Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11 or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex (part two)
General. Background and Sources
The 9/11 attacks have been interpreted by several commentators, including former
Reagan administration official Barbara Honegger, (7) as the 21st-century equivalent of
the 1933 Reichstag Fire, by which the Nazis imposed their dictatorship after Hitler had
been appointed Chancellor by president Hindenburg.
Whilst there are similarities in terms of the rolling back of civil rights and the launching of wars, the shift in world politics that followed 9/11 was different. The current transformation is from the Cold
War stand-off to a neoconservative, Anglo-Zionist condominium, with war against Iran, Russia and China looming.
Unlike the pre-1991 situation in which the West, organised around an Anglophone Atlantic bloc, was reined in the Soviet bloc, the decolonising Third World and at home, by organised labour, in the new configuration no such countervailing forces are recognised. Yet the tide of economic rivalry is going
against the capitalist heartland and the impetus to war, which in the 1930s came from contender states challenging Western pre-eminence, in the current configuration of forces emanates from the West.
It is my argument that 9/11 inaugurated the new world-political condominium, a dramatic seizure of power under the auspices of neoconservatives in the United States, Britain, and Israel. In a speech in 2007, the former NATO commander and presidential hopeful, general Wesley Clark, declared that on 9/11 there was ‘a policy coup in this country’. ‘Some hard-nosed people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of us.’ (8)
Since then, terrorist scares and actual outrages have become a key regulating mechanism of our society, which due to the directive role of speculative capital, no longer rests on a broad social contract. ‘7/7’ in Britain, the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan massacres in France, and other incidents are examples. The question then arises who the ‘regulators’ are, assuming these can be identified as conscious agencies in the larger process.
9/11 was a conspiracy, not a simplistic one executed by 19 Arab hijackers in four planes as the official and mainstream media account has it, but one evolving through a long, intricate process of preparations, with its own successes and drawbacks on the way.
From the materials I have studied I draw the conclusion, not just that ‘the Twin Towers were brought down by Israelis with help from Zionists in the US government’, as I put it in my Twitter post of 3 November 2018, but that 9/11 as a whole represents the coming together of neoconservative forces in Anglo-America and Israel. It was planned and executed by extremist elements, but due to the fifteen military and intelligence exercises conducted on that day, thousands of others participated
unwittingly; others may have had partial advance knowledge they decided not to
divulge, or just fell in line after the event.
As the former Director of Studies of the U.S. Army War College and emeritus research chair at that institution, Dr Alan Sabrosky, concludes, 9/11 was a ‘Mossadorchestrated operation’. However,
Mossad did not do it alone. They needed local help within America (and perhaps elsewhere) and they had it, principally from some alumni of PNAC (the misnamed Project for a New American Century) and their affiliates within and outside of the US Government who in the 9/11 attacks got the “catalytic event” they needed and craved to take the US to war on Israel’s behalf. (9)
In 2007, Francesco Cossiga, former president of Italy and the ultimate insider of the
actions of what is called the ‘deep state’, viz., the world of intelligence agencies and
undercover operations, said as much in an interview to the Corriere della Sera.
Cossiga was interior minister at the time of the most spectacular false flag operation in
post-war Europe, the abduction and assassination by the ‘Red Brigades’, of his own
Christian Democratic party chairman, Aldo Moro, in 1978.10 As Cossiga put it,
All of the democratic circles of America and of Europe …now know well that the disastrous [9/11] attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to put under accusation the Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and
Afghanistan. (11)
My claim about the Twin Towers is not more than a footnote to these statements, and it too can be documented in detail. Not so much with published academic research, or regarding 9/11 and the War on Terror as a strategic project which the attacks in the United States were intended to kick-start, the funded and peer-reviewed universe of mainstream academia has largely folded in on itself. As far as international studies go, ‘the response to September 11 has been comparatively muted’, William Brenner noted five years after the attacks. ‘It has received little sustained attention, experienced no
fervent debate, and has been largely excluded from any central focus that might have
been anticipated.’ (12)
Few authors openly questioning the official account of the attacks have been able to get their work published by mainstream journals or established academic houses, perhaps with Peter Dale Scott the sole exception.13 Others have been published by smaller, critical publishers. The most important revelations by whistle-blowers all have been self-published. No trespassers will be tolerated, as made clear when former CIA director and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, in his capacity as president of Texas A & M University, censured a professor emeritus, Morgan Reynolds, for raising doubts
about 9/11, since ‘to suggest any kind of government conspiracy in the events of that
day goes beyond the pale’. (14)
That critical thinkers and publications likewise take the US government’s conspiracy theory of 9/11 as given and will even attack those hesitating to accept it, underscores that in this domain, discipline, the core organising principle of academia, is truly hegemonic.
