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erichwwk commented on the blog post Iran Counter-Offers on Uranium Enrichment
Don Bacon gets it pretty much right. This is not about nuclear weapons per se, but an attempt to *prove” that right makes right, and to get better privilege to oil in the ME. What makes it worse is that Wikileaks has exposed the extent to which the IAEA*s Amano is essentially a US lap dog, spending so such time trying to spin old data the way the US wishes that they have had no time to update their Fukushima site since June 2, 2011
As Yousaf Butt has recently written , Stop the Madness
Despite all the hype, Iran*s nuclear program has yet to violate international law. It*s time to calm down, think, and above all halt the rush to war.
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erichwwk commented on the blog post US Ambassador to Syria Releases Satellite Images Showing No Pullout of Regime Forces
How War Reporting in Syria Makes a Larger Conflict Inevitable
By Russ Baker on Apr 2, 2012[ Who Bill Moyer turns to to tell him what he doesn*t know]
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erichwwk commented on the blog post US Ambassador to Syria Releases Satellite Images Showing No Pullout of Regime Forces
So disappointed in this post. Hoping that David Dayan will read this comments and put a bit more effort into basing his understanding of Syria on other than his U.S. Government heroes.
Here is Wm. Blum*s take
Putting Syria into some perspective…according to a US embassy cable, revealed by Wikileaks, since at least 2006 the United States has been funding political opposition groups in Syria as well as the London-based satellite TV channel, Barada TV, run by Syrian exiles, that beams anti-government programming into the country. The cable further stated that Syrian authorities *would undoubtedly view any U.S. funds going to illegal political groups as tantamount to supporting regime change.*
At the minimum I would hope that David would report on who the *Friends of Syria* are, and the evidence that he has that these consist of more than US (and Saudi Arabia, Quatar, et al) financed and trained proxies.
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erichwwk commented on the blog post US Ambassador to Syria Releases Satellite Images Showing No Pullout of Regime Forces
At Moon of Alabama: The NYT – A U.S. Government Propaganda Outlet
U.S. Sees Iran in Bids to Stir Unrest in Afghanistan
… according to American officials. … American officials have closely studied the episodes … according to interviews with more than a dozen government officials … One United States government official described … American officials say … Afghan and American officials said … but American officials see a pattern … American officials say … one United States official said. Intelligence analysts emphasize … prompted American and other intelligence agencies to renew … American officials say … according to American officials … One American intelligence analyst noted …
There is not a word in the piece on why the U.S. government may have an interest in badmouthing Iran or on how these allegations fit the facts. Obviously the piece was simply dictated by officials and written down by some lobotomized robots.
How those writers are still able to look into a mirror and to call themselves journalists is beyond me.
Glen Greenwald caught the same trust me, I am from the US Government spiel
here: State-dominated media and IranTo see how news is being manufactured, check this out for yourself:
How Avaaz Is Sponsoring Fake War Propaganda From Syria -
erichwwk commented on the blog post US Ambassador to Syria Releases Satellite Images Showing No Pullout of Regime Forces
Wow. I don’t know where to begin.
Reminds me a bit of Judith Miller. Did not expect that at firedoglake.
Has Dayan forgotten about the 1990 satellite images?
Or that the role of a journalist is to question whether an administration is being truthful, or using bloggers and journalists to tell a story that may or may not correspond to what is actually occurring?
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erichwwk commented on the diary post Shining light on Obama’s tar sands pipeline decision by Philip Radford.
North Dakota? That wouldn’t be the one and only state in the Union that has a state run banking system would it?
