Reading List

Local to New Mexico:

• If you want to find PAPERS from the Oct 28 TEACH/IN SPEAK OUT faculty speakers, please CLICK HERE

• Get to know the Las Cruces Peace Movement History

Boje Articles for PeaceAware

• Deconstruction of BU$H's State of the Union theatre by David Boje, January 29, 2003.

• Oil and Empire: Say No to the Oil War by  David M. Boje (New Mexico State University) October 28, 2002. This has facts cited in the talk.

• Facts and Propaganda about the War in Iraq by David M. Boje (New Mexico State University) Oct 28, 2002 This has the facts cited in his talk.

•  What Students at NMSU need to know about the Draft and other things?

• VOICE of the VOICELESS Children by David M. Boje (NMSU) Facts cited in talks during the day; also Slide Show. 
• Bush spectacle theatrics: image analysis of the presidency by David M. Boje. June 2 2003
• MORE BOJE ESSAYS

FREEE BOOKS ON THE WEB

• 20 Days in Spring or Download pdf for pcs Former metadesign principal Terry Irwin has published a powerful website/book, on the war on Iraq

Academic References on the Gulf Wars

Articles recommended by our Peace@nmsu.edu list  (members only) - send Email to join list

• Addictive effects of television
  

• NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCITON FOUND IN IRAQ - Growing evidence of deception by Washington By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles - 20 April 2003 Independent,Co.UK.

• The Most Dangerous President Ever How and why George W. Bush undermines American security - By Harold Meyerson

• Pressure To Find Weapons Mounts - April 18 2003
  http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/041903D.shtml

  Geov Parrish workingforchange.com 02.28.03	Printer-friendly version
  Please bomb Seattle An open letter to President Bush from a Seattle resident

• Thursday, March 6, 2003 - Thousands of Students Walk Out of Classes to Protest Possible War - By JEFFREY R. YOUNG  - Thousands of students at more than 350 colleges and high schools walked out of classes and held rallies on Wednesday to protest a possible U.S. war with Iraq. Some professors canceled their classes to support the protesters. "Books not bombs" was the theme of the events, organized by a coalition of 15 student groups called the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition. http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/03/2003030602n.htm 

• Lawyer arrested for wearing Peace T-Shirt in local Mall. You could be next one arrested for expressing peace now that Civil Rights are evaporating in the face of Patriot Act I and II

• Of Gods Mortals and Empire - by Pitt Truth Out article http://truthout.org/docs_02/022203A.htm 

• Media Democracy's Moment By Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, The Nation
  February 25, 2003 Senator Fiengold says, ""We need to remind the FCC that radio is a public medium. It must serve the public good." In a January speech that linked the struggle for media reform to broader efforts to renew American democracy, the senator argued, "People should have choices, listeners should have a diversity of options, and Americans should be able to hear new and different voices. Radio allows us to connect to our communities, to our culture and our democracy. It is one of the vibrant mediums we have for the exchange of ideas, and for artistic expression. We must fight to preserve it." 

• The Dangers of Dissent "Dissent isn't easy these days. You're branded unpatriotic for questioning an unelected president's rush to war, and dismissed as insignificant even when you number in the millions. It gets much worse. If you work in an American university, you could be blacklisted, harassed and even lose your job for questioning the Bush Administration's conservative pro-war agenda. Thanks to a small number of deep-pocket groups with close ties to the government, campuses have been pummeled with a right-wing political agenda; one stated goal is to replace liberal-minded professors (found to be "short on patriotism" or failing to teach that civilization itself "is best exemplified in the West and indeed in America") with more politically correct conservatives." (Read rest of this Heather Wokusch column). 

• Liberal Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats By JIM RUTENBERG, NY Times.  Feb 17 2003

  group of wealthy Democratic donors is planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance the conservative tenor of radio programs like "The Rush Limbaugh Show." 

• Getting Serious February 15, 2003 By the Plaid Adder = I never thought I would hear myself say this. But I think it may be time for us to stop laughing at George W. Bush.

