Neo-liberal Destabilization Plan for Syria Continues: How long till we are on that “Seven Countries” list?

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Russia opposes ‘Libyan scenario’ in Syria and will block resolution Syrian government accepted Russian brokered peace talks with opposition The Syrian “rebels/activists” rejected a Russian brokered peace talks The Syrian “rebels/activists” sabotage state run natural gas pipeline and murdered a doctor —— “So, I came back to see him (in the [...]

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

Advocates of War With Iran Take Some Media Hits

by Sherwood Ross, BlacklistedNews Advocates of a hot war with Iran have just taken some heavy hits from a Harvard professor of international relations and two prominent journalists. Harvard’s Professor Stephen Walt has savaged an article in the forthcoming “Foreign Affairs” magazine(Jan.-Feb.)  by Matthew Kroenig titled, “Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the [...]

Another Propaganda Campaign to Destabilize Iran: A New Dark Age is Upon Us

by Scott Creighton According to the “liberal” newspaper the Guardian, President Ahmadinejad is dabbling in black magic in an attempt to bring the anti-Christ to power. God knows, I wish I was making this up. A new propaganda campaign focused on regime change in Iran has been launched by the Guardian and al Jazeera. It [...]

The Fake Color Revolution is Back in Iran – Globalist Destabilization Efforts Under Cover of Egypt’s Real Revolution

by Scott Creighton In every crisis, real or manufactured, there is… opportunity. Contrary to Julian Assange’s assessment, the current wave of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East (recently called a “virus” by John McCain) was not created by the CIA honeypot called Wikileaks. Nor, as the one-time Lyndon LaRouche follower Webster Tarpley has put it, was it [...]

Obama Is Preparing to Bomb Iran

by Webster Tarpley, Tarpley(dot)net After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through [...]

Finally, Neda’s Staged “Killing” Exposed

by Scott Creighton On June 24, 2009 I wrote an article called “Compare and Contrast: One is Real the Other is Fake” which explained how I thought the Neda killing in Iran was a staged attempt to ferment indignation in Iran and the rest of the world against the ruling party that had just won [...]

Iran’s Neoliberal Green Revolution is Over – Send in the Dogs of War

by Scott Creighton There’s a good article on WSWS about a new development within the leadership of Iran’s neoliberal PR campaign aka the ”Green Revolution”. The big three are playing kiss and make up with the legitimate leadership of Iran. Curious timing, wouldn’t you say? This past October, 5  Republican Guard leaders and 37 others were killed by a suicide bomber [...]

The Fake Green Revolution Turns Round and Round – Neoliberal Yuppies Unite!

by Scott Creighton  ***UPDATE***  MASSIVE RALLIES, tens of thousands of Iranians, in support of the current Iranian government DWARF the small clans of roving free-market Yuppies. They also don’t set fires, attack police officers, or stage more fake death scenes.  Film at 11.  Andrew Sullivan and Amy Goodman would have you believe that we have to attack [...]

Chris Dodd is a Lying Warmonger of the “Democrat” Kind

by Scott Creighton One of the key players in the recent banking coup of the U.S. delivered a stunningly dishonest warmongering speech the other day on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and NO, it wasn’t a republican.  Chris Dodd has been chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs since Jan 2007.  [...]

Cranking up the Bullshit on Iran Again: “Several Thousand” (or is it 25?) Protest

by Scott Creighton Does THIS look like “several thousand” protesters as described in war profiteer GE’s MSNBC/AP article? (Let’s count them together 1,2,3,…. 25…. 25…. 25…. I count 25 Young Republican looking guys. Now I could be wrong… let’s count them again just to be sure.  Wouldn’t want to report something that was complete BULLSHIT, [...]

The Mousavi campaign in Iran and the lessons of past “color revolutions”

by Niall Green, WSWS The political movement of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, named the “Green Wave” due to its campaign color, has striking parallels with the US-backed “color revolutions” in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine. Like the campaigns to bring to power pro-US regimes in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine [...]

The Big Whorehouse on the Potomac

by Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch Americans celebrate July 4, they can contemplate that the union of “free and independent states,” like the former British colonial power, has evolved into its final manifestation–a complete whore house.  While Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with every personal expenditure, including the rental of adult xxx-rated [...]

Israeli News Now Just Making Shit Up about Iran…

“… a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi“  JPost “… sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview…” “… no independent confirmation of the report… “ There used to be a time when unsourced, unconfirmed propaganda couldn’t make it past your laughing editor.  Didn’t some [...]

The Shah’s Son Promises on Israeli Television to Return to Power in Iran

by Scott Creighton The son of the notorious Iranian dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is claiming on Israeli television (the IBA – Israeli Broadcasting Authority) not only that he knows he will return to power in Iran but that under his rule, the climate of aggression between Iran and Israel will be [...]