kane Staff Writer Read Now 07/27/06 INDIA TAKES THE STAGE - Nuclear India - by Stan Goff, FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 07/24/06 MULTI-POLAR DISORDER - Hunkering Down For Asymmetric War What's going on in the Middle East? Reports of a conspiracy--a war planned by Israel for over a year--have surfaced. FTW addesses that report in this story and analyzes a situation that is having an effect on Israel similar to the effect the Iraq War is having on the United States. Many unanswered questions linger. While we do not yet know the role of oil in the current scenario, other factors such as several nations' pegging their currencies to the euro, not the dollar, water, and the Iranian nuclear program are key aspects for understanding the conflict. - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 06/09/06 A Small Rabbit Out of a Big Hat: The Significance of Al Zarqawi’s Death -- by FTW Military and Veteran’s Affairs Editor, Stan Goff Read Now 05/25/06 EVOLUTIONS AND DEVOLUTIONS - More Reasons Why a US Attack on Iran is Unlikely - by Stan Goff, Military/Veterans’ Affairs Editor Read Now 05/12/06 SPEARPOINT - Part Four - by Stan Goff -Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 04/28/06 SPEARPOINT - Part Three - by Stan Goff -Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 04/21/06 SPEARPOINT - Part Two - by Stan Goff -Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 04/12/06 SPEARPOINT - Part One - by Stan Goff -Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 03/30/06 Military Prepares For Peak Oil - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 03/30/06 The Renewable War Machine - Sustainable-Destruction - Compiled by Michael Kane Read Now 03/27/06 RAPPROCHEMENT? - Not Only Will the US Not Attack Iran, It Looks Like the Biggest Thaw in US/Iranian Relations Since 1979 is Suddenly and Inexplicably Underway - 48 Hours That Changed the World - Oil Bourse Disappears; US-Iran OK Bi-Lateral Talks - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 02/27/06 Off The Cliff Bombing of the Golden Dome Mosque Breaks the Shell to Understanding How Close We Are to Species Self Destruction. US Covert Operations Suffer Biggest Defeat in History – The Empire Crumbles Danish Cartoons, Dubai Ports World, and Samarra Pull Control Rods Out of Reactor Containing Religious Hatred – Critical Mass Approaches Read Now 01/27/06 BOMBING IRAN? Don’t Count On It - by Stan Goff - Unless the Neocons Exceed Their Known Capacity for Stupidity Read Now 01/27/06 DEAD MAN WALKING - The US and Israel Cannot Attack Iran - By Michael C. Ruppert - The American Empire is Finished - One Way or the Other Read Now 11/21/05 INCOMING! Murtha fires the first shot in Bush's Dien Bien Phu - by Stan Goff Read Now 9/7/05 THE DANGER OF IRAQI PARTITION: An update on the progress of the Energy War - by Stan Goff Read Now 7/8/05 THE GLOBAL BATTLEFIELD - WE ARE STANDING ON IT The Evolution of the Bush-Rumsfeld War Doctrine -- Roadmap to Martial Law -- London Attacks From Another Perspective By Stan Goff With comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 6/30/05 The Empire Strikes First - Space and World War III - by Michael Kane Read Now 6/22/05 DIALECTICS ON METH - The Southwest Asian Debacle - by Stan Goff When Stan Goff is about to speak, I don't want to say much. Just this: may all the bereaved find recovery, and the repentant find forgiveness, and the cruel find punishment. Even if they're all the same person. Read Now 4/28/05 Jurassic Park, Psuedo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib Part VI - by Stan Goff Here's the penultimate installment of Stan Goff's treatise on imperialism, persuasion, and the ethical black hole of contemporary capitalism. Read Now 3/21/05 China's Offshore Claims - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer FTW's Science Editor looks at the tensions currently building over Taiwan. Read Now 4/07/05 Japan and China: A US Strategic Outlook for the Next Two Minutes - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 3/29/05 FAYETTEVILLE: An Assessment Of Military Resistance - by Stan Goff What can end the war in Iraq? Certainly not some decisive U.S. "victory." And without a miraculous change in the geopolitical landscape, Iraqis will have little reason to tolerate the American occupation for the foreseeable future. The Iraqi Shia majority may have deep wounds left from the Iran-Iraq War of twenty years ago, but if the boots of the infidel are causing even more pain, a Muslim neighbor is a better provisional ally than the latest American puppet. Until the oil gushes (and donkeys fly), the Pentagon will insist upon "staying the course." What can end the war in Iraq? Read Now 3/21/05 China's Offshore Claims - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer FTW's Science Editor looks at the tensions currently building over Taiwan. Read Now 1/14/05 MURDER BY THE NUMBERS: The Specter of the Draft - by Stan Goff - The neocons options are: (1) get out of Iraq, (2) grind away toward a slow and painful political defeat, (3) conscript, or (4 ) open up a hi-tech and genocidal offensive against the Iraqis and perhaps even the Iranians. The latter will require a pretext. Read Now 1/27/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II - PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed - by Michael Kane - The FAA & Ptech - Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS - Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis Read Now 1/25/05 The Beginning of the Oil End Game - featuring original FTW maps - by Michael C. Ruppert - Major Powers Jockey for Position and Risk All-Out War Before the 2007-8 Oil Cliff - Maps Reveal Rapid Global Realignment/Competition Read Now 1/20/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR, Part I PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed. by Jamey Hecht, with research assistance by Michael Kane and editorial comment by Michael C. Ruppert. Wall St. whistleblower Indira Singh tells an insider's story of corruption in the very highest places. Software of incredible power has been funded by confirmed Saudi terrorists and installed on systems in the FAA -- and NORAD, and the FBI, and the White House, and the Navy, and the House of Representatives, and on and on. Its roots are in PROMIS, and its applications range from 9/11 to TIA to a chilling new brand of warfare that may soon be used to cripple Iran. Read Now 1/10/05 THE HAITIAN INTIFADA - A story of politics from black and white, high and low. By Stan Goff Part Two: “Why do they hate us?" really is the question of the hour, but in the mainstream media it remains a rhetorical one that cannot have an answer. And racist imperialism is the answer. Read Now 1/04/05 Taking the Fiscal Train Wreck to the Poverty Draft by Jamey Hecht Massive tax cuts during a deficit crisis? In "wartime"? There must be a reason. Read Now 12/06/04 Persian Peril, Part Five: The Material Basis of Accumulation by Stan Goff In the final installment of Stan Goff's "Persian Peril" series, our world crisis is analyzed in the three dimensions of resource depletion, economic injustice, and the dynamics of political power in a period of systemic breakdown. Read Now 11/30/04 THE HAITIAN INTIFADA - A story of politics from black and white, high and low. By Stan Goff Part One: As the tepid, myopic, gatekeeping left is beaten once more by a resurgent but desperate right wing, mass movements are bestirring themselves throughout Latin America and elsewhere. The stakes have not been so high, nor the pressures so intense, since 1968. In this bracing two-part series, FTW military editor Stan Goff turns his attention to the crisis in post-Aristide Haiti and its symbolic drama on the world stage. Read Now 11/15/04 "The Privilege of Running Free Deficits Belongs To One Nation Alone" By Stan Goff If this is to be dealt with in any meaningful way, it means the entire US political and economic establishment will have to be removed, and we will have to commit to at least a whole generation of bottom-up, radical changes in every single facet of our lives. This is the fourth installment of Stan Goff's report on the political economy of US imperialism, a series which started with a critique of American policy toward Iran called "Persian Peril." Read Now 9/23/04 Jurassic Park, Part V: Arab nationalism did not fall out of the sky. - by Stan Goff If the "war on terror" were real, it would involve the cessation of American terrorism against everybody else. It would also require a serious examination of anti-American motives, since nobody on Planet Grownup can possibly imagine young people blowing themselves up for some abstract hatred of American "freedom." The Israel-Palestine war-of-attrition would have to be examined (preferably while We the People are wearing our thinking caps, having taken off those super-cool hats that hold two beer cans each). Only a carefully historical reappraisal of thwarted Arab nationalism can return "our enemies" to the one interpretive category in which they can possibly be disarmed: human beings with grievances. Read Now 9/20/04 Money, Money, Money: The Dollar System and the Stakes of Our Likely Debacle in Iran -- Persian Peril, Part Two - by Stan Goff This is the second installment of Stan Goff's report on the simmering Persian Peril. Where Part One set out a history of modern Iran in its relations with Western imperial powers, the current piece explains the petrodollar system that underlies our ugly situation in the Middle East and the world. Read Now 9/07/04 Stop Loss The Republican National Convention was about war. As Zell Miller reminded the faithful, "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." This unacknowledged quotation from Miller's fellow Marine, Father Denis O'Brian, brought a gush of adulation from the Grand Old Party, who love to be assured that all good things come from violence. So long as the Americans are on one side, anybody on the other side is to be regarded as the Gestapo wrapped in the Wehrmacht; once the U.S. starts fighting, the enemy is magically transformed into a mighty horde of well-armed Nazis bent on shutting down the New York Times. Miller made clear that if "this marine" (and the other marines) are on a mission, then by God / by definition, that mission is bound to protect civil liberties rather than mock, curtail, and destroy them at home and abroad. Read Now 8/24/04 Target Iran - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Well folks, we have had our next lotto drawing in the War on Terror, and it appears that we have a winner. Saudi Arabia? Pakistan? No, the next lucky target appears to be Iran. That's right. Given Mr. Bush's increasingly bellicose remarks about Iran, US embarrassment to find out that their first choice to head a new democratic Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi, was an Iranian spy, and Iran's announcement (however much truth there is behind it) that they are now members of the nuclear club, it would appear that our current administration has picked a new target in their ongoing War against Terror. Read Now 8/11/04 In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. - by Wayne Madsen The Bush-Cheney campaign is racing toward November. But it isn't only running toward the raw power it loves. It's running away from the punishment it fears. In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. The neocons' dark alliance with the right wing of Israeli politics has brought them enormous power. But it's unstable power, vulnerable to legal sanction and due process at the right pressure points. As Watergate proved decades ago, even a dying legal infrastructure can still throw a few jabs once in a while - if the CIA wants it to. Read Now 8/9/04 Just when the Bush administration seemed to have figured out that invading Iraq was a mistake, they announce the next stop in their Axis of Evil tour: Persian Peril, Part One. - by Stan Goff -Iran is the subject of the latest non-diplomatic broadsides, and the media are already buying ringside seats. So what is this thing called "Iran"? Which corporation manufactured it? Or is it one of those pre-American places where people wear funny costumes? These and other questions may or may not be explored in the briefing rooms of the Exceedingly White House. For the rest of us, a closer examination of the history of this ancient and culturally unique regional power may help explain the coming wave of imperial belligerence. FTW's military editor Stan Goff presents a highly useful narrative of Iran's place in modern geopolitics and asks, Is the Bush administration about to commit the fatal imperial error in Iran? Read Now 7/14/04 Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib (Part IV) by Stan Goff -In this fourth meditation on pseudo-events, Stan Goff takes a painful look at the contradictions of Zionism - including the appalling episodes of cooperation between early Zionists and Nazis; the ugly similarities among South African, American, and Israeli racist nationalisms; and the brutal Israeli strategy of water hegemony. Read Now 7/2/04 Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib (Part III) by Stan Goff -In this third installment of his Jurassic Park series, FTW Military Editor Stan Goff sheds light on the hidden antecedents of today's "clash of civilizations." With the wry insight of one who has defected from the capitalist camp and jettisoned its predatory worldview, Goff replaces mythology with historical events. There's no knowing where we are until we ask how we got here -- and make a better map. Read Now 6/17/04 11-22-63 / 9-11-01: CONSPIRACY AND THE STATE OF THE UNION – by Jamey Hecht, PhD, FTW Assistant Managing Editor. -With a wide-angle lens, this essay scans the American political landscape and finds a desert, punctuated by green oases that struggle to expand. Let's make it rain. Read Now 6/11/04 Theatrical Militarism Gets More Bad Reviews: Rumsfeld's Monster Pictures And The Fallout From Abu Ghraib (Jurassic Park - Part II) -In this sequel, Goff looks at a few more public relations disasters leading up to the second War on Iraq. U.S. handling of Russia seems to have led to Russian assistance for the Iraqi "rebels," and an absurdly incompetent approach to Turkey won the Bush Administration a last-minute setback that may have cost it more than mere delay. Read Now 5/20/04 HEARTS AND MINDS AND A WHOLE LOT OF BLOOD: Blinded By Its Smug Ignorance, the War Machine Gets Panicky – by Stan Goff - Racism and greed may have made the neocons bolder, freeing them from whatever ethical constraints they might have heard of in their travels. But that same rapacity and contempt for human life have also blunted their judgment. The War Department and its private contractors are making a certain class of mistakes that you only make when you know you’re in the wrong, and your army knows it, and your enemy knows it. The Secretary of War has somehow convinced himself that the same bazillion dollar ultragadget that launches a missile through a doorway can also convince all those bereaved Iraqi families to roll out the red carpet. Surely there’s a button for that here somewhere? Read Now 5/18/04 Theatrical Militarism Returns to Prime Time; MAD SCIENTISTS IN WASHINGTON HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH MESOPOTAMIAN PETRO-THEME-PARK – (Part I) by Stan Goff - Stan Goff analyzes the contradictions of America's imperial oil grab and the international responses currently unfolding in the wake of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Read Now 4/29/04 HAITI & VENEZUELA--COUP & EMPIRE: Part II by Stan Goff - Class and Complexity in Haiti: In this part of the world, it never pays to be intellectually lazy on these issues. They're tricky. Haiti has two predominant ruling classes, one based on land and one based on money. Read Now 4/6/04 THE MERCENARY VARIABLE-OUTSOURCED COMBAT IN IRAQ -- What