Defense Department advisor Richard Perle says he may sue reporter Seymour Hersh over allegations of a possible conflict of interest. Summary: Perle is on the board of a company which stands to profit from a certain upcoming war (via "investing in companies which deal in technology, goods and services that are of value to national security and defense") and has allegedly been trying to get the Saudis to invest. The middle-man informant is fixer Adnan Khashoggi of BCCI/Iran-Contra fame. It's a murky tale and at some points Hersh -- or the protagonists' obfuscatory deal-maker spiel -- lost me. Maybe Conde Nast legal had something to do with its lack of narrative precision. Does anyone know anything more about Trireme Management Group? Are they interlocked with Carlyle by any chance? And who owns the construction companies who will get the contracts to rebuild after Mesopotamia is MOABed, anyway?
Dratfink has already linked Mailer's scathing Only in America(NYRB). Norman has come around to something like Gore Vidal's view that plutocracy has now superseded democracy in this land. The old man in rare top form... Hitchens' Perils of Partition (Atlantic) is less polemmical but excellent on the very long aftermath of colonialism and in India/Pakistan, Ireland, Cyprus, the Middle East and elsewhere and the metamorphosis of "divide and rule" into post-colonial fratricidal nationalisms.
heres a list of american multinationals that will open the bidding on rebuilding iraq. a halliburton subsidiary has already won the rights to extinguishing oil fires. good thing noone would ever accuse the us of setting fire to the oil wells .
Your intended link to Mailer leads to Carlyle Group.
Sorry. Mailer is here. I'll fix the main post too.
I found it through fink. Good article, when Mailer is on he's on. I dug Harlots Ghost despite it's grandiose ambitions. btw, your page is tops.
I read the Hersh article as well and got bogged down about three-quaters of the way through, but the Trireme/Defense Advisory Council and other connections definitely provide supreme grist for the mill.
Thanks for the pointer to the Mailer article.
There are so many outrages being perpetrated by Bush43 and the seething cabal that put him forth, one hardly knows where to begin or what to do.
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Dratfink has already linked Mailer's scathing Only in America(NYRB). Norman has come around to something like Gore Vidal's view that plutocracy has now superseded democracy in this land. The old man in rare top form... Hitchens' Perils of Partition (Atlantic) is less polemmical but excellent on the very long aftermath of colonialism and in India/Pakistan, Ireland, Cyprus, the Middle East and elsewhere and the metamorphosis of "divide and rule" into post-colonial fratricidal nationalisms.
- bruno 3-13-2003 6:41 am
heres a list of american multinationals that will open the bidding on rebuilding iraq. a halliburton subsidiary has already won the rights to extinguishing oil fires. good thing noone would ever accuse the us of setting fire to the oil wells .
- dave 3-13-2003 8:52 am
Your intended link to Mailer leads to Carlyle Group.
- steve 3-13-2003 3:23 pm
Sorry. Mailer is here. I'll fix the main post too.
- bruno 3-13-2003 6:23 pm
I found it through fink. Good article, when Mailer is on he's on. I dug Harlots Ghost despite it's grandiose ambitions. btw, your page is tops.
- steve 3-13-2003 7:52 pm
I read the Hersh article as well and got bogged down about three-quaters of the way through, but the Trireme/Defense Advisory Council and other connections definitely provide supreme grist for the mill.
Thanks for the pointer to the Mailer article.
There are so many outrages being perpetrated by Bush43 and the seething cabal that put him forth, one hardly knows where to begin or what to do.
- bunny (guest) 3-16-2003 11:10 pm