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Iran in August? Some Think the Winds of War are again Blowing

Published August 6, 2010

For the past week, I have locked myself in my home office in order to write (basically from scratch) a 30ish-page, 10,000ish-word essay for a journal and its special, double issue on the Cultures of Militarization.  So, I have not found much time to read or catch news via any medium.

Now that is has been sent off, I have taken a little break to get caught up in what may or may not be happening in the world.  One surprising development was how much Iran as a potential target of Western agression/self-defence.  This had been building over the summer, especially the recently-announced economic sanctions and what not, but it seems that things have really taken off in my week’s absence from the world (or it just seems like it).

But it does make a lot of sense.  Forces within the U.S., Israel, and other Western nations have been eyeing Iran for some time now.  But the events of the recent past, it seems those forces seem to be empowered once again.  The global financial near-collapse (war can be very profitable for those accustomed to making lots of money), a weakened U.S. President (wars can be good for rallying the population), a resurgent right-wing/neocon movement (which always looks to war), wary Arab states, and an Israeli government that has been in conflict diplomatically with the current White House.

At any rate, I was surprised to see, again and again, discussion of this topic in a variety of places.  Here are a few of the most intriguing I came across today:

VIPS Sends Memo To Obama Warning Israel May Bomb Iran “As Early As This Month”

Doug Casey: War Is Coming

Obama is Preparing to Bomb Iran

It makes one wonder… and in Canada, I don’t think there would be any question how our current government would react if the Israel/U.S. attacked Iran, especially given recent statements on Israel, how quickly the government announced Canada too would be joining the economic sanctions, the fact that the Conservatives (led by Stephen Harper) were very outspoken about joining the U.S. in the invasion of Iraq when they were the official opposition, and all the recent funding for new weapons/equipment for the military.

If it were to happen, and if it were–as many seem to fear–to expand and proliferate to include other Gulf nations and expanded terrorism… well….

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Y2K… An Update from Ten Years Later

Published May 1, 2010

The first decade of the twentieth century is one of the most schizophrenic of the modern era I would have to say.

The explosion of finance (taking over the majority of some of the major economies such as the U.S. and U.K.) and the expansion of the middle-class in many countries,  the explosion of communications technology, the (partial) democratization of that technology,  the almost unfathomable extraction and processing of natural (and some finite) natural resources, the advance of science and knowledge and art, travel across the globe and elsewhere on a regular basis, the fact that almost seven billion humans exist, and some in prosperity… is all testament to the marvelous spectacle that the human species has become.

Of course, there was a whole other side to the coin: (in no particular order) the (divided) U.S. Supreme Court intervening in the Florida election, the George W. Bush administration (the entry for an ideology advocating U.S. hegemony and pre-emptive warfare in the world’s hyperpower), dot.com bubble bursting, Sept. 11 and the de-stabilization/radicalization of the Middle East (with lots of help from Western nations), Enron/WorldCom/etc., mindless and mind-boggling consumerism, loose monetary and economic policy (everywhere), graft and corruption (everywhere), financial fraud on a massive scale (or the realization that our modern economy is a Ponzi scheme actually fueled by cheap petroleum energy), the Iraq War, $140/barrel oil, real estate bubbles (everywhere), the seeming rise of xenophobia and divisive politics in many countries, the massive concentration of wealth world-wide, and (the related) massive expansion of the money supply (everywhere), pollution and environmental degradation, Peak Oil/Energy, the “Great Contraction” and financial meltdown world-wide….

I have heard/read many people who say the first decade of the 20th century has been one of the worst in some time and I would have to agree.  And all at the time that we were worried about was if our computers might crash.

(Sent from my old desktop that I am going to convert into a Linux-distro-testing-safe-internet-surfing PC in the coming week…)

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Fabricating Niger evidence?

Published February 20, 2009

nigerdocs1This is a very interesting story… I cannot comment on its veracity at all but it is very intriguing (and disturbing).  It all makes me think that the Bush?Cheney era was one of the worst in U.S. history.

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