Really Happened in Fallujah? -- Will Mercenaries Help Uncle Sam Beat a Draft? by Stan Goff - A retired Special Forces veteran and former military science instructor at West Point tells what really happened in Fallujah. He also describes a trend toward the increasing use of Private Military Contractors or PMCs, a euphemism for mercenaries. Although their numbers will increase in US operations around the world they will not replace enough combat troops to allow the US to avoid a draft. Mercs don't operate in battalion-sized units. What they will do, as a result of a lack of accountability, profit motives fed by tax dollars, and unclear lines of command, is increase battlefield complexity to a point where many new things can and probably will go wrong. As Fallujah tells us, they already have. . Read Now 4/5/04 RICHARD CLARKE'S ORCHESTRA - Maestro Plays Simple Waltz; Shackled Media Manage to Dance Along, by Jamey Hecht, Ph.D. There are inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the reverberating bombshells that Richard Clarke is dropping on the Bush Administration. For the educated reader, Clarke seems to want to tell us more than he actually says while saying less than he could. There's plenty in his book for researchers and activists to work on. Read Now 3/23/04 HAITI & VENZUELA - Coup And Empire (Part I) by Stan Goff - White Supremacy Intersects With the Need for Oil. An incredible history and analysis of current and coming events by a retired Special Forces soldier who was sent to Haiti in 1994. Think you understand everything about how the world is evolving? Goff's incisive writing and first-hand experience portray a humanity that is sinking to the lowest common denominator. Past is future as Iran-Contra, Clinton Politics and Jim Crow laws intersect America 's march to control rapidly depleting oil supplies. There are many ways to defeat the Empire's enemies. Stealing their pride is one of them. Read Now 1/15/04 US OPENS NEW FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR - WEST AFRICA It didn't receive much play in the media but, consistence with FTW predictions for 18 months, Britain's The Guardian reported yesterday that the US had made an official military move into Mauritania, a West African nation with small but accessible oil reserves. Why are we not surprised? Read Now 10/14/03 KOREA, CHINA, AND THE US -According to The Asia Times, China Has Just Moved 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea and is widening the roads for armor. Former West Point instructor and retired Special Forces veteran Stan Goff makes sense of an increasingly dangerous situation. Read Now 9/22/03 White House is ambushed by criticism from America's military community. Read Now 9/8/03 Michael Meacher, a former British environment minister, vindicates FTW's position on 9/11, the war on terrorism, and peak oil. Read Now 5/31/03 Rockefeller Says Iraq's Weapons Should Have Been Found By Now Read Now 5/31/03 CIA Asked To Explain Prewar Reports - Congresswoman Warns Of Spy 'Hoax' Read Now 5/15/03 SAUDI ARABIA, WEST AFRICA -- NEXT STOPS IN THE INFINITE WAR FOR OIL FTW Predicted Saudi Destabilization Nine Months Ago. As venerable progressive icons like Pacifica radio's "Democracy Now" belatedly discover the inconsistencies and lies of 9/11, the moves for the next conquests are already in play. Deployment of US troops for the Iraqi invasion was also the preparation for the seizure of Saudi Arabia's reserves, the largest in the world. And the smaller but more accessible prizes of West African reserves have become predictably threatened by rebel uprisings and - Surprise! - al Qaeda. Peak Oil is confirmed yet again. Read Now 4/21/03 WOLVES AND SHEEP As the U.S. prepares to declare "victory" in Iraq retired West Point instructor, Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff analyzes the entirety of the war. From brutal massacres, to the U.S. instigation of the looting of Iraqi antiquities, to the sleazy pandering of U.S. mainstream media, to the dust of depleted uranium which will be killing for a thousand years, Goff gives us an inside analysis of a war that most of us don't know about. He also documents the abject failure American progressives to make even the slightest bit of difference in anything about this war, or the next one. Read Now 4/16/03 A PUBLIC SPANKING FOR BUSH Bush I Secretary of State and Kissinger business partner Lawrence Eagleburger delivers a stinging public rebuke to "W" with the BBC. The Neocons are losing favor with the financial powers that be which keep them in power. Read Now 4/14/03 Meet the Brave New World the lawless Bush Administration has created. After the U.S. ignores international law, India announces it may stage a pre-emptive strike on Pakistan. Nuclear Armageddon is on the radar screen. Read Now 4/1/03 WHAT IF? - Something Priceless Has Been Lost Forever - A Sober Look From Europe at the Trap Closing on the U.S. -- The Bush Administration Has Been Suckered Read Now 3/18/03 AFP Reports Australian PM Under Siege at Own Residence for Committing Aussie Troops to War A resistance deepens and the doors open to a breadth and depth of civil disobedience never before seen in human history! Read Now 3/17/03 (FTW EXCLUSIVE!): ROLLING START, The Idiot Prince Will Have His War By Retired Special Forces MSgt and Former Military Science Instructor at West Point, Stan Goff. In this stark analysis of what we can expect from military operations we see that the military picture around Iraq has changed a great deal since last September. The wishful thinking of the Bush Administration and the markets may stumble over massive civilian casualties and likely chaos in Kurdestan. Read Now 3/5/03 Feb 5th is the showdown. Colin Powell goes to the UN in a High Noon final moment to "make the case" for war with Iraq. Polls indicate that most Americans believe the case has not been made, especially about Iraqi links to Al Qaeda. Powell may have a surprise coming if he tries to go there. Read Now 3/4/03 Call Your Senator Now and Support SR 32! "Expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the actions the President should take before any use of military force against Iraq without the broad support of the international community." Read Now 2/28/03 Dis-Integration What, Me Worry? Of Course the World is Falling Apart Read Now 2/13/03 THE FIG LEAF COMES OFF – Belgian Court: "Sharon Can Be Tried for War Crimes"; Israel: "It's About Iraq" – NATO Fractures as Global Alliances Shift and Opposition to the U.S. Erupts Everywhere. As with Nazi Germany, the Tyrant is Most Deadly When Losing Read Now 2/6/03 CRISIS IN BRITAIN – Tony Blair’s Iraqi Intelligence Dossier on Iraq was Plagiarized from a Grad Student. British TV Breaks Scandal with Proof - Powell Praised and Quoted Same Report at UN. Worldwide Outrage Spreads - Blair Government in Jeopardy Read Now 2/6/03 Anti-War Resolutions Passed in 64 Cities and Now, in One State: Hawaii In particular, the language of HR 22 specifically seeks: "For using approaches other than a unilateral military solution; Read Now 2/4/03 Call Your Senator Now and Support SR 32! "Expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the actions the President should take before any use of military force against Iraq without the broad support of the international community." Read Now 1/30/2003 THE DIE IS CAST [Revised and updated from our Bulletin of January 24th, 2003. There is important new material at the beginning and the end.] Read Now 1/30/03 From Our Friends in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Read Now 1/24/03 FTW URGENT BULLETIN Serious international developments are indicating that the first stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq will begin unilaterally no later than next Wednesday and most likely as the President delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night. Read Now 1/13/03 PREEMPTIVE IMPEACHMENT With the world perched ever closer on the brink of all out war, International Law Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois has offered his services to any member of Congress to draft articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This story from the Online Journal is spreading like wildfire. Read Now 1/11/03 It's impossible to hide the growing dissent inside the beltway. Senior White House Correspondent Helen Thomas - a true heroine and role model for all journalists - let Ari Fleischer and the Bush administration have it right between the eyes - and the legs. Over Iraq and U.S. foreign policy. Want to be inspired? Read this! Click Here 12/19/02 U.S. BALKS AT IRAQI INVASION - GLOBAL ECONOMIC OPPOSITION SUCCEEDING Risks of A Massive Global Conflict Increase with Each New Successful Economic Effort to Slow the Empire's Expansion Read Now 11/23/02 An editorial by the head of a prominent Malaysian think tank reveals some of the fears, concerns and hopes from the Islamic world; a world as much victimized by Islamic radical terrorism as the West, a world under siege and a world justly fearful of the results of a U.S. attack on Iraq. This editorial cuts through and bypasses the spin of American corporate media, so blatantly in service to the Bush war machine and Wall Street. [Reprinted with permission]. Read Now 10/28/02 Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans For Iraq. Administration Making Riskier, More Volatile Moves to Begin "All or Nothing" Gamble for Iraqi Oilfields. Read Now 10/07/02 Alhamziand Almihdhar, the story of two of the 9-11 hijackers has the media and the FBI scratching their heads. We may never know who was really on the hijacked airliners. But things are starting to smell rotten in every official account. click here 10/01/02 BUSH ADVISORS PLANNED IRAQ WAR SINCE 1990s Read Now 8/27/02 An essay by Mike Ruppert on oil, elite criminality, and energy wasted on long-dead conspiracies. Read Now 8/27/02 THE INFINITE WAR AND ITS ROOTS Special Forces veteran Stan Goff analyzes the causes of the "War on Terrorism" -- U.S. domination of the OPEC region. Read Now 8/27/02 BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE Many nations condemn Bush's plans for an invasion of Iraq. High-level Republicans have also been critical of the administration's intention to invade without the support of an international coalition. Read Now 8/21/02 BREAKING NEWS – HEAVY U.S. DEPLOYMENTS SUGGEST IRAQI INVASION A CERTAINTY. Invasion Likely for Mid to Late September. A Likely Battle Plan for a Quick Military Victory and Breakdown of Military Units Likely to be Involved. As Many as 100,000 US Troops Already Deployed with Another 150,000 Trained, Equipped and Ready to Go. Read Now 8/21/02 SAUDI ARABIA, THE SARAJEVO OF THE 21ST CENTURY. As Wealthy Saudis withdraw up to $200 Billion from US Banks in a Move That Could Bring Down the Economy, the Kingdom Sits Atop 25% of the World's Oil and Is About to Erupt in a Civil War. It May Also Be the Object of U.S. Invasion Plans. And a Surprising New Discovery Near Mecca and Medina Might Throw the World Economy into Chaos – Gold, and Lots of It. Read Now INSIDER TRADING 4/22/02 Briefing Paper, The Case for Bush Administration Foreknowledge of the Attacks of September 11th. Read Now 2/11/02 TIMELINE BEFORE AND AFTER THE SEPT 11 ATTACKS DEMONSTRATES THE COMPLICITY OF THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION AND CIA IN GETTING THE WAR THEY NEEDED TO CONTROL CENTRAL ASIAN OIL AND THE DRUG MONEY FROM CENTRAL ASIA. Read Now 2/11/02 Congress and the Administration Accomplices in ENRON Cover-Up! - Catherine Austin Fitts Takes On DynCorp and Harvard's "Pug" Winokur who, while Chairing Enron's Finance Committee, Is Also a Board Member of DynCorp, The Company That Manages Records for the Department of Justice, the Pentagon and the SEC. - Harvard Connected to Insider Trading on Enron -- Enron May Have Laundered $3 Trillion of Stolen Taxpayer Money While Congress Lets The Evidence and the Cash Slip Away. Read Now 1/9/02 Shocking New Evidence on Insider Trading Connected to 9/11, The CIA and the Markets, Deutschebank, AB Brown, United Air Lines, Insurance companies and the story of Kevin Ingram Read Part I - 12-06-01 Read Part II - 12-11-01 Read Part III - 01-09-02 10/9/01 Evidence of criminal insider trading before WTC ATTACKS leads directly into the highest levels of the CIA. Read Now VREELAND 9/25/02 After a six month investigation, Guerrilla News Network breaks Sander Hicks' in-depth story on Delmart Vreeland. We're grateful to see Sander Hicks' story in print. Until Mike Ruppert's forthcoming book, "Crossing the Rubicon," is published, he will not make any comments on the Vreeland story unless there is a major breaking development. As Ruppert has noted before, "this story is not over." Read Now 4/22/02 Briefing Paper, The Case for Bush Administration Foreknowledge of the Attacks of September 11th. Read Now 4/9/02 An Open Letter From "Mike" Vreeland to David Corn of The Nation and Norman Solomon of FAIR. Read Now 4/4/02 "Mike" Vreeland Speaks - 35 Questions and Answers from the US Navy Officer in Canada Who warned of the 9-11 Attacks Read Now 3/15/02 DELMART "Mike" Vreeland in Safe House - All Canadian Charges Dropped - Temporary Refugee Status Granted Read Now 3/14/02 Delmart "Mike" Vreeland ordered released from Toronto Jail in a surprise hearing while his attorneys were not present. The judge in the case publicly announced the address where Vreeland, the Naval officer who predicted 9-11 in a written warning, has been ordered to reside and announced curfew hours. The is the exact same pattern followed in the case of CIA operative and drug smuggler Barry Seal, gunned down by assassins in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1986. Read Now 3/3/02 Updates on the Mike Vreeland Story Naval Officer Who Gave Advance Warnings of 9-11 Attacked in Canadian Jail Canadian Government Resisting Attempts to Introduce Evidence In Extradition Hearings US and Canadian Positions Losing Credibility Read Now 1/28/02 Dateline Toronto: The case of a US Navy officer jailed in Toronto exposes US government foreknowledge of the September 11th attacks. Pentagon confirms rank, office number and telephone extension of Lt. Mike Vreeland who the Navy says was discharged as a Seaman in 1986. He wrote details of the 9-11 attacks in August! Read Now UNSCRAMBLED FIGHTER JETS 1/18/05 SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001: THE CASE AGAINST CHENEY - by Michael Kane Read Now 7/26/04 Choose Your Side and Choose it Now! - By Michael C. Ruppert - This brief memo from Michael C. Ruppert quotes in full the recent Statement from the 911 Family Steering Committee. That Statement endorses the 911Commission Report - which means that FTW and the 9/11 Truth Movement in general ought never to claim any concrete affinity with the Family Steering Committee. It's possible - and important - to remain on genuine good terms with that afflicted group, though their judgment has predictably and tragically lapsed at a crucial moment. But it must be absolutely clear that the FSC position has no endorsement whatsoever from FTW and activists seeking full exposure of those tragic events. In terms of official positions, the Kean Report and its every adherent must be rejected explicitly - though this does not preclude the maintenance of respectful relations and possible future rapprochements. As for the patterns and manipulations that resulted in the FSC's position, it's all-too-familiar. Read Now 7/12/04 The Final Fraud - 9/11 Commission closes its doors to the public; Cover-Up Complete - By Michael Kane - In this eyewitness account, Mike Kane looks at the 911 Commission's performance on the day of the really big show - NORAD / FAA day. He finds a chorus of costumed players mouthing their lines to their uniformed counterparts as the cameras roll. The dangerous issue they pretend to confront is nowhere to be seen, and before the harmless script comes