Israel podría atacar Irán en poco tiempo

No hay que retar la hegemonía imperialista de Estados Unidos y sus "aliados".

Washington y sus peones

La participación directa de soldados del Pentágono asentados en las bases de Manta (Ecuador) y Tres Esquinas (Colombia) en el golpe militar quirúrgico contra un campamento clandestino de las FARC en Sucumbíos es una señal de que Estados Unidos ha perdido la iniciativa estratégica. En ese contexto, en receso por ahora la vía del golpe de Estado, Washington necesita fabricar el clima ideológico y las coartadas para sus acciones encubiertas en el área, por lo que echa mano de políticos de medio pelo corruptos como José María Aznar, Vicente Fox, Luis Alberto Lacalle, Jorge Quiroga, Osvaldo Hurtado, Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, Marco Vinicio Cerezo y Francisco Flores, y de su enorme ejército de intelectuales orgánicos, entre ellos los neoconversos Mario Vargas Llosa y Jorge Castañeda, Enrique Krauze y el profesional de la industria de la contrarrevolución Carlos Alberto Montaner (ligado a la mafia de Miami), a lo que suma el aparato mass-mediático del gran capital nativo.

■ Cheney: la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo

El vicepresidente Richard Bruce Cheney, el verdadero poder tras el trono en Washington donde Baby Bush figura como marioneta, es un hombre sumamente ambicioso pese a sus infartos en el miocardio y, quizá, en el que pudiera representar el último periplo de su vida pretende buscar la cuadratura del círculo al desear simultáneamente desatar la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo.

Se trata de dos objetivos incompatibles, ya que una guerra contra Irán desembocaría en el cierre del Estrecho de Ormuz, que pudiera disparar el precio del oro negro a más de 200 dólares el barril.

La congruencia no es el fuerte del régimen torturador bushiano, catalogado hoy como el peor de la corta historia de Estados Unidos, ya que el contenido de su pensamiento es poco sofisticado y asemeja lineal y maniqueamente a los reflejos condicionados pavlovianos de los invertebrados. El Medio Oriente es mucho más complejo en su estructura mental y difícilmente los nueve días del extenso periplo de Cheney puedan hacer cambiar el parecer de los mandatarios de la región, quienes en su conjunto se han percatado de la decadencia del imperio estadunidense cuyo símbolo mayúsculo, el dólar, vale menos que una acción bursátil del insolvente banco Bear Stearns.

Irak: El nuevo fascismo

Esta guerrra contra el terrorismo es falsa

Pero... Pero... Pero la "guerra" calderónica contra el narco es verdadera, ¿cierto? ¿cierto?

In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 9/11. A report prepared for the US government from the Baker Institute of Public Policy stated in April 2001 that "the US remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma. Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East". Submitted to Vice-President Cheney's energy task group, the report recommended that because this was an unacceptable risk to the US, "military intervention" was necessary (Sunday Herald, October 6 2002).

Similar evidence exists in regard to Afghanistan. The BBC reported (September 18 2001) that Niaz Niak, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, was told by senior American officials at a meeting in Berlin in mid-July 2001 that "military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October". Until July 2001 the US government saw the Taliban regime as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of hydrocarbon pipelines from the oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. But, confronted with the Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, the US representatives told them "either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs" (Inter Press Service, November 15 2001).

Estados Unidos: Imponiendo la "democracia" torturando y matando

Fotos apenas reveladas de la tortura que ha sucedido en Irak (y seguramente sigue sucediendo)... Estas fotos son en particular de la prisión de Abu Ghraib. Esta es la verdadera cara de la "democracia" americana. Y recuerdo que apenas el "presidente" mexicano, Calderón, declaró en su viaje a Estados Unidos que "México es uno de los pocos 'amigos' que le quedan a Estados Unidos"... ¿De qué nos sirven "amistades" así? ¿Tortura, bombas, invasión, muerte? Fascismo puro.

Turquía lanza invasión terrestre a Irak

Las piezas están en su lugar para un conflicto mundial: La guerra en Irak expandiéndose regionalmente, Kosovo separándose y creando grandes tensiones, EU amenazando con incursionar en Irán... Una guerra mundial es muy probable, sólo falta la chispa que encienda la mecha.

Turkey said yesterday it had sent ground troops into northern Iraq in a significant escalation of its fight against separatist PKK Kurdish rebels, as the US and the European Union called for restraint amid fears the move could undermine Iraq’s only stable region.

