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In Solidarity
Binu

Iran’s Missiles Are Just For
Show
By Pepe Escobar

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There’s a maze of invisible, much more subtle messages, lost in the current tsunami of spin. For starters: even if Iran had the means to deliver the nuclear warheads it does not possess, these tests do not necessarily mean it has mastered the capability to do so. Experts disagree on the merits of the Shahab-3 – a copy of the North Korean Nodong; for some it’s not that less erratic than a glorified Scud. But most experts agree Iran is nowhere close to being capable of weaponizing any kind of nuclear device it may still take years to make

Foiling A ‘Lottery Of Death’
By Andrew Kishner

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While the mainstream media is running news articles with headlines such as ‘How might Israel attack Iran’ and ‘Can Israel do it alone, or do they need the U.S.?’, 99% of the world’s citizens reading these news pieces remain oblivious to the radiation effects of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Such an attack would employ either nuclear weapons, resulting in global radiation fallout, or conventional bunker buster weaponry that would unleash harmful, radioactive uranium dust from Iran’s facilities that would likewise circle the globe and endanger the lives of millions

State Department’s Iran Democracy Fund Shrouded In Secrecy
By Jason Leopold

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Since 2006, Congress has poured tens of millions of dollars into a State Department program aimed at promoting regime change in Iran. The “Democracy Program” initiative has been shrouded in secrecy since its inception and many critics of the initiative (who are also outspoken critics of the Iranian government) believe that it is directly linked to a spate of arrests of dozens of Iranian dissidents suspected of working secretly with the Bush administration to topple the Iranian government

Imagine A World Without Money
By John Steinsvold

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There is no question that a way of life without money will alleviate if not completely eliminate all of the previously mentioned problems. Yet, we scoff at the idea. We are totally convinced that money is a necessity. We cannot imagine life without money. Perhaps the time has come to think otherwise. It is completely obvious our present economy no longer satisfies our present day needs

India Caught In The Taliban Myth
By M K Bhadrakumar

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The horrendous terrorist attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday has no precedents. Never has the mission there been attacked in this fashion – not even during the darkest periods of the civil war in the 1980s and 1990. Nor has any other diplomatic mission in Kabul been so targeted in the current phase of the civil war that began with the United States invasion in 2001. Unsurprisingly, Indian opinion makers have been swift in depicting the terrorist act as a moral evil, which it probably is. All the same, it is necessary to draw a line while presenting what happened as a kind of morality play of good versus evil

A Kodak Moment: The Not-So-Historic Talabani-Barak Handshake
By Ramzy Baroud

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To suggest that the Barak-Talabani handshake was “historic” is completely unfounded, if not ignorant. What deserves scrutiny is why the governments of Tel Aviv and the Green Zone decided to upgrade their gestures of “good will” starting in 2003 to a public handshake. Is it a test balloon or is there a more “historic” and public agreement to follow?

Questioning EU Policies On
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Dr.Peter Custers

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Debate and public opinion building on climate change should, amongst others, seriously question the existing policies of the European Union. Forceful demands need to be formulated and canvassed for internationally, stating that the EU move beyond the limited targets which its institutions and most Europe-based environmental organisations have so far set

Oil Oligarchy:The War And After
By Mir Adnan Aziz

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With the imminent change of guard let us hope the new US administration, with urgency and clarity, delineates its predicament and changes its energy (foreign) policy. The surreal oil crisis is a direct fallout of US failure to develop a realistic energy policy at home and the means to procure it globally. If the paradigm is not changed, the next decades will see nations paying for America’s gluttonous lust for more oil – with more blood

A Constant Nakba For Palestine’s Bedouin
By Ida Audeh

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Abu Dahook is one of the approximately 50,000 Bedouin whose traditions and lifestyle have been nearly destroyed by Israeli colonization. Their communities are still being displaced by Israel’s illegal land annexation and the transfer of Israel’s civilian population to territory it occupies, in violation of international humanitarian law. Abu Dahook and others like him see no relief in sight as they are constantly dogged by Israeli threats of further displacement and neglect by the Palestinian Authority

Russell vs Marx
By Thomas Riggins

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“How to Read and Understand History” is an enjoyable introduction to some of Russell’s ideas, but although one can enjoy it, one cannot, I think, understand history from reading it

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