• Bernard Weiner's Artistic Sign Language essay - http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/signs.htm 

• PBS "Plans for a Post War Iraq" Feb 11 - Note from PeaceAware -It is clear that the administration has plans for Iraq oil in the post-war governance and regime change. They say in this that the Iraqi people will control the oil resources. That would be nice. I have other sources that report that 3 top US oil corporations are already making bids with the post-Iraq regime puppets being put into place. See PBS article http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/iraq_2-11.html  Also see the Oil War documents on PeaceAware.

• Britain's Intelligence Dossier on Iraq was Plagiarized from a Grad Student by Michael C. Ruppert Update: Feb. 7, 2003, 1830 hrs, PST, (FTW): Mainstream media in the U.S. has finally started to report on this story: CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/07/sprj.irq.uk.dossier/index.html

• Truth Out - deconstruction of Bush Speech (29 Jan) http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/013003A.wrp.unsaid.htm 
• Boje's 29 Jan deconstruction of Bush Speech 
• Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Prof. Stephen Walt of Harvard (2003) article entitled "An Unnecessary War". Foreign Policy - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/wwwboard/walts.html One quote -"President Bush’s repeated claim that the threat from Iraq is growing makes little sense in light of Saddam’s past record, and these statements should be viewed as transparent attempts to scare Americans into supporting a war."
• Thompson, Doug (2003).  Role Reversal: Bush Wants War, Pentagon Urges Caution. Truth Out. 22 January 2003
• Kucinich, Dennis (2003). Peace as a Civil Right. The Nation.Jan 23 03  
• Morford, Mark (2003). Bush Slaps Your Sanctity
  Oppress your daughters and slaughter some evildoers, it's (another) National Sanctity of Life Day. SF Gate. Jan 17 http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/ 
• Mahajan, Rahul (2002). Time to Ban Depleted Uranium Weapons Used in Gulf, Kosovo. Baltimore Sun. Feb 4 2001. Gives good background on U236 and U238 uranium weapons
• Parrish, Geov (2003). Preventing war Millions rally against war -- can Bush juggernaut be contained? Jan 21 http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14383 
  
• "We Don't Know Where we are going" - Gore Vidal - The Guardian Dec 6 2001
  • "The United States does not have an interest in Afghanistan. The Bush family does. Oil. As does Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. We have a bunch of oilmen running the country. It will be like Vietnam in the sense that it is unwinnable. I suppose we could put in a government in Kabul, but as the guerrilla warfare continues and we have no national interest, we'll drift away; though Bush can keep the war going until 2004, so he can be re-elected president."
• Gore Vidal‘s The Enemy Within- posted by the Scoop -  Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 10:20 am The Vidal article relies on book we list below by Nafeez, Ahmed Mosaddeq (2002).
  • As it proved, the conquest of Afghanistan had nothing to do with Osama. He was simply a pretext for replacing the Taliban with a relatively stable government that would allow Union Oil of California to lay its pipeline for the profit of, among others, the Cheney-Bush junta.
• The American Political Paradox: More Freedom, Less Democracy October 12 (Counter Punch)  by Robert Jensen.
• "For Bush, Facts Are Malleable" (on language manipulation)  By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61903-2002Oct21.html
• "Iraq: the 51st state?"  By James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/fallows.htm

• Nagy, Thomas J. (2002). The Role of "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities" in Halting One Genocide and Preventing Others . Nagy is Professor in Department of Management Science, School of Business & Public Management, George Washington University.  main site is http://home.gwu.edu/~nagy/ 

• The Case For Regime Change by Ted Rall. Eat The State, Vol 7 # 3. Oct 9 (2002).
  

Books

• Nafeez, Ahmed Mosaddeq (2002). The War on Freedom: How and why America was attacked, September 11th, 2001. UK: Institute for policy Research & Development (Media Messenger Books). See also http://www.globalresearch.org/view_article.php?aid=342536303 

• Judd, Dennis R. & Daniel Hellinger (1991). The Democratic facade. Pacific Grove, Ca Brooks/ Cole Publishing Company.

• Greider, William (1992). Who will Tell the People The Betrayal of American Democracy. NY Simon & Schuster.

