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“and this bold stating of the geopolitical facts of life strikes the modern reader with a force of revelation for there is in our own time an absolute taboo among the corporate news media and the political class against mentioning anything to do with the strategic and economic reasons for war. As witnessed just over a year ago, I’m listening to the Today program on Radio 4 and there was this little phrase they kept repeating on the half hour every half hour. The G8 has today endorsed an American plan to bring democracy to the middle east. The level of naivety necessary before you can talk about an American plan bring democracy to the middle east… you will not find that level of naivety anywhere outside of 1970s porno films.”

“This is Britain and America bringing democracy to the Middle East 1953 style .. yes but that was then this is now. Now there’s an American plan endorsed by the G8, I might add, to bring democracy to the Middle East generally not just in Iran, but in Iraq where the United States building 14 permanent US military bases on Iraqi soil. What’s so profound is the corporate news media’s acquired naivety… the learned ability not to see or hear the uncomfortable fact… that they can be interviewing a 4 star US general while he’s laying bricks on the very building site of one of these US military bases and still notice nothing is wrong.”

“In 1951 Mohammed Mossadegh elected prime minister by a landslide majority on a mandate of nationalizing Anglo-Persian oil company now known as record profit posting BP. What happens next? The foreign office recommend a coup d’etat. Churchill puts up $1.5 million to finance the coup. Eisenhower agrees to match us with $1 million on the soul previsor that Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson and CIA Middle East Station Chief in Tehran, Kermit Roosevelt, will be point man for the coup. This is agreed. The money transferred. And Kermit Roosevelt’s first action is to spring General Fazlollah Zahedi from jail where he is languishing on account of being a Nazi collaborator. But, this is the man the Kermit Roosevelt has chosen to lead the military part of the coup.”

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