Desperately seeking a plausible pretense for a more direct form of warfare on Iran the United States executive dictatorship has been quite creative. However, with even the mainstream press documenting the nine hundred plus lies told by George Bush to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq there is a wee bit of a problem selling new lies about Iran. Unable to sell any pseudo confrontation as an actual act of aggression by Iran against United States naval vessels the administration may have opted for the creation of numerous pseudo threats by Iranian motor boats, you know the kind with a little engine at the back of what is otherwise a rowboat! Anyway the impression will be created in the public mind that Iran has been harassing and threatening United States ships for a long time. After all, this propaganda is for American consumption, to foster support for more invasions, bombings and occupations or maybe a nuclear strike.
One pseudo-incident earlier in the year included a radio message threatening to blow up the U.S. military vessel being observed by a number of these unarmed Iranian motorboats. The message turned out to have nothing to do with any Iranian transmissions. It looked like a fabrication and a real exaggeration of what these motorboats can do. The impression was created, however, that some Iranian military folks were threatening to blow up a destroyer or battleship.
Today we get another supposed harrassment report from a military contractor running some sort of boat, The Westward Venture, for the U. S. navy. Perhaps, unable to get the U. S. military to go along with a full scale false flag fraud the executive dictatorship may have opted to use more compliant "private contractors", the president's SS. Perhaps these they will pave the way to the destruction of Iran. BBC and therefore Great Britain are obviously happy to promulgate these pseudo- confrontations with all the lies stated as facts. Later retractions and clarifications will not be covered by BBC because Great Britain must want a wider war as well. That's the way it looks to me.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
IS AN UNPRECEDENTED ACT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM AT HAND?
Maybe I'm delusional but could Bush and Cheney be on the verge of committing acts of aggression that will put their previous crimes against peace in the shade? They did declare that there were scores of enemy nations early on in their so-called "war on terror". Threats and deeds against Iran continue to intensify. Syria has been threatened but Israel just said something about giving back the Golan heights. Is that because Israel is part of this plan to strike out at other Arab and Muslim nations. Is the United States about to attack Iran, Pakistan or other nations in the region? Could Bush try to first strike North Korea? Of course, none of these options are off the table, are they?
Nor should we forget that this administration is full of folks who think they are personally channeling god, a very warlike god. They are fundamentalists who believe that end times are near and that maybe a little nuclear war might help usher in the rule of Christ for a thousand years or forever or whatnot.
Chavez was wrong about the sulfurous smell at the UN. The fact is that the devil hold's the Vice President's office. This makes another desperate act of aggression more likely. This man is an indomitable malignancy.
I can imagine Condeleeza Rice saying something like, "What's the point of having all these cool nuclear weapons if we can't use them to irradiate Waziristan?" They could name an H-bomb after Conde and drop it on remote tribesmen in Pakistan or perhaps on Pyongyang. Nuclear weapons are special and so is Conde. What's the point of having an axis of evil if you can't nuke it?
Someone in this administration has probably already written a paper on how shocked, awed and well behaved the world will be after the United States nukes a few trouble makers. America's almost exclusive obsession with military solutions to political and economic problems is beyond excessive and well into madness. Nuclear strikes would consolidate an already overwhelmingly anti-US world opinion.
Of course the 2008 elections will have to be cancelled, for national securitiy reasons. After all, elections are just about impossible to conduct anyway, at least since G. W. came along. Serious domestic rebellion would be likely as well. Or perhaps the deep malaise of the American population would continue.
Nuclear attacks on multiple nations or even one nation would lead to the world economy being disrupted for an unknowable period of time. The disruption of production, trade and transport could cause an extremely destructive collapse of the world and local economies. Asymmetric warfare against the United States would proliferate. More nations would seek more nuclear weapons more quickly in order to defend themselves.
Of course such an act of imperial brutality could lower the standard of human conduct considerably. Imperial acts of war can only undermine a system of international law based on justice and equality rather than upon the right of the biggest bully to push everyone else around.
Republican, bully, Christians... I just don't get these people!
Nor should we forget that this administration is full of folks who think they are personally channeling god, a very warlike god. They are fundamentalists who believe that end times are near and that maybe a little nuclear war might help usher in the rule of Christ for a thousand years or forever or whatnot.
Chavez was wrong about the sulfurous smell at the UN. The fact is that the devil hold's the Vice President's office. This makes another desperate act of aggression more likely. This man is an indomitable malignancy.
