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The best news source on the Empire's Middle Eastern warsDear friends, From my regular posts here you can tell than I spend quite some time roaming the Internet in seach of good news sourcea about the Israeli-American Empire's (IAE) wars in the Middle-East. I usually use a news agregator (KDE's Akregator to be precise) to go over RSS feeds from non- 'American corporate media' (ACM) newsources since the ACM is at least as active a participant in these wars as any Hezbollah fighter. One of the best news sources I have found is Amy Goodman's http://www.democracynow.org/ website and, in particular, her daily show which I download every day and listen to in-extenso. I won't even go into comparisons between Democracynow.org's and ACM's coverage of these wars. Even a comparison between, say, NPR's 'All things considered' and Amy's show reveal all the huge amount of information which are censored out of NPR's coverage (another very good non-ACM news source is, of course, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/) I also want to specially bring Amy's show to the attention of Debianhelp.org's non-American readers because it show that not all Americans are 'Zionist Neanderthals from Texas' like Dubya as all too often we are lead to believe by the ACM or IAE's politicians. I very much encourage anyone who has not listened to her show to download it (it is offered as mp3 AND as ogg files!!) and listen to it just once and you will see all the stuff which the IAE and its ACM do not want you to hear. It will also give you a much deeper appreciation for those Americans who struggle, in often difficult conditions, for decency and truth in the Empire's homeland (you can help Democracynow.org here: https://store.democracynow.org/?pid=25). Remember: resistance is NOT futile! Kind regards, VS PS: more info about Amy who, by the way, is Jewish can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman PPS: you might also be interested by a rather typical Amy Goodman trashing article written from a Zionist's perspective. I found this one neat since it also pretty much bashes all the main Jewish anti-Zionist activist in the USA: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356239/posts Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Re: DemocracyNow! and the coming attack on Iran?
IMHO, DemocracyNow! is just the best news show out there, bar none.
Not only does DemocracyNow! put a human face to the news -- as opposed to the typical geo-strategic, "gov't officials say" propaganda of the corporate mass media's news shows -- but DemocracyNow! often reports issues and angles that no other news shows do.
One only has to go back to 2003 and the pre-Iraq war shows of DemocracyNow! to see how insightful their reporting was, and how accurate their guest's predictions and concerns were.
Just today I was dumbfounded at one of Amy Goodman's remarks. She mentioned -- almost in passing -- that the Israeli mainstream newspaper the Jerusalem Post had reported that Israeli gov't officials are saying the Bush regime is urging Israel to attack Syria.
Wow!
If that proves true and Israel strikes Syria, that's the ball game folks!
Follow the logic. Months ago we had numerous reports that the Bush regime wanted to attack Iran. If that were true, the "key" is the trigger -- how to start the US war on Iran.
Another convenient 9/11 or anthrax attack? Nope, too risky. Too many people see the inconsistencies in 9/11 and they might not stand for another. But the "key" to starting the war is coming into play.
The US Security Council passed a resolution on Aug. 1st that calls on Iran to stop their perfectly-legal uranium enrichment program by the end of August. That date is a key -- the US may wait until after that date to attack. But the entire uranium issue is just window dressing. After all, the Iranians have complied with all UN inspections of their nuclear facilities and the US has offered absolutely zero proof of the existence of any Iranian wrong-doing or illegal weapons program. And under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Iran has every right to enrich uranium.
Iran has already rejected the UN resolution for them to stop their enrichment. Also note that the UN resolution does not authorize the use of force -- it only suggests future possible economic sanctions. But that makes no difference to the war-mongers in Washington -- the US had no authorization of force when the war criminals invaded Iraq.
But I think the resolution issue will not be the key for the US to launch its war on Iran -- as I said, it's window dressing or at best a "plan B".
If you think about it, the UN resolution issue would require a huge propaganda campaign by the war criminals in the Bush regime and their corporate mass media sycophants. They'd have to sell the American people on another war, and too many Americans are already suspicious of the corporate mass media and are sick of Bush's propaganda. So how to start the war?