This leaves the so-called ‘9/11 Truth movement’, such as Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, and the like. But not only has ‘truth’ become an invective to denounce those investigating 9/11, authors with inside information have been repressed in various ways. Sibel Edmonds, who revealed advance knowledge by the FBI, lives under a gagging order; (15) Susan Lindauer, who did the same for the CIA, was locked up incommunicado in a US maximum security complex. (16) Philip Marshall, the pilot who exposed details of the involvement of the Iran-Contra network (with
which he formerly had been associated himself), was assassinated in 2013. (17)
Writers investigating the role of Israel and Israeli agents are treated with the routine accusation of anti-Semitism or worse. Ha’aretz newspaper, often a reliable source, tried to make the investigative journalism of Christopher Bollyn suspect by reporting that he ‘attended conferences with Holocaust deniers’. Yet Bollyn’s three books and its source materials on the web are indispensable. The same for the writings of former flight attendant Rebekah Roth, who decided to hide behind a curtain of fiction to reveal some of the most spectacular details in four novels. Other unorthodox channels include
the theatre production of the Dutch actor-director, George van Houts.
However, now that a New York Grand Jury has admitted for scrutiny evidence on 9/11 contrary to the official account, (18) things may be beginning to shift. With the new book by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth, 9/11 Unmasked, a catalogue of the issues on which a panel of 23 experts from various backgrounds could agree (several of them are associated with the submission of the Grand Jury case) the quality and reliability of ‘alternative’ material has been raised a notch further, although that
book does not discuss perpetrators or even the cui bono question. (19)
(15) Sibel Edmonds, Classified Woman. The Sibel Edmonds Story. Alexandria, Virginia: Sibel
Edmonds, 2012.
(16) Susan Lindauer, Extreme Prejudice. The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of
9/11 and Iraq—The Ultimate Conspiracy to Silence Truth. Charleston, S.C.: Create Space, 2010.
(17) Philip Marshall, The Big Bamboozle. n.p., https://thebigbamboozle.com 2012.
(18) Manchester Gazette, ‘Legal Breakthrough in Special Grand Jury Petition for Sept. 11 Attacks’. (2
December 2018). https://manchestergazette.co.uk/9-11-grand-jury-investigation-launches/1857 (last
accessed 24 February 2019).
(7) Barbara Honegger, Behind the Smoke Curtain. What Happened at the Pentagon on 9/11 and What
Didn’t and Why it Matters, 2nd edition. Video by Mark Snyder. Seattle: Seattle 9/11 Truth, 2015 (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXBk8JqwFlw (last accessed 25 May 2018).
(8) Cited in Christopher Bollyn, The War on Terror. The Plot to Rule the Middle East [foreword, A.
Sabrosky]. n.p.: http://www.bollyn.com 2017, p. 4.
(9) Alan Sabrosky, ‘Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake’, 2013.
https://zulfahmed.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/alan-sabrosky-demystifying-911-israel-and-the-tactics-of-mistake/ (last accessed 10 August 2018) , emphasis added. I will not add qualifications such as ‘himself
Jewish’, because such a label, if it means anything at all, does not alter the status of an opinion.
(10) See Philip Willan, Puppet Masters. The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy. London: Constable,
1991.
(11) History Commons, ‘Complete 9/11 timeline—geopolitics and 9/11—Israel’.
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?
timeline=complete_911_timeline&geopolitics_and_9/11=israel (last accessed 8 March 2019), citing
Corriere della Sera ,30/11//2007. Except in ‘9/11’ all dates have been written dd/mm/yy.
(12) William J. Brenner, ‘In Search of Monsters: Realism and Progress in International Relations
Theory after September 11’. Security Studies. 15 (3). 2006, p. 497.
(13) Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11. Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America. Berkeley, Cal.:
University of California Press, 2007.
(14) Cited in Morgan Reynolds, ‘9/11, Texas A & M University, and Heresy’. In David Ray Griffin and
Peter Dale Scott, eds. 9/11 and American Empire. Intellectuals Speak Out. Northampton, Mass.: Olive
Branch Press, 2007, p. 103, cf. 112–13.
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