The Axis of Evil – in the Year of the Goat 2003 .... the Word, piousness, worship, religion, wonder and sign are the mightiest weapons of the Evil One. According to the Revelations of Johannis, it is the human agent of Satan's rule, the mightiest representative of Anti- christ on earth, who is not at all an enemy of religion but pervaded by the fragrance of incense that belongs to his cult and sur- rounded by the rules of his new religion that are penetrating life in its entirety. Such, nobody can buy and sell without show- ing the sign of that master. (Rev.13,11-17) Citation from Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986), famous German theologian and rector of the University of Tübingen. During World War II he was punished for having opposed Nazi rule.

This page contains a rich choice of quotations, commentaries and authentic information,
collected from independent and official sources from all over the world and dealing with
global U.S. activity and the so-called Axis of Evil. All translations have been provided
by Wolfgang Wiesner.




        The following article has been published
        by Ignacio Ramonet on the title page of
        LE MONDE diplomatique, Paris (March 2002).
        Together with other critical articles on
        what they call "the lie of a clean war",
        a serious paper is taking sides in the
        global development that might lead to a
        human catastrophe. l'article original

        "Le Fantôme" by ERRÖ: courtesy LE MONDE
        "Evocation of 1984" by Wolfgang Wiesner




                 The Axis of Evil

On three fronts. All citizens should know that a liberal globalization
will nevertheless attack human societies on three fronts. Of a central
importance, as concerning the entire humanity, is the economic front.
It is subject of control by what should really be called the "axis of
evil", comprising the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Worldbank,
and the World Trade Organization (WTO). That evil axis continues
to impose on the world the dictatorship of the market, the preponderance
of the private sector, and the cult of profit, while provoking on the
whole planet such terrifying results like the fraudulous bancruptcy of
ENRON, the monetary crisis of Turkey, a disastrous crumbling of Argentine,
ecological disasters everywhere .....


.....
The second front, on the sly, invisible and without any noise, is the
front of ideology. With an active collaboration of universities, research
institutes of repute (Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute,
Cato Institute), great publishers (CNN, The Financial Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Economist, - in France and elsewhere imitated by a
bunch of devoted journalists), a real industry of persuasion has been
installed, in order to convince the planet that a liberal globalization
will finally lead to global prosperity. Based on the power of information,
the ideologists such created, yet with the passive complicity of their
subjects, what could be called a "delicious despotism".

That manipulation had been relaunched after September 11 by means       Something has changed, -
of a Bureau of Strategic Influence (BSI), created by the Pentagon       and you better don't ask !
and modelled on Orwell's example. It had been charged with the
diffusion of fake information, in order to "influence public opinion
and leading politicians of friendly nations and enemy states". .....
The trick was too obvious, such that the Bureau in question had to be
closed on official order, at the end of February.


The third front which did not exist up to now, is the military front.
It has been opened in the aftermath of the September 11 traumatism in
2001, and its goal is to provide liberal globalization with a veritable
instrument of security. For one short moment tending to entrust the
North Atlantic Pact (NATO) with that mission, the United States finally
decided to take over alone and to provide themselves with considerable
means to perform that mission with the most impressive efficiency.
.....
"The United States are in a certain sense the first proto-global state,"
says William Pfaff [in International Herald Tribune, January 7, 2002].
"They possess the capacity of taking over the role of a modern style
Universal Empire, a natural empire whose members voluntarily submit to
its authority."
That empire, indeed, intends to realize a liberal globalization. All
opposers, all dissidents and resistants should know by now that they
will be beaten on these three fronts: economy, ideology and military.
And that the time of respect for human rights seems to have changed,
as is proven by such scandalous "bagne tropical", established in Guan-
tanamo where some Europeans are locked in cages .... The Axis of Evil
(IMF, Worldbank, WTO) has hidden its true face. Now we know it.


