It doesn't surprise me at all, but it still disgusts me every time I hear something of this sort...

It turns out that the Bush administration is funneling money to Jundallah (Army of God) to destabilize Iran and topple the Mullahs, disregarding the notion that this group is affiliated with Al-Qaeida and probably hates the US more than any of the local arabic/persian infidels found in the mid-east. The CIA is funneling cash and weapons so that this group can kill people, terrorize the Iranian people and destabilize the country.

Here's some excerpts from the Telegraph (British). Google for more info...

President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Details have also emerged of a covert scheme to sabotage the Iranian nuclear programme. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs. Under the plan, pressure will be brought to bear on the Iranian economy by manipulating the country's currency and international financial transactions. Authorisation of the new CIA mission, which will not be allowed to use lethal force, appears to suggest that President Bush has, for the time being, ruled out military action against Iran. Bruce Riedel, until six months ago the senior CIA official who dealt with Iran, said: "Vice-President [Dick] Cheney helped to lead the side favouring a military strike, but I think they have concluded that a military strike has more downsides than upsides." However, the CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan. Iranian officials say they captured 10 members of Jundullah last weekend, carrying $500,000 in cash along with "maps of sensitive areas" and "modern spy equipment". Mark Fitzpatrick, a former senior State Department official now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said industrial sabotage was the favoured way to combat Iran's nuclear programme "without military action, without fingerprints on the operation." He added: "One way to sabotage a programme is to make minor modifications in some of the components Iran obtains on the black market." Components and blueprints obtained by Iranian intelligence agents in Europe, and shipped home using the diplomatic bag from the Iranian consulate in Frankfurt, have been blamed for an explosion that destroyed 50 nuclear centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear plant last year.

Well, Hugo Chavez is shutting down the oldest TV station RCTV in Venezuela. This would seem like a very anti-democratic and authoritarian move on limiting freedom of expression, but would it look much different in other countries, particularly the USA. RCTV was a big player and supporter of the Coup in 2002, has been broadcasting misleading information to mobilize the public against Chavez and has recently tried to incite people to assassinate Chavez. Any TV station in the USA that would repeatedly advocate people to topple the current administration and incite mass protests, would probably have their license revoked.

The film "The Revolution will not be televised", about the 2002 coup d'etat in Venezuela shows the involvement of the private media as a major driving force behind the coup and also how the Chavez government cannot maintain control of the country without control of its own media outlet. A battle of information. Highly recommended! The entire film is available here...

Chavez, amigo, el pueblo esta contigo!

Here's the last video report from Greg Palast on vulture funds.

Greg is one of my absolute favorite journalists, I love his style of ambush journalism. This man has uncovered the scams behind the 2000 and 2004 presidential election in the US as well as the many ties between current government officials, saudi oil, and terrorism. He tracks the sinister, malicious, greedy, and cold-blooded actions of politics and private interests. This video is about debt relief. Debt relief is absolutely necessary, but we have to be careful what this means. He basically narrates the story of Zambia, which borrowed $15 million from Rumania in 1979, but was broke unable to repay 20 years later. Rumania offered to cancel the debt for $3 million, but before the deal was finalized, Michael Sheehan from Debt Advisory International bought off the deal from Rumania and is now suing Zambia for the money plus another $40 million in interests.

And this is just one of the tales. This is just absolutely sickening to me and it's something very few people know about.

Stay tuned to the man himself and check out his writings: Greg Palast

Enjoy...



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