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Are You Ready For War With Demonized Iran?
June 16, 2009
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina, or any other country, get from the US media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France, and Germany? Who can name the political leaders of Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, Japan, or even China?
Yet, many know of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. The reason is obvious. He is daily demonized in the (…)

Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.
Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter (…)

Pakistan general: US interfering in Iran affairs
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:10:24 GMT
Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.
In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran.
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The Eurasian Pipeline Calculus
by F. William Engdahl Global Research, June 17, 2009
Calculus has two main variants—derivative and integral. The Eurasian energy pipeline geopolitics between Turkey Washington and Moscow today has elements of both. It is highly derivative in that the major actors across Central Asia from China, Russia to Turkey are very much engaged in a derived power game which has less to do with any specific state and more to do with maintaining Superpower hegemony for (…)

There’s a war going on. It’s happening mostly behind the scenes, at the desks of a coven of crooked bureaucrats and banksters nationwide. If you thought the bank bail out ate a hole in your pocket, watch what the banksters, unindicted bureaucrats and land thieves are doing to the nation’s farmers and to the security of your food supply.
The ongoing thievery in the banking, insurance and real estate industry has ripped the heart out of the economy. As the result of organized financial (…)

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
“Something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear.”
Stephen Stills
There is something happening on the international stage, in the cafes of Lebanon and shops of Tehran, in the halls of congress and in the spirit of the American people. The winds of resistance are blowing, the people are rising up and the wheels of change are slowly turning.
There is a voice rising from the Iranian people that to the naked eye seems unpolluted by the (…)

The man accused by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of masterminding the opposition campaign to oust him from the presidency has dropped out of view since election day. But Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains a formidable figure in Iranian politics with a network of well-placed allies straddling the reformist and moderate conservative camps. If any one leader is able to force a re-run of last Friday’s disputed poll, it may be the two-term former president nicknamed the "shark".
Rafsanjani was last (…)

Long-term instability in Iran is an alarming prospect for western countries keen to resolve disputes over the country’s nuclear programme and other contentious issues. But continuing political weakness in Tehran is also likely to produce the opposite effect – increased regime concern about external attempts to interfere, destabilise, and exploit its current vulnerabilities. This paranoid trend threatens unpredictable, even dangerous consequences – but may be justified.
The pinning of blame (…)

I am not Irish. However, I like the way they speak what is called, for no good reason I have been able to discover, "English," and hence I feel that even if what I have to say fails to make the kind of sense I have in mind at least I will have the satisfaction of having said it in a way I like. I did not do so well with Greek (see my "9/11 Aletheia"), having learned that aletheia does not rhyme with panacea but is pronounced "uh LAY thee uh," with the stress on the second syllable. It does (…)

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
Monday 15th June, 06:10 AM JST
Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney “smells some blood in the water” on the issue of national security.
Cheney has said in several interviews that he thinks Obama is making (…)