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Russia just defeated the US in the race for Central Asian gas. The US bet on a gas pipeline through Taliban territory in Afghanistan and Pakistan to India while trying to sideline Russia and Iran! Putin is rivalling the emir of Kuwait as a fossil fuel master of the universe. The only question is when some big power will get hungry enough for natural gas to defy AIPAC's congressional boycott on developing Iran's oil and gas fields. It is likely that future historians will date the end of America's superpower status from that date.
Neoconservative Iraq War architect Richard Perle is seeking to get into the oil business in Iraq. See also the Iraq Oil Report on this matter.
Then there is this: 55,000 persons called the Veterans Administration suicide hotline in its first year of operation, 22,000 identifying themselves as vets.
Read those two again, together.
"...none of the countries demanding that Iran scraps the weapons it doesn't yet possess are demanding that Israel destroys the weapons it does possess." (guardian.co.uk)
ABC admits that without White House accounting tricks, the budget deficit will be $600 billion this year. The official figure does not count the cost of the Iraq War! One Reddit headline suggested that the Bush administration has not only moved our country toward fascism but bequeathed it a Weimar economy.
The Democrats, including Barbara Boxer, are insisting that the Environmental Protection Agency's 'chilling' memo on carbon emissions and public health be released to the public.
Why don't you ever hear about it when Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian children and youth?
Aljazeera International has video on Israel's land-grab of Palestinian villagers' land and the demonstrations, in answer to which the killing came.
Torture is widespread in both Hamas and PLO prisons in the Palestine Authority.
posted by Juan Cole @ 7/30/2008 12:08:00 AM
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Re prison torture in foreign lands
I certainly wish to stay out of all foreign prisons, but anyone that watches TV cop dramas has started to get it that prison in the US threatened as tortuous, to coercively illicit confessions and testimony. Prison rape and AIDS are a fair likelihood, commuting a short stretch into a life sentence.
Cpl. Grainer of Abu Ghraib notoreity readily adapted strip-crawl, fire hosing and other state prison guard techniques, to 'set conditions' for the real interrogators that didn't take pictures of their deeds.
Here in California, home of the old Stanford 'prison behavior sink' experiment, mandatory sentencing has prison population packed and primed to an explosive state. Recruitment to a muscular prison religion is one way to survive, moslems being a growth group.
Bhadrakumar actually understates the importance of the Russo-Turkomen and Azerbaijani gas buys because of the leverage Iran now employs on the Europeans. The whole sequence of events was easliy predicted because of US Imperial behavior toward Russia and China. The only surprise for me was Iran's not yet being admitted to the SCO. The next blow will occur when payment for the gas is demanded in Rubles, not euros or dollars. And that day will come sooner than most reaalize.
Dear Professor Cole
Everyone seems to overlook the fact that Iran has its own Uranium Mines and that importing fuel from elsewhere might look a little strange to people who have been embargoed for the last 30 years.
The age of Isreal's Nuclear Ambiguity seem now to be drawing to a close. Essentially the cat got out of the bag three months ago with the publication of their Nuclear Strategy.
You may find this description of the work of Project Daniel, with a passing mention of Project Samson of interest and to be directly on topic.
Mutual Assured Destruction
I am more than a little peeved that I would die in a Project Samson attack if I am working in the Middle East.
I find it intolerable that six million people living in an arid corner of the Mediterranean should presume to deny the 250 million who live within 1500 miles (the strike distance) the possibility of economic development by holding a veto by F16 on their construction of power generating stations.
I tend to agree with Dwight Eisenhower's idea that the solution to the Midlle East's problems lies in the provision of nuclear powered desalination plants which will provide water for irrigation. This as is often overlooked was the original purpose of the Bushehr Reactor in Iran.
Generation of Electricity by means of hydropower gives rise to so many problems about water usage, compounded even more by Global Warming, that wars seem inevitable
As a two state solution in Palestine does not look viable in any near term timescale one must look at the consequences for a One State Solution in a majority Arab setting. The advice to the Palestinians must be Make Love, not War (as often as possible)
Reading the following
Lets do Armageddon by mid January
it is tempting to think that given the dreadful consequences of an Israeli attack on Iran the best thing Mssrs Medvedeve and Putin can do for peace in the Middle East is to bring forward the delivery timescale for S-300.
Perle isnot the only one. Jay Garner who was the first Iraq viceroy is already in (not forgetting Hunter Oil, Bush's close friend.) Garner acts as a "consultant" for a consortium awarded Qara Dagh fields by the Kurds in May.
Frankly, I cannot blame these monsters for their daylight robbery. The stupid, stupid, American people are providing the blood and treasure to make it possible for them, killing and destroying on a huge scale in the process.
So Perle hopes to profit from Iraq's oil? How perfect. As Alan Greenspan said, "It's all about the oil." Now Charles Krauthammer, the neocon columnist for the Washington Post, has weighed in on how Obama and Maliki would sell us out just as we're on the verge (thanks to the surge) of controlling Iraq. This column http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403416.html lends a lot of weight to the views of Chomsky and others that the main purpose of the invasion was to project U.S. power and hegemony in a geostrategically vital region.
From the AP report on Palestinian Torture:
Hamas violently seized power in Gaza in June 2007, leaving the Islamic militant group in charge of the coastal territory and Abbas' forces controlling the West Bank.
Didn't Hamas get elected? How is that "violent"?
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