Here is the CNN headline for today:

"US rethinks vision for Iraq" and you tell me we are not an empire!!! Also don't ask why they hate us.

I was just wondering why there needs to be so much mistrust, animosity and conflict in international relations. Looking at my immediate surrounding it appears that almost all of our conflicts are based on not a profound evil vs good differences but rather little misunderstandings leading to bigger and bigger gap. The Arab and Zionism conflict is basically compilation of mistrust accented with disregard for natives of that land beginning in 1800's. Now both sides live with these monster of hate and vengeance. Is that what we are as human being, perhaps so, since it appears that we are not moving on any path that could change the paradigm.

As an Iranian expat I was asked to plug a very good Iranian-American young and hip Internet TV site named WWW.bebin.tv so here it goes ------ You see, I had not planned to plug anything in my blog but promises are made to be broken, OK.

No. 2 US commander in Iraq said today "we are planning quick strike raids to smash al-quada and other insurgence in all of Iraq before reducing our forces". I bet same promises were made in Vietnam. Insurgency of this kind by definition could not be smashed, they are fighting in their homeland. The "homeland insecurity" will have to be smashed.

Thanks to US invasion and occupation of Iraq and several decades of colonial rule before that and ruthless Iraqi rulers Arab world and Iraqi's can have larger pool of "widow prostitutes". The killing and mayhem has produced young Iraqi women that now have to sell their bodies to feed themselves and their children. I don't see any investigating reporter on this beat!!!! WONDER WHY????

Here is another mass media 9/11 fear based avoidance of reality:

No one reports on life in Iraq as if the 27 million people do not exist. Its now just Alqada, Iran, Shia, and Sunnis that are involved in fighting and occasionally killing few US soldiers. What about the people? Women, children, elderly, teachers, shop keepers, engineers, taxi drivers, .....

What happened to lack of food, electricity, fuel, health care, and all those other amenities we blamed Saddam on--- does anyone even remember!!

What we don't, can't, or choose not to remember is bound to be repeated again much like years of killings and carnage.

Its amazing that still military and political machine can blame Iraq carnage on everything but US occupation. Are these people real or what. To top the amazement mass media still fearful of 9/11 goes along with this like nice little sheep. I haven't read a single major paper that would suggest perhaps Iraqi's are fighting occupation and foreign soldiers lording over them.

Suggest watching the movie "Algiers". No one, I say no one would cow down before occupation.

The global military industrial complex is hard at work:

$20B Arms sales to Gulf States
$49B Arms give away to Israel and Egypt
Major France arms sales to Libya


To only list the few major achievements and we the little people are kept occupied with global warming, AIDs, starving Africans, sub prime fiasco, still recovering from US mass corporate fraud of 1990's, Gas prices, China taking your job .........................................