7 July - Geopolitics and Sweetness

 Zion-power and War: From Iraq to Iran

If the official political and military justifications for the US colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ring hollow and convince few, what of the other economic explanations for the war put forth mostly but not exclusively by critics of the Bush administration?

Big Oil has failed to benefit from the US occupation because of the heightened conflict, continuous sabotage, the predictable resistance of the Iraqi oil workers to privatization and the general insecurity, instability and hostility of the Iraqi people. Whereas 'Big Oil's' negotiations and third party deals with pre-war Iraq provided a stable and consistent flow of oil and revenue, the war has not only reduced these revenues to zero, but has all but eliminated any new options for the next decade.

Iraq was severely bombed several times during the Clinton regimes and over 1 million of its citizens, including an estimated 500,000 children, died prematurely from conditions related to the US imposed deprivation of food and essential medical and water treatment supplies.

There is an alternative view, which argues that Israel promoted the US attack on Iraq, did all in its power through its US pro-Israel followers to design, propagandize and plan the war. This alternative view sustains that at no point did the Zion-Cons act contrary to Israeli state interests. In fact, Israeli officials worked on a daily basis with its US agents inside the government, particularly the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans to provide disinformation to justify the military attack. If, as we will show, Israel was deeply involved in pushing the US to attack Iraq and is behind the current disinformation campaign to provoke a US war against Iran, then anti-war forces and US public opinion must openly confront the 'Israel factor'.

We will argue that the exoneration of Israel is mainly an attempt to deflect US public hostility away from those Israel Firsters who manipulated us into this costly, bloody unending war. Exoneration of Israeli responsibility for the US invasion of Iraq allows the Jewish state and its US agents to escape any blame for the degradation of US forces in Iraq and provides them a 'clean moral slate' for launching a new bloody US attack against Iran.

( Nobody is going to accuse this piece as being another apologist analysis. Those who confuse Zionism with Jewry will have all sorts of problems. )

 

Civilizing Afghanistan While We Decivilize Ourselves

( The article starts with a declaration 'America' is not a colonial power LOL 

Comments, though, quickly eviserate this nonsense and are generally very astute. )

WAR IN AFGHANISTAN:
Will the sum change if we switch the summands’ places?

KYRGYZSTAN: BLACK HOLE OF MIDDLE ASIA. Vacuum of power, emerged after the color revolutions of 2005 is filled with chaos now

ESTONIA: Syndrome of inertial Rusophobia
GOOGLE VERSUS CHINA: New round
POLAND: Presidential elections at the background of collapsing Fourth Republic
EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part III. Neo-fascists at the political scene of the new EU member-states
EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part II. West has to re-educate its own xenophobes and racists, rather than Russia
EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK. Part I. Prior to teaching us how to be tolerant, Europeans should have better overcome their own complexes, inherited from the colonial epoch
"FATHERS’ GRAVES" OF THE POLISH POLITICS
THOUSANDS OF COMMEMORATION LIGHTS AT THE GRAVES OF OUR SOLDIERS IN POLAND

The Arab World Against Ahmadinejad?

( Another ridiculous essay redeemed by commenters )

AFGHANI TWIST: 30 years later.

Intellectual ferment among ethnic groups could have spread to the allied republics of the USSR that neighbored Afghanistan — Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenia. Life itself has proved that these apprehends weren’t groundless. After the Soviet military withdrawal and the proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992 radical Islamist ideas have gained considerable support in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Justice Department To File Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality Of Arizona Immigration Law

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.

America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You With Name Change

aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent! 

Sold commercially under names like NutraSweet, Canderel and now AminoSweet, aspartame can be found in more than 6,000 foods, including soft drinks, chewing gum, table-top sweeteners, diet and diabetic foods, breakfast cereals, jams, sweets, vitamins, prescription and over-the-counter drugs.