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Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:40:16 PM

war, peace, nuclear-free zone, surprise, Iran, politics, war propaganda


Nuclear free zone No WMD's!	http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/20/does-anti-nuke-mean-anti-israel/ +( In a rare vote, the UN General Assembly passed a UN atomic watchdog resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce atomic weapons. Since the US and the West have been pushing to stop nuclear proliferation in the region, especially Iran, you would think they would have supported and applauded the vote. Not so. The US, Israel, and most of the EU either opposed or abstained on the vote. On the other hand, most Arab nations and Iran supported it. )+
Iran and Arab countries support it; U.S. and Israel oppose it	If "Iranian nukes" were a real concern, why would the U.S. and Israel oppose turning the Middle East into a nuclear-free zone? Isn't it interesting! -- the war-making rulers who scream the loudest about "Iraqi WMD's" and "Iranian Nukes" stand opposed to U.N. efforts to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction. Could it be a case of the thief misleading the police by pointing to the victim and shouting "Thief!"? And yet, according to a recent CNN poll, 70% of Americans have swallowed the WMD/Nuke kool-ade once again. 70% are now ready to fall in line behind the Zionists and inflict another trillion-dollar holocaust on a Middle East country. These Americans are ready because the corporate masked-media have told them exactly what the racketeers of war want us to hear. Few Americans know about the Iranian efforts, since 1996, to normalize trade and relations with the U.S., or the 2003 Iranian offer for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Instead, we're fed the usual brain-dead comic-book pap -- "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" -- and while we're sucking up this poisonous garbage, the war corporations are stealing another trillion dollars from of our wallets.
Iran surprises the war-makers!	But it's not a done deal yet. Iran has just thrown another monkey wrench in the spokes of the war-machine. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?ref=world +( So imagine the surprise of international inspectors almost two weeks ago when they watched as Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. It was as if, one official noted, a bull’s-eye had been painted on it. Why take such a huge risk? )+ -- "Another Puzzle After Iran Moves Nuclear Fuel", David E. Sanger, New York Times, 26 Feb 2010 Perhaps the latest Iranian surprise will cause a few more American lemmings to awake from the hypnosis induced by our steady diet of war propaganda. Maybe a few more Americans will now begin to realize that the banksters and war-profiteers have lied to us yet again: There really is no need for the U.S. and Israel to inflict yet another trillion-dollar holocaust on the Middle East.


Imaginary "Threats" and True Believers	I confess, I too was once a True Believer in the "Iranian Threat". Long before that -- in the 1950s and 1960s -- I was a True Believer in the "Soviet Threat". And in early 1999, I was a "True Believer" in the "Serbian Threat". In each case, the "Threat" turned out to be a cynical lie, promulgated by those who make windfall profits from war. http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm +( War is just a racket. )+ -- Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Smedley Butler, USMC Major General and two-time Medal of Honor winner. +( Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. )+ -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur In each case, I eventually managed to stop shooting up the "Fear drug". As I did so, my world became steadily larger: Instead of a world of Devils out to Kill Us in Our Beds, I began to see a world of human beings, human beings struggling to live under a rain of U.S. bombs and missiles, human beings tell us over and over again that they intended us no harm, human beings struggling to get their message through the wall imposed by our corporate masked media. Instead of cowering in my bed like other Americans, living in terror of non-existent "Enemies" everywhere, I began to feel solidarity with the victims of military aggression -- the victims of the empire. Instead of terror, I began to feel joy, affection. love.

How I became a "Bad Guy"	In other words, I became one of the "Bad Guys". Yes, we who love peace and justice are the "Bad Guys", as U.S. "Defense" Secretary Robert Gates implied recently. http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/23/gates-european-aversion-to-war-a-danger-to-peace/ +( Gates: European Aversion to War a Danger to Peace US Defense Secretary Slams 'Demilitarization of Europe' Jason Ditz, 23 Feb 2010 Speaking today at the National Defense University, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates condemned European nations in general for their refusal to contribute larger portions of their population to NATO. Gates warned that Europe’s aversion to war was doing serious harm to assorted US military operations with NATO backing, and was therefore “an impediment” to the lasting peace he envisions those wars eventually creating. Gates’ comments appeared to be directed in part at the Netherlands, who saw its government collapse this weekend after NATO pressure to continue its commitment to the Afghan War led antiwar members of the government to withdraw. .... )+ This is rich! The last major war in Europe cost 37 million lives, including hundreds of thousands of American lives -- and now the U.S. Secretary of "Defense" goes over to Europe and tries to revive European militarism! -- and even more outrageous, he does so in the name of "peace"! It's almost as rich as Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for twice escalating the war in Afghanistan.