Now comes word that Bush is urging Israel to strike Syria. Well, Syria and Iran have had a joint defense treaty for many years. An Israeli attack on Syria would cause the Iranians to respond against the Israeli aggression under the terms of their treaty.
Presto! Chango! An instant excuse for the US to attack Iran!
Iran defending Syria would give the US the pretext it wants to launch an attack on Iran. No messy pre-war propaganda campaign needed to build up US domestic support for a war; the US would be able to tout the UN resolution and position itself as "defending Israel" from the "evil Iranians."
Far-fetched? Let's hope so!
The timing is important. There are at least 2 US aircraft carrier battle groups on station right now in the Arabian Sea/Persian Gulf area. Those carriers can remain on-station in that area for a few months, at least.
The corporate mass media has reported that a troop buildup is underway in Iraq. This is purported to be to deal with violence in Baghdad. A troop buildup is necessary before the US does any attack. The "violence in Baghdad" line is sheer propaganda. After all, US casualties in Iraq in the past couple of months are down, not up. And the US hasn't shown any real interest (not to the "troop buildup level") in violence in Baghdad before.
The pieces are in place. So why would the Bush regime be urging Israel to attack Syria when the treaty in place guarantee that such an attack would start a wider regional war? I can only think of one reason -- because the US wants that wider war so it can attack Iran (and in the chaos the US hopes to change the situation on the ground in Iraq).
I was surprised that DemocracyNow! did not touch on this scenario. But then again, it's speculation and their focus is news.
French and German sayings to understand the neocons :-)
I can think of plenty of reasons why such a plan by the puppeteers of the ape in the White House would be folly, however this administration has been doing so many utterly insane things since it came to power that you just might be correct in your analysis.
There is one point which I bring up on a regular basis and which people tend to overlook: the Israeli-American Empire (IAE) is currently fighting the *little* guy in Iraq: the Sunni. Granted, the Wahabi/Salafi Jihadists are a particularly nasty buntch, and the Resistance as had plenty of successes (such as totally negating the so-called 'security plan' for Baghdad), but still - these are not the main power brokers in Iraq: the Shia are.
I firmly believe that any attack on Iran will trigger a Shia uprising against the IAE forces in Iraq. A section of the Kurds might actaually join in. This is the scenario the British have been preparing for (they have emergency evacuation plans for Basra ready).
US forces are already over-streached in the Middle-East (hence the NATO takeover of operations in Afghanistan). No doubt, the USN can conduct strikes on Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria - all together if need be - and the US forces in Iraq can be augmented (in particular by units taken from other theaters), but none of that is a workable solution to a major Shia vs. US flareup. The IAE does most definitely not have the forces to attack Iran on the ground.
My hope is that US military commanders, who are fully aware of all this, will use leaks to the press to prevent this scenario from unfolding (as I believe that they have already done a couple of months ago when the puppeteers of the ape in the White House were considering air strikes on Iran). Sad as this may be, they are our last and only hope to stop the administration from going ahead with even more folly.
The French have an expression which I like: "la fuite en avant" which means "the flight forward". This is what a person does when instead of stopping and turning back from a clearly self-destructive path one chooses to run forward even faster towards the inevitable outcome in the deluded hope that this will help. This is exactly what the IAE has done by actually stepping *UP* its agression against Lebanon in the last 24 hours and this is, no doubt, what the administration is contemplating now. As the Germans say:"wenn es mit Gewalt nicht geht, dann geht es mit mehr Gewalt" or "if violence does not do the trick, more violence will". This is exactly the core belief of the IAE.
Currently, there are 120'000+ US 'hostages' in Iraq and that needs to be addressed before the IAE strikes. My bet is that the administration is considering switching alliances and dump the current Shia government Iraq for the non-Jihadi Sunni Resistance, in other words for the former Baathists. A covert alliance between the Baathists and the IAE against the Shia and the Wahabi Jihadists makes sense. Heck - this is why the US supported Saddam for decades! This is also the 'grand idea' of those who want to 'put a wedge between Iran and Syria'.