                                                                ON NEWSPEAK (G. Orwell: 1984)

                        We're getting the language into its final shape -- the shape it's going
                        to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it,
                        people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare
                        say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it!
                        We're destroying words -- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day.
                        We're cutting the language down to the bone. [specialist Syme]

                        Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is
                        granted, all else follows. [rebel Winston Smith]






Cartoon found in the Arabic daily AL-ARAB
(London edition, 15/2/02).
Title:
An Islamic world and the Taliban prisoners, held
back on Guantanamo base ..... what will happen ?
The reader of a newspaper dealing with that
subject [who is bearing a strong resemblance
with the Egyptien president Mubarak] is ask-
ing Uncle Sam [wearing a devilish goatee]:
"Only to think of that group in Guantanamo.
How will things develop ?"
Uncle Sam: "Nothing will change. There is no
cloud in sight under a blue sky."







                There is a similar article, published by the reputed Spanish journal
                CAMBIO 16 on 25 February 2002, dealing with the aspect of an U.S.
                preponderance in the world (English version by Wolfgang Wiesner):



THE WORLD AS SEEN BY G. W. BUSH
by Ramón Vilaró
                                ...
                                George W. Bush and his crew are looking for a future
                                global control of their interests.
                                ...
el texto original
se encuentra aqui               The figures [of military expenses], now being reveiled,
                                seem somewhat frightening. Simply multiplicating by ten
                                the expenses, provided by both powers, Russia and China
                                together. In Washington they are directing themselves
                                to the street, following the path of preponderance, while
                                seemingly forgetting that those "missiles", launched by
                                terrorists against the Twin Towers, were U.S. planes and
                                U.S. citizens. Forgetting or casting aside the search for
                                the origin of a radical antiamericanism, yet avoiding to
                                declare themselves in such incorporated conflicts like
                                that between Palestine and Israel. Or declaring openly
                                to be worth being ruined such inopportune regimes like
                                that of Sadam Hussein's Irak, who once had been an ally
                                against Iran, now on a reforming path under Jatami. Or
                                forgetting that with the Corean war there will be no
                                solution to the division of that peninsula. The power
                                and the threat of war is, in the view of Bush and his
                                crew, the only message in such world where only power
                                is counting.


On 29 April 2002, CAMBIO 16 returned to the subject when it dealt with political and
economic relations between Northamerica and Latinamerica :

                                The tentacles of the United States are embracing more
                                and more countries and are penetrating their sociopo-
                                litical and economic structures. ....................

"El amigo del Norte"            The U.S. will never allow anybody to put them into his
                                shadow as far as it concerns their "American" territory.
                                And the end will be close to an adage formulated during
                                Bush's electoral campaign :  "America to the Americans
                                ..................... and perhaps a little bit Spanish".






In the aftermath of the so-called "pretzel affair", showing
U.S. president Bush in a weak moment, the Palestinian daily
Al-QUDS Al-ARABI wrote on its title page (15/01/2002):


First headline:
Predicted development leading to a dishonourable discharge.

Second Headline:
The "Lapsus of Bush" and his immediately following knock-out
- after disturbing news about the "Curse of Bin Laden".


...After having burnt America's sources with such an intensity,
Bush's momentary weekness [also: syncope] can be interpreted as
one of the lighter consequences of a scandal. The crumbling of
ENRON seems like a window, offering a view on how he financed
his electoral campaign, which has been, in many ways, linked 
with the beginning of a chase for the phenomenon we call the
"Curse of Osama Bin Laden". - The U.S. president who, for a
long time, accused the disputed Saudi of being a "Devil Man".
...


                        ON DOUBLETHINK (G. Orwell: 1984)

                        To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any
                        fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary
                        again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed,
                        to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take
                        account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably
                        necessary.

                        In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening
                        are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In
                        general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the
                        more intelligent, the less sane. One clear illustration of this is the
                        fact that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social
                        scale. Those whose attitude towards the war is most nearly rational are
                        the subject peoples of the disputed territories. To these people the war
                        is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies
                        like a tidal wave.