I can imagine Condeleeza Rice saying something like, "What's the point of having all these cool nuclear weapons if we can't use them to irradiate Waziristan?" They could name an H-bomb after Conde and drop it on remote tribesmen in Pakistan or perhaps on Pyongyang. Nuclear weapons are special and so is Conde. What's the point of having an axis of evil if you can't nuke it?
Someone in this administration has probably already written a paper on how shocked, awed and well behaved the world will be after the United States nukes a few trouble makers. America's almost exclusive obsession with military solutions to political and economic problems is beyond excessive and well into madness. Nuclear strikes would consolidate an already overwhelmingly anti-US world opinion.
Of course the 2008 elections will have to be cancelled, for national securitiy reasons. After all, elections are just about impossible to conduct anyway, at least since G. W. came along. Serious domestic rebellion would be likely as well. Or perhaps the deep malaise of the American population would continue.
Nuclear attacks on multiple nations or even one nation would lead to the world economy being disrupted for an unknowable period of time. The disruption of production, trade and transport could cause an extremely destructive collapse of the world and local economies. Asymmetric warfare against the United States would proliferate. More nations would seek more nuclear weapons more quickly in order to defend themselves.
Of course such an act of imperial brutality could lower the standard of human conduct considerably. Imperial acts of war can only undermine a system of international law based on justice and equality rather than upon the right of the biggest bully to push everyone else around.
Republican, bully, Christians... I just don't get these people!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
RUMORS OF BOMBING IRAN CONTINUE
Unfortunately, we continue to see folks predicting that the United States will intensify its military aggression against Iran. Of course the Democrats did nothing to stop the war in Iraq and it is rather obvious that the both Obama and Clinton will continue the war just as much as McCain will. Of course the routing and military defeat of U. S. forces
would spoil their plans much as it did in Vietnam.
Considering the right-wing tenor of the debates the two democratic candidates have with each other it is impossible to be critical of third party candidates. Neither party and no candidate has much to offer the average American, the working American, Joe Sixpack, the hoi polloi.
The soaring costs and dramatic declines in our standard of living are essentially ignored by these ivy league snobs who accuse one another of
being impolite about something. Each seeks to prove his or her adeptness at serving the same capitalist system that is destroying our vital ecosystems today. The only thing real about the debate is the almost visible leash each candidate has about her neck leading to the hand of big money and big investors. "WILL WORK FOR BIG MONEY"
is stamped on their collars. Arf!
Of course Clinton has really played the subtle white supremacist and male baiter with some finesse. Still, every time you step on a cracker you hear it crack and that is the way it has always been with the blacker than black Clinton cult. Obama is obviously being crucified by the patriotic right-wing "invade the world" racists and those, like Clinton, who pander to their prejudices.
Nor will the endless crimes of Bush and Cheney be prosecuted by this Congress or any regime run by Obama or Clinton. It is a very cozy two party dictatorship and justice might screw up the duopoly. No one of a progressive ilk will let this issue lie.
Bush and Cheney, like Pinochet and Fujimori need to be fully prosecuted for their crimes. Permanent organizations need to be established to pursue justice in these matters.
Of course the Obama and Clinton supporters who are naive and really hope for an end to imperialist war and really want to see women liberated and the chains of racial and national oppression broken, all these people should be worked with to see through the lies once they are
more thoroughly exposed in the case of Obama, a sort of stealth candidate with a very sparse track record.
The point is that progressives should be promoting and fostering revolutionary and radical reformist ideas while organizing inside and outside the two parties to raise political consciousness in every sector of
the working and other oppressed folk. Permanent and semi-permanent institutions need to be buillt by the democratic revolutionary self-organization of the people. Parallel popular institutions should be created that can do what big business and capitalism can not, foster human liberty in a liberated society. Furthermore, the organized people can engage in production for their own use.
Neither candidate seems to notice the lack of true democracy. They pretend the two party system is democracy but it is not the democracy or the working an other oppressed people. It is a democracy of the rich and for the rich. Of course Obama and Clinton are just excellent self-promoters who cut others down with similar skill. They are fabulous fundraisers who serve the rich and powerful. They have as much to do with the average American as any other millionaire or billionaire, next to nothing if that.
Both Obama and Clinton demonstrate a complete ideological servility to the big investors and owners of society and the world today. "YES BOSS!" is their underlying political slogan whatever they say to us, the "rubes". They are confident that American workers will never independently organize themselves. Of course the legal framework for labor in the United States is like a prison cell, one of their favorite solutions to problems like real democratic input, prisons.
Will Bush-Cheney launch air strikes on Iran? They are already bombing Iraq daily. Yes, they are bombing Iraq in much the same way they bombed South Vietnam. Its the same old crap it was back then, U. S. Imperialism trying to dominate the world by bombing it.
