The Gulf of Credibility

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By Craig Murray

I really cannot begin to fathom how stupid you would have to be to believe that Iran would attack a Japanese oil tanker at the very moment that the Japanese Prime Minister was sitting down to friendly, US-disapproved talks in Tehran on economic cooperation that can help Iran survive the effects of US economic sanctions. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous was holed above the water line. That rules out a torpedo attack, which is the explanation being touted by the neo-cons.

The second vessel, the Front Altair, is Norwegian owned and 50% Russian crewed (the others being Filipinos). It is owned by Frontline, a massive tanker leasing company that also has a specific record of being helpful to Iran in continuing to ship oil despite sanctions. It was Iran that rescued the crews and helped bring the damaged vessels under control.That Iran would target a Japanese ship and a friendly Russian crewed ship is a ludicrous allegation. They are however very much the targets that the USA allies in the region – the Saudis, their Gulf Cooperation Council colleagues, and Israel – would target for a false flag. It is worth noting that John Bolton was meeting with United Arab Emirates ministers two weeks ago – both ships had just left the UAE.The USA and their UK stooges have both immediately leapt in to blame Iran. The media is amplifying this with almost none of the scepticism which is required. I cannot think of a single reason why anybody would believe this particular false flag. It is notable that neither Norway nor Japan has joined in with this ridiculous assertion […]

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15 thoughts on “The Gulf of Credibility”

  2. The US government is acting more paranoid every day, trying to pick fights with everyone. I saw part of yesterday’s NYT story that the Trump/Bolton team is planting cyber-style land mines in Russia’s power grid, hoping to discombobulate the system. Don’t they realize they are inviting retaliation, and that the US is much more dependent on its power grid than Russia?

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  4. Trump has abrogated all medium range missile treaties and small nuclear weapons treaties so he can nuke iran with tactical nuclear weapons as Cheney, Bolton, Rufsfeld, Wolfowitz, Abrams, Pompeo wanted to do in starting in 2004.

    Trump is a monster. There are so many more old catastrophically dangerous reactors in america! There is so much more nuclear waste! The asshole is
    abrogating nuclear proliferation treaties! The monster trump is massively increasing nuclear arms production and small tactical nuclear weapons production! It is deregulating nuclear reactor supervision at a time of extreme vulnerability from climate change!
    It is reclassifying the most dangerous radionuclide high-level nuclear waste as low level to park it everywhere and, shallow bury it over aquifers! It is subsidizing reactors that are ready to explode! It
    is pushing Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and fracking! It is threatening nuclear war in Iran! It is a monster!

    Some People say Pelosi is not impeaching Trump Because, she is trying to Accrue evidence to Jail Him. Only the Worst Scumbags in the Rightist-Corporate Democratic Establishement Could Float Such a Sickening Lie.

    People who have been involved with politics for many years understand that Trump will not ever go to jail. It is hard for people to understand it, who have not lived it and worked in the american system at Democratic party- Grassroots levels or at any other grass-roots level.

    Nancy pelosi refused to impeach bush2,  after virtual martial law was imposed in america from 911, the patriot act, daily false coded terrorist alerts in america to keep fear going , the blatant electronic rigging of the elections in 2004 in ohio, florida, and other states the consolidation of mass surveilence and the police state in the DHS

    Most citizens have no voice in America. The vast majority of the American Electorate is marginalized . Monsters Like Trump and George W. Bush, Obama take advantage of marginaliztion to seize power, with their false dichotomies. The illusions of democracy.

    The republicans impeached clinton at the peak of his popularity, to fulfill extreme neoconservative agandas . They used the false-narrative-fallout  later,  on to justify the  Bush2 reign of terror, with their base.  The rightist imperial-democrats were complicit in  George W Bush’s reign of terror, because they did nothing about the massive voting irregularities and supreme court coup, that lost the other corporate rightist-Gore,  the election.

    Bill Clinton was very pronuclear, by the way, as Gore would have been.

    Obama pushed through a massive  trillion dollar nuclear weapons deal,  as trump has. Trump has gone several steps further by abrogating nuclear proliferation treaties. Trump is expanding the creaton of small tactical nuclear-weapons programs.

    Trump will not be jailed, anymore than white millionares and billionaires in america, get away with murdering wayward spouses or, rich kids get away with mowing down and murdering 5 innocents, while others go to prison for shoplifting.

    The nature of politics in america is still Jim Crow in the south.  Black people are actively blocked from voting in southern states, by bogus police roadblocks in their precincts. They are lied to and misdirected,  to understaffed polling stations, about voting times. Their votes are thrown out. The democrats pay lip service to acknowleding that racial-vote-suppression occurs. The democratic establishment never does anything about. The democratic establishment now run by People Like tom Perez, Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein are a complicit part of a corporate duoploly, power-structure.

    There is no way they will jail Trump in america.   America is dominated by the Military, the corporations and billionaires. They could possibly jail a progressive politician in America, as the corporate powers and military powers did Lula in Brazil, but not Trump.

