US/NATO/Israel attack on Iran would be a catastrophe for everyone - Bill Ayers

[pmaitra]

US/NATO/Israel attack on Iran would be a catastrophe for everyone - Bill Ayers

US wars of "invasion, aggression and occupation" are no longer sustainable economically and socially, veteran war critic and US scholar Professor Bill Ayers told RT. He adds that if NATO, the US or Israel attack Iran, it would lead to a catastrophe.

The activist says America has an old colonial mentality and grotesque double standards. Washington is frantic about the possibility that Iran might have a nuclear warhead someday – but not frantic about the fact that Israel, as Ayers says, is the third-largest nuclear power in the world. And it is not part of nuclear non-proliferation treaty, or even admits to having the weapons.

Ayers is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which he says has a growing "anti-war energy."

Read complete interview: US/NATO/Israel attack on Iran would be a catastrophe for everyone - Bill Ayers — RT

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Bill Ayers was a mentor of Barack Obama, President of the United States. Note how Ayers evades the interviewer's question and declines to criticize his protege whose policies he finds so abominable. He is a total hypocrite, as well as being a traitor. He implies that Obama is without fault, but Obama's campaign has been corrupted. Please.

RT: We have the US elections fast approaching. Four years ago, a lot of people in the US were really hopeful that Barack Obama will become sort of a real face of change. A lot of Americans now say that it has not happened, democrats and republicans seem to be the same side of one coin. What should we expect? Is it naïve at this point to expect some real true change to come from elections, regardless of who wins those elections?

BA: I think we have to build a movement for change, I think that is what brings change. If you look back even in our fairly recent history, it wasn't Lyndon Johnson, although Lyndon Johnson passed the most far-reaching civil rights legislation in history, he wasn't part of the black freedom movement. He was responding.

Franklin Roosevelt wasn't part of the labor movement, yet he accomplished all that labor legislation and social legislation. And Abraham Lincoln didn't belong to an Abolitionist Party. Each of them was responding to movements on the ground. What we need if we want peace is to build a movement on the ground that could bring about real change from the bottom, and that is what I think we should be concerned about.

RT: During the last presidential elections obviously your name was talked about a lot by the mainstream media. What do you think is going to be the main controversy this time around?

BA: The one thing we know for sure is that money is always corrupting in politics. Not just here, but in Russia, in Europe, everywhere. Money corrupts politics. This election season in the US is going to see an absolute tidal wave of cash come in to this election. So last time out the Obama campaign spent half a billion dollars. This time each campaign will spend over a billion. It is hard to believe that anyone can look at that and say that this is what democracy looks like.

I think that is what plutocracy looks like – rich people throwing cash around, buying votes, buying legislators. And that is unseeingly and certainly undemocratic sight. I have no idea what the controversy will be, but you can be sure it will be dirty and it will be expensive.

 

[rock127]

Include Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia providing help as well destroying Iran.

 

[Bhadra]

Include Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia providing help as well destroying Iran.

It all revolves around the monopoly of Euro - US world on oil. Iran challenges that like Saddam tried to do it, and provide an alternate to the world oil market. That is the problem of US biggie.

STRATFOR the intelligence and Security had predicted it about a year ago as to how new trends in the control of oil market would shape up.

It is all oil honey ! Oil......

 

[Virendra]

For Russia and China, Iran is like a remote controlled finger up the a** of Americans (specially in the persian gulf). They will never let Americans eat out Iran.

 

[roma]

is that really so ? cant they do surgical strikes ? it does not have to be a massive manpower deployment ! a sufficient number of surgical strikes can get the job done - of course there will be repercussions - it's not gonna be abn easy task - but it should be worth the effort