In the obtuse minds of the neocons a Middle-East with the IAE using Baathists dictatorships in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon against the Shias would make a war against Iran much more doable.
Unless, of course, Hezbollah really turns the tide. The IAE understands this and this is why they are fighting with such desperate determination.
VS
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Remember the news a few
Remember the news a few months ago about the "secret" plan to build the largest US embassy on the planet in Iraq? And of course since Turkey has been so much trouble lately, Iraq is as good as any other place to put in a large air base. Why would we want an airbase in Iraq? Well, it makes it easier to bomb the Iraqis but we can also bomb the Iranians. That'll keep the bomb makers happy and they'll continue to support the republican and democrat parties.
I know a few military officers out there who are afraid they'd get an order to attack Iran - as far as they're concerned Iran is no threat and any aggression just drags us back to the bad old days of the revolution, when Iranians had good reason to fight us. Besides, they're the ones who have to write all the letters about how someone's son/daughter died out there - the Bushmonkey couldn't care less - soldiers just aren't his class of people - they're mere toys to be sent out to protect his interests and the interests of his buddy Rumsfeld.
Re: DemocracyNow! and the coming attack on Iran?
Yes, it has huge risks, that's for sure.
But again, if that report is true, what other reason would the US have for telling Israel to launch a Syrian strike that they know would start a wider, regional war?
In some ways Bush may feel compelled by politics. He knows the Republicans will get hammered in the mid-term elections -- an attack would likely have the rally-round-the-flag effect.
And Bush has to know that he's losing in Iraq. Something has to be done in that war to break the status quo -- even the Pentagon knows that.
An Iranian campaign could deal with both of those problems.
Sure, the Shia would likely revolt in Iraq. But with world attention drawn to Iran, the US would/could unleash huge amounts of firepower and lay waste to anyone that opposes them in Iraq. And as we know, that sort of raw "kill 'em all" tactics are the only thing the US military is good at.
The Kurds? They wouldn't oppose the US -- that'd be foolish of them. They'd stick by the US and at worst they'd use the chaos to declare their independence. Turkey would go ballistic over that and could invade, but the Kurds would seek US backing in any such move.
Oh yeah, there are huge risks. But the war criminals in Washington believe in military power, and those fools just might roll those dice. IMHO, all the signs are pointing at it.
Quote:The Kurds? They
well maybe, but the Kurds also need to consider whether they should count on the US to secure their independence against the Truks and the Sunni. Also - remember that Chalabi was used by Iran to draw the US into Iraq and topple Saddam. Lastly, there are quite a few Shia Kurds. I am not saying that the Kurds will fight the IAE, but I am saying that their position is not as clear as might seem.
You are very much correct about the 'kill them all' type of tactics the US will use against any opponents should the Shia truly rise up against the IAE. I just do not think that it will make the USA prevail.
But yeah - an attack on Syria does look very possible right now.
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Serious question for vees.
Could we stop all these problems in the Middle East by contaminating a small oilfield with something that has a short half life? Would the Rulers that own those fields step in and stop the troublemakers? The Rulers need the money from those fields to pay their armies that keep them in power.
what causes these wars is
what causes these wars is not oil, but ideologies such as Jewish Zionism and American messianic imperial dreams. and simple plain old racism too, of course
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There's a lot of truth to
There's a lot of truth to that statement.
But the simple phrase "imperial dreams" masks a key factor: economics, or, if you want to think of it that way, wealth.
Think about oil. The Arabs have no industry to speak of (not compared to the US, Europe, East Asia, etc.). The Arabs will happily sell us oil -- they can't drink the stuff.
Like any good merchant, the Arabs want a high price for their oil. But also like any smart merchant, they're very aware that charging too high of a price hurts both their customers and themselves -- and they're not stupid.
Look at today's high oil prices. Some of the increase in oil prices are due to the continual decline in the US dollar due to suicidal US economic and budget policies.
