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Goldbergs bogus ticking clock on Iran

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(source: Tony Karon Blog – Rootless Cosmopolitan)

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 America’s march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is gaining momentum.

Last month, TIME’s Joe Klein warned that Obama administration sources had told him bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities was “back on the table.” In an interview with CNN, former CIA director Admiral Mike Hayden next spoke of an “inexorable” dynamic toward confrontation, claiming that bombing was a more viable option for the Obama administration than it had been for George W. Bush. The pièce de résistance in the most recent drum roll of bomb-Iran alerts, however, came from Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic Monthly. A journalist influential in U.S. pro-Israeli circles, he also has access to Israel’s corridors of power. Because sanctions were unlikely to force Iran to back down on its uranium enrichment project, Goldberg invited readers to believe that there was a more than even chance Israel would launch a military strike on the country by next summer.

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Kashmirs fruits of discord

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By Arundhati Roy

(source: New York Times)

A week before he was elected in 2008, President Obama said that solving the dispute over Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination – which has led to three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947 – would be among his “critical tasks.” His remarks were greeted with consternation in India, and he has said almost nothing about Kashmir since then.

But on Monday, during his visit here, he pleased his hosts immensely by saying the United States would not intervene in Kashmir and announcing his support for India’s seat on the United Nations Security Council. While he spoke eloquently about threats of terrorism, he kept quiet about human rights abuses in Kashmir.

Whether Mr. Obama decides to change his position on Kashmir again depends on several factors: how the war in Afghanistan is going, how much help the United States needs from Pakistan and whether the government of India goes aircraft shopping this winter. (An order for 10 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, worth $5.8 billion, among other huge business deals in the pipeline, may ensure the president’s silence.) But neither Mr. Obama’s silence nor his intervention is likely to make the people in Kashmir drop the stones in their hands.

I was in Kashmir 10 days ago, in that beautiful valley on the Pakistani border, home to three great civilizations – Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist. It’s a valley of myth and history. Some believe that Jesus died there; others that Moses went there to find the lost tribe. Millions worship at the Hazratbal shrine, where a few days a year a hair of the Prophet Muhammad is displayed to believers.

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Press release Isaraeli effort to retain mubarak deplored

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Media Review Network is appalled that Israel is lobbying behind-the-scenes to undermine Egypt’s mass-based revolution.

A report in Haa’retz reveals that Israel is lobbying frantically to prevent the toppling of Hosni Mubarak, thus directly interfering with a core demand of the protesters. This attempt by the Netanyahu regime is deplorable and we therefore condemn it unreservedly.

Anti-Mubarak protesters aspire for a free, independent democratic Egypt. Many of their spokespersons, including former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei have correctly argued against “cosmetic reforms” under the current dictatorship and demand that Mubarak has to go!

Revelations now about Israeli anxiety and underhand tactics to persuade the European Union, America and other countries to hang onto Mubarak is viewed by us as an affront against the masses of Egyptians.

We call on these countries and South Africa to adopt a clear, unambiguous position in line with the legitimate aspirations of the people. We also call on them to dismiss Israel’s despicable lobbying to retain Mubarak’s reign of terror. Egypt’s three decades of dictatorship and notorious emergency laws whereby fundamental liberties have been severely compromised, cannot be tolerated any longer. 

Iqbal Jassat                       

Chairman,

Media Review Network

Cell: 083 594 3749

E-mail: mrn_ij@telkomsa.net
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Bin laden lots to think about

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By Naom Chomsky

(source:  Voice of the Cape Online)

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.　It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition-except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany.

What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence-which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have.

Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.” Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

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