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[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Is Obama's Iran Policy Doomed to Fail ...: It is unrealistic to expect that a regime which fought Saddam Hussein's Iraq (then backed by the United States) to a standstill in a bloody eight-year war in the 1980s, unaided by any foreign power, and has for 30 years withstood the consequences of U.S.-imposed economic sanctions will be alarmed by Washington's fresh threats of "crippling sanctions."

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, 9/11's Living Monuments | TomDispatch: In five years of investigation and in my own encounter with the San Francisco Bay Area's Loma Prieta earthquake 20 years ago, I've found that disasters are often moments of strange joy. My friend Kate Joyce, then a 19-year-old living in New Mexico, had landed in New York on the very morning of September 11, 2001, and spent the next several days in Union Square, the park-like plaza at 14th Street that became a regular gathering point.

[AlterNet.org] Why Obama's Grand Schemes for Iran Are Doomed to Fail | World ...: During a recent meeting with Iran's first vice president, Muhammad Reza Rahimi, in Beijing, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of cooperation between the two countries when it comes to hydrocarbons and trade (at $29 billion a year, and rising), as well as "greater coordination in international affairs." Little wonder, then, that China has already moved to neutralize any sanctions that the United States -- backed by Britain, France and Germany -- might impose on Iran without United Nations authorization.

[Iranian.com - Nothing is Sacred] Stuck in Bush | Iranian.com: Dilip Hiro is the author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Nation Books), among other works. His forthcoming book, After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World, will be published in January 2010, ..... Presumably, I should cheer for the fact that the U.S. military massacred American Indians too? After all, absence of such cheering is a sign of "hating" America. Stephen Pelletiere, a CIA analyst responsible for the Iran-Iraq war, ...

[AlterNet.org] How Bush's Iraq Oil-Grab Went Awry | World | AlterNet: Another DIA document in the package, entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," listed companies from 30 countries - France, Germany, Russia, and Britain, among others - their specialties and bidding histories. The attached maps pinpointed "super-giant oil field," "other oil field," and "earmarked for production sharing," and divided the basically undeveloped but oil-rich southwest of Iraq into nine blocks, indicating promising areas for future exploration.

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, The Weeks of Living Dangerously | TomDispatch: Until the June 12th election -- despite evidence of modest tinkering with the first round of the 2005 presidential vote -- post-Shah Iran seemed to indicate that Islam and democracy could work in harmony. The upheaval since then has demonstrated that when strains between the two concepts develop, it is democracy that gets short shrift.

[SWJ Blog] COIN in a Tribal Society (SWJ Blog): It examines religion, race, and language, country, nation and state and shows how imported Western ideas such as liberalism, fascism, socialism, patriotism and nationalism influenced Middle Easterner’s ancient notions of community, self-perceptions and aspirations.

[Dick Destiny] ACHTUNG PANZER! Return to the steppes of monster - Dick Destiny: "...the Iraqis overpowered the Iranians in a ferocious artillery and rocket barrage, mixing conventional shells with the ones filled with cyanide or deadly nerve gases, and expelled [the Iranians] from the bridgehead...the Iranians discovered than in the searing temperatures of 45 C. prevalent on the fronts, it was virtually impossible to wear their protective clothing and masks.

[TomDispatch - Blog] TomDispatch: He shows how U.S. occupation is fueling civil war in Iraq and beyond, and how U.S. officials dismantled .Today, Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch regular and author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources, focuses on how, despite some genuine changes, Washington's Iran policy is, in crucial ways, stuck in the past.

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