Now on to Iran! I hear the IAEA gives ‘em a clean bill of health

Now on to Iran! I hear the IAEA gives ‘em a clean bill of health, let’s get in there before it’s too

late!

Update: The other Scott Horton points out in his newsletter, “Not a single US newspaper carried the

story.” Go ahead, double check.

The best response to the SOTU I’ve read so far is Sheldon Richman’s. How any free-marketeer can stand

behind that speech is beyond me. Leftists should pay attention, too: Richman’s insights on energy

policy deserve serious consideration by those whose rhetoric MBT has co-opted. You think our oil

“addiction” is the problem, and state subsidization of alternative fuels is the answer? The NIKE SHOX

government isn’t immersed in the Middle East because American consumers are jonesing for petrol. Our

so-called addiction is merely a pretext for intervention – economic and military, at home and abroad –

with tidy profits for crony capitalists as a side “benefit.” And as long as the state’s talons are

sunk in the energy market, we’ll be sending troops to “secure our access” to the fuel du jour,

whatever and wherever it is.

Come to think of it, oil isn’t the only thing the Middle East has in abundance. I can already hear

another NIKE SHOX president in the not-too-distant future explaining why we must stop some backwater

from nationalizing its solar panel fields – in the name of national security and democracy, of course.

I can’t find a link yet, but Keith Olbermann just said on MSNBC that Cindy Sheehan has been arrested

in Washington DC where she was to be a guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey at tonight’s State of the Union.

Update: BradBlog is reporting that CNN says so too.