  • What is interesting is the same root causes of the Bush Sr War are what we face now.  In a nutshell, the American people are being brainwashed by a mass marketing propaganda campaign and stupefied and insular education system. Democracy is a facade, something bought and solid by politicians totally dependent on corporate PAC money. Both books point to corrupted election process, non-critical education, and a media run by conservative corporate interests. These corporate interest subvert democracy to military ends, sell the war toys, defense contracts, and sell violence in video games, movies, and TV to turng democracy into the culture of violence. Corporate militarism is sold through propaganda promoting racism, zenophobic, and in effect the cold war is alive and well.  The same cold war that demonized any option to militarism is being recycled to substitute Middle East for the old Soviet bloc. The conservative militarists sell the public propaganda about Iraq missiles pointed at the US, the way Bush Sr. sold US that Soviets pointed missiles  at Europe/US -- and continued it till the Berlin wall was  dismantled. The military industrial complex needs its budgets and war propaganda is a ay to sell it.
    
    As Hellinger and Judd put it "American politics created a mythology and was then ruled by it" (1991: 365). Iraw is a satisifying storyline for the military industrial complex and politicians funded by war interests. 
    
    There are root causes for the democratic crisis in America. It is the dynamics of global economics that sells us they global mythology. Greider calls it global feudalism, not at all an enlightened form of global economics. The propaganda is that globalism will help all economies, letting developing nations become developed. Yet, the facts were evident a decade ago - the gap between rich and poor widens, we fight never-ending wars to secure territory for corporations whose CEOs are the new feudal lords. The propaganda prevents us from seeing the ways that Robber Barons are alive and well, still writing both our domestic and foreign (war) policies.
    
    Both books conclude that we have one party system - the two parties are both the same - both are beholden to corporate monies; both do the work of empire building, providing military security and conquest for a variety of industries who profit from perpetual war. 
    
    We have not had democracy in America for fifty years.  All that is left is the hollow facade.  Any alternatives are rooted out and exorcised by the conservative propaganda machine that sells the American public the idea that American is raising all boats, spreading democracy. Both books point to a long trend of subverting and corrupting democracy at every turn.
    

• Rivers, William with Ritter, Scott (2002). War on Iraq; What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know http://www.contextbooks.com/newF.html

• Zunes, Stephen (2002). Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism
    http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=226

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Interesting Stuff

• Is the Draft into Military Service Back? Learn the FACTS about HR 3598, Universal Military Training and Service Act.  Young man, if you are 18 to 22, you can earn $340 per month: Males would be drafted, but women could volunteer; No deferment or postponement of induction for basic military training and education under this Act shall continue after the cause of such deferment or postponement ceases to exist.

• Effect of USA PATRIOT Act on Foreign Students -  College Officials Urge Lawmakers to Fix Problems Security poses for

• Iraq defends Inspection Reports Dec 24 2002 - http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.24B.iraq.defends.htm 

• White House Tore Out 8000 Pages of Iraq Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.24C.wh.8000.pgs.htm

   
• Aid Groups Warn of Disaster in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.24G.groups.warn.htm

   

• A Letter from Michael Moore - "Yes, It Was a Bushmaster." October 28 2002 (sent to many of us on email).

• The New York Times December 20, 2002 Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ --The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users. 

WHAT'S UP

• 12,000 Professors Sign Petition Opposing U.S. Invasion of Iraq - Lindsay Bosslett
  The Chronicle of Higher Education (16 Oct 2002)  Nearly 12,000 professors have signed an online petition opposing a U.S. invasion of Iraq. The petition, which was started by two professors at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is circulating widely throughout academe... http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/10/2002101602n.htm (Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to access articles.  For the complete article, please send a request to cathleen_keyser@unc.edu.) SIGN THE PETITION at http://www.noiraqattack.org/

• The mainstream media continues to undercount the turn out at Peace Events. Albuquerque the Jan 18 Truman Gate event at Kirtland AFB, drew at least 2000 people, and the media (KOB-TV and KOAT-TV) reported it as 300. Sun News, Las Cruces reported the 500,000 person DC turnout as "thousands."