What opened my eyes	How did I become one of the "Bad Guys" -- one of the opponents of war-making, torture, terror and genocide? The following two articles about Iran opened my eyes: http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/?articleid=8947 -- Iran: Stereotype versus reality http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449880&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source= -- Iran: Amazing first-hand account From the former, I learned that Iran's attitude towards religion that resembles Catholic ritualism more than it resembles Protestant or Islamic fundamentalism. http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/?articleid=8947 +( Sociologists and scholars say that Islam in Iran is more ritualistic than ideological or doctrine-driven. )+ -- Praful Bidwai, "Iran Won't Be Bullied", 5 May 2006 One huge stereotype demolished!

Fear the Religious! -- and Fear the Irreligious too!	Isn't it ironic? A year ago, our war-addicted rulers wanted us Americans to live in terror of "The Mullahs". "The Mullahs" were going to come and Gobble Us Up and Snatch Our Children and Convert Us To Sharia Law! -- so we were all supposed to believe. But now that the balance of power in Iran is shifting away from the Mullahs and towards the Revolutionary Guards, our rulers want us all to live in terror of the "Military Dictatorship" in Iran! Let's shoot some more of that Fear Drug into our brains, so that we can dumb ourselves down still further! In the 1950s through the 1980s, we were all supposed to live in fear of Godless Commies. We were made to hate the communists because they were not religious enough to suit our empire's tastes. In Afghanistan, in the 1980s, the rabidly "religious" Mujahedin were armed, trained, and funded by the CIA. They were even given Stinger missiles, so that they could shoot down planes. These drug-smuggling terrorists specialized in blowing up schools where girls were being taught and slitting the throats of the teachers. The caverns at Tora Bora were build by the CIA, and Osama bin Laden was one of the recipients of CIA largesse. The operation cost American taxpayers $6,000,000,000. That's back in the days when we saw Muslim fanatics as kindred spirits: We called them "Freedom Fighters" and even "Blood Brothers"! http://www.antiwar.com/orig/oneill.php?articleid=9615 -- Today's 'Islamic Fascists' Were Yesterday's Friends And now, the Party Line has changed and we're all expected to dance to a new tune. The "Blood Brothers" of yesterday are the "Terrorists" of today, and decades of U.S. support for terrorism and state-terrorism -- in Israel, Afghanistan, Angola, Mozambique, Central America, Latin America, Kosovo, etc. -- is now forgotten. What irony!

Those who support war and terror	But there is another gaping hole in this emperor's new clothes: We're supposed to fear fanatical Islam, yet Saudi Arabia, the most fanatical Islamic country in the world today, is a close ally of the U.S.! And Iraq, the country that the U.S. has just finished destroying, was headed not by a fanatical Muslim, but by a secular ruler who was one of Bin Laden's chief foes. And Iran, the country that Israel and the U.S. hope to destroy next, offers a form of Islam that is not so much fanatical as it is ritualistic and authoritarian. Iran opposes the Taliban, and many Iranian young people admire American values. This is the country the Zionists are ordering the U.S. to destroy. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Neoconservative_hopes_prays_Bush_will_bomb_0530.html -- Podhoretz "hoping and praying" for more war http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gareth-porter/cheney-lieberman-and-iran_b_60705.html -- Cheney, Lieberman and Iran War Conspiracy, 16 Aug 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_go_co/us_iran -- Sen. Lieberman calls for the U.S. to attack Iran http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11204 -- Tom Lantos Democrats seek World War IV / 27 Jun 2007 http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10429 -- Buchanan: Hysteria at Herzliya, 31 Jan 2007 http://antiwar.com/nagle/n021703.html -- Ledeen: "Creative Destruction" is our historic mission, 17 Feb 2003 Recently, Iran captured one of the leaders of the Jundullah terrorist group. "Jundullah" is Arabic for "Soldiers of God". On 1 Oct 2009, Iran agreed to send as much as 75% of its uranium abroad for processing. The New York Times hailed the agreement as a "major accomplishment". Obama sent Under Secretary of State William Burns to meet with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili -- the biggest diplomatic breakthrough in thirty years. Jundullah then swung into action. It's 18 Oct 2009 car bombing in Sistan-Baluchistan killed leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as well as tribal leaders and civilians. According to Gen. Mizra Aslam, Pakistan’s former Army chief, Jundullah is backed and trained by the U.S.. The Jundullah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, was captured while traveling to Kyrgyzstan, where Rigi claims he was to meet with a "high-ranking" U.S. official. According to Seymour Hersh, the U.S. in 2007 allocated up to $400 million for destabilization efforts by groups like Jundullah. The terrorist attack threw cold water on the negotiations. The day the negotiations were to begin, Jalili stayed home and a low-level delegation attended in his place. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the same day, condemned the act of terror and the "arrogant powers" who supported it.

