Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Rense.com
2nd February, 2009
Is there intelligent life in Washington, DC? Not a speck of it.
The US economy is imploding, and Obama is being led by his government of neconservatives and Israeli agents into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the US into confrontation with Russia, and possibly China, American’s largest creditor.
The January payroll job figures reveal that last month 20,000 Americans lost their jobs every day.
In addition, December’s job losses were revised up by 53,000 jobs from 524,000 to 577,000. The revision brings the two-month job loss to 1,175,000. If this keeps up, Obama’s promised three million new jobs will be wiped out by job losses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
This question is the crux of the matter for the collapsing empire: which of its enemies will allow it to resupply its armies in Afghanistan? They have just decided it is Iran.
PressTV
3rd February, 2009
NATO says member states can use Iran as a safe supply path to forces in Afghanistan, amid increasing attacks on its routes through Pakistan.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
TEHRAN, December 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has started the supplies of components for S-300 air defense systems to Iran, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.
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Posted by smeddum on December 1, 2008
Ahmadinejad blasts West
Web posted at: 11/30/2008 5:52:4
Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday called for developing an alternative economy in the face of the “total failure” of socialism and capitalism.
Addressing the plenary session of the International Conference on Financing for Development here, Ahmadinejad hit out against the “capitalist bloc”.
“Knowing (the problem) is the best way to address the problem. The capitalist bloc is facing an impasse in its philosophical, cultural and economic arena”, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
15th november, 2008
Ever since 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has been suspended between two possible outcomes: on the one hand, a reinforced US hegemony and on the other a sort of counter-globalisation movement at the core of which lay the reassertion of national sovereignty in the face of empire. Even as the coalition got bogged down in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrifying possibility remained of an escalation towards global war provoked by an attack on Iran, and at certain points this scenario may have been a lot closer to becoming a reality than the wider world realized. In addition, the collapse of the Anglo-American financial system opened the possibility of a wave of financial chaos spreading out from the imperial heartlands destabilising the world economy and inaugurating a neo-feudal dark age. The aggressive and arrogant stance of Washington and London and doubts about European leadership, in particular, left one fearing what further cards the empire had left to play. That has now been clarified: they have none.
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Posted by seumasach on November 9, 2008
“Obviously, how we approach and deal with a country like Iran is not something that we should, you know, simply do in a knee-jerk fashion.” said Obama, reacting in knee-jerk fashion
“Obama, speaking at his first press conference since winning Tuesday’s presidential election, also said the Islamic Republic must stop supporting “terrorist organizations.”
I would suggest that it is Anglo-america which has to stop supporting terrorist organisations.
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable’: Obama
iraq-war.ru
CHICAGO (AFP) — US President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and he would “respond appropriately” to a congratulatory letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Latin America’s New Consensus
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 11, 2008
Dealing with Iran’s Not-So-Irrational Leadership Monthly Review 17/09/08
by Kouross Esmaeli and Ramin Karimian
Nothing expresses the widening gap between the mind frames of the Iranian ruling elite and their Western counterparts more than the headlines in their respective newspapers. The American media, above all, have unilaterally resolved the intelligence questions over Iran’s nuclear program. The New York Times leads the pack with articles and even editorials that assume Iran is building a nuclear bomb.1 The American media, once again, are doing damage control for their President — in this case, for the Bush Administration’s embarrassing Iran policy, especially after the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate’s assessment that Iran abandoned its weapons program in 2003. Western reporting on Iran’s nuclear program is based on the underlying assumption that the Iranians are irrational in their policy-making, therefore Iran is a nation with whom diplomacy is a waste of time. A nuclear Iran has been framed by the Israeli hawks as an “existential threat,” the framing adopted by the American media as well: Iran is a suicide-bombing nation. If allowed to build a nuclear bomb, they will strap it on and destroy Israel even if it means the destruction of their own country and its 70 million inhabitants.2 The logical way to deal with such irrational self-destructive characters is to preempt them by destroying them. This logic looms behind Western news about Iran and remains a possible rationale for a military attack on the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 27, 2008
Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for AIPAC
by Jim Lobe Antiwar.com
In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the so-called “Israel Lobby,” the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has decided to shelve a long-pending, albeit nonbinding, resolution that called for President George W. Bush to launch what critics called a blockade against Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2008
Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike
Sat Sep 6, 2008 8:02am
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by France’s president that the Islamic Republic was taking a dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike.
Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham accused Israel of threatening global peace but reiterated Tehran’s publicly stated view that it was not in a position to attack Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 3, 2008
NAM backs Iran’s right to acquire peaceful nuclear energy
Posted: 2008/08/02
Mathaba
The 15th meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement ”NAM” foreign ministers wound up on Wednesday releasing a final statement and two documents on Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities and the Zimbabwe crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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