Jeffrey Steinberg is a founding editor of the weekly Executive Intelligence Review, and has been senior editor since 1975. A graduate of Rutgers and Montclair State University, Steinberg is author of The Ugly Truth About the ADL (Executive Intelligence Review, 1992) and Dope, Inc. (Executive Intelligence Review, 1992), as well as special reports on international terrorism, the drug trade, organized crime, and political corruption. He has lectured on national security affairs in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Italy, France, Germany, and Japan.
Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate. He was previously Slate's chief political correspondent and the originator of its “Strange Bedfellow” and “Ballot Box” columns. Before joining Slate in 1996, he wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, and New York Magazine, and has written as well for Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine. He is the co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World (Random House, c2003). He is also the author of In Defense of Government (Scribner, 1996), the e-book The Road to Chadville (Slate, 2000), and the Bushisms series.
Col. Dan Smith, USA (ret.), graduated from West Point in 1966. He served as an intelligence advisor in Vietnam, and subsequently spent six years with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Among his many citations are a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Colonel Smith is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College. He retired from the Army in 1992, and in 2002 joined the Friends Committee on National Legislation as Senior Fellow on Military Affairs.
Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, USN (ret.), J.D., was commissioned in the U.S. Navy upon graduation from Michigan State University in 1969. He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota Law School and the Georgetown University Law Center, and was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan. Posts he held during his 31-year naval career include Director of Legislation for the Office of Legislative Affairs; Commanding Officer, Naval Legal Service Office, Europe and Southwest Asia; Commanding Officer, Naval Justice School; and Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Huston is currently President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Gabor Rona, J.D., Ll.M., was a legal advisor in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for 5 years. He frequently lectures at international conferences and has recently written articles appearing in the Fletcher Forum on World Affairs, the Chicago Journal of International Law, and the Financial Times on the role of the laws of armed conflict and on judicial guarantees in the U.S.'s so-called Global War on Terror. He is of Hungarian origin, having escaped with his family in the aftermath of the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University (1973), and law degrees from Vermont Law School (J.D., 1978) and Columbia University School of Law (Ll.M., 1996). Before moving to the ICRC in Geneva, he spent 15 years as a partner in a small civil and criminal litigation firm in Vermont and two years as a Senior Litigator in international human rights cases at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. He is currently International Legal Director at Human Rights First.
Tom Engelhardt is a graduate of Yale University and one of the country's most eminent book editors. Author of The End of Victory Culture (University of Mass., 1998) and History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (Owl Books, 1996), he is widely published in such magazines as Harper's, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He is also a former editor at Pantheon Books, and is currently a consulting editor at Holt/Metropolitan Books in New York City. He is a Koret Foundation Teaching Fellow working with the Editing Workshop of the University of California, Berkeley, Journalism School.
John Stauber is an investigative writer, public speaker, and democracy activist as well as the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy. He has worked with many citizen advocacy and public interest groups and, in 1993, launched PR Watch. Stauber lives and works in Madison, Wis., and has been featured, interviewed for, or quoted in practically all the major print and broadcast media. His recent books, in collaboration with Sheldon Rampton, include Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (Jeremy P. Larcher/Penguin, 2003) and Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry (Common Courage Press, 1995).
Sheldon Rampton is Research Director for the Center for Media and Democracy. A graduate of Princeton University, he has a diverse background as newspaper reporter, activist, and author. Since 1985 he has worked closely with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, and is co-author of Friends In Deed: The Story of U.S.-Nicaragua Sister Cities (Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, 1989).
Col. Samuel Gardiner, USAF (ret.), is a Vietnam combat veteran and former professor at the National, Air, and Naval War Colleges. He has been a consultant to the Department of Defense for over ten years, focusing on war games. Col. Gardiner was recently a visiting scholar at the Swedish Defence College, and has been a regular as a military analyst on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, BBC radio and television, CNN, and National Public Radio.
Ayad al-Qazzaz is Professor of Sociology and President of the Middle East Cultural Association at California State University, Sacramento. He holds degrees from the University of Baghdad and the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently president of the Arab American Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento. He is the author of several books and numerous articles published throughout the U.S. and the Arab world. Al-Qazzaz produces a half-hour TV show, “Focus on the Middle East,” for the Access Channel in Sacramento.
Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin is a former UNICEF special events officer and accomplished classical and modern composer. In 1988, in order to become a Catholic priest, he quit his UNICEF post and ended his artistic activities in favor of theological studies in Rome. He was ordained in 1991, at the age of 45, and is now a leading French cleric who is widely respected in the Arab world for his fight for justice for the Iraqi people, which he began in earnest in 1997. He has produced two revealing video documentaries exploring the depths of Anglo-American mendacity in their dealings with Iraq, and is currently involved in organizing the legal defense of Tariq Aziz, the deposed Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.
Milton Viorst has, since the Six-Day War, written from the Middle East for the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and, as a staff correspondent, for the New Yorker. Among his six books on Middle East society and politics are Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World (Knopf, 1994); In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Westview Press, 2001); and What Shall I Do With This People? Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism (Free Press, 2002). His book on Arab nationalism will be published by Random House in 2005.
Col. Donn de Grand Pré, USA (ret.), served in Burma and China during World War II and was twice wounded commanding combat forces in Korea. Later, under then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, he was chief arms negotiator for the Middle East as part of the International Security Affairs division in the Pentagon's Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he oversaw the sale of over a hundred billion dollars worth of military equipment. Since 1975, Colonel de Grand Pré has written a number of books, including his popular three-volume series, Barbarians Inside the Gates (GSC & Associates Publishing, 2000).
Mark Gery is an independent Iraq analyst and affiliate speaker for the Education for Peace in Iraq Center and for Foreign Policy in Focus. He is an expert on Saddam Hussein; the ideology, strategy, and history of the Ba'ath Party; and the geopolitical forces behind the war in Iraq. Gery is active in the anti-war movement in southern California and is currently writing a comprehensive text on the U.S.-Iraq conflict entitled Desert Nightmare: The Truth About the Gulf War, the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's Challenge to America.
Curtis Doebbler, Esq., Ph.D., is an international human rights lawyer who holds law degrees from New York Law School and the Catholic University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a doctorate in international law from the London School of Econ
omics and Political Science. He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, and his clients have included the Palestinian Authority, dozens of political activists in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, and Afghanistan, and numerous human rights defenders in countries around the world. His latest book is International Human Rights Law: Cases and Materials (CD Publishing, 2004). He has held professorships at the American University in Cairo, An-Najah National University in Palestine, the University of Pristina, Kosovo, and Tashkent State Institute of Law, Uzbekistan. He is currently serving on the legal defense team for deposed President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Michael Ratner, Esq., is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and aggressively challenges the constitutional and international-law violations of the United States government after 9/11. He served as co-counsel in Rasul v. Bush, the historic Guantánamo detainees case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is co-author of Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004). Over the years, Ratner has litigated a dozen cases challenging a President's authority to go to war without congressional approval.
Acknowledgements
The editors wish to thank the following individuals for kind assistance rendered during the course of our work on Neo-CONNED! Again: Lindsey Carroll, Ted Schluenderfritz, David Brindle, Lynn Gonzalez, Anne Joyce, Robert Hickson, Tomas (for Dr. Doebbler), and Craig Heimbichner. This extremely important project was made easier, and its final result better, owing to their support.
We also gratefully acknowledge permission received from the following individuals or organizations for publication of material by the authors indicated in parenthesis: The Independent (Robert Fisk), The New York Times (Dr. Stephen Pelletière), The Royal Society (Dr. Noam Chomsky), Foreign Policy Research Institute (Dr. Claes Ryn), Salon.com (Roger Morris), Middle East Policy and Blackwell Publishing (Col. Patrick Lang, USA (ret.)), The Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College (Dr. Jeffrey Record), Human Rights Magazine (Drs. John Burroughs and Nicole Deller), Dean Birkenkamp and Paradigm Publishers (Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein), Current Concerns (F. William Engdahl), The Virginia Quarterly Review (Joseph Margulies, Esq.), Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive (Jacob Weisberg), and Peter Hastings, Common Courage Press, The Center for Media and Democracy, and PR Watch (John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton). We also thank Amnesty International, USA, for their permission to republish an excerpt from Guantánamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power (AI Index no. AMR 51/063/2005).