off the press and into the bookstores, we recognize the gist: "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Read Now 1/31/02 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES - explosive series exploding the lies told by Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld about the U.S. Air Force on 9-11. As the controversy grows, read the latest developments on this explosive story. [ All original stories posted at www.tenc.net] Part I Investigative Update Part 2 Part 3 BIOWARFARE 12/15/05 Jerome Hauer now on Bioport Board of Directors - Democracy Now & The Nation Completely Blow the REAL Story - by Michael Kane with comment by FTW Read Now 11/02/05 TOTAL HEALTH TYRANNY - The Year's Biggest Story No One is Talking About - by Michael Kane Read Now 9/23/05 Biodefense Program in Galveston, TX Sacrifices Research for Public Safety - By Jamey Hecht, PhD Read Now 9/13/05 NEW ORLEANS AREA BIOWEAPONS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH LABS JEOPARDIZED BY KATRINA Tulane’s National Primate Research Center Reports No Release of Nearly 5,000 Test Monkeys or Disease Agents – Other NOLA Defense or Research Projects Involve HIV, SIV, SARS, Herpes-B, Anthrax, Botulism, Measles, West Nile and Mousepox Read Now 3/16/04 VACCINE EPIDEMIC - The Biowar Boondoggle Continues as VaxGen and DynPort are Among Companies Receiving Lucrative Contracts for Dangerous Vaccines Untested for Efficacy. Nanotechnology, Covert Operations, Questionable FDA Approvals Abound as Aerosol Vaccination is Promoted, Possibly from Aircraft. As the Government Solicits Bids for 25 Million Anthrax Vaccines and Retains the Right Granted by the Homeland Security Bill to Forcibly Vaccinate Americans, Something Really Sick is Happening – by Michael Kane Read Now 12/9/03 DAVID KELLY AND VICTORIA'S SECRET by Jim Rarey. Even darker connections to the set up and betrayal of one of Britain's top biowar experts. Rarey's investigation indicates that a man who had conducted Biowar liaison with Russian, South African and Israeli scientists was about to spill the beans. Read Now 11/12/03 THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY - Part 2 Investigative journalist Jim Rarey blows the lid of the suicide of the British bioweapons expert who helped exposed Tony Blair's falsified Iraqi intelligence. Throughout, there are more very alarming ties to the continuing epidemic of deaths among bioweapons experts and microbiologists capable of producing gene-specific bioweapons. Read Now 10/14/03 THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY - Part 1 Journalist Jim Rarey confirms the suspicions held by many that British Microbiologist David Kelly – at the center of Britain's intelligence scandal – was murdered. Rarey has done the hard methodical work of deconstructing the official version. Not only is the Blair government teetering as a domino that may fall towards Washington, another world-class microbiologist has died under mysterious circumstances. Part I Read Now 5/09/03 A SPECIAL FTW INVESTIGATION: SARS: Combining Biological and Economic Warfare - by Michael Ruppert and Wayne Madsen. This 21-page report indicates that SARS is likely manmade and definitely man-manipulated for political purposes like the containment of China and the implementation of social control in America. But there are also SARS links to the deaths of as many as 10 world-class microbiologists since 9/11. These scientists specialized in techniques necessary for the creation of a hybrid coronavirus. The evidence suggests that the evolution of the disease, how it mutates, and how it is handled warrant very close attention. It would not be the first time America has used bioeconomic warfare. Read Now 4/6/03 SARS: A GREAT GLOBAL SCAM by Dr. Len Horowitz, who warned of the anthrax attacks before they happened and then forced the government to admit the anthrax came from CIA programs, blows the lid on SARS. It’s economic warfare and a preparation for when the real bio killers are unleashed. More people die of the flu and malaria each year. But now your brain will be prepared for the emergency quarantine orders and suspension of civil liberties that are coming. Incredible documentation! Read Now 3/11/03 SPECIAL REPORT: UNHOLY GRAIL (Part II): Do Gene Specific Bioweapons Exist? In the conclusion of this unnerving series, Kellia Ramares reveals that gene-specific bioweapons may have already been used against the easiest targets of all. And she then takes a look at how the scientifc community is avoiding the issue along with the deeper ethical issues these weapons raise for all of mankind. Read Now 3/04/03 SPECIAL REPORT: UNHOLY GRAIL (Part I): Do Gene Specific Bioweapons Exist? FTW asked Public Affairs producer and investigative reporter Kellia Ramares to take a hard and thorough look through the scientific community to see if weapons that would harm only organisms possessing a specific gene characteristic actually existed. Since 9-11 the possibility of such weapons as a tool of war or an instrument of population reduction has remained an unspoken major question. What Ramares found will shock you. If they existed, these most devastating weapons would be classified above Top Secret. But what is provable is that there is a list of countries which have been pursuing them and that the technology has been perfected to the point where they are within reach. (Part II will be published on March 11). Read Now 1/15/03 US RAMPS UP BIOWEAPONS RESEARCH The U.S. is accelerating its bioweapons research and putting containment labs in some very strange places. Kellia Ramares discloses ominous new details about what Uncle Sam is doing with deadly germ programs and why. Read Now 1/07/03 VACCINES AND MORE VACCINES The encouraging signs seen as health care pros from the US to Israel refuse smallpox vaccinations don’t seem to bother market forecasts that vaccine revenues will double by 2006. Following the money… Read Now 12/16/02 SMALLPOX, MEHPA UPDATES: While the CIA balks at stating that Saddam has vaccine resistant strains of smallpox, the New York Times is now suggesting that he does. As President Bush orders vaccinations of the military, and while HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson publicly acknowledges the dangers of vaccines, the legislation that enables compulsory vaccination of the American people continues to make progress through state legislatures. Read Now 12/3/02 Urgent Alert - Stories Breaking That Saddam Has Rare Weaponized Smallpox From Russia Read Now 9/24/02 Biowarfare: CDC Issues Plan for Mass Smallpox Vaccinations. Questions raised on MEHPA and Microbiologist deaths. Read Now 1/17/02 Bush Signs $4.6 Billion Bioterror Bill MEHPA Now Passed in 11 States; New Vaccines OK'd Without Testing for Efficacy, Courts Uphold Forced Vaccinations. Read Now 4/4/02 Support for MEHPA Fades as More Microbiologists Continue to Die Under Mysterious Circumstances by Michael Davidson Read Now 3/3/02 Post 9-11 Microbiologist Fatalities Now as High as 14. New and Ominous Connections to DynCorp and Promis Software Connections Emerging. A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health (Revised - updated) Read Now 2/14/02 As Many as 12 Dead Microbiologists Since 9-11 and Many Connections To Biowarfare, the CIA and Deadly Plagues. The Murders, The Cover Ups and the Lies Don't Mesh With the US Government's Request for 300 Million Smallpox Vaccines and DynCorp's Contract To Develop Vaccines for the Army. What's Going On? Read Now 11/5/02 Len Horowitz, Harvard trained medical researcher, best-selling author, and biowarfare expert writes a letter to the FBI on anthrax. Is Bayer - a company connected to WWII Nazis behind the infections? Are Christian militias being set up top take a fall for a major company that's making millions from the scares? Read Now 10/26/02 Anthrax: Keystone Cops or Deniability. Bioport and Defense Contractors Making a Killing. An investigation by Jim Rarey. Read Now DRUGS 09/22/06 TONS OF COCAINE: CARACAS TO WASHINGTON - by Peter Dale Scott, PhD. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 6/7/05 Celerino Castillo on Luis Posada Carriles Read Now 11/16/03 Cynthia McKinney: "We Need Narco News, and It Needs Us" A Letter from Georgia's Congresswoman-Elect on the Need for Authentic Media Read Now 12/11/03 AFGHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION DOUBLES Ever wonder why the markets are doing so well? As FTW has documented for years, with almost $600 billion in drug money being laundered through Wall Street and US banks, the markets should be improving. According to CNN, opium production in Afghanistan is 36 times higher than at the end of Taliban rule. Not every US policy overseas is a failure. Hamid Karzai controls a few square blocks of Kabul. But CIA-controlled warlords control the real estate that really matters. Read Now 3/1/03 Afghanistan Displaces Myanmar as Top Heroin Producer It's not about controlling drug profits...or is it? Read Now 6/19/02 "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING? Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away Expanded and Revised June 19, 2002 - Evidence of Bush Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. 16 New Items Since Our Last Revision! Read Now 2/11/02 GNN's short documentary "Crack the CIA" wins at Sundance. Features Cele Castillo, Peter Dale Scott and Mike Ruppert Read Now 10/10/01 The Lies About Taliban Heroin. A replay of CIA's Vietnam era drug dealing. FTW revises its economic map. Read Now PROMIS SOFTWARE 4/4/05 Clarifications Regarding Ptech Software Read Now 1/27/05 THE FAA KNEW! But Were They Set Up? - by Michael Kane - A newly released 9/11 Commission document reveals that between April and September 10, 2001, FAA leaders recieved some 52 warnings about the al Qaeda threat to US aviation. But now the story's spin is pointing straight in the wrong direction. Read Now 1/27/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II - PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed - by Michael Kane - The FAA & Ptech - Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS - Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis Read Now 1/20/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR, Part I PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed. by Jamey Hecht, with research assistance by Michael Kane and editorial comment by Michael C. Ruppert. Wall St. whistleblower Indira Singh tells an insider's story of corruption in the very highest places. Software of incredible power has been funded by confirmed Saudi terrorists and installed on systems in the FAA -- and NORAD, and the FBI, and the White House, and the Navy, and the House of Representatives, and on and on. Its roots are in PROMIS, and its applications range from 9/11 to TIA to a chilling new brand of warfare that may soon be used to cripple Iran. Read Now 3/3/02 Post 9-11 Microbiologist Fatalities Now as High as 14. New and Ominous Connections to DynCorp and Promis Software Connections Emerging. A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health (Revised - updated) Read Now 12/18/03 THE BACKGROUND IS OIL A global oil crisis that cannot be postponed or evaded is upon us. Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer explains -- in layman's terms a context for recent events that makes the inexcusable actions of the Bush administration understandable. Some groups will do anything to avoid letting go of power, including killing millions of people. Who's next? Read Now 11/19/01 Osama bin Laden is likely in possession of software that can compromise the U.S. military, intelligence and financial systems. As established by court records and congressional hearings the government stole the software eighteen years ago. - [UPDATED, NOV. 19] Read Now 10/26/01 Promis Software (Expanded Story) - bin Laden Inside DoJ and the FBI Computer Systems? - Connections to Threats Received By Air Force One - Britain Germany In The Lurch - Legal Crisis for the U.S. Government Which Stole The Software in the First Place - Money Laundering Investigations Compromised - An Inside Look at What Promis Can Do And Why There Is Reason to Worry. Read Now 9/30/01 PROMIS Software History by Mike Ruppert Read Now THE BUSH FAMILY 11/24/04 Another Insult From Bush And The Pentagon Neo-cons Thursday November 25th 2004 is the 41st anniversary of President Kennedy's funeral. Take a look at the way this season of mourning has been handled this week -- and on November 22 itself -- by the keepers of power. Read Now 10/10/03 MARVIN BUSH EMPLOYEE'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH – Connections to 9/11? Marvin Bush has a number of connections to 9/11 including sitting on the boards of security companies with contracts at Dulles airport and the WTC as well as a reinsurer for the WTC and a flight training company connected to Mohammed Atta. Why did a driverless car crush Marvin Bush's live-in babysitter on September 29th and why did The Washington Post sit on the story for a week? Read Now 4/29/03 Bush's "Christian" Blood Cult Wayne Madsen, Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist and former intelligence officer with the National Security Agency drops some big bombshells in George W. Bush's spiritual back yard. Read Now 10/26/01 Bin Ladens Bail on the Carlyle Group. Score One For The Good Guys. Read Now 10/17/01 CORRECTIONS October 17, 2001, FTW - We would like to correct two minor errors from previous stories Read Now 10/9/01 Three generations of Bushes have armed America's enemies: from Hitler, to Hussein, to bin Laden. The Best Enemies Money Can Buy Read Now 9/18/01 Bush/bin Laden Ties Read Now OSAMA BIN LADEN 1/12/05 New Osama Tape, Deeper Propaganda Twists by Larry Chin Once you recognize the complicity of American authorities in the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act takes on a whole new meaning. The attack on civil liberties is not a lesser evil, a regrettable compromise with harsh new realities, a defense against laxity in the face of foreign dangers. No, domestic repression is among the dearest goals of the plotters. Fact: "they" hate our freedom. Forbidden fact: "they" were in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center on Black Tuesday, drinking Coca Cola and directing the day's events. Here Larry Chin looks at the recent tape from the Great Satan and finds smoke, and mirrors, and "them." Read Now 2/11/02 Bin Laden met with CIA reps in July. Pakistani intell gave $100,000 to Atta. A complete timeline, from 1998-2001 proving government complicity in the attacks. Expanded and revised timeline around Sept. 11th. Read Now 11/2/01 Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa produces proof from the Congressional Record that the Islamic nation that aided Osama bin Laden was Pakistan. There is evidence that the CIA used Pakistani intelligence to fund the attacks on Americans in order to start the war and win public support. Read Now 9/11/01 Osama Bin Laden - FTW's 1998 story on bin Laden and his CIA roots. (Re-released from August 1998 story on bin Laden) Read Now GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION - COMPLICITY 10/10/06 THE WAR ON YOU: U.S. GOVERNMENT TARGETING OF AMERCIAN DISSIDENTS - Part II - By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 10/09/06 9/11 and The New Pearl Harbor - A Response to Bill Weinberg - By Michael Kane, FTW Energy Affairs Editor Read Now 10/06/06 American Stew - By Ezekiel Jones Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 10/05/06 THE INSURGENT’S HANDBOOK - Part I - By Stan Goff FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 10/03/06 THE WAR ON YOU: U.S. GOVERNMENT TARGETING OF AMERCIAN DISSIDENTS - Part I - By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/29/06 UN SESSION MARKS RAPIDLY CHANGING, UNSTABLE WORLD - by MICHAEL C. RUPPERT Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/27/06 Meta-Analyses of