Acting President Rahm Emanuel steps in; Obama caves	Despite the deadly attack, Iran persevered in its commitment to negotiations and dialogue: http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/02/26/iran-captures-a-good-terrorist/ -- +( Still, since then, the Iranians have broached alternative proposals that seemed worth exploring — for example, sending for further enrichment smaller quantities of low-enriched uranium in stages. However, the Obama administration has rejected these alternative proposals out of hand, reportedly at the instigation of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and neocon regional emissary Dennis Ross, whose apparent priority is to avoid anything that might strengthen Ahmadinejad. In other words, despite the rhetoric about the need to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, regime change appears to remain the transcendent goal of neocon-lite Democrats at the White House and in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. )+ -- "Iran Captures a ‘Good’ Terrorist", Ray McGovern, 27 Feb 2010 Of course, the average American, who spends his entire life trapped in the boring comic-book world created by our masked media, knows nothing of these ironies and contradictions. He just does whatever Richard Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Joseph Lieberman, Rahm Emanuel or some other Acting U.S. President tells him to do in Israel's behalf: +( Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. )+ -- Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", 1854

Discovering reality, discovering color	Once we put down the comic-book and move beyond "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys", Iran turns out to be a rather diverse and interesting country! http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/?articleid=8947 +( Iran Won't Be Bullied Praful Bidwai / 5 May 2006 .... Young Iranians hate to be regimented and are thoroughly modern in outlook. In their behavior on a university campus or in cafes, they are not particularly distinguishable from say, Indian, Thai, or South African students. Iran has high Internet connectivity and the world's third largest number of blogs. Farsi is the fifth most-used language by bloggers worldwide. Unlike in many parts of the Middle East, Iran has an active, lively civil society as well as a vibrant intellectual and artistic life. .... )+

What is Bad about the Bad Guys	Of course, it is not easy to put down that comic-book. Once we lose the ability to see colors and shades of grey, it is not easy to recover that faculty. Once we accept the cynical notion that the 5,000-year-old tribe or nation is all that matters, it's hard to regain the ability to see people as individual human beings. In some sense, Iran will always be a "Bad Guy" in our tribal war-intoxicated brains. It is a "Bad Guy" because: * It refuses to support the holocaust in Palestine. (Instead, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for a referendum -- a truly democratic solution). * It has not attacked anyone in several hundred years. (That's bad news for those who bankroll the lucrative war business.) * It has been seeking to normalize ties with the U.S., since 1996. (Its efforts have been sabotaged by the neo-cons who want the U.S. to be dependent exclusively on fascist Israel). * It has refused to go along with Samuel Huntington's call for a "Clash of Civilizations". (Instead, Khatami proposed a "Dialogue of Civilizations"). * It offered a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, including peace with Israel, in 2003. (Cheney, the U.S. Acting President, brushed the offer aside.) * It has called for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East. (Under the proposal, Israel would have to give up its 200-400 nukes and submit to inspections, just like other countries.) * It's president, Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly declared that the age of war is over. (As war ends, the lucrative profits that come from war also end.) * It refuses to wait quietly for Israel and the U.S. to launch "Shock and Awe, Part II". (Instead, Iran puts its enriched uranium above-ground, for the whole world to see.)

