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re present which has never been proven yet the new iaea report does not offer a single new fact or shred of evidence its new chief has just rewritten and re interpreted old known data to suit the us and israel s purposes on the other hand as an overwhelming majority of analysts and commentators keep pointing out iran has enormous capabilities of more conventional retaliation starting with closing off the street of hormuz and with it 40 of the world s oil supply and a far greater percentage of the west s oil supply continuing with ha and hamas attacking and possibly invading israel and possibly even escalating to the point where china russia and india decide that they cannot afford to have an important business partner undergo the fate of iraq or afghanistan then again at times when capitalism is undergoing a major global crisis as it must in its perpetual boom and bust cycle the way out has historically involved starting a major global war as anti capitalist protests are growing in size around the globe and most threateningly in the core areas of the capitalist system this is becoming an increasingly attractive possibility for the elite additionally israel and the us may decide that having lost what eyes and ears they had inside ha this might be the last opportunity to have a go at destroying it with any chance however slim of succeeding in any case if the west is foolish enough to actually start that war the outcome will be the end of israel as we know it and the end of a lot more of the world as we know it update 12 more cia assets have reportedly been arrested in iran here is a debunking of what seems to be a desparate damage control effort of the mossad who have not realised yet that their carefully crafted hollywood glamour image is no longer fooling anyone share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 25 november 2011 26 november 2011 631 words leave a comment in the middle of the west since i returned to belgium last september my blogging activity has sort of moved to my facebook account somehow i never really succeeded to make a satisfactory link in my mind between blogging about lebanon and blogging about belgium europe i have also been very busy professionally and with our new family and yet all the time at least from the birth of our daughter on the very first day of the tunisian uprising on december 18th last year the connexion has been staring me in the face as juan cole puts it very eloquently on tomdispatch if we focus on economic trends then the neoliberal state looks eerily similar whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship whether the government is nominally right of center or left of center as a package deregulation the privatization of public resources and firms corruption and forms of insider trading and interference in the ability of workers to organize or engage in collective bargaining have allowed the top 1 in israel just as in tunisia or the united states to capture the lion s share of profits from the growth of the last decades observers were puzzled by the huge crowds that turned out in both tunis and tel aviv in 2011 especially given that economic growth in those countries had been running at a seemingly healthy 5 per annum growth defined generally and without regard to its distribution is the answer to a neoliberal question the question of the 99 percent however is who is getting the increased wealth in both of those countries as in the united states and other neoliberal lands the answer is disproportionately the 1 if you were wondering why outraged young people around the globe are chanting such similar slogans and using such similar tactics including facebook flash mobs it is because they have seen more clearly than their elders through the neoliberal shell game as cole puts it the focus of our corporate mass media in the west on the emergence of islamist parties in democratized middle east is a conscious orientalisation intended to divert attention from the obvious similarities between the elites and their imposed economic system in east and west alike the muslim brotherhood coming to some power is in no way different from the christian parties who have dominated or participated in european governments for over a hundred years and ben ali s family dominating the banking system and economy of tunisia is not different from say dehaene schouppe daems and all these neoliberal corrupt belgian politicians selling public assets to their cronies for ridiculously cheap prices then going on to sit on the boards of the corporations who benefited the point is that our financial and political elites share all the wealth between them that was created by generations of tax payers and then leaving those tax payers to pay for the resulting loss of income and debts incurred by their state odious debts here as in egypt greece or the us and the same protest movements are springing up here as there the 99 are finally opening their eyes and this will have a serious effect globally in the next few years even if capitalism succeeds in plunging the world into another world war which is what happens after every serious crisis and is fully part of the cycle of the capitalist system people might still succeed in toppling the oppressive government systems both the revolutions of 1789 and 1917 happened as a result of disastrous wars it is time to get on with the unfinished business of 1789 in particular separating the executive legislative and judicial powers was a step in the right direction but neglecting to also separate and strictly regulate the economic and information powers i e education and media has rendered this separation practically meaningless as wealthy individuals still have the power to buy the officials whether elected or appointed manning our legislative executive and judicial institutions the power and subservience to the 1 of the media becomes obvious just by observing how the only country that has managed to resolve its financial problems in a truly democratic way i e iceland is totally blacked out from the news while the mere proposal of greek prime minister papandreou of submitting the solution of austerity measures to the people was enough to get him dismissed while all of our democratic european leaders were shouting and screaming about such a disastrous proposal while the new government of iceland has issued international arrest warrants for its own banksters our own governments continue to sacrifice their sovereignty and our democracy to unelected and privately owned ratings agencies and banksters how long until the guillotine makes its glorious return to decapitate the nouveau ancien regime share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 12 november 2011 794 words leave a comment wikileaks 2006 war the full series yalla i haven t had a lot of time to post sequels to the former posts and have been bypassed by the good people at friday lunch club several posts scroll down and qifa nabki so i won t bother quoting a lot of the other cables the full series by the