Colonizing Nations 101Stephen Lendman, Contributor Might justifies right. Nations are destroyed to free them. Code language conceals real motives. Policy involves ravaging the world one country at a time or in multiples. Nations are destroyed for their own good. Monied interests alone benefit. Truth 11.com quoted a 19th century proverb saying: Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. Political speech masks policies. News is carefully filtered. Fiction substitutes for fact. Free and open societies arent tolerated. Dissent is marginalized and suppressed. Imperial wars are called liberating ones. Human rights are violated for our own good. Patriotism means going along with what harms us. Media scoundrels aid and abet state crimes. Where it ends, who knows. Money power wont sustain a ravaged planet. Militarism and perpetual wars assure it. Peace is spurned to wage them. Big Lies conceal it. Truth is the most dangerous disinfectant. Suppressing it is policy. Syria was largely peaceful before US proxies invaded. So was Libya last year. Irans moment of truth awaits. Its on Americas hit list. Propaganda wars precede hot ones. Washington vilified the Islamic Republic for decades. Saber rattling threatens war. On August 12, The New York Times headlined Israeli Minister Asks Nations to Say Iran Talks Have Failed, saying: Netanyahu threatens war. Minister Danny Ayalon called for an international declaration that the diplomatic effort to halt Tehrans enrichment of uranium is dead. Unmentioned was doing it complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty provisions. Dozens of nations with peaceful programs do it. Iran alone is challenged. Ayalon wants all options on the table to confront Tehran. Asked how much time remains before Israel acts, he said weeks, and not more than that. Netanyahu repeats the canard of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Iran cannot be allowed to have one, he says. Times articles never say they have no nuclear weapons or intention to develop and produce them. Doing so would contradict imperial Washington. On August 13, Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF) headlined Iran can build an N-bomb by Oct. 1. Cairo coup hampers Israeli action, saying: In about six weeks, Iran will have enough 20% enriched uranium to build its first nuclear bomb.and two-to-four bombs by early 2013, DEBKAfiles military and intelligence sources report. According to the Federation of American Scientists, highly enriched uranium is considered weapons grade after enrichment to around 90% U-235. Iranian enrichment doesnt exceed 20%. Most important is no evidence suggests an Iranian program or intention to have one. DFs source is an unnamed Israeli security official. He calls 20% enrichment a short jump to weapons grade fuel. DF quoted Netanyahu saying: All threats against the home front are dwarfed by one Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear arms! DF claimed the urgency of addressing an alleged Iranian threat is many times more necessary than bombing whats now known not to have been a Syrian nuclear site in 2007. It added that Netanyahu and Barak put themselves in a straightjacket by: In fact, relations with Egypt remain stable. Syria poses no threat unless Western generated violence spills over cross-border. Israel partnered with Washingtons war. It may end up reaping what it helped sow. In June, RAND Corporationanalyst Gregory Jones said Iran can build a nuclear bomb in eight weeks. His analysis relied on dubious IAEA information. Director Yukiya Amano serves Western interests. He alleged new information related to possible past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities that seem to point to the existence of possible military dimensions to Irans nuclear program. Nothing Amano reports is credible. Evidence supporting his claims is lacking. The window on effective air strikes closed, Jones said. Ground forces alone can work. Western Iranian policy failed, he added. Iran can develop a nuclear warhead whenever it wants, he claimed. Saying it doesnt make it so. It doesnt address Iranian intentions. If Tehran wanted nuclear weapons, it could have developed them long ago. Instead it denounces them and urges a nuclear free Middle East. On August 12, Haaretz contributor Amir Oren headlined Obama must speak out against war with Iran, saying: Netanyahu and Barak are on a messianic mission. They embarked last week on a feverish and wide-ranging propaganda campaign to market the attack to the press by means of public opinion to satisfy the doubters and pursuade the persuaded. These are distress signals. Most Israelis oppose war. So do past and present military and political officials. Opponents must organize a protest that is loud and clear, sober and not defeatist, whose reasons are rooted in concern over damage to Israels security. Moderates and centrists should lead it. Its now or perhaps never, he added, to act instead of regretting their silence afterward. On August 12, Haaretz contributor Yoram Kaniuk echoed a similar sentiment. He headlined The Israeli Right must stop Netanyahus messianism. No one is getting up and shouting: Thats enough. Im resigning, a dybbuk (a malevolent spirit) possessed the man leading us. He is a messianist and is taking us to Masada. The man is suffering from megalomania. Iran for him is like a demon that has to be attacked so he can die and conquer the mountain. Thankfully, Haaretz published articles opposing its resident hawk. Ari Shavit endorses war. Existential threats he claims dont exist. Yet hes featured and has editorial policy influence. Perhaps he should read Bradley Burstons August 13 Special Place in Hell column. Its time others explained the folly and destructiveness of war. Attacking Syria and Iran assures losers, not winners. Embroiling the region in what can be prevented is key. Potential consequences are too dire to tolerate. Global headlines should read better safe than sorry. Nows the time to act, not later. You can support this information by voting on Reddit HERE Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War.Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/ linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 