An incursion across the border by Turkish troops has long been in the offing, although it was not immediately clear yesterday how big the operation was or how long it would last. But it is a serious escalation of Turkey’s battle against the rebels after weeks of aerial assaults on PKK bases in the mountains that straddle the Turkish-Iraqi border.

El primer borrador -secreto- del expediente de las "armas de destrucción masiva" iraquíes sale a la luz

Y demuestra que no sólo contenía únicamente mentiras, sino que éstas se exageraron en la última versión, que se usó como pretexto para invadir Irak y provocar la masacre que se tiene ahora. Y aún más, el primer borrador no contenía el brutal engaño de que Irak podría lanzar armas de destrucción masiva en 45 minutos si así lo quisiera, cosa que prueba que el expediente sólo era una fabricación de falsedades envueltas en mentiras.

Fresh evidence that the Iraq weapons dossier was "sexed up" emerged as the Government finally published the secret first draft of the document.

As expected, the earliest version of the document did not include the now notorious claim that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to do so.

The first draft made a series of lurid claims about the extent and danger of the Iraqi president's weapons arsenal. But those were expressed in even stronger terms by September 2002, when the official dossier on which Tony Blair based the case for war was published.

Cuando menos 4 cables submarinos de comunicaciones cortados en Medio Oriente

¿Tendrá algo que ver con la próxima apertura de la Bolsa Iraní de Petróleo, que funcionará con monedas distintas al dólar?

Unexplainable Cutting Of Internet Cables Points To Sabotage

Is the undoubtedly deliberate damage to communications throughout the Middle East and Asia a warning, or something even more deadly?

The cutting of multiple undersea cables in several different locations hundreds of miles apart continues to arouse suspicion and stir speculation.

It seems that the activity represents, at the very least, a warning shot across the bows of certain Middle Eastern and Asian nations, and may even signify the imminence of a major geopolitical event.

In the space four days the Middle East and Asia has experienced unprecedented mass Internet outages after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation.

Bagdad, ahogándose en aguas negras

La cuna de la civilización "occidental", destrozada por el "libertador y demócrata" Bush, imponiendo su democracia a bombazos. Esto es un enorme crimen de guerra, los EU destruyeron plantas de tratamiento, presas, fábricas, puente, drenaje, hospitales...

One of three sewage treatment plants is out of commission, one is working at stuttering capacity while a pipe blockage in the third means sewage is forming a foul lake so large it can be seen “as a big black spot on Google Earth,” said Tahseen Sheikhly, civilian spokesman for the Baghdad security plan.

Sheikhly told a news conference in the capital that water pipes, where they exist, are so old that it is not possible to pump water at a sufficient rate to meet demands — leaving many neighbourhoods parched.

A sharp deficit of 3,000 megawatts of electricity adds to the woes of residents, who are forced to rely on neighbourhood generators to light up their lives and heat their homes.

“Sewerage, water and electricity are our three main problems,” said Sheikhly, adding that many of these problems date back to the Saddam Hussein regime when not enough attention was paid to basic infrastructure.

EU mata al séptimo "3ero. de Al-qaeda"

La "guerra contra el terrorismo" es tan falsa como la "guerra contra el narco" calderonista. Una falacia total. Como lo indica el artículo, esta es la séptima ocasión que se reporta que el "3o. de Al-qaeda" es eliminado por el ejército americano.

This is certainly welcome news. I'm curious, though, if anyone has a list of al Qaeda #3s who've been captured or killed recently. I was keeping a list for a while, and I think al-Libi is the seventh, following Hamza Rabia, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Saif al-Adel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed, and a senior operational leader identified in court documents as "C-2."

La OTAN "no está ganando" en Afganistán

Lo que el editor quiso decir... Es que la OTAN está perdiendo en Afganistán. Nada de qué sorprenderse, ya que el último en conquistar esa región fue Alejandro Magno, hace 2,500 años.

NATO forces in Afghanistan are in a "strategic stalemate," as Taliban insurgents expand their control of sparsely populated areas and as the central government fails to carry out vital reforms and reconstruction, according to an independent assessment released yesterday by NATO's former commander.

"Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan," said the report by the Atlantic Council of the United States, chaired by retired Gen. James L. Jones, who until the summer of 2006 served as the supreme allied commander of NATO.

McCain, precandidato presidencial, declara: "Habrá otras guerras"

¿Cómo sabe McCain que habrá otras guerras? ¿Por qué está tan seguro? ¿Quién sigue, Irán?...

Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, "It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars." Offering more of his increasingly bleak "straight talk," he repeated the claim: "I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars."

Faluya, una ciudad destruída, un crímen de guerra enorme

Faluya, una ciudad destruída por EU, después de 3 años no cuenta con agua potable, electricidad o medicinas. Lo dicho, hay fascismos "buenos" y EU pone el ejemplo.

Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water.

The last time I tried to drive to Fallujah, several years ago, I was caught in the ambush of an American fuel convoy and had to crawl out of the car and lie beside the road with the driver while US soldiers and guerrillas exchanged gunfire. The road is now much safer but nobody is allowed to enter Fallujah who does not come from there and can prove it through elaborate identity documents. The city has been sealed off since November 2004 when United States Marines stormed it in an attack that left much of the city in ruins.

Bush y su cartel mintieron más de 900 veces para justificar la guerra de Irak

Y causó un genocidio de más de un millón de iraquíes, miseria, destrucción, desplazados... Fascismo en una palabra.

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.

On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.

El Congreso de EU aprueba un presupuesto de defensa de US$700,000 millones

Un país que gasta ese volumen de dinero en "defensa", ha dejado de ser democrático. EU gasta más de 5 veces lo que todos los demás países del mundo JUNTOS gastan en la industria militar. ¿Cómo puede entonces EU declarar que otros países u organizaciones son una amenaza a su seguridad? Repito, el gasto de EU para el siguiente año fiscal será de US$700,000 millones de dólares.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday that would authorize $696 billion in military programs, including $189 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

El Congreso de EU ignora el reporte de Inteligencia sobre Irán, lo declara una amenaza nuclear

EU necesita urgentemente otra guerra, para sostener el gigante peso de la crisis de solvencia y el nivel de vida al que los americanos han estado acostumbrados durante varias décadas. Y mientras más tiempo pasa y menos tiempo le queda a Bush en la presidencia, más peligroso se volverá para Irán.

Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and its allies, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H R 4986 passed 369-46 by the US House of Representative yesterday, even though the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that that Tehran abandoned its atomic weaponry ambitions in 2003.

EU: Los ex-prisioneros de Guantánamo NO son "legalmente" personas

No sólo eso, sino que la Corte decide que la tortura es el resultado previsible de la detención por el ejército de los "enemigos combatientes". Si esto no es fascismo, no sé qué puede ser. Creo que ni Hitler fue tan descarado al tratar de justificar las injusticias cometidas en su tiempo.

In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law. The Court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.” Finally, the Court found that, even if torture and religious abuse were illegal, defendants were immune under the Constitution because they could not have reasonably known that detainees at Guantánamo had any constitutional rights.

Bush promete a Israel: Bombardearemos Irán con armas nucleares

Sólo para que no haya duda de los estúpidos esquizofrénicos y genocidas que detentan el poder ahora.

US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today.

Former Prime Minister Netanyahu, opposition Likud party's hardline chairman who opposes the US-backed Annapolis peace process, reiterated to President Bush his stance, that a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran's nuclear installations was the only way to stop the Islamic nation's nuclear weapons ambitions.

"I told him my position and Bush agreed," Netanyahu told Israel Radio.

During their 45-minute meeting at King David hotel in Jerusalem Netanyahu also told Bush that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people and will remain under Israeli sovereignty for eternity."

President Bush issued a stark warning to Iran over Strait of Hormuz incident, saying that "all options are on the table to protect our assets."

EU: La "grabación" de voces puede no haber sido de lanchas iraníes

Eu necesita otra guerra para prolongar su agonía económica, cuya muerte llegará tarde o temprano (más temprano que tarde). Y está provocando una confrontación para tener un pretexto para atacar. La masacre en Irak comenzó así. Con una gran mentira de Bush, Blair y Aznar.

Just two days after the U.S. Navy released the eerie video of Iranian speedboats swarming around American warships, which featured a chilling threat in English, the Navy is saying that the voice on the tape could have come from the shore or from another ship.

The near-clash occurred over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz. On the U.S.-released recording, a voice can be heard saying to the Americans, "I am coming to you. You will explode after a few minutes."

The Navy never said specifically where the voices came from, but many were left with the impression they had come from the speedboats because of the way the Navy footage was edited.

Today, the spokesperson for the U.S. admiral in charge of the Fifth Fleet clarified to ABC News that the threat may have come from the Iranian boats, or it may have come from somewhere else.