The Good Guys become too confused to start another war	The latest Iranian peace move has thrown confusion into the ranks of the war-addicts. And confusion is good, because the uncertainty helps to deter aggression: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?ref=world +( Despite considerable evidence that the United States and Israel have at least partly penetrated the Iranian program — snatching up scientists, obtaining photos of the inside of facilities and tapping into computer data from the nuclear program — they still are not certain whether Iran is seeking a nuclear bomb, or just the ability to build one, or even merely the appearance of the ability. As one senior adviser to Mr. Obama said late last year, “We’ve got a near-perfect record of being wrong about these guys for 30 years.” .... American and European officials will say little on the record because the guessing game touches on three of the most delicate subjects in the dispute: Whether Israel will strike the facilities and risk igniting a broader Middle East war; whether there is still time to stop the Iranian program through sanctions and diplomacy; and who is really in control of Iran and its nuclear program. “There’s no technical explanation, so there has to be some other motivation,” one senior administration official who studies the Iranian strategy said after a White House briefing last week following the atomic agency’s revelation. The strangest of the speculations — but the one that is being talked about most — is that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is inviting an attack to unify the country after eight months of street demonstrations that have pitted millions of Iranians against their government. As one senior European diplomat noted Thursday, an Israeli military strike might be the “best thing” for Iran’s leadership, because it would bring Iranians together against a national enemy. It would offer an excuse some Iranians might sorely want to throw out the nuclear inspectors and renounce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. That would leave Iran in the position that North Korea is in: free to manufacture fuel or bombs without inspectors to blow the whistle. )+ -- "Another Puzzle After Iran Moves Nuclear Fuel", David E. Sanger, New York Times, 26 Feb 2010 By deliberately offering Israel a target and almost inviting attack, Iran may give the Zionists pause. They may begin to ask what Iran expects to gain from an Israeli or U.S. attack, and this may dampen their lust for more and more war. It may lead some to wonder whether Ahmadinejad might be right when he declares an end to the "golden age" of war-making: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=78985 +( "The era of military force is over, today is the era of nations, logic and worshippers of God," )+ -- Ahmadinejad, Iran's elected president

More "hidden history" -- hidden from Americans, that is	Although the latest Iranian move may come as a surprise to Americans who get all of their "news" from the corporate masked media, it is part of a long sequence of conciliatory policies going back to 1996. http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12755 +( Is War With Iran Imminent? This time, it's more than a rumor ... Justin Raimondo / 28 Apr 2008 .... Yet there was no reason to assume Tehran had hostile intentions toward the U.S. At the time, Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was eager to establish friendly relations with the U.S. As pressure built to abandon "dual containment" and initiate a more workable policy that would give the U.S. more flexibility, the Lobby went on the offensive with a relentless campaign to impose economic sanctions on Iran. The Iranians, determined to signal their willingness to be reasonable, chose an American oil company, Conoco, to develop the Sirri oil fields. As Trita Parsi points out in Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States: "For AIPAC, the Conoco deal 'was a coincidence and a convenient target.' The organization went into high gear to use the Iranian offer not only to scuttle the Conoco deal, but also to put an end to all U.S.-Iran trade. In a report that it released on April 2, 1995, titled 'Comprehensive U.S. Sanctions Against Iran: A Plan for Action,' AIPAC argued that Iran must be punished for its actions against Israel. 'Iran's leaders reject the existence of Israel. Moreover, Iran views the peace process as an American attempt to legalize Israel's occupation of Palestinian, Muslim lands,' it said. Pressured by Congress, AIPAC, and the Israelis, President Clinton swiftly scrapped the deal by issuing two executive orders that effectively prohibited all trade with Iran. The decision was announced on April 30 by Clinton in a speech before the World Jewish Congress." This wasn't enough for the Lobby, which brought pressure on Sen. Alphonse D'Amato to introduce a bill that imposed sanctions on any countries doing business with either Libya or Iran. The Iran-Libya Sanctions Act passed the House with not a single dissenting vote, and the same scenario went down in the Senate. The Lobby made sure the Iranian peace offering was rudely rebuffed -- and the president reminded of just who was in charge of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. The White House meekly went along with the Lobby's wishes: after all, the presidential election was but three months away. )+ 1996 is the year that Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and a bevy of fellow Zionists hatched their "Clean Break" plan. The plan called for the U.S. to attack Iraq, then use the resulting destabilization throughout the Middle East as a pretext for reshaping the entire region to suit Israel's tastes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,785394,00.html -- the 1996 "Clean Break" plan for "reshaping" the Middle East Iran persevered. In 1997, Mohammad Khatami, a reformist, became the president of Iran. Khatami countered Samuel Huntington's call for a "Clash of Civilizations" with a proposal for "Dialogue of Civilizations". Khatami's proposal was adopted by the U.N. in 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami +( Khatami had run on a platform of liberalization and reform. During his two terms as president, Khatami advocated freedom of expression, tolerance and civil society, constructive diplomatic relations with other states including those in the Asia and European Union, and an economic policy that supported a free market and foreign investment. )+ The U.S. was not interested. When Khatami came to Harvard's Kennedy School on September 10, 2006, Zionists organized vicious demonstrations, denounced Khatami as a "Terrorist" and equated him with David Duke. http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh09122006.html -- Zionists attack Iranian reformer So here we see another irony: Our masked-media depict Ahmadinejad as "Another Hitler" because he is a conservative populist, but our Zionist politicians despise the reformist Khatami just as much, if not more. They will not be happy till the whole country becomes a sea of blood. http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=DEUT+20&language=english&version=NIV-UK +( 16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. )+ -- Deuteronomy 20, 16, NIV http://strugglesforexistence.com/?p=article_p&id=10 -- the Genocide Cult Yes, the corporate "media" are once again trying to get American lemmings to gleefully support yet another Middle East holocaust. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/021810.html -- "US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran", Robert Parry, 18 Feb 2010 Perhaps the latest Iranian surprise will cause a few more American lemmings to awake from the hypnosis induced by our steady diet of war propaganda. Maybe a few more Americans will now begin to realize that the banksters and war-profiteers have lied to us yet again. Maybe a few more Americans will discover the history our war-making Establishment has hidden from us. There really is no need for the U.S. and Israel to inflict yet another trillion-dollar holocaust on the Middle East. There is no need for American lemmings to march into that vast stupid sea of death.