Odds Against Chance Ratios - Progressive Deviations, Theoretical Anomalies, and Missing Smoking Guns in U.S. Political Murder Mysteries: Part I - by William Brandon Shanley Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/27/06 THAT RUMBLING YOU HEAR IS THE CRUMBLING OF THE EMPIRE - by Jenna Orkin Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/26/06 MEXICO ON FIRE: REKINDLING THE SPIRIT OF ZAPATA - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/25/06 PAKISTANI PAYOFFS: Deceiving the Public for Fun, Profit, and Votes-- Cynical Manipulation Beyond Belief - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/14/06 9/11 - I Remember - By Michael Kane, FTW Staff Writer Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/11/06 THE OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY IS THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACY - By Barry Zwicker Read Now 09/11/06 THE 9/11 SMOKING GUN - (Dedicated to Michael Ruppert, Great American) - By William Brandon Shanley Read Now 09/11/06 A REQUIEM FOR TRUTH: THE FINAL TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - (Opinion) - By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 08/21/06 THE PROOF IS IN THE DOCUMENTS: THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ - Reported by, Eva Golinger Read Now 08/17/06 BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE - A Permanent Goodbye to the United States - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 06/12/06 GODFATHER GOVERNMENT: THE SOPRANOS AREN’T LEAVING -- What Your Government Has Become and Forever Will Be -- by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. In a few days FTW will be issuing its fourth-ever economic alert. You need to read this first. Read Now 05/22/06 DICK CHENEY REIGNITES GRAND CHESSBOARD - by FTW Read Now 05/19/06 IT'S THE TIMING, NOT THE FILM: New Frames from Pentagon Crash Video Show Langley Embarrassing the 9/11 Truth Movement - by Jamey Hecht, Ph.D., Senior Staff Writer Read Now 05/09/06 FEET OF CLAY: Defied at Last, Rumsfeld Mumbles His Way to Nowhere - by FTW Read Now 03/24/06 SHALLOW HISTORY vs. DEEP POLITICS AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 03/07/06 WOOLSEYS IN SHEEPS CLOTHING - How Dumb Can the Left Get? - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 1/19/06 Exterminism and the World in the Wake of Katrina (Part 4)- by Stan Goff Read Now 1/18/06 Exterminism and the World in the Wake of Katrina (Part 3)- by Stan Goff Read Now 12/27/05 “Identifying Misinformation” - The State Department’s Rosetta Stone for understanding 9/11 disinformation promotes 9/11 conspiracy hoaxes while ignoring Crossing the Rubicon and other authentic investigations - by Mark Robinowitz Read Now 7/27/05 Rovegate - by Jim DiEugenio With comment by Jamey Hecht. Read Now 6/24/05 The Rove Remarks - by Jamey Hecht The regime is in a bind: it needs the high-octane political fuel that 9/11 provides, but that fuel is getting more and more expensive. Read Now 3/01/05 Cynthia Mckinney Shakes Rumsfeld and Myers Over 9/11 Wargames (See the video ) On February 16th Congressional leadership and two of the planners of the 9/11 attacks blocked, stalled and almost got away with ducking the central question about 9/11. Though they were not forced to answer McKinney's question, their reaction belongs to all of us. We know. They know we know. Don't hold your breath that Rumsfeld and Myers will ever be compelled to answer it, but also don't ever forget the heroism coming from the last bright light on Capitol Hill. Read Now 1/27/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II - PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed - by Michael Kane - The FAA & Ptech - Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS - Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis Read Now 1/20/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR, Part I PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed. by Jamey Hecht, with research assistance by Michael Kane and editorial comment by Michael C. Ruppert. Wall St. whistleblower Indira Singh tells an insider's story of corruption in the very highest places. Software of incredible power has been funded by confirmed Saudi terrorists and installed on systems in the FAA -- and NORAD, and the FBI, and the White House, and the Navy, and the House of Representatives, and on and on. Its roots are in PROMIS, and its applications range from 9/11 to TIA to a chilling new brand of warfare that may soon be used to cripple Iran. Read Now 1/18/05 SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001: THE CASE AGAINST CHENEY - by Michael Kane Read Now 11/24/04 Another Insult From Bush And The Pentagon Neo-cons Thursday November 25th 2004 is the 41st anniversary of President Kennedy's funeral. Take a look at the way this season of mourning has been handled this week -- and on November 22 itself -- by the keepers of power. Read Now 11/02/04 Day of the Dead: The Haunting of the White House - by Cynthia McKinney and Catherine Austin Fitts Something is rising from the ashes of September 11: the specter of questions that will haunt our country until answered. Read Now 8/11/04 In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. - by Wayne Madsen The Bush-Cheney campaign is racing toward November. But it isn't only running toward the raw power it loves. It's running away from the punishment it fears. In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. The neocons' dark alliance with the right wing of Israeli politics has brought them enormous power. But it's unstable power, vulnerable to legal sanction and due process at the right pressure points. As Watergate proved decades ago, even a dying legal infrastructure can still throw a few jabs once in a while - if the CIA wants it to. Read Now 8/4/04 Colin Powell, Reliable Cover-up Artist (see My Lai, Iran-Contra, Iraq, etc.) Gets Unreliable: Telling the Truth Feels Kind of Good, Doesn't It? Read Now 7/29/04 Coup D'Etat in America? Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa Economics Department is the author of The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, and of War and Globalization, the Truth Behind September 11. Here he surveys some of America's new bureaucratic infrastructure for "crisis management," and finds it well-suited to martial law. Read Now 7/27/04 Bush-Cheney Campaign Headquarters: What They Don't Want You To Know - by Wayne Madsen Read Now 7/12/04 Essay: Postponement of the November Election - by Michael C. Ruppert The Bush administration has asked for legislation enabling it to postpone the November election as a result of a terror attack. While worded very carefully to suggest that an attack must take place for such a move; I do not see either of the below stories unequivocally state that, if granted, these powers might not also permit elections to be “postponed” on merely a well-publicized threat. Don’t believe the press stories. Read the legislation when it is introduced to see what it says there. If that discretion is included then we are at the edge of an abyss more dangerous than anything we have ever faced. Read Now 6/25/04 Grand Jury Will Soon Issue Explosive Indictments In "Coup d'Etat," Mike Ruppert showed that Valerie Plame was no ordinary CIA employee; her work was part of at least one productive and well-established information gathering operation. In this latest report on the unfolding Plame investigation, Wayne Madsen shows what a long list of CIA people and projects have been compromised by the leak. John "Karl Rove" Doe and John "Dick Cheney" Doe seem to have no idea what kind of hibernating grizzly bear they've been jabbing at. They'll find out now, because it just woke up. Read Now 6/17/04 11-22-63 / 9-11-01: CONSPIRACY AND THE STATE OF THE UNION – by Jamey Hecht, PhD, FTW Assistant Managing Editor. -With a wide-angle lens, this essay scans the American political landscape and finds a desert, punctuated by green oases that struggle to expand. Let's make it rain. Read Now 4/8/04 LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT - Condoleezza Rice Testifies by Michael C. Ruppert - Ladies and gentlemen, what you witnessed today, on every major network, was perjury – a felony. We will prove that here. But compared to the crimes of murder, conspiracy and treason it was perhaps maybe too small a crime for the major media to notice. It was not too big a crime, however, for the American people and the victim families of 9/11 to notice. The revolution may not be televised. But it may have begun as a result of what was televised today. Where is Andy Sipowicz when we need him? Read Now 4/6/04 THE MERCENARY VARIABLE-OUTSOURCED COMBAT IN IRAQ -- What Really Happened in Fallujah? -- Will Mercenaries Help Uncle Sam Beat a Draft? by Stan Goff - A retired Special Forces veteran and former military science instructor at West Point tells what really happened in Fallujah. He also describes a trend toward the increasing use of Private Military Contractors or PMCs, a euphemism for mercenaries. Although their numbers will increase in US operations around the world they will not replace enough combat troops to allow the US to avoid a draft. Mercs don't operate in battalion-sized units. What they will do, as a result of a lack of accountability, profit motives fed by tax dollars, and unclear lines of command, is increase battlefield complexity to a point where many new things can and probably will go wrong. As Fallujah tells us, they already have. . Read Now 3/25/04 9-11 PROFITEERING: A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING THE "CUI BONO?” - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS - by Catherine Austin Fitts - Much has transpired since September 11, 2001. We've learned that numerous heads of state and foreign intelligence agencies tried to warn us before 9-11. Many disturbing unanswered questions have emerged through global Internet media. The official explanation of events does not conform to documented fact. The US government has supressed facts and restricted the 9-11 Commission's access to information and the Commission has conceded. Leaders of the national security infrastructure have been richly rewarded for failing to protect America on 9-11. Read Now 1/30/04 IN YOUR FACE - The Connections Between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil are On the Table -- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained Through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney "Duck Hunts" with Scalia -- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective -- THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY FTW PUBLISHER/EDITOR MIKE RUPPERT IN MORE THAN TWO YEARS -- Want to know where the Empire is vulnerable and real change is possible? Can you handle the truth? Read Now 12/31/03 THE YEAR OF THE LAW AND OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY -- Seemingly Unsolvable Legal Traps Face an Administration Running Out of Wiggle Room – Something Big Will Prevent Saddam From Coming to Trial by Michael C. Ruppert – The Bush administration has backed itself into several deadly legal corners. The Supreme Court is going to rule in July on the release of secret records of Dick Cheney's energy task force, German courts have thrown out a 9/11 terror case and the only 9/11 conviction ever obtained is about to be overturned. In the meantime, US Appeals court rulings have made it inevitable that 9/11 arrestees like Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and Ramzi bi al-Shibh must come into public view and speak. With an election looming the administration has little choice but to bypass the law in the coming year. Only a major disaster or terrorist attack can achieve that end. Read Now 12/17/03 9/11 COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED, 9/11 CHAIR ADMITS The modified limited hangout has arrived! (Admit part of the blame to hide the greater sin) -- Fresh on the heels of the reported capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration, working through a Republican apparatchik heading a virtually useless and spineless commission investigating the attacks, has decided to try to turn the corner on 9/11. It was all just a big mistake that could have been prevented and the Bush administration is protecting screw-ups. That’s what they want America and the world to believe. 9/11 was not an intelligence failure. It was an intelligence success. Everyone who sees this story is urged to react as strongly as possible with emails, calls and letters to CBS, the major press and the White House saying, "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. IT DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND WE WANT FULL DISCLOSURE." Read Now 12/14/03 Post-9/11, this doesn't seem all that weird Rocco Galati quits. Read Now 11/26/03 THE KENNEDYS, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND 9/11 by Michael C. Ruppert. What works, what doesn't and a long overdue amends to our readers. There is much to be learned from the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, other great crimes and what has worked on the post-9/11 playing field. But we may not have forty years to debate the point. Read Now 11/24/03 FAILURE AND CRIME ARE NOT THE SAME: 9/11's Limited Hangouts Jamey Hecht, Ph.D. dismembers the psychological games being played as independent 9/11 researchers all over the world back the US Government into ever-shrinking corners. One more time we see that the enemy we must fight is as much within ourselves as it is within those who would ask us to accept the concept of "Failure". Read Now 11/20/03 FTW Exclusive! MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH OF STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL Who Worked on Iraqi Intelligence by Wayne Madsen. How Did a Senior Analyst at State's Intelligence Unit Fall from the Roof of State's Headquarters This Week and Why is No One Talking About It? State Department reveal that Kokal was worried about his security clearance. Read Now 11/12/03 THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY - Part 2 Investigative journalist Jim Rarey blows the lid of the suicide of the British bioweapons expert who helped exposed Tony Blair's falsified Iraqi intelligence. Throughout, there are more very alarming ties to the continuing epidemic of deaths among bioweapons experts and microbiologists capable of producing gene-specific bioweapons. Read Now 11/6/03 FITTS FIGHTS BACK Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Catherine Austin Fitts, having survived a seven-year ordeal at the hands of the government and a Fat-Cat "Whistleblower", now gets her days in court. She's taking on the HUD Contractor who had a lot of help in seizing her money and destroying records and evidence of massive fraud tied to the CIA. The woman who taught us how money works is also redefining the words "courage" and "perseverance". Read Now 10/14/03 THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY Journalist Jim Rarey confirms the suspicions held by many that British Microbiologist David Kelly -- at the center of Britain's intelligence scandal -- was murdered. Rarey has done the hard methodical work of deconstructing the official version. Not only is the Blair government teetering as a domino that may fall towards Washington, another world-class microbiologist has died under mysterious circumstances. Part I Read Now 10/10/03 MARVIN BUSH EMPLOYEE'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH - Connections to 9/11? by Wayne Madsen. (Special to FTW) Marvin Bush has a number of connections to 9/11 including sitting on the boards of security companies with contracts at Dulles airport and the WTC as well as a reinsurer for the WTC and a flight training company connected to Mohammed Atta. Why did a driverless car crush Marvin Bush's live-in babysitter on September 29th and why did The Washington Post sit on the story