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“Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June — before Iran enters what Israelis described as a “zone of immunity” to commence building a nuclear bomb.”
“U.S. officials see two possible ways to dissuade the Israelis from such an attack: Tehran could finally open serious negotiations for a formula to verifiably guarantee that its nuclear program will remain a civilian one; or the United States could step up its covert actions to degrade the program so much that Israelis would decide that military action wasn’t necessary.”
[Source: By David Ignatius, Published: February 2, Washington Post]
Strait’s of Hormuz the world’s most important oil-trade route
If Israel were to independently attack Iran, the Iranian leaders would likely trigger the doomsday option, which would in turn lead to the United States moving into the Strait of Hormuz and occupying Iranian islands. The situation would escalate quickly, and America would quickly be drawn into a full-blown war. That is an outcome Israel and its friends on Capitol Hill might well relish, but would no doubt be catastrophic for the United States.
[Source: americanfreepress.net
Almost 17 million barrels a day of oil flowed through in 2011, roughly 35% of all seaborne traded oil, or almost 20% of oil traded world-wide. Last year, 14 crude oil tankers a day passed through on average. More than 85% of these exports went to Asian markets. The strait is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, but its shipping lanes are only two miles wide, separated by a two-mile buffer zone. It is still deep and wide enough to handle the world’s largest crude oil tankers, with about two-thirds of oil shipments carried by tankers in excess of 150,000 deadweight tons. Closure of the strait would require longer alternate routes or overland pipelines including the 745-mile East-West Pipeline across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea. Some oil could be pumped north via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline to the Mediterranean.
–U.S. Energy Information Administration
The Pentagon to sell joint Direct Attack Munitions including the sale of 500 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and Boeing-built “bunker-buster” bombs and other munitions to UAE, a key Gulf ally, is part of an ongoing U.S. effort to build a regional coalition to counter Iran.
Former Mossad chief: Israeli strike on Iran will lead to regional war Meir Dagan said in a television interview that a military strike will result in massive rocket attacks from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Pentagon From Space
The Pentagon is the world’s largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon
Dubai is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country’s legislature.
The earliest recorded mention of Dubai is in 1095, and the earliest settlement known as Dubai town dates from 1799. Dubai was formally established in the early 19th century by the Al Abu Falasa clan of Bani Yas, and it remained under clan control when the United Kingdom assumed the protection of Dubai in 1892. Its geographical location made it an important trading hub and by the beginning of the 20th century, it was an important port. In 1966, the year oil was discovered, Dubai and the emirate of Qatar set up a new monetary unit to replace the Gulf Rupee.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky
Contours of Global Order: Domination, Instability, and Xenophobia in a Changing World
Noam Chomsky
Text of lecture given at Westerkerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 13, 2011
“The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces — coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in Madison Wisconsin and other US cities. One telling event occurred on Feb. 20, when Kamal Abbas send a message from Tahrir Square to Wisconsin workers, saying “We Stand With You as You Stood With Us.”Read More>>>>>>
The Arab Spring with Gaddafi’s death
will turn the attention of more Arab states
to the plight of the Palestinians.
Israel will experience increasing pressure to negotiate
and resolve the impasse with the Palestinians,
in particular the status of Jerusalem.
In this respect placing the Old City under a juridical regime