But what can we do to stop this war cancer?	We in the U.S. can outgrow our foolish attachment to "Left" and "Right". Bush, on the "Right", has killed a million Iraqis with his terror from the air, his invasion, and his occupation. But Clinton, on the "Left", killed just as many with his sanctions and his U.S.-fly-zone bombings -- and if Obama gets his war against Iran, he will become a far bigger killer. Neither the neo-libs on the "Left" nor the neo-cons on the "Right" have a monopoly on virtue: Both gangs are genocidal. Both are driven by a suicidal lust for war and profit. Both are mad. The perpetual "Left / Right" game or scam replaces morality with geometry. Instead of uniting in defense of humanity, sanity and common values, we allow ourselves to be sucked into an endless soulless battle over geometry. In other words, we keep ourselves divided and conquered. In this way, we give the war-makers at the top of the pyramid license to kill still more millions, till finally they create a war so big that it kills us all. http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-b-zeese/2010/02/24/time-for-a-broad-based-antiwar-movement/ -- Left and Right must unite! We must learn to see through the lies of the war-making elite. We must continue to care about human rights, and precisely for that reason, we cannot afford to let the war-makers use human rights as an excuse for military aggression. War reduces rights to nil. The war against Iraq, for example, was sold, in part, as "Liberation for Women" -- but the reality is that rights for women in Iraq have been set back a generation or more by the U.S. bombing and the ensuing strife. There is no way to bomb people into freedom. That seems obvious -- but it is not obvious to people who have been hypnotized by the relentless barrage of war propaganda.

But
what
can
Iranians
do
to
prevent
their
country
from
being
attacked
and
destroyed? I've addressed this question in my posts to several Iranian friends:

http://my.opera.com/mt-angel/blog/show.dml/6090481#comment20106361
http://my.opera.com/shaftaloo/blog/show.dml/7962931#comment20106991
http://my.opera.com/mt-angel/blog/show.dml/6090481#comment20106361

Iranians can appeal more directly to the conscience of the world. When the U.S. was getting ready to attack Iraq, 90% of the people in many European countries opposed the attack. Even here in the U.S., there are many people who oppose the war racket. When large numbers of people oppose war-making, it becomes harder for the war-makers to justify their huge and costly killing sprees.

