Iran president's extraordinary attack at UN on Trump’s nuclear double standards

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...In case you didn't see it ...

Anti-Colonialism's Unfinished Business

Americans are starting to wake up to reality, as a foreign observer put it:

Western liberal democracies are like a narcissistic wife beater who postures as a sensitive he/him feminist on social media. Like a pop star who makes a show of fighting the power and defending the marginalized while supporting Israel. Our society isn’t what it pretends to be. Our entire civilization sustains itself through an endless river of blood, sweat and tears from the global south while making movies about fighting for justice and saving the world. Our pundits wag their fingers at the “tyrannical regimes” in empire-targeted nations while our own rulers murder, starve and terrorize disobedient populations in order to dominate the planet. In school they teach us that we are lucky to live in a free society where the people command the government with their votes and we have the right to express ourselves in whatever way we choose, when in reality wealthy oligarchs control the entire electoral process and our expression is aggressively manipulated through a complex system of censorship and propaganda. We have no integrity.

How long has this been going on? For that, we might take an historical perspective beginning with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, which oversaw the infamous Scramble for Africa:

Yet in a very real sense Africa is a prime cause of this terrible overturning of civilization which we have lived to see; and these words seek to show how in the Dark Continent are hidden the roots, not simply of war today but of the menace of wars tomorrow.

Still can't join the dots? Then listen to Prof. Richard Wolff lay it all out in a succinct summary:



Now we get to the purpose of this post, Anti-colonialism's Unfinished Business. It seems as if the Unfinished Business has finally made it onto the agenda:



And for an oncore, don't miss THIS.

What if everything America did ...

Came Home to America?



UPDATE: As you can see from the above, censorship is alive and well in the USA. Here in its place is a worthy contender:

THE EMPIRE IS RUNNING OUT OF MISSILES.

The Funeral: A Nation’s Verdict

This author summarizes it succinctly:

After the death of {eighth president of Iran, Ebrahim} Raisi, the majority of the people voted for Pezeshkian. They gave the reformist a chance, and he repaid them with appeasement while the enemy repaid them with bombs. The coalition of the United States, Israel, and their Gulf vassals, a cabal of pederasts and client kings, launched two waves of attacks on Iran. They killed thousands of civilians. They struck homes, hospitals, sports complexes, and infrastructure. On the first day, they targeted the Minab school. These were not strategic objectives; there is no military logic to bombing a school. These were satanic sacrifices, rituals of demoralization intended to crush the will of a people, to prove that no place was safe, that even children at their desks were legitimate prey. They armed ethnic minorities to attack infrastructure from within, trying to fracture the nation along fault lines they had spent decades mapping. They violated every conceivable international law with the impunity of those who know the institutions are their own.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated “the era of one-sided deals is OVER,” posting the {Memorandum of Understanding} MOU’s text with Iran’s privileges highlighted: “The Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts” for free passage of commercial vessels through Hormuz, “for 60 days only.”

What happens next?

And what happens now to the (mostly) indifferent public of the West? Here is a possibility (probability?):

An Historic Inflection Point

Just twelve days ago I posted that "Iran is making history". Although many of us somehow intuited that our world was on the cusp of momentous changes, we probably didn't realize (at the time) just how earth-shattering they would be, once the dust cleared. The pace of activity picked up (I won't detail it here since there are a plethora of analyses by capable authors one can reference), and just one week after my post, Peter Haenseler via the blog of former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson summarized the "state of affairs" in the following manner:

No one expected Donald Trump to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)—especially in Versailles. Iran is taking its place at the big table with the major powers, and the world looks different—we’re asking questions—many of which have no answers.

Although the dust hadn't (and still hasn't) settled, the immediate question on everybody's lips was:

What drove Trump to hurriedly sign the MoU?

The President himself let slip the answer to that question during a masterful display of circumlocution at the following press conference. The answer makes its debut at 2:35😆:



Neither I nor Larry C. Johnson are oil industry specialists, but Larry has conveniently done his homework before I could begin researching the issue (more HERE, and a further update HERE). Coming to think of it, I should just refer you to Larry C. Johnson's blog since he has done a masterful job of following, researching and documenting this entire affair.

I will perhaps end with a segment from another Middle East analyst of the highest caliber, the incomparable Alastair Crooke. in which he quotes a former senior Israeli Iran military intelligence analyst:

An unquestioned dogma has bitten the dust:

“The long-standing expectation in parts of Jerusalem and Washington has been that sustained pressure could lead to regime change in Tehran … [However] the announced agreement suggests a [new] fundamental reality: The campaign that many hoped would weaken or even destabilise the Islamic Republic will instead conclude with the regime intact, strengthened, and formally engaged by the U.S. … [This] amounts to the collapse of a broader strategic assumption: that coordinated American and Israeli pressure could generate conditions conducive to fundamental political change inside Iran. Instead, the likely outcome is the opposite … [it is] an outcome likely to reinforce confidence amongst [Iran’s] ruling elite rather than weaken it …”.
This moment represents a major strategic achievement for Iran: A heroic image is surging across the globe – whereas Israel’s isolation on the Iran issue, even amongst its Gulf allies, has spiked. On the personal level, Netanyahu’s standing in Israel has plunged catastrophically.

Glory Be!

Iran is making history.



More from former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, Larry C. Johnson.

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