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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. september 2004 / Timeline September 25, 2004
Version 3.524. September 2004, 26. September 2004
09/25/2004
Keep Space for Peace Week: International Days of Protest to Stop
the Militarization of Space, Sept. 25 - Oct. 2, 2004
The Bush Administration (after unilaterally abandoning the 1972 ABM
Treaty) promises to deploy missile defense interceptors in Alaska
and California before the next election. Fifteen interceptors (that
have yet to be proven effective) will be put into the ground at Ft.
Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg AFB, California to "protect" the
continental U.S. from attack. This year the Global Network's Keep
Space for Peace Week coincides with this deployment effort. For the
past several years our Keep Space for Peace Week of local actions
has taken this issue into classrooms, libraries, TV and radio
programs, churches, military bases, aerospace corporation
facilities, and the offices of political leaders. We encourage you
to organize a local activity during the week in solidarity with
groups all over the world. Working together we must create
opposition to Bush's dangerous and destabilizing Star Wars
deployments.
This week of events is being cosponsored by the Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom.
09/25/2004
How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power
by Ben Aris in Berlin & Duncan Campbell in Washington
© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a
director and shareholder of companies that profited from their
involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files
in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was
a director was involved with the financial architects of
Nazism.
Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received
public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the
documentation involving him. But now the multi-billion-dollar legal
action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush
family, and the imminent publication of three books on the subject,
are threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an
uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks
re-election.
While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to
the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for,
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German
industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the
1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The
Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the
New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented
Thyssen's US interests, and that he continued to work for the bank
after America entered the war.
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