The power is within ourselves

Despite the fact that the US balance of trade lies in a perilous state, the USA has decided in favour of tough sanctions against Iran. The reasons they took this action is due to their allegation that Iran intends to obtain nuclear weapons of mass destruction and has links with terrorism. Ring any bells?

Yes exactly the same reasons were given for the illegal invasion and subsequent destruction of Iraq with the loss of over 1.2 million lives. The allegations once again are untrue and not based on intelligence or reality.

What is consistent however are the real reasons for this action, control of oil reserves and an attempt to defend the US dollar in its declining position as the world’s reserve currency used for oil transactions.

The fictitious story that Ahmadinejad threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the map is repeated daily, the fictional half truth that Ahmadinejad said the holocaust was a myth rather than it was a myth that a Jewish State had to be superimposed over Palestinian because of an alleged holocaust in Europe is repeated ad infinitum by the American and British press. Any day now I expect to hear that Ahmadinejad uses human shredders, eats babies and builds palaces with the oil revenue.

I don’t expect these sanctions to work, I don’t think even the American Government expects them to work, I can’t see the Russians, Chinese, Indians or even Europe refusing to buy Iranian oil because of the tantrums of a mad American president.

But nevertheless they are a sinister development, a step the US Government needs to take in the first instance as a prelude to a military attack.

Bush is already talking about WW111, it seems to me that despite public opinion around the world, even in the United States itself, he is intent on going ahead with it.

Perhaps we, the citizens of the world, could demonstrate to Bush that sanctions can be effective under certain circumstances and for the right reasons. It’s not just governments that can impose sanctions, the ultimate power actually lies with us, the citizens of the world that are tired of the genocide in the Middle East, who are tired of the continuous threats being issued by Washington and not only against Iran. Who are tired of American attempts to dominate the world

The power is in our pockets, we don’t have to buy American goods, or goods produced by American owned subsidiaries. There’s always an alternative to American produced motor vehicles, soft drinks, cosmetics, trash food or even entertainment.

Let’s hit the Americans in the place it hurts the most, in the trouser pocket area, so they can appreciate in just a small way how sanctions can be painful. You never know it just might bring them to their senses.

Michael Lee
Oxford UK

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