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"LBJ took the IRT down to Fourth Street USA, When he got there what did he see? The youth of America on LSD! LBJ ... USA ... FBI ...CIA ..."

(Lyrics from original HAIR Musical)

For a moment, forty years ago, it looked like the radicalizing political effect of the Vietnam War together with the US Civil Rights movement would synthesize with the upcoming 'drop out', psychedelic culture that swept the youth of North America.

US Homeland Security demand for DNS master key alarms world

Slashdot and Cryptome report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed.

BBC News 24, the international version of Blair TV's media war machine, has just announced a decision by the British Ministry of Defence to 'allow' the 15 navy ex-detainees to sell their stories to the press. This will only be permitted after the stories are vetted by their commanding officers!

What blatant propaganda from the British corporate state!

One thing is certain, Tony Blair's idiotic behaviour during the Anglo-Iranian maritime dispute did no one any favours, least of all the 15 British service personnel who were detained in Iran for just under a fortnight.

Blair and his cohorts did a lot of huffing and puffing, insisting that the Iranians had grabbed the sailors whilst in Iraqi waters. This is the front that the British, with an orgy of jingoism from its media, have put up all along.

Last Monday evening, I watched an atrocious programme on Islam, 'What Muslims Want', on Dispatches, C4 (UK) with that pompous idiot, John Snow. Frankly, even as a non-Muslim I found it not only offensive but full of perversions and assumed truths.

Stuff like this is sheer disinformation propaganda by the British Secret State, 'psy ops' as practised by the CIA. Yet this is the kind of poison that is being incessantly churned out by the Mainstream Media which, no doubt, is receiving directives from the secret state and MI5 so to do.

This made me think deeper on the question of public brain-washing through the media (particularly tv).

Although difficult to prove, I believe there is definitely a conspiracy between the State, MI5 and the Mainstream Media (MSM) to produce a never-ending stream of disinformation through, for example, TV programmes such as the C4 Snow Dispatches programme, in order to brainwash the public into believing State propaganda.

At long last, the warning cry about the Bliar's dangerous state-of-mind and foreign policy is being picked-up by the media. Significantly, the recently-leaked Sawyer memo and its implications come first from Dubai and Pakistan , ie Asian countries with a rather different perspective on what New Labour's arrogant John Reid assumes to be the world community.

Apropos the double-talk currently emanating from the quislings in 10 Downing Street, Hannah Strange, London's UPI correspondent ends her Iran report by observing that, "For now, the government appears to be performing a diplomatic balancing act, attempting to dispel fears of a rush to war while simultaneously preparing for it."

Jack Straw, the Brits' Foreign Secretary, keeps denying that the USUK imperial coalition has any intention of using military force against Iran. Meanwhile his fuehrer, Bliar, swaggers across the world-stage, this time to New Zealand and Australia, to chivvy-up the Anglo-Saxon alliance and muster more support for his 'Clash of Civilizations' against Islam.

Let's see, now. According to Britain's caped-crusader, what we are in is a 'war against terrorism', a struggle to defend our 'traditional values' and our 'special relationship' of 'shared values' with our mighty cousin, the USA. Perfect Orwellian newspeak that doesn't bear to be examined in any detail.

A letter recently leaked by a very senior civil servant, John Sawer, Political Director of the British Foreign Office, blows the whistle on the Bliar regime's plans for manipulating the UN Security Council nations into paving the way for a war against Iran. The entire, macabre staging of events via the IAEA and the UNSC is, as a Russian diplomat described it in Geneva, déja vu.

The letter Sawer has leaked reveals the intentions of the Foreign Office over the next few weeks to persuade both Russia and China on the need to attack Iran. To achieve this it would be necessary to coordinate a strategy involving the US, France and Germany to obtain UN approval for such an attack.

"If there were ever an excuse for a Very British Coup to take place to remove the dishonest NeoCon puppets who, like Doctor Who's aliens, have colonised the British Executive then surely it is now. Brigadeer Lethbridge Stewart where are you now in our hour of need. With the sheepish Labour party spellbound by blue eyed PR boy Tony and his witch doctors a military coup might be the only way to rid Britain of corruption.

'Glorifying terror'? Perish the thought."

An old saying in Stalinist eastern Europe about media propaganda went something like this: whatever the Government says believe the opposite and you won't be far wrong. When BBC television deliberately blacked out the annual CND anti-war march last week it added a typically English "if you don't like it, ignore it and hope it goes away" flavour to the encroaching practice of news censorship in vogue with the Corporation's apparatchiks.

Recently, I came across an old WSWS article, 'Pentagon strategy for nuclear strikes revealed, Iraq--a testing ground for US militarism', from March 1998.

It shows how, in the Clinton era, the US Military was already planning for the aggressive style of first-strike wars that Bush/Cheney are presently practising. The incorporation of nuclear weapons into such wars as useable weaponry is clearly very disturbing as is the recommendation, quoted in it from STRATCOM, that the US should deliberately present a public persona of irrationality and vindictiveness in order to spread fear and insecurity amongst its potential enemies.

The recent deluge of expressions of “concern” about Iran by Cheney, Bolton, Blair, Rumsfeld et al should be setting alarm bells ringing throughout the world.

These dangerous and sinister players are back on the warpath and humanity is in danger- first and foremost the people of Iran, who have committed the cardinal sin of standing up for their own rights

But it is no exaggeration to say that the future of every single one of us is at risk. Having gone along with the “diplomatic process” in the hope of persuading Iran to forfeit their rights under international law, Russia is now backpedalling but it is probably too late. As a consequence US/UK has a vetoed Security Council resolution in their grasp and the scent of blood in their nostrils.

Almost two-hundred-and-thirty years ago a group of fifty six American colonials signed a Declaration of Independence in which they declared themselves to be finally free from the corrupt, decadent and manifestly unjust rule of the British Crown. In that most sacred declaration its signatories recognized the essential rights of all men and women to live freely, in the pursuit of their happiness.

An Annual March is Simply not Enough to Stop World War III

It was nauseatingly predictable that Iran should have been referred to the United Nations' Security Council (UNSC) for further punitive action. Despite the IAEA's findings that no evidence existed of a nuclear-weapons programme and the preparedness of the Iranians to enrich most of their uranium in another country such as Russia, the war-hungry US was having none of it.

Last Wednesday, 1 March, the English-language newspaper, THE HINDU, reported the latest findings of the International Atomic Energy Authority that there was no evidence whatsoever "that Teheran had diverted material towards making atomic weapons".

Quite unsurprisingly the BBC's war-propaganda machine kept quiet about this, not wishing to put Iran in a favourable light and thus compromising the inevitable bellicose posturing we can expect from its controller and paymaster, the quisling Bliar.

WHY DO WE FIGHT?

AMERIKA's ADDICTION TO WAR

" Though Iran's wish to possess nuclear weapons remains a speculation, it would use such weapons for self-defence, Victor Dubovitskiy, professor of historical sciences and expert at the geopolitical sciences centre in Tajikistan, maintains."

Let's hope that Dubovitskiy's advice is taken by Russia's leaders soon as there doesn't appear to be much time left for the West's threatened nuclear aerial attack on Iran in March.

You come down, one morning, and switch on the tv set.

While preparing the coffee you hear the voice of the newscaster announce the breaking news that next March George Bush is planning to conduct an aerial assault against Iran using both conventional and nuclear weapons.

"Nuclear weapons? Did I hear that right?" you say to yourself, spilling the cofee on the carpet as you rush from the kitchen to the tv lounge.

"It is estimated that the resulting deaths among the population," continues the poker-faced announcer, "will be somewhere between a few hundred to ten thousand or more."

How Do You Act? Help Organize Resistance to The U.S. War on Iran!

For the last year, you have witnessed the U.S. Government and their Corporate Media Partners laying the foundation for an invasion of Iran. 3 years ago, we could not have imagined the destruction and carnage this same government has executed on the people if Iraq but we have watched the horror unfold, haven't we? Incredibly, this same rogue government are now laying plans to attack the people of Iran, based on the same pretext - Weapons of Mass Destruction. What is happening! How can they do this? We have proof-positive that they do whatever they want unless we stop them.