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So he plans another aggressive war. Article by Niall Ferguson.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/03/12/do1202.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/12/ixportal.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

As a cover for US defeat in Iraq, says Charles H. Featherstone.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone53.html

http://newropeans-magazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3463&Itemid=85
BEST ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: Iran-USA, beginning of a major world crisis Written by LEAP/E2020 Saturday, 25 February 2006

March 20 to 26, 2006: Iran-USA, beginning of a major world crisis, or «the End of the Western World we have known since 1945».

The Laboratoire européen d'Anticipation Politique Europe 2020, LEAP/E2020, now estimates to over 80% the probability that the week of March 20-26, 2006 will be the beginning of the most significant political crisis the world has known since the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, together with an economic and financial crisis of a scope comparable with that of 1929. This last week of March 2006 will be the turning-point of a number of critical developments, resulting in an acceleration of all the factors leading to a major crisis, disregard any American or Israeli military intervention against Iran. In case such an intervention is conducted, the probability of a major crisis to start rises up to 100%, according to LEAP/E2020.

An Alarm based on 2 verifiable events

The announcement of this crisis results from the analysis of decisions taken by the two key-actors of the main on-going international crisis, i.e. the United States and Iran:

- on the one hand there is the Iranian decision of opening the first oil bourse priced in Euros on March 20th, 2006 in Teheran, available to all oil producers of the region ;

- on the other hand, there is the decision of the American Federal Reserve to stop publishing M3 figures (the most reliable indicator on the amount of dollars circulating in the world) from March
23, 2006 onward[1].

These two decisions constitute altogether the indicators, the causes and the consequences of the historical transition in progress between the order created after World War II and the new international equilibrium in gestation since the collapse of the USSR. Their magnitude as much as their simultaneity will catalyse all the tensions, weaknesses and imbalances accumulated since more than a decade throughout the international system.

A world crisis declined in 7 sector-based crises LEAP/E2020's researchers and analysts thus identified 7 convergent crises that the American and Iranian decisions coming into effect during the last week of March 2006, will catalyse and turn into a total crisis, affecting the whole planet in the political, economic and financial fields, as well as in the military field most probably too:

1. Crisis of confidence in the Dollar
2. Crisis of US financial imbalances
3. Oil crisis
4. Crisis of the American leadership
5. Crisis of the Arabo-Muslim world
6. Global governance crisis
7. European governance crisis

The entire process of anticipation of this crisis is described in detail in coming issues of LEAP/E2020's confidential letter - the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, and in particular in the 2nd issue to be released on February 16, 2006. These coming issues will present the detailed analysis of each of the 7 crises, together with a large set of recommendations intended for various categories of players (governments and companies, namely), as well as with a number of operational and strategic advices for the European Union.

Decoding of the event "Creation of the Iranian Oil Bourse priced in Euros" However, and in order not to limit this information to decision makers solely, LEAP/E2020 has decided to circulate widely this official statement together with the following series of arguments resulting from work conducted. Iran's opening of an Oil Bourse priced in Euros at the end of March 2006 will be the end of the monopoly of the Dollar on the global oil market. The immediate result is likely to upset the international currency market as producing countries will be able to charge their production in Euros also. In parallel, European countries in particular will be able to buy oil directly in their own currency without going though the Dollar. Concretely speaking, in both cases this means that a lesser number of economic actors will need a lesser number of Dollars [2]. This double development will thus head to the same direction, i.e. a very significant reduction of the importance of the Dollar as the international reserve currency, and therefore a significant and sustainable weakening of the American currency, in particular compared to the Euro. The most conservative evaluations give ?1 to $1,30 US Dollar by the end of 2006. But if the crisis reaches the scope anticipated by LEAP/E2020, estimates of ?1 for $1,70 in 2007 are no longer unrealistic.

