29-12-2009, 09:00 AM
Thanks to Magda et al.
I'm unlikely to maintain my previous posting rate. I'm trying to pay more attention to my own blogs; have increased my involvements in commenting on others and have an increased business load to cope with. I still regard DPF as a pretty unique and valuable resource though and will stay tuned.
Dawn - I'm worried too - VERY worried and like you sincerely hope I turn out to be wrong. Problem is, from where I am sitting, there is simply nothing positive to see in terms of the major power arbiters addressing the worlds converging and burgeoning problems of population growth, climate change, resource depletion and their derivatives. 'Globalisation' and 'economic growth' (on our finite planet) remain the twin holy-grails of the entire Western Establishment (for public consumption anyway). The US/NATO axis appears to be beefing up its interference, both overt and covert, everywhere. Watch out South America, Iran and Pakistan in particular.
It's pretty clear to me that regime-change in Iran is a prime objective - what replaces the present Ayatollahs is moot and of far less importance than neutralising a regime that (apart from Russia) poses the only real threat to US/NATO hegemony in the Middle East/Central Asia. From that perspective anything would be better than a cohesive powerful Regime in Iran - Break it up into its ethnic constituents is maybe the objective. For sure Shrub's promise to fund major covert ops in Iran back in 2006 (if memory serves) appears to be bearing its inevitable fruit and we can look forward to major upheavals there.
I'm unlikely to maintain my previous posting rate. I'm trying to pay more attention to my own blogs; have increased my involvements in commenting on others and have an increased business load to cope with. I still regard DPF as a pretty unique and valuable resource though and will stay tuned.
Dawn - I'm worried too - VERY worried and like you sincerely hope I turn out to be wrong. Problem is, from where I am sitting, there is simply nothing positive to see in terms of the major power arbiters addressing the worlds converging and burgeoning problems of population growth, climate change, resource depletion and their derivatives. 'Globalisation' and 'economic growth' (on our finite planet) remain the twin holy-grails of the entire Western Establishment (for public consumption anyway). The US/NATO axis appears to be beefing up its interference, both overt and covert, everywhere. Watch out South America, Iran and Pakistan in particular.
It's pretty clear to me that regime-change in Iran is a prime objective - what replaces the present Ayatollahs is moot and of far less importance than neutralising a regime that (apart from Russia) poses the only real threat to US/NATO hegemony in the Middle East/Central Asia. From that perspective anything would be better than a cohesive powerful Regime in Iran - Break it up into its ethnic constituents is maybe the objective. For sure Shrub's promise to fund major covert ops in Iran back in 2006 (if memory serves) appears to be bearing its inevitable fruit and we can look forward to major upheavals there.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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