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How the World Works

By Hidari, Section Nuclear Proliferation
Posted on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 02:54:07 AM EST

This article was hidden away in the Guardian colour supplement on Saturday, which is unfortunate, as it tells us much about how the world works. First a bit of background. The US and the UK, we are told, are deeply concerned about nuclear proliferation. Iran, we are told, is a major threat to the stability of the world, on the grounds that they are, it seems, attempting to develop the technology to build their own nuclear weapons. The United States opposes this because, of course, the US opposes nuclear proliferation, especially amongst 'rogue' or 'unstable' states and especially amongst rogue states associated with Islamic fundamentalism.

OK, got the official story? Now here is how the world really works.

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Yet more bad news about Iran

By Hidari, Section Iraq-Iran-Syria
Posted on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 04:39:53 AM EST

Here is another depressing story about manipulation of the UN, the 'nuclear issue', and yet again, how this issue is being used to provide a causus belli for war.

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Mark Twain's "The War Prayer"

By Dum Luks, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue May 29, 2007 at 05:36:23 PM EST

Kevin Drum of Political Animal
(http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_05/011398.php) and others have pointed us to a new Video reading of Mark Twain's biting reaction to the Spanish American War of 1898.

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