Neo-Conned! Again

by D Liam O'Huallachain

  Maurizio Blondet holds a degree from the State University of Milan. After spending several years as a columnist, he became special correspondent on economics and finance for Il Giornale, a leading Italian newspaper, and is currently special correspondent on foreign affairs for the Italian Episcopal Conference's daily paper, Avvenire. After 9/11 he authored a trilogy on the attacks and related subjects entitled: September 11th: A Coup d'Etat (Effedieffe, Milan, 2002), Who Really Governs America? (Effedieffe, Milan, 2002), and Osama Bin Mossad (Effedieffe, Milan, 2003).

  Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., received his doctorate in linguistics in 1955, and in 1961 was appointed Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky has received literally dozens of honorary degrees and awards from many of the most prestigious institutions at home and around the world.

  Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D., born and raised in Sweden, is currently Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, where he served for six years as Politics Department Chairman. He also taught at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University in the fields of ethics, politics, culture, and the history of Western political thought. Ryn is editor of the academic journal Humanitas, is a past president of the Philadelphia Society (2001–2002), and is chairman of the National Humanities Institute. He is widely published on both sides of the Atlantic with articles appearing in leading journals, magazines, and newspapers. His many books include Will, Imagination and Reason (Regnery, 1986); Democracy and the Ethical Life (Catholic University of America Press, 1990); The New Jacobinism: Can Democracy Survive? (National Humanities Institute, 1991); and America the Virtuous (Transaction Publishers, 2003).

  Stephen J. Sneigoski, Ph.D., holds his doctorate in American history from the University of Maryland, with a specialty in American diplomatic history. He is the author of numerous articles dealing with World War II, the war on Iraq, and political philosophy that have appeared in such publications as Telos, The World and I, Modern Age, Current Concerns, The Occidental Quarterly, and The Last Ditch.

  Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is also a contributing editor of The American Conservative, Senior Fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, and Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Raimondo writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, and is the author of, among other titles, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993) and Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection (iUniverse, 2003).

  David W. Lutz, Ph.D., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1978 and served in the U.S. Army until 1983. In 1994 he received degrees in moral philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and the Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research in Germany. Lutz currently teaches philosophy and management at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

  E. Michael Jones, Ph.D., has taught at both the high school and college levels in the U.S. and Europe. He received his doctorate in American literature from Temple University in 1979, and taught the subject as an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame through 1980. In 1981 he founded Fidelity Magazine, which was published by the Wanderer Forum Foundation until 1984 when he became publisher as well as editor. He currently edits Culture Wars, which succeeded Fidelity in 1999. He has written hundreds of articles and 12 books, the most recent of which is The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing (St. Augustine's Press, 2004).

  Kirkpatrick Sale is a non-fiction writer, journalist, editor, and environmental activist, who focuses on political, economic, and ecological problems of contemporary society, proposing novel – and often controversial – solutions. Sale is the author of 12 books, including Human Scale (Perigee, 1982), The Green Revolution (Hill & Wang, 1993), and Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution, Lessons for the Computer Age (Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996). A contributing editor of The Nation, Sale writes for periodicals in the U.S. and the U.K., and is a board member of The PEN American Center, the E.F. Schumacher Society, and The Learning Alliance of New York City.

  Naomi Klein, a Canadian, is an award-winning journalist and author of the international best seller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Picador USA, 2000). Her articles have appeared in publications such as The Nation, The New Statesman, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. Klein writes an internationally syndicated column for The Globe and Mail in Canada and The Guardian in Britain. She has traveled throughout North America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, tracking the rise of anti-corporate activism.

  William O'Rourke is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program there. He is the author of four novels and several non-fiction works, including Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992 (State University of New York Press, 1993), Campaign America '96: The View from the Couch (reissued, University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), and Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch (PreviewPort.com, 2001). O'Rourke has been writing a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times since 2001, and has been awarded two NEAs and a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant. He was the first James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.

  Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF (ret.), has an M.A. in government from Harvard and an M.S. in science management from the University of Alaska. Before her recent retirement from the U.S. Air Force, her final assignment was as a political-military affairs officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretariat for Policy, in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Near East and South Asia directorates. Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski also served on the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency.

