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Other analysts agreed that airstrikes would cause a spike in global crude oil prices, and a corresponding jump in U.S. gasoline prices that are currently averaging $3.82 per gallon. But some declined to predict how large that spike would be.

http://bit.ly/AnvWy0



U.S. Navy Launches Huge Iran Surge: Gunboats, Super-Torpedoes, Sea-Bots

By Spencer Ackerman

Consider it Teddy Roosevelt's gunboat diplomacy for the 21st century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30841.htm



'Strike on Iran could be counterproductive'

A recently retired US general now working for a Jewish national security think tank cautioned Tuesday that military strikes against Iran could be counterproductive.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=261903


From Information Clearing House

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Mutually assured madness

In These Times
by George Kenney

03/14/12

In terms of nuclear nonproliferation, the West s clash with Iran over its nuclear program appears to make sense. But once one peels back the layers of rhetoric surrounding the West s demands, our real priority seems to be regime change. Those opposed to an unnecessary war with Iran are thus faced with two complicated challenges: First, to debunk the manufactured hysteria over Iranian nuclear activities, and second, to make explicit the unexamined assumptions behind the use of regime change as a default reaction...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12845/mutually_assured_madness


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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