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Barry Wright

Forgetting the Past and Its Consequences

August 27 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt orders of Government . - James J. Angleton , Chief of CIA Counter Intelligence, Retired. Today, immigrants continue to arrive in pursuit of that dream,...

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Say Americans - Why So Scared?

August 17 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

When I was growing up in the United States in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, courses in topics like U.S. History and U.S. Government were taught from the 7th grade through the 12th grade. Then once entering college, courses in English Literature...

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Waging War by the Rules in the 21st Century

August 15 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

This is a subject that I have discussed before but it just doesn’t seem to want to go away. And realistically, it shouldn’t. After writing The Angler and the Black Sites , a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross was released that covers...

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The Blackwater Incidents

August 12 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

To Americans, it seemed that European nations were always engaged in wars. England and Spain, England and France, France and Russia and the Franco-Prussian war of the 19th Century are examples. Other than wars of aggression against Native Americans and...

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Globally Warm - After 2050

August 9 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

Oil interests are willing to publish any myth and put any amount of money behind anyone who will support their untenable position. – Vinod Kloska The leadership has got to come to the surface at some point and explain to the people what we're facing....

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The Waters of Puget Sound

August 7 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

Based on personal experience I can say that the Pacific Northwest is the best part of the United States and North America to live. Washington and Oregon are “Blue States” and are progressive on issues that range across the political spectrum. This is...

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Delusional Beliefs and Political Extremism

August 6 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

INTR OD UCTION. In History and Hatred, a review of Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred, Richard Webster observes: Feelings of rage and hostility in particular are subject to denial and projected on to others. ‘Violently angry and afraid of...

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Cheney's Limbaugh Moment

August 5 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

He's just another power junky. Just another silk scarf monkey. You'd know it if you saw his stuff. The man just isn't big enough. - Eagles, King of Hollywood. Anytime he gets the opportunity, Dick Cheney will tell you how much the American people should...

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Torturing to Find a Non-Existent Iraqi Connection

August 5 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

The single event which provided the intelligence that President Lyndon Johnson used to start the series of escalations of overt U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, was at least partially fraudulent as reported at...

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The Endgame in Iraq

August 5 2009 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Hamlet 5.2.209. While the situation in Iraq is still relatively calm when compared to the situation there 3 or 4 years ago,...

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