Follow the Money: Not Just Oil, CASINOS

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 8:34 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 08:34

We know what's been going on among Israel, Iran, and the United States: Mostly, the US has been playing the stooge for Israeli interests who have a bug up their butts about Iran.

With his, "make it about WMD and Americans will get behind a war" line of reasoning, Wolfie taught us to look around and behind the propaganda to discover what the real agenda is. Israel and the US claim Iran must be forced into bankruptcy because it has or wants or secretly tried to get nuclear weapons.

This diary attempts to show that Israel wants oil pipelines and Persian Gulf gambling wealth; is willing to hold a nation of 70 million under threat of terror and economic destabilization in order to acquire those goals, and is not concerned that US interests may be jeopardized in the process of achieving their goals.

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Wednesday May 21, 2008 · 3:57 PM PDT

2008/05/21 · 15:57

This has not been a good week for right-wing ideologues.

Pakistan struck a deal with Taliban.

Defying the taunt of "Appeaser" with which Bush warned Olmert, and the threat of indictment for his relationship with Long Island Rabbi Moshe Talansky that Bibi Netanyahu hopes to use to replace Israel's sitting Prime Minister with his own sweet self, Ehud Olmert is courageously forging ahead with negotiations with Syria for the return of Golan Heights to Syria.

Now comes this news from CASMII, the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran:

Iran presented its proposal for talks with the 5+1 group, entitled, "Package for Constructive Negotiations", to the United Nations.

Before long, think tankers are going to be vying for jobs flipping burgers. And the world will be a better place.

Let's see what Iran has offered:

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 5:21 PM PDT

2008/05/20 · 17:21

As was reported on Jim Lehrer's News Hour this evening, George and Laura Bush expressed concern and extended the American hand of aid and support to China today as the Chinese people and their leaders begin the task of recovering from a significant earthquake that struck southwest China.

Some Chinese parents are complaining bitterly that their children died in a school that was obliterated by the earthquake because the school was shoddily built and was not designed to withstand a predictable disaster.

Although the great majority of Americans do not endorse most of the actions and statements of George Bush, surely all Americans join him in expressing sorrow and compassion to the Chinese people whose children were obliterated in the earthquake in Chengdu.

But how is Iran related to Chengdu?

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Sunday May 18, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/05/18 · 14:24

In 2002 William aka "Weasel" Kristol penned the diatribe extensively quoted below the fold.

He was arguing FOR the proposition that George Bush was standing smack dab on the side of Moral Clarity, truth, justice, the Amerikun way, and presumably apple pie, in leading the United States into a war to remove that thug, that mass murderer, that sovereign ruler of the people of Iraq and former business partner and international ally to Donald Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein.

Kristol was at sixes and sevens-- maybe he was so overwrought as to have been at eights and nines, who knows; but a writer's restraint required that he display just sixes and sevens -- sixes and sevens, the Sabbath number, over this statement:

"Leading Republicans from ... the State Department ... have begun to break ranks with President Bush over his administration's high-profile planning for war with Iraq."

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 7:13 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 19:13

A strong case can be made that George Bush's Appeasement remarks, delivered in Israel's Knesset last week, were a warning directed at Ehud Olmert on behalf of Bibi Netanyahu.

It's difficult to figure out just whose speeches Bush plagiarized in the Knesset last week; Netanyahu has used the lines; so has John Hagee, John McCain's religious go-to guy. There's also the possibility that Bush's repetition of the outrageous tho oft-used statement had a dual purpose: it was aimed at Ehud Olmert as well as at Barack Obama.

If not to issue a warning to Olmert, why did George Bush roll out an ugly old chestnut in Israel's house of government?

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Tuesday April 08, 2008 · 12:59 PM PDT

2008/04/08 · 12:59

As Americans gradually learn more responses to "Why do they hate us" than "They hate us for our freedoms," more and more citizens of the U S A have become aware that the CIA and British Intelligence service collaborated to overthrow Iran's democratically elected, popular leader, Mossadeqh, because he insisted on nationalizing Iran's oil industry, rather than continue to permit Great Britain to take the lion's share of profit from Iran's natural resources.

Stephen Kinzer, author of "All the Shah's Men," the story of that overthrow of a budding democracy, has said of that momentous event,

"I can hardly get my mind around what a difference it would have made if Iran had been a thriving democracy these past 50 years."

But the 1953 overthrow of Mossadeqh was not the first strangling of the hopes and efforts of Iranians to create a democratic state.
Culminating in 1911, a 20+ years long effort by Iranians to establish a constitutional democracy was strangled by the British and Russians.
And in 2008, the US Treasury Department is celebrating its actions aimed at strangling Iran.

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 9:45 AM PDT

2008/04/02 · 09:45

In a conversation with a peace studies professor recently, I showed him the flier the local United Jewish Federation was using to announce an upcoming talk on US-Iran relations.

The focal point of the flier was a flame-colored mushroom cloud on a black background; white block letters on the black ground declared:

Nuclear Iran: A Threat to Humanity

The professor first-- and urgently-- scanned the list of organizations supporting this fearmongering message to assure himself that no organization that he endorsed was part of the event. Then he said to me,

Demonization destroys the ability to think critically.

Either our government understands that and deliberately and intentionally is attempting to destroy the ability of the American people to think critically about US relations with Iran, which is itself a heinous crime, or our government does NOT understand that demonization destroys the ability to think critically, in which case our government is incompetent and needs to be reminded, forcefully, by we, the people, that we will NEVER AGAIN be propagandized into a position of moral repugnance.

The Bush administration is on notice: NEVER AGAIN.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 4:29 PM PDT

2008/04/01 · 16:29

Leith Kubba, former government spokesman for Iraq, and Yahia Said, of the London School of Economics, are discussing Maliki's actions in Basra with Gwen Ifil on Jim Lehrer's News Hour.

Kubba believes Maliki's military "surge" against Basra was a mistake; Said believes Maliki's Kagan-Keane style military action was not only useful but also victorious in 'showing the Sadr army who's in charge.'

The people of Basra did not have any representatives available for Ifil to interview.

Many of the citizens of Basra were eliminated over a decade-long period of sanctions -- much like the sanctions the US has been imposing on Iran over the last five or six years.

Here's what Basra experienced, and what Americans should be prepared to see happening in Iran, courtesy of the US administration that Americans support with their tax dollars.

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 7:44 AM PDT

2008/03/19 · 07:44

On his Tikkun Olam (healing the world) blog, Richard Silverstein reports that, in retaliation for the attack at Yeshivat HaRav,

Yesterday, {Mar. 17, 2008} there was a pogrom in the East Jerusalem neighborhood where the terrorist attacker lived. Extremist Orthodox-nationalist elements affiliated with the yeshiva rampaged through the streets breaking windows, destroying property, and seeking out residents to assault (they wisely stayed indoors). The police allowed themselves to be outmanuvered and outmanned and did little to restrain things.

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Monday March 17, 2008 · 8:16 PM PDT

2008/03/17 · 20:16

Several months ago the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh formed the Iran Task Force with the goal of convincing Pittsburghers that "A Nuclear Iran Is a Threat to Humanity." According to the UJF website, The Iran Task Force is composed of AIPAC, ADL, Bnai Zion, Friends of Israel, Zionist Organization of America.

A kick-off event featuring Michael Ledeen-associate Patrick Clawson was publicized by means of a flier reprising Condi Rice's mushroom cloud warning: against a black background, a flame-coloured mushroom cloud underscored the legend, "A Nuclear Iran: A Threat to Humanity."

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