  Robert Hickson, USA (ret.), Ph.D., is a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, and Vietnam War veteran. Following his retirement he served for many years in the intelligence and special-operations communities in varying capacities. His degree is in comparative literature and classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and he is a founding faculty member of Christendom College. Hickson has held professorships at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Joint Special Operations University at U.S. Special Operations Command, the John. F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, and the Joint Military Intelligence College.

  Jack Dalton is a 60-year-old former Marine and disabled Vietnam veteran. He returned from Vietnam, he says, as “A real America, love it or leave it' type.” But by the middle of 1967 he had changed drastically, after listening to what the American people were being told by their government about the war. Dalton wondered what war they were talking about, since “it sure wasn't the one I just came back from.” Today he claims to hear the same kind of thing from those returning from Iraq. Only, in his opinion, “the level of government secrecy has increased,” and “public discourse is once again being 'criminalized.'” Dalton is co-editor of Project for the Old American Century, a web-based, grass-roots organization that “strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and under-reported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship.”

  Chris Harrison is an ex-Army Reserve First Lieutenant of the Army Engineers. He did not serve in any conflict, and was honorably discharged September 1, 2004. Tim Goodrich joined the U.S. Air Force in April of 1999, and served for 4 years, being honorably discharged in April, 2003. His military specialty was as a maintainer of communications and navigation systems on the E-3 AWACS aircraft. He deployed to Saudi Arabia twice in support of Operation Southern Watch, and once to Oman in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Jimmy Massey joined the Marines in January 1992, and served for 12 years with a specialty (MOS
) in infantry. He was also an infantry instructor at the boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and was a Marine recruiter in western North Carolina for three years. Upon the end of his recruiting duty tour, he left Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., and was sent to Kuwait in January 2003, until the invasion in March. He was MedEvac-ed out of Iraq in May of 2003, and received an honorable medical discharge in December. Dave Bischel served as an active-duty MP in the Army in Germany from 1989 to 1993. He rejoined the military in March 2003 under the “try-one-year” option offered to honorably discharged veterans interested in being part of the National Guard. He was ordered to Iraq in May 2003, and came home in April 2004, when he was honorably discharged.

  Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, USN, was raised in the Bronx, New York, and attended Catholic elementary and high schools where he developed an abiding respect for human life. He joined the U.S. Navy in 2000, and achieved the rank of Petty Officer Third Class, but his strong moral values put him at odds with the war in Iraq. On March 18, 2005, Petty Officer Paredes filed for conscientious objector status. He was convicted by a Special Court Martial on May 11, 2005, of missing his ship's movement and sentenced the following day to three months' hard labor.

  Staff Sgt. Al Lorenz, USAR, first saw military service as a Marine Corps scout/sniper from 1976 to 1980. He transferred into the Army National Guard in the 80s, and to the Army Reserves in 1993. Refusing to serve under Bill Clinton, Staff Sgt. Lorenz resigned from the military honorably in 1994. Then on the first day of the Iraq invasion he volunteered to return from civilian life and requested combat duty with the specific aim of helping to take care of the young soldiers he had seen on TV. He deployed to Iraq from February to October 2004.

  Col. W. Patrick Lang, USA (ret.), served in the Department of Defense as an Army officer in military intelligence and special forces, and as a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He is a highly educated Middle East specialist, and worked in that region for many years. He was the first Professor of Arabic at the United States Military Academy. In the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), he was the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and Terrorism, and later the first Director of the Defense HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Service. Col. Lang is currently President of Global Resources Group, and a regular analyst for many television and radio programs.

  Ray McGovern is a graduate of Fordham University where he earned degrees in Russian studies and a commission in the Army as an intelligence officer. He spent 27 years as a CIA analyst, during which time he chaired various National Intelligence Estimates and, for a number of years, prepared the President's Daily Brief. McGovern is a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of 45 former intelligence-community members formed in January 2003, after it had become clear that intelligence analysis was being corrupted by political pressure to “justify” an unprovoked attack on Iraq. He now works at Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C.