    The corrupt politicians would not even Jail the most felonious political operative,  in American History Karl Rove, who covered up George W Bushs draft dodging among other things. Karl Rove got Dan Rather of CBS fired  for   Exposing, Gerorge W. Bush’s draft-dodging and lies.
    The only way to slow down  this juggernaut of war crimes, financial crimes, nuclear criminality, prevent an iran invasion, and keep trump from being reelected in this rotten
    corrupt-hornets nest of a country, is to impeach him now. There is so much Job and income insecurity, housing insecurity, poverty, stress, dissonance in america. Impeachment  will not take Trump from power now, but it may keep him from getting reelected in a year . 
    It is why he is preparing for a brutal war .  It is to help insure Trump is reelected, like bush2 was.
    The corporate media’s job in america is to push both rightist parties, further right to do the bidding of the military, the corporations, oil companies,  the bankers, wall-street and the billionaire elites. Their are very few people who truly advovate for the majority of americanswith in America .
    The so-called liberal billionaires like bill gates preach nuclear power, neoliberalism, tax cuts for the rich while there are 30 tent cities in his town of Seatte .  People spend 90 of their income on rent, fewer own houses anymore. Taaahere are 60 thousand or more homeless in Seattle. Some lucky children are picked up from tent cities, in cold-seatle and bused to school. Worse than many third-world countries. That is what so-called international-philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates encourage in their Home City. They pay no property taxes, on their 140 million dollar mansion and complex in Seattle, because of their Tax-chiseling influence with government in Washington state.
    Progressive my ass. Bill gates lobbies to bring a million H1B Skilled laborers in to america a year , while american kids graduate with  150,000 dollar student loans and few job prospects.
    There are millions of real homeless, in america Housing is unaffordable for the many. People work 2 jobs to barely survive. Almost all have stagnant wages. No labor rights thnks to republican and democratic politicians and oligarchs like Gates and the Koch Brothers.
    Many people have little to no medical access in the abominable blood-sucking system. There arw illions in jails and prisons for nonsensical torts, misdemeanors and victimless crimes. 10s of millions in poverty as america spends a hundred billion dollars a year on orwellian intelligence agencies like the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the Secret Service,
    The NNSA or Nucear Nation Security agency to spy on antinuclear advocates. DEA, ATF, Various military intelligence agencys like Navy Intelligence agency that works with the NSA and FBI. The Massive Department of Homeland Security that was chartered by thr Patriot Act!, to coordinate all the extravagantly funded stasi spook organizations in merica.  20 more major intentligence agencies.

    The USA spends almost two-thirds of its budget, on the military and military-industrial- complex that WallStreet the Billionaires and politicians are heavily vested in.
    Harvey Wasserman closely documented the chicanery, collusion and vote rigging under George W Bush. The democratic establishment is a rightist corporate party.

    The people with the power and money in the democratic  party, allow for dissent to shepard in suckers that are later slaughtered or become corrupted.
    The Two-Party-Structures   of the United States Constitution, was setup to favor rich, white- slave owners. It has always had two rightist parties in power. America has been at war for most of the time, of it’s existence. The US has not been at war for only about 25 years of it’s existence . Jimmy Carter pointed out it out.

    The democratic-party-establishment,  colluded to keep bush2 in power . Pelosi, Schumer and all the democratic leadership actively encouraged the  invasion of iraq, by George W Bush.

    The only way to even come close, to hindering the terrible events that are unfolding and stand a chance at unseating this monster, is to impeach it now and get rid of the rightwing clones like biden.

    Pelosi is doing the same thing with Trump, she did with George W Bush. We have a feel for these manipulations and lies because we have been experiencing them since Reagan.

    The only democrat that did anything significant against nuclear power , climate change and the most for nuclear proliferation, was Jimmy Carter 39 years ago!

    Obama made the ramifications of the banking crisis worse.  Hillary Clinton put nazis in power in the ukraine. Hillary Clinton destroyed  Libya. Hillary Clinton sent 10s of thousands of more refugees to the USA border, by supporting coups by facist dictators,  in central america. The republicans and the the democratic-party establishment are owned by neoconservatives.  America is a Nuclear-Imperial duopoly and we always have predictable results.

    There is a very concentrated power conglomerate in the USA. 
    It controls everything through citzens united
    The only way to slow down  this juggernaut of  They control AM radio, They have cable via CNN-MSNBC, acting like oppostition and supposedly part of the democratic party establishment as the warmongered with bush2 and do so with pelosi and trump now. Same for the New York Times. There is the Murdoch , Fox-newspaper, local TV News, Newspaper monopoly. There is the right-wing,  antenna TV, Local News, Newspaper monopoly run by Sinclair. They control it all and they are the rightist corporate, military, democrat and republican establishments that run america. It is not democratic . There is cambridge analytica and i360 on the intgernet that fund extemist websites, funds operatives  and buy data from facebook to target voters.

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