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What’s The Real Threat To Washington Of A Nuclear Iran?

February 2, 2015 By Steven Chovanec 3 Comments

There is much discussion in Western political discourse of the “threat” of Iran, spoken of as though it is a self-evident truth, an assumption that underlies the entire spectrum of debate. To question such an obvious truism is something that disciplined intellectuals understand is not proper of them to do. Most likely the thought doesn’t even cross their minds, thanks to dignified university education and the values instilled from it; there are some things not suitable for a respectable intellectual to discuss, after all. Former US Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters went so far as to say that “Iran is building a new Persian Empire.”

Furthermore, in order to slow down Iran’s progress towards a bomb, Netanyahu has threatened to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Threats which are credible, according to officials from the Obama administration. Obama, over the years, has used such threats by telling other world leaders that toughening sanctions on Iran is the only way to forestall an Israeli attack. Obama himself has argued that a nuclear Iran poses a “profound” national security threat to the US.

Given this ubiquitous rhetoric, there is an obvious question that arises, one which is seldom asked: what exactly is this “threat” that a nuclear Iran poses? What exactly is such a grave and existential threat that Western leaders would risk escalation and military confrontation by threatening the Iranian republic with an attack? Fortunately, we have an authoritative answer to this.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: 1979 Iranian Revolution, Africa, Ali Khamenei, Anthony Cordesman, assassination, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Che Guevara, CIA, Congress, Cuba, Defense Department, Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, Egypt, Fidel Castro, Hasan Ruhani, intelligence, Iran, Israel, John Boehner, John McCain, Martin van Creveld, MENA, Michael T. Flynn, Middle East, Monroe Doctrine, nuclear, oppression, Pentagon, propaganda, Ralph Peters, Ron Dermer, sanctions, Senate, Senate Armed Services Committee, terrorism, US Department of Defense, Zbigniew Brzezinski

VIDEO: Bloody-handed CODEPINK Activists Confront Henry Kissinger

January 31, 2015 By Eleanor Goldfield 2 Comments

“I have been a member of this committee for years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable …”

You know that feeling you get when someone says something that is just so laughably absurd that you feel yourself stuck in this mental and emotional limbo between anger and hysterical laughter, typically settling somewhere in between; a murderous chuckle, perhaps.

Well, that’s the place my mind settled Thursday at about 9:30am EST when John McCain said those words about a group of activists, myself included. In a government run on logic, justice, freedom and honesty, McCain would have of course been directing those comments to the lizard-faced Kissinger. But alas, those four tenets are about as absent from these hearings as youth and common sense.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: activisma, anti-war, Cambodia, Chile, citizen's arrest, Code Pink, CodePink, Congress, East Timor, free speech, freedom of speech, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Human Rights, Indonesia, John McCain, Laos, Madeleine Albright, military, peace, protest, Senate Armed Services Committee, South America, United States Senate, Vietnam, War, war crimes

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Spooning Up The Waste

December 18, 2014 By Kate Lanier 1 Comment

Kate’s collects the top mining, fracking and environmental news from around the world including:

Bangladesh: Villagers “using spoons, sponges and shovels” are trying to mop up 77,000 gallons of oil unleashed in an area that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A Padma Oil Co. tanker collided with a cargo ship. Oil has spread “across 50 miles of rivers and canals.” Padma is paying the locals for whatever oil they can collect. Vegetation and animals are reportedly dying. And the impact on the human spirit?

Arizona: 40 Years of Resistance on Black Mesa! Major government-corporate cluster-you-know-what over at the Black Mesa mines results in grievous harm to Navajo and Hopi peoples. And now, Peabody coal wants a “lifetime mining permit” there. Sierra Club has joined Native Americans in a federal suit over this mess.

Nicaragua: Some 7,000 Nicaraguans have been “scheduled for removal to clear a path for Central America’s second interoceanic canal [with the] Nicaraguan Army … already providing security for Chinese canal firm HKND.” A villager in Obrajuelo said, “They want to run us off our properties—to scatter us like birds without a nest. … we would rather die here fighting than get forced off our [ancestral] land.” Apparently, the whole thing is shrouded in mystery—to be followed by misery.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Alaska, Apache sacred land, Arizona, Australia, Banglesh, Black Mesa, California, Canada, China, Climate change, Coal Mining, Colombia, Colorado, energy, first Nations, Florida, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, Fracking on Public Lands, Guatemala, Hopi, hydraulic fracturing, India, indians, indigenous, James Bay Cree Nation, John McCain, Keystone XL, Louisiana, Mexico, mining, Mitch McConnell, Montreal, National Nurses United, Navajo, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Nigeria, North Carolina, oil trains, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Peru, Sierra Club, SunCoke Energy, taxes, Texas, United Nations, West Virginia, Wisconsin

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