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Argo: From Hollywoodism to Iranophobia

Argo is a far cry from a balanced narration.

(TEHRAN) - In recent years, Iranophobia has come to encompass a wider scope of media including cinema which is incontestably capable of exercising a more powerful effect on manipulating the audience.

Along the recent Iranophobic attempts comes Argo (2012), a ‘nail-biting thriller’ which according to David Haglund, takes a few liberties with the history.

Oregon Soldiers Win $85M from KBR

33 Oregon soldiers suffered from KBR’s failure to inform them that chemicals in the oil sites were dangerous.

(PORTLAND, OR) - In 2003, after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Pentagon hired KBR- Dick Cheney’s old oil company, to run a massive program called “Restore Iraq Oil”.

It was “intended to quickly restore the flow of Iraq’s oil, partly to fund the war.“

Is Punishing Millions of Innocents Taking the High Moral Road?

Do you support the government's policy of starving and punishing innocents for political reasons? What have you done about it?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Most of us have been taught that America is a great country that always takes the high moral road, and was attacked by people who hate democracy and our values; but is this just a ludicrous belief that has been so firmly ingrained that some believe it.

Do we always take the high moral road, and that is why we are hated?

Comrades in Arms

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - I received this letter from an ex-soldier.

Hi Mr. Hathaway,

I got your letter (forwarded) asking for information for your book. To answer your first question, Yes, I'm enjoying living in Holland. I'm becoming the little Dutch girl -- the little Black Dutch girl, but that doesn't bother people here. They're very tolerant and internationally minded.

Iraq Buys Russian Weapons

$4.2 Billion Worth Just Before American Election.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Premier of Iraq journeyed manymiles to the United States’s enemy, Russia, to sign on the dotted line for Russian weapons worth US$4.2 Billion Dollars, the Russian news agency RIA NOVOSTI released October 9, 2012 in Moscow.

RIA Novosti reports “MOSCOW, October 9 – Russia will deliver attack helicopters and mobile air-defense systems to Iraq in arms deals worth $4.2 billion signed earlier this year...

Iraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects: `New Study Links Increase with Military Action by Western Forces`

There is 'compelling evidence' to link the increased numbers of defects and miscarriages to military assaults

(LONDON THE INDEPENDENT U.K.) - "...a new study reports a 'staggering rise' in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war.

"High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded..."

Protest To Your Own War Criminals?
Call For Their Arrest Prosecution Punishment!

Americans can prosecute their own war criminals or wait until the world prosecutes Americans.

(WASHINGTON DC CounterCurrents) - Those intending to stop fellow Americans from continuing to mass murder in defenseless nations must no longer be silent about fellow peace advocates protesting ad infinitum to divert the rest of us from calling for the immediate prosecution of those responsible for the millions slaughtered.

Perpetrators of homicidal crimes are not normally protested to.

The Assembly Line Culture

The calls by Americans for regime changes represent the most outrageous interference in other country's concerns and none of our business.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - My father managed a branch of a steel pipe making company in Pennsylvania. I was about ten or 11 the first time he took me on a tour of his company.

Seeing the molten steel being poured from the furnaces looked very impressive to me as a young boy.

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - Trailer

Vincent Bugliosi calls for the United States of America to return to the great nation it once was and can be again.

(LOS ANGELES) - Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi stars in this most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking documentary.

In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq.

What about Iran?

Today the U.S. and Israel are apparently behind the sabotage of Iran’s nuclear facilities and murders of its nuclear scientists and engineers.

(PROVIDENCE, RI) - When Benjamin Netanyahu or his obedient followers Barack Obama and Mitt Romney talk of a potential attack by Iran, why doesn’t the media remind us who has actually attacked whom?

The last time Iran attacked another nation was nearly three centuries ago. (In 1738 Nader Shah invaded India.)