“President Bush has promised to rid the world of evil and to lead the great mission to build free societies on every continent.
To understand such an epic lie is to understand history – hidden history, suppressed history, history that explains why we in the West know a lot about the crimes of others but almost nothing about our own.
The missing word is EMPIRE. The existence of an American Empire is rarely acknowledged or it is smothered in displays of jingoism that celebrate war and an arrogance that says no country has a right to go its own way unless that way coincides with the interests of the United States.
For empires have nothing to do with freedom . They are vicious, they are about conquest and theft and control and secrets.
Since 1945 the United States has attempted to overthrow 50 governments, many of them democracies. In the process 30 countries have been attacked and bombed, causing the loss of countless lives….” John Pilger in his film “The War on Democracy”
(http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-3739500579629840148#)
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Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, November 4, 2011
“We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of recent news as well background feature articles on US-NATO-Israel war plans directed against Iran.
In recent developments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought cabinet support for a military strike against Iran
Meanwhile, the British government has also signified that were Washington “to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes” against the Islamic Republic, Her Majesty’s government would support the Obama administration’s resolve for a pre-emptive attack on Iran.
A War on Iran has been on the drawing board of The Pentagon since 2004.
Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme is the pretext and the justification. Tehran is also identified as a “State sponsor of terrorism”, for allegedly supporting the Al Qaeda network.
In recent development, what is unfolding is an integrated attack plan on Iran led by the US, with the participation of the United Kingdom and Israel.
Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads
Central to an understanding of war, is the media campaign which grants it legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. A good versus evil dichotomy prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims. Public opinion is misled:
”Breaking the “big lie” which upholds war as a humanitarian undertaking, means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force.
This selection of articles portrays a diabolical and far-reaching military agenda, which in the real sense of the word, threatens the future of humanity.
We call upon Global Research readers to spread the word far and wide.
What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network, across the land, nationally and internationally, which challenges the structures of power and authority.
War and Globalization are intimately related.
America’s War’s of Economic Conquest seek to recolonize countries through military action, confiscate their assets, take over their oil reserves …
Meanwhile, another form of warfare is unfolding: The Free Market system and its neoliberal policy are conducive to the destabilization of entire national economies. “Economic Warfare” led by creditor banks, institutional speculators, hedge funds and international financial institutions is conducive to spearheading entire national economies into bankruptcy.
While the Western elites’ political handlers impose draconian austerity measures in the name of democracy, the Pentagon, the Atlantic Alliance, the Western intelligence apparatus and Israel’s high command are meeting behind closed doors: War preparations directed against Syria and Iran are in an advanced state of readiness.
There are at present four distinct war theaters: Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine and Libya.
Were a US-NATO-Israel military operation to be launched against either Syria or Iran, the broader Middle East Central Asian region extending from North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with China would be engulfed in the turmoil of an extended regional war.
Forward this selection of articles. Share it on Facebook and Twitter.
Forcefully announce your antiwar stance before rather than in the wake of the attack…
This war can be prevented if people confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at the local level in towns, villages and municipalities, spread the word, inform their fellow citizens as to the implications of a nuclear war, initiate debate and discussion within the armed forces.
The objective is to forcefully reverse the tide of war, challenge the war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups which support them.”
You find the article collection of M. Chossudovsky here
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27471
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THE GLOBAL PLAYERS
John Pilger´s Film “The War on Democracy” – a must watch
Video “The Israel Lobby”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20155.htm
Video “The Secret of Oz – Best documentary 2010″
Project Censored “Human Costs of War and Violence”
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/human-costs-of-war-violence%E2%80%94censored-news-cluster-from-censored-2012-chapter-1/?utm_source=Media+Freedom+foundation+List&utm_campaign=17de4f6ce3-Occupy_Reality_peaceful&utm_medium=email
Victor Ivanov “Drug Trafficking and the Financial Crisis”
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2011/3847ivanov_drugs_fin_crisis.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2011/2011_40-49/2011-47/pdf/32-37_3847.pdf
Video “American Drug War – The Last White Hope”, 2007
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23622.htm
William F. Engdahl
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27987
Nahida Izat “Who are the Warmongers”
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-are-warmongers.html
Al Jazeera “It´s Pentagon/Nato versus the BRICS”
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011112991711150824.html#.TtZZ0PUSke0.gmail
Alan Hart “Obama and Israel´s Security”
http://www.alanhart.net/
James Petras “The Obama Doctrine….”