for a week? Read Now 9/10/03 GULF WAR II SYNDROME? Special Forces veteran and brilliant writer Stan Goff describes another one of the lies and victimization of US troops by an insane government that is bent on eating its own. Only someone who is without a conscience could take heart from the fact that as many as 40% of the US troops now serving in Iraq may be condemned to death or permanent disability - without benefits or honor. Read Now 9/8/03 Michael Meacher, a former British environment minister, vindicates FTW's position on 9/11, the war on terrorism, and peak oil. Read Now 9/17/03 Not One Night's Sleep A report from the front lines in Berlin and New York. Cynthia McKinney and 9/11 activists make a promise to those in power -- A new day for 9/11 activists and researchers as world opinion shifts. (includes pictures, be patient on the upload). Read Now 7/15/03 BLOOD IN THE WATER, (Watergate II) Just as in 1972-4 the press and the powers that be are allowing the Bush administration to hang themselves with their own statements. The July 11 confession from DCI George Tenet may have doomed the Bush administration. The cancer growing on the presidency will eat All the King's Men until Bush himself is consumed. There is blood in the water and the feeding frenzy has begun. Rice and Cheney have already been singled out as the next targets. Read Now 5/31/03 CIA Asked To Explain Prewar Reports - Congresswoman Warns Of Spy 'Hoax' Read Now 3/14/03 Mohamed Atta and Rudi Dekkers Seen Together in Venice in Weeks Before Sept. 11 Attack The official FBI account of Mohammed Atta’s activities before 9-11 says that Atta left Florida and disappeared months before the attacks. Investigative journalist Dan Hopsicker, who brought you Barry and the Boys and Mohammed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus, reveals that Atta was hanging out in Florida taking cab rides with his buddy, flight school owner Rudi Dekkers, until August of 2001. Yet, according to the FBI, Dekkers barely knew Atta and never socialized with him. More holes, more lies from the government and more reason to look at the Bush administration for answers. Great gumshoe work by the intrepid Hopsicker! Read Now 1/30/03 Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush Read Now 1/30/03 Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950 Read Now 1/13/03 PREEMPTIVE IMPEACHMENT With the world perched ever closer on the brink of all out war, International Law Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois has offered his services to any member of Congress to draft articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This story from the Online Journal is spreading like wildfire. Read Now 11/27/02 WELLSTONE UPDATES FTW’s investigation into the crash which killed Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone reveals new information about the crash, the weather and the airplane. Some answers, like when FBI agents from Minneapolis arrived at the crash site, remain elusive. The FAA has also dragged its feet in providing public records. Other new information continues to confirm that weather had nothing to do with the crash which killed eight people and changed the face of American politics. The final NTSB report, however, will have to address what FTW has nailed down. Read Now 11/04/02 Lawsuit Challenges McKinney Primary Defeat Read Now 11/01/02 Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe It Read Now 6/21/02 NOINTELPRO – An Essay by Michael Ruppert on the Failure of Attacks Against Journalists Exposing the 9/11 Cover-Up. Effective strategies that will continue to weaken the government's position. Read Now 5/16/02 THE LIE WON'T STAND. Ari Fleischer's Statements for the Bush Administration Fail the Smell Test. Documented Warnings From German Intelligence and Vladimir Putin Prove That Bush Was Warned That Planes Would Be Crashed Into the WTC as Suicide Bombs. Other Warning Signals Make It Impossible to Believe Bush Excuses Read Now 5/16/02 Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Statement of May 16, 2002 Read Now 5/07/02 KILL THE MESSENGER - Rep. Cynthia McKinney Breaks the Ice - Stuns Critics - a Planned Media Assassination Fizzles as Public Support Emerges. A detailed examination of McKinney's statements, the orchestrated smear campaign against her, and the surprising outcome. -- by Michael Davidson. Read Now 5/07/02 CIA Admits a Degree of Foreknowledge of 9-11. CIA's Director of Operations, James Pavitt makes some surprising admissions about how much the CIA knew before and after the attacks in a speech at Duke University. -- Analysis by Larry Chin of onlinejournal.com. Read Now 5/07/02 THE DAM BREAKS - Major Names Speak Out on 9-11 Foreknowledge and Empire: Nightline, Vidal, Hersh, Moore. An essay by Mike Ruppert. As Public Consciousness Changes, Serious Conflicts May Be Looming After the "End of the Beginning." Read Now 4/22/02 Briefing Paper, The Case for Bush Administration Foreknowledge of the Attacks of September 11th. Read Now 4/4/02 The Elephant in the Living Room (Part I) - John Ashcroft has serious conflicts of interest around two grand juries investigating two of his biggest 2000 campaign donors, ExxonMobil and BP Amoco. He recused from Enron but not in this case. Both Companies Got Into the Still Secret Energy Task Force Headed by Dick Cheney. The Charges Have to do with Kazakh Oil That the Majors Couldn't Get to Market. When the Crimes Were Committed Dick Cheney Sat on the Kazakh Government's Oil Advisory Board. Read Now 2/11/02 Congress and the Administration Accomplices in ENRON Cover-Up! - Catherine Austin Fitts Takes On DynCorp and Harvard's Pug Winokur who, while Chairing Enron's Finance Committee, Is Also a Board Member of DynCorp, The Company That Manages Records for the Department of Justice, the Pentagon and the SEC. -Harvard Connected to Insider Trading on Enron -- Enron May Have Laundered $3 Trillion of Stolen Taxpayer Money While Congress Lets The Evidence and the Cash Slip Away. Read Now 1/15/02 Arthur Andersen Contract To Review Sensitive FBI Recordkeeping Practices Remains In Force As Andersen Moves Closer To Becoming a Criminal Suspect in Enron Case Conflicts of Interest Expanding Read Now 1/11/02 BREAKING NEWS - Enron Conflicts of Interest IN SEC and GAO. The two agencies that Congress needs to investigate Enron amidst allegations of possible money laundering are compromised. Pitt at SEC and Walker at GAO both have past ties to Enron's accounting firm Arthur Andersen. Read Now 12/4/02 Rep Henry Waxman Blasts Cheney On Closed Door Meetings on Oil and Cheney's Relations With Enron Read Now 11/9/01 How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Zbig Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard" and the four year old plan for September 11th. Read Now 11/20/01 OPERATION NORTHWOODS - Read the Top Secret documents describing the Pentagon's plan to attack Americans in order to start a war with Cuba. And you think they wouldn't do it to the World Trade Center? Read Now INVESTIGATIONS 6/7/06 THE NY TIMES PUTS 9-11 QUESTIONS IN THE GRAVE - As Sad As It Was Predictable, Story Marks the End of a Sequential and Planned Campaign to Discredit Authentic 9/11 Research - by Michael C. Ruppert and Jamey Hecht Read Now 8/9/05 Rovegate (part 2 of 2) By Jim DiEugenio, Special to From the Wilderness In this keen assessment of the burgeoning scandal called "Plamegate" -- echoing Watergate, which it increasingly resembles -- Jim DiEugenio finds guilt in high places. Read Now 7/29/05 IT HAPPENED IN AMERICA- by Michael C. Ruppert With comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 7/29/05 Cynthia McKinney Brings 9/11 Back to Congress - by Michael Kane For photographs of the Congressional briefing, please visit http://www.americanwebcast.net/911gallery/ Read Now 7/6/05 The NTSB Failed Wellstone - IGNORED EVIDENCE AND SUPPRESSED INVESTIGATIONS - by Jim Fetzer and John Costella, Special to From The Wilderness With comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 7/1/05 Target: AIG - Fraud probe of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg intensifies - by Larry Chin With comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 1/27/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II - PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed - by Michael Kane - The FAA & Ptech - Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS - Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis Read Now 1/20/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR, Part I PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed. by Jamey Hecht, with research assistance by Michael Kane and editorial comment by Michael C. Ruppert. Wall St. whistleblower Indira Singh tells an insider's story of corruption in the very highest places. Software of incredible power has been funded by confirmed Saudi terrorists and installed on systems in the FAA -- and NORAD, and the FBI, and the White House, and the Navy, and the House of Representatives, and on and on. Its roots are in PROMIS, and its applications range from 9/11 to TIA to a chilling new brand of warfare that may soon be used to cripple Iran. Read Now 8/11/04 In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. - by Wayne Madsen The Bush-Cheney campaign is racing toward November. But it isn't only running toward the raw power it loves. It's running away from the punishment it fears. In this late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise that may soon crack the administration in half. The neocons' dark alliance with the right wing of Israeli politics has brought them enormous power. But it's unstable power, vulnerable to legal sanction and due process at the right pressure points. As Watergate proved decades ago, even a dying legal infrastructure can still throw a few jabs once in a while - if the CIA wants it to. Read Now 6/25/04 GRAND JURY WILL SOON ISSUE EXPLOSIVE INDICTMENTS In "Coup d'Etat," Mike Ruppert showed that Valerie Plame was no ordinary CIA employee; her work was part of at least one productive and well-established information gathering operation. In this latest report on the unfolding Plame investigation, Wayne Madsen shows what a long list of CIA people and projects have been compromised by the leak. John "Karl Rove" Doe and John "Dick Cheney" Doe seem to have no idea what kind of hibernating grizzly bear they've been jabbing at. They'll find out now, because it just woke up. Read Now 12/05/03 KARL ROVE: THE KING OF DIRT In a scathing new editorial, Wayne Madsen focuses a much-needed spotlight on the activities of one of the meanest and most powerful members of the Bush cabal. Character assassination, dirty tricks, and even death seem to follow the enemies of the meanest man in Washington who -- according to some sources -- has his own skeletons to hide. Read Now 11/26/03 THE KENNEDYS, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND 9/11 by Michael C. Ruppert. What works, what doesn't and a long overdue amends to our readers. There is much to be learned from the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, other great crimes and what has worked on the post-9/11 playing field. But we may not have forty years to debate the point. Read Now 11/20/03 FTW Exclusive! MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH OF STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL Who Worked on Iraqi Intelligence by Wayne Madsen. How Did a Senior Analyst at State's Intelligence Unit Fall from the Roof of State's Headquarters This Week and Why is No One Talking About It? State Department reveal that Kokal was worried about his security clearance. Read Now 3/14/03 Mohamed Atta and Rudi Dekkers Seen Together in Venice in Weeks Before Sept. 11 Attack The official FBI account of Mohammed Atta’s activities before 9-11 says that Atta left Florida and disappeared months before the attacks. Investigative journalist Dan Hopsicker, who brought you Barry and the Boys and Mohammed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus, reveals that Atta was hanging out in Florida taking cab rides with his buddy, flight school owner Rudi Dekkers, until August of 2001. Yet, according to the FBI, Dekkers barely knew Atta and never socialized with him. More holes, more lies from the government and more reason to look at the Bush administration for answers. Great gumshoe work by the intrepid Hopsicker! Read Now 11/27/02 WELLSTONE UPDATES FTW’s investigation into the crash which killed Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone reveals new information about the crash, the weather and the airplane. Some answers, like when FBI agents from Minneapolis arrived at the crash site, remain elusive. The FAA has also dragged its feet in providing public records. Other new information continues to confirm that weather had nothing to do with the crash which killed eight people and changed the face of American politics. The final NTSB report, however, will have to address what FTW has nailed down. Read Now 11/01/02 Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? Democrats Twice As Likely To Die In Crashes. - History Suggests It - Crash Inconsistencies Suggest It - Many, Including Some Members of Congress, Believe It Read Now 8/27/02 9-11 LAWSUITS: SAUDIS, AIRLINES, BUSH FACE LITIGATION The legal snowball surrounding 9-11 grows, but the future of these suits remain uncertain. Read Now 6/21/02 A Large Press Conference Ignored by C-SPAN, Punches Large Holes in the Administration's Cover Story as a Number of Victim Families Sue the U.S. Government - a complete report. Read Now 6/21/02 Mike Ruppert's press conference statement, delivered live from Vancouver. Read Now 5/7/02 911 INVESTIGATION DELAY IS CERTAIN - Staff Director of 9-11 Probe Quits Suddenly. Both Britt Snider and Rick Cinquegrana, his temporary replacement as the head of the Joint 9-11 Congressional investigation, have serious CIA baggage that connects back to drug dealing, the Contras, House Intelligence hearings and three mysterious deaths in 2000. Ominous signs for the credibility of any Congressional investigation. - Analysis by Michael C. Ruppert. Read Now ECONOMY 09/20/06 FROM BUDAPEST TO BANGKOK - by Stan Goff FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/13/06 VENEZUELA - Caracas, Part II - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/12/06 VENEZUELA - Caracas, Part I - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 08/25/06 LATIN AMERICA DECONSTRUCTS THE TAPEWORM: LESSONS FOR FINANCIALLY - DRAINED AMERICANS - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 08/25/06 DOLLAR DECLINE BLUES - by Jamey Hecht, Ph.D. Read Now 08/11/06 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEBT - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 07/07/06 Big Brother’s Blunt Instrument: Gold Confiscation in a Post-Dollar Currency Crisis – by Jamey Hecht, PhD - What gold confiscation by the US government might look like and some ways around it. Read Now 06/16/06 COMEX DROPS PRICE FLUCTUATION LIMITS FOR GOLD, SILVER - Precious Metals Still the Best Long Play - Wild Price Swings Should Not Deter, Alarm Investors - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 06/14/06 FTW ECONOMIC ALERT #4 - THE ABYSS AWAITS - With Special Update - by Michael C. Ruppert - Recently President Bush made some unannounced changes that have broken down the walls between the intelligence community and the Securities and Exchange Commission. As Catherine Austin Fitts observed, “This is the economic infrastructure for fascism.” Read Now 9/1/05 The Demise of Business as Usual - An Apollo Project For Energy Can Succeed, But Not In A Market Economy - by Thomas L. Wayburn, PhD Read Now 1/28/05 GlobalCorp. - An Important Announcement by Michael C. Ruppert I AM NOT A POLITICIAN - THE FIRE IS NO LONGER ON ITS WAY - IT HAS BEGUN Read Now 2/7/05 WILL THE REAL ECONOMIC HIT MEN PLEASE STAND UP? - by Catherine Austin Fitts