Here in the U.S., our masked-media do allow us to see demonstrations in Iran. But what we see is very one-sided and unbalanced. Several years ago, "Death to America" or "Death to Israel" was the one chant we were shown; Today, we are shown people chanting "Death to the Regime". Either way, the racketeers of war have their fig-leaf for aggression: Either they are killing Iranians to "Protect America from Hate", or they are killing Iranians to "Liberate Iranians from Tyranny".

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We destroyed the village in order to save it.
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-- U.S. colonel in Vietnam, as he looked out over the ruins of Ben Suc.

Where are the demonstrations against war? Instead of "Death to America!" and "Death to the Regime!", Iranians should be chanting "No to death! No to war! Yes to life!"

One Iranian, in her message, reminds us that Iranians "are human like you". That should be one of the messages Iranians send to the world at their demonstrations: "Let us remind you: We are human! Don't kill us! You can talk with us! We want to talk!"

There is a huge spiritual vacuum in this world. Many people are reacting negatively, but few people are acting positively: Few people are leading the world in a new and less violent direction.

Reaction is not working. If Iranians react against Israel, for example, Israel can use that as an excuse for making war against Iran. If Iranians react against their own government, the war-makers can use that as an excuse for invading and "Liberating" Iran. It works like a clock, one reaction providing the excuse for another.

Everyone is reacting and complaining. It's not news. It's simply what we have come to expect. So the complaints get no attention. We just close our ears. And the people who are complaining then think that they have no power. To have power, they must choose a different approach.

People need to stop reacting and start acting -- start filling the leadership vacuum. Instead of demonstrating against Israel, Iranians should demonstrate in favor of Palestine. Instead of demonstrating against the Iranian government, Iranians should demonstrate in favor of good government everywhere. Instead of voicing complaints, Iranians should count and celebrate their blessings. Then the world might notice them. Then they would find their power, because they would be giving the world something it desperately needs.

Changing from negative to positive will get the attention of the world, if it happens on a large scale and voluntarily.

No one should force others to become non-Muslim and no one should force others to become Muslim. But Iranians can still use what is good in Islam to awaken our forgotten humanity and revive the world! Iranians can apply the teachings in the Koran in a helpful way! They can use the teachings to uplift and inspire people in other countries, especially people in the countries that are preparing to make war. Iranians can resist the madness of war by reminding the world that there is a sane alternative!

Perhaps Iranians could start by organizing a "Peace Festival" -- by inviting people from all over the world to come and talk about peace.

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Comments

act2bmp # Monday, March 1, 2010 12:17:02 AM

More time to read it, theres so much you point out but were missing the point to a good old fashioned war ! Think of all that wonderful money there making to hell with the life cost and so what if it cost you all your kids.

Originally posted by nonzionist:

This is rich! The last major war in Europe cost 37 million lives, including hundreds of thousands of American lives -- and now the U.S. Secretary of "Defense" goes over to Europe and tries to revive European militarism! -- and even more outrageous, he does so in the name of "peace"! It's almost as rich as Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for twice escalating the war in Afghanistan.

War is mainly for there gain and Obama is a turd for accepting that prize, I know exactly where I'd like to put it for him. Hes the same as all who play their game just like our war monger government backing them. Peace and love are not in their budget, I got a mint Abraham Lincon quote on my page.

"This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their Constitutional right to amend it, or Revolutionary right to over through it."

A friend reminded me today, I maybe just a Geordie but you'll find with us are harts are in the right place, you know I wish I could see a peaceful way forwards in a world governed by a game ?

WORLD STRIKE maybe, lol.

VnLoveUfreeandfriendship # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 5:36:29 AM

US army killed Irarians to"protect American from hate"?That the reason for killing people?We really cant accept and understand this view,so cruel!

cleareaching # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:57:22 AM

Welcome to what the rest of the world has known long ago.

Language seems to be the main problem with the US. You (I don't mean you personally, of course) say "peace" and mean "war". You say "threat" and "terror" and point at other peoples, when you have been meaning yourselves all the time. It's a strange reversal of meaning, normally I would have said "interesting reversal", since language(s) is my turf, only there is nothing interesting about it; only manipulation and death.

