EU 'High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy' aka Foreign Minister, Catherine Ashton, has fully supported US imperial intervention in numerous war theaters, including economic sanctions (considered an act of war under international law) against Iran.
EU moves closer to new Iran sanctionsHow refreshing. For the Iranians who are currently watching as their economy is destroyed by sanctions, as they are threatened with war on a daily basis by those in America and Israel, the now Nobel-Laureate EU champions the rights of the people to watch their children starve, all while the president of the parliament has "overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel Prize to EU." It must be terribly difficult to live comfortable lives, gut the economies of member states, and war-monger. I can just see historians' confusion: "so did peace actually mean malicious cruelty to the 'people' of the 21st century?" Yes, yes it did. No one could make up the unimaginable evil that we are party to.
The European Union provisionally approved new economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program on Friday, with senior diplomats giving their backing to measures against Tehran's banking sector, industry and shipping.
Obama 'Care': Iran sanctions now causing food insecurity, mass suffering for millionsThis is not an unintended consequence of sanctions. Those Nobel Laureates in the EU don't WANT healthy democracy, healthy people, anywhere! This is where people, in good conscience, continue to bash their heads into the cold brick wall of reality. They are not destroying Iran to "pressure" the "regime." They are destroying Iran to conquer it, just like what they did with Iraq. Just like what they are doing to Greece, Spain, etc. The individuals initiating these kinds of events must laugh as we human gears click into place and say "why, this isn't very nice is it" while still carrying through, placing first our neighbors', then our own, heads on the chopping block.
As documented by the report's firsthand account on the ground, sanctions are not driving the working class to join Iran's democracy movement, they are doing the opposite - decimating the Iranian middle class, that has been at the center of the democracy movement, by intensifying their economic struggles. The greatest impediment for Iran's pro-democracy movement - as we saw at the height of the Green Movement protests in 2009 - has been that working class Iranians who are preoccupied with immediate financial struggles are unable to enlist in a struggle for political freedoms."
Sanctioning society: From Iraq to IranThose are just the beginning of the effects of the sanctions in Iraq, not to mention the daily attacks they live with now. The same machine is in place for the Iranians and still people argue whether or not it is justifiable. These killing fields, that used to be countries, are probably great laboratories for those "in the know," who are in charge of planning the future of our technocratic beast of a society. It is all stalking to them, pure and simple. It's just learning how to efficiently beat down and hunt an animal to funnel it into a suitable killing zone, and these sanctions are just such attempts. We are awarding peace prizes to stalkers and murderers. We, as a society, have learned nothing. But all of this economic mess is bound to come back around; I think we all know that.
Once-controlled diseases such as typhoid and malaria ran rampant as the healthcare system continued its collapse due to an acute and pervasive shortage of resources and equipment. The strain upon the collapsing Iraqi healthcare system was exacerbated as simultaneous sanctions against water treatment equipment resulted in the breakdown and shuttering of desalinisation plants across the country.
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American CenturyWe're all taken in by this "enforced normalcy" on a daily basis, on an unconscious level. In order to make ends meet we can't let the left hand know what the right is doing, so we just click away like gears, carrying out our orders unaware to the true consequences of our actions. No pity, just reality. That's just the way our sick colossus of a civilization functions. And yet some of us can live with ourselves through criticizing the system itself. But in reality the only thing that matters is action, and we've had very little of that. Nonetheless, at the end of this long night we'll have to come face to face with death, and we will have to be ready for it. There will be no nit-picking, no getting around it. That's just life. And vast corporations of death such as the ones that we live, work and die for, will continue to rub our faces in it until we do die.
In the Soviet Union, there was something called samizdat, or self-publishing: with the help of manual typewriters and carbon paper, Russian dissidents managed to circulate enough material to neutralize the effects of enforced normalcy. In contemporary United States, we have web sites and bloggers: different technology, same difference. These are writings for which enforced normalcy is no longer the norm; the norm is the truth - or at least someone's earnest approximation of it.
So what has become of these Soviet mavericks, some of whom foretold the coming collapse with some accuracy? To be brief, they faded from view. Both tragically and ironically, those who become experts in explaining the faults of the system and in predicting the course of its demise are very much part of the system. When the system disappears, so does their area of expertise, and their audience. People stop intellectualizing their predicament and start trying to escape it - through drink or drugs or creativity or cunning - but they have no time for pondering the larger context.
Sanctions, war, and the destruction of nature and the core of society: that's what the EU, America and Israel stand for. The servants of chaos and entropy will not stop, and we had better learn how to handle ourselves when it all comes down on us as well. They want escapist, defeatist zombies, and most likely they'll get plenty of that. After all, when the system is gone it's never really gone; it just goes into hiding deep within nasty people's heads. Therefore truth is always necessary, especially during survival. But seeing as how so much must be hidden with distractions and economic meltdown, what will happen when the horror comes right out into our faces? How will people react when they are truly faced with the choice between worshipping real, in-your-face psychopaths and choosing something else?
So as you Iranians, Iraqis, Afghanis, Yemenis, Pakistanis, and on, suffer under the sanctions, drones, and blood-lust of our country's' criminal classes, I am at a loss for words. Here we are again, hell repeating itself, as millions more innocent civilians like yourselves are condemned to suffer pains that the world will turn their eyes from, their hearts from; and instead continue to hand out trophies for murder.
Civilization. It's a pit, an awful pit, and I can only hope that, once it collapses, enough people will have been taking notes so that someone, somewhere, will remember.
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