The basic techniques of "Newspeak" and "Doublethink" can be found
as an essential part of each state philosophy that tries to dominate
and eradicate any other school of thought or any individual opinion,
yet veiling some fundamental goals that may never be openly discussed.






The German paper DIE ZEIT (No. 17, 18/04/02) recently discussed
changes that can be observed in U.S. foreign policy under the Bush
administration. A kind of "Neoconservatism" has been identified as
the ideological basis of America's new "Generous Hegemony". A tight
grip on the world and its economic resources, based on military
supremacy and sophisticated means of persuasion, is increasingly
annoying America's allies in Europe. Development of U.S. neoconser-
vatism and the language that hides its basic aims have been openly
discussed by a weekly paper of repute that counts among the most
influential publications in Germany.






Last but not least, a semiofficial source from People's China
needs to be cited. RENMIN RIBAO / PEOPLE'S DAILY (13/05/2002)
discussing the U.S. war against terrorism:
Oil and Gas - The true objective of an U.S. war against terrorism
The English version, provided by Wolfgang Wiesner, contains a
link to the Chinese text. Article not included in the English
online edition of PEOPLE'S DAILY.

National Defense Budgets in 2001

[Unity = 1 milliard U.S. $] - LE MONDE Dossiers & Documents, Paris, No. 309 / May 2002 -

