Ahmadinejad is simply the latest trumped-up bogeyman who has been chosen by the neocon marketing machine to serve as the excuse for the next war. He fills the same worn-out niche as Manuel Noriega, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein. He's a recognizable "face" for Americans to fear and hate so they can be conned into supporting another war of aggression. He's the latest trumped-up "threat to the entire world". If he didn't exist, they'd find someone else to fill his place. He's perfect: swarthy skin, facial hair, foreign name. After him will come another such. Wait and see.

Chavez is simply the latest in a long, long line of independent-minded Latin American leaders who dared to resist the USA's corporate policy in Latin America. Most of them have ended up dead at the hands of the CIA. A few (Castro, Ortega, and so far...Chavez) have endured, despite the CIA. After him will come many more, because they are not going to just lie down and die.

So they are united with Ahmadinejad by their anti-Americanism? Well, yeah. Why be surprised? When people in a global village are threatened by a ravening tiger they will tend to band together, after all, regardless of their various differences.

This is not any attempt at a union of archaic communism and Islamic fundamentalism, it's an attempt at self-defence, independence, and mutual survival by smaller nations in a world in the grip of international anarchy on the part of a superpower that is in the control of a criminal administration which commits blatant aggression over nonexistent WMDs. It's also an effort to openly call the corporate tiger what it is: a killer.


I tried opening your link to the article, by the way, but it doesn't work for some reason.