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ECONOMIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION: some economic considerations of the possible U.S. attack on Iran

rumors these last days of Anglo-American press (Including New Yorker , Independent ) reported that preparations are at an advanced stage for a military attack on Iran. A possible air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities would only be a development of the Cold War that the U.S. and Israel are pursuing for some time with Iran. Verbal provocations from Iran on the nuclear and the existence of Israel, which the U.S. responded with subtle threats and propaganda about the intentions of an Iranian nuclear attack, we moved U.S. authorization to kill Iranian agents in Iraq . However, beyond these disagreements and a potential nuclear underestimated by the Israelis themselves, the real motive of a possible attack on Iran should be tried in motivation economiche.WJ Clark in the 2003 essay " Revisited: the real reason for the upcoming war with Iraq ", citing as reason of macroeconomic 'attack on Iraq will bring back the dollar as currency, hoping to thwart the intention, expressed in 2000 by OPEC countries like Iran, Iraq and Venezuela (which underwent a coup in the same year), oil trade with the euro, the euro, in addition to being devalued to a lesser extent the dollar is the currency of most countries that share the oil with Iran. In this direction would also represent the government's intention to open an Iranian oil bourse alternative to the two Americans. It 'clear that the conversion oil in euro would enhance economic crisis statunitense.Un second set of considerations about the economic reasons behind the decision to attack Iran is based precisely on the' war economy "in the U.S.. Indeed, escalating terrorism around the world following the attack on Iran would only add fuel to the fire of propaganda of the Bush administration, further legitimizing military ambitions and encouraging more and more the transition, as defined by the Los Angeles Times , the new economy to an economy like the U.S. war . Paradoxically, the revenues of the defense industry, as well as being the motive of the U.S., may be an obstacle to the attack, because Russia and China. The opposition of the two nations on sanctions against Iran is in fact based on substantial energy trade and military that Russia and China have with Iran. If behind plans for war with Iran, apart from many other reasons geopolitical, is the specter of economic reasons, it is clear that the problem must be tackled at its root, not only by cutting the link between economic recovery, employment and development of war (think of the propaganda of hundreds of new jobs that would provide the Dal Molin base in Vicenza), but also a continuous work for demilitarization and conversion to civilian areas, and funds appropriated for war costs (as in the 2006 Budget ).

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"Thou wilt 'FA' L'IRAN ..": the relationship between Italy and Iran between pacifism and interests of 'ENI

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A. Larijani, Iran's nuclear negotiator, said he had received from R. Prodi ideas for a peaceful solution to the dispute over Iranian nuclear issue. This can be seen not only as a further testimony to the peace of Italy at the international level, but also of good diplomatic relations in these months, the Prodi government has held with Iran.

But stop to these considerations would be a superficial reading of the question. In fact, Italy, as stated by the French prime minister De Villepin, has extensive knowledge of the Islamic Republic, which also let you know how to handle the thorny nuclear issue: a thorough knowledge of the fact that Italy is "the first business partners "of Tehran.

Iran is among the top five world producers of oil, which is managed (similar to what happened in Iraq before the U.S. engaged in freely implemented by the protectorate) to state control, which means that the affairs of private foreigners in this area are tied to political reasons, Italy has been very active in ' imports of oil and gas and' exports of industrial machinery in the Islamic republic needs. A confirmation of the excellent commercial relations between the two countries think of the founding of a -Iranian Chamber of Commerce in 1999 and the agreement in 2001 between the Bank Markazi Iran Bank and UBAE Arab Italian Bank, joint- Arab-Italian venture for the financing of Iranian imports from Italy.

You do not want to go into detail here of the many economic exchanges between Italy and Iran, which invest the various areas, but focus on a company Italian that has distinguished itself in recent years in the undertaking business abroad: ENI, just think of all Nassyria or ' Iraq.

ENI is active in Iran in two fields, one an oil and gas. Li Vigni Benito, a former ENI and author of "oil Wars", describes a ' interview ENI's interests in Iran, " we were the first to have concessions Buy-Back. This type of contract stipulates that the oil company that is an ore, in our case always Eni, can keep for himself the proceeds of the sale of crude oil until it covers the costs claimed for research, and then can hold only 25 percent of revenues, giving the remaining 75 percent to the state. In Iran applies the Buy-Back and the PSA is banned , "adding that in case of attack on Iran" Italy is likely to lose their deposits .

It is now more clear how the 'commitment of the Prodi government to temper the tone of the crisis and sanctions on Iran goes far beyond the Italian repudiation of war expressed in Article 11.

But there is another interesting aspect of the matter: Italy not stopping to entertain, by ENI, commercial relations with Tehran, the ILSA violates , The 'Iran-Libya Sanction Act , made law by the Bush administration in 2001, which would impose sanctions on those who helped to develop the oil resources of Iran and Libya, thus contributing indirectly to promote through enrichment, 's rise to nuclear .

Commitment "Vietnam" in Italy in the Iranian crisis arises so in line with Russia and China, all countries that have much to lose economically in the prospect of an attack on Iran. The economic reasons are placed so as a motive, but also as a potential deterrent effect on the fate of a conflict.

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see also: " Economies of mass destruction, economic reasons for a possible attack on Iran "

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A CENTURY OF HATE: the soldiers, executioners and victims of war

There is only one element that unites the warring parties in (or in) the civil war iraquena: hatred for the occupying army. And in the light of facts like these is not it surprising. Sergeant Paul Cortez, 24, was sentenced to 100 years imprisonment for the rape of a 14 year old girl and the slaughter of his family, father, mother, and sister of 7 years. The confession of the sergeant made him avoid the death penalty, and obtaining, through negotiation, the possibility of parole in 10 years. The charges of murder, rape, violation of private property, criminal conspiracy, arson ... they were allocated on the basis of the March 2006, when Cortez and four other soldiers decided to attack the girl's family, chosen for the presence of one man. After the gang rape, the girl's body is burned to conceal the violence and family members killed. The other sentences already set amount to 90 years for another companion of Cortez and the radiation from the army for all participants in the massacre.

Of the many cases of gratuitous violence against the population iraquena and Afghanistan in recent years have risen to the news only more bloodshed, for the record, or perhaps more to vojeurismo news. Just think of the desecration of corpses and displays of symbols of the Third Reich by German soldiers in Iraq, or the cremation (forbidden by Islam and the Geneva Conventions) of the Taliban by the U.S. military, up to the best known cases of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. A whole constellation of human rights violations that are the results "natural" than the free zone law, and humanity, which is war. Dall'innanuralità of humanity killing itself can not follow that cases like this, where the distinction between victims and victimizers fades, becoming nothing.

Soldiers caught in situations of social and economic, in which war is the only real hope of employment, social redress, as shown symbolically M. Moore in Fahrenheit 9 / 11 : the children of some U.S. senators are not sent to the front. Soldiers, executioners and victims themselves, as shown the surge in the suicide rate of the Marines in Iraq, of mental health problems, and increasing cases of desertion.

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B (ENI) IRAQUENI: appeal against the online sale of ENI oil iraqueno

The story begins on 1 May 2003, with the settlement at the head of the U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer in Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein. Bremer is the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA , now dissolved) that launches the new constitutional iraqueno, comprising among other things, orders 100 ( orders) for the reconstruction of the economic system iraqueno and management of its resources .

The leitmotif of the new economic policy iraquena, as is clear from the orders, is the privatization of state resources, not excluding oil, which will be produced and distributed by multinationals, especially U.S., thus making the place the state oil company iraquena. Thanks to the PSA, the Production Sharing Agreements, literally "production sharing agreements," the monopoly of foreign multinational oil iraqueno will be for the next 30 / 40 years, with losses of 2 to 7 times the national budget of Iraq. But there's more: to take part in the sale of oil iraqueno ENI is once again at the apex in the news after the abduction of engineers in Darfur and interest Nasiriyah.

's why many NGOs and associations, including A Bridge to , CRBM , Amisnet (which also advances proposals for alternative management of oil iraqueno) seek to sign the online petition to Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa Schioppa to demand that Italy, through the state-owned ENI, which is for 32 %, distances himself from the plunder of oil resources iraquene.

Again comes the confirmation that the economic system, in its attempt to monopoly of natural resources, lies at the heart of world conflicts, from which one can leave not only with difficult political maneuvering (Italy is an obvious example ), but first of all with the spread of an alternative model of development, as proposed by the Countryside to reform the World Bank .

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Milena Velba En El Bus

FALL OF LAW: budget a one-year term on human and civil rights

The resignation of Romano Prodi, after "five of spades" on the Senate vote on foreign policy, authorizing an assessment of a year of government on of human and civil rights, regardless of how the situation will evolve in the coming hours. The

large sums allocated by the Budget and funding war costs of the missions of "peacekeeping " in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon have led to cuts in many areas of public spending, including on international cooperation in cutting threatened but then withdrawn. Economic interests and the international prestige has been the main driving force of foreign policy, as evidenced by the division ENI 's oil iraqueno (One thinks of the dramatic story of the technicians kidnapped in Darfur), the race with other states sending and command of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon, the disregard for military purposes and declared the environmental impact of base in Vicenza.

Staying on the environmental front, despite the recent initiatives on energy conservation and the fact that liberalization has not touched the goods of mass consumption such as water , the government went ahead on the path of "great works" as TAV and Moses, but of questionable utility and considerable environmental damage.

There were, however, calls for a political solution and not of recent military conflicts in the world and a foreign policy of the previous bolder in criticizing U.S. unilateralism (like during the bombing of Nigeria); also important travel diplomats in Africa (Italy is the only state to essersene concerned) and in India, with the call of Prime Minister Gandhi , and commitment against the death penalty.

In terms of rights have been at least discussed issues of civil unions, euthanasia and alleged violations of the CPT for immigrants.

The fall of its own government on matters related to the theme of war, along with the decline because sending Blair's troops in Iraq and Bush's Vietnam iraqueno, show how the search for a non-military solution to the international problems is a necessity not only linked to human rights, but also in the interest of stability of each government.

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PEACE MAD

"One Saturday fear of anti-American ", "100,000 crazy in the streets", "Pacifism terrifies Vicenza" are these titles some newspapers commenting on the large demonstration in Vicenza against the expansion of the military base, which is, as we have already seen , a location for the next offensive in Afghanistan and Iraq announced by the U.S. Congress, in addition to causing a cost significant environmental. Yet you are still unable to get out of the logic of the opposition party, understand that peace is a value that goes beyond the definitions, right, left, global, not global, American, anti-American. The paradox is that the words that accompany a demonstration against the war, in which a humanity kills itself, words are just war: "fear", "crazy", "terror", as if to be crazy, scary and awe, was the hope of a future in which problems are resolved by other means, not war. Even more paradoxical words of a head of government for the logic of coalition and international reputation by its agreement to a base, even when used for purposes declared "civilian", "living" is still a military base . And this is even more surprising when you consider that the same person a few days before the tomb of Mahatma Gandhi , said: "Too often we did not follow his teaching," and praised Mother Teresa as an example for all, an example of what the world needs. "

A flag hanging from a balcony is our condition: the window from which we view the world can still carry a strong message that "eye for an eye and the world goes blind" (MK Gandhi).

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