United States of America __________________________	310.5	....................	Great Britain	32.5
Russia	44.0		France	31.9
Japan	40.4		Germany	25.4
China	17.0		Italy	19.9
India	15.6		Spain	6.9
South Corea	11.8		Netherlands	5.5
Iran ___________________________________________	9.1		Greece	5.6
Israel	9.0		Sweden	4.9
Taiwan	8.2		Belgium	3.1
Singapur	4.3		Danmark	2.3
Pakistan	2.6		Portugal	2.2
North Corea ____________________________________	1.3		Austria	1.5
News from AL-JAZEERA, Qatar (27/05/2002): The Iranian president Jatami declares his will to solve bilateral problems with [long-standing enemy] Iraq. Subjects and questions of common interest should be treated at a moment of violent interference of foreign powers, namely the U.S., with their internal affairs. RADIO TEHERAN (Engl., 9.610 kHz, 13/06/02): U.S. State Department talking with diverging Iraqi opposition groups, such preparing a situation that is reminding us of Afghanistan. ARAB NEWS, Riyadh (10/07/2002): First Saudi business delegation is expected to visit Baghdad soon to discuss prospects of strengthening commercial and industrial cooperation between the two countries. ..... Baghdad is to host a Saudi trade fair in September 2002 for the first time since diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken in 1991, the Iraqi trade ministry said in remarks that were published the day before. Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Teheran (French service, 11.970 kHz, 06/06/2002): As a reaction on further accusations by White House spokesman Butcher, the Iranian President Jatami refuses to enter into talks with the U.S.A., convinced that such talks wouldn't lead anywhere. On a conference in Baku, the Iranian delegation has demonstrated its interest in Caspian oil and natural gas. A pipeline from Azerbaidzhan to the Persian Gulf could transport these products more economically and more safely than any actual U.S. project, based on their guideline of politics. Even specialists from ELF AQUITAINE are cited to consider Iranian plans more easily to be realized. After all, the transport of energy between Muslimic neighbours should be advantageous for both sides. 12/06/02: In St. Petersburg, Iranian and Russian officials are discussing questions in the frame of an Iranian inter- est in Caspian oil and natural gas from Central Asia. The long-standing relations between both countries are referred to by Radio Teheran. German sources reporting in June 2002: U.S. company is "taking over" essential parts of German weaponry industry. Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG Kiel, a company belonging to the German HDW group and reputed for its innovative fuel cell technology in submarine manufacturing, is now expected to accept an order from Taiwan for high tech submarines that cannot be detected. People's China and their strategy will then be effected. Another German company involved in that deal is Krauss-Maffei in Munich, known for its armoured vehicles and tanks. [Bayerischer Rundfunk, Manager Magazin, Linx - Sozialistische Zeitung für Kiel and BLUEPRINT feature: China's nuclear forces].	King Abdallah II of Jordan in his interview conducted by the French magazine L'EXPRESS (20/06/02) on the possibility of an U.S. attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq : "I made it clear to the U.S. what I think of such a possibility, and I think of [France, Germany, Britain, Russia, Egypt] being on the same wavelength." ............................. "Everybody is realizing that an attack of Iraq, namely in the present state of crisis between Israel and Palestine, would have a devastating influence on the the Middle East." ...................................................... And they made plots, and Allah made plots. And Allah is better at making plots. [Sura 3 / 54 from the Holy Koran] Submarine of PR China's People's Liberation Navy, able to launch nuclear missiles. Israel has got an opportunity to take part in a submarine deal that is in the works between Taiwan and the U.S.A. Israeli participation in the deal would double their submarine fleet. Should this deal materialize, it would mean that a new generation of Dolphin submarines - so far assembled in Germany - might now be built in the U.S.A. and funded out of American security assistance to Israel. By HA'ARETZ, Israel (29/07/2002)
Finally, President Bush's European allies woke up. A summary of the actual situation by Patrick E. Tyler from the New York Times, published in the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE (23/07/2002), gives the essential facts: Official voices from France, Germany and even from Britain are recently expressing their sorrows regarding U.S. plans to attack Iraq. "There is agreement in European capitals that Saddam's govern- ment is dangerous and may need to be confronted one day. But any agreement breaks down over strategic priorities in the Middle East, which Europeans consider neighboring territory for trade and security." A French official put it that way: "The important thing is to build a coalition for peace in the Middle East, not to build a coalition for war in Iraq." The German foreign minister Joschka Fisher even "expressed doubt that Saddam represented a strategic threat to Western security." Such, the British prime minister Tony Blair remains the only European in favor of a U.S. attack on Iraq, even though "it may not be possible" to build support for action in Iraq until there is no peace agree- ment between Israel and the Palestinians, as a senior British official had to admit. A famous saying of Winston Churchill is cited: "You can always rely on America to do the right thing, once it has exhausted the alternatives."
