http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/

I am soo desperate for justice and accountability.
Will we ever see any? Patriots are gagged. The criminals are in control.

Our Congress is owned by the corporations and war criminals.

Our Department if Justice is NOT a department of justice.

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Jades comments about free markets are spot on, too, IMHO. Why is it that the Friedmanites, who worship at the alter of big business, never seem very concerned about the human cost of “opening up” these so-called free markets, which are anything but when the human cost is taken into consideration? If we’ve learned nothing else from the recent economic collapse, bankster thievery and economic blackmail, and the sociopathic behavior of the business elites which drove it, it should be this: The Milton Friedman School of Economics theory is total bunk. Its been completely discredited. Its a overly simplistic view that that leaves the human factor out of the equation, intentionally it seems.

You are a brave and beautiful woman, and I pray for your safety.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Jeff

And in the great (misplaced) investigatory tradition of ‘following the money’ might I suggest a continued/increased focus on the Carpetbagger PUT concept. That is, the miraculously accurate betting on some completely unforeseen catastrophe destroying the value of a particular commodity/asset or market.

I’m thinking of Goldman Sachs, I’m thinking of Enron, I’m thinking of some Airlines, a well-known date and a story that was never fully chased-down by the Baltimore Sun.

About the “clan,” this is a great piece of information that you’ve shared with us. Of course there will always be defenders of Afghan-American Chambers of Commerce and increased business dealings. The underlying problem that defenders ignore or are completely unconscious of is the force it takes to bring about these business dealings.

What you’ve described here is Naomi Klein’s shock doctrine in action. Throughout our history, we’ve gone into other countries to “open up their veins” for commerce. Milton Friedman and his ilk always claimed that “free markets” = free people, but they never owned up to the realities of invasion, torture, murder, assassinations, placement of dictators, or extreme repression of the people that was necessary to “soften people up” for the “free markets” to be foisted on the populations and be put in place. People aren’t free when “free markets” and “democracy” come to them at the business end of guns and bombs.

I think that one of our biggest sins in Iraq was to promise democracy and then kill it once the Iraqis started organizing themselves and participating in genuine democratic actions. It’s hard for me to imagine anything more soul-crushing to a people than that. And it saddens me that most Americans have no idea of what we actually did. Most of us patted ourselves on the back for giving the Iraqis a “democracy” and making it possible for them to have elections. What’s never mentioned is that once Paul Bremer and the US saw the kind of people who were being elected, we stopped the process. We threw out a bunch of democratically-elected officials who sought to rebuild Iraq and provide for the commonwealth; they were replaced with Saddam-era dictators. The rest of the elections only included candidates that were acceptable to us. Folks in the Pentagon were openly talking about using “the Salvador option” to crush the Iraqi resistance to our about face. The civil war didn’t even begin in earnest until it became evident that we really didn’t want Iraq to have a thriving democracy. The escalation of violence was a direct response to our killing of the hope of democracy, which was necessary in order to fulfill OUR economic wants in the country. But so far, Iraq is a success story for the business elite. There’s a 15% flat tax, a new stock market, and a country completely open to privatization.

Anyway, I look forward to reading your very long upcoming piece. Thank you for what you’ve shared so far. This kind of information about what’s really going on economically is hard to find.