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/11/09/the-obama-doctrine-making-a-virtue-of-ne
Professor Richard Falk “Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal – Bush and Blair Guilty”
http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-and-blair-guilty/
Information Clearing House “China not Obliged to Besiege Iran”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29879.htm
Washington´s Blog
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/neoconservatives-planned-regime-change-throughout-the-middle-east-and-northern-africa-20-years-ago.html
Congressional Research Services “The Unified Command Plan and Combatant Commands: Background and Issues for Congress”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42077.pdf
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/11/cocoms_crs.html
Dissident Voice “Military Industrial Complex: Full Fruition”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/11/military-industrial-complex-full-fruition/
Press TV “UK builds new nukes, IAEA ignores”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212607.html
The Eyeopener Report “Pipeline Politics and the Rewiring of Eurasia”
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/11/29/the-eyeopener-pipeline-politics-the-rewiring-of-eurasia/
Indian Punchline “BRICS blocks the US on Middle East”
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2011/11/25/brics-blocks-the-us-on-middle-east/
Global Research Interactive Reader “Libya and the ‘Arab Spring’: Neoliberalism, ‘Regime Change’ and NATO´s ‘Humanitarian Wars’”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27884
Global Research “Unknown snipers and Western backed regime change”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27904
Glen Ford “Africa lies naked to Euro-American military offensive”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29882.htm
Glenn Greenwald “Obama fulfilling the Neocon dream?”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29836.htm
Leonid Ivashov “The end of reset”
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/11/27/the-end-of-reset.html
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Stop the War on Iran.Org www.StopWarOnIran.org
SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION DEMANDING AN END TO THE PHONY WAR HYPE FABRICATED ACCUSATIONS AGAINST IRAN! at stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml
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WARMONGERING
Video “Empire – Targeting Iran”
Video “Once Upon a Time in Iran”, 2007
Press TV Documentary “Iran and the West”
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7B4076994D77EA06&feature=player_embedded&v=FfrJ2rBobGs#!
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjRkrTxkzY&feature=BFa&list=PL7B4076994D77EA06&lf=player_embedded
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf3fcoXx0pI&feature=BFa&list=PL7B4076994D77EA06&lf=player_embedded
John Pilger “Once Again War is Prime Time and Journalism´s Role is Taboo”
http://johnpilger.com/articles/once-again-war-is-prime-time-and-journalism-s-role-is-taboo
Glenn Greenwald “George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29890.htm
William Blum “Prepping Americans for an Iran War”
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/03/prepping-americans-for-an-iran-war/
Tom Burghardt “War With Iran: a Provocation Away?”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/12/war-with-iran-a-provocation-away/
Patrick Seale “Is Iran the Enemy of the Arabs?”
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=49285
Stuart Littlewood “UK Government Spoiling for a Fight with Iran”
http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20111202
CASMII
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/11888
IranAffairs “…..the Double Standards Exposed”
http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/
“American Enterprise Institute Admits The Problem With Iran is not that it Would Use Nukes”
http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201112020008
Richard Silverstein
“Israel and Iran – Why War?
