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Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
at 02:00 Posted by Vatic Master
Vatic Note: ALERT! GET THIS OUT EVERYWHERE, THEY ARE TRYING TO USE THIS TO SET UP THE WORLD WAR THEY ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE THIS YEAR.
We pointed out in a blog that we, the USA, and Israel are the designated losers of this WW, and that is why they are now attacking us in the alternative press, when it reality, Israeli and the international bankers have created the conditions that make us the bad guys. Its also why Israel bought up massive land in Petagonia in southern Chile and Argentina. Its also why underground bunkers were built by the elite so the rest of us would be subject to the destruction by either the Bubonic plague bioweapon, or the nukes, which ever does not get outted by the net. For Israel, nuking themselves rids them of those pesky Palestinians while allowing them to remove themselves to Petagonia before the holocaust they intend to cause. All we can hope is that exposing all this below will stop what they are planning.
Well, I have a lot to say about this article and given how fast things are breaking, it appears the real alternative news disinfo agents are coming out of the wood work with out concern for their exposure. This article originated at Alternet News, and the author was Norm Chomsky. Well, Alternet news kept banning Bruecke and myself because way back 3 years ago we exposed the role of Israel and the Zionist bankers in all of our problems and we kept getting banned. Newsmax was no different, they banned us for the same reason. That got us wondering, how that was possible, why were both a left and right publication banning us over Israel and Zionist bankers like Goldman Sachs? Rothschild, Rockefeller, etc. The only explanation was they were cohorts in this giant scam, both left and right leaders and press.
We finally concluded that the "grassroots" right and left were definitely aware of both the bankers and the Israeli's role in our problems, with exceptions and the exceptions both right and left were those who were listening to such left publications as Alternet and right publications such as Newsmax. That meant, both publications were directing the news and the leanings on both sides creating a herd of sheeple through intensive censorship and disinformation. It became clear there was no difference between the parties or their major alternative news rags that supported the institutions and not the people. That is when we decided to start our own blog and thus we had our beginning, thanks to Alternet and Newsmax. How ironic is that?
What is wrong with this below is the inference that Iran is not part of the US/Israel/Russia/China conspiracy along with the bankers to conjure up a world war for their purposes, using Iran as justification for it, while in reality, they are all in on it for greed, power, satanism and globalizing, which go together. A satanic run one world order. If we know this, then those writing these articles and publishing them, know this as well. THE ILLUMINATI FAMILIES ARE IN ON IT AS WELL THROUGH BILDERBERG. You know who they are. Never forget it.
I doubt there are few people at their level who don't know about the pervasiveness of Satanism in this battle. Its the citizens of these countries that are hoodwinked into believe this tripe below. Remember, they always put truth of some sort into these deals to give them legitimacy, but they went too far, by blaming Iran for anything. LOL Even Israel's own intel head has said Iran is no threat, its the leaders and not the lower eschelon people who are in on it.
They don't even mention the 63 million Christians the satanists khazars murdered when they financed, organized and supplied leadership to the Russian revolution. That revolution took place also during a World War, just like they are trying to do to us now. We are the next target. Russia was first after the protocols were written outlining all of this, Germany was next with the revolution over throwing the weirmach regime and replacing it with the German socialist "NA" party and the International "ZI"onist party, resulting in the "NAZI" party.
Right in the first line of the first paragraph is the biggest disinfo propoganda on the planet. Iran's leaders are right in there with the Satanists. We showed that on here before, but lets do it again.... to be clear here about who is what in the alternative field of information. Alternet gets funding from the Ford Foundation, and I bet Rockefeller too, but I don't know that one for sure.
Read this below and see if you can see this as we do. I am going to highlight the propoganda in yellow for you to see and either agree or disagree with it.
Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/09/10/why-america-and-israel-are-the-greatest-threats-to-peace/
Truther, September 10, 2012
Iran is carrying out a murderous and destructive low-level war against Israel with great-power participation. (VN: DISINFO, Israel can no longer play that victim card and have people believe it after all they have done to everyone else including us, in America, murdering our citizens for political gain.) Its leaders announce that negotiations are going nowhere. Israel refuses to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty and allow inspections, as Iran has done. Israel continues to defy the overwhelming international call for a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the region. Throughout, Iran enjoys the support of its superpower patron.(VN: Yes, Great Britain, USA, Israel, Germany, all NATO nations, Russia, China, Japan, etc.)
Iranian leaders are therefore announcing their intention to bomb Israel, and prominent Iranian military analysts report that the attack may happen before the U.S. elections. (VN: I have not read that anywhere, however, I did read Iran said "IF ATTACKED" they would bomb the US, not a word about Israel and only if attacked. Where is the link to the report, Norm? And if they did say that, its part of the game that Iranian leaders are in on. We should feel flattered, all this just to bring down America. )
Iran can use its powerful air force and new submarines sent by Germany, armed with nuclear missiles and stationed off the coast of Israel. (VN: This is what I am talking about, Germany has supplied submarines with nukes to Israel and we documented that all over the place on this blog and supplied the photos to prove it. So what this tells me is ISRAEL IS GOING TO ATTACK THEMSELVES WITH THOSE GERMAN NUKES AND BLAME IRAN WHO HAS NO HISTORY IN 360 YEARS OF EVER ATTACKING ANOTHER NATION. THIS IS A FALSE FLAG IN THE MAKING, USING ISRAEL'S GERMAN SUBMARINES, Remember, Israel got caught with the bogus false flag so called attack on No Korea and tried to blame it on South Korea and the submarine torpedo was from a German submarine like those used by Israel, and that got exposed on the net, we even published pictures of it, so they could not use that for starting WW III, BUT THEY TRIED. We did a really good blog on that one with massive evidence the attack was not done by South Korea, it was done either by the Germans or the Israelis and you know who I vote for on that one. ) Whatever the timetable, Iran is counting on its superpower backer to join if not lead the assault. (VN: Right, Putin is in on it as well AS ALL THE PLAYERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BOGUS CONFLICT AND WE ARE CRAZY IF WE FIGHT IN THEIR WAR. We have been watching them set this war up for years now. This has nothing to do with Iran. It has everything to do with globalizing and we are the designated losers because we are the biggest threat and resistance to their global plans.) U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta says that while we do not favor such an attack, as a sovereign country Iran will act in its best interests. (VN: Panetta, why don't you tell your owners NOT TO FALSE FLAG AN ATTACK ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE? Wonder what the Israeli's will say when they find out they were attacked by their own leaders?? They can't get Iran to start the damn war, so they are going to do it, just like they did financing Hamas against their own people. When the Israeli people wake up, there will be hell to pay for those leaders. Someone is going to ask why the US funded building nuke hardened bunkers in Israel almost 5 years ago? Why? Because this has been laid out and planned for that long of a time and preparations have been going on just as long.)
All unimaginable, of course, though it is actually happening, (VN: Liar) with the cast of characters reversed. True, analogies are never exact, and this one is unfair – to Iran. (VN: See, I told you they tell some truth, to make the rest of this believable.)
Like its patron, (VN: He means the US owned and controlled by Israel) Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. (VN: More truth) Security Council. It has repeatedly carried out brutal attacks against Lebanon and the imprisoned people of Gaza, killing tens of thousands without credible pretext. (VN: More truth, and they are supporting those murders, by their cooperation through manipulating the news. )
Thirty years ago Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, an act that has recently been praised, avoiding the strong evidence, even from U.S. intelligence, that the bombing did not end Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program but rather initiated it. Bombing of Iran might have the same effect.
Iran too has carried out aggression – but during the past several hundred years, only under the U.S.-backed regime of the shah, when it conquered Arab islands in the Persian Gulf. (VN: More truth)
Iran engaged in nuclear development programs under the shah, with the strong support of official Washington. The Iranian government is brutal and repressive, as are Washington’s allies in the region. (VN: It was under the Shah, but not now, otherwise, why is the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel, located in Iran if the regime is so bad now? Why haven't they emigrated to Israel? Disinfo again) The most important ally, Saudi Arabia, (VN: NOT!! Remember, we proved the Saudi royalty are not semites, they are Khazars, installed by Britain in those countries after WW I and that British royalty are of the Khazar line as well, that is why Saudi's are sunnis, and allies of Israel and the US, and hate the shias of Iran, disinfo again! We all know this too, because of the close relationship of our and British subjects to the Carlyle group owned in major part by the Saudi's.) (Saudi Arabia) is the most extreme Islamic fundamentalist regime, and spends enormous funds spreading its radical Wahhabist doctrines elsewhere. (VN: aaah, probably true, however, we have shored them up like we have the brutal regime of Israel and done so for decades, its why the bankers like them, because they are brutal, probably trying to get us "Christians" to fight the "Muslims" and kill each other off and leave the Rothschild Israeli's in charge of the planet. THAT IS THE PLAN. )
The gulf dictatorships, also favored U.S. allies, have harshly repressed any popular effort to join the Arab Spring. (VN: Thats because the arab spring is done by the CIA, MOSSAD AND MI6 and every one knows it. Those rebels were identified as those trained by the CIA in Virginia and were in the US for 20 years being used periodically in the ME for various jobs, that was pointed out by independant electronic media from overseas. LOL Our MSM were, as usual, out to lunch. The Saudi's know all this and don't need to support the arab spring since that would be like supporting those who can take care of themselves. They would have problems at home if they tried since their own people know who is running the show given the results of the rebellion which is that of Rothschild fiat banking and oil now existing and controlled by the oil companies instead of the countries)
The Nonaligned Movement – the governments of most of the world’s population – is now meeting in Teheran. The group has vigorously endorsed Iran’s right to enrich uranium, and some members – India, for example – adhere to the harsh U.S. sanctions program only partially and reluctantly. (VN: aah, more truth, interspersed with the disinfo and propoganda)
The NAM delegates doubtless recognize the threat that dominates discussion in the West, lucidly articulated by Gen. Lee Butler, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command: “It is dangerous in the extreme that in the cauldron of animosities that we call the Middle East,” one nation should arm itself with nuclear weapons, which “inspires other nations to do so.”
Butler is not referring to Iran, but to Israel, which is regarded in the Arab countries and in Europe as posing the greatest threat to peace In the Arab world, the United States is ranked second as a threat, while Iran, though disliked, is far less feared. Indeed in many polls majorities hold that the region would be more secure if Iran had nuclear weapons to balance the threats they perceive.
If Iran is indeed moving toward nuclear-weapons capability – this is still unknown to U.S. intelligence – that may be because it is “inspired to do so” by the U.S.-Israeli threats, regularly issued in explicit violation of the U.N. Charter.
Why then is Iran the greatest threat to world peace, as seen in official Western discourse? The primary reason is acknowledged by U.S. military and intelligence and their Israeli counterparts: Iran might deter the resort to force by the United States and Israel.
Furthermore Iran must be punished for its “successful defiance,” which was Washington’s charge against Cuba half a century ago, and still the driving force for the U.S. assault against Cuba that continues despite international condemnation.
Other events featured on the front pages might also benefit from a different perspective. Suppose that Julian Assange had leaked Russian documents revealing important information that Moscow wanted to conceal from the public, and that circumstances were otherwise identical.
Sweden would not hesitate to pursue its sole announced concern, accepting the offer to interrogate Assange in London. It would declare that if Assange returned to Sweden (as he has agreed to do), he would not be extradited to Russia, where chances of a fair trial would be slight.
Sweden would be honored for this principled stand. Assange would be praised for performing a public service – which, of course, would not obviate the need to take the accusations against him as seriously as in all such cases.
