[ARABNEWS] The son of isolated former Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has been injured with more than half of his body suffering from burns.
Despite this, Saleh -- who is allied with the Houthis who support Iran -- is the criminal mastermind of the current mayhem in Yemen
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nice. The Houthis must feel all warm and cuddly about the fox now....
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This is not what I thought this article was going to be about at all. Thought it was about domestic issues closer at hand. Interesting none-the-less.
[Iran Press TV] By DR PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
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Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington's puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no corporate support; it only has your support.
I have been around for a long time and have experienced more than most. The current situation in my experience is the most dangerous time of all for humanity.
Nuclear weapons are no longer restrained by the Cold War MAD doctrine. Washington has released them into pre-emptive first strike form.
The targets of these pre-emptive strikes -- Russia and China -- know it, because Washington proudly proclaims its immorality in public documents describing its war doctrine.
The result is to maximize the chance of nuclear war. If you were Russia and China, and you knew that Washington had a war doctrine that permits a surprise nuclear attack, would you sit there waiting while Washington cranks up its anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda machine, demonizing both countries as a threat to "freedom and democracy"?
The fools in Washington are playing with nuclear fire. Noam Chomsky ...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... points out that in a less dangerous time than currently exists, we came very close to nuclear war.
Harold Pinter, one of the last Western intellects, understood the danger in Western arrogance. He denounced the West's crimes and called for the crimes to be subject to established law before it is too late for humanity.
"We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... of Justice." Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
"An Iraqi Holocaust" by Gideon Polya and "Genocide In Iraq" provide abundant evidence for convicting Bush and Blair.
Dr. Gideon Polya is a professor of science in one of Australia's leading universities. He has a moral conscience, something increasingly rare in the Western world.
His articles are based largely on the just published by Clarity Press two volume heavily documented Genocide in Iraq by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani is a British-educated lawyer with a Ph.D. in International Law and a Ph.D. in electronics engineering. Tarik Al-Ani, is an architect, translator, and researcher.
Currently I am reading the two-volume work and intended to review it. But Professor Polya's articles suffice as an introduction to Genocide in Iraq. Washington has committed a terrible crime in our name. Washington not only murdered Iraq, Washington has murdered the Middle East. Washington and its despicable vassals--"the Coalition of the Willing"--are responsible for a Middle East Holocaust.
For people in the Anglo-American world who have a moral conscience, the facts are soul-wrenching. The populations of the countries whose governments comprised "the Coalition of the Willing" are contaminated with war crimes committed by their governments in the Iraq Genocide. A progressive modern state was obliterated, and 2.7 million Iraqi people were murdered.
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Look to the future.
A great millions more die for your fake Islam religion that will never, ever deliver peace but eternal war.
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It was called "Flexible Response" during the Cold War, where ala US INFS Moscow did not know whether a highly-accurate, Nuke-tipped Pershing or GLCM, etc. would be fired at a Soviet frontal battle group or at Moscow itself, + which included preemptive strike options.
In the 21st century, GMD-TMD is as potent and valued as the original Nuclear Triad + ultimately the MAD Doctrine itself.
* SNAFU/FUBAR = iff the US-Allies fail to stop the Global Jihad, + in fact help to directly or indirectly nuclearize same, THE SO-CALLED "US" NUCLEAR TRIAD OF THE COLD WAR + 20TH CENTURY = MAY DEVOL INTO THE "ISLAMIC/ISLAMOMERIKAN" NUCLEAR TRIAD + GMD-TMD OF THE POST-9-11, GWOT ISLAMIC WORLD CONQUEST OF THE 21ST CENTURY.
The OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA = is no different than Russia, China, + India, etc. in being vulnerable to the Jihad + ESPEC THE "GREAT GAME".
OWG or no OWG, Jihad or no Jihad, America or Amerika, the "Great Game" never ends.
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Most of our (and everybody's) government takes the point of view that the world would run oh so much smoother without a bunch of tacky proles running around messing things up.
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Actually, according to Masha Gessen's brilliant book "The man without a face", it was Vlad "Poisoner" Putin who introduced the first-strike doctrine in his first ever action when appointed acting president in 1999 (if you don't count giving his predecessor Yeltsin immunity from prosecution which was technically first but not really to do with runnig the state, just a pay-off).
[Hurriyet Daily News] Not a day goes by without a public opinion poll being published in the pro-government media and according to their claim, the Justice and Development Party has 47 percent of the votes.
Unbiased research does not validate this information but they don't mind!
The aim is to manipulate the voter, and in this endeavor, they excel.
One of these media explains the AKP's 47 percent support by saying the electorate want stability.
I could not refrain from laughing when I read this.
Because if the AKP gets the majority as it dreams to do, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will be faced with a heavy regime debate rather than stability.
We will be entangled for a long while on debates about a new constitution and a new system.
If Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are to remain below the threshold, a parliament with a significant amount of unrepresented votes will be make a constitution that will change the system.
We cannot foresee the consequences of the tension resulting from these debates, but we can say society will become extremely tense.
Then we will be facing a referendum on the constitution.
If the constitution changes in accordance with the wishes of the AKP, then we will have to go to the ballot box again this time to elect a parliament and a president according to the new constitution.
A period of rising political tensions and upset economic balances due to economic policies conducted for an electoral victory awaits us.
Stability? Nonsense.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... is pushing harder by the day for a presidential system. He now says the parliamentary system has been put in the ante-room and it is only a presidential system that can save the republic.