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/12/01/israel-and-iran-why-war/
“Dagan´s First TV Interview”
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/12/02/dagans-first-tv-interview/
Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/former-mossad-chief-israeli-attack-on-iran-must-be-stopped-to-avert-catastrophe-1.399046
Avner Cohen “Israel´s Iran Dilemma”
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-s-iran-dilemma-1.399100
Tom Burghardt”Target Iran – Washington´s Countdown to War”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27864
Monterey Institute “To Attack or not to Attack: the Israeli Dilemma on Iran”
http://www.youtube.com/user/MontereyInstitute#p/u/5/RGQEjH3hiQA
Question and answers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhx-LwkxF-8&feature=relmfu
Philip Giraldi “Proxy War with Iran”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/proxy-war-with-iran/
“An IAEA Conversation With Rafsanjani”
http://hibbs.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/388/an-iaea-conversation-with-rafsanjani
Robert Fisk “Why Iranians hate the British”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/01/why-iranians-hate-the-british/
Scott Horton interviews Gareth Porter
http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/11/27/gareth-porter-136/
Richard Falk “Criminalizing Diplomacy….”
http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/criminalizing-diplomacy-fanning-the-flames-of-the-iran-war-option/
IAEA Report on Iran
The Report
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/images/IAEA_Iran_8Nov2011.pdf
Comments
http://tehrantimes.com/index.php/politics/4362-iran-provides-20-answers-to-clarify-ambiguities-about-its-nuclear-program
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29668.htm
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1143.html
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4430
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/1956787.html
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Secretarial/Cabinet/2011/11/govmes131111.htm
http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2011/11/iaea-overstepping-its-legal-authority-on-iran.html
http://dourgoat.blogspot.com/2011/11/examining-iaeas-evidence-that-iran-may.html
http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/03sahimi.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/11/opinion-the-iaea-report-on-irans-nuclear-program-alarming-or-hyped.html
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/09/a_glimpse_inside_irans_nukes/
Articles about the “Assassination Hoax”
Gilad Atzmon “Israeli Madness knows no limit”
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/israeli-madness-knows-no-limit.html
Dissident Voice “Territory of Lies”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/11/territory-of-lies/
Information Clearing House
Sharmine Narwani “The Iran-Saudi ‘Assassination’ Hoax”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29404.htm
Rae McGovern “Petraeus´ CIA fuels Iran Murder Plot”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29397.htm
Middle East Online
“Ten Reasons to question US allegations of Iranian terror plot”
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48546
Palestine Chronicle
“Targeting Iran: US playing the Saudi Envoy Game”
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17179
“Iranian Plot more fantastical than real”
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17177
Gulfnews
Patrick Seale “Will Israel Bomb Iran without notifying the US?
http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/will-israel-bomb-iran-without-notifying-the-us-1.891422
More comments
Lawrence Davidson “The FBI goes rogue on Iran”
http://www.tothepointanalyses.com/
STOP ARMS TRADE AND MILITARY RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
“German Support for Nuclear Arm´s Race”
http://disarmtheconflict.wordpress.com/
GERMAN ARTICLES
German Foreign Policy “Kriegsdrohungen gegen Iran”, Teil 1
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58208?PHPSESSID=1dmn9o4mnmrgdevc6vtb9iqq13
Teil 2 http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/58211
Neues Deutschland “Ein Staat wird kriegsreif geredet”
http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/212565.ein-staat-wird-kriegsreif-geredet.html
Knut Mellenthin “Große Ente, kleines Dementi”
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/12-03/050.php?print=1
IPPNW Deutschland “Droht Krieg als Ablenkung von der Krise?”
http://www.ippnw.de/startseite/artikel/fbed0ea05f/droht-krieg-als-ablenkung-von-der-kr.html
Redaktion Schattenblick “In Zeiten der Krise und Kriegsgefahr boomt der deutsche Waffenexport”
http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/politik/redakt/milt-850.html
Knut Mellenthin “Mafia-Diplomatie”
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/11-05/021.php
Redaktion Schattenblick “Iranischer ‘Terrorkomplott’ entpuppt sich als Charade”
http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/politik/redakt/usa1307.html
Protestbrief der Iranischen UN-Botschafters
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/10-14/052.php
Werner Pirker “Verschwörungstheorien”
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/10-15/052.php
Werner Pirker “FAZ-Pistolen”
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/10-15/006.php