Finally, we would like to acknowledge Laryn Bakker and the webmasters and staff at www.informationclearinghouse.info, www.albasrah.net, www.einswine.com, and www.kein-plan.de for the images contained in this volume.
Further Resources
Given that the Iraq war remains tragically ongoing, readers of the Neo-CONNED! volumes may wish to continue their studies of the vitally important subjects relating to it. The editors herewith offer a few suggestions for further reading, included among which are also certain of our contributors' other related online and print publications. We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed in all the sources listed below. Readers should consult them with discernment.
Catholic reference works on matters of war and peace:
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Laicis, Kathleen E. Murphy, Ph.D., trans. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1928).
Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907-1912; Online Edition Copyright 1999 by Kevin Knight), s.v. “War,” at www.newadvent.org.
Rev. Cyprian Emanuel, O.F.M., Ph.D., and the Committee on Ethics, The Morality of Conscientious Objection to War (Washington, D.C.: CAIP, 1941); The Ethics of War (Washington, D.C.: CAIP, 1932).
John Eppstein, The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations (Washington, D.C.: CAIP, 1935).
Charles G. Fenwick, Ph.D., A Primer of Peace (Washington, D.C.: CAIP, 1937).
The International Union of Social Sciences, John Eppstein, trans. and ed., Code of International Ethics (Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1953).
Rev. Harry C. Koenig, S.T.D., ed., Principles for Peace: Selections from Papal Documents, Leo XIII to Pius XII (Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1943).
James Brown Scott, The Catholic Conception of International Law (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1934); The Spanish Origin of International Law (Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2000).
Franziskus Stratmann, O.P., The Church and War (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1928); War and Christianity Today (Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1956).
Francisco Suárez, S.J., De Caritate, from On the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity (originally published, Coimbra: Nicolas Carvalho, 1621) in Gwladys L. Williams, et al., trans., Selections from Three Works (London: Humphrey Milford, 1944; reprinted, Buffalo: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1995), Disputation XIII (De Bello).
Francisco de Vitoria, O.P., De Iure Belli, in Ernest Nys, ed., and John Pawley Bate, trans., De Indis et de Iure Belli Relectiones (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1917; reprinted, Buffalo: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1995), parts V and VI of Relectiones TheologicaeXII (published previously, Johan Georg Simon, J.U.D., ed., Cologne and Frankfort: August Boetius, 1696).
Recent and related books by the contributors:
Cockburn: Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia (with St. Clair) Dime’s Worth of Difference : Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils (with St. Clair) The Politics of Anti-Semitism (with St. Clair)
Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
Ryn: America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
Raimondo: Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection
McGovern: “A Compromised C.I.A.: What Can Be Done?” in Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense
Pelletière: America’s Oil Wars Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf
The Zwicks: The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins
Boyle: Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11th
Wallerstein: The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World Alternatives: The United States Confronts the World
Engdahl: A Century of War
Engelhardt: The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
Stauber & Rampton: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq
Viorst: In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam What Shall I Do with This People?: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism
De Grand Pré: Barbarians Inside the Gates: The Black Book of Bolshevism (Book I); The Viper’s Venom (Book II); The Rattler’s Revenge (Book III)
Ratner: “International Law and War Crimes,” in War Crimes: A Report on U.S. War Crimes Against Iraq
Periodicals (subscription information available on the Internet):
Current Concerns The American Conservative
Culture Wars Occidental Quarterly: A Journal of Western
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Thought and Opinion
Houston Catholic Worker Middle East Policy
Websites:
Antiwar.com LewRockwell.com
www.arabmonitor.org www.freearabvoice.org
www.benjaminforiraq.org www.albasrah.net
www.occupationwatch.org www.mfso.org
www.vvaw.org www.ivaw.org
www.bringthemhomenow.org www.gsfp.org
www.counterpunch.org www.sandersresearch.com
www.globalsecurity.org www.oldamericancentury.org
www.iacenter.org www.tompaine.com
www.tomdispatch.com www.wanniski.com
www.sobran.com www.ericmargolis.com
www.prwatch.org www.robert-fisk.com
www.thornwalker.com/ditch
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