Last Straw

Groups of people all over the world call­ing them­selves “news organ­isa­tions,” such as The Times, con­tinue to spread myths about Mah­moud Ahmad­ine­jad, such as that he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” or that he denies the Nazi Holo­caust. In the mean time the Israeli Deputy Prime Min­is­ter has been quoted as […]

With New Labour’s neo-liberal agenda and long record of social­ising costs and privat­ising profits it comes as a sur­prise to me that Alistair Darling has turned to Keynes in the face of recession. I had assumed until now that they’d use this reces­sion and the recent handout to bankers as an oppor­tun­ity to cut back on […]

It appears as if someone sens­ible finally has Bush’s ear. Maybe Tom Engel­hardt is right.

The pro­spect of an attack on Iran has been on my mind since the attack on Iraq, not in the least because it would prob­ably pre­cip­it­ate a great depres­sion and turn much of the world into a fire­ball. Tom Engel­hardt has a thought­ful piece on why he thinks the U.S./Israel won’t attack Iran, des­pite some of the nutters […]

The media in the West has a lot of blood on its hands already. Is it going to have more blood on its hands in Iran? Iran is not the bel­li­ger­ent party: When it comes to demon­ising Iran, the US, Israel and Bri­tain have a uni­fied mes­sage and a com­pli­ant media, which has learned noth­ing from […]

Paul Jay inter­views Noam Chomksy on U.S. policy toward Iran: Sup­pose it was true that Iran is help­ing insur­gents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States help­ing insur­gents when the Rus­si­ans invaded Afgh­anistan? Did we think there was any­thing wrong with that? I mean, Iraq’s a coun­try that was invaded and is under military […]

A few points to keep in mind if you’re both­er­ing to fol­low the cur­rent pro­pa­ganda cam­paign being waged against Iran.

State­ments from your favour­ite arm­chair war criminals.

Scott Ritter, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, writ­ing for Aljaz­eera, argues that the inva­sion of Iran has already begun, much the same way as the inva­sion of Iraq begun in the sum­mer of 2002.

Since the Second World War the United States Gov­ern­ment has bombed 21 coun­tries. None of these bomb­ing cam­paigns led to the estab­lish­ment of humane demo­cra­cies in the coun­tries involved. What most of them did lead to was the crush­ing of any semb­lance of a chal­lenge to North Amer­ican dom­in­ance and cap­it­al­ism, and demo­cracy in most cases.