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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.According to a recent global survey, the United States is perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace today. Its unrivalled war machine, out of control surveillance programme, decades-long record of attacking other nations, and its use of drones to carry out extrajudicial killings, lend credence to the charge that America is the world's number one war monger. It has not always been so. Before the Second World War the United States was reluctant to intervene militarily overseas, and no American troops were stationed in any foreign country.
Martin Luther King
"Because of the history between the Russians and the Chechen people who splintered to form the Caucasus Emirate, Sochi is a prime target for terrorism," said Woo, who has advanced insurance modelling of catastrophes, including designing a model for terrorism risk. (International Business Times)
Comment: What a concept! Evil Iran is moving around their warships for a training mission!
Obviously it is the U.S. that carried and distributed most of its army all over the globe AND close to the Iranian borders, oceans and continents away from where they belong, but let's scratch that and forget all we know about America's imperial wars, just to create a headline that makes Iran sound threatening and evil once again!