Crossing The Rubicon

by Ruppert, Michael C.

• ISBN13: 9780865715400
• ISBN10: 0865715408
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: New Society Pub

Summary

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. 'Crossing the Rubicon' discovers and identifies key suspects -- finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government -- by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result. Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture -- an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism -- without which 9/11 cannot be understood. The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas -- the fuels that make economic growth possible -- are subsidised by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting 'War on Terror' are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil -- the beginning of the end for our industrial civilisation -- is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. This is more than a story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which, together and alone, we are all now making our way.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xiii
Catherine Austin Fitts
Introduction	1	(21)
Part I --- Motive
Petroleum Man	22	(19)
Cheney Knew	41	(9)
The CIA is Wall Street, and Drug Money is King	50	(19)
Connecting Drugs and Oil	69	(7)
A Criminal Meltdown	76	(6)
Laying the Foundation: Destroy Russia, Prepare the Battlefield	82	(12)
Caspian Corruption	94	(9)
Setting Up the War: Pakistan's ISI, America's Agent for Protecting the Taliban and al Qaeda	103	(20)
Business with the bin Ladens: The Real Saudi Arabia	123	(29)
Part II --- Means
PROMIS: Controlling the Data	152	(23)
Vreeland I	175	(28)
Executing a Conspiracy: Shame and Honor in the FBI -- An Air Force Colonel Blows the Whistle	203	(22)
Penetration	225	(13)
9/11 Insider Trading, or ``You Didn't Really See That, Even Though We Saw It''	238	(16)
Israel	254	(15)
Silencing Congress	269	(22)
Vreeland II: Silencing Me	291	(17)
Part III --- Opportunity
The Attacks	308	(25)
Wargames and High Tech: Paralyzing the System to Pull Off the Attacks	333	(24)
Q&A: Many Asked, Some Answered -- and a Golden Moment	357	(36)
The Last Hearing: FTW Confronts on the Wargames; NORAD Runs	393	(11)
Giuliani and TRIPOD II	404	(8)
Dick Cheney, FEMA, and ``Persons of Interest''	412	(15)
The Secret Service and National Special Security Events	427	(10)
The Commission's Wild Blue Yonder	437	(11)
Part IV --- Empire and Decline
The Record	448	(23)
``We Don't Need No Badges''	471	(11)
Conquering the American People	482	(23)
Biological Warfare	505	(22)
The Order of Battle	527	(27)
Peak Oil Revisited -- The Bill Collector Calls	554	(16)
Summation: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury	570	(25)
Appendix A: Joint Chiefs of Staff ``Northwoods'' Document	595	(14)
Appendix B: Vreeland Financial Document Sample	609	(1)
Appendix C: Iraqi/Saudi Oilfields Information	610	(8)
Endnotes	618	(40)
Index	658	(14)
Glossary of Acronyms	672	(3)
About the Author	675