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This article on the various actors pushing for war on Iran raised a question that has been in the back of my mind for a long time. To quote: It has to be asked: What is the media‘s interest in pushing for war? For the war on Iraq, they claimed that they were misled; what [...]

War on Iran. Dramatis Personea

Let’s see, before a war begins on Iran, who the culprits may be. There are the Likudniks, of course. Is Richard Pearle still around? I vaguely recall seeing him, though I avoid MSM typically. Neo-cons are everywhere, as always; god bless them!, The Israeli think tanks, AIPAC pundits, Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch’s/Fox’s Roger Ailes. All [...]

George Galloway, on three hot topics: Iraq, Palestine and Iran. An excellent show. A book-end on the American war in Iraq; on the historical creation of an Israeli identity, including an interview with Arthur Neslen, the author of the books “Occupied Minds: A Journey Through Israeli Psyche”, and “In Your Eyes: A Sandstorm” about Palestinian [...]

The mighty, mighty Chris Hayes covered the end of the Iraq War in a recent episode of his Up (With Chris Hayes) show. It was the only US show not to have its head up (no pun) its ass with respect to the war on Iraq. They even talked to an actual Iraqi, in Iraq! [...]

Another Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated. Juxtapose this with the recent, comical allegations against an Iranian-American used-care salesman–that he plotted with some drug traffickers to kill some Saudi ambassador or something! The media’s tacit acquiescence with the former, and hysteria for the latter. United States, for whom Pakistani civilians are “Bugsplat”–drone fodder–and Iraqi dead [...]

Really? Is this it? Is this the guy? Monsieur Moneybags? This is the guy who financially props up AIPAC? AIPAC’s sugar daddy? Is he why US political candidates say what they do? The reason why US policy is so is because of slot machines? So Las Vegas’s Sands casino is why a foreign leader gets [...]

Suicide bombers in Syria?!!! Are you fcking kidding me?!! To Westerners this might seem ‘normal’ for Arabs/Muslims. But it is about as normal as Shia-Sunni internecine slaughter was in Iraq! Iraq is a tribal society, with one’s clan being far more important. AFAIK, intermarriage was widespread across the various sects and religions. (Let’s not forget [...]

“When you close your eyes, you see unheard pain.” And untold horror. Loss that tears into me, and leaves me empty. The unbearable pain that does not kill. There are creatures which live on our eyelids, and demons which live beneath; every night, they crawl out. We go on, with a full view of each [...]

Years ago, I read the book “The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth”, by Gar Alperovitz, (Knopf,  1995). Basically, what I was looking for was found right in the Intro– that the massacre of Hiroshima’s people had nothing to do with a supposedly intransigent Imperial Japan, let alone Nagasaki’s. [...]

This ought not be a surprise: Iran tricked the stealth drone’s navigation systems into safely landing within Iran. Just what the hell are US and Israel thinking! Computer systems are, almost by definition, hard to secure. And it takes very little to develop expertese in them. You just need brains and some basic computing resources; [...]