Dissent Mag

By John Pilger

07 August, 2008
Johnpilger.com

On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran.

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By Stephen Lendman

07 August, 2008
Countercurrents.org

There’s good news and bad, mostly the latter but don’t discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House - with charges and proposals so outlandish that if passed and implemented will be a blockade and act of war. It accused Iran of:

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Posted on Aug 4, 2008

By Chris Hedges

An attack on Iran, which Israeli and Bush administration officials appear set to carry out if Iranian uranium enrichment is not halted, would ignite a regional war in the Middle East and lead to economic collapse and political upheaval in the United States.

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Posted on Aug 2, 2008
Hersh on Iran

Sy Hersh at Campus Progress journalism conference

You may have already seen this, but it bears re-posting far and wide: The inimitable Seymour Hersh gave truly disturbing details, during the Campus Progress journalism conference in July, expounding upon his article from that month’s New Yorker about the Bush administration’s attempts to find a cause for war against Iran in late 2007.

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By failing to disarm and breaking the rules when it suits, nuclear states are driving proliferation as much as Ahmadinejad

By George Monbiot

02/08/08 “The Guardian” — - 29/07/08 — What is the Iranian government up to? For once the imperial coalition, overstretched in Iraq and unpopular at home, is proposing jaw, not war. The UN security council’s offer was a good one: if Iran suspended its uranium enrichment programme, it would be entitled to legally guaranteed supplies of fuel for nuclear power, assistance in building a light water reactor, foreign aid, technology transfer and the beginning of the end of economic sanctions. The US seems prepared, for the first time since the revolution, to open a diplomatic office in Tehran. But in Geneva, 10 days ago, the Iranians filibustered until the negotiations ended. On Saturday President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran has now doubled the number of centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium. A fourth round of sanctions looks inevitable.

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By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 7:02PM BST 01 Aug 2008

A leading contender to become the next Israeli prime minister has warned that Iran was close to a “major breakthrough” in its quest for nuclear weapons and warned that the Jewish state had to be prepared to act against the threat.

Shaul Mofaz, Israel’s deputy prime minister and a former army commander, told a Washington forum that Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon was “unacceptable”.

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by Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.
– the Beatles, “When I’m 64″

I set foot, so to speak, on this planet on July 20, 1944, not perhaps the best day of the century. It was, in fact, the day of the failed German officers’ plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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by James Petras / July 30th, 2008

On July 18, 2008 the New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians — 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust:

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