Persicus Maximus

  The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has finaly released the notorius “28 pages” from the 9/11 Report, which had been kept classified, and which detail more or less exclusively with the culpability of the Saudi Arabian government in the attacks. Though the White House claimed even after the release, that the pages “proved” the Saudis had nothing to do with it, they did anything but that, providing considerable evidence that the hijackers had contact with two probable Saudi intelligence officers in advance of the attacks, and had received support from those officers. The information centers on two men, Omar Bayouni and Osama Bassman. Bayouni was said to have provided “substantial assistance” to the hijackers in 2000, and had extensive contact with the Saudi government at the same time. Bayouni was nominally an employee of Ercan, a subsidiary of a company with substantial ties to the Saudi Defense Ministry, and was in frequent contact with a Defense Mi...

  In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered “perception management” to get the American people to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome” and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure continues to this day getting the public to buy into endless war. To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war. While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn’t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic propaganda would be needed to ensure that future imperial adventures would have the public’s eager support or at least its confused acquiescence. This commitment to what the insiders called “perception man...

On May 27,Foreign Policy reported that the Obama administration has decided to block the sale of additional cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia. This is great news, but it’s long past overdue and still not enough. U.S. companies, including Textron Industries – the makers of cluster munitions sold to Saudi Arabia – have profited far too long off the death and destruction caused by their products placed in Saudi hands. Cluster bombs are WMDs. They randomly spray hundreds of “bomblets” across a wide area and, almost invariably, some kill innocent civilians. They are also not very reliable weapons as many of these bomblets do not explode upon impact. Often these unexploded bomblets are then picked up by children, who are seriously injured or killed when they set them off. Due to the indiscriminate killing caused by cluster bombs, there is an international treaty banning the use of these horrific weapons, signed by 119 nations signed by 119 nations. Predictably, neither Saudi Arabia no...

UK’s Independent wrote , “The leader of Germany’s main right-wing anti-migrant party has caused political uproar by insisting that the country’s border police should be authorised to “ shoot at refugees” trying to enter the country illegally. Frauke Petry , the 40-year-old leader of Germany’s (a mother of four who recently left her pastor husband for a neo-nazi boyfriend) once merely Euro sceptic but now increasingly xenophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, made her controversial demands after addressing a political meeting in Hanover at the weekend. “Police must stop migrants crossing illegally from Austria,” Ms Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper. “And, if necessary, use firearms. That is what the law says. (actually she is dead wrong on the law issue) ” She added: “I don’t want this either, but the use of armed force is there as a last resort.” Her remarks were the most extreme political response so far by a substantial political figure to mounting publ...

These days the Saudis have decided to create an international tam tam... apparently to cause what has been observed in the last weeks as an escalation of hostilities that started with a calculated execution of a Cleric who happened to have had the same Islamic faith as the Iranian leaders and nation then having its Wahhabi-Baluchi agents (39 arrested of which at least 10 were none Shia elements) to attack its Tehran embassy with Molotov cocktails (Embassy had been evacuated prior to the execution, so it is safe to say the attack was expected...) all in order to kick start a roulette of ambassadors of a bunch of tribal kingdoms and dictatorships leaving Tehran...... which by all respect to their citizens happen to be politically minimal and truly irrelevant... since Iran knows how to deal with such games, as seen a half dozen times with other much more relevant countries... But why on earth are the Saudis so irrationally pounding sand ? May be it is the realization that the...

The first issue, is the newly  published IAEA report regarding Iran's nuclear program. The report hopes to kick start, putting an end to the big and small disputes of the so called 5­­­-1 with Iran. It was probably the best the West and Iran could have hoped for. Fact of the matter is the West needed something to save its face for its more than a decade long chantage of Iran's Government with all those sanctions, not to mention the hardships it put upon the Iranian nation… Probable objective was (at the behest of pro Israeli  Lobbyists) initiations of at best unrest and regime change, or at least foreign policy change.  None seems to have materialized.  Announcing that the Iranians probably had conducted research at some point years ago, but now, as of 2009 exists no further evidence, is so ridiculously lame and cosmetic, that the Iranians can only smirk and let the West have this little validation only to move on and get it over with. However...