---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: boud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 12, 2006 11:52 PM
hi imcians Why the fuck is there no world-wide mass movement protesting the threatened attacks against Iran? Mass murder is being planned once again before our very eyes, for the same geopolitical goals (control of oil and fear of the petroeuro), using virtually the same propaganda tricks and implicit racist assumptions as three years ago (with some differences), yet most of us seem to be doing nothing! (i'm not blaming anyone - we're all busy doing useful stuff - i'm just frustrated that our network doesn't (yet) seem to be distributing the necessary factual and activist info necessary to stop this mass murder. At the bottom, there's a brief quote of norman solomon's analysis why activists are *falsely* assuming that the attack will not happen. Anyway, here are resources i know about - please widely circulate useful resources you know about: * http://www.campaigniran.org/ - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran - activist site * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005-2006_US-Israeli_threats_to_attack_Iran 2005-2006 US-Israeli threats to attack Iran - wikipedia * http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcIranPossibilities - this is a meta-page including discussion and links to Iranian blogs, the fact that the Iranian blog community is HUGE and that there are 5 million Iranians with internet access and ideas and links which should be useful to local IMCs (in these conditions, an IMC Iran is probably not likely to form, but in any case, that's for Iranians to decide) - there are some nice pictures *from Iranians in Iran* which are good for "humanising" to counteract the demonising of Iranians through their 19% (first-round in election), Holocaust-denying president Ahmadinejad We'll hopefuly be able to do something fairly soon in imc-pl... solidarity boud ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMHO normal solomon probably has the analysis right why activists are (mostly) not (yet) doing anything: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=67&ItemID=9694 > The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be > groundwork for launching missiles at Iran. Air attacks on targets in > Iran are very likely. Yet many antiwar people-around-the-world seem > eager to believe that won't happen. (i've substituted "people-around-the-world" for "Americans"). > Illusion #1: With the U.S. military bogged down in Iraq, the Pentagon > is in no position to take on Iran. > > But what's on the horizon is not an invasion -- it's a major air > assault, which the American military can easily inflict on Iranian > sites. (And if the task falls to the Israeli military, it is also > well-equipped to bomb Iran.) > Illusion #2: The Bush administration is in so much political trouble > at home -- for reasons including its lies about Iraqi WMDs -- that it > wouldn't risk an uproar from an attack on Iran. > > But the White House has been gradually preparing the domestic > political ground for bombing Iran. > ... > Translation: First we'll be diplomatic, then we can bomb. And bombing Iran would have a fair chance of (temporarily) reversing bush's weak opinion poll ratings - the Iraq attack gave him +10% which lasted many months. norman's final point: > Right now, the presidents of Iran and the United States are thriving > on the belligerency of the other. From all indications, a military > assault on Iran would boost Ahmadinejad's power at home. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Imc-india mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-india Anivar Aravind GAIA -- The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? - Eben Moglen