The Saudis, for example, import huge amounts of goods from Europe and the dollar is declining against the Euro. So the Saudis (etc.) raise the price of oil -- which is priced in dollars -- so they can keep a steady amount of "purchasing power" for a given barrel of oil. But that dynamic only accounts for some of the increase in the price of oil.
After all, oil is now so expensive that the Canadian tar sands are economically viable.
The huge amounts of Venezuelan "super heavy oil" can be pumped and refined and sold at a profit. That now makes the country with the largest proven oil reserves -- by far -- to be Venezuela.
Do you think the Saudis or Iranians want that?! Of course not.
But who benefits by the oil policies of the US empire?
ExxonMobil and the other giant oil corporations are raking in all-time record profits, quarter after quarter. They love Bush's oil policies! 'Nuff said.
And who else benefits from the economic policies of the US?
Well, the rich not only have their taxes cut but they also make big bucks investing in US bonds to fund Bush's deficits.
And due to the fact that oil is priced only in US dollars in the London and NY oil markets, the giant elite of US banks make huge "transaction fees" for doing nothing.
The Iranians threaten this racket since they are creating their own oil market pricing oil in Euros. Is it any surprise the US now has a "problem" (but no evidence!) with Iran's imaginary nuclear weapons program?
If we mention the word "empire" we must also think immediately of economics and cui bono (who benefits)?
That "economic cui bono" idea may not be the only factor, but history proves it is always a huge factor and is one that should be immediately considered.
3 'vectors' of US decision making
IntnsRed,
not to dispute anything you wrote, but I still want to look at it from a different angle.
I used to do analysis profesionally for many years and with some of my collegues we always tried to make sense of US policies which, on the face of it, often appeard illogical or even countradictory. One day, however, I was reminded of my math classes in junior high when we studied vectors. Suddenly US policies began to make sense because they were nothing else than the 'resulting vector' from three main vectors or, in other words, three lobbies:
1) the Zionist lobby (notice: *NOT* the Jewish lobby as I do not believe that there is one unified 'Jewish' lobby out there)
2) the oil lobby
3) the military-industrial lobby (which includes the bloated intelligence/security community)
Pretty much all major US policies after WW2, and most definitely after Carter, can be explained as the resulting vector of the interests of these three major (but not only) lobbies.
Even individuals in the administration can be traced right back to these three lobbies like, say, Cheney (military industrial), Wolfowitz/Perle (Zionists) or the Bush klan (oil). Try finding someone not affiliated to any of these three!
But the most important questions is which of the three prevails when their interests diverge?
I think that there is no doubt at all that the current US policies in the Middle-East are solely advantageous to the Zionists.
The oil lobby cannot be happy with the way things are going. Think of it: the Shia control Iranian oil, they will control Iraqi oil thanks to the idiotic war against Saddam, the Shia in Saudi Arabia are observing all this (there is NO oil in the Sunni parts of Saudi Arabia at all). The oil lobby was conned by the Zionists into hoping that it would get the oil in Iraq but now it has become clear that this will not happen and they now it.
The military-industrial lobby? Well, these wars as any other war is good for creating more military related contracts and for creating a sense of fear which rallies people around the flag. But that will hold true only as long as the economy holds. Not even the USA can sustain massive, bloated, humongous military expenditures in a suffering economy and the increase in the prices of oil is only absorbable that long before a recession looms. Ok, a recession is a good time to inject money into the economy by way of military contrats, but that is only true as long as borrowing is sustainable and that the rest of the world is willing to finance it. So I would say that while the military-industrial complex is doing ok so far, it cannot afford too much of a mess in the Middle-East before things start going south.
As for the Zionist lobby it is basking in total bliss. It managed to con the US into supporting policies which are HUGELY detrimnental to the US and the only thing which the so called 'opposition' (the democrats) can come up with is trying to appear even MORE pro-Zionist than the Republicans (hence the pathetic crap about "we are all Israelis" and the boycott of Iraq's Prime Minister).
Misused as it has been by various bigots and racists, the acronym ZOG as in 'Zionist Occupation Government" has a lot of truth to it, in particular if you drop the 'occupation' part which is really nonsense.
What do you think? Does this 'vector' model make sense? Do you agree when I place the Zionists on top of the political establishment? Or do you, like Chomsky, believe that Israel actually does what the USA wants it to do. Who is the dog and who is the tail and who is waggin whom here?
VS
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I have yet to see any
I have yet to see any evidence of a "zionist lobby". The USA would not be involved with Israel until Golde Meier organized very disparate Jewish communities - that was to recognize Israel as a sovereign state (most members of the UN declared that Israel was not legitimate because it had stolen land from the arabs and terrorized the local communities). And since then we've provided them with armaments (although this was kept secret for a long time). Perle and Wolfowitz are definitely nasty zionist types, but I just don't see any conspiracy to put people like that into our government, and none to control it. It just happens that there are a few bad jews in there at the moment. AND we have a supreme moron for a leader - he's so damned stupid he can't tell the Israeli government to stop killing the Lebanese allegedly over the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Unfortunately there are too many bad jews in the Israeli government at the moment too - things just went downhill after they killed Rabin.
Quote:Perle and Wolfowitz
who spoke of conspiracy? as a good (Jewish) friend of mine says, 'most so-called conspiracies are mostly just the result of collusion'. there are no oil or military-industrial conspiracies either, only groups of people with common agendas and interests promoting their policies.
I do not imagine you are simply denying the reality of the Zionist lobby in congress (but if you are here is some recent scholarly research into this issue: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011). As for the White House, well, I would be very much interested in hearing your interpretation for such facts as Dubya calling Sharon a 'man of peace', or the US sending more bombs to Israel while claiming to seek a 'sustainable peace' or even the Democrats pathetic inability to criticize Israel. Speaking of which: do you know that the USA alone as more vetoes in the UNSC than all other nations combined and that a large amounts of those are cast on behalf of Israel against almost every other nation on earth?
Dubya being a moron (which he definitely is, no argument here) does not, IMHO, explain all this.
What is your explanation?
VS
PS: Rabin. Yes he got killed by a religious extremist. But do you remember that this is the very same Rabin who as chief of staff gave the totally surreal order "break the arms" of Palestinians? Look it up on the net - there is plenty of info about this. AFTER that he got the Nobel Peace Prize (with Arafat of all other peace-loving doves)
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I haven't read all the post
I haven't read all the post (yet), but here are my suggestions.
An excellent blog is one called Lenin's Tomb.
http://www.leninology.blogspot.com/
Democracy Now is excellent, as is Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
New Left Review
http://newleftreview.co.uk/
and not forgetting Znet
http://www.zmag.org/
For Latin America, NarcoNews
http://narconews.com/
Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
"Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it."
Hi anticapitalista, its good
Hi anticapitalista, its good to see you again!
GREAT list! Thanks a lot. I knew only about half of them so you really made my day.
Sitting here, inside the Empire's Homeland, I often feel like on a different planet (even NPR has gone nuts) and were it not for the newsources on the Internet I would drown in rising tide of crass ignorance drowing everything here :-))
Evkharisto!
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Hi there again vees. Glad
Hi there again vees.
Glad you liked the list, I'm sure there are lots more out there too. Here are some blogs you might be interested in:
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://www.lecolonelchabert.blogspot.com/
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
News from the Arab side:
http://www.imemc.org/audio/index.htm
Remember though, while it is good to read all this stuff, the point is activity to change the situation as some bearded German guy wrote about 100 years ago.
Agitate, educate, organise.
"Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it."
Quote:Remember though, while
Iassu filos mou, tikanis? (-: is that about correct? :-)
I very much agree. posting articles here is just one thing I do :-)
I sent some money to Democracynow.org a couple of days ago. I simply cannot imagine a more important and valuable thing to do than what Amy Goodmand does: trying to tell the truth to Americans and make them understand what is going on. We all *need* simple Americans on our side.
