Le mal de l'axe

Robert Ménard doesn’t run a humanitarian association. RSF is an organization at the service of Washington, the Venezuelan oligarchy and the powerful of the world.

Reporters without Borders against Venezuela, Salim Lamrani, 1er février 2008

... it now becomes appallingly clear why Bush, Gates and Cheney bluster so extremely about nuclear strikes. Their holsters are otherwise empty and they are militarily overextended.

Any sane government would adopt a cautious approach to such a painful impasse, but not the White House. Why not? Because US military aggression in the Middle East is dictated entirely by Israeli fanatics in the White House; who also own the entirety of the American media. Rationality and global responsibility do not enter the Middle East power equation. The UN must come to terms with the frightening reality that, if Israel was an actual person, he would be locked up as criminally insane and psychotically paranoid.

Meanwhile, it is well known that some US Generals will veto any nuclear attack against Iran; realising as they do, that this would turn almost every surviving human being on the planet against America; US puppet western governments excepted.

Iran Not Bluffing, Mathaba, 30 janvier 2008

Some kind of war crimes trial [à 7:02]

Olbermann aligne la chronologie des appels à la terreur sur l'Iran et la bombe, prouvant que Bush était au courant des conclusions du NIE du 3 décembre dernier dès le début d'Août. Et quelques délicieuses insultes.



Merci Yakir

Chomsky sur l'Iran

Noam Chomsky on U.S. policy towards Iran: [partie 1] Are assumptions about Iran wrong?, The Real News Network, 19 novembre 2007

Lu dans la Pravda

Russian Military Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that one of the United States most secretive spy satellites, the KH-13, targeting Iran was 'destroyed in its orbit' with its main power generator powered by the radioactive isotope Pu-238 surviving re-entry and crashing in a remote region of the South American Nation of Peru, and where hundreds are reported to be ill from radiation poisoning.

[...]

Most astonishing about these reports, however, are that they state that it was the Americans themselves who destroyed their own spy satellite with the attack upon it being made by the United States Air Forces' 30th Space Wing located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This incident further fuels the intrigue involving the United States War Leaders plans to attack Iran in their attempt to engulf the entire Middle East in Total War, but, against which, according to Russian Military Intelligence Analysts, a 'high ranking and significant' faction of the American Military Establishment is opposed to.

[...]

What remains unknown to us, at this time, is what counter-planning the American War Leaders have in store for furthering their war aims against Iran as the United States Military have 'clearly signaled' that it will not allow nuclear weapons to be used, even to the extent of denying to their War Leaders one of their most prized spy satellites used to guide their nuclear cruise missiles to their intended Iranian targets.

American spy satellite downed in Peru as US nuclear attack on Iran thwarted, Sorcha Faal, et tel que rapporté par ses abonnés occidentaux, 20 septembre 2007

Rien à ajouter

L'Akratique est en pause, je fouille sur le blogue de Juan Cole à sa place.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Fox does unto Iran as it Did unto Iraq

Rupert Murdoch wants to kill your 18 year-olds in a fruitless war with Iran. Robert Greenwald's video shows how Faux Cable News is running the same scam on Iran that it ran on Iraq, with side by side footage so you can see the Goebbels techniques at work. Liberals don't like anything that smacks of censorship, but I really think our body public won't be safe from this nefarious media conspiracy until we mount an effective campaign of advertiser boycott against the corporations who underwrite this fascist horse manure.



Fox does unto Iran as it Did unto Iraq, Juan Cole, 23 août 2007

Juifs, pas zionistes

Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.

The incentives — ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families — were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.

However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.

"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."

Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel, Robert Tait, 12 juillet 2007

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Vous n'en pensez pas moins

Imagine that when Hitler was threatening to invade Poland, after having swallowed Czechoslovakia—with the help of the Western European powers' appeasement of Hitler at Munich in September 1938—the League of Nations imposed an arms embargo on Poland, making it more difficult for the imminent victim to defend itself, and at the same time suggested that Poland was the villainous party. That didn’t happen back in 1939, but in a regression from that notorious era of appeasement something quite analogous is happening now.

Here is the United States, still fighting a brutal war of conquest in Iraq, which it is now doing with UN Security Council approval, with open plans and threats to attack Iran and engage in “regime change,” gathering aircraft carriers off the coast of Iran, already engaging in subversive and probing attacks on the prospective target, and the UN Security Council, instead of warning and threatening the aggressor warns, threatens and imposes sanctions on the prospective victim!

Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression [*], Edward S. Herman et David Peterson, 31 mars 2007



* A shorter, standard op-ed length version of this commentary was drafted and submitted very widely across the major U.S. print media—and found to be 100 percent unpublishable.

Le monde à venir

William Thomas, familiar to many for his work in ascertaining the true nature of chemtrails, cites two sources with U.S. and other military contacts who told him that on two recent occasions Israeli fighter bombers armed with both conventional and nuclear weapons were turned back by U.S. planes under threat of missile interception.

The latest incident occurred on January 7th, claims Thomas, in which jets trespassed beyond the authorized zone over Iraq "Before being recalled by Israeli authorities." Sources told Thomas that the attack squadron "Comprised three IAF F-16s. Each carried conventional munitions—as well as a single 20-kiloton nuclear bomb."

Reporter Claims Israeli Nuke Strike On Iran Averted By U.S. Fighters, Paul Watson, 19 janvier 2007

William Blum commence son récent 'Anti-Empire Report' avec la possibilité d'une attaque contre l'Iran, pour poursuivre sur une foule de sujets.

[...] the belief that capitalism defeated socialism in the Cold War. A victory for a superior idea. The boys of Capital chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope that no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the past century has either been corrupted, subverted, perverted, or destabilized ... or crushed, overthrown, bombed, or invaded ... or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movement -- from the Russian Revolution to Cuba, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the FMLN in Salvador, from Communist China to Grenada, Chile and Vietnam -- not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home. Even many plain old social democracies -- such as in Guatemala, Iran, British Guiana, Serbia and Haiti, which were not in love with capitalism and were looking for another path -- even these too were made to bite the dust by Uncle Sam.

The Anti-Empire Report, William Blum, 15 janvier 2007

Et puis personne ne parle du livre de Jimmy Carter en ces terres, alors:


After four decades of Israeli occupation, the infrastructure and superstructure of apartheid have been put in place. Outside the never-never land of mainstream American Jewry and U.S. media this reality is barely disputed. Indeed, already more than a decade ago while the world was celebrating the Oslo Accords, seasoned Israeli analyst and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem Meron Benvenisti observed, "It goes without saying that 'cooperation' based on the current power relationship is no more than permanent Israeli domination in disguise, and that Palestinian self-rule is merely a euphemism for Bantustanization."

The Ludicrous Attacks on Jimmy Carter's Book, Norman Finkelstein, 28 décembre 2006