I’ve been listening to the Voice of Iran again. Last night they interviewed Professor Dwight Simpson from “San Francisco University”. In fact he is from San Francisco State University, as distinct from the University of San Francisco or the University of California, San Francisco. Being British, I have no idea of the significance of that, but the interview leads me to wonder what kind of institution SFSU is.
Professor Simpson is in the Department of International Relations and his interests include, “US Foreign Policy, World Hegemony, Middle East.”
I have recorded the interview and you can listen to it [1.1MB, 8m51s] in Ogg/Vorbis format with Winamp or other players. Here are some of the things Simpson had to say to the Voice of Iran’s listeners.
The interviewer asks why Washington is claiming that Iran is pursuing nuclear programmes. Simpson answers, “…the Bush Administration [...] are simply inventing a reason to put Iran on some kind of suspect list. In other words they are saying things that simply are not true about Iran, its nuclear capability, its plans for nuclear energy and so on. There’s plenty of evidence from international bodies that what Iran is doing in the atomic energy field is no threat to anybody and is not for military purposes.” He admits that he is accusing Bush of lying, and asks “why is he lying?”
“He’s lying because he’s trying to prepare the ground for an invasion or a takeover of Iran by a combination of Israeli and American power. And I think the stage is being set; and the likelihood is very strong that soon some overt step will be taken to destroy the political regime now in Tehran and replace it with one of American and Israeli choosing.”
Why is America doing this?
“Already the United States has Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and now Libya and other major deposits of oil and now if [that should go forward?] and the Iranian oil could be brought under American control or influence the United States then would have the majority of the world’s oil under its control.”
Aha! So this is all about the oil! Also, “the state of Israel will be secure and have no problems and will be able to profit from the change in the regimes of all these different countries. And you see, Iran is only the first on the list.”
Wow, America really does want to take over the world. The interviewer then asks what else “Israel — the Zionist regime, I mean” is up to. Professor Simpson knows something about that.
“Israel is in partial mobilisation right now, that’s not a secret. My contacts in Jerusalem, over the telephone, have told me, with the FBI listening –”
Wait a minute, Professor Simpson thinks he is important enough for the FBI to bother listening to his phonecalls. Why would they do that? To learn things (that aren’t secrets) about the Israelis from his “contacts”?
“– that this is true. Partial mobilisation has begun.” Apparently the Israelis are forced into these “desperate military moves” because, “their economy is deteriorating, their social system is decomposing, and they’ll go out of business soon unless they get started on some new plan such as this one facing Iran.”
All this may be the signal for what Simpson would call “world-wide war”. Simpson asserts that Dick Cheyney said that the United States “had to look forward to another hundred years of war”, but I can’t find any reference to that statement on the web. But, “to bring American power, with Israeli collaboration, to the Middle-East, to Asia and possibly elsewhere, is going to take a very long time.” Furthermore, “for the United States and Isreal to threaten and actually try to demolish all the so-called unfriendly regimes in the Middle-East is going to take a generation at least.”
So, are Israel and the USA preparing to go to war with Iran on the basis of false accusations about nuclear armament? Or are they genuinely concerned about Iran’s ambitions? In any case, if a need does arise to go to war with Iran, the Americans will be useful to have around.
AFAIR, SFSU is to UCal SF as Southampton Institute is to Southampton University…
Cheers, TPO, that makes sense.
The Coming Energy Crisis or Peak Oil
“Fertilizer, DVDs, rubber, cheap flights, plastics and metals. None of these things have anything in common, right? Think again. An ingredient in all of them, in one form or another, is oil.
Oil is the precious primer of the world economic engine, making it hum. Oil provides 40% of the world’s energy needs, and nearly 90% of all transportation. It’s also a building block for many products and goods. Cut supplies of this natural resource and life as we know it could change.
But while some experts say the world runs no risk of running out of oil, others disagree. Sounding the alarm is the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. Its president is Kjell Aleklett, a physics professor at Sweden’s Upsalla University.
‘[During] the next 30 years we will find more than 150, maybe 200, but probably not, but 150 billion barrels of oil is roughly what you’re going to find,’ Aleklett said. ‘And during the same period, we will consume 1,000 [billion barrels of oil]. So that means we are now digging deep into the reserves we have at the moment.’
Aleklett is among a group of international experts – ex-oil executives and geologists – who believe there is less oil percolating under the ground than the oil industry acknowledges. They say the world has burned up nearly half of all its oil – an estimated 900 billion barrels of crude.
In industry jargon, that halfway point is the ‘peak’, after which reserves no longer rise but drop. No one denies this will happen eventually. After all, oil is a finite resource. But these oil skeptics – so-called ‘peak’ oil analysts – say the ‘peak’ is coming sooner rather than later, maybe even in 2008. They paint a gloomy picture: falling oil supplies plus rising demand will equal shortages – and perhaps a rising risk of war.”
“Conclusion: in the next twenty years, China is certain to contest militarily for the world’s remaining oil with what has been the prime customer for its manufacturing output. That would be America.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GA26Dj04.html
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2005/02/coming-energy-crisis-or-peak-oil.html
Cheers for the blog. I went to SFSU and I took this guys class. It might not suprise you that this is one of his lectures. He espouses this stuff all the time, and if you disagree then you get an F…no foolin’. I took issue with a comment of his once and he stared me down in front of 35 students and a guest speaker. Cant believe he’s on international radio…..
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