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Mark
Bruzonsky's (Bio) incisive columns and articles
have appeared in major publicatons in 11 countries. He has lived
in Washington for more than 25 years after getting his graduate degrees
from
Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and New York
University Law School where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Having
lived in Washington for so long Bruzonsky has a special grasp of how
the political and legal systems intersect with the vast array of
think-tanks, media organizations, lobbyists, and foreign
representatives. Bruzonsky has appeared on NBC, BBC, CBC,
FOX, C-Span, CTV, Court TV and many foreign media networks.
Throughout the historic White House Middle East Peace signing ceremony
with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat Bruzonsky provided the live
commentary from Washington on the major CTV Canadian Television
Network.
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"It appears that the money has been moved in the
president’s budget to handle homeland security and
the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody
locally is happy that the levees can’t be
finished, and we are
doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue
for us."
New Orleans
Times-Picayune Newspaper - 8 June 2004
NEW ORLEANS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IRAQ: That's quite a leap many
will be thinking; and
certainly don't expect the public officials,
especially the Washington regime, to acknowledge the terrible errors
of
their ways and the gross squandering and mismanagement of public
resources. But the facts and the statistics
are there if people
want to connect the dots.
Fully
half of Americans now believe
Bush purposefully lied to bring about the Iraq invasion/occupation.
57%
believe the Iraq War was 'Not Worth It'. And 42%
believe if the President lied about the war he should be impeached!
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2 Sept - AMERICANS Taste the Real World:
"National Disgrace" indeed! "Hell on Earth"...these the opening
comments on the NBC Today Show this morning at 7am. Cruel as it may be to
articulate, Americans are unexpectedly getting a taste, and in many
ways it is only a small taste, of what has been going on in other parts
of the world for some time -- from natural flooding disasters in
Bangladesh to human-made disasters in Iraq and Chechnya and Palestine.
"...the vast majority poor, black and Angry... This city
now looks more like Africa
than America..."
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Matt Frei, BBC, in New Orleans
"This is not Iraq,
this is not Somalia, this is Home."
-Martin Savage, NBC News
"Private Katrina has joined the global Jihad"
-Islamic website reported on MSNBC
And
it is not being insensitive to the catastrophy of the moment to reflect
that what has happened because of Hurricane Katrina
would be minor in comparison to the nuclear war that we have so far
escaped or to Pandemic Flu which literally is threatening at the door
or to decades in the future if the projections of Global Warming and
Polar Icecap Meltdown prove to be accurate -- and we may well be
already feeling the early effects. Nor should we overlook
for now, even in the midst of the Gulf Coast catastrophy still
unfolding, that there has been considerable faulty planning and
resource allocation on the part of the U.S. government -- all of which
has at the least considerably exacerbated today's crisis.
Thu
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1 Sept - BUSH Keeps Covering-Up and Dissembling: On any normal day the
fact that another thousand Iraqis got killed compliments of the
American invasion/occupation -- this time just on one day -- or that
for the first time in human history both Human and Chimp DNA had now
been totally mapped out for comparison with untold possibilities from
disease cures to future real human Frankensteins would have dominated
the news. But today's new coverage is anything but normal with
New Orleans and gas prices trumping all. Speaking about
President Bush's 9-minute speech late yesterday after his little
'fly-over' of the hurricane devastation:
He also unleashed a torrent of facts and figures: "The Department of
Transportation has provided more than 400 trucks to move 1,000
truckloads containing 5.4 million Meals Ready to Eat...13.4
million liters of water, 10,400 tarps, 3.4 million pounds of ice, 144
generators, 20 containers of pre-positioned disaster supplies, 135,000
blankets and 11,000 cots." It was as if by piling so many
disparate
numbers so high he might be able to block out the two most significant
numbers of all: the number of National Guardsmen unable to help
out in
Louisiana and Mississippi because they are deployed in Iraq, and the
tens of millions of hurricane and flood-control dollars that never
made it to Lake Pontchartrain because they had been diverted to
Iraq.
- Orina Huffington, Huffington Post, 1
Sept
Oriana
is right in concept, as usual, but way off when it comes to the
numbers. We'e not talking about misallocation of 'tens of
millions' when it comes to accounting for all that has been pumped into
the Iraq war and overall into the blotted military-industrial complex
machine -- thus diverted from real and basic homeland security issues
including flood controls, disaster prevention and relief, alleviation
of poverty, promotion of education, national healthcard.
