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The yearly need of Iran for life-saving medical isotopes is less than one gram and costs Iran $75,000 to refine the fuel. Iran has stated (and here) they would prefer to buy the isotopes rather than produce them. The US could resolve the threat of war with Iran if President Obama made a speech today saying the US will allow Iran to produce it themselves under inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a legal right guaranteed by treaty among nations including the US and Iran, or by the US selling Iran the isotopes.
The US refusal to do so and the US corporate media to not report this simple solution is revealing of a sinful and deadly war agenda that follows the propaganda path that led to unlawful war with Afghanistan and Iraq. The propaganda is tragic-comic: all we have for peace is one "anonymous" report with a misleading headline to psychopathically appear as if the US is taking peaceful action.
It’s time: exercise your 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and press, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Please provide this article to all Americans if you find it helpful to stop current and future unlawful wars; including the grave threat of World War III.
Over 4,000 US soldiers have been killed so far as pawns of the civilian and military brass tyrants. Multiples more have been crippled physically and emotionally. There is no end in sight to current wars; indeed, the US is expanding them into Pakistan and Yemen and threatening more war with Iran. The dead are comforted by God; their families are devastated by the loss of their loved-ones. The crippled and their families face a range of challenges; many so severe that a total of 6,000 US veterans commit suicide every year. One-third of all US homeless men are veterans.
More war with Iran is preventable with managing just one gram of a medical supply.
Let that sink in.
Let the propaganda of lies of omission and commission of US political “leadership” and corporate media fuel your passion for real security from lawful cooperation, justice, dignity, and true freedom.
Our military was duped into these wars; our trusting young men and women took an Oath to support and defend the US Constitution that supersedes the Nazi insert of “placing the mission first.” The Claus von Stauffenberg faction of US military and government must act to end this soulless mass-murdering; this loveless series of unlawful wars and unlawful orders, if we want a future we’re proud to build.
This choice is up to our men and women in uniform. I can provide:
- the explanation of the rules of lawful war omitted from their training of what they can and cannot do after war begins.
- I can provide analogies that the rules of war are almost exactly like those limiting an individual’s use of self-defense on the street.
- I can point out the lies that were known to be lies as our political “leaders” told them and our war-whore corporate media mimicked to propagandize for war in Iraq.
- I can show you the speech of Iranian President Ahmadinejad to prove he never threatened Israel.
- I can prove that IAEA verifies all of Iran’s nuclear material has only and always been used for legal and peaceful purposes.
- I can remind you that you love virtue, American values, and love of your fellow human beings.
And, our men and women in uniform must take action as they see best; as will our men and women in government and citizenry.
Choose well; our collective future, and your future, depend upon it.
At the end of this article is an artistic way of communicating this information: PuppetGov’s 8-minute video, “How you ended the war.”
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I appreciate your attention to these facts and encourage your further study and action consistent with your own self-expression. My recommendations:
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
- Understand the laws of war (and here). These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. The current US wars are not even close to being lawful and are legal treason against the US. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. To fulfill their oath they must immediately refuse all orders associated with unlawful wars and military-related constant violation of treaties, and arrest those who issue unlawful orders. The Oath of Enlistment to the US Constitution supersedes the fascist insertion of Nazi propaganda to "always place the mission first" of blindly following unlawful orders.
- Employ the obvious and simple solutions to end our economic controlled demolition and evolve to a civil economy. End poverty through global cooperation to achieve the UN Millennium Goals by developed countries investing 0.7% of their income (not that the UN is serious for their accomplishment, but the goals are what we should invest to produce). Support global security through cooperation, dignity, justice, and freedom. Create a US Department of Peace to help.
- Communicate. Trust your unique, beautiful, and powerful self-expression to share as you feel appropriate. Understand that while many people are ready to embrace difficult facts, many are not. Anticipate that you will be attacked and prepare your virtuous response in the spirit of competition, just as you do in other fields.
- Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws and constant lies to engage in further wars. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R are subject to prosecution.
Local perspective: Part of my professional duties as a teacher of economics and government is to produce competent adult citizenry. This includes realization that our nation’s policies and money are managed at a broad community level, and these issues have tremendous local impact. Of course, we all want human beings to be individually successful and enjoy their unique, beautiful and powerful self-expressions. Concurrently, we recognize our commitment to local success is strongly dependent upon the success of the community, and that government policy and economics are drivers.