At a time when U.S. preparations for another war on Iraq seem to be finished, while a joint European position towards war is depending on whether a United Nations' resolution can be achieved or not, the Saudi paper ARAB NEWS is talking about neo-conservatism as the driving force of U.S. politics (14/09/02) Neo-conservatives and pro-Israel lobby working to destabilize the Middle East Many in Washington have noted the emerging strong-arm tactics of the neo-conservative Christian coalition in the Bush administration working with pro-Israeli lobbies. .... Now, Dr. Clifford Kiracofe, a professor at Virginia Military Institute says he knows what’s going on: This neo-conservative network is work- ing to destabilize the Middle East, which they believe will benefit Israel. .... "The neo-conservative policy network advocates a destabilization, a Balkanization of the Middle East. Out of the chaos, they say, will come a new order through ‘regime change,’ the redrawing of borders, and the reallocation of the control of hydrocarbon resources in the region," Kiracofe said during an address to the National Council on US-Arab Relations earlier this week. .... These neo-conservatives, Kiracofe says, "under the protection of ‘pro-Israel’ George Schultz, were able to form the so-called ‘Vulcan Group’ of policy experts - led by (Deputy Secretary of Defense) Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle (chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory panel to the Pentagon), and coordinated by Condoleezza Rice (assistant to the president for National Security Affairs) - that advised presidential candidate George W. Bush." Kiracofe says their advice to Bush was to "put Iraq on the front burner, and to put the Palestine question on the back burner, if not in the freezer."			There are further sites, maintained by BLUEPRINT magazine, dealing with Iraq and U.S.: Iraq under Attack Documents on War Latest news from a "postwar" Iraq are assembled on a brand-new site that informs on U.S occupation forces facing military and civilian resistance : Independence Day Then read citations from "top terrorist" Oussama Bin Laden, together with latest reports on Al Qaeda: Story of Al Qaeda Results from online polling, performed by Aljazeera daily in Qatar, are here: Polling the Arabs Most websites are regularly updated !
U.S. Target: Saudi Arabia Even Saudi Arabia, up to now considered as the most reliable partner of the U.S. in the Middle East, is feeling insulted by the way the Bush administration is treating Saudi visitors. After having decided to put the blame for fueling worldwide terrorism on the rich Muslimic communities of Saudi Arabia, American immigration is now taking fingerprints from every Saudi visitor. Meanwhile, the Saudis are paying back as the following report by ARAB NEWS is demonstrating: RIYADH, 14 October — Interior Minister Prince Naif yesterday confirmed that the government plans to start fingerprinting Americans entering the Kingdom in a reciprocal measure. “Our dealings (with other countries) will be reciprocal. We’ll deal with every country in the same way as they deal with us,” the prince told reporters who asked him about the measures taken in re- sponse to US travel restrictions on Saudis. Meanwhile, fingerprinting of Americans has actually been started [AL-JAZEERA, Qatar, 19/10/02]. The new Saudi treatment of U.S. citizens is connected with a recent withdrawal of Saudi funds from U.S. accounts for fear of that money being frozen. ARAB NEWS reported: RIYADH, 22 August — The US dollar yesterday fell from recent highs against the euro and yen following a report that Saudi investors were pulling billions of dollars out of the United States. London’s Financial Times earlier said Saudi investors have withdrawn the funds from the United States because of concerns their assets might be frozen. The paper quoted Youssef Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations, as saying Saudis have pulled out at least $200 billion from the United States in recent months. In response to reports that parts of the U.S. Congress have called for a halt to U.S. arms sales to the kingdom, Prince Sultan, the Saudi minister of defense and aviation, stated that the kingdom will now look for weapons in other markets including Europe [ARAB NEWS, Riyadh, 28/10/02]. After having received its AWACS planes back from the United States where they had undergone modernisation [AL-JAZEERA, Qatar, 03/11/02], Saudi Arabia is now free again from any actual pressure to find new sources of supply for weaponry. Nevertheless, Saudi policy is still denying differences with their U.S. allies. Instead, Saudi officials are wrapping their displeasure at the Bush administration in cryptic sentences (ARAB NEWS): RIYADH, 3 November - Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, yesterday called upon Arabs and Muslims to keep away from provocative actions. “We should control our tongues and should not cause provocation,” he added. He said Islam was the main target of an ongoing smear campaign launched by a section of the Western media. “You know that we are all targeted ... not only Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan and others ... but the main target is Islam,” the crown prince said. ............. Prince Abdullah blamed hidden forces for the disarray in Muslim ranks and urged Muslim countries to stand united in the face of growing challenges. “Although there are no wars or enmity between Muslim countries which follow the same faith, they remain disunited as a result of the work of hidden hands,” he said. Such development should be seen in the frame of a growing anti-Americanism in Saudi Arabia, that has even effected Mac Donalds fast-food restaurants who are now selling Iranian Zam Zam Cola and Arafat potato chips in order to survive.

BBC NEWS, London (08/12/02): Headline: "Anti-U.S. protests grow in Seoul" Hundreds of South Koreans gathered in the capital, Seoul, to protest against the presence of American troops in the country. They also called for changes to an accord giving extra-territorial legal status to 37,000 U.S. troops. Anti-U.S. protests had been triggered by the deaths of two South Korean girls last June who died in an accident involving a tank driven by American sol- diers. A U.S. court martial lately acquitted the two U.S. servicemen in the tank of negligent homicide. Amid rising anti-American sentiment, several pubs and restaurants in Seoul are now barring U.S. servicemen.

The Korean Problem BBC NEWS, London (31/12/02): Headline: "North Korea threatens to ditch treaty" A senior North Korean envoy has said his country is unable to meet its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation pact because of threats from the United States. This article refers to the recent re- activation of the North Korean nuclear programme that has caused U.S. protest.