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Freedom, clarity & the Western defenders of the Iranian Revolution
R. B. Johannessen
The official figures show that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won some 62.6% of the vote in an election marked by a high turnout of 85%. These numbers are suspicious. They may be genuine, but then again they may be fraudulent. -How are we to know?
And then this: ”Death to America!”, ”Death to Israel!” and ”Death to Great Britain!” –Yes Ayatollah Khamenei does sound like Napoleon in Orwell’s ”Animal Farm”. -Why is this so?
1. Permanent war footing
Without going too far back, we want to mention the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran where the British and the Soviets invaded Iran in August/September 1941, the purpose of which was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure supply lines. Iran was neutral and the enemy of no one, but the US and Britain wanted to secure Iranian oil for themselves. They ”feared” the Abadan Oil Refinery, owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, might fall into German hands. They attacked a peaceful country pre-emptively and for reasons of greed.
A few years later, it was about oil again. The popular Mohammad Mossadeq was elected prime minister and promptly started talking about nationalizing Iranian oil…The British would have nothing of it. They conspired with the US. Operation TPAJAX (Operation Ajax) was set in motion and Mossadeq was toppled in August 1953. A tragedy in itself, because this was a period where looking back we can see the possible development of Iran into a fully fledged democracy. It was not to be.
HALT CHENEY'S AND NOW OBAMA'S COVERT IRAN OPERATIONS
Allen L Roland
Protestor killed by Iran government forces (Twitter)
In March of 2002 Dick Cheney appointed his own daughter Elizabeth to head a shadow operation (ISOG) whose covert purpose was to fund dissident groups in Iran ~ money which may have been used to fund and arm terrorists. Obama has now evidently picked up where the Cheney's left off:
If you have any doubt that a shadow Cheney presidency existed during the last eight years that cast its evil over everything from the 9/11cover-up to Quantanamo ~ than picture Dick Cheney appointing his own daughter in 2002 to head up a secretive organization in Iran whose purpose was to fund terrorists ~ and which reported directly to Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheney. And why would Cheney appoint his own daughter ? Because she was the only person he could trust on his, self declared, journey to the dark side for she certainly would not testify against him. They both are now neck deep in deception and lies which is why they are openly defending their actions together on the mainstream TV circuit.
The Uighurs, Guantanamo, Cuba and Palestine
Christopher King
Christopher King argues that the Guantanamo torture facility offers the world a glimpse into “the dark heart” and the truth of the United States. It is, he says, “a clear example of behaviour beyond criminality into a region of inhumanity so dark it has never been named”.
The Guantanamo Bay torture facility, intentionally outside law, its associated kidnapping and torture both on site and by arrangement with other countries, is the dark heart, the truth of the “Land of the free and the home of the brave”. If you know about Guantanamo, you know how little law, decency and human rights truly mean to the United States, because the old excuse of “a few bad apples” that was used for Abu-Ghraib among others, doesn’t wash here. It’s all offical government policy from the president down. And it’s still open on Barack Obama’s watch.
SENATOR CHRISTINE MILNE'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SPEECH
Communicated by Andrew Glikson
"In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Are we about to follow their lead?" - Easter Island by Jared Diamond, 1995
Greens senator Christine Milne will deliver this speech to the National Press Club today.
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Views from Iran, e-mails from an Iranian
Emily Spence
(Tuesday, 16 June 2009) By Vahab, e-mails from an Iranian
Emily,
Internet very very slow here. Almost non-existent. Yesterday it was not connected at all. Also cell-phones are faulty most of the times. SMS messages are totally off.
Last night, they started to dismount satellite dishes from the roof tops, disconnecting Iranians from satellite TV (outer world). The religious dictatorship is trying to block any effective communication path between people inside Iran and between Iran and outside world.
Evidence for a New Nuremberg: Obama's Nazi Health Plan
by Nancy Spannaus
June 4—When the Obama economic team, dominated by the larcenous economics advisor Larry Summers, and murderous accountant and Budget Director Peter Orszag, launched their offensive to ram through the Administration's Nazi health "reform" June 2, they thought they would have their day. Instead, they found themselves confronted and exposed as the purveyors of a Hitler genocide plan, that would condemn millions of Americans to death, as having what Hitler called "lives not worthy to be lived."
The Obama team showed no shame. Again and again, burnished under a patina of bureaucratic jargon, they demanded hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts for the most vulnerable of American citizens, insisted upon stopping so-called unnecessary medical care for as much as a third of the American population, and put their version of fiscal health before the lives of people. While they brazenly pour trillions of dollars of Federal monies into the very banking institutions which have brought the world economy to its knees, they tell American citizens, particularly those on Medicare and Medicaid, that they are "overconsuming" health care, and have to be stopped, "for their own good."
Iran's Election and US - Iranian Relations
Stephen Lendman
In the run-up to Iran's June 12 presidential election, early indications suggested the media's reaction if the wrong candidate won. On June 7, New York Times writer Robert Worth reported "a surge of energy (for) Mir Hussein Mousavi, a reformist who is the leading contender to defeat Mr. Ahmadinejad (and) a new unofficial poll (has him well ahead) with 54 percent of respondents saying they would vote for him compared with 39 percent for Mr. Ahmadinejad." No mention of who conducted the poll, how it was done, what interests they represented, or if Mousavi winning might be the wrong result. More on that below.
Journalist — Occupied Palestine Jewish Chabad's Genocidal Morality, The Fanatical US-based Organization Exposed
By Khalid Amayreh
Religious Zionism promoting for the annihilation of Arabs and
non-Jews is rife, not only amongst Israelis, but also adopted by
Israel's government, (Reuters photo)
"The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way. Destroy their holy sites; kill their men, women, children, and even cattle. "These are not the words of a loony Jewish terrorist, marauding through the hills of the West Bank in search for an elderly Arab peasant or shepherd to kill.
In fact, these words were uttered last week by Manis Friedman, a prominent and highly-respected Chabad-lubavitch rabbi who is widely admired among many Orthodox Jews, especially in the United States.
Writing in response to a question posed by Moment Magazine for its "Ask the Rabbis" feature, the Minnesota-based rabbi argued that "if we followed this wisdom (killing innocent Arab men, women and children), there would be no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war."
Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax
James Petras
“Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation…Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.” = Financial Times Editorial, June 15 2009
Introduction
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.
Resignation of David M. Walker, the most important economic indicator of things to come: The Fall of Rome
by chycho
Since the global financial meltdown seems to be the main concern with our corporate world, let’s begin with this topic.
David M. Walker and the Fall of Rome
There have been a few major economic events in the last few years, but I consider the resignation, in March 2008, of David M. Walker from his commission of Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office to be the harbinger of what is to come.
Walker resigned 5 years before the end of his 15-year term expired. His reasons for resigning were that he was limited to what he could do and that the United States was in danger of collapsing in much the same manner as the Roman Empire.
“Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were ‘striking similarities’ between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including ‘declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government’.”
For months before his resignation he traveled the country educating Americans about the financial crisis and the pending bankruptcy of the United States.
60 Minutes segment with David Walker originally broadcast on March 4, 2007
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