He's edited anthologies.
I've used them on Pacifica for fundraisers.
He's a very generous person.
My notes here say that Dr. Kevin Barrett was attacked
by Republican politicians in 2006
while teaching at the University of Wisconsin
and was forced out of his teaching position
as a result of his outspoken views on 9-11.
He co-hosts, along with Dr. Anthony Hall,
False Flag Weekly News, which is my favorite show,
and that airs Pacific Time 8 a.m. every Friday morning
on knowliesradio.org.
And knowliesradio, of course, is a Pacifica affiliate.
It carries guns and butter
and a lot of the other shows on Pacifica.
It says here that Dr. Barrett is a long-time 9-11 truth
activist, author, talk radio host, nonprofit organizer,
and editor, and is appended
on various international channels.
His website is truthjihad.com.
Now, I was about to say that he does three radio shows
a week, but I think he even does four hours a week.
I don't know how he does it.
He's so prolific.
I could never keep up with him.
But the most wonderful thing about Dr. Kevin Barrett
is that he's a really nice guy.
So please give a warm welcome to Dr. Kevin Barrett.
Well, thank you all, and thank you, Bonnie.
It's a hard act to follow, actually, Wesley Clark
and Bonnie Faulkner.
Bonnie Faulkner is pretty much my favorite radio host, one
of the very, very best out there.
And you're lucky to have her here in the Bay Area.
So the famous seven countries in five years clip
from Wesley Clark, you just saw it.
This is a shocking clip.
What we're hearing from General Clark
was that 10 days after 9-11, there
was already this huge plan to completely destroy
the Middle East or destroy the governments of seven countries
in the Middle East.
That was pretty fast work.
It really suggests that this plan had been a foot
for much, much longer.
Now, those seven countries, which, if memory serves,
were Iraq, Iran was the last and biggest of them,
Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, and Lebanon
have certain things in common.
One, of course, they're all Muslim majority countries.
Secondly, at that time, they were all independent countries.
That is, unlike Saudi Arabia, which is a US client state,
unlike Egypt, whose military runs the country, owns
more than a third of the economy of the country,
and is propped up by US taxpayer dollars,
unlike Morocco, the country that I've
studied, where I did my dissertation research, which
is very closely tied to the US empire,
and various other Middle Eastern countries,
the Sheikdoms, the Gulf, the gas stations
with a king around the Persian Gulf.
These seven countries were all independent.
And because they were independent,
they supported the Palestinian struggle
against occupation.
When Paul Wolfowitz told Wesley Clark
that the Middle East had to be totally redrawn,
these countries had to be overthrown,
the governments had to be destroyed,
when he said that back in the early 90s,
and then the policy coup allowed this to happen after 9-11,
we can assume that both the status of these seven countries
as being essentially independent of the US,
rather than client regimes or puppet states,
and the fact that because of their independence,
they had to follow the wishes of their own people,
indeed, essentially the unanimous wishes
of all of the people of the Middle East,
except for the settlers in squatting in occupied Palestine,
that Palestine be liberated,
that that had a whole lot to do with the reasons
that these countries were targeted for destruction,
and that 9-11 was orchestrated to enable that destruction.
Now, there is a paper trail that supports the analysis
that I just laid out.
We could go back to 1979 when Benjamin Netanyahu called
the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
and summons people like George H.W. Bush, Henry Scoop Jackson,
who was the number one moneybags for the military guy
in the US Senate, the number of other very high-level policy
wonks in the military and strategic side of things.
B.B. Netanyahu summoned all these people to Jerusalem
to the Jonathan Institute, named after B.B.'s brother,
who died in the false-flag operation at Entebbe Airport.
And they sat down at this Jerusalem Conference
on International Terrorism, J-C-I-T.
This is 1979, remember, the Cold War is still on.
And they drafted the plans to replace the Cold War
enemy of communism, which was then the justification
for the military budgets, with the new enemy, terrorism.