Our status in early 21st Century human history is that we suffer from a long history in government and money of human interrelationship well-described as vicious antagonism. Governments frequently use war as a foreign policy, despite its illegality and dependent upon public ignorance, with horrific consequences. Economic policy is still created within a “Robber Baron” paradigm to concentrate money to an elite few families. Two examples:
1. National taxes effect you dearly, especially the tax to pay interest on the national debt. This costs the American public over $400 billion every year. This is $4,000 per year for every $50,000 of income. Do the math to understand your household’s tax burden for a monetary policy invented by banks for banks to create our money supply as debt. Your competence in this area contributes to our collective voice to simply shift monetary policy to easily pay the national debt, enjoy full employment, collectively save us over a trillion dollars every year, and finally realize what our brightest American minds have been advocating for centuries beginning with Benjamin Franklin. This would have unprecedented local benefits, and requires collective power to accomplish.
2. Ending poverty everywhere on our planet would cost just 0.7% of our income and save a million children’s lives every month. This human accomplishment will cause unimaginable joy at our local level.
To consider:
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in the world. Now the judgment of God is upon us and we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
--Inscription on Dr. Martin Luther King’s statue, Moorehouse College, Atlanta
"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution." -- poet Federico García Lorca
Comments policy: I welcome questions and comments that are civil and pertain to the article topic. Impolite and impertinent comments will be deleted.
Please consider that I’m among hundreds of writers who have documented our own government’s disclosure of propaganda programs to support their wars. I suspect my articles are under such propagandistic attack from comments that use typical rhetorical fallacies to distract readers from the facts. I invite readers to sharpen their ability to discern such propaganda. They are characterized by a combination of: never addressing the facts, diverting attention through unsubstantiated belief in an alleged expert, irrelevant data, straw-man attack that distorts the facts, ad hominem attack of insults to the messenger, vile comments to repulse readers, and lies of omission and commission.
I will use such comments to point-out the propaganda or delete them at my discretion. Again, all relevant and polite questions, and factually accurate comments are welcome. As a professional educator I’m in agreement with my experience and research: we learn best from multiple perspectives in mutual commitment to understand the facts, see those facts from diverse points-of-view, and consider various policy proposals of what we should do.
For those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation, I invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to work toward. National security and a brighter future is not a function of fear, manipulation, and control. Our best security follows cooperation, justice under the law, dignity, and freedom. Working for your best imagined self-expression of virtue may include a unique contribution from the inside of your agency. Public attraction to the stories of Star Wars and the Harry Potter books/movies recognize that our society’s jump to civilized relations for all of us might require support from people within the “dark side” acting as covert agents for building a brighter future. Another option is becoming a whistle-blower; Project Camelot is a popular venue for people in sensitive positions. Ultimately, I recommend a Truth and Reconciliation process to exchange full truth for no prosecution, explained in detail at the link. Please consider the wisdom of your own “Scrooge conversion” to act for the benefit of all humanity rather than your self-proclaimed controlling, manipulating, and loveless “masters.”
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Comments
To understand the US governments seemingly intransigent position on Iran you have to understand the true purpose of war. This drive to war has nothing to do with a military threat of nuclear weapons it has to do with debt. We destroyed Iraq so we could install a private fractional reserve central bank and "loan them the money to rebuild. That private debt would be socialized in the form of public obligation by the puppet government we install. We choose countries rich in natural resources to destroy
because we can use those resources (i.e. oil in this case) to collateralize the debt. This is the true purpose of all modern war, to create debt and a new debtor class to service it. Now all of a sudden the US governments attitude towards Iran makes perfect sense doesn't it?
And where do we see that Iran has attempted to buy the medical isotopes on the international open market and been refused?
Nowhere. Not in the allegedly bigoted "zionist" media - and not in any announcements, claims or reports by Iran itself.
If Iran really wants the isotopes, they should buy them. If they are denied, they have a claim - but if they don't even try, it's on their own heads.
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“An embargo on medical isotopes was introduced in 2007, in defiance of the medical exception clause touted as part of the trade sanctions, Iranian leaders said.
Isotopes are a rare commodity produced at only five sites worldwide. One of these, the High Flux Reactor in the Dutch town of Petten, currently accounts for 30 to 40 percent of worldwide production, but it is scheduled for retirement soon. Apart from the UN sanctions, so many restrictions -- particularly American -- on trade with Iran exist, that in practice nobody is willing to supply Iran with medical isotopes any longer.
