Washington Post ignores reality about Iran and lies in it's editorial

We Need a Real Iran Policy (washingtonpost.com): "Consider what's at stake. Oil-rich Iran is arguably the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism"

The Washington Post (WP) which should be a newspaper of referrence has once again lied (even if an Op-Ed piece).

WP referred Iran as "the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism". The WP must ignore (or lies) that Saudi Arabia citizens are still the biggest contributor to the Al-Qaeda. Or even Yemen, according to the FBI! (Al-Moayad, a Yemeni national, [was arrested] on charges of conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaeda and Hamas. Al-Moayad was a significant financial contributor to Al Qaeda and Hamas and boasted that he provided over $20 million dollars to Usama bin Laden.).

The WP is deliberately supporting Bush's initial agenda of constituting a laughable "Axis of Evil" with a view to justify in the future possible military action against Iran like was done to justify War on Iraq by inventing a connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, connection that even the CIA refused to corroborate.

This is another example of propaganda or misinformation that the WP has loaned it's name to.

The WP further ignores (or chooses to) that Iran is now governed by a moderate government that even after many difficulties has been able to provide much more "freedom" to it's citizens than USA's ally Saudi Arabia.

Washington Post takes Anti-European stand in it's editorial

Europe and Turkey (washingtonpost.com): "There is reason to doubt whether most Europeans really understand the threat of Islamic extremism or agree with Americans that an overarching, generational commitment must be made to defeating it."

In this Editorial the Washington Post (WP) clearly takes an Anti-European stand by declaring that they (WP) know more about Terrorism than Europe (a continent with 1000s of years of experience iin dealing with Terrorism!). Not only that but WP disqualifies Europe from "[understanding] the threath of Islamic Terrorism", which has been on the doorstep of Europe for 1600 years (!) and has executed an attack on the core of one of Europe's capitals (Madrid, 11th March 2003) - not to mention the many religious wars that Europe and the Muslim world have fought against each other!

The WP shows itself as an Anti-European media and highly "submitted" to the "voice of the master" (Bush). This Editorial also shows that the "phantom menace" of Anti-Americanism has cretaed an adversarial position regarding Europe in the American media.

I believe that the American People is much smarter than the ignorant editorial writer in WP and will see through this propaganda understanding that even though Europe has a different way to deal with this threat, that different way is also valid!

Social Security is not dying! Don't you want to celebrate?

According to this piece Social Security in the US is not dying. That should give us some positive feelings for the year ahead.

The campaign by George Bush II to "end" Medicaid and "save" (read: kill) Social Security has heavily searched arguments in the "slow death" of social security. Well, it seems that they are wrong!

According to Robert Gordon, a respected economist at Northwestern University the Social Security Trustees have repeatedly used unreasonably conservative estimates to predict the future of Social Security and they have been repeatedly wrong!

Are we ready for the truth now? Can we accept that Social Security is not dying a slow death?

That's the next challenge for those who believe in the current system and those who want to keep Social Security and make it work better.