And naturally, since B.B. Netanyahu and his people
are behind this, this so-called terrorism,
as the new civilizational enemy, is
going to be a disguised reference to the enemies of Israel
and Israeli expansionism.
Of course, the Israelis have been calling everybody
who opposes them terrorists since Israel began, if not
before.
So J-C-I-T, 1979, then in 1996, Richard Pearl
and a committee of neocons behind him,
were commissioned, once again, by Benjamin Netanyahu, who
else, to produce a document that became known as the Clean
Break Document.
It proposed a clean break from the previous Middle East,
that in order for Israel to transcend,
had not just destroyed, but to transcend its enemies.
Wow, that's even more destructive than destroying them.
The regimes had to be overthrown.
And again, it was all of these independent regimes
that were standing up to Zionist expansionism,
standing up for the Palestinians.
So that Clean Break Document, drafted by Pearl, Richard Pearl,
the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness for B.B. Netanyahu,
laid out this plan, essentially the same plan
that Oded Yanone had laid out for the Balkanization
and destruction of the Middle East
on behalf of expansionist Israel.
Back in 1981, I believe it was, Oded Yanone
had published this document in Hebrew,
and it was leaked by Israel Shahak that
called for Israel helping, using its assets, including
the United States, to bust up all of these countries that
were still independent of the empire,
and therefore, able to stand up for the Palestinians.
This Oded Yanone plan called for Balkanizing the Middle East
along ethnic and sectarian lines,
busting up Iraq into three states, which is now happening,
busting up Syria into a bunch of warring factions
based on their sect and their ethnicity,
which is now happening, and busting up
the rest of the region as well.
Lebanonizing Lebanon for a lot of better terms.
And all of this has happened, and 9-11 is what made it happen.
We had Sudan, a previously independent state,
standing up for the Palestinians, has now broken into two
pieces, with the southern half containing all the resources
and being dominated by Israelis and their friends.
Kurdistan, also dominated by Israelis and their friends,
where so-called Islamic State has been pumping oil
through Turkey to the Israelis to support itself.
These are all these Balkanized little entities.
This was the plan from 1981 on, repeatedly reaffirmed since
then in the 1996 clean break document.
And then that clean break document
for redrawing the map of the Middle East
morphed into a plan for rebuilding America's defenses.
The same people did it, Richard Pearl's friends,
the neocons.
This was published in September of 2000, one year,
almost to the day, perhaps to the day before 9-11.
It famously called for a new Pearl Harbor
that would allow for these wars of so-called preemption
or prevention to bust up the Middle East.
Only this time, it was commissioned for the Americans
rather than the Israelis.
So it pretended that the reason for this
was to somehow create a new American Century.
That was the name of the think tank that produced it,
a project for a new American Century.
But of course, the Americans, geostrategically,
have not exactly benefited from 9-11 and the 9-11 wars.
Whereas Netanyahu himself said, on 9-11,
when asked what was his reaction,
he said, it's very good.
And then he caught himself and said, well, not good,
but it's sure good for Israel.
And he repeated that 10 years or so later,
eight years later, maybe.
He once again was asked, he said, we're benefiting.
We in Israel are benefiting from one thing, and that is 9-11
and the attack on Iraq and so on that it created.
So this is kind of the background
that General Clark didn't tell you.
And I think in the film clip that we saw before that,
the introduction to this very interesting new film
from architects and engineers, we
saw a very understated estimate of the casualties.
We saw 1 million people dead from these wars.
Well, I just interviewed Dr. Gidjian Polya.
He's a man from a Jewish background,
Australian, professor, scientist, and expert
on preventable mortality.
And Dr. Polya estimates that 32 million people
are dead in these Muslim countries targeted for regime
change.
This, of course, includes some of the other countries
like Afghanistan and Pakistan and elsewhere
that have been damaged.