What are the slogans that all the candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties share? BOMB AND IMPRISON". But don't forget you have the freedom to wear a flag lapel pin or not, and be crucified for it when you don't!
Will Bush-Cheney strike out at multiple nations one bright morning? In an undemocratic society like the United States this is not impossible.
Indeed it has been happening for decades and centuries. Will he use nuclear weapons? I think mere notification of Congress by the President that he is bombing Iran constitutes presidential dictatorship.
If Obama or Clinton really cared about progressive ideas and values they
very probably wouldn't be candidates for the White House! The "YES BOSS" vetting took place long ago!
So who are the agents of democratic change in society? Not the two
parties of big money and big government working with and for big money. No, they are our keepers and our oppressors.
would spoil their plans much as it did in Vietnam.
Considering the right-wing tenor of the debates the two democratic candidates have with each other it is impossible to be critical of third party candidates. Neither party and no candidate has much to offer the average American, the working American, Joe Sixpack, the hoi polloi.
The soaring costs and dramatic declines in our standard of living are essentially ignored by these ivy league snobs who accuse one another of
being impolite about something. Each seeks to prove his or her adeptness at serving the same capitalist system that is destroying our vital ecosystems today. The only thing real about the debate is the almost visible leash each candidate has about her neck leading to the hand of big money and big investors. "WILL WORK FOR BIG MONEY"
is stamped on their collars. Arf!
Of course Clinton has really played the subtle white supremacist and male baiter with some finesse. Still, every time you step on a cracker you hear it crack and that is the way it has always been with the blacker than black Clinton cult. Obama is obviously being crucified by the patriotic right-wing "invade the world" racists and those, like Clinton, who pander to their prejudices.
Nor will the endless crimes of Bush and Cheney be prosecuted by this Congress or any regime run by Obama or Clinton. It is a very cozy two party dictatorship and justice might screw up the duopoly. No one of a progressive ilk will let this issue lie.
Bush and Cheney, like Pinochet and Fujimori need to be fully prosecuted for their crimes. Permanent organizations need to be established to pursue justice in these matters.
Of course the Obama and Clinton supporters who are naive and really hope for an end to imperialist war and really want to see women liberated and the chains of racial and national oppression broken, all these people should be worked with to see through the lies once they are
more thoroughly exposed in the case of Obama, a sort of stealth candidate with a very sparse track record.
The point is that progressives should be promoting and fostering revolutionary and radical reformist ideas while organizing inside and outside the two parties to raise political consciousness in every sector of
the working and other oppressed folk. Permanent and semi-permanent institutions need to be buillt by the democratic revolutionary self-organization of the people. Parallel popular institutions should be created that can do what big business and capitalism can not, foster human liberty in a liberated society. Furthermore, the organized people can engage in production for their own use.
Neither candidate seems to notice the lack of true democracy. They pretend the two party system is democracy but it is not the democracy or the working an other oppressed people. It is a democracy of the rich and for the rich. Of course Obama and Clinton are just excellent self-promoters who cut others down with similar skill. They are fabulous fundraisers who serve the rich and powerful. They have as much to do with the average American as any other millionaire or billionaire, next to nothing if that.
Both Obama and Clinton demonstrate a complete ideological servility to the big investors and owners of society and the world today. "YES BOSS!" is their underlying political slogan whatever they say to us, the "rubes". They are confident that American workers will never independently organize themselves. Of course the legal framework for labor in the United States is like a prison cell, one of their favorite solutions to problems like real democratic input, prisons.
Will Bush-Cheney launch air strikes on Iran? They are already bombing Iraq daily. Yes, they are bombing Iraq in much the same way they bombed South Vietnam. Its the same old crap it was back then, U. S. Imperialism trying to dominate the world by bombing it.
What are the slogans that all the candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties share? BOMB AND IMPRISON". But don't forget you have the freedom to wear a flag lapel pin or not, and be crucified for it when you don't!
Will Bush-Cheney strike out at multiple nations one bright morning? In an undemocratic society like the United States this is not impossible.
Indeed it has been happening for decades and centuries. Will he use nuclear weapons? I think mere notification of Congress by the President that he is bombing Iran constitutes presidential dictatorship.
If Obama or Clinton really cared about progressive ideas and values they
very probably wouldn't be candidates for the White House! The "YES BOSS" vetting took place long ago!
So who are the agents of democratic change in society? Not the two
parties of big money and big government working with and for big money. No, they are our keepers and our oppressors.
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