Is it Time to Challenge the World Establishment?

Ten Percent Blog concludes today's post with an open request for how to help Iranian's challenge their establishment without becoming tools of our own imperialist establishment:

Now, I am sick of writing about it, I want to find concrete practical things we can do to help. Suggestions welcome.

My suggestion follows:

One way we can help Iranians challenge their establishment is to challenge our own western establishments… what a “farce.” The inertia remaining from the fairly recent Greek uprisings, which spread around the world, provide a useful asset upon which to build.

On an individual level, we should use our strengths. You are a clear thinker and good writer. You should continue to make use of that strength, while others use their particular strengths.

We need to organize, and can do so in a distributed way… We should keep this impulse alive. My brief blog entry today reflects this impulse. Briefly, it concludes:

“I’m starting to feel like withdrawing all support from Obama, because he’s become the figurehead of a crime syndicate. Does anyone else feel this way?”

Psssst... Do Something

• Contact the Broadcast Media
  
• Contact the Newspapers
  
• Contact the US Senate
  
• Contact the House of Representatives

Why Does AP Give Terrorists a Platform?

I don't know why. Perhaps it has something to do with the profit motive of commercial media.

Associated Press passes on propaganda with the title "Group claims Iran speeding up nuke plans" when a better title would have been "Terrorist Group claims...."

They report this despite a recent CIA assessment to the contrary. *shrug*

Sources:

Associated Press, Group claims Iran speeding up nuke plans, February 20, 2008.

Chilling Effect on Reporters Tightened by Regime

Maybe my blog entry title is the headline Dan Eggan of the Washington Post would really have liked to use for his recent article. He and his editors settled on the title "Grand Jury Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book Sources."

A federal grand jury in Alexandria has issued a subpoena seeking information about the confidential sources of a newspaper journalist who wrote in a 2006 book about alleged CIA efforts to infiltrate Iran's nuclear program.

The Iranian intelligence probably knew of the CIA's infiltration attempt before NY Times Report James Risen wrote about it; it failed. So, who does the Bush Regime want to keep in the dark?

You guessed it, Hillary Clinton. But, now that they've launched a grand jury, and it's been splashed all over the the Washington Post, everyone knows. Doh! Bush should have just snatched the Times reporter and sent him to an undisclosed location. All of this might have been avoided if Bush & Co. hadn't blown the cover on Valarie Plame-Wilson.

Sources:

Washington Post, Grand Jury Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book Sources, Dan Eggan, February 2, 2008.