He also insists there are many countries run by presidential systems and there is no reason why The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... should not be another one. While saying this, he does not appear to make any distinctions between democratic and anti-democratic countries. He does not clarify, in other words, whether his vision is a Turkey run by a democratic presidential system -- with all checks and balances tying the president down constitutionally -- or by a system that amounts to a one-man rule.
We know from his own declarations, for example, that he finds the American system too constricting for the president, so one can assume he wants a system where the president has a free hand to do as he will. All of Erdogan's remarks point to one fact alone. He will not be a president that everyone in Turkey looks up to. In plain English, he has no intention of being bipartisan. He intends to be the president of those who elected him and to push for their interests alone.
By his own admission, directly prior to flying to Slovenia for an official visit on Monday, his was the guiding hand as the government prepared its electoral declaration for the upcoming June general elections, specifically regarding the presidential system's section.
Erdogan feels no need to reflect the political impartiality the president in Turkey has to maintain constitutionally. He is the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) president and will only look after those who vote for him and the AKP. That, of course, leaves nearly half the population out.
Based on his now well-known ideological leanings, that also means that he intends to push for a Turkey run according to an Islamist worldview, not a secular one. Put another way, he will be involved in a constant struggle against secularist elements, and thus will need draconian anti-democratic legislation.
Looking at what is happening in Turkey today, it is not hard to see what Erdogan is aiming for, even if he managed to pull the wool over the eyes of his unquestioning supporters, who actually remind one of followers of a religious leader, rather than rational and questioning voters.
Erdogan's ambitions, however, are built on a "winner-take-all" type gamble and this could end up as his undoing. He needs the AKP to win enough seats in parliament in June to change the constitution on its own and realize his dream of becoming an unencumbered president.
In other words, it is not sufficient for the AKP to just win the elections; it must win big. Erdogan's nightmare is that if this does not happen, he will be trapped in the presidency, trying to exercise powers that the constitution does not give him. In that case, just like his ostentatious presidential palace (illegal because it did not obtain the required planning permission), his exercise of executive powers as president will not be legal.
It will be a "de facto fait accompli" to the extent he can push. Recent grumblings within the AKP also show he may not be able to push this very far, because, even within his own camp, not everyone is convinced by his "vision" for Turkey.
The picture today suggests that Turkey is in for more political tensions and anti-democratic pressures on opponents of Erdogan's ambitions. He is asking voters to help him become the president he wants to be so he can save the republic.
It seems the real task of the rational and free-thinking voter in June will be to save the republic from Erdogan's patently anti-democratic ambitions.
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[WashingtonPost] The unfinished North Korean-designed reactor that was destroyed by Israeli planes on Sept. 6, 2007, at Deir al-Zour in Syria was in all likelihood an Iranian project, perhaps one meant to serve as a backup site for Iran’s own nuclear plants. We draw this conclusion because of the timing and the close connection between the two regimes: Deir al-Zour was started around the time Iran’s nuclear facilities were disclosed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002, and the relationship between Shiite-ruled Syria and Shiite Iran has been exceptionally tight since Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000. We also know — because Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former Iranian president and majordomo of the political clergy, proudly tells us in his multivolume autobiography — that sensitive Iranian-North Korean military cooperation began in 1989. Rafsanjani’s commentary leaves little doubt that the Iranian-North Korean nexus revolved around two items: ballistic missiles and nuclear-weapons technology.
In his memoirs, the bulk of which is composed of journal entries, Rafsanjani openly discusses Iran’s arms and missile procurement from North Korea. However, from 1989 forward, his entries on Pyongyang become more opaque — a change, we believe, indicating emerging nuclear cooperation. By 1991, Rafsanjani discusses “special and sensitive issues” related to North Korea in entries that are notably different from his candid commentary on tactical ballistic missiles. Rafsanjani mentions summoning Majid Abbaspour, who was the president’s technical adviser on “chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear industries,” into the discussions. Rafsanjani expresses his interest in importing a “special commodity” from the North Koreans in return for oil shipments to Pyongyang. He insists that Iran gain unspecified “technical know-how.”
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What Iran is hiding is a well organized plan to develop it's capacity for multiple nuclear strikes agains Israel first and Europe and the USA afterwards on it's way to become a middle east superpower.
What Obama fails to realize is that while Iran looks Like a "GREAT PARTNER" to the new US plan of fighting the Sunny radicals like ISIS without involving American soldiers on the ground, after they dominate Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon in a pincer-like maneuver it will turn around and byte the American hand that made it a nuclear state ( remember Al Kaida who was befriended by the US as a pawn in the war against the soviet empire?).
Obama's plan to eject Israel and Its current Sunny Arab allies to be replaced by the "trusty" Shiite Ayatollahs is doomed to fail because of it's short-sightedness.
Moreover, Once Israel is fully surrounded by Iran's supported terrorist regimes, and with no US support, I believe Israel will be forced to use it's nuclear arsenal sooner or later.
Does Kerry sleep well at night ?
I don't....
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I don't know why Obama, Kerry and the P5+1 powers are even negotiating with the MMs of Iran. They are theology-driven maniacs who still preach "Death to America" and "destroying Israel is non-negotiable." Negotiations are based on the assumption the big turbans are rational by Western standards.
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What are they hiding? Everything is fair game with the kafir or non-believers. So why are we negotiating with someone whose religion gives them license to lie to you? You are going to get rolled every time.
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