Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The site is a sister to Atlantic Free Press and Brick Ogden an American Expatriate in Amsterdam has been a key supporter of this project.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
While December 7 marks the 66th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I’d rather reflect upon December 7, 1975.
This reflection involves, among others, former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and requires a geography question: What nation has the largest Muslim population? Not Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Egypt; it’s Indonesia.
With a populace more than 90 percent Islamic, this South East
Asian island nation has avoided America’s notorious anti-Muslim bent by
holding claim to the South Pacific’s largest supply of oil, the world’s
most abundant reserve of natural gas, and a very brutal anti-communist
history. While Palestinian Muslims are labeled terrorists for having
the audacity to revolt against 60 years of Israeli occupation,
Indonesian Muslims can get away with murder. Literally.
More
geography: East Timor is another island nation—a former Portuguese
colony just above Australia—that became the target of a relentless and
murderous assault by Indonesia on December 7, 1975. That attack was
made possible through the sale of U.S. arms to its loyal client, the
silent complicity of the American press, and Pat Moynihan’s skill at
keeping the UN uninvolved at the request of his boss, Dr. Kissinger.
Over one-third of the East Timorese population (more than 200,000
humans) lost their lives due to war-related starvation, disease,
massacres, or atrocities. Proportionally, the depth of this slaughter
is on par with the Nazi Holocaust.
Here’s where Moynihan fits
in: After having served as an advisor to Richard Nixon (an excellent
venue for honing skills of genocide), Moynihan was appointed U.S.
Ambassador to the UN under President Gerald Ford. It was on his watch
that the U.S.-backed Indonesian invasion of East Timor took place.
In
his book, A Dangerous Place, Moynihan detailed his role in the
genocide: “The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and
worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the
United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it
undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no
inconsiderable success.” At that time, Moynihan told the Australian
ambassador to the United Nations that he was “under instructions from
Kissinger personally not to involve himself in discussion with Timor
with the Indonesians.”
As Nobel Peace Prize winner Kissinger explained, “Foreign policy should not be confused with missionary work.”
For more on the current situation in East Timor, please visit www.etan.org.
Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at www.mickeyz.net.
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While December 7 marks the 66th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I’d rather reflect upon December 7, 1975. 
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