Decoding of the event

"End of publication of the M3 macro-economic indicator" The end of the publication by the American Federal Reserve of the M3 monetary aggregate (and that of other components)[3], a decision vehemently criticized by the community of economists and financial analysts, will have as a consequence to lose transparency on the evolution of the amount of Dollars in circulation worldwide. For some months already, M3 has significantly increased (indicating that « money printing » has already speeded up in Washington), knowing that the new President of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, is a self-acknowledged fan of « money printing »[4]. Considering that a strong fall of the Dollar would probably result in a massive sale of the US Treasury Bonds held in Asia, in Europe and in the oil-producing countries, LEAP/E2020 estimates that the American decision to stop publishing M3 aims at hiding as long as possible two US decisions, partly imposed by the political and economic choices made these last years[5]: . the 'monetarisation' of the US debt . the launch of a monetary policy to support US economic activity. . two policies to be implemented until at least the October 2006 « mid-term » elections, in order to prevent the Republican Party from being sent in reeling. This M3-related decision also illustrates the incapacity of the US and international monetary and financial authorities put in a situation where they will in the end prefer to remove the indicator rather than try to act on the reality.

Decoding of the aggravating factor

"The military intervention against Iran" Iran holds some significant geo-strategic assets in the current crisis, such as its ability to intervene easily and with a major impact on the oil provisioning of Asia and Europe (by blocking the Strait of Ormuz), on the conflicts in progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the possible recourse to international terrorism. But besides these aspects, the growing distrust towards Washington creates a particularly problematic situation. Far from calming both Asian and European fears concerning the accession of Iran to the statute of nuclear power, a military intervention against Iran would result in an quasi-immediate dissociation of the European public opinions[6] which, in a context where Washington has lost its credibility in handling properly this type of case since the invasion of Iraq, will prevent the European governments from making any thing else than follow their public opinions. In parallel, the rising cost of oil which would follow such an intervention will lead Asian countries, China first and foremost, to oppose this option, thus forcing the United States (or Israel) to intervene on their own, without UN guarantee, therefore adding a severe military and diplomatic crisis to the economic and financial crisis.

Relevant factors of the American economic crisis

LEAP/E2020 anticipate that these two non-official decisions will involve the United States and the world in a monetary, financial, and soon economic crisis without precedent on a planetary scale. The 'monetarisation' of the US debt is indeed a very technical term describing a catastrophically simple reality: the United States undertake not to refund their debt, or more exactly to refund it in "monkey currency". LEAP/E2020 also anticipate that the process will accelerate at the end of March, in coincidence with the launching of the Iranian Oil Bourse, which can only precipitate the sales of US Treasury Bonds by their non-American holders.


In this perspective, it is useful to contemplate the following information[7]: the share of the debt of the US government owned by US banks fell down to 1,7% in 2004, as opposed to 18% in 1982. In parallel, the share of this same debt owned by foreign operators went from 17% in 1982 up to 49% in 2004. ? Question: How comes that US banks got rid of almost all their share of the US national debt over the last years?

Moreover, in order to try to avoid the explosion of the "real-estate bubble" on which rests the US household consumption, and at a time when the US saving rate has become negative for the first time since 1932 and 1933 (in the middle of the "Great Depression"), the Bush administration, in partnership with the new owner of the US Federal Reserve and a follower of this monetary approach, will flood the US market of liquidities.

Some anticipated effects of this systemic rupture

According to LEAP/E2020, the non-accidental conjunction of the Iranian and American decisions, is a decisive stage in the release of a systemic crisis marking the end of the international order set up after World War II, and will be characterised between the end of March and the end of the year 2006 by a plunge in the dollar (possibly down to 1 Euro = 1,70 US Dollars in 2007) putting an immense upward pressure on the Euro, a significant rise of the oil price (over 100$ per barrel), an aggravation of the American and British military situations in the Middle East, a US budgetary, financial and economic crisis comparable in scope with the 1929 crisis, very serious economic and financial consequences for Asia in particular (namely China) but also for the United Kingdom[8], a sudden stop in the economic process of globalisation, a collapse of the transatlantic axis leading to a general increase of all the domestic and external political dangers all over the world.

For individual dollar-holders, as for trans-national corporations or political and administrative decision makers, the consequences of this last week of March 2006 will be crucial. These consequences require some difficult decisions to be made as soon as possible (crisis anticipation is always a complex process since it relies on a bet) because once the crisis begins, the stampede starts and all those who chose to wait lose. For private individuals, the choice is clear: the US Dollar no longer is a "refuge" currency. The rising-cost of gold over the last year shows that many people have already anticipated this trend of the US currency.

Anticipating. or being swept away by the winds of history

For companies and governments, it is crucial to integrate now action plans in today's decision-making processes, which can contribute to soften significantly the "monetary, financial and economic tsunami" which will break on the planet at the end of next month. To use a simple image - by the way, one used in the political anticipation scenario « USA 2010 »[9] -, the impact of the events of the last week of March 2006 on the "Western World" we have known since 1945 will be comparable to the impact of the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 on the "Soviet Block".

If this Alarm is so precise, it is that LEAP/E2020's analyses concluded that all possible scenarios now lead to one single result: we collectively approach a "historical node" which is henceforth inevitable whatever the action of international or national actors. At this stage, only a direct and immediate action on the part of the US administration aimed at preventing a military confrontation with Iran on the one hand, and at giving up the idea to monetarise the US foreign debt on the other hand, could change the course of events. For LEAP/E2020 it is obvious that not only such actions will not be initiated by the current leaders in Washington, but that on the contrary they have already chosen "to force the destiny" by shirking their economic and financial problems at the expense of the rest of the world. European governments in particular should draw very quickly all the conclusions from this fact.

For information, LEAP/E2020's original method of political anticipation has allowed several of its experts to anticipate (and publish) in particular : in 1988, the approaching end of the Iron Curtain; in 1997, the progressive collapse in capacity of action and democratic legitimacy of the European institutional system; in 2002, the US being stuck in Iraq's quagmire and above all the sustainable collapse of US international credibility; in 2003, the failure of the referenda on the European Constitution. Its methodology of anticipation of "systemic ruptures" now being well established, it is our duty as researchers and citizens to share it with the citizens and the European decision makers; especially because for individual or collective, private or public players, it is still time to undertake measures in order to reduce significantly the impact of this crisis on their positions whether these are economic, political or financial.

LEAP/E2020 Franck Biancheri, Director of Studies


Informant: Scott Munson

Too bad the big US Peace Movement organizations can't get something like this going ;-(

Carol Moore in DC


Tell the Security Council: No Military Options on Iran

From John Hallam Nuclear Weapons Campaigner Friends of the Earth Australia

Dear Everybody,

As the meeting of the UN security Council on Iran looms, the possibility of military action against Iran is being talked about more and more. Military action against Iran would achieve precisely the oppposite of what we would like to achieve.

So called 'surgical strikes' against Iran, whether done by the US or Israel, would convert a currently ambiguous and indeed suspicious, program, into an umambiguously nuclear - weapons- oriented program and would result in Iran sparing no effort to acquire nuclear arms.

Military strikes against Iran would not only be completely ineffective and counterproductive as far as preventing the emergence of a nuclear - armed Iran, but would set the entire middle east afire.

A full- scale invasion of Iran would be in all probability completely impossible, and would be a catastrophe for relationships with the middle - east.

Unfortunately these options are being increasingly spoken of by both Israel and the US administration.

Iran currently has no nuclear weapons. Israel has somewhere between 200 and 400 warheads, Pakistan has around 75, and India over 100. The Security Council is meeting now or very soon to consider the case of Iran.

Please write to your Security Council representative, urging a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, based on:

1) A nuclear - free middle -east

2) No use of or threats of, military action. Also urge your Security Council representative to facilitate the discussion of the Iran problem by the whole of the UN General Assembly as envisaged in the IAEA charter.

Further information on Iran may be found on the Reaching Critical Will website

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org

A letter to Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Iran is at the very end of this email together with a press-release from Australian groups.

The Parliamentarians and Civil Society Appeal on Iran and Nuclear Weapons, now endorsed by Abolition2000 and Mayors for Peace, is available on the following urls:

In french:

Tu le trouveras sur le site d'ACDN : http://www.acdn.net en français et en anglais.

PNND website at the following url:
http://www.gsinstitute.org/pnnd/ParliamentariansIranNukes.htm

It is also on the GANA website of Ak Malten at:
http://www.cornnet.nl/~akmalten/Iran_Nuclear_letter.html

Below are some vital fax numbers and emails you may like to use to reach your Security Council representatives(fax is much better than email):

1) Security Council faxes and emails

USA 1-212-415-4443 usa@un.int

Russia 1-212-628-0252 1-212-517-7427 rusun@un.int

China 1-212-634-7626 chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn

Fr 1-212-355-2763 france-presse@un.int

UK 1-212-745-9316 uk@un.int

Argentina 1-212-980-8395 argentina@un.int

Tanzania 1-212-682-5232 tzn@tanzania-un.org

Congo 1-212-319-8232 drcongo@un.int

Denmark 1-212-308-3384 nycmis@un.dk

Greece 1-212-888-4440 info@greeceun.org

Ghana 1-212-751-6743 ghanaperm@aol.com

Japan 1-212-751-1966 mission@un-japan.org

Peru 1-212-972-6975 onuper@aol.com

Qatar 1-212-758-4952 qatar-e@qatarmission.org

Slovakia 1-212-286-8419 mission@newyork.mfa.sk

2) Heads of state, ambassadors, and foreign ministers (Fax nos only):

Iran: MFA 0098-21-6674-3149 UN mission1-212-867-7086

- Mr George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
+1-202-456-2461, +1-202-456-6218, +1-202-456-2883, (all three numbers)

Senator Biden +1-202-224-0139

- Ms Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State +1-202-647-6047

- H.E. John Bolton, US Ambassador at the UN +1-212-415-4443,

- Mr Kamal Jharze, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs +98-21-667-43149

- H.E. Zarif-Khonsari, Iran UN Ambassador +1-212-867-7086, Iran Geneva mission +41-22-733-0203

- Mrs Tzipi Livni, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs +97-225-303015 - H.E. Dan Gillerman, Israel UN Mission +1-212-499-5515 Israel Geneva mission +41-22-716-0555

- Mr Tony Blair, Prime Minister of UK +44-207-925-0918, Jack Straw +44-207-270-2833 UK UN NY mission +1-212-745-9316, UK UN Geneva mission +41-22-918-2344 UK IAEA mission +43-1-716-134900

- M. Jacques Chirac, Président de la République Française +33-1-47-42-24-65 - M. Dominique de Villepin, Premier Ministre +33-1-45-44-15-72 - M. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères +31-1-43-174-491 +33-1-45-51-60-12 Fr UN NY Mission +1-212-421-6889 Fr UN Geneva Mission +41-22-758-9150

- Ms Ursula Plassnik, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria +
43-50-11-59-0

- Herr Horst Köhler, Bundespräzsident Deutschlands +49-030-20-00-19-99 - Frau Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin Deutschlands +49-30-4000-2357 - Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Deutsche Bundesaussenminister +43-1-263-33756 + 49-30-5000-3402 Germany Un NY Mission +1-212-940-0402

- The Hon. John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia 6273-4100, 9251-5454

- The Hon. Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia
6273-4112, 8237-7950, 6261-2151 Aust UN NY Mission +1-212-351-6610 Aust IAEA Mission +43-1-504-1178

China UN NY Mission +1-212-634-7626 China Geneva UN Mission +41-22-793-7041 China IAEA Mission +43-1-370-6626

Russia Ministry for Foreign Affairs +7-095-244-9248 President Putin +7-095-244-4112 Russia NY UN Mission +1-212-628-0252 Russia Geneva Mission +41-22-733-1031 Russia IAEA Mission +43-1-280-5687

Norway Min Foreign Affs +47-2224-9580 Norway NY UN Mission +1-212-688-0554 Norway Geneva Mission +41-22-918-0410 Norway IAEA Mission +43-171-26552

Sweden Min Foreign Affs +46-8-723-1176 Sweden NY UN Mission +1-212-832-0389 Sweden Geneva Mission +41-22-908-0810 Sweden IAEA Mission +43-1-217-53370

Canada Min Foreign Affs +1-613-992-2482 Canada NY UN Mission +1-212-848-1195 Canada IAEA Mission +43-1-531-383-903

Brazil IAEA Mission +43-1-513-8374 Brazil Geneva Mission +41-22-788-2506

- Mr Kofi Annan, General Secretary of the United Nations +1-212-763-7055
(fax did not work in spite of repeated attempts)

IAEA Vienna +43-1-2600-7, +43-1-2600-29610 IAEA - UN Mission +1-917-367-4046 IAEA Geneva +41-22-917-0066
(All addr to El Baradei)

Algeria IAEA Mission +43-1-369-8856 Cuba IAEA Mission +43-1-8778-19830 Egypt IAEA Mission +43-1-3708-10427 Indonesia IAEA Mission +43-1-4790-557 Libya IAEA Mission +31-1-3677-601 Rep South Africa IAEA Mission +43-1-3206-493-51 Syria IAEA Mission +43-1-5334-632 Venezuela IAEA Mission +43-1-715-3219


SAMPLE LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNER ON IRAN PLEASE WRITE TO HIM IN YOUR OWN WORDS, PREFERABLY HANDWRITTEN


THE FOREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER DOWNER, 02-6273-4112, 08-8237-7950 CC JOHN HOWARD PRIME MINISTER 02-6273-4100, 02-9351-5454 KEVIN RUDD, SHADOW MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
07-3899-5755, 02-6277-0508

RE: WAR WITH IRAN

Dear Mr Downer,

In recent months there have been increasing rumours of military action and preparations for military action, against Iran.

I am writing to convey my extreme concern over this possibility,and that the Australian government may be drawn into this.

Australia should in to way support or encourage any use or any threat of use of any military option with respect to Iran and must visibly do its utmost to discourage our great and powerful ally from any such course of action.

Limited, so called 'surgical' military strikes against Iran can be gauranteed to produce exactly the opposite result to that desired.

So - called 'surgical' strikes will transform a nuclear program that is ambiguous into an unambiguously military program designed to obtain nuclear weapons at any cost, and will accellerate rather than prevent, Iran developing nuclear weapons. Even talk of military action inevitably pushes the Iranian government toward the nuclear weapons option that we say we do not want them to take.

An invasion of Iran will be a catastrophe. Occupation and pacification of Iran will prove impossible and lead to never-ending war in which there cannot be a victory. Even an attempt to occupy Iran's oil-rich western province will only be successful in provoking an all out war against the occupying forces.

There are even reports in some quarters that the use of nuclear weapons may be contemplated. These rumours/threats must be stopped immediately, and Australia must be visible in calling for them to stop. Australia must make it clear that this possibility, however remote, is absolutely unacceptable and would place the US outside the community of civilised countries.

The Australian government must do all that is in its power including in the leadup to the meeting of the UN Security Council, to press this message as strongly as possible. Australia should lobby both its ally and the Security Council itself to ensure that military options and talk and planning for military options are entirely excluded.

Signed....


Press Release on Iran by Australian Groups

_SUNDAY 12 MARCH 2006 _FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AUSTRALIA PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT NSW PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT W.A., AUSTRALIAN PEACE COMMITTEE

_NO MILITARY OPTIONS ON IRAN SAY GROUPS

_Australian peace groups have urged the Australian government to use its influence to secure a peaceful settlement to the Iranian nuclear dispute, based on a nuclear-free Middle -East. There are no realistic military options. Recent moves to sell uranium to India, with up to
150 nuclear weapons indicates an 'upside-down' standard. Instead of simply referring the Iran case to the Security Council, there is a case for referring it to the far more representative General Assembly as provided for under the IAEA statute.

According to Friends of the Earth, People for Nuclear Disarmament W.A., PND-NSW, and the Australian Peace Committee, "What Australia should be doing instead of talking about selling uranium to a state that in 2003, threatened nuclear war with its nuclear-armed neighbour, is using our very real diplomatic influence to take down the temperature on the Iran nuclear weapons issue, as Mr El Baradei has repeatedly called for."

"The facts are that Iran currently has no nuclear warheads. In spite of all the accusations, it insists that it has no plans to acquire any. The recent IAEA report, though it has uncovered much that needs clarification, has no 'smoking gun' in it, and nothing that looks remotely like one. The ambiguous Iranian nuclear program remains just that - ambiguous. Both Israel and now India are known to have substantial nuclear arsenals. Yet we don't mention the Israeli arsenal, and we talk of selling uranium to India. This is not so much a double-standard as an 'upside-down' standard."

"Military action against Iran, from whatever point of view you look at it, could only be a catastrophe for the Middle-East and for the world. Nothing is more certain to convert the ambiguous Iranian nuclear program into an unambiguous nuclear weapons program, than either military action or continued threats of military action. Still worse are the continued rumours of possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran. Let us pray they remain just rumours."

" Australia is talking about selling uranium to a nation that in 2003 for a full year stood eyeball to eyeball with its nuclear rival, and threatened a conflagration that could have killed up to 150 million people. Whatever you think of the Mullahs, there is clearly one standard for India and Israel and on another for them."

"Australia could, as it did when India and Pakistan confronted each other, play a constructive role in taking down the temperature and getting both Iran and the US to climb down from entrenched positions, and getting them to talk to each other. Australia could play a real role in facilitating a peaceful and nuclear - free Middle -East, and that is what we should be doing instead of selling uranium to countries with robust nuclear weapons programs."

Friends of the Earth has coordinated a global Appeal from Parliamentarians and Civil Society signed by over 200 NGOs and parliamentarians, on Iran in Febuary calling for a peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis and for a nuclear- free Middle - East, which has been faxed twice to the Security Council.

Contact: John Hallam FOEA 61-2-9810-2598 02-9319-4296 Cameron Schraner PND-NSW 0415-202060, 02-9319-4296 Jo Vallentine PND-W.A.,08-9272-4252 Sue Gilbey APC 0411-413-122


UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE | 212-868-5545

As the dispute over its nuclear program arrives at the UN Security Council today, Iran has vaulted to the front of the US national security agenda amid Bush administration plans for a sustained campaign against the ayatollahs of Tehran.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031306C.shtml

by Tom Porteous, TomPaine.com

The White House is making the same mistakes with Iran as it did with Iraq. This time, the damage to America will be much worse

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/10/its_regime_change_again.php

Sick joke?

U.S. State Dept. Names Iran Among Worst Violators

Releasing the latest edition of its annual human rights "Country Reports", the U.S. State Department Wednesday named Iran and China as among the world's "most systematic human rights violators" in 2005, along with North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Belarus.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12298.htm



US rejects Russian proposal on Iran

In a blunt rejection of Russia's proposal for international crisis talks on the Iranian nuclear issue, the United States has said the United Nations Security Council was the only place to debate the matter now.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/mar/11iran.htm



Angry US says Iran must end nuclear program in two weeks

THE United States is pushing the United Nations Security Council to give Iran a two-week deadline to halt nuclear work that could be related to the making of weapons.

http://tinyurl.com/zpe2d


From Information Clearing House

Official Washington’s quickening drumbeat of hostility is beginning to recall political offensives against Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi, Panama’s Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein, which all ended in violence. Rightwing American media are urging action, deeming Iran “an intolerable threat” that is the “central crisis of the Bush presidency”.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12277.htm



US congressmen press for Iran sanctions bill

Key US congressmen on Wednesday said that they would push forward with legislation imposing mandatory sanctions on foreign firms working in Iran, despite administration concerns that the bill could split the international coalition against Iran’s nuclear programme.

http://tinyurl.com/ow2mo



'US not doing enough to stop Iran'

The United States has until now not done enough to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a senior Defense Ministry official has told The Jerusalem Post while expressing hope that Wednesday's referral of the Iranian issue to the United Nations Security Council would prove to be effective.

http://tinyurl.com/ohg87



Manufacturing Consent For Bombing Iran

Video - Bush: Iran 'grave' security concern

U.S. President Bush called Iran an ''issue of grave national security concern'' during a press conference to a national newspapers group.

http://tinyurl.com/mhrpd



War pimp: O'Reilly: Blowing Iran "off the face of the earth ... would be the sane thing to do"

Summary: On his radio program, Bill O'Reilly stated: "You know in a sane world, every country would unite against Iran and blow it off the face of the Earth. That would be the sane thing to do."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603100008


From Information Clearing House

Mitchell Wade -- the guy who paid off Duke Cunningham for help bagging contracts -- registered as the 'registered agent' for an outfit called the "Iranian Democratization Foundation."

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000045.php


From Information Clearing House

By Gwynne Dyer

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was calmly proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear weapons.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12261.htm



Steamroller Bolton at the U.N.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12263.htm