I have lived in the USA for a total of 10 years now (in different streches). I find Americans usually kind, gentle, compassionate and extremely friendly. How sad that their government's policies make them look hypocritcal, evil, rude, and totally immoral. What Amy Goodman is doing is trying to show to Americans what is done in their name, with their tax money and that, I believe is really crucial.
After looking for a long while I have conluded that the Free Software Foundation, the Debian Project and Democracynow! are the three most important and valuable endeavors to 'change the world' as you would put it as 'changing the USA' is what the world most needs today.
What do you see as the most important place we can help to make a difference?
Kind regards,
VS
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Well vees, Milas kai grafeis
Well vees,
Milas kai grafeis kala sta ellinika. Kai sta anglika.
I'm not anti-American at all. In fact on the recent anti-war demos here in Greece the group I'm involved in were the only ones to shout the slogan.(sounds really awful in English)
"Worlwide resistance to War and Imperialism"
The point being that many groups here are very anti-American and shout slogans;
"Americans -Murderers of the people"
and we want to stress that the American people are the SOLUTION to the problem, not the cause.
As a Marxist I belive that real change can only come about through the overthrow of the social, economic and poltical order of capitalism and the social class that will do so is the world working class.
I don't ignore the free software foundation and its great work, Debian included, but I don't think that that is where the real battle ground is against capitalism.
Democracy Now is a great source of information and desreves support.
"Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it."
of ideologies & one more interesting source
we want to stress that the American people are the SOLUTION to the problem, not the cause.
well, for the time being Americans are surely also part of the problem nowadays. just think of the election (not 're-election' since the first time Gore won) of Bush. Voting for such an ape after he stole the first election AND because of his 'values' very much makes a person the cause of many horrors. Like the Israelis who elect war criminals like Sharon BTW.
what I believe in is that Americans MUST become part of the solution.
As a Marxist I belive that real change can only come about through the overthrow of the social, economic and poltical order of capitalism and the social class that will do so is the world working class.
No offence intended, by I really cannot support violence in any shape, including any 'overthrow' unless that 'overthrow' is achieved without violence. furthermore, Marxism states that there is such thing as 'class consciousness' and that, say, rich American Jews *cannot* empathize with poor Lebanese Arabs. I really do not believe that is the case. Heck - look at Che Guevara: he came from a rich Argentinian urban bourgeois family of Spanish origin and he fought for poor, Indian and destitute non-Argentinians.
Also - what does the concept 'working class' mean today and, more importantly, whom does this concept NOT include? This concept implies that somebody will never struggle for justice simply because of his social position. I do not believe that is correct.
Lastly - what can we do to change the world?
I personally have become totally disgusted with all 'traditional' politics and ideologies. A Russian saint once said "save yourself and thousands will be saved around you". I believe that this is true. Roger Waters wrote that 'each small candle lights a corner of the dark' and I also agree with this. Think globally - act locally is another one I like. One way to act locally (not in a geographical sense, but in a conceptual sense) is to support free software and, in particular, those who are on the frontline of the struggle for such free software: the FSF and Debian.
Other than that - I believe in rejecting propaganda, saying the truth, and seeking to act with decency. Simple stuff for sure, but far better than joining all those whose struggles end up killing others, no?
What Amy Goodman and DemocracyNow! do is probably the single most important thing to change the world by changing the USA. By speaking the truth on 500+ radio and TV channels on a daily basis will inevitably become an eye opener for anyone willing to listen, maybe even in Texas ;-))
Listening to the American corporate media or even to NPR and then to DemocracyNow! makes you think that you hear reports from two different planets. Which of course is the case: the former reports come from the conceptual planet of the Israeli-American Empire while the latter reports come from the real world.
Kind regards,
VS
PS: another interesting newsource is the very pro-Israeli website http://www.debka.com/ who has good access to the Israeli security establishment. Well worth a daily visit IMHO.
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