The most prominent news story of the day here is the U.S. election. An appropriate perspective was provided by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who held that “We may have democracy in this country, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
Guided by that insight, coverage of the election should focus on the impact of wealth on policy, extensively analyzed in the recent study “Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America” by Martin Gilens. He found that the vast majority are “powerless to shape government policy” when their preferences diverge from the affluent, who pretty much get what they want when it matters to them. ( VN: Aaah, the infamous "class warfare" as outlined in the protocols, these guys are good. This must be for the rebellion they want us to have. They have been screeching "Civil war" for days now. Is this beginning to sound like Russia in 1917 to you? Over throw the wealthy and institute communism turned into fascism? And do it while in the middle of a world war? They never deviate from success, do they? I like some originality in these things for a change. It gets boring using the same old strategy and tactics, which gives them away.)
Small wonder, then, that in a recent ranking of the 31 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of social justice, the United States placed 27th, despite its extraordinary advantages.
Or that rational treatment of issues tends to evaporate in the electoral campaign, in ways sometimes verging on comedy. (VN: Where was your outrage at what the Dem leadership did to Kucinich and McKinney? or the GOP's outrage at what they did to Ron Paul? Are you sure you want the electorial campaign to engage in "rational Treatment of issues"? Then you should have expressed outrage over the treatment of Kucinich and McKinney because they were doing exactly that which got them replaced by the dem leadership).
To take one case, Paul Krugman reports that the much-admired Big Thinker of the Republican Party, Paul Ryan, declares that he derives his ideas about the financial system from a character in a fantasy novel – “Atlas Shrugged” – who calls for the use of gold coins instead of paper currency.
It only remains to draw from a really distinguished writer, Jonathan Swift. In “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sages of Lagado carry all their goods with them in packs on their backs, and thus could use them for barter without the encumbrance of gold. Then the economy and democracy could truly flourish – and best of all, inequality would sharply decline, a gift to the spirit of Justice Brandeis.
(VN: The hypocracy of this piece is palpable.)
Thanks to: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com
at 02:00 Posted by Vatic Master
Vatic Note: ALERT! GET THIS OUT EVERYWHERE, THEY ARE TRYING TO USE THIS TO SET UP THE WORLD WAR THEY ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE THIS YEAR.
We pointed out in a blog that we, the USA, and Israel are the designated losers of this WW, and that is why they are now attacking us in the alternative press, when it reality, Israeli and the international bankers have created the conditions that make us the bad guys. Its also why Israel bought up massive land in Petagonia in southern Chile and Argentina. Its also why underground bunkers were built by the elite so the rest of us would be subject to the destruction by either the Bubonic plague bioweapon, or the nukes, which ever does not get outted by the net. For Israel, nuking themselves rids them of those pesky Palestinians while allowing them to remove themselves to Petagonia before the holocaust they intend to cause. All we can hope is that exposing all this below will stop what they are planning.
Well, I have a lot to say about this article and given how fast things are breaking, it appears the real alternative news disinfo agents are coming out of the wood work with out concern for their exposure. This article originated at Alternet News, and the author was Norm Chomsky. Well, Alternet news kept banning Bruecke and myself because way back 3 years ago we exposed the role of Israel and the Zionist bankers in all of our problems and we kept getting banned. Newsmax was no different, they banned us for the same reason. That got us wondering, how that was possible, why were both a left and right publication banning us over Israel and Zionist bankers like Goldman Sachs? Rothschild, Rockefeller, etc. The only explanation was they were cohorts in this giant scam, both left and right leaders and press.
We finally concluded that the "grassroots" right and left were definitely aware of both the bankers and the Israeli's role in our problems, with exceptions and the exceptions both right and left were those who were listening to such left publications as Alternet and right publications such as Newsmax. That meant, both publications were directing the news and the leanings on both sides creating a herd of sheeple through intensive censorship and disinformation. It became clear there was no difference between the parties or their major alternative news rags that supported the institutions and not the people. That is when we decided to start our own blog and thus we had our beginning, thanks to Alternet and Newsmax. How ironic is that?
