According to official sources, things have calmed down in Iran for the last couple of days. The government has declared that from now on no more illegal demonstrations would be tolerated, different from the attitude of last week where mass-demonstration where would went more or less on undisturbed unless they turned violent.
According to Iranian Press [...]
Archive for June, 2009
About Cannon-Fodder and Sacrificial Lambs
Posted in History, War and Imperialism, Zionism on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Against “Holocausts”
Posted in Dictatorship, History, Media deceptions and propaganda, Philosophy, Religion and Politics, War and Imperialism, Zionism on June 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Australian blogger Syd Walker writes:
When I first heard a commentator speak of ‘ethnic cleansing’ I felt a strong sense of revulsion…. How utterly absurd to use a phrase that embodies a vile notion beyond all civilized norms! What on earth is clean about attacking, destroying, rape and pillage, violence and refugees?
Syd Walker is right, [...]
Who had motives to cheat in the Iranian elections?
Posted in Iran on June 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Was it Ahmadinejad or his supporters?
Simple answer: No
Esam Al-Amin had “A Hard Look at the Numbers”, and he concluded that not only the western sponsored survey done by an institute connected to ABC news and the BBC, but also most inner-Iranian pre-election polls predicted that President Ahmadinejad would win the elections by a large [...]
The Big Question for Icelanders, Joining the European Union or not
Posted in Iceland on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking at the comments to the last post, I realize that maybe I have drawn a picture of Iceland as a poor nation of fishermen.
While in the early decades of Icelandic independence there existed indeed besides fishing and processing of fish for export only a domestic service- and food-processing-industry in Iceland, the country now has [...]
Iceland – the banks, the bust, the fish and the history
Posted in Iceland on June 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today is Iceland´s Independence Day. The Prime Minister held a speech in front of the Parliament telling the Icelanders, the next few years would be very hard. She also said that a new struggle for independence would have to be fought, but she added, it would mainly be about Iceland´s relationship towards other nations and [...]
The Re-writing of History is not a New Game
Posted in History, Iceland on June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Norman Finkelstein the author of “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering” and “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History” started his anti-Zionist writing career when he in his doctoral dissertation unveiled the fraudulent “historical” research of Joan Peters. Peters had claimed in his book “From Time [...]
One Third of the Iranian People
Posted in Iran, War and Imperialism on June 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Things have changed since yesterday and I have to partly revise my opinion from then. Now, all over the blogoshere, voices start to emerge who smell a rat about what is happening in Iran right now and compare it to past color-”Revolutions” or coups.
In Tehran, Mousavi can bring just as large crowds onto the street [...]
Western Islamophobia – the Left, the Neoliberals, the Neocons, the Christians, the Libertarians – All on the very same Page
Posted in Iran, Philosophy, Religion and Politics, War and Imperialism on June 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
With very rare exceptions among libertarian bloggers like Michael Rivero, Xymphora (and here) and Moon of Alabama, when it comes to the Iran elections, everyone else, even Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com, is on the same level: Ahmadinejad´s victory was a “blatant fraud”.
When the issue of Iran is at play, logic and objectivity goes down the [...]
Why Ahmadinejad Won the Iranian Elections
Posted in Iran on June 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mainline media in Iceland, in Europe, in America and Canada keep harping the same tune in total accord: The Iranian elections were fraudulent.
Why?
Because the sore looser said so, and because the West likes the socalled “Reformers” around the election looser Mousavi better.
Blogger Xymphora tells us, who the “Reformers” represent:
there appears to be a clear class [...]
The torture of detainees increases the danger of terrorist attacks in the western world and this might be exactly it´s purpose
Posted in Dictatorship, History, War and Imperialism on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The blogger George Washington writes an impressive summary of all the reasons why torture doesn´t work. He cites a host of interrogators and top level military and CIA officials who have come to the conclusion by their own experience that torture does not produce any relevant information which might prevent a terrorist attack against America [...]
