Seymour Hersh on US-Iranian relations; US raid kills relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki; Iran threatens to shut down Persian Gulf oil lanes if attacked; an embedded journalist in Iraq; the last superpower and an opportunity to end war; the "price" of an Iraqi life; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org t r u t h o u t | 06.29 Preparing the Battlefield http://www.truthout.org/article/preparing-battlefield Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker: "Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership." US Raid Kills Maliki Relative; Crisis Grows Over US-Iraq Agreement http://www.truthout.org/article/us-raid-kills-maliki-relative-crisis-grows-over-us-iraq-agreement Hannah Allam of McClatchy Newspapers, "Senior Iraqi government officials said Saturday that a U.S. Special Forces counterterrorism unit conducted the raid that reportedly killed a relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, touching off a high-stakes diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iraq." Iran Threatens to Shut Down Persian Gulf Oil Lanes if Attacked http://www.truthout.org/article/iran-threatens-shut-down-persian-gulf-oil-lanes-if-attacked The Los Angeles Times' Borzou Daragahi: "The commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said the government might shut down vital oil lanes through the Persian Gulf if the country were attacked by the United States or Israel, according to a newspaper report Saturday." Michael Massing | Embedded in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/article/embedded-iraq Michael Massing of New York Review of Books, "The embed had proved surprisingly easy to arrange. No one had objected to the three New York Review articles I had sent in as samples of my work. On the application form, I had written that I wanted to visit a typical Baghdad neighborhood to see how the surge was working and to get a sense of what more had to be done before the US could begin to draw down its forces in any significant number." David Korten | Smart Security and the End of War http://www.truthout.org/article/smart-security-and-end-war Yes! Magazine's David Korten, "Cheap oil provided an energy subsidy that defined the wars, economies, settlements, values, and lifestyles of the 20th century. The result was a century of wasteful extravagance and inefficiency that encouraged us to squander virtually all Earth's resources - including water, land, forests, fisheries, soils, minerals, and natural waste recycling capacity." The Price of One Iraqi Life http://www.truthout.org/article/the-price-one-iraqi-life In These Times' James Foley: "US military tries to pacify grieving Iraqis with condolence payments."
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