Bulwark of 'Freedom' | Ignorance is Strength Edition

We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 25, 2009
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/were-still-war-photo-day-september-25-2009


Nuclear Weapons and the Poltics of Impatience
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/22/nuclear_weapons_and_the_poltics_of_impatience/index.php

U.S. ignores doubts, pledges billions more for Pakistan
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/76019.html

( Talk 'Peace' - Act 'War' )

Disclosure of nuclear site puts heat on Iran
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/76019.html

( Further distraction )

Angry Reaction 'Shocked' Head of Iran's Nuclear Program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/26/AR2009092601359.html

Missile Defense and Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/09/missile-defense-and-irans-nuclear-ambitions/
 On Monday, Iran wrote a brief, cryptic letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, saying that it now had a “pilot plant” under construction, whose existence it had never before revealed.The I.A.E.A. said it had requested more information about the plant and access to it as soon as possible. “The agency also understands from Iran that no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility,”.
Mr. Obama had made a giant step toward getting Russia more amenable to the idea of sanctions against Iran* — something Moscow does not like — by announcing last week that he was replacing President George W. Bush’s missile defense with a version less threatening to Moscow.
( * Not so much : abandoning ones clientel does not foster good relations with potential ones )
Asia Times Online: Moscow holds the line on Iran sanctions

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI26Ak04.html

Could gasoline sanctions deter Iran unlike others?
The U.S. and its allies Friday gave Iran two months to comply with international demands to come clean on its expanding nuclear program, or face broader international sanctions, perhaps even targeting the country's gasoline imports.

( Shreiking 'Confess !' )

The U.S. has sanctioned more than 40 Iranian entities, including state-owned banks and construction companies. These sanctions have lacked a global buy-in.
Experts such as Sick, the Columbia professor, think that gasoline sanctions would prove ineffective.
"The smuggling* across the border is enormous . . . and China has just announced it is supplying Iran a full third of its needs for refined petroleum products," he said. "It looks extremely unlikely they would go along with it."

( * smuggling ? What 'smuggling ? Whose borders and rules are being violated ? The people whose borders and rules the U.S. is violating ! Excuse me. My bad.
Just as with Cuba : a Blockade is an ACT OF WAR. )

US and European powers threaten Iran
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/iran-s26.shtml
In what has all the hallmarks of an orchestrated political provocation, the United States, Britain and France, with the support of Germany, denounced a supposedly secret Iranian nuclear plant, threatened stepped-up economic sanctions and possible military action unless the facility was immediately open to inspection.

In a joint announcement Friday morning at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared together before television cameras to issue the warning. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had left Pittsburgh to return home, issued her own statement of support for the threats against Iran.

Obama declared, “The Iranian government must now demonstrate through deeds its peaceful intentions or be held accountable to international standards and international law.”

( Interesting complaint : one wonders what the deeds of the United States demonstrate ? Check out U.S. military interventions since 1890 )


Shirin Ebadi on the Rights of Iranians
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=437482

Kansas doctor has side practice: working to overthrow Iran regime
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/117/story/76070.html?storylink=omni_popular

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI26Ak04.html

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• French Official Shows Reluctance on a Blockage of Gasoline for Iran (nytimes.com)
• Evenhanded? (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
• Russia Signals Opposition to New Sanctions Against Iran (nytimes.com)
• China Opposes Iran Sanctions Sought by U.S. (nytimes.com)