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The ‘Great Game’ is Afoot: Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East

By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’

 

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled – the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney General indictment and investigation into major corruption cases.

 

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Why are Vaccine Adverse Events Not Acknowledged or Reported by Medical Professionals?

 

Definition: An iatrogenic disorder is an illness that is caused by a medication, a vaccine or a medical caregiver.

 

Columbus protests war on Iran

Woman holding No War with Iran and Peace protest signs

A hundred people gathered for an emergency anti-war rally at E. North Broadway and High Street on Saturday, January 4 at noon.

Buttigieg and Biden Are Masters of Evasion

In a recent New Yorkerprofile of Pete Buttigieg, one sentence stands out: “Watch Buttigieg long enough and you notice that he uses abstraction as an escape hatch.” Evasive platitudes are also routine for Joe Biden, the other major Democratic presidential candidate running in what mainstream journalists call “the center lane.”

 

Jim Hightower has observed that “there’s nothing in the middle of the road except yellow lines and dead armadillos.” Or, we might say, party lines and deadening politics.

 

Like other so-called “moderate” politicians, Buttigieg and Biden dodge key questions by plunging into foggy rhetoric. They’re incapable of giving a coherent and truthful account of power in the United States because they’re beholden to corporate-aligned donors. Those donors want to hear doubletalk that protects their interests, not clear talk that could threaten them.

 

The Soleimani Assassination: The Long-Awaited Beginning of The End of America’s Imperial Ambitions

The United States is now at war with Iran in a conflict that could easily have been avoided and it will not end well. There will be no declaration of war coming from either side, but the assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah Abu Mehdi Muhandis by virtue of a Reaper drone strike in Baghdad will shift the long-simmering conflict between the two nations into high gear. Iran cannot let the killing of a senior military officer go unanswered even though it cannot directly confront the United States militarily. But there will be reprisals and Tehran’s suspected use of proxies to stage limited strikes will now be replaced by more damaging actions that can be directly attributed to the Iranian government.

Attacks on Iran, Past and Present

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The assassination of General Qasem Soleimani

On Friday, 3 January, 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Tromp had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran. The murder, which was carried out by means of a drone strike on Friday, immediately and drastically increased the probability of a new large-scale war in the Middle East and elsewhere. Against this background, I would like to review the history of oil-motivated attacks on Iran.

The desire to control Iran's oil

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and Bob and Dan on Recent Attack In Iraq

No War on Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq! Rally on Saturday

No war on Iran and a world

Saturday, January 4, 2010, Noon – 2:00 PM
Since withdrawing from the nuclear deal, the Trump administration has been engaging in a devastating economic war on the Iranian people through harsh sanctions.  Now that economic war threatens to turn into a full-blown military conflict with Iran following the assassination of Iranian military leaders by US drone strikes in Baghdad.  Join us at the corner of Broadway and High at noon on January 4 to oppose the endless wars and occupations.  No War with Iran!  End the Sanctions!  US Out of Iraq!  Location:  North High St. and East North Broadway, Columbus 43214.  More information:  Facebook.  

 

Ohio and the Saudi Nuclear Bomb

Daniel Poneman

As readers of The Free Press may know, the Portsmouth Nuclear Site at Piketon, Ohio, is heavily contaminated with radioactivity from 50 years of operations that enriched uranium to make nuclear bombs, and later to fuel nuclear power.

This process used as much electricity as New York City and includes some of the largest buildings in the world. Less than 1% of natural uranium is the type of isotope (uranium-235) that will fission, or explode. Enrichment is the name of the process that removes much of the uranium-238 that cannot be fissioned.

New no-bid enrichment contract at Piketon: In November, 2019, the uranium enrichment company Centrus announced the finalizing of a three-year contract to demonstrate what is being called High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) production at Piketon. The $115-million no-bid contract with the Department of Energy (DOE) is for centrifuge technology that would enrich uranium up to 19.75% of its U-235. The contract calls for a pilot plant of 16 centrifuges.

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