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Bombsquad agent orange1/9/2024 The game plan for Iran is largely drawn from the Iraqi playbook, with a few modifications. Keep this quote in mind as we review five critical steps to bringing your rivals to heel. ![]() Though UNSCOM had found no evidence of WMD programs, and no radar or satellite detections of nuclear activity were ever reported, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared that, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” This entire narrative smacks of the Iraq invasion of 2003, when the Bush administration’s unquenchable thirst for regional dominion led it to fabricate a covert Iraqi WMD program. But America has never forgiven the 1979 Islamic revolution. happily supported when its brutal stooge, the Shah of Iran, held the reigns of the country. Note that all of this talk of breakouts and sneakouts and covert programs is conjecture, speculation perhaps calibrated to produce distrust in Iranian aims, which to this point, seem to be in line with its right to pursue civilian nuclear energy-something the U.S. and its allies is not only a “breakout,” but a “sneakout,” which is the nonexistent covert program that it believes may one day exist “deep in the Iranian mountains.” The authors at least concede that the declared facilities are “crawling with inspectors and cameras.” The goal, it is said, is to stretch the “breakout” timeline by which Iran could ‘sprint’ to a bomb. The authors repeatedly emphasize Iran’s “declared” nuclear facilities. Seeks to Prevent a Covert Weapon.” The subhead reads, “A ‘Sneakout’ Feared.” The article then intones, with its vacuous air of impartiality and even-handed reserve, that the West (naturally acting with the best interests of all people at heart) is wrestling with “how to design an agreement to maximize the chances that Western intelligence agencies would catch any effort to develop an atomic bomb at a covert site.” Concern is obviously, then, “over a future Iranian covert program.” The front-page article from two Saturdays covered the Iranian nuclear program negotiations between Iran and the so-called P5+1, which includes the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Russia. Yet it was but the latest in the glossary of deceits that characterize America’s relationship with Iran. It also nicely illustrated the willingness of the media to serve as little more than a relay station for state propaganda. employs to undermine those that might pose a challenge to its global hegemony. N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic James Henry HarrisĪ recent New York Times article offered another textbook example of the spectacular bias the U.S. World War in Syria: Global Conflict on Middle Eastern Battlefields A.B. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Robert F. Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out Ramzy Baroud and Ilan PappeĪbolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages Ray AchesonĪmerica and the China Threat: From the End of History to the End of Empire Paolo Urio How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom Derek Smith The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution Nils Melzer Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians PossibleĬan Global Capitalism Endure? William I.Climate Change: Endless Words, Where’s the Action?.What is Sociohistorical Neopaganism or Neopagan Marxism?.Beggars in Surplus: Australia’s University Gangsters.Qantas, Rain Man and the Virtual Airline.Investigating the Victim: On Abbas’ “Holocaust” and the Depravity of Israeli Hasbara.“Race Reductionism” Threatens to Doom the Left.Supporters of Palestinian Rights Should praise NDP’s Dramatic Policy Shift.Browse by Topic Poetry on Sunday Latest Articles
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