Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh who broke the Abu Ghraib story, the My Lia massacre, and has written eight books, including "Against All Enemies," which details the extent of Gulf War Syndrome, "The Samson Option" which chronicled Israel’s secret stockpiling of nuclear weapons, apparently has another book coming. Here's an interview with Amy Goodman on the subject.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/26/1450204
I found interesting his comments predicting the possibility of Europe and the Russians switching to buying oil in Euros, if the economic calamity of the mounting debt craters the US economy.
Excerpts from the interview:
The press is nowhere. The congress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, “Who is going to tell them we have no clothes?” Nobody is going to do it. Everybody is afraid to tell Rumsfeld anything. That's just the way it is. It's a system built on fear. It's not lack of integrity, it's more profound than that. Because there is individual integrity. It's a system that's completely been taken over -- by cultists.
Another salvation may be the economy. It's going to go very bad, folks. You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought property in Italy, you better do it quick...
Europe is not going to tolerate us much longer. The rage there is enormous…. I'm talking about our old-fashioned allies. We could see something there, collective action against us… as the dollar goes bad and everybody stops buying our bonds, our credit -- our -- we're spending $2 billion a day to float the debt, and one of these days, the Japanese and the Russians, everybody is going to start buying oil in Euros instead of dollars. We're going to see enormous panic here.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/26/1450204
I found interesting his comments predicting the possibility of Europe and the Russians switching to buying oil in Euros, if the economic calamity of the mounting debt craters the US economy.
Excerpts from the interview:
The press is nowhere. The congress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, “Who is going to tell them we have no clothes?” Nobody is going to do it. Everybody is afraid to tell Rumsfeld anything. That's just the way it is. It's a system built on fear. It's not lack of integrity, it's more profound than that. Because there is individual integrity. It's a system that's completely been taken over -- by cultists.
Another salvation may be the economy. It's going to go very bad, folks. You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought property in Italy, you better do it quick...
Europe is not going to tolerate us much longer. The rage there is enormous…. I'm talking about our old-fashioned allies. We could see something there, collective action against us… as the dollar goes bad and everybody stops buying our bonds, our credit -- our -- we're spending $2 billion a day to float the debt, and one of these days, the Japanese and the Russians, everybody is going to start buying oil in Euros instead of dollars. We're going to see enormous panic here.