way can be accessed here on the invaluble al akhbar s website the actual cables are of course in the original english enjoy or maybe rather shudder to think just one salient quote i cannot resist posting here separately former unifil spokesman timur goksel told econoff that he saw the israeli ground incursion as exactly what hizballah wanted goksel s contacts in hizballah told him that they hope israel stays awhile hizballah officials told goksel that only 17 hizballah fighters had delayed the israeli advance on maroun el ras and exacted a heavy price on the idf seven of those 17 were killed in the fighting according to the same officials hizballah officials also told goksel that hizballah has lost only 30 fighters in the two weeks of war so far hizballah officials were further encouraged according to goksel because the heavy fighting that bloodied israeli forces in maroun el ras and bint jbeil was carried out by local hizballah militiamen not their elite special forces according to goksel hizballah is holding back its best fighters in the event of a larger israeli invasion 7 c nf hizballah welcomes ground fighting not only because it levels the playing field according to goksel it also distracts from hizballah s anxiety over the aftereffects of the war many hizballah officials are worried that although morale within hizballah s military wing remains high they will have to justify to their constituents the suffering caused by the war an invasion would provide a convenient distraction and a ready justification to continue fighting meanwhile the glorious idf is doing again what it does best terrorising unarmed civilians today freshly returned from bombing children in gaza the most moral army in the world kidnapped two lebanese shepherds no idf casualties were reported yet share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in israel news from lebanon 22 march 2011 22 march 2011 339 words leave a comment lebanon 2006 wikileaks on al akhbar website links http www al akhbar com node 6853 to http www al akhbar com node 6869 i love this one node 6860 august 5 towards the end unsyg s personal representative for lebanon geir pedersen stressed that israeli military action would not achieve the intended political objectives and that the longer it took to reach a cease fire the greater the prospect of a total collapse in lebanon pedersen provided a laundry list of doomsday scenarios including a hizballah attack on tel aviv an influx of al qaeda styled militants into lebanon and samir ja ja going mad and declaring his own kingdom there is also the maronite patriarch nasrallah sfeir holding high christian values such as charity and love for fellow human beings in a distressed situation node 6858 patriarch nasrallah sfeir the highest authority in lebanon s maronite christian community noted repeatedly in the meeting that he is troubled by the displaced shi a who are seeking refuge in beirut and mount lebanon he was clear that the shia cannot remain in this region and must go back to their areas he acknowledged that resettling people from beirut s southern suburb where crowded ten story apartment buildings are now flattened would be the starkest challenge he added that jobs and temporary housing in the south are essential to attract shia out of the schools and churches where they are currently housed he warned that if immediate action is not taken to relocate the shia back to the south they will move further into the mount lebanon region ambassador assured sfeir that the return of displaced shia to the south would be one of the top priorities in the post conflict agenda 6869 a nice gem from the israeli side dov weissglas talking what would have sharon done it is unlikely that nasrallah expected that hizballah s strike would provoke a big crisis there were too many variables that he could not have forecast including that one of the cameras on the border had malfunctioned allowing the hizballah team to approach without being detected that two soldiers would be captured alive that the idf would immediately launch a half baked rescue attempt that would hit a mine and incur eight more casualties upping the ante for israel etc given the circumstances sharon might not have even reacted to the kidnapping of the two soldiers certainly not immediately if he had responded sharon would have known not to set ambitious goals e g the rescue of the soldiers the destruction of hizballah that were beyond his power to deliver when olmert and peretz did they were forced to continue military operations the longer the war dragged on the worse they looked instead sharon would have just said that we had to punish hizballah then he could have let them have it for a few days and declared victory whenever he chose olmert and peretz placed too much faith in what they were told and had no experience that could allow them to suggest alternatives sharon knew that idf generals always exaggerate capabilities arik always said take everything they tell you and divide it by ten peretz in particular had no such bs detector as always check friday lunch club for updates such as elias murr we will prevent missiles lauch from solidere marwan hamadeh we should erect an electric fence along the syrian lebanese border and abdallah of jordan send a multinational force to destroy hezbollah more sources angry arab should of course be daily reading for you anyway and nicholas noe has this to say on the wikileaks and especially on naharnet which should be avoided by anyone seriously interested in lebanon anyway share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in israel news from lebanon 19 march 2011 19 march 2011 606 words leave a comment more 2006 leaks poor credulous misguided soul subject siniora believes he has the confidence of his people the support of his cabinet and the commitment of the french tayyar org is publishing the cables in full here thanks bilal be warned though this is the website of michel aoun s free patriotic movement and they are likely to omit stuff that ius embarrassing for their party and allies here is the link to this cable at al akhbar the lebanese newspaper which has been receiving the cables directly from wikileaks and publishing them first jadaliyya sums it all up nicely so now we know in 2006 as israel was bombing lebanese highways power supplies the airport and oil reservoirs the lebanese prime minister was hoping that israel would finish the job quickly and successfully now we know as over a quarter of the population was displaced from their homes under the threat of missiles tank fire and artillery the then commander of the army and now president of lebanon was letting the israeli government know that the lebanese army would stand down as 10 000 homes were destroyed and over 1 300 lebanese citizens 1 3 of them children were killed the lebanese government s main concern was that that this very real and very brutal israeli re invasion might lead to a reoccupation of lebanon by syria share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print 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