  Jeffrey Record, Ph.D., received his doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and was formerly a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. During the Vietnam War he served as assistant province advisor in the Mekong Delta, and later as senior fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. Record also has extensive Capitol Hill experience having served as an advisor to Senators William Cohen and Gary Hart; as legislative assistant to Senators Sam Nunn, Bob Krueger, and Lloyd Bentsen; and later as a professional staff member for the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is the author of numerous books and monographs, including Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq (Naval Institute Press, 2004).

  Stephen Pelletière, Ph.D., holds a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Central Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and was a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000. He also served as the Middle East expert at the War College's Strategic Studies Institute during the same period. He has held positions in journalism and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Ripon College, and Union College. Pelletière is the author of The Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf (Westview Press, 1984); The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a Vacuum (Praeger Publishers, 1992); and Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf (Maisonneuve Press, 2004).

  Gordon Prather, Ph.D., formerly worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico. He also served as a policy implementing official for national-security-related matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Department of the Army. Prather was also legislative assistant for national security affairs to Senator Henry Bellmon (R-OK), a member of the Senate Energy Committee.

  Roger Morris served on the senior staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon until he resigned in protest over the invasion of Cambodia. An award-winning investigative journalist and historian as well as a former diplomat, he is the author of several books including RichardMilhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (Henry Holt & Co., 1989). Morris is currently completing a history dealing with U.S. policy and covert intervention in Southwest Asia for the publisher Alfred Knopf.

  Mark and Louise Zwick, editors and publishers of the Houston Catholic Worker, take in immigrants and refugees at their Casa Juan Diego Houses of Hospitality in Houston. Casa Juan Diego provides a haven for thousands of immigrants and has made medical services, food, and clothing available to the poor of the community. The Zwicks' book on The Catholic Worker Movement will be published by Paulist Press later this year.

  John Burroughs, J.D., Ph. D., holds his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law and his Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, based in New York, and Adjunct Professor of International Law at Rutgers Law School. He is author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice (Lit Verlag, 1998).

  Nicole Deller, J.D., holds a law degree from New York University School of Law. She is program advisor for the World Federalist Movement in New York and chairs the Committee on International Security Affairs for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is the principal editor of Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (Apex Press, 2003). Deller recently served as research associate and consultant for the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy.

  Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., holds his law degree and doctorate in political science from Harvard University. A scholar in the areas of international law and human rights, he is a professor at the College of Law, University of Illinois, and was a teaching fellow at Harvard and an associate at its Center for International Affairs. He formerly served as legal advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace negotiations, and has served on the board of directors of Amnesty International. Boyle is also attorney of record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, conducting its legal affairs on a worldwide basis. His books include Destroying World Order (Charity Press, 2004); Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law (Juris Publications, Inc., 1987); and Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations (1898–1922) (Duke University

  Press, 1999).

  Immanuel Wallerstein, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scholar of Sociology at Yale University, former president of the International Sociological Association, and former chairman of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. He writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system, the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy, and the structures
of knowledge. His books include The Modern World-System (Academic Press, 1980), Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 1998), and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms (Temple University Press, 2001). He holds his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

  F. William Engdahl holds a degree in politics from Princeton, and has done graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm. A widely read freelance writer, he has appeared regularly in publications worldwide writing on energy, politics, and economics. Engdahl has attended numerous international conferences, from London to Jakarta to Moscow, speaking on geopolitical, economic, and energy issues. He currently lives in Germany and, in addition to writing and speaking, is active as a consulting economist.

  Joseph Margulies, Esq., is a principal in the Minneapolis firm of Margulies & Richman and a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his B.A., with honors, from Cornell University in 1982, and his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in 1988. In 1989 he joined the staff of the Texas Capital Resource Center, where he represented men and women on Texas's death row, eventually becoming Senior Staff Attorney. In 1994 he moved to Minnesota, and he now specializes in civil rights and capital defense. He was lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush, which challenged the prisoner detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, before the Supreme Court. Margulies writes and lectures widely on capital defense and civil liberties in the wake of September 11.