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Interview With Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: “The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing”
By Charles Hawley and David Gordon Smith
Der Spiegel Friday 28 September 2007
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what’s really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America’s Hitler, Bush’s Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Once again, he said that he is only interested in civilian nuclear power instead of atomic weapons. How much does the West really know about the nuclear program in Iran?
Seymour Hersh: A lot. And it’s been underestimated how much the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) knows. If you follow what (IAEA head Mohamed) ElBaradei and the various reports have been saying, the Iranians have claimed to be enriching uranium to higher than a 4 percent purity, which is the amount you need to run a peaceful nuclear reactor. But the IAEA’s best guess is that they are at 3.67 percent or something. The Iranians are not even doing what they claim to be doing. The IAEA has been saying all along that they’ve been making progress but basically, Iran is nowhere. Of course the US and Israel are going to say you have to look at the worst case scenario, but there isn’t enough evidence to justify a bombing raid.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is this just another case of exaggerating the danger in preparation for an invasion like we saw in 2002 and 2003 prior to the Iraq War?
Hersh: We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we’ve had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler. And now we have this guy Ahmadinejad. The reality is, he’s not nearly as powerful inside the country as we like to think he is. The Revolutionary Guards have direct control over the missile program and if there is a weapons program, they would be the ones running it. Not Ahmadinejad.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Where does this feeling of urgency that the US has with Iran come from?
Hersh: Pressure from the White House. That’s just their game.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What interest does the White House have in moving us to the brink with Tehran?
Hersh: You have to ask yourself what interest we had 40 years ago for going to war in Vietnam. You’d think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can’t possibly do the same dumb thing again. I have this theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Even after Iraq? Aren’t there strategic reasons for getting so deeply involved in the Middle East?
Hersh: Oh no. We’re going to build democracy. The real thing in the mind of this president is he wants to reshape the Middle East and make it a model. He absolutely believes it. I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can’t have that in public life. But if it were Kissinger this time around, I’d actually be relieved because I’d know that the madness would be tied to some oil deal. But in this case, what you see is what you get. This guy believes he’s doing God’s work.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: So what are the options in Iraq?
Hersh: There are two very clear options: Option A) Get everybody out by midnight tonight. Option B) Get everybody out by midnight tomorrow. The fuel that keeps the war going is us. MORE
Courtesy: Unknown News:
By Jafo
Sometimes, there just isn’t enough beer to lighten the general mood. And when I am having difficulty dealing with the whole thing it has been said that I can be like Lady Macbeth on a bad day. Lately, it seems as though there are more of those days than usual.
Helen and Harry, you’re always so gentle and kind, and I feel as though I have found some truly kindred spirits in you and in your online community. It really is a blessing to know that there are still people out there who believe in peace and love for us all, and yet are willing to turn back those who would destroy that sentiment. It is becoming such a rarity in this time and place. People have become so self-concerned, and blinded to humanity that they no longer function as members of a true society.
I watch the violence being spread to every corner, to every concept and establishment in the world, and it is overwhelming. And I cannot believe for one minute that so many of us will remain untouched by the violence that we can just shrug it off and say, well, it won’t affect us for a while. I am frustrated that more people don’t get it, that more people aren’t mad as hell. We see how bad it is.
They are slaughtering a lot of innocent people the world over. People disappear at random into the secret prison system to be tortured and kept indefinitely. Our leaders steal, they pillage, they rape, they torture, they starve people. They refuse to help people that are being slaughtered by others because it is our ally slaughtering them, or because they don’t have any more natural resources for big corporations to steal. We watch them take away what our forefathers laid out for us as our natural rights as human beings and they tell us it’s for our own good. When people are being beaten and tasered for having the nerve to speak out, speak up, or speak against, American citizens actually cheer! Jay Leno gets laughs when his jokes imply that the violence against an innocent citizen were deserved.
They are stealing us blind. Not just by sending our jobs overseas and giving tax breaks to the wealthy — now they are literally taking it out of our pockets. Oil is well over $80 a barrel, not because it has gone significantly up in value, but because the dollar has gone down so far in value.-More>>
From Yahoo/AP:
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 29, 6:09 PM ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as “terrorist organizations,” a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The parliament said the Army and the CIA were terrorists because of the atomic bombing of Japan; the use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; support of the killings of Palestinians by Israel; the bombing and killing Iraqi civilians and the torture of imprisoned terror suspects.-More>>
Thank You to Betsy, The HORN’s own News Ninja At Large for this story.
From The Huffington Post:
This guy’s sign at last week’s peace rally on the St. Paul Capitol steps really connected with a lot of people. But is the answer that clear?
Considering the slick double-talking of Minnesota Politician Norm Coleman, for example, whom we were able to recently capture on videotape (posted here), artfully dodging and deflecting our questions about why he won’t vote to end the occupation of Iraq, how can we even distinguish between what’s evil and what’s just spineless? Coleman says his is not double-talk, it’s “middle ground” and certainly many “fair and balanced” (and lazy) reporters willingly print what he tells them.
But Coleman happens to be one of only a handful of neocon-leaning Senators who co-sponsored the Kyl-Lieberman amendment which passed (once its worst language was removed) and could pave the way for Bush to launch a massive bombing attack on Iran. You know, the bombing that neocon Norman Podhoretz “hopes and prays for”and secretly urged Bush and Rove to begin not long ago. The letter Coleman currently sends out containing his views of “U.S. policy on Iran” is so full of double-talk, that it’s hard to figure out what he’s saying, but it’s probably significant when he inserts “the President may take necessary actions to defend American Security, but Congress must authorize these actions within 60 to 90 days, or the forces must be withdrawn.” Certainly 60 to 90 days is enough time for another promised cakewalk to turn into a new quagmire. Then Congress will get involved? Haven’t they learned that starting wars is a lot easier than ending them? Or do they really not care at all about this country’s national security?-More>>
From Celcias:
by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, the first book for a general audience on climate change, and, most recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. This fall Bill is leading “Step It Up 2: Who’s A Leader?” , a national day of climate action on November 3rd, 2007. Originally published on Grist.
“Backs against the wall” is not a scientific measurement, but it’s right where we are on global warming.
It’s the vernacular translation for when the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that this year the summer Arctic sea ice shrunk to the smallest area ever recorded, about 460,000 square miles less than the previous low point recorded in September 2005. It’s what it means when the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells reporters, as he did last week, “Wheat production in India is already in decline, for no other reason than climate change. Everyone thought we didn’t have to worry about Indian agriculture for several decades. Now we know it’s being affected now.” He added that a similar shift seems to be underway in China.
And when your back is against the wall, that’s when you’ve got to fight, and fight like you mean it. That’s why we’re launching Step It Up 2. On Nov. 3, people all across the country are holding rallies to demand action on global warming. Find out if there’s one scheduled for your vicinity; if there isn’t, then sign up to start one. We can help make it easy — you’re not organizing a March on Washington, just a gathering of your neighbors.
Assuming there’s an action somewhere in your neighborhood, you can use our nifty new invite tool to ask politicians to attend — to ask them if they’re ready to stop being politicians and start being leaders. Find your senators and representative on the list, and we give you all the info you need to call, email, or send a letter inviting them to an event near you. Even if they’ve already been invited, send them another invitation. And if they’ve already accepted, send them your thanks. While you’re at it, you can ask the presidential candidates to come to your local rally too. The more invitations the merrier.
Our goal is to have more politicians talking to more people about a single issue on a single day than ever before. And having those people talk back, having them demand not empty rhetoric but real progress.-More>>
From Slashdot.org:
“The Dutch commission that has been investigating the electoral process presented its final report yesterday (Dutch). The conclusions and recommendations are devastating to the current Dutch practice of voting electronically, and to plans for voting via the internet. Paraphrasing from the report: The deputy minister for the interior Bijleveld said in an initial response (Dutch only) that she would revoke the certification of the current generation of electronic voting machines. The minister plans to present an official Cabinet position on the electoral process in two months. The next elections (for the European Parliament, 2009) may see a return to paper ballots.” Read on for a translation of some of the key points from the report.-More
(CNN) — Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate and who was the last of the “Jena 6″ behind bars, was released from custody Thursday after a juvenile court judge set his bail at $45,000.
Bell’s release followed an announcement from LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who said he would not appeal a higher court’s decision moving Bell’s case to juvenile court.
Wearing a blue striped golf shirt and jeans, Bell walked out of the LaSalle Parish courthouse a week after an estimated 15,000-plus demonstrators marched through Jena — a town of about 3,000 — to protest local authorities’ handling of the teens’ case.
“We do not condone violence of any kind, but we ask that people be given a fair and even chance at the bar of justice,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said outside the courthouse.
“Tonight, Mychal can go home, but Mychal is not out of the juvenile process. He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him,” he said.
“Let America know — we are not fighting for the right to fight in school. We’re not fighting for the right for kids to beat each other. We’re fighting to say that there must be one level of justice for everybody. And you cannot have adult attempted murder for some, and a fine for others, and call that equal protection under the law. Two wrongs don’t make one civil right.” More…
By NATASHA T. METZLER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Baby supply company Kolcraft Enterprises Inc. is recalling more than 425,000 play yards after a 10-month old boy was strangled, a government safety agency announced Thursday.
“These play areas have a serious design flaw that poses a strangulation hazard,” said CPSC spokeswoman Patty Davis. “A 10-month-old boy died after strangling on one of the recalled Kolcraft play yards’ restraint straps. We don’t want that to happen to any other children.”
Kolcraft spokeswoman Diane Steed noted that the changing tables did have warnings on them telling parents not to put a child in the play area when this attachment is on top.
“We would stress to parents again:`Do not put your child in the play yard when the changing table is on top,’” she said.
The play yards were manufactured in China.
The play yards were sold around the country between January 2001 and September 2007. To receive a free replacement strap for the changing tables and a free kit to secure the rocking cradle, call Kolcraft at 888-655-8484. In the meantime, consumers should cut the existing restraining straps from the changing tables.
The recall includes various models of the following play yards:
Kolcraft Travelin’ Tot
Kolcraft Travelin’ Tot LTD
Kolcraft Travelin’ Tot 3-in-1
Kolcraft Travelin’ Tot 4-in-1
Carter’s Lennon Travelin’ Tot
“Sesame Beginnings” by Kolcraft Travel Play Yard
Jeep Sahara SE Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited Play Yard
Jeep Sahara XT Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited SE Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited XT Play Yard
Contours 3-in-1 Play Yard
For more information, visit http://www.cpsc.gov or http://www.kolcraft.com.
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