Televangelical tentacles: Who influences the U.S. Government

The impact of extreme religious views in America impact both foreign and domestic policies. If people want to know what's going to happen next in the globe, such as a crusade against what American extremists call a goodless North Korea or Islamic Iran, then watch the "700 Club." In the past few months, it has been U.S. courts that have checked the torture policies of the U.S. administration. In the column below, Philip James claims, "TV evangelist Pat Robertson is threatening to mobilise millions of his Christian viewers and "de-liberalise" the US judiciary.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2417

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2004/11/111404.html


Informant: Scott Munson

You won't have heard of the British-American Project, but its members include some of the most powerful men and women in the UK. Officially it exists to promote the 'special relationship', but it has been described as a Trojan horse for US foreign policy. Even its supporters joke that it's funded by the CIA.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1343704,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Zbigniew Brezezinski: How to Make New Enemies:

The notion of a new Holy Alliance is already being promoted by those with a special interest in entangling the United States in a prolonged conflict with Islam.

http://207.44.245.159/article7139.htm

The article below paints a very disturbing picture of how Vice President Richard Cheney ordered a secret re-write of military rules. However, not a single prisoner has been convicted, many were release, and no solid leads were obtained. Instead of reliable information our Nation could use to track down the people responsible for 9/11, the prisoners of war at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba "just ended up in this Kafkaesque sort of purgatory."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2282

There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraq's along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.

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