We're talking about tens of billions,
and over some years in fact hundreds
of billions. Americans are being everwhere now
short-changed, mislead, lied to, and dupped by their leaders. And
the real huge and historic price for such terrible misallocations and
gross deception will only become evident in the years ahead...and now
probably not that far ahead.
Thu
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1 Sept - NEW ORLEANS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IRAQ: That's quite a leap many
will be thinking; and certainly don't expect the public officials,
especially the Washington regime, to acknowledge the terrible errors of
their ways and the gross squandering and mismanagement of public
resources. But the facts and the statistics are there if people
want to connect the dots.
"It appears that the money has been moved in the
president’s budget to handle homeland security and
the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody
locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are
doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue
for us."
Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana
New Orleans
Times-Picayune, 8 June 2004
With nearly $300 billion now having been spent to
invade, occupy, and essentially destroy Iraq -- and with more money now
flowing to the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex than even
during the cold war -- the public sectors of America are being
short-changed time and again, over and over, issue after
issue.
If less than 1% of just the Iraq war costs had
been allocated to New Orleans, a city which has been continually
begging Washington for funds to improve the well-known inadequate
levee systems that protected the city, the tremendous loss of life and
the untold billions in property damage and nation-wide economic
consequences now sufferenced could have been and should have been
prevented.
But as I said don't expect the politicians to
admit the terrible errors of their ways, the gross mismanagement of
public resources, the abominable mistakes that have been made and lies
they have been told. And don't expect the corporate mass
media -- itself interwined with and largely dependent on the largess of
the military-industrial-corporate complex -- to seriously and properly
connect the dots either.
If and when the Pandemic Flu hits --
which top scientists have been warning for years is all but inevitable
now -- and millions die with untold consequences for American society
and international relations, it will be another case of having
squandered hundreds of billions for the wrong things while the
alternative allocation of those billions could have, should have, saved
large numbers of lives and greatly strengthened the basic fabric and
textue of American society.
In the Reagan years proper emergency funding
could have significantly lessened the AIDs epidemic; but now an amazing
1 in 20 citizens in the national capital, in Washington D.C. itself,
are infected with HIV! Decades from now others will
look back and lament how the Americans wasted trillions of dollars on
imperial adventures -- on war and destruction -- even as they
criminally allowed global warming to become irreversible, the
polar ice cap to melt leading to catastrophic new weather patterns,
both world and national poverty to increase, the social infracture to
crumble, political an social poliarization to reach unprecedented
proportions, and, in all likelihood, a Pandemic Flu to ravage Americans
and humanity in the year 20??.
Had such huge amounts of money and human
energy been properly, thoughtfully, and honestly spent in preventive
ways and for anticipatory preparations for what was known to be coming
much of what has now happened, and much of what is likely to soon
happen, could have and should have been prevented. In the
future they will look back and lament how they could have made all the
difference by choosing to focus their attention and spend their
recourses and energies on other things; but they we did not...
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Washington,
modern-day Rome,
has evolved since World War II into an amazingly hubristic,
nationalistic, militaristic, and politically incestuous corporate
town. The two parties that
control the capital continually hand out considerable favors and
financial rewards
to
themselves and partners -- dealing ostracism, vilification, and
punishment to
everyone else who won't sing the same jingoistic tunes. When it
comes to foreign
policy issues the two parties can now be considered in reality a
fairly unified Imperial Party pursuing with crusading zealotry a
worldwide Manifest Destiny-inspired
ideology. BlogWashington's daunting task
is to dissect, unravel, and indeed just plain explain to
non-Washingtonians crucial bits and pieces of what's
really going on this world capital -- realities you certainly will not
find dealt with candidly and honestly
by the big corporate
newspapers or commercial Television Networks.
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Mark
A. Bruzonsky
NYU Law School - JD,
Root-Tilden Scholar / Woodrow
Wilson School of International
Affairs, Princeton Univ - MPA
Past
Associations:
Washington Rep World
Jewish Congress / Ed Worldview Magazine (New
York) / Ed Middle
East Magazine (London)
Middle East Consultant - Woodrow
Wilson Inter Center for
Scholars Smithsonian., National Geographic, Congressional Quarterly
Full bio and
publication list
Mark@Bruzonsky.com
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