Archive for June, 2009

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/06/25/mccain-graham-clamor-for-punishing-iran-sanctions/

McCain, Graham Clamor for Punishing Iran Sanctions

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/24/hamid_dabshai_on_iran_protests_this

Hamid Dabashi on Iran Protests: “This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement”

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/06/24/israel-and-neocons-selling-regime-change-again-this-time-its-iran/

Israel and Neocons: Selling Regime Change Again (This Time, Iran)

Stay Out of Iran’s Evolutionary Process

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/06/24/stay-out-of-irans-evolutionary-process/

Everyone is looking for something to say about Iran. The neoconservatives are predictably hailing the march of democracy on the streets of Tehran for reasons of their own, while hawks like Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham are calling on the Obama Administration to do something to help anyone tagged as a reformer. More moderate voices are generally supporting President Barack Obama’s initial show of restraint, avoiding any open support of either side, and only condemning the violence because it is disproportionate and due to the suffering it has caused. Still others are calling on the United States to avoid any interference of any kind. The non-interventionists themselves fall into two camps: the constitutionalists and libertarians believe that interfering in other people’s quarrels is intrinsically problematical because as John Quincy Adams said, “America does not need to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Realists argue that interventions by the United States rarely turn out well, citing the cases of Vietnam, Bosnia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Somalia and more.

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Call for Phillip Giraldi about Pretext for War with Iran:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxCDBn0g5PE&feature=PlayList&p=58909AA4FCFDB567&index=0&playnext=1

Additional at the following URL:

http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot.com/2008/12/call-for-phillip-giraldi-about-pretext.html

http://tinyurl.com/bcoje8

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a $106 billion measure to fulfill his plans to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up operations in Afghanistan where fighting against militants is intensifying.

The bill contains $79.9 billion to continue funding the two wars through September 30. It was also loaded up with extras like $7.7 billion to address the H1N1 flu pandemic, and $1.4 billion in foreign aid for Pakistan, which is fighting Taliban militants spilling over the border from Afghanistan.

The measure was nearly derailed by Obama’s request for money to close the controversial U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as for $108 billion in credit lines to back the International Monetary Fund as it helps countries weather the global economic downturn.——————————————————————————-

Congress passes $106 billion to continue the wars for Israel

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=108043

http://israel-palestinenews.blogspot.com/2009/06/israeli-shackling-of-detainees-torture.html

Israeli shackling of detainees ‘torture’

The Chickenhawks Are Back

http://original.antiwar.com/hadar/2009/06/22/the-chickenhawks-are-back/

Much has been said and written in recent days about the way the demonstrators in Tehran have been utilizing new kinds of “social media” to challenge the Iranian theocratic regime. Protesters blog, post to Facebook, and most intriguingly, coordinate their protests on Twitter, the messaging service.

On Twitter, young Iranians and their supporters post reports and links to photos from demonstrations along with accounts of street fighting and casualties around the country. So will this revolution be twitted?

http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2009/06/22/neocons-paint-obama-as-weak-on-rogues/

http://www.ericmargolis.com/political_commentaries/seeing-through-all-the-propaganda-about-iran.aspx

SEEING THROUGH ALL THE PROPAGANDA ABOUT IRAN

Eric S. Margolis   22 June 2009  

WASHINGTON – Iran ’s political crisis continues to blaze.  It’s still impossible to say which leaders or factions will emerge victorious, but one thing is certain: the earthquake in the Islamic Republic is shaking the Mideast and deeply confusing everyone, including the US government.

Highlighting the complexity of this crisis, Meir Dagan, the head of Israel ’s intelligence agency, Mossad, reportedly voiced his hope that Iran ’s embattled president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would remain in office.  On the surface, that sounds absurd, since Ahmadinejad is Israel ’s Great Satan.

But, according to Dagan, if Ahmadinejad’s supposedly `moderate’ rival, Mir Hossein  Mousavi,  came to power, it would be harder for Israel to keep up its propaganda war against Iran over Tehran ’s nuclear program. 

Besides, added the Mossad chief, the devil you know is better.

Meanwhile, we have been watching an intensifying western propaganda campaign against Iran , mounted by the US and British governments.  What we hear is commentary and analysis that comes from bitterly anti-regime Iranian exiles, `experts’ with an ax to grind, and US pro-Israel neocons yearning for war with Iran .

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Obama to fund anti-govt. elements in Iran: Report

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=99232&sectionid=3510203

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/23/age-of-twitter-vs-tyranny/

 Tuesday , June 23 , 2009

Age of Twitter vs. tyranny

Arnaud de Borchgrave

Until recently , a twitter was simply a bird making high-pitched mating calls. Now Twitter is in the vanguard of an army of cybernauts whose speedy steeds are propelling both democratic and authoritarian governments through a period of social change more profound than anything we have experienced in 5 , 000 years of recorded history.

Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , My Space , YouTube , MySpace , LinkedIn , Web blogs , Podcasts , Stumbleupon , Technorati , Social Wheehz , Stunt Pilot , instant messaging , social networking , Web sites , in short what Web 2.0 is spawning with hundreds of millions of users. And all this is but a pixel on the “Web’s edge , ” according to the engineers building Web 3.0 , the Internet of 2020 and beyond.

Twitter , now almost 3 years old , has graduated from the banal to a geopolitical convulsion; it has already shaken Iran ‘s regime of aging theocrats to its foundations. Limited to 140 characters per tweet , put down by detractors as cackle prattle , Twitter demonstrated it can mobilize hundreds of thousands for street demonstrations against a despotic regime.

Inconsequential social networking became instant social mobilization – and sources of reporting for television networks whose correspondents were ordered to pack their gear and fly home. But seven in 10 Iranians owns a mobile and 35 out of 100 use the Internet , which is more than Greece .

Did Obama Blink—Again?

By Jeff Gates

http://criminalstate.com/blog/?p=79