What is wrong with this below is the inference that Iran is not part of the US/Israel/Russia/China conspiracy along with the bankers to conjure up a world war for their purposes, using Iran as justification for it, while in reality, they are all in on it for greed, power, satanism and globalizing, which go together. A satanic run one world order. If we know this, then those writing these articles and publishing them, know this as well. THE ILLUMINATI FAMILIES ARE IN ON IT AS WELL THROUGH BILDERBERG. You know who they are. Never forget it.
I doubt there are few people at their level who don't know about the pervasiveness of Satanism in this battle. Its the citizens of these countries that are hoodwinked into believe this tripe below. Remember, they always put truth of some sort into these deals to give them legitimacy, but they went too far, by blaming Iran for anything. LOL Even Israel's own intel head has said Iran is no threat, its the leaders and not the lower eschelon people who are in on it.
They don't even mention the 63 million Christians the satanists khazars murdered when they financed, organized and supplied leadership to the Russian revolution. That revolution took place also during a World War, just like they are trying to do to us now. We are the next target. Russia was first after the protocols were written outlining all of this, Germany was next with the revolution over throwing the weirmach regime and replacing it with the German socialist "NA" party and the International "ZI"onist party, resulting in the "NAZI" party.
Right in the first line of the first paragraph is the biggest disinfo propoganda on the planet. Iran's leaders are right in there with the Satanists. We showed that on here before, but lets do it again.... to be clear here about who is what in the alternative field of information. Alternet gets funding from the Ford Foundation, and I bet Rockefeller too, but I don't know that one for sure.
Read this below and see if you can see this as we do. I am going to highlight the propoganda in yellow for you to see and either agree or disagree with it.
Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/09/10/why-america-and-israel-are-the-greatest-threats-to-peace/
Truther, September 10, 2012
Iran is carrying out a murderous and destructive low-level war against Israel with great-power participation. (VN: DISINFO, Israel can no longer play that victim card and have people believe it after all they have done to everyone else including us, in America, murdering our citizens for political gain.) Its leaders announce that negotiations are going nowhere. Israel refuses to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty and allow inspections, as Iran has done. Israel continues to defy the overwhelming international call for a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the region. Throughout, Iran enjoys the support of its superpower patron.(VN: Yes, Great Britain, USA, Israel, Germany, all NATO nations, Russia, China, Japan, etc.)
Iranian leaders are therefore announcing their intention to bomb Israel, and prominent Iranian military analysts report that the attack may happen before the U.S. elections. (VN: I have not read that anywhere, however, I did read Iran said "IF ATTACKED" they would bomb the US, not a word about Israel and only if attacked. Where is the link to the report, Norm? And if they did say that, its part of the game that Iranian leaders are in on. We should feel flattered, all this just to bring down America. )
Iran can use its powerful air force and new submarines sent by Germany, armed with nuclear missiles and stationed off the coast of Israel. (VN: This is what I am talking about, Germany has supplied submarines with nukes to Israel and we documented that all over the place on this blog and supplied the photos to prove it. So what this tells me is ISRAEL IS GOING TO ATTACK THEMSELVES WITH THOSE GERMAN NUKES AND BLAME IRAN WHO HAS NO HISTORY IN 360 YEARS OF EVER ATTACKING ANOTHER NATION. THIS IS A FALSE FLAG IN THE MAKING, USING ISRAEL'S GERMAN SUBMARINES, Remember, Israel got caught with the bogus false flag so called attack on No Korea and tried to blame it on South Korea and the submarine torpedo was from a German submarine like those used by Israel, and that got exposed on the net, we even published pictures of it, so they could not use that for starting WW III, BUT THEY TRIED. We did a really good blog on that one with massive evidence the attack was not done by South Korea, it was done either by the Germans or the Israelis and you know who I vote for on that one. ) Whatever the timetable, Iran is counting on its superpower backer to join if not lead the assault. (VN: Right, Putin is in on it as well AS ALL THE PLAYERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BOGUS CONFLICT AND WE ARE CRAZY IF WE FIGHT IN THEIR WAR. We have been watching them set this war up for years now. This has nothing to do with Iran. It has everything to do with globalizing and we are the designated losers because we are the biggest threat and resistance to their global plans.) U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta says that while we do not favor such an attack, as a sovereign country Iran will act in its best interests. (VN: Panetta, why don't you tell your owners NOT TO FALSE FLAG AN ATTACK ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE? Wonder what the Israeli's will say when they find out they were attacked by their own leaders?? They can't get Iran to start the damn war, so they are going to do it, just like they did financing Hamas against their own people. When the Israeli people wake up, there will be hell to pay for those leaders. Someone is going to ask why the US funded building nuke hardened bunkers in Israel almost 5 years ago? Why? Because this has been laid out and planned for that long of a time and preparations have been going on just as long.)
