November 15, 2003 WORKSHOP The 'Project for a New American Century' Study: Grounding Action in Research PNAC Study Group | Who Commissioned PNAC? | PNAC Precursor | Next Stop Iran? The Rest of the Iceberg
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Presenters will be John Fudjack and Jim Sande. They
will be joined by one of the keynote speakers for the conference at which this workshop will be held, William Rivers Pitt - an internationally best-selling author of three books: 'War on Iraq - What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know,' 'The Greatest Sedition is Silence,' and 'Our Flag, Too - The Paradox of Patriotism.' He is the Managing Editor and Senior Writer for truthout.org.
John Fudjack and Jim Sande are members of the Buddhist Peace Group (BPG), an ad hoc group of Buddhists from the Capital District who came together in February of 2003 to oppose the invasion of Iraq. The group has sponsored various actions, described at http://buddhistpeacegroup.org. In March, they began a study of 'The Project for a New American Century' (PNAC) that culminated in a series of public discussions
on the subject offered throughout the month of September. The PNAC document, and their
study, will be the topic of the workshop.
This workshop will be one of 36 offered at Confronting the Politics of Fear: a People's Assembly. This is a day-long gathering that will take place at Albany High School 700 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12203-1404. Assembly Hours: 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM. For more information on the People's Assembly, including a list of all workshops that will be offered on this day, please see the event website, at - http://www.nysnet.org/
PNAC workshop SYNOPSIS:
The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) is a
90 page document that outlines the
neoconservative 'defense' vision, which now
dominates U.S. foreign policy. Published in
September of 2000 - two months before the
presidential election, and a full year before the
events of 9/11 - it was commissioned by several
individuals who later came to play key roles in
the Bush administration: Rumsfeld, Cheney,
Wolfowitz and others.
"It's the scariest document I've ever read in my
life," said Dr. Helen Caldicott. "This is the new
Mein Kampf. Only Hitler did not have nuclear
weapons." Long before Bush took office the
document unabashedly declared that nothing short
of a "new Pearl Harbor" could be effective in
quickly promoting the neocon vision of global rule
articulated in its pages. It identified Iraq,
Iran, Syria and Korea as targets of future U.S.
aggression, and admitted that the removal of
Saddam Hussein would never be the primary
objective in a U.S. occupation of Iraq. And much
more. Yet this story remains the most
under-reported one this year!
Join us as we read brief excerpts from the
document, discuss who some of its 130 signatories
are, and explore some of the concepts, policies
and practices it is promoting. Let us share with
you why we've come to believe that those who are
promoting this vision are not simply a rogue
element who have somehow commandeered the White
House - but, rather, establishment elite whose
long careers are intimately interwined and deeply
rooted in past administrations, all the way back
to Nixon and before. Their political objectives
are consistent with a variety of highly
questionable U.S. policy threads that can be
traced back at least as far as the early 1940s,
when the 'Cold War' was being fashioned by a
likeminded and equally dangerous group of zealots.
We'll also provide you with a new research tool
that has come out of this study, which can be used
to search the internet for relevant PNAC-related
materials. [Now available here: The Rest of the Iceberg]
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