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Headlines : InternationalThe War On Iran Has Already Begun
Who pays the taxes to pay the interest on bonds sold to investment bankers and hereditary capitalist families to refurbish nuclear arsenals that don’t need refurbishing, to replace tanks, armoured vehicles and helicopters lost in the wars that should never have been fought, and to build war machines to outrage the sovereignty of other countries? Who foots the bill for lucrative defense contracts to make the machinery of war? Who carries the ball to finance the programs of subverting democracy in other countries? Who sacrifices their limbs, eyesight, hearing, sanity and lives to fight wars to secure profitable investment opportunities for the super-rich? In this system, the bulk of us are exploited, while a tiny minority reaps the benefit of monstrous profits. We are the cannon-fodder, the vote-fodder, the tax-fodder that allows the system to run and the super-rich get super-richer.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from The Center for Research on Globalization
According to US economist Jeffrey Sachs, “Bush recently invited journalists to imagine the world in 50 years…he wanted to know whether Islamic radicals would control the world’s oil.” Sachs pointed out that stoking fears over who will control the world’s petroleum reserves is not new to the Bush administration.
In the lead up to the Anglo-American war on Iraq, US vice president Dick Cheney made the ridiculous claim that Saddam Hussein was assembling a massive arsenal of WMD “to take control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies.” “Perhaps though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian and Italian companies rather than British and US companies,” Sachs observed. (“Fighting the wrong war,” The Guardian, September 25, 2006) Strip away the fear-mongering, and what Bush and Cheney are really saying is that a resource as lucrative as petroleum won’t be allowed to remain in the hands of its true owners. It will be stripped from them, by force if necessary.
In the Bush administration’s assessment “Iran sees itself at the head of an alliance to drive the United States out of Iraq and ultimately out of the Middle East,” (New York Times, January 28, 2007) forcing…
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The economic war on Iran started some time ago; see this article in the Hindu Times:
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“Not the right time to invest in Iran gas”, says Christina Rocca to Pakistan and India (2005)
That’s the same Rocca who delivered the threat to the Taliban, summer 2001: “Accept out offer of a carpet of gold, or we will bury you in a carpet of bombs”.
Iran: A War Is Coming: The ‘‘threat’‘ from Iran is entirely manufactured, aided and abetted by familiar, compliant media language that refers to Iran’s ‘‘nuclear ambitions,’‘ just as the vocabulary of Saddam’s non-existent WMD arsenal became common usage. Accompanying this is a demonizing that has become standard practice.