Yemen, let's not forget Yemen, that
weren't on that list of seven countries
because they've attacked the whole Islamic world, really.
So Polya says 32 million people dead, 27 million by deprivation,
and about 5 million or so from direct effects of these wars.
That's horrendous.
And these are all Islamic countries.
This is the Islamic world where the vast majority of people
don't accept and probably will never
accept this genocidal Zionist entity squatting
on the Holy Land in Palestine, which is Holy Land to Christians
and Muslims, who together are 98% plus, 99% of the Abrahamic
monotheists.
And it's now an apartheid Jewish superiority state
extensively created on behalf of that tiny, tiny minority
of people who follow the line of those prophets back
to Abraham who call themselves Jewish.
So this injustice is not accepted in the Islamic world.
That's why these countries have to be attacked and busted up
so that Israel can continue to exist and expand
and increase its dominance in the region.
You're not going to hear that in the American media.
Why not?
Well, Muslims know this.
The polls show that 60% plus of American Muslims, no 9-11,
was an inside job, 80% of Muslims worldwide
say the same thing, about 3 quarters
say that these 9-11 wars are wars on Islam.
And yet nobody here even knows that that's
what more than a billion people think.
Because we Muslims, and I am one myself,
I've been Muslim since 1993, have no voice
in the Western media whatsoever.
Uncle Tom's, or people who are willing to self-censor,
are occasionally brought on to NPR or Democracy Now,
or what have you, to give you a very, very watered down
version of what the whole community basically
thinks and knows, especially the more intellectual types who
are paying attention to these things.
There are hundreds of Christian radio stations
all over the United States promoting a Christian Zionist
point of view for the most part.
You can't drive through this country without hearing them.
There are, I can't even count how many mainstream media
outlets that are dominated by a point of view that
is charitably described as Jewish Zionist.
Many of much of a liberal Jewish Zionist run
by reasonable people, but still basically following
that point of view.
And there's a very, very major, grossly
disproportionate presence of people
from Jewish backgrounds in our mainstream media.
And I'm not saying that's bad.
I'm certainly not saying that those people are bad.
But they're shaped by their backgrounds, like we all are.
Like I'm shaped by being a Muslim and reading
about these things and learning about them from colleagues
at universities in Turkey and Morocco and Iran
and places like that.
So there's no voice at all for the group
that has lost 32 million people due to these wars.
This holocaust in the Muslim world
is utterly and completely suppressed
because the Muslim voices have been silenced.
And that's why I'm trying to remedy that as best I can.
I'm having very little luck with approaching mainstream outlets
directly and urging them to bring on representative Muslim
voices who are willing to flat out call it the way
that the majority of Muslims see it.
I'm able to get on press TV and talk about these things.
That's out of Tehran.
Iran is independent enough and big enough
that they haven't gotten it yet.
It was the last of the seven countries in five years
that were supposed to be slated for destruction.
And these neocons have been itching for an excuse
to bomb Tehran back to the Stone Age
and bust up Iran the same way they've
busted up Iraq and Libya and these other countries.
In Syria, of course, they want to do the same thing to Iran
and turn it into a failed state and create
millions of deaths and tens of millions of refugees.
That's what they're trying to do.
But they have failed so far.
So I can still talk about these things on press TV.
Who knows how long given the people that Trump is surrounded
by.
So long story short, I'm doing what I can
to at least get this Muslim majority viewpoint out
so people can consider it and compare it
to the available information and decide whether or not
we might have a point about some of these things.
And one such project is the Radio Free Islam Project, which
will, God willing, create an internet-based radio
station with 24-7, 365 programming
that we can run kind of on autopilot at first on the internet
and then start raising money to put it
on some broadcast outlets.
I think it would be, and we're not
going to just be hammering on this really hard-to-digest
political stuff all the time.
It'll be a Muslim station.
But I think people would be surprised at the viewpoints
they're going to get from Sufi intellectuals over here
and people from various universities in the Muslim
world thinking about all sorts of things, not just
political things from different points of view
than you normally hear.
