{"id":26899,"date":"2017-10-16T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26899"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:55:00","slug":"the-deep-states-bogus-iranian-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26899","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017\u00a0which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of\u00a0making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke deal, thereby reinforcing another\u00a0false narrative\u00a0that enables the $1 trillion Warfare State to continue bleeding the nation’s fiscal solvency.<\/p>\n

In a word, the whole notion that Iran is a national security threat and state sponsor of terrorism is just as bogus as the Russian meddling story or the claim that the chain of events resulting from the\u00a0coup d’ etat fostered by Washington on the streets of Kiev in February 2014 is evidence of Russian expansionism and aggression.<\/p>\n

Likewise, it’s part of the same tissue of lies which led to Washington’s massive, destructive and counterproductive interventions in Syria and Libya — when neither regime posed an iota of threat to the safety and security of the American homeland.<\/p>\n

To the contrary, all of these false narratives are the\u00a0cover stories which\u00a0justify the Warfare\u00a0State’s massive draw on the nation’s broken finances.\u00a0We will get to the Big Lie about Iran momentarily, but first it is useful to demonstrate just how enormously excessive the nation’s defense budget actually is, and why the denizens of the Imperial City—especially the neocon ideologues—-find it necessary to peddle such threadbare untruths.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: Iran has actually never attacked a single foreign\u00a0nation in modern history whereas Washington has chosen to unilaterally intervene in or arm virtually every\u00a0surrounding country\u00a0in the region.<\/p>\n

Here’s some historical\u00a0context that dramatizes\u00a0our\u00a0point about Washington’s hideously excessive spending on defense. Back in 1962 on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US defense budget was $52 billion, which would amount to\u00a0$340 billion\u00a0in today’s (2017$) purchasing\u00a0power.<\/section>\n

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The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’ Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017\u00a0which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of\u00a0making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke deal, thereby reinforcing another\u00a0false narrative\u00a0that enables the $1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2120,441,484,14830,694,776,821,827,862,10169,865],"class_list":["post-26899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-david-stockman","tag-iran","tag-libya","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-warfare-state","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions\/26900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}