My theory is that the American Empire's Ruling Class focuses on the
short term profits and benefits, in the belief that they will be able
to handle the long term events.
The other thing is that in the minds of the Empire, any person, group
of persons, or any nation that goes against the Empire's will, is the
enemy of the day. .
Remember the "American Fries"?
Speaking of reprisals that are meaningless, following the bombing of
Pearl Harbor, many Americans cleaned their knickknack shelves of all
the cheap little Japanese knickknacks that they had already bought
long before the war broke out.
Weird thinking, but what would we expect from having such weird
propaganda constantly being shoved down our throats.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/18/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ironic how the US has been intervening in the Iraqi Iranian conflict for
years and years and inadvertently took Iran's side.
Miriam
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I heard some of this on Democracy Now, earlier this morning.
Looks like while the American Empire was marching victoriously into Iraq,
amid the cheering multitude of grateful Iraqis(humor), the Iranians were
quietly picking up the pieces.
The tragic loss of human lives since the "Fool's Mission" of Bush I, and the
"Bigger and better than Daddy's war" of Bush the Lessor, was accentuated by
the pardons just granted by Donald(the Joker is Wild)Trump to three
murderers.
"All rise and sing with me: Onward White Christian soldiers. Marching in
blind Faith.
Led by God Almighty, "Vengeance is mine, He saith."
And everyone said, "Amen!"
Carl Jarvis
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An Unprecedented Leak
The source said they wanted to “let the world know what Iran is doing
in my country Iraq.” They sent The Intercept
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700 pages of secret intelligence reports, but never revealed their own
identity.
This kind of leak is unprecedented for Iran, a country with a highly
secretive government and spy agencies that guard their confidential
information zealously.
In the months after we received the leaked documents, we had them
translated from Persian and then had the translations cross-checked.
Once we determined their significance — the reports detail the
operations of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security in Iraq
from late 2013 through early 2015 — we approached the New York Times
and proposed a reporting partnership. The article we jointly published
with the Times just moments ago is the product of months of
collaboration.
We found in the files a fascinating tale of how Tehran’s spies and
assets wove a
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vast web of influence in Iraq, infiltrating nearly every aspect of
social and political life. Popular outrage over Iranian meddling was
already fueling massive protests in Iraq as this story went to press.
The Intercept also published stories based on the leaked reports
exploring how Iranian intelligence
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Brotherhood and Iran’s Quds Force
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held a secret summit in a Turkish hotel to plot against their common
enemy, Saudi Arabia; and how the disastrous U.S. invasion gave Iran an
opening to
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shape a new political order in Iraq.
You can watch a short film, hosted by Jeremy Scahill, featuring a
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