I think this would be a good way to get some dialogue going
that we really need.
So that's why I'm working on the Radio Free Islam Project.
And to a large extent, that's why I'm on the speaking
circuit and publishing books, which
you can get in the lobby and broadcasting on the radio
and on internet television.
And that's why I'm here to tell you, thank you
all, who are coming out to listen to this in the face of so
much pressure to suppress this information
and to not acknowledge these alternative points of view
that, to a large extent, are actually correct.
So thank you all, and keep up the truth-seeking
and the truth-telling.
Well, I know what it's like to be trying to teach at a university
and have suddenly a huge scandal breakout.
And one day, you thought you were doing these classes
and looking at things from a scholarly manner
and maybe doing some activism out there on the side.
Maybe it's a little bit controversial.
2006, I was doing teachings on 9-11 at the University
of Wisconsin.
And then suddenly, all hell breaks loose.
An orchestrated public relations stunt
makes you a scapegoat.
I was made into the scapegoat, the whipping boy
for the scholars for 9-11.
Truth back then, well, our movement
is still enough of a threat that they
have to keep doing this sort of thing
to try to scare off the professors who
were supposed to be seeking truth and fearlessly sifting
and winnowing wherever truth may lie,
we're supposed to fearlessly go after it.
But if we do, they're in bad shape.
So they have this strategy of making life miserable
for somebody, making an example of somebody.
So the other professors will be afraid to go there.
That's what they did to me in 2006.
And that's what they did to our next speaker, Professor
Anthony Hall, about one year ago today,
an orchestrated takedown public relations stunt
was, they targeted him with this horrific slander.
And he was suspended initially without pay.
He's back on the payroll, but they won't let him step back
on campus.
It's an outrage and a disgrace.
And it's the most insane attack on academic freedom
that I've ever heard about in my life.
It goes light years beyond what was done to me.
And you're very lucky to get to hear from Professor Hall
himself who is doing a really brilliant job of defending
himself and defending academic freedom up at the University
of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.
So I'll let him tell you the whole story in 15 minutes.
Welcome, Professor Anthony Hall.
I'm hoping we get one slide, and there's the one slide.
And so this will become clear with my presentation.
But on the right, there is a Facebook operation,
before and after.
The before is underneath.
The thing that appeared on my Facebook page for a few hours,
apparently, is above.
So you can see it's been altered.
And this letter here describes the suspension.
And I've taken the words at the bottom out of that.
And so I'm giving my talk today, Facing
a Major Attack on Academic Freedom in Canada.
And thank you very much to the organizers
for inviting me to this podium, this Auguste podium.
This is a fantastic turnout.
This is a truly historic moment.
I feel heartened that we are getting somewhere
in the 9-Eleven Truth Movement.
So this presentation, 15 minutes, is 1,400 words.
And I've written it out.
I want to get this story told in an efficient manner.
So I'm going to try to do that.
And it's called Facing a Major Attack on Academic Freedom
in Canada.
16 years after the event, 9-Eleven
stands as striking evidence of an insidious assault
on science.
Officialdom's dogged adherence to a discredited count
of 9-Eleven stands as a stark illustration
of this phenomena.
The subordination of scientific method
to the higher imperatives of imperial war propaganda
is epitomized by officialdom's failure
to formulate a credible account of the 9-Eleven debacle.
Universities have become important sites of this portrayal.
The sabotage of society's primary platforms
of scholarly enterprise forms an essential feature
of a more pervasive attack from within.
Everywhere, but especially on the internet,
fundamental freedoms are being menaced.
We are losing our right, and I think for professors,
our responsibility, to investigate, publish,
publicize, and discuss interpretations
that might undermine or even inconvenience power.
As a tenured full professor with 27 years of seniority
at my home institution, I am currently
facing a sharp attack on the remaining
protections for academic freedom.
