. . . . that every journalist working on the iran story should make themselves aware of . . . . since its the forgetting that causes the very worst tragedies.
4 references to follow up, with brief comment, in response to both recent events, and the " week of candlelit sunsets 11/18 march" idea.
The swiss ambassador in teheran from 1999 to 2004, tim guldimann, has written a good, informed, "imaginary dialogue" that covers the RECENT disputes in a succinct (2 page) way .... i found a good translation on new york city indymedia
the uk semi-official account of the '53 coup is in dorrels " 50 years of special operations" tome that most newsrooms, main libraries etc have as a reference book
the u.s.a OFFICIAL (!) account, the cia's own ' Clandestine History of Operation Ajax ' , written up in march 1954, was declassified to the extent of getting published by the new york times in april 2000, then spokesman books in '05 in the r fisk collection " inside the crusader fortress ".
this has some "deliberate" omissions, some deliberate omissions, + some misprints
when it talks about tudeh blaming the coup on anglo- american intrigues, it was " anglo - iranian ". . . . the oil co.
if i rem
for a mention of the widespread annoyance in the middle east in the 1930s that the Shah was so taken in by the mesmerising, charlatan snake-oil salesmen types in 1903 that he granted a 50 year oil license for a few thousand dollars, see " The Merchant of Letters", from the 1940s, i think. ( this defuses the oft rehearsed spin that 53 was all about "appropriation", etc .... it was up for renegotiation )
. . . . the most worrying thing about "u.s.a / iran 2006" to some of us is that, even if iraq was about war itself - for war itself, the recent war spin seems news management distraction from the cover-ups that arent working any longer for a corruption thats coming to light .... there is no pilot .... there isnt even a "good" plot . . . .
koyaanisqaatsi! as some of the lefties say
. . . . look it up
The swiss ambassador in teheran from 1999 to 2004, tim guldimann, has written a good, informed, "imaginary dialogue" that covers the RECENT disputes in a succinct (2 page) way .... i found a good translation on new york city indymedia
the uk semi-official account of the '53 coup is in dorrels " 50 years of special operations" tome that most newsrooms, main libraries etc have as a reference book
the u.s.a OFFICIAL (!) account, the cia's own ' Clandestine History of Operation Ajax ' , written up in march 1954, was declassified to the extent of getting published by the new york times in april 2000, then spokesman books in '05 in the r fisk collection " inside the crusader fortress ".
this has some "deliberate" omissions, some deliberate omissions, + some misprints
when it talks about tudeh blaming the coup on anglo- american intrigues, it was " anglo - iranian ". . . . the oil co.
if i rem
for a mention of the widespread annoyance in the middle east in the 1930s that the Shah was so taken in by the mesmerising, charlatan snake-oil salesmen types in 1903 that he granted a 50 year oil license for a few thousand dollars, see " The Merchant of Letters", from the 1940s, i think. ( this defuses the oft rehearsed spin that 53 was all about "appropriation", etc .... it was up for renegotiation )
. . . . the most worrying thing about "u.s.a / iran 2006" to some of us is that, even if iraq was about war itself - for war itself, the recent war spin seems news management distraction from the cover-ups that arent working any longer for a corruption thats coming to light .... there is no pilot .... there isnt even a "good" plot . . . .
koyaanisqaatsi! as some of the lefties say
. . . . look it up