Out of dire necessity, Iran now uses its 41-year-old research reactor in Tehran -- originally constructed by the US -- exclusively for isotope production, a job which used to take only a day a week. However, the reactor's fuel, provided by Argentina in 1993, is quickly running out, the scientists said.”
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But, whatever; this is your choice. Scrooge needed much to see himself clearly and look into the future of where he really wanted to arrive.
Here’s the info from Der Spiegel that I relinked in the first paragraph. Thank you again, wow. I hope you enjoy the day.
“The impending shortage of technetium-99 is caused by the controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program. The sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, aimed at moving Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, are supposed to leave medical practice unaffected. In reality, however, Iran has become unable to procure a wide range of medical products.
Body scanners cannot be imported from the US or the EU, since parts in these machines could also be useful to Iran's nuclear program.”
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Good morning, wow:
Thank you for the reminder to link the Der Spiegel info from my last article. Your reasoning is, as usual, bogus. Would you send your children to war with Iran when the US President didn’t have the honesty to resolve the situation by offering the freaking one gram of a medical supply at cost??? Wow, you’d send your children to die and kill when the rhetoric of the problem is an amount of radioactive trace material for medical imagining less than a sip of your morning coffee???
What’s wrong with you?
But I do thank you for pointing out the opportunity to improve documentation. See, wow, I actually like sparring with you and point out to readers that competition can be channelled to productive usage. You probably can’t imagine this, wow, but we could be fighting on the same team working in competitive policy ideas to build a brighter future rather than my slapping you into recognition that your war-mongering mass-murderer allegiance is criminal and evil.
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Now see? There you at least have something to support your claim.
Of course, it's not really a Der Spiegel article; it's an online from the Dutch nrc Handlesblad under their sharing agreement.
More importantly, it's by a freelancer whose only support for such an embargo is claims by unnamed Iranian officials: "An embargo on medical isotopes was introduced in 2007, in defiance of the medical exception clause touted as part of the trade sanctions, Iranian leaders said."
I can't find anything on the UN sites or anywhere else documenting any such embargo - if you've got something, I'd be glad to see it.
If the only issue is a small quantity of medical isotopes for humanitarian purposes, I would think someone would jump on it, for PR purposes if nothing else.
Heck, the Israelis could do it and use the publicity to distract from their (apparent) Dubai adventure. It's not like the Israelis haven't been involved in the past - they provided arms during the war with Iraq.
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So back to the present we have escalating and thinly-veiled war rhetoric (never direct and always alleging peaceful and lawful intent, just as with Iraq) when the actual physical issue is one gram of medical supplies with available solutions not applied that would have all our mothers scold and ground us for threatening to fight over.
Am I missing something here, wow, or does all evidence suggest propaganda for a war agenda that we should refuse immediately and prosecute (and/or Truth and Reconciliation) to avoid more trillions in costs and God knows how many lives?
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1. the Niger documents for Saddam’s alleged interest in purchasing yellowcake is in poor grammatical French, has a signature of a Niger official out-of-office for 14 years, an illegal purchase would never go on paper, the stationery and government stamp is identical to ones stolen from Niger’s embassy in Rome just previous, and CIA verified there was no evidence on the ground such negotiations took place and it would be impossible to get around the safeguards to do so. Yet, this was pumped as a claim; even in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address.
2. none of the 16 US intelligence agencies had any links of Saddam to al Qaeda. Yet, this was pumped as a claim and is the very definition of a lie when not only is there no evidence but all evidence contradicts the claim.
3. the WMD alleged had no delivery system, wouldn’t kill very many people, would be suicide to deploy against Americans, and all 16 US intelligence agencies agreed in the Oct. 2002 NIE Iraq posed zero threat.
Wow:
Good point that it’s ambiguous and begs the question of why this simple solution of the US providing one gram of medical isotope isn’t both covered in corporate media and openly addressed by our political “leadership.” Here’s what I see, wow, and help me if I’m missing something:
We now have the actual evidence that was based to attack Iraq. All of it is false and known to be false at the time it was alleged as subjects of concern. The same false rhetoric seems to be repeating for Iran. To remind readers of Iraq, specifically:
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You're missing two things, one relevant to Iran and one of significant historical interest.
Re: Iran, the current rhetoric can also be interpreted as being an effort by the US and other nations (France, Russia) to get Iranian leaders to change their path and avoid a path that could lead to war.
Added to what I know personally about the Pentagon's attitude toward war with Iran, plus the statements by DoD leadership, I'm inclined to take the above as the more likely explanation.
Historically, while I realize it is easy to claim "they knew" in hindsight concerning the run-up to Iraq, you dismiss the extensive evidence that the people in charge - Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld's Pentagon clique - DID NOT BELIEVE any evidence that ran contrary to their preconceptions of Iraq.
Cheney and Rummy, Perle et al were all devotees of Laurie Mylroie, for a start; that blinded them to reality.
The only voice in opposition was Downing - he quit the NSC in 2002 over it.
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There was a strong military pushback against invading Iraq; even those convinced Saddam still had an active WMD program argued that, between Norther and Southern Watch and UNSCOM, he was controlled and contained and not a significant threat.
They were over-ridden by politicos who came into office convinced that regime change in Iraq would be a good thing - politicos who were not just unwilling but incapable of seeing anything that contradicted their core beliefs.
We had some pretty good intel at DIA raising questions about Iraqi WMDs and even stronger stuff disputing a Saddam-bin Laden link - it was dismissed as 'erroneous and incomplete.' CIA had stuff from families of Iraqi scientists - it was dismissed as Iraqi disinformation.
Scott Ritter had great intel - but protected his sources and was dis'd as an 'Iraqi sellout.'
The Bushies simply did not believe anything that even suggested they didn't need to invade Iraq.
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It’s important for people to grow-up as citizens, take claims as areas to verify and not believe, and come to their own conclusions for their voice and votes as citizens.
As I wrote to you months ago, I respect and appreciate your service to our nation that you act upon in good faith. I hope you continue to evaluate new data and make the best call you can for building the brightest future for all of us. To the extent we do this, a cooperative competition of ideas will move us all forward in informed policy calls. In this environment, unavoidable retrospective mistakes will be our training for improved future choices.
Please enjoy the day, wow.
Wow:
I appreciate your point-of-view, and respectfully disagree it’s valid to see US political leadership acted in good faith of the evidence rather than constructing the best BS they thought would be bought by what they perceive as the American sheeple.
In my article, “British military insider: World War III is being staged; starting with Israel and Iran,” I document these Bush fascists to their PNAC beginnings for US empire upon apparent collapse of the USSR.
You, of course, are welcome to see it otherwise despite my admonition to readers that such a view is not reasonable from the paper-thin propaganda of what I see are obvious lies any objective intelligent agent would have pointed out. One on the record making this case today is retired career intelligence officer (one of the few trusted to deliver presidential briefings), Ray McGovern.
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Oh, I've never claimed the Bushies 'acted in good faith' in their invasion of Iraq - on the contrary, I've said since before the invasion that they engaged in self-delusion.
My point is that a system that allows policy to be made and implemented on such self-delusion is far more dangerous than a bunch of lying politicians.
You can fix the liars by removing them; if you don't fix the system, you set yourself up for repeated failures.
Do you really believe we have free speech? You call on fellow Americans to defend this freedom and to exercise it to raise awareness of the truth. But now, even when one considers actively supporting a totally peaceful anti-war organization, we are asked to sign a form warning that surveillance of participants in terms of wire-tapping, emails, etc. by the US gov't could likely occur, and that, as a member of said peaceful protest group should you be tried in a US Court for Un-American activities (like freedom of speech I suppose), you must provide and pay for your own legal counsel. Is this what it's come to? If we choose civil disobedience we are put on a watch list? Pardon if I sound naive but this is tragic.
PS: Will you be commenting on Israel's alleged theft/use of fraudulent UK & Australian passports in the assassination in Dubai? Thanks.
I really hate saying this but I ran across an offering today that opened my eyes and I considered myself to be one of the more enlightened from the average citizen. It showed me these people have an agenda that has nothing to do with anything to do with war, or nukes or anything else, it has to do with total control of the earths resources and land mass.
Here, check it out. Its one of the best summaries from overseas I had ever seen by people who live in the middle of all of this going on. It blew my mind and I am sure when you see what has already happened in Europe heading toward Eurasia, you will see that unless we act IN AS SERIOUS A MANNER AS THEY ARE, we will be doomed. No question about it.
Teri and percy:
Teri: we’ll have speech stripped from us if we allow it. Please consider my policy suggestions above that include Gandhi and MLK strategy of resistance. I probably won’t do an article on the Dubai assassination.
Percy:
Give the article title and people can look it up.
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