Meditations on 9/11 Truth Read Now 1/04/05 Taking the Fiscal Train Wreck to the Poverty Draft by Jamey Hecht Massive tax cuts during a deficit crisis? In "wartime"? There must be a reason. Read Now 12/06/04 Persian Peril, Part Five: The Material Basis of Accumulation by Stan Goff In the final installment of Stan Goff's "Persian Peril" series, our world crisis is analyzed in the three dimensions of resource depletion, economic injustice, and the dynamics of political power in a period of systemic breakdown. Read Now 12/01/04 FTW ECONOMIC ALERT – AS THE WORLD BURNS Run on the Dollar Imminent – The American People and Economy Will Be Among the First Casualties -- The World Draws a Line in the Sand Around Iran – There will be No Invasion -- Ukraine Possible Sarajevo for Global Conflict; Africa Ready to Explode in Proxy Wars; Latin America Heats Up; More -- US Strategic Abandonment of the Korean Peninsula Inevitable; Taiwan Likely -- Permanent Blackouts in Industrialized Nations Possible by 2008 Read Now 11/15/04 "The Privilege of Running Free Deficits Belongs To One Nation Alone" By Stan Goff If this is to be dealt with in any meaningful way, it means the entire US political and economic establishment will have to be removed, and we will have to commit to at least a whole generation of bottom-up, radical changes in every single facet of our lives. This is the fourth installment of Stan Goff's report on the political economy of US imperialism, a series which started with a critique of American policy toward Iran called "Persian Peril." Read Now 11/05/04 SNAP OUT OF IT! * The Day to Forget the November 2nd Election Forever is November 3rd * The Rest of the World Fights the Empire With Money - What We Should Have Been Doing Here All Along * Now is the Time to Attack on the Fronts Where We Have Real Power Read Now 10/28/04 TODAY'S IMPERIALISM: UNIQUELY AMERICAN. How credit and debt put the United States on top… so far. By Stan Goff This is the third installment of Stan Goff's report on the political economy of US imperialism, a series which started with a critique of American policy toward Iran: "Persian Peril." Days before the Presidential "election," Goff's ongoing analysis illuminates the monetary basis of America's imperilled dominance -- and lights it up like some burning effigy in a Tehran street. Read Now 9/20/04 Money, Money, Money: The Dollar System and the Stakes of Our Likely Debacle in Iran -- Persian Peril, Part Two - by Stan Goff This is the second installment of Stan Goff's report on the simmering Persian Peril. Where Part One set out a history of modern Iran in its relations with Western imperial powers, the current piece explains the petrodollar system that underlies our ugly situation in the Middle East and the world. Read Now 9/19/03 Money, money, money...deficit, deficit, deficit. Two stories warn of impending financial crisis generated by U.S. government spending and trade imbalances. Read Now 8/08/03 Where Is The Money? A new interactive web site hits you in the face over the Enron-Style looting of the US Treasury and what it means to You personally - A political reality check for California's political circus and all of America. Read Now 12/31/02 MOVING ON GOLD. As the economic indicators get uglier and uglier, gold is looking like an ever more golden investment. Predictions abound of $400-500 per ounce. Read Now 10/23/02 Analysts: Stock Market Heading Toward Crash Present Rally Called 'Comic Relief' Read Now 7/30/02 The Worst is Yet to Come. Excellent economic analysis by CBS Market Watch and Thom Calandra Read Now 7/17/02 EMERGENCY ECONOMIC ALERT - 8 July, 2002 THE GATHERING STORM – A Global Economic Crash is Imminent. Published on July 8, Just Before the Plug Was Pulled on the Markets: Corporate Corruption, The Plunge Protection Team's Secret Intervention, Collapsing Pensions Funds, Billions Taken from the Treasury, Social Security and Federal Pensions; Gold Prices Manipulated; Foreign Capital Fleeing the U.S.; Chilling Statements from George Soros. Read Now 2/6/02 A look at Mike Ruppert's essay on his trip to Moscow last March reveals the devastation of Russia as the US was preparing for the WTC attacks. In light of what had happened over the decade of the 1990s it is easy to understand why Vladimir has been so unwilling and unable to resist US war plans. Read Now 11/9/01 The Hidden Economic Bomb FTW Reported Two Days Before The Attacks. Read Now 9/12/01 World economy starts slide to global recession Read Now MIKE RUPPERT'S APPEARANCES 05/10/06 LOCAL SOLUTIONS TO THE ENERGY DILEMMA - April 27, 28, 29, 2006 - New York City - by Jamey Hecht, Ph.D., Senior Staff Writer Read Now 04/28/06 THE PARADIGM IS THE ENEMY: The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse – Michael C. Ruppert’s Speech, New York City “Local Solutions” Conference, April 27-29, 2006 [This is the most important speech of my life. – MCR] Read Now 10/04/05 GOVERNMENT, FINANCIAL, AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF PEAK OIL PRIOR TO 2005 - FIVE RULES FOR SURVIVAL OF THE COMING COLLAPSE A Speech for the New York Petrocollapse Conference - October 5, 2005 Read Now 1/19/05 Mike Ruppert Gives New Presentation at University of Washington Hundreds Attend, Look Beyond 9/11 Read Now 10/25/04 (updated 10/26/04) CROSSING THE RUBICON BOOK UPDATES AND EVENTS * What's Happening to Slow a Bestseller? First printing Sold Out, Back Orders Clog Bookstores, FTW Has Only North American Copies Available * Publishing Delays * What Happened to the Amazon.com Reviews? * Big Success in Santa Cruz * Mike to Montana, New York, and North Carolina – Subscribers Welcome in Kalispell Read Now 3/19/04 CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, MIKE RUPPERT OPEN DOORS IN LA: Cracking the “L.A. Nut” Demonstrates Continuing Shift in Progressive Attitudes About Israel, Peak Oil and Infinite War Read Now 10/29/03 MIKE RUPPERT ON CBC If you are in Canada, or can get Canadian TV, CBC will be featuring the season premier of the Fifth Estate tonight at 9pm. It is entitled 'Conspiracy Theories', deals with Sept-11th, and will feature some footage of Mike Ruppert. You may try this link for more info: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/ 7/30/02 Mike Ruppert Cancels Appearance at Cincinnati Event Sponsored by David Irving. Read Now 7/17/02 U.S. Complicity in 9-11 Attacks Widely Accepted at G6B Summit in Canada 1,200 Turn Out to Hear Ruppert & Chossudovsky; Ruppert Ordered to Leave Country Immediately After Presentation. His Plane Leaves Calgary as Air Force One Arrives. - Ruppert/Chossudovsky Draw Crowd of 1,200 Ruppert/Chossudovsky Draw Crowd of 1,200 at G6B - U. of Ottawa Professor Says Evidence Shows U.S. Helped Plan Attacks Read Now 5/07/02 Ruppert Addresses Private, Mostly Muslim Group in New York Reports Israel Did Not Perpetrate 9-11 Attacks by Greta Knutzen Read Now 3/19/02 "Reasonable Doubts" The truth about 9-11, the Canadian one-hour TV special featuring Mike Ruppert has been uploaded for viewing on the web by Indymedia. To watch the show that rocked Canada, click here. 3/12/02 Michael C. Ruppert, editor and publisher of From The Wilderness, raised more than a few eyebrows, during a televised debate, when he presented a scathing indictment of US government complicity in the attacks of September 11. The program, produced by Vision TV, is estimated to reach 7 million North American homes. Vision TV Insight presents the special one-hour long edition of Mediafile, entitled "9/11 Roundtable," that will air on Thurs., Mar. 14, at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET on the Vision TV network. Read Now 2/15/02 Capacity Crowd Turns Out for Ruppert 9-11 Lecture in Los Angeles, Latecomers Turned Away. Standing Ovation and Crowds Staying Hours for Q&A. Photos Tell The Story. Read Now 2/11/02 Kerrville Lecture Draws Crowd From All Over Texas Read Now 1/25/02 Mike Ruppert lectures at the University of Toronto stir Canada, result in standing ovations and 3 hours of Q&A. Read the full story with photos. Read Now 12/5/01 1,000 turn out to hear Mike Ruppert reveal "Truth and Lies About September 11th" and the American Empire's war against the world and the American people at Portland State University. Read Now MISCELLANEOUS 09/21/06 Unanswered Questions about Andrew Cuomo - By Catherine Austin Fitts Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/18/06 MORE THAN NEWS: THE DAY MIKE RUPPERT LEFT AMERICA - by Ken Levine Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here 09/01/06 Mike Ruppert’s Last Days in America - by Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 08/31/06 BEYOND ENERGY ALTERNATIVES - Community Solutions Preliminary Conference Schedule Read Here 08/30/06 A HYPOTHETICAL LETTER TO EINSTEIN: A PARODY TO MAKE A POINT - By Ezekiel Jones Read Here 08/29/06 SAMURAI SUNRISE: THE LAST HOURS BEFORE MIKE RUPPERT’S DEPARTURE FROM THE UNITED STATES - By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 08/23/06 SOY GRINGO, SOY AMERICANO: RESPONDING TO THE CRITICISM OF A U.S. ACTIVIST - By, Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 08/21/06 A FTW Special Statement - FROM THE WILDERNESS IS ALIVE AND WELL! Read Now 08/04/06 ONE 9/11 WAR GAME NOW IN MAINSTREAM PRESS - NO MENTION OF CROSSING THE RUBICON - By Michael Kane, Staff Writer Read Now 07/28/06 IT'S TIME! REFUSE TO LOSE! - Senator Cynthia McKinney's Latest Call to the Voters Read Now 07/24/06 THE SOURCE OF HOPELESSNESS - A REVIEW OF AL GORE'S AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - by Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari, Inc. Read Now 07/17/06 ENCROACHMENT: Part 4 - by Stan Goff, Military/Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 07/14/06 ENCROACHMENT: Part 3 - by Stan Goff, Military/Veterans Affairs Editor “Lifeboats smacking on the ocean swell,” is how Stan Goff describes the Titanic scenario of a sinking administration, daily enshrouding itself in unprecedented secrecy. – Mike Ruppert Read Now 06/20/06 ENCROACHMENT: Part 2 - by Stan Goff, Military/Veterans Affairs Editor After the major international players like China and Russia there are a host of foreign and domestic opponents that are backing the Empire into a corner. – “Best analysis of modern history telling us where America is going I have seen in years.” – Mike Ruppert Read Now 06/19/06 ENCROACHMENT: Part 1 - by Stan Goff, Military/Veterans Affairs Editor How Nations Are Aligning and Eroding the Empire’s Power – Lessons from Dienbienphu, to Iraq – “Best analysis of modern history telling us where America is going I have seen in years.” – Mike Ruppert Read Now 05/16/06 PEAK TRAFFIC: Planning NAFTA Superhighways at the End of the Age of Oil - Part Two - by Mark Robinowitz Read Now 05/15/06 CREATING AND MAINTAINING HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY: Is It Possible? Part Two - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 05/11/06 CREATING AND MAINTAINING HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY: Is It Possible? Part One - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 05/10/06 PEAK TRAFFIC: Planning NAFTA Superhighways at the End of the Age of Oil - Part One - by Mark Robinowitz Read Now 05/09/06 PORTER GOSS SUDDENLY RESIGNS FROM CIA - A SIMPLER EXPLANATION - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 04/25/06 THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS - by Stan Goff, Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 04/20/06 BIODIVERSITY, GMO, AND THE FUTURE - by Jamey Hecht, Ph.D., Senior Staff Writer Read Now 04/19/06 IMMIGRATION & UNIFICATION: Part Two - by Stan Goff, Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 04/13/06 IMMIGRATION & UNIFICATION: Part One - by Stan Goff, Military/ Veterans Affairs Editor Read Now 4/11/06 THE BELOVED CYNTHIA McKINNEY - A White Ex Cop Speaks Out About a Georgia Congresswoman - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 04/05/06 TELLING TRANSFORMATIVE TALES - The Strange Post-Ranger Saga of Pat Tillman - by Stan Goff, FTW Military Affairs Editor Read Now 04/04/06 MY GOVERNMENT, MY FAMILY: The Political IS Personal And Painful - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. Read Now 03/30/06 HEY CHARLIE SHEEN, WAKE UP! - There Are Good Reasons Why 9/11 is Having Its 15 Minutes of Fame Now - Look at Who's In the Spotlight - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 03/29/06 COMMENTARY: HORNETS—FTW’s military affairs editor, Stan Goff, debuts his first in a series of weekly columns solely for FTW subscribers. Read Now 03/21/06 CNN Special "We Were Warned" Falls Way Short, Even As A Limited Hangout - Timing Suggests Serious Problems Ahead This Year - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 03/20/06 Killing Hope, Enlivening Options - by Carolyn Baker Read Now 3/16/06 WAL-MART JOURNALISM? – Taking on Corporate Media in a Small Town -- What Happens When the Local Paper Reporting on FTW’s Arrival Happens to be Owned by The Wall Street Journal. - by Mike Ruppert Read Now 3/14/06 Ashland, Oregon Screening of America: From Freedom to Fascism, Continues Popular National Tidal Wave for New Documentary - by Lindsay A. Gerken Read Now 3/14/06 Until You Change the Way Money Works… - A Review of Aaron Russo’s America: From Freedom to Fascism - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 3/01/06 WHAT DO I DO WITH MY MONEY? - Mike Ruppert Offers Advice at the Cusp of Collapse - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 2/03/06 Peak Oil and the Japanese Consumer - by FTW Subscriber Rick D. Read Now 2/01/06 BRITAIN SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER OVER CLIMATE CHANGE - AMERICAN MEDIA YAWNS - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 01/17/06 FTW WINS SABOTAGE CASE – FINALLY - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 01/13/06 The Empress Has No Clothes - AMY GOODMAN'S REALITY BLACKOUT - by Carolyn Baker (Special to From the Wilderness) with comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 12/19/05 South China dispute over wind power plant turns deadly - by Larry Chin with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 11/08/05 ESCAPE FROM CANCUN - Lessons About Human Reactions to Peak Oil and the Desperation to Conceal It - Psychosis in the Media and the Masses - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 11/01/05 Exterminism and the World in the Wake of Katrina (Part two of four) - by Stan Goff Read Now 10/26/05 FUNDRAISING THANK YOU - YOU DID IT -- THANK YOU Read Now 10/24/05 Exterminism and the World in the Wake of Katrina (Part one of four) - by Stan Goff with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 10/12/05 S.O.S. – A FUNDRAISER OF LIFE AND DEATH IMPORTANCE FOR FTW - An Avalanche of Dirty Tricks is Threatening Our Ability to Continue Read Now 9/21/05 RITA: Storm May Be the Coup de Grace for the American Economy and Many of Us As Well - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 9/15/05 BLOCKING THE GRETNA BRIDGE - Racism and Resource Scarcity May Be Siamese Twins in a Post-Petroleum World - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 9/6/05 GREEKS BEARING GIFTS - Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Clinton FEMA Director James Lee Witt Leading America Into the Next Slaughter- by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 9/2/05 You Bet Your Life - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 8/29/05 The Dollar, the U.N., and the U.S. - Right-Wing Populists Still Fear the Wrong Thing - by Jamey Hecht With comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 8/12/05 IRAN, LONDON, WARGAMES AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS Keep Your Eyes on the Ball - The Real "End" is Near, But Not from These Places - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 8/5/05 A HALF-TRUTH IS STILL A LIE - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/28/05 The Oil Industry's Bid for Leadership: A commentary upon a recent ad from Chevron Chairman & CEO, David J. O'Reilly - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Read Now 7/19/05 Another Attack on Authentic Investigative Journalism - An Open Letter to the New York Times in Defense of Liam Scheff - by Michael Kane, Jamey Hecht, and Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/18/05 RATIONING - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now 7/11/05 The "Koran Quotation Error" Meme - by Jamey Hecht Read Now 6/20/05 China in America's cross-hairs: Robert D. Kaplan and neocon hawks clamor for new Cold War - by Larry Chin with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now 4/28/05 Jurassic Park, Psuedo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib Part VI - by Stan Goff Here's the penultimate installment of Stan Goff's treatise on imperialism, persuasion, and the ethical black hole of contemporary capitalism. Read Now 4/10/05 The Value of the Remaining Wilderness - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Read Now 1/28/05 GlobalCorp. - An Important Announcement by Michael C. Ruppert I AM NOT A POLITICIAN - THE FIRE IS NO LONGER ON ITS WAY - IT HAS BEGUN Read Now 2/7/05 WILL THE REAL ECONOMIC HIT MEN PLEASE STAND UP? - by Catherine Austin Fitts Meditations on 9/11 Truth Read Now 1/27/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II - PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed - by Michael Kane - The FAA & Ptech - Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS - Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis Read Now 1/20/05 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR, Part I PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed. by Jamey Hecht, with research assistance by Michael Kane and editorial comment by Michael C. Ruppert. Wall St. whistleblower Indira Singh tells an insider's story of corruption in the very highest places. Software of incredible power has been funded by confirmed Saudi terrorists and installed on systems in the FAA -- and NORAD, and the FBI, and the White House, and the Navy, and the House of Representatives, and on and on. Its roots are in PROMIS, and its applications range from 9/11 to TIA to a chilling new brand of warfare that may soon be used to cripple Iran. Read Now 1/10/05 THE HAITIAN INTIFADA - A story of politics from black and white, high and low. By Stan Goff Part Two: “Why do they hate us?" really is the question of the hour, but in the mainstream media it remains a rhetorical one that cannot have an answer. And racist imperialism is the answer. Read Now 12/21/04 Holiday Message from Mike Ruppert Read Now 12/20/04 SAYING GOODBYE TO A GIANT - by Michael C. Ruppert - Gary Webb Memorial Attended by Hundreds - New Information Confirms Suicide - "Open and Shut" - Shabby, Self-Serving `Internet Reports by Pseudo Journalists and Activists Cause Webb Family Grief - It's Time for Real Journalists and Activists to Shun Demagogues, Hysterics and Profiteers Read Now 12/17/04 Who is Sam Bodman? And why did Bush Nominate Him for Secretary of Energy - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer FTW's Science Editor briefs subscribers on new energy secretary. Read Now 11/30/04 THE HAITIAN INTIFADA - A story of politics from black and white, high and low. By Stan Goff Part One: As the tepid, myopic, gatekeeping left is beaten once more by a resurgent but desperate right wing, mass movements are bestirring themselves throughout Latin America and elsewhere. The stakes have not been so high, nor the pressures so intense, since 1968. In this bracing two-part series, FTW military editor Stan Goff turns his attention to the crisis in post-Aristide Haiti and its symbolic drama on the world stage. Read Now 11/10/04 Letter to George Bush from a Mother and Artist Welcome to the horrifying reality that whistleblowers have suffered and fought through every day, over lifetimes. No more illusions. This is reality. Read Now 11/9/04 A Personal Reflection from a 9/11 Whistleblower: Indira Singh Welcome to the horrifying reality that whistleblowers have suffered and fought through every day, over lifetimes. No more illusions. This is reality. Read Now 11/8/04 Four More Years: Welcome Back to Hell Welcome to the horrifying reality that whistleblowers have suffered and fought through every day, over lifetimes. No more illusions. This is reality. Read Now 10/29/04 WHY IT'S CALLED "CROSSING THE RUBICON" An Explanation from the Book's Editor, by Jamey Hecht The Rubicon is the boundary between a world in which it is still possible to stave off hell by changing policy, and a world of regret in which policy has no meaning. Read Now 10/25/04 Popular Culture vs. Bush By Michael Kane The hundred million Americans who don't vote may not be active citizens, but they certainly are active consumers. And what they consume is mass culture. When a gigantic Hip-Hop star like Eminem releases a video in which he impersonates George W. Bush's demented zone-out in the Booker Elementary classroom, that's a very good thing for the 911 Truth Movement. Read Now 10/13/04 Three Open Letters As the effort to expose 911 gets more successful, the mainstream media get more hysterical in their opposition. Today we take apart three recent examples, responding to each in that time-honored format -- the "open letter." Letter to the Washington Post by Nick Levis Letter to The Nation magazine by Jamey Hecht Letter to the Anti-Defamation League by Jamey Hecht 10/07/04 MICHAEL RUPPERT RESPONDS TO VICTOR THORN'S TEN QUESTIONS Read Now 10/04/04 We Did It! - by Michael C. Ruppert The G7 Admit They Have No Idea How Much Oil is Left and That Speculation is Not the Problem. – Peak Oil is now on the plate – In his first article since the publication of Crossing the Rubicon, FTW Publisher/Editor Mike Ruppert celebrates a moment and an admission that every Peak Oil activist has been working for. And he throws down a gauntlet to the economists and abiotic oil/alien technology worshippers they will be hard pressed to pick up. The bottom line is: We were right! Now the real work of caring for the human race, and especially its children, begins. Read Now 9/23/04 Jurassic Park, Part V: Arab nationalism did not fall out of the sky. - by Stan Goff If the "war on terror" were real, it would involve the cessation of American terrorism against everybody else. It would also require a serious examination of anti-American motives, since nobody on Planet Grownup can possibly imagine young people blowing themselves up for some abstract hatred of American "freedom." The Israel-Palestine war-of-attrition would have to be examined (preferably while We the People are wearing our thinking caps, having taken off those super-cool hats that hold two beer cans each). Only a carefully historical reappraisal of thwarted Arab nationalism can return "our enemies" to the one interpretive category in which they can possibly be disarmed: human beings with grievances. Read Now 9/17/04 Beyond Peak Oil - by Michael Kane Without oil, industrial life is impossible. But without water, human life is impossible. Here FTW's Michael Kane sketches the basics of an increasingly dire issue and equips us for the new learning we're going to need. Read Now 7/21/04 CYNTHIA MCKINNEY WINS PRIMARY - by Wayne Madsen Read Now 7/20/04 Global Climate Change & Peak Oil (Part III) - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer In parts one and two of this series on global climate change, Dale Allen Pfeiffer explained the evidence for serious ecological trouble in the coming decades, with prodigious weather events, rising sea levels, crop failures, and other wrenching consequences of a hotter biosphere. But in this installment, he pulls back the curtain on a more dire prospect: runaway global warming. The kind that once triggered the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the planet. Read Now 7/14/04 Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib (Part IV) by Stan Goff -In this fourth meditation on pseudo-events, Stan Goff takes a painful look at the contradictions of Zionism - including the appalling episodes of cooperation between early Zionists and Nazis; the ugly similarities among South African, American, and Israeli racist nationalisms; and the brutal Israeli strategy of water hegemony. Read Now 7/02/04 Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib (Part III) by Stan Goff -In this third installment of his Jurassic Park series, FTW Military Editor Stan Goff sheds light on the hidden antecedents of today's "clash of civilizations." With the wry insight of one who has defected from the capitalist camp and jettisoned its predatory worldview, Goff replaces mythology with historical events. There's no knowing where we are until we ask how we got here -- and make a better map. Read Now 6/17/04 11-22-63 / 9-11-01: CONSPIRACY AND THE STATE OF THE UNION – by Jamey Hecht, PhD, FTW Assistant Managing Editor. -With a wide-angle lens, this essay scans the American political landscape and finds a desert, punctuated by green oases that struggle to expand. Let's make it rain. Read Now 6/15/04 A CALL FOR ACTION – by Dale Allen Pfeiffer -FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Author of The End of The Oil Age, solicits contributions to a project aimed at answering this question: What measures can people of limited means undertake to ease their transition into a post-petroleum world? Unprecedented warnings from the scientific community indicate that the planet's ecosystems are stressed near the point of collapse; business as usual is no longer possible, and we have little time left to respond. Submissions will be published in a book, the profits of which will be used to inform people and possibly provide grants in order to help people prepare for the coming transition. Read Now 6/11/04 Theatrical Militarism Gets More Bad Reviews: Rumsfeld's Monster Pictures And The Fallout From Abu Ghraib (Jurassic Park - Part II) – by Stan Goff -In this sequel, Goff looks at a few more public relations disasters leading up to the second War on Iraq. U.S. handling of Russia seems to have led to Russian assistance for the Iraqi "rebels," and an absurdly incompetent approach to Turkey won the Bush Administration a last-minute setback that may have cost it more than mere delay. Read Now 6/07/04 TRIPOD II AND FEMA Lack of NORAD Response on 9/11 Explained – by Michael C. Ruppert - The "Tripod II," joint New York City-Department of Justice biowarfare exercise, scheduled for Sept 12th 2001 at New York's Pier 29, and revealed in testimony by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the 9/11 Commission, may become one of the single most important disclosures of 9/11. I salute the work done by INN Global Free Press at http://inn.globalfreepress.com. But the "FEMA-Kennedy arrived in NY on Sept. 10th" myth is pure poison and absolutely incorrect. It originated from a CBS News interview conducted by Dan Rather shortly after the attacks. That interview, and the claim that it implies prior knowledge on the part of the Massachusetts FEMA Task Force, has been linked on multiple web sites and postings with Tripod and other 9/11 wargames. This erroneous story is dangerously useful for the cover-up, and it's time to give it the axe. Read Now 1/16/04 GREAT NEW ARTICLES FROM THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION – AMERICA'S WAR FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION - A Speech by Professor Michel Chossudovsky given in Berlin, Dec 10, 2003 upon receipt of the Human Rights Prize of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity. Read Now – WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE by MIchel Chossudovsky. Read Now – WAR PROPAGANDA AND THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN by Michel Chossudovsky Read Now – ORANGE CODE TERROR ALERT BASED ON FABRICATED INTELLIGENCE by Michel Chossudovsky Read Now 1/4/04 NOW FOR SOME FUN! – MoveOn.org is going to raise more than $10 million to run TV ads during the presidential campaign. After a lengthy contest with participation from top-line ad companies, producers and writers the 15 finalists for the national TV campaign have been selected. Each of these ads raises different questions and plant important seeds in the minds of the public. They are humorous, entertaining, heartbreaking, and chilling. If you want to spend a fun half hour please visit the Move.On web site, view the ads, vote for and support the one you think will make the most difference. Now this is really encouraging! Click Here 11/26/03 THE KENNEDYS, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND 9/11 by Michael C. Ruppert. What works, what doesn't and a long overdue amends to our readers. There is much to be learned from the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, other great crimes and what has worked on the post-9/11 playing field. But we may not have forty years to debate the point. Read Now 10/29/03 MIKE RUPPERT ON CBC If you are in Canada, or can get Canadian TV, CBC will be featuring the season premier of the Fifth Estate tonight at 9pm. It is entitled 'Conspiracy Theories', deals with Sept-11th, and will feature some footage of Mike Ruppert. You may try this link for more info: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth 10/10/03 A TRAGEDY FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM Al Giordano's Narconews To Suspend Publication. Assistance Needed Read Now 9/10/03 GULF WAR II SYNDROME? Special Forces veteran and brilliant writer Stan Goff describes another one of the lies and victimization of US troops by an insane government that is bent on eating its own. Only someone who is without a conscience could take heart from the fact that as many as 40% of the US troops now serving in Iraq may be condemned to death or permanent disability - without benefits or honor. Read Now 8/5/03 CYNTHIA MCKINNEY DELIVERS FEARLESS ADDRESS IN HARLEM In what may be the start of a comeback worthy of Muhammad Ali, the now vindicated former Georgia Congresswoman minced no words as she talked about 9/11, Civil Liberties, Race Relations, Independent Media, Pacifica Radio, FTW and the efforts of the major media to suppress our national ad campaign. Read Now 5/21/03 The Mouse That Roared 9,000 FTW Subscribers Take on America (and the World)! Since our ad ran in The Washington Post last Friday we have been completely overwhelmed with email and calls from people who want to help run the ad in more newspapers in America and around the world. Well, we've got your request covered! Read Now 05/16/03 Subscriber Buys FTW Full Page Ad in The Washington Post Leaked Copy May Have Forced Resignation of Army Secretary From The Wilderness today ran a full-page ad in the front section of The Washington Post intended to educate the American people, support heroic leaders and promote a number of independent media outlets which have made important contributions since 9/11. The ad was the direct result of a donation from a subscriber who had recently viewed FTW Publisher Mike Ruppert's video "The Truth and Lies of 9-11". The ad that ran today was actually a second version, the text of which had to be changed after the first version apparently caused some nervousness in Washington. Read Now 4/20/03 DID A 1965 TV SHOW FORETELL PEAK OIL? Was it just a writer's fantasy? Or did they know something...FTW takes a fun peek into a time when TV shows actually had plots. Read Now 3/27/03 THE ADVENTURES OF HERCUBUSH Especially in the darkest moments everyone needs a laugh. Check out the new Internet film "THE ADVENTURES OF HERCUBUSH"- The BUSH who began it all. Read Now 3/18/03 AFP Reports Australian PM Under Siege at Own Residence for Committing Aussie Troops to War A resistance deepens and the doors open to a breadth and depth of civil disobedience never before seen in human history! Read Now 2/28/03 CHAPTER 23: EATING THE CHOSEN PEOPLE An Excerpt