War is a market and even my 7-year-old kid knows there is the possibility of profit in any market - all the more so when one has the lion's share, which is the case with the US and this particular one. I don't know if it's more sad than infuriating, although I can think of something even more sad, as we speak: our generation.

Pretty much like you say, we choose to just sit in front of the TV, watching the terrifying things that are happening around us, as if they were part of a commercial, nothing to do with us or "real life". Greek people (the majority anyway) are no different in this respect.

Anyway, I am happy that you can still dream and talk of a way out of this. Me, I have lost hope altogether.

act2bmp # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:11:06 PM

Originally posted by cleareaching:

Greek people (the majority anyway) are no different in this respect

Good you point it out but I found out its a world wide epidemic (no disrespect to the trying few!) Myself, I find I have real difficulty in respecting anyone playing their game.

In fact, after ten years of wasting my time trying, I'm more like them now and would happily take them all on in a world revolt against there idea of peace and happiness for all, because the only ones left smiling on their way to the bank are the so-called leaders.

They'll carry on raping the world wile it all dies screaming

cleareaching # Thursday, March 4, 2010 7:36:06 AM

Originally posted by act2bmp:

the only ones left smiling on their way to the bank are the so-called leaders

Which makes it evident (at least to me) that what has really gone bankrupt is the entire Western model of living and the "market economy" thing.

Originally posted by act2bmp:

a world revolt against there idea of peace and happiness for all

Maybe I am influenced by conspiracy theories, but this doesn't seem sustainable either. One has to have an alternative first, but we don't seem to have any. Inspiration seems to have escaped this God-forsaken world and it's not in paradigms like e.g. Zeitgeist that we can look for an answer, because they too are in the same game.

I have a theory about all this, but it doesn't point to an exit strategy either.

This is why I find NonZionist's views ("People need to stop reacting and start acting", "Changing from negative to positive will get the attention of the world, if it happens on a large scale and voluntarily", etc.) refreshing. At least, he has held on to his inspiration.

act2bmp # Thursday, March 4, 2010 3:42:33 PM

I try to put a humorous spin on the world game (for myself mostly) if not, I could take my thinking seriously and want to do to them some real harm (Geordie thinking: eye for an eye), its just what there doing to others !
I don't have their solution because mine are to share. I can't compete with them, that costs money and we all know what that can buy. My solutions include us all and there not about gain there sustain "no bling, no arse kissing and no red carpets or under the table deals"

I don't want to understand their fifty year game plans. Any so called leaders with fifty year plans, I say have none and only plan to carry on the same way regardless of what you want. I'm a bit skint lets have a war with someone, we can use the WMD stock we got, just do a head count and see how much cannon fodder we got to use first.

God dam us all, 2010 and I'd be happier back in the stone age digging up the ground whit the arse bone of a giraffe. To me we are still there really.

The world has all the new thinking and solutions we need now, its not for them to sit on it. As long as their game runs the show we will only get BS and 50 year plans and yes men leaders, thats what I want them to change !
Them to do there job for real, can you imagine if the rest of the real worlds people run things like they do ? You want a solution ? well we got them, you only need to read others concerns to see that. Btw its all our world not just the greedy blind few.

No disrespect to Charlie, I still find and have inspirations only not in a game with just a monetary gain in mind for their bosses first.

Face it how many people can read all this will have the balls it takes to go up against these.

You cant scare a tyrant with facts and petitions, you need to turn the tables, hence, World strike ? its a some what peaceful alternative ! or see what you make of this http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ sounds like a good plan but may only be possible after the space rocks sort us out. Wipe it out and start again.

I'm all ears really and sorry you cant read between my lines, only I find now the pray I say each night is please God send the space rocks

Angiemt-angel # Monday, March 29, 2010 9:18:04 PM

hi dear. i read what u've written but if i tell the truth i understood nothing. that's because i'm not interested in politic. anyway tnx for ur perfect comments : )

act2bmp # Sunday, April 4, 2010 2:22:02 PM

Originally posted by mt-angel:

i'm not interested in politic

Nor me as it is but our world ends and depends on us I think, NOT a bunch of BS World liars (sorry!) Leaders making a buck out of world misery. I'm going down shouting given the choice. To hell with world Bollitix we need real and real people to believe in.