In early October of 2016, the president
of the University of Lethbridge, Michael J. Mon,
suspended me without pay.
He also prohibited me from stepping foot
on the University of Lethbridge campus.
In explaining his actions, Dr. Mann speculated,
I might have violated a section of the Alberta Human Rights
Act.
The vagueness of this assertion certainly
expresses, it exposes the reality,
that the severe punishment was imposed
without any proper investigation.
Dr. Mann's abrupt deviation from the terms
of the collective agreement with my faculty association,
we have a lot of rules and policies in universities,
has established precedents and countervailing responses
with broad implications.
Adversarial proceedings in this matter
began this August in the Lethbridge Alberta Courthouse.
And that's a big story, and I won't tell it in detail here.
As evidenced by the intervention of 68,000 members
of the Canadian Association of University Teachers,
the outcome of this case will, in all probability,
significantly affect the future of university governance
in Canada and beyond.
Dr. Mann's suspension letter detailed
that there was a possibility that I
might be guilty because of allegations of A,
and I'm quoting here directly, my Facebook page
had been used for virulent anti-Semitic comments.
So if you could read that letter, you
would see that those words, exact words, and B,
inferring that Israelis and hence Jewish individuals
were responsible for the terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
So it's mentioned explicitly that this suspension
outside the rules of the university
have to do with me connecting what
I would call Israel first partisans to 9-11.
So let's go with that.
I'm going to go with that.
Before dealing with the manipulation of my,
thank you, my Facebook wall in the prelude to my suspension,
allow me to linger on questions concerning the academy in 9-11.
Along with government, media, and law enforcement agencies,
universities are deeply implicated
in sabotaging the quest for 9-11 truth
and many other varieties of inconvenient truth as well.
The punitive measures directed at me
can be seen as a warning to scare other professors
into compliance with all manner of official stories.
9-11 is the big one, but how many official stories
are we being told that we know are untrue?
As for my own reading of the available evidence,
I'm far from alone in positing that Israel
first partisans, including the American neocons that
dominated the project for the new American century,
are prominent among the many protagonists of the 9-11 crimes.
These crimes extend to orchestrating the media spin,
rigging investigations, and sustaining
the ongoing 9-11 cover-up.
To my way of thinking, the cover-up is the big crime now.
It's almost overwhelmed the original crime.
In written publications and on false flag weekly news,
Dr. Kevin Barrett and I have joined others
in extending this investigative and interpretive
trajectory towards many cases of possible false flag
terrorism, particularly after 2001.
Because we didn't deal with 2001,
we get this litany, this series of smaller false flag events,
smaller for now, blamed on Muslims and Arabs.
I am astonished that the administration of my university
became so aggressive in attempting
to outlaw an evidence-based interpretation
of the most transformative event of the 21st century.
And I use that word outlaw.
I have been criminalized in the academy.
And in the terms of the academy, that's what this is about,
new frontiers of subversion are being pioneered
in the UofL's audacious administrative attempt
to criminalize independent academic work.
What are the implications of subordinating
the scholarly judgments of academic experts on campus
to the executive dictates of administrators?
How can the principles of critical thinking
be cultivated when adherence to conformity
is so aggressively enforced by university administrators?
The university administration extends its claim
of academic control several steps
further in the complaint it brought forward
to the Alberta Human Rights Commission seven months
after I was suspended.
So first come the punishments and then seven months later
come the beginning of some kind of process.
The complaint begins with six sweeping statements,
outlining topics, that the complainants
want removed from the reach of critical academic examination.
One of the complainants chief's assertions
is the Islamophobia inducing proposition that,
and I'm quoting directly here from their complaint,
acts of terrorism between 2001 to the present
were in fact committed and financed by Islamic terrorists.
That's the only interpretation acceptable
at my university and by implication
at other universities in the future
by criminalizing saying another interpretation.
