Have you ever said that you can't get enough of Taking Aim with Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone? WBAI heard you and scheduled six hours, this Tuesday, May 30: 5:00 to 6:00 pm (ET) ---- 2:00 to 3:00 pm (PT) Break for the evening news and we return 7:00 pm to midnight ---- 4:00 to 9:00 pm (PT) Presentation of excerpts from two of Ralph Schoenman's riveting lectures along with our further discussion. The WBAI premiums are: "Treason at the Top: The Underlying Politics of 9/11, A Class Analysis" (2-hour DVD, $100 donation) - broadcast for the first time "From Forging 9/11 to Creating the Next Pandemic: A System in Terminal Decay" (3 1/2 hour DVD, $100 donation) - back at popular demand Telephone 212-209-2950 or contribute online at http://www.wbai.org "Treason at the Top" and "Creating the Next Pandemic" In "Treason at the Top: The Underlying Politics of 9/11, A Class Analysis" Ralph Schoenman presents an exposé of those at the summit of economic and political power in the United States and their responsibility for the attacks on 9/11. He expands upon and updates the ongoing series he began in September 2001 with his dramatic 5-hour broadcast entitled "World Trade Center: Uncensored History." In tying 9/11 to the methods that have defined class rule in the United States for generations, Ralph ties the attacks of 9/11 to the unfolding architecture of the fascist state and examines what is to be done to end the criminalization of State power in America. [This DVD includes the 2-hour speech. The lecture was presented April 22 at West Park Presbyterian Church and was sponsored by the 9/11 Truth Movement.] ---- see below for a detailed description. In "From Forging 9/11 to Creating the Next Pandemic: A System in Terminal Decay" Ralph Schoenman documents how the official drum beat regarding an inevitable biological attack and pandemic within the United States is tied, like 9/11 itself, to longstanding plans of U.S. rulers to deploy bacteriological and viral agents as weapons of destruction and subjugation aimed at entire populations, including our own. [This DVD includes a 2-hour lecture and 1 1/2 hour Q&A. It was presented April 23 at St. Marks Church and also was sponsored by the 9/11 Truth Movement.] Your contributions make a difference! ---- "Treason at the Top - The Underlying Politics of 9/11: A Class Analysis" The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 are facilitating events, designed to provide the necessary if not the sufficient conditions for implementing longstanding plans for those in command of state power in the United States. In this regard, 9/11 forms a distinct continuity and a longstanding pattern, wherein staged events serve to facilitate designs for the seizure of resources, the imposition of imperial control and the necessity for periodic war. Any cogent and coherent explanation and understanding of this history requires a critique of how power is structured in the United States and the nature of the State under capitalism. In particular, U.S. capital has been in terminal decay since the latter part of the last century - not withstanding its imperial reach and relentless pursuit of global hegemony over resources, labor and markets. Capitalism is wholly dependent upon a perverse form of pump priming - deficit financing tied to the merchants of death. Capital in the U.S. is addicted to military expenditure and in ever increasing doses. This, however, can only be sustained by postponing the day of reckoning - with respect to the collapse of the house of cards andl the setting in motion of mass resistance by working people - those who produce everything of value and who receive a fragment of the value of what they create. In examining how 9/11 was planned and put together, we are drawn inexorably to two basic features of late capitalism: 1] the addiction to waste production, notably arms. 2] the relentless destruction of the productive forces of society and their replacement with fictive capital - speculation and financial manipulation and the inexorable criminalization of the state that this entails. Every past imperial adventure of U.S. rulers has displayed similar features and has included false flag operations even more complex and far reaching than those of 9/ll. During the past 40 years, the Pentagon has received over $10 trillion of on the book funds - more than the combined value of everything produced in the United States. Of these funds, some $7.3 trillion have no paper trail and the GAO has been unable to account for them. The rationale for a permanent war economy and for massive military buildup AFTER World War 2 was the presumptive menace of "communism,"l the "threat" of 'subversion, the fiction of a revolutionary expansionism on the part of the Soviet Union. With its collapse, a replacement was required and the Category of Terror was contrived. The young Netanyahu, as a CIA operative, organized a series of conferences on the new menace - the ubiquitous apparatus of "terror", first in Tel Aviv and then in Washington, with all the major ideologues of the ruling class in tow - Kissinger, Brezinski, Schultz, Bush, Sr. and the Joint Chiefs. The false category of terror is a central feature of ruling class ideology today and the importance of the 9/11 movement lies in no small measure in the demolition of this myth. The events of 9/11 were proposed in 1962 with Operation Northwoods and rehearsed in 1993. The presumptive terrorists in every such operation emerge as high ranking operatives of the intelligence agencies of the United States. in reviewing these false flag undertakings, we gain an essential understanding into the criminal nature of the state under capitalism. Without exposing the false nature of this central theme of ruling class politics, no movement of resistance can be built. There is, as well, a defining feature of this "war on terror." It is aimed against the mass of our people and it is perpetrated by the rulers themselves. The use of biological and chemical agents against entire populations, the literal creation of the next pandemic through the weaponization of viral agents targets the mass of our people, no less than it does victim peoples in such countries as Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, whose domination has been long a feature of imperial reach. The evidence for the origin of these viral agents in military laboratories is massive and we shall look at its salient features here. What is required to challenge those in power in the United States? What is our constituency, how is to be mobilized, around what program and what perspective - those are the issues that confront any movement serious about challenging those in power. Those in command of the state apparatus in the United States can not be influenced. They can not be persuaded. They can not be reformed. They can not be contained. They have to be removed. That task must be identified, declared and prepared. We have a movement in the United States of working people mobilizing against the exploitation to which they are subjected but without a political instrument to provide the necessary organization and program. In examining what would be required to achieve these objectives, we begin to provide an answer to the question of how the handful of people who command state power in the United States and who deploy it against our population can be removed from power and cast into the dustbin of history - a process crying out for completion and long overdue. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/xYTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/