It should seem obvious to those who are informed and think that sanctions based on outright lies are illegal sanctions, provocations, acts of war and reflects the lunacy, political madness of class elites who are disconnected from reality, deliberately opportunistic, sociopathic as class politicians, anti social, degenerating into psychopathic mass psychosis, as much of class history has done, deforming Human Nature through class systems through the milleniums of a deformed totalitarian class history.  "Original sins" like "greed" and "warmongering are NOT in our DNA, human nature, but reflect the class deformed functions of class hierarchies and its class shills, thugs, who serve parasitical class systems, while falsely claiming social principles, using social rhetoric, promoting class myths.  Class dogma ALWAYS betrays the social classes, ALWAYS, hoodwinks those uninformed, misinformed, self inflicted, self enslaved ideological idiots,  who think that voting for class parties, class ideologies brings about social outcomes, social control, when at best, social reforms never accomplish the former through evolutionary progress, instead, degenerate, devolve through endless class cycles into more CLASS LUNACY.     At best these social reforms are temporary and can be dismantled, hence the class myth of a lessor class-evil, re-enforced by a mass effect of stubborn ideologues, especially liberals, to throw away their vote for class parties, class politicians, in the false hope that class systems can produce social control, represent social power and their social demands, through this class myth, almost like expecting Elephants to birth kittens, or expecting class systems to birth the social historical mechanism, social power and control that once existed before class history, before it deformed both the Social Matriarchay into a Patriarchal class mechanism:

The Netanyahu Lunacy on Iran

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/02/the-netanyahu-lunacy-on-iran/

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"In rare moments of lucidity, even the mythological “average Israeli” feels that our less than splendid isolation is intolerable. We are constantly brainwashed by our establishment, and the endless bombardments combining biblical rhetoric, alarmist prophesies and demagogic evocations of the holocaust confuse even the elitist circles, despite their liberal self-image and professed Western outlook. This increasingly pervasive syndrome can partially account for our sheepish acquiesce with the rampant rumours and speculations about the forthcoming Israeli attack on Iran. The consequences of such aggression are abundantly clear for most educated Israelis, even right-wingers. Yet, the current mood dictates certain apathy, very untypical in saner epochs. What has happened to our judgement, critical faculties and rebellious propensities? How can one reconcile the complete loss of faith with our institutions including the IDF with the fatalistic acceptance of our fate? There is no clear cut explanation, only pessimistic theories and general air of resignation, unprecedented in our country’s history.

In every political discussion one hears well-connected politicians and commentators list the most likely scenarios and the conclusions are normally somber. The prevalent assessments fail to grasp the logic behind the almost inevitable aggression. The nuclear capabilities of Iran are likely to remain intact; the retaliation by the Iranians is bound to be harsh; the attack on Iranian territory will unite the entire Moslem world against Israel; there will be no international sympathy towards Israel even in the terrible case of death to thousands of people here; most Americans will interpret, and not without reason, the Israeli operation as an attempt by Binyamin Netanyahu to subvert the relatively liberal regime in Washington and to help the reactionary Republican party in its election campaign...."

The historical function of the Patriarchal class mechanism and all its class systems through the milleniums of class history is to serve class power, parasitical ruling classes, through class hierarchies and its divisible, deformed, partially developed middle layers, class professionals, who are completely DEPENDENT, NOT IN CONTROL OF THE SOCIAL HISTORICAL MECHANISM, shifted into class layered positions.   The social historical mechanism was captured, deformed, usurped, thousands of years ago, when social wealth and labor, or the means of production was in the hands of the Patriarchy, the first class system and its historical deformed, class mechanism.   The artisans, priests, militaries, and police, jurist elites did not have independent social control, instead, had privileged, parceled out class wealth, as an inducement, generic blackmail, to serve the parasitical ruling classes.  As Wiki Leaks has already demonstrated in spades, these class elites, class shills, Empire thugs reproduce generic class corruption and political BLACKMAIL, threatening, inverting reality, co opting, and corrupting social power into the LUNACY , POLITICAL MADNESS OF ALL CLASS SYSTEMS.  These class whores/thugs in their class hierarchies tied to the Patriarchal class mechanism is able to enslave Humanity through many forms of slavery, whether commercial African slaves, or Fascist austerity, of enslaved, whole nations.  These deformed middle class professionals are no more independent, indivisible, then their enslaved, lower class levels, unable to break the INHERENT CLASS SLAVERY AND CLASS PATRITOISM, class nationalism, subject to the inherent inverted totalitarianism, Orwellian, false class rationalization, of its class principle, which explains why Post colonial nations, Deformed Stalinist, workers states were locked into the same Patriarchal class mechanism, global class/totalitarian Matrix,  ALL DIVISIBLE, ALL DEPENDENT, ALL PART OF THE PATRIARCHAL CLASS SYSTEM, and falsely compared with each other, since the source of failure was its original class failure:

U.S. Political Madness and Obsession with Iran

http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Political-Madness-and-by-Dave-Lefcourt-120801-96.html

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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today in Jerusalem. Reuters

        "The U.S. political madness and obsession with Iran's nuclear program went a step further yesterday as the president issued an executive order and a bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders met and agreed to tighten sanctions against Iranian "shipping of oil and other products".

This came days after Mitt Romney, on a foreign policy sojourn to Israel this past weekend opined, "America's highest national security priority" is preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, that "no option is off the table" in making sure that doesn't happen and that containment of Iran "is not an option". Meanwhile his top foreign policy aide, Dan Senor intimated Romney "was ready to support a unilateