Second opinion on Iran,Syria, Libya, Iraq etc

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There are some alternative opinions on the reasons for war in Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq, etc.

http://www.truth-out.org/us-israel-and-war-iran-dont-let-them-fool-us-again/1329244049

someone preambled the above article with this:

"For the US, Iran is a paper tiger that it uses to justify its military presence in the oil rich Middle East. In addition to controlling the oil and getting favorable treatment for US corporations, a large military force is now needed more than in the past to intervene in the Arab revolutionary wave that has toppled longtime US allies in Tunisia and Egypt and threatened others in Yemen and Bahrain."


Some people would say that, more than just, Iraq, there has been a history of 'lies' to get people to go to war, to justify arms races and escalation, increased military funding and presence, etc.

zbigniew brzezinski wrote 'the grand chessboard'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
(I don't know if these links describe things accurately or not, wikipedia gets altered all the time by various interests, but it shows at least there is a certain 'mainstream' acceptance of the reality of these persons and this book)
":American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives " which basically suggests taking over certain parts of the world is necessary for the USA to 'win' in the sort of military end game, which includes certain resources necessary for war such as oil, and essentially surrounding such powers as Russia and China (and India) who have large populations, and bases in the middle east are an essential stepping stone towards this.

Gwynne Dyer, essentially a military strategist/ historian? in his talks for cbc radio, based on his book, 'climate wars',
http://gwynnedyer.com/radio/
goes into fictional projections of very possible outcomes of climate change in a geo-strategic sense, ie countries like India and China especially fighting for clean water (the source of much of China's is a glacier near Tibet, I think) and basically how some difficult physical realities, if not met before hand with initiative and innovation, may result in later catastrophes/ political and military disputes.

Apparently after our oil, one major resource the United States is looking North to Canada for is our Water; Maude Barlowe formerly of the Council of Canadians wrote a book Blue Gold on this; and their seems to be an associated movie, about possible future wars for water, especially clean, drinkable water.

On the issues of Syria currently, and Libya previously, journalist Lizzie Phelan from england has been sharing an alternative view of the 'humanitarian' interventions in various situations of 'Western' powers, criticizing especially the mainstream media's role in normalizing this, and acting as propaganda to get people demanding, as with the case of 9-11 and Iraq and Afganistan, that their people go to war, with Iraq, when their were proveably no links between Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden or 9-11 terrorists, and eventually claims of weapons of mass destruction refuted, and in Afganistan, a war planned and in the process of being implemented PROVEABLY before 9-11 even happened, and the Global 'war on terror' was declared by the latest 'bush'.
( WWW.GLOBALRESEARCH.CA is a good resource for more information on some of these particular issues)

Lizze Phelan has a blog and a youtube page she is currently uploading to, as well - also 'the real news network' often has good news articles.

http://lizzie-phelan.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/theliberatedzone

http://therealnews.com/t2/ - the real news network

Although there is no guarantee that many of these links I have presented are without error, many of them may provide a significant second opinion to some of the main stream media that people may be receiving (innundated with) that perhaps in the absence of alternatives, may often go unquestioned.

I think it is very important that many of these thing are questioned; and part of this is why I think things like the 'occupy' movement, some of what wikileaks and anonymous seems to have done at times seems important - to punch holes in an ediface of lies so it bleeds some daylight.

Here is one link I would really like to share from 'Occupy Ottawa' by a speaker named Mike Nickerson, talking about shifting towards a more sustainable future in the next few decades, which is only about 7 minutes, and which I constantly find inspiring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv5n37aczVg

there is a longer version available, but this gets the most important points - the long version is about 30min
http://vimeo.com/32022255


thx for reading



Michael Goguen