from Mike Ruppert's Forthcoming Book, Crossing The Rubicon. Read Now 2/27/03 FAIR AND BALANCED? A Florida appeals court has overturned a civil court verdict vindicating two FOX News reporters who were fired for refusing to lie in a TV news segment. What did the Florida court find? There is nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting the truth in a news report. See for yourself... Read Now 01/30/03 The Long Dark Night Read Now 1/30/03 THANK YOU. A Message to Our Subscribers and a Bonus. Read Now 1/30/03 From Our Friends in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Read Now 1/27/03 A Sweet Endorsement Over the last year FTW has received many messages from active duty military personnel not only supporting our work but revealing a good deal of concern in the military about what the United States is becoming. Read Now 1/13/03 PREEMPTIVE IMPEACHMENT With the world perched ever closer on the brink of all out war, International Law Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois has offered his services to any member of Congress to draft articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This story from the Online Journal is spreading like wildfire. Read Now 12/31/02 VOTING WITH YOUR MONEY. Just say NO to REPRESSIVE Media! Fighting Back and a New Special FTW Offer for Those Willing to Fight! Read Now 12/31/02 NARCO NEWS ON VENEZUELA: THE STRIKE THAT WASN'T A report on the Venezuelan oligarchy's thus far unsuccessful crusade against President Hugo Chavez and democracy. Read Now 11/23/02 An editorial by the head of a prominent Malaysian think tank reveals some of the fears, concerns and hopes from the Islamic world; a world as much victimized by Islamic radical terrorism as the West, a world under siege and a world justly fearful of the results of a U.S. attack on Iraq. This editorial cuts through and bypasses the spin of American corporate media, so blatantly in service to the Bush war machine and Wall Street. [Reprinted with permission]. Read Now 11/06/02 On the Midterm Elections Read Now 11/06/02 On the Midterm Elections Read Now 11/04/02 Lawsuit Challenges McKinney Primary Defeat Read Now 11/04/02 Subscriber News: - Is FTW Being Blocked by Your Internet Service Provider (ISP)? - FTW Graffiti Draws Legal Ire Read Now 9/17/02 A new and terrific web site exposes how the controlled left press including The Nation, FAIR, Pacifica, Z Magazine, Noam Chomsky and many other "liberal" icons are influenced and/or controlled by big business and intelligence interests. Incredible work by Bob Feldman and Brian Salter. These are the publications and entities that have waged an all-out war against Mike Ruppert. click here 8/28/02 Ruppert Returns to KPFK Host Michael Slate Provides Sharp Contrast to FTW Chief's Previous Appearances Earlier This Year Read Now 8/22/02 Wayne Madsen offers a right-on-the-money analysis of what happened to Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr in Georgia. -- Hail Caesar! Heil Bush! Read Now 7/17/02 NEW CIA UNIVERSITY CONFIRMS FTW's "MAP" Priorities Include Banking, Int'l Finance, World Oil Markets, and the WTO. – Read Now 6/21/02 UNSUPPRESSED HISTORY Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., a Texas History Professor Describes The Impact of Teaching Her Students a Semester of Real History Using the Writings of FTW, Catherine Austin Fitts, Peter Dale Scott, Ph.D. and Celerino Castillo. Read Now 6/21/02 An Ongoing Criminal Enterprise – Even After Acknowledging Complete Innocence the U.S. Department of Justice Still Refuses to Pay Former Ass't HUD Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts. The Relentless Victimization of this Economic Da Vinci Points to Deeper Questions About a Government That Has Allowed $3.3 Trillion of Your Money to Be Stolen and Where HUD Operates as an "Ongoing Criminal Enterprise." Read Now 6/17/02 An Open Letter To KPFK, Los Angeles. Read Now 6/13/02 KPFK Does it Again! After a long fight between factions at Pacifica radio, Mike Ruppert was on KPFK's The Morning Show on Thursday, 6-13-02. Unfortunately, KPFK reverted to its old behavior, sandbagged Ruppert, and devoted approximately 1/3rd of the show distracting Pacifica's listeners from hearing the truth about U.S. government involvement in 9-11. Read Now 6/4/02 An Attack by David Corn in Common Dreams prompts a strong response from Mike Ruppert Read Now 5/10/02 FTW Disinformation/Rumors: FTW has added a new page to address a well-planned disinformation campaign. Read Now 5/07/02 MIRACLE IN VENEZUELAPresident Hugo Chavez Dupes U.S.-backed Coup. An inside report on U.S. connections and lies connected to the vital U.S. interests which need to overthrow a truly independent leader. The power of independent journalists in exposing the media lies during and after the coup -- A detailed report by Joe Taglieri. Read Now 5/06/02 Overt Repression of U.S. dissent begins. Read Now 4/4/02 INCOMING! - Mike's essay for the April edition Read Now 3/4/02 NATION editor David Corn attacks Mike Ruppert with bad information. Read Mike's reply to Corn. Read Now 11/09/01 How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Zbig Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard" and the four year old plan for September 11th. Read Now 11/20/01 OPERATION NORTHWOODS - Read the Top Secret documents describing the Pentagon's plan to attack Americans in order to start a war with Cuba. And you think they wouldn't do it to the World Trade Center? SUMMARY Read Now 11/9/01 "THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997. These are the very first words in the book, "Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power." Read Now 11/5/01 In the October 15 issue of FTW we wrote that the Miami Herald, on October 9th, had published the results of the final BDO Seidman manual recount of votes from the November election. Read Now 10/26/01 FOX News Confirms Fears of Surface To Air Missile Against Nuclear Reactors. Read Now 10/24/01 China Is Not Supporting The Taliban. Debunking And Exposing Disinformation. China is firmly in an economic and political bed with the U.S. Read Now 10/19/01 Terrorist Surface to Air Missiles Reportedly Smuggled from Canada. Harrisburg Airport Near Three Mile Island Temporarily Shut Down. Read Now 9/18/01 World War III - What the WTC and Pentagon Attacks mean in the long term. 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The decision by Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) to deny refugee status to Jeremy Hinzman came as no surprise... Read Now 3/29/05 FAYETTEVILLE: An Assessment Of Military Resistance - by Stan Goff What can end the war in Iraq? Certainly not some decisive U.S. "victory." And without a miraculous change in the geopolitical landscape, Iraqis will have little reason to tolerate the American occupation for the foreseeable future. The Iraqi Shia majority may have deep wounds left from the Iran-Iraq War of twenty years ago, but if the boots of the infidel are causing even more pain, a Muslim neighbor is a better provisional ally than the latest American puppet. Until the oil gushes (and donkeys fly), the Pentagon will insist upon "staying the course." What can end the war in Iraq? Read Now 11/18/04 Former G.I.s Ordered to War, Fight Not to Go Read Now 9/7/04 Stop Loss The Republican National Convention was about war. As Zell Miller reminded the faithful, "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." This unacknowledged quotation from Miller's fellow Marine, Father Denis O'Brian, brought a gush of adulation from the Grand Old Party, who love to be assured that all good things come from violence. So long as the Americans are on one side, anybody on the other side is to be regarded as the Gestapo wrapped in the Wehrmacht; once the U.S. starts fighting, the enemy is magically transformed into a mighty horde of well-armed Nazis bent on shutting down the New York Times. Miller made clear that if "this marine" (and the other marines) are on a mission, then by God / by definition, that mission is bound to protect civil liberties rather than mock, curtail, and destroy them at home and abroad. Read Summary Here 5/3/04 Selective Service Has Plans to Include Drafting Women and Increasing Eligibility Age to 34 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported this weekend that the Chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft; and that young Americans should be required to regularly inform the government about whether they have training in skills needed by the Armed Services. . . Read Now Read Stan Goff analysis here Subscribers read "Draft Extradition Chart" here 4/20/04 US Senator says "US May Need Compulsory Service to Boost Iraq Force" - Quoting a senior Republican lawmaker today, Agence France Presse reported: "Deteriorating security in Iraq may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft." Click Here Click Here - Yahoo has since removed their article. 2/27/04 Part I - "Will the US Reopen the Draft?" - by Stan Goff THE DRAFT - A Special Two-Part Series by Stan Goff and Michael C. Ruppert on the coming reinstitution of the draft as US military force readiness evaporates. - Retired US Army Special Forces Master Sergeant and former West Point Instructor Stan Goff probes the political documents, pending legislation and engages in a detailed analysis of US force readiness. There is only one conclusion and it will be obvious as soon as next spring. The draft is coming. Read Now 2/27/04 Part II - "Nowhere to Run Nowhere to Hide" - by Michael C. Ruppert - FTW Editor Mike Ruppert examines the legal climate today and how it differs from the Vietnam era. The FBI is in 45 countries. Treaties have changed. A living chart of 74 countries listing official responses from foreign ministries to one question: "Will you extradite an American male for draft evasion?" This chart is constantly updated. The answers are official diplomatic responses. Read Now ACTIVISM 07/26/06 AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM DEBUTS ACROSS THE NATION THIS WEEKEND! Read Now 06/16/06 Twilight in the Corn: The Bulldozing of South Central Farm Begins - by Jamey Hecht The South Central Farm loses its battle, but not until after a few high profile arrests. Read Now 5/9/05 Hope for the Future - The Failure of the Left - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Dale Allen Pfeiffer is FTW's Science Editor, a man well acquainted with the limits of energy exploitation in a finite world. Here he asks why the thinkers, voters, and marchers of the left -- whose critique of capitalism is supposed to be robust and actionable -- have missed resource depletion, the great discreditor of its central illusion. Read Now 6/15/04 A CALL FOR ACTION – by Dale Allen Pfeiffer -FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Author of The End of The Oil Age, solicits contributions to a project aimed at answering this question: What measures can people of limited means undertake to ease their transition into a post-petroleum world? Unprecedented warnings from the scientific community indicate that the planet's ecosystems are stressed near the point of collapse; business as usual is no longer possible, and we have little time left to respond. Submissions will be published in a book, the profits of which will be used to inform people and possibly provide grants in order to help people prepare for the coming transition. Read Now 4/5/04 CYNTHIA McKINNEY ANNOUNCES HOUSE RE-ELECTION BID – Opponent who stole seat using crossover Republican votes in 2002 abandons the seat; loses it at press conference announcing a US Senate run when asked if she was running away from McKinney. Supporters trumpet McKinney's right to say “I told you so” about 9-11 Read Now 3/6/04 MIRACLE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE – Nationwide Campaign of Phones, Faxes and Emails is Gridlocking the Offices of Congressional Leaders and Candidate on Unanswered 9/11 Questions Posed by the Family Steering Committee to the so-called 9/11 “Independent Commission”. We Never thought We'd See the Day! Read Now. Get Involved. Help Make History. Read Now 1/30/04 DEADLINE FOR BALLOT RECEIPT IN CRITICAL PACIFICA LOCAL STATION BOARD ELECTIONS IN LOS ANGELES IS FEB 5- FTW ENDORSES CANDIDATES WHO WILL LIBERATE LISTENER-SPONSORED RADIO Spinning the Bush Administration's pretext for the "war on terrorism," and other issues such as Peak Oil, so far, we've seen little difference between the Corporate and the so-called Alternative Media. Pacifica radio can fill this void, under the management and leadership of dedicated, fearless and professional broadcasters and researchers. After 55 years, the five Pacifica stations are holding elections for its local board members and FTW has reviewed and endorses several excellent candidates at Pacifica's Los Angeles station, KPFK Read Now 11/18/03 The first, and historic, Pacifica Radio Local Station Board (LSB) elections are fast approaching. Read Now AD CAMPAIGN 10/30/03 FTW Ad Runs in The New York Daily News! The FTW "Man Behind the Curtain" ad has run in the Thursday edition of The New York Daily News. It took more than five months of rejections from the New York area newspapers before the ad was finally accepted. It is on page 44. The Thursday edition has the largest circulation. Ad updates here 9/29/03 FTW Ad Campaign Saturates Northern California Read Now 09/03/03 FTW Ad Campaign is Back! Today, FTW's full-page ad ran in California's fourth largest newspaper and the paper most read by political insiders during that California recall circus, The Sacramento Bee. Did Arnold see it? Did Cruz Bustamante or Gray Davis? Someone should ask them. The ad can be found on page C7. Expect to see the ad soon on The Oakland Tribune and The Detroit Free Press. More and better surprises are on the way. Read Now 08/27/03 FTW's National Ad Campaign Updates Read Now 7/30/03 FTW AD RUNS IN THE WILLAMETTE WEEK Today, the another of our ads ran in Oregon. The ad can be seen on Page 2 of the main section of the Willamette Week newspaper. Way to go! Read Now 7/21/03 FTW AD RUNS IN THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Today, our ad ran in the Arizona Republic. According to the phone calls being received by the newspaper, it is causing quite a stir... Read Now 7/18/03 FTW AD RUNS IN THE MIAMI HERALD The first volley of our "Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain" ads has run today in the Miami Herald. This is Jeb Bush's backyard! Read Now 6/27/03 FTW Ad News and Updates Page See the latest developments and updates of running the FTW Ad. Read Now 6/17/03 FTW BREAKS 100K FOR 12 CITY AD RUN! With the receipt of checks for $7,000, $5,000 and $2,000, FTW on Monday, June 16, passed the $100,000 goal to run its hugely popular, full-page, Washington Post ad in the twelve largest papers in the country. Read Now 5/21/03 The Mouse That Roared 9,000 FTW Subscribers Take on America (and the World)! Since our ad ran in The Washington Post last Friday we have been completely overwhelmed with email and calls from people who want to help run the ad in more newspapers in America and around the world. Well, we've got your request covered! Read Now 5/16/03 Subscriber Buys FTW Full Page Ad in The Washington Post
Leaked Copy May Have Forced Resignation of Army Secretary. From The Wilderness today ran a full-page ad in the front section of The Washington Post intended to educate the American people, support heroic leaders and promote a number of independent media outlets which have made important contributions since 9/11. The ad was the direct result of a donation from a subscriber who had recently viewed FTW Publisher Mike Ruppert's video "The Truth and Lies of 9-11". The ad that ran today was actually a second version, the text of which had to be changed after the first version apparently caused some nervousness in Washington. Read Now |
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