Facebook machinations, a maliciously engineered
Facebook operation created the original catalyst
of the smear and disinformation campaign
leading to my suspension.
Without the originating momentum set in motion
by the Facebook operation, the campaign to discredit me
could not have unfolded as it did.
The most public face of this campaign
was presented by the Canadian extension
of the Israeli and US-based
Anti-Defamation League of Benny Brith.
According to Benny Brith Canada,
an abhorrent post appeared and then disappeared
on my Facebook wall during a short interval
on August 26, 2016.
The text of the disgusting digital item
proclaimed that the Holocaust didn't happen
and that Jews should be, and this is a direct quote,
killed every last one.
This heinous assertion goes against everything
I've tried to stand for in my life,
including in my academic work.
As soon as I became aware of this blasphemy
embedded in the Planet Facebook post,
I publicly condemned it.
By mid-September, however, my persecutors
were far advanced in pushing forward
the manufactured crisis.
By then, Benny Brith Canada was mounting a petition campaign
demanding that I be investigated, fired, and silenced.
I'm not being silenced.
Recently, the results of a freedom of information inquiry
have brought to light documents
illuminating the elaborate defamation pointed my way
in the hours and days immediately following the August 26
Facebook operation.
One document was sent to the University of Lethbridge
President and copied to the Premier of Alberta,
as well as the Alberta Justice Minister.
Citing the Benny Brith, the document's author
characterized me as an advocate for the murder of Jews.
Yikes.
Another letter dated 1 September 2016
was signed by the President of the Canadian Jewish Civil Rights
Association.
This signature, who has since passed away,
cited the complete text of the offending Facebook post.
And what I quoted is just a small part of that text,
that horrific text.
The letter to Dr. Mann indicated these reprehensible words
actually came from my lips.
I cannot understand why Dr. Mann did not,
at this juncture, properly investigate
by consulting me directly and conferring
with the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association.
Instead, the President opted to punish,
to push ahead, to push ahead with drastic action
based on incomplete information combined
with the intense pressure brought to bear on him
from an extremely influential external political lobby.
Just finishing up now.
None.
It's called hate speech deceptions.
None of my persecutors has yet identified
the true source of the offending Facebook item.
My own research into the matter, including
my email exchange with cartoonist Ben Garrison.
And that's Ben Garrison's face that
has been photoshopped into the higher image.
That's a long story.
Has led me to Joshua Goldberg.
American Herald Tribune has published my article
on this young man.
Goldberg is widely reported to be the creator
of many internet personalities, all of whom
generate abundant hate speech deceptions.
That's a term I came up with, from various ethnic
and ideological perspectives.
Goldberg's case exposes much about the wholesale manufacturing
and misrepresentation of so-called hate speech
to justify censorship on the internet.
In my case, an atrocious digital item
was strategically inserted with the aim
of ruining me professionally and personally.
The intervention of internet leviathans,
like Google and Facebook, is especially
aggressive when it comes to disappearing
material critical of the Israeli government's treatment
of Palestinians.
My own experience with the Canadian branch
of the Anti-Defamation League of Ben Ibrith
points to the strength of this pattern.
Why is it that this Dianist organization
is being tasked with the strategic responsibility
of censoring and categorizing YouTube videos?
As illustrated by William Pepper's development
of civil litigation to bring to light
the US government's role in the tragedy suffered
by the family of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
we rarely get criminal trials pressed
against the world's most powerful interests and operatives.
Instances of possible false flag terrorism,
but especially 9-11, have been rendered especially immune
to any kind of trial that would put before the public evidence
garnered from genuine investigation of the facts.
Perhaps the reference to 9-11 in a university
administration's effort to condemn me
for academic thought crimes and speech crimes
will force the forbidden topic into some kind of evidence-based
juridical procedure.
When it comes to understanding the real dynamics of who did,
what, to whom on 9-11, the truth must prevail.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello, Ken Jenkins.
