The Doctor, Depleted Uranium and Dying Children
June 7, 2008
A documentary exposing how the US/UK have poisoned Iraq with their use of weapons tipped with depleted uranium a.k.a. nuclear waste. What kind of sick society, instead of disposing of its nuclear waste in the normal regulated fashion, turns it into a bomb to be exploded in someone elses country? Blair and Bush will hang for their war crimes as will their associates. Watch them drop, live on the Fanonite.
The US Trump to Avoid a Dollar Collapse
March 13, 2008
Iraq, writes Alberto Cruz of Centro de Estudios Políticos para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Desarollo (CEPRID) in today’s guest editorial, is ‘the US trump to avoid a dollar collapse.’
Do you remember the proposal of Iran and Venezuela to OPEC in October 2007 on the need to open a debate in the organization about whether or not to continue using the dollar as the payment currency for a barrel of oil? That proposal which caused such a fuss among some people, describing Ahmedinejad and Chavez as histrionic, turns out to be up for formal discussion according to the organization’s president, Chakib Khelil. OPEC will do so at a time when Iran, one of its most important members, has already stopped all trading in dollars by setting up its own oil exchange. Likewise, Qatar has announced a reduction in its reserve of dollars in favour of other currencies like the Euro. The United Arab Emirates is expected to do the same in May this year.
Iran’s President Is Smiling
March 8, 2008
…Mosaic Tells Us Why. ‘This week’s Mosaic Intelligence Report from Link TV takes a look at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq, where he was greeted with smiles and red carpets, and explains how Ahmadinejad has “outmaneuvered” President Bush everywhere in the Middle East (except Israel).’
Iran Wins, Again!
March 7, 2008
‘As alliances shift, Iran wins. Again’, writes Pepe Escobar. (and thanks Ann, again!)
It’s no secret that a great deal of the alleged success of the George W Bush adminstration’s “surge” - or at least the way it’s being spun in the US - is related to a diminished flow of Iranian-made weapons towards militias in Iraq. The weapons anyway were being sold by Iranian and or Gulf black market dealers - and not by the central establishment in Tehran.
At the same time, the publication of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in the US virtually debunked the idea that Iran was conducting a secret nuclear program for military use.
France Catches Colonial Fever
February 11, 2008
When you have a dead people, anyone can come and piss on you. Even those who until recently were being described by their (neocon) friends as ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’. From Link TV (via TruthDig).
The Mosaic Intelligence Report investigates France’s aggressive new push to involve itself in the Middle East. The French have signed a deal to set up a permanent military base in the Persian Gulf region, the first such facility controlled by a Western nation that isn’t led by George W. Bush.
How did a former colonial power that knew better than to back the Iraq invasion become so interested in sending troops to the Middle East? You’ll have to ask Nicholas Sarkozy, or watch the video below.
Leader and Vassal
January 17, 2008
Paul Craig Roberts speaks about the Israel lobby and its vassal, ‘Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims‘.
After pandering to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s right-wing government last week, US president George W. Bush carried the Israeli/neoconservative campaign against Iran to Arab countries. Sounding as authentic as the “Filipino Monkey,” Bush told the Arab countries that “Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror,” and that “Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere.”
To no effect. Every country in the world, except America, knows by now that the US is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror and that the neoconservative drive for US hegemony over the world threatens the security of nations everywhere. But before we get into this, let’s first see what Bush means by “terrorist” and Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism.
The End of the Road for George W. Bush
January 17, 2008
Chris Hedges on Bush’s Middle-East caper.
The Gilbert and Sullivan charade of statesmanship played out by George W. Bush and his enabler, Condoleezza Rice, as they wander the Middle East is a fitting end to seven years of misrule. Despots stripped of power are transformed from monsters into buffoons. And this is the metamorphosis that is eating away at the Bush presidency.
Bush stood in Jerusalem, uncomfortable and palpably bored. He mouthed platitudes about a peace settlement that mocked the humanitarian crisis he aided and abetted in Gaza, the rapacious land grab by Israel in the West Bank and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The diminished George Bush, increasingly irrelevant at home and abroad, is fading into insignificance. A year from now one half expects to see him stand up at the next president’s inauguration and screech “I’m melting! I’m melting!” as he sinks into a puddle of slime. He will return, I expect, to his ranch, where he will be able to spend the rest of his life doing the only task for which he has shown any aptitude—cutting down brush with a chain saw.
Bloody Reality and Presidential Delusions
January 16, 2008
‘Bloody reality bears no relation to the delusions of this President’, writes Robert Fisk. ‘As a bomb explodes in Beirut and Israel kills 19 in Gaza raids, Bush takes his Middle East peace mission to Saudi Arabia (and signs off $20bn weapons deal with repressive regime)’
Twixt silken sheets – in a bedroom whose walls are also covered in silk – and in the very palace of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President George Bush awakes this morning to confront a Middle East which bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning which he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.
The President sat chummily beside the all-too-friendly monarch yesterday, enthroned in what looked suspiciously like the kind of casual blue cardigan he might wear on his own Texan ranch; he had even received a jangling gold “Order of Merit” – it looked a bit like the Lord Chancellor’s chain, though it was not disclosed which particular merit earned Mr Bush this kingly reward. Could it be the hypocritical merit of supplying yet more billions worth of weapons to the Kingdom, to be used against the Saudi regime’s imaginary enemies.
An Open Letter to George W. Bush
January 14, 2008
This is quite interesting. The media in UAE is very tightly monitored; there is no way this could have appeared without the tacit approval of the authorities. In the past I would have thought this conspicuous note of dissent was merely a means of mollifying the general public, but in this case this would seem highly unlikely as it would only make the establishment appear more distant. I think this signals a clear break, and that is a welcome development. (cheers Samer)
In an unusual style, the Dubai-based Gulf News published today a front page editorial addressing the American President George W. Bush. The editorial, in the form of an open ‘Letter to George W. Bush’ read: ‘Dear Mr. President, On the occasion of your first official trip to this vital region, it is only appropriate to raise a few points which might also be raised by the leaders you meet. Unfortunately, you landed here with prejudice and pre-formed opinions. By describing Israel, moments after you arrived, as the ‘land of freedom’ and ‘justice’, you have shown total ignorance of the political situation in the Middle East and the issue you claim to want to solve in the remaining 12 months of your presidency. Israel, Mr. President, continues to defy every UN resolution, exercise unprecedented oppression on the occupied Palestinian people and persecute its Muslim and Christian population..
‘We realise that containing Iran, selling more weapons and securing cheap oil supplies are the main issues on your mind as you tour the region. But you need to look beyond the neocon rhetoric and speak directly to the people who have been unjustly thrown out of their land, victimised for decades by your ’strong ally’ Israel.
Iraqi Women Liberated
December 31, 2007
Rejoice colonial feminists. You have liberated Iraqi women both from their country, and their dignity.
I have already witnessed the women of Afghanistan face the same fate as a result of never ending war. Now courtesy of the feminists who cheered on Bush’s armies, we have Iraqis subjected to the same indignities. I hope I am not the only one revolted by the sight of the Gulf Arabs who enabled this war through material assistance now swoop in like vultures on their morally emaciated prey.