All unimaginable, of course, though it is actually happening, (VN: Liar) with the cast of characters reversed. True, analogies are never exact, and this one is unfair – to Iran. (VN: See, I told you they tell some truth, to make the rest of this believable.)
Like its patron, (VN: He means the US owned and controlled by Israel) Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. (VN: More truth) Security Council. It has repeatedly carried out brutal attacks against Lebanon and the imprisoned people of Gaza, killing tens of thousands without credible pretext. (VN: More truth, and they are supporting those murders, by their cooperation through manipulating the news. )
Thirty years ago Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, an act that has recently been praised, avoiding the strong evidence, even from U.S. intelligence, that the bombing did not end Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program but rather initiated it. Bombing of Iran might have the same effect.
Iran too has carried out aggression – but during the past several hundred years, only under the U.S.-backed regime of the shah, when it conquered Arab islands in the Persian Gulf. (VN: More truth)
Iran engaged in nuclear development programs under the shah, with the strong support of official Washington. The Iranian government is brutal and repressive, as are Washington’s allies in the region. (VN: It was under the Shah, but not now, otherwise, why is the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel, located in Iran if the regime is so bad now? Why haven't they emigrated to Israel? Disinfo again) The most important ally, Saudi Arabia, (VN: NOT!! Remember, we proved the Saudi royalty are not semites, they are Khazars, installed by Britain in those countries after WW I and that British royalty are of the Khazar line as well, that is why Saudi's are sunnis, and allies of Israel and the US, and hate the shias of Iran, disinfo again! We all know this too, because of the close relationship of our and British subjects to the Carlyle group owned in major part by the Saudi's.) (Saudi Arabia) is the most extreme Islamic fundamentalist regime, and spends enormous funds spreading its radical Wahhabist doctrines elsewhere. (VN: aaah, probably true, however, we have shored them up like we have the brutal regime of Israel and done so for decades, its why the bankers like them, because they are brutal, probably trying to get us "Christians" to fight the "Muslims" and kill each other off and leave the Rothschild Israeli's in charge of the planet. THAT IS THE PLAN. )
The gulf dictatorships, also favored U.S. allies, have harshly repressed any popular effort to join the Arab Spring. (VN: Thats because the arab spring is done by the CIA, MOSSAD AND MI6 and every one knows it. Those rebels were identified as those trained by the CIA in Virginia and were in the US for 20 years being used periodically in the ME for various jobs, that was pointed out by independant electronic media from overseas. LOL Our MSM were, as usual, out to lunch. The Saudi's know all this and don't need to support the arab spring since that would be like supporting those who can take care of themselves. They would have problems at home if they tried since their own people know who is running the show given the results of the rebellion which is that of Rothschild fiat banking and oil now existing and controlled by the oil companies instead of the countries)
The Nonaligned Movement – the governments of most of the world’s population – is now meeting in Teheran. The group has vigorously endorsed Iran’s right to enrich uranium, and some members – India, for example – adhere to the harsh U.S. sanctions program only partially and reluctantly. (VN: aah, more truth, interspersed with the disinfo and propoganda)
The NAM delegates doubtless recognize the threat that dominates discussion in the West, lucidly articulated by Gen. Lee Butler, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command: “It is dangerous in the extreme that in the cauldron of animosities that we call the Middle East,” one nation should arm itself with nuclear weapons, which “inspires other nations to do so.”
Butler is not referring to Iran, but to Israel, which is regarded in the Arab countries and in Europe as posing the greatest threat to peace In the Arab world, the United States is ranked second as a threat, while Iran, though disliked, is far less feared. Indeed in many polls majorities hold that the region would be more secure if Iran had nuclear weapons to balance the threats they perceive.
If Iran is indeed moving toward nuclear-weapons capability – this is still unknown to U.S. intelligence – that may be because it is “inspired to do so” by the U.S.-Israeli threats, regularly issued in explicit violation of the U.N. Charter.
Why then is Iran the greatest threat to world peace, as seen in official Western discourse? The primary reason is acknowledged by U.S. military and intelligence and their Israeli counterparts: Iran might deter the resort to force by the United States and Israel.
Furthermore Iran must be punished for its “successful defiance,” which was Washington’s charge against Cuba half a century ago, and still the driving force for the U.S. assault against Cuba that continues despite international condemnation.
Other events featured on the front pages might also benefit from a different perspective. Suppose that Julian Assange had leaked Russian documents revealing important information that Moscow wanted to conceal from the public, and that circumstances were otherwise identical.
Sweden would not hesitate to pursue its sole announced concern, accepting the offer to interrogate Assange in London. It would declare that if Assange returned to Sweden (as he has agreed to do), he would not be extradited to Russia, where chances of a fair trial would be slight.
Sweden would be honored for this principled stand. Assange would be praised for performing a public service – which, of course, would not obviate the need to take the accusations against him as seriously as in all such cases.
The most prominent news story of the day here is the U.S. election. An appropriate perspective was provided by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who held that “We may have democracy in this country, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
Guided by that insight, coverage of the election should focus on the impact of wealth on policy, extensively analyzed in the recent study “Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America” by Martin Gilens. He found that the vast majority are “powerless to shape government policy” when their preferences diverge from the affluent, who pretty much get what they want when it matters to them. ( VN: Aaah, the infamous "class warfare" as outlined in the protocols, these guys are good. This must be for the rebellion they want us to have. They have been screeching "Civil war" for days now. Is this beginning to sound like Russia in 1917 to you? Over throw the wealthy and institute communism turned into fascism? And do it while in the middle of a world war? They never deviate from success, do they? I like some originality in these things for a change. It gets boring using the same old strategy and tactics, which gives them away.)
Small wonder, then, that in a recent ranking of the 31 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of social justice, the United States placed 27th, despite its extraordinary advantages.
Or that rational treatment of issues tends to evaporate in the electoral campaign, in ways sometimes verging on comedy. (VN: Where was your outrage at what the Dem leadership did to Kucinich and McKinney? or the GOP's outrage at what they did to Ron Paul? Are you sure you want the electorial campaign to engage in "rational Treatment of issues"? Then you should have expressed outrage over the treatment of Kucinich and McKinney because they were doing exactly that which got them replaced by the dem leadership).
To take one case, Paul Krugman reports that the much-admired Big Thinker of the Republican Party, Paul Ryan, declares that he derives his ideas about the financial system from a character in a fantasy novel – “Atlas Shrugged” – who calls for the use of gold coins instead of paper currency.
It only remains to draw from a really distinguished writer, Jonathan Swift. In “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sages of Lagado carry all their goods with them in packs on their backs, and thus could use them for barter without the encumbrance of gold. Then the economy and democracy could truly flourish – and best of all, inequality would sharply decline, a gift to the spirit of Justice Brandeis.
(VN: The hypocracy of this piece is palpable.)
Thanks to: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com
