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Is Iran next

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rudkla - 3. Okt, 09:08

Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009

Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera

Pepe Escobar, Tomdispatch.com: "Oil and natural gas prices may be relatively low right now, but don't be fooled. The New Great Game of the twenty-first century is always over energy and it's taking place on an immense chessboard called Eurasia. Its squares are defined by the networks of pipelines being laid across the oil heartlands of the planet. Call it Pipelineistan. If, in Asia, the stakes in this game are already impossibly high, the same applies to the 'Euro' part of the great Eurasian landmass - the richest industrial area on the planet. Think of this as the real political thriller of our time."

http://www.truthout.org/100109I?n

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The evilness of sanctions

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

10/01/09

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, President Barack Obama is threatening to impose even stricter sanctions on Iran, in an attempt to bend Iranian leaders to his will. Let’s examine two major cases in which the U.S. government has imposed sanctions, examples that any reasonable person would not consider to be success stories: Iraq and Cuba. For more than 10 continuous years after the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. government, under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush imposed one of the most brutal systems of sanctions in history on Iraq...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bitter Fruits of Mideast Wars

The sanctions road appears headed for dead end, or war.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Smart sanctions" that punish Iran's leaders are not going to persuade them to give up a nuclear program for which they have already suffered and sacrificed greatly. And a cutoff of gasoline to Iran would hit hardest not the Revolutionary Guard but Iran's middle class, which tends to be anti-regime and pro-Western.

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rudkla - 2. Okt, 09:48

Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

No Credible Evidence' of Iranian Nuclear Weapons, says UN Inspector

By Julian Borger and Richard Norton-Taylor

The UN's chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen "no credible evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, rejecting British intelligence allegations that a weapons programme has been going on for at least four years.

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Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

By Juan Cole

Belief: Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace. Reality: Iran's military budget is a little over $6 billion annually. Sweden, Singapore and Greece all have larger military budgets. - Iran spends less per capita on its military than any other country in the Persian Gulf region with the exception of the United Arab Emirates.

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rudkla - 2. Okt, 08:53

Israel Strike on Iran the Trigger

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rudkla - 2. Okt, 06:24

It's Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran Time

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rudkla - 2. Okt, 06:09

Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009

With Iran as with Iraq, the same syncopation of 'revelations'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/9039/

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rudkla - 1. Okt, 10:47

US Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/30-0

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The Lying Game

By John Pilger

Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out America's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control.

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: US military could strike Iran, but at what cost?

The United States has refused to rule out military action against Iran if diplomacy fails, but analysts and officials say bombing nuclear sites would carry high risks while setting back Tehran's program by only a few years.

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ElBaradei: No evidence of Iranian nukes
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/9038/

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Is Obama man or mouse?

Salon
by Gene Lyons

10/01/09

As Glenn Greenwald never tires of pointing out, the key to a career as a ’serious’ Washington pundit is to have been spectacularly wrong about both the necessity and consequences of invading Iraq. As wrong as the neoconservative theorists of the Bush administration, whose motto before conquering Baghdad was ‘real men go to Tehran.’ Seriousness also means never having to say you’re sorry. Thousands of dead and wounded are as nothing next to the status and perquisites of Beltway celebrity. Thankfully, however, for all the hyperventilating, nothing’s apt to happen about the Iranian ‘threat’ except bluster and diplomatic maneuver...

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rudkla - 1. Okt, 07:55