World-News

Daan de Wit, Deep Journal: "Under President Obama, Iran continues to dominate the world agenda. Iran is being presented as a crucial problem that must be solved. The Iran Problem is one with several layers. The uppermost layer is that Iran is a potential threat to world peace. What are the facts and the fiction that make up this first layer?"

http://www.truthout.org/obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy57853



Obama Continues Bush's Iran Policy

Daan de Wit, DeepJournal: "The battle against Iran has already begun. War is only one phase of this process - just as it was with Iraq. The preparation is the most important part of the battle. Whoever thought that the preparation for war ended when Barack Obama took office is advised to take note of the views of critical thinker Noam Chomsky in the previous installment of this DeepJournal series. He says that Obama's policy on Iran is a continuation of the policy of his predecessor, President Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/part-ii-obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy58013



Collateral Damages of Smart Sanctions

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Truthout: "In contradistinction to war, sanctions are widely portrayed as necessary, almost a healthy medicine to bring about change in the opponent’s policies. However, as the history of the West–Iran conflict proves, sanctions have kept the crisis alive rather than contribute to its resolution. Nonetheless, Western governments do not seem to have lost their dubious fascination for them."

http://www.truthout.org/collateral-damages-smart-sanctions57913

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Springtime for Obama

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

On the non-Marxist left, the triumph of the Obama cult is complete. Only the old-fashioned Leninists, such as the main organizers of the ANSWER rallies, have come out in visible opposition to Obama’s wars. Even the Marxist left, however, is not immune to Obama-mania: the other major antiwar coalition, United for Peace and Justice, led by veterans of the old Communist Party, USA, issued a euphoric statement upon Obama’s election and has been essentially moribund as an active antiwar organization ever since. It was in this kind of political atmosphere, then — one of near complete political isolation — that rally attendees heard Cindy Sheehan wonder whether ‘the honeymoon was over with that war criminal in the White House.’ Sheehan’s remark was met, according to AP, with merely ‘moderate applause’...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/21/springtime-for-obama/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cindy Sheehan Arrested At War Protest In D.C.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5g_3ntktw&feature=player_embedded#



Scott Horton Interviews Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan discusses the start of the Peace of the Action civil resistance against war and empire in Washington, DC, the scarcity of both peace activists who are willing to challenge a Democratic president and pro-war hecklers who demand obedience to "Commander in Chief" Obama.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/03/19/cindy-sheehan-4/



Whose Streets?

(Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)

By Cindy Sheehan

It seems like we march past empty buildings and shake our fists at them and promise that if those empty buildings don't change their ways, we will be back next year to do the same thing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25064.htm



March 2010 Iraq War Protests

Video

There was a protest or demonstration in over 150 cities the week of March 20th. This video shows video and photos of maybe twenty events across the country combining interviews, speeches, and demonstration observations.

http://pjep.org/resources/detail.php?rid=2396


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Commander+in+Chief
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=sanctions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+resistance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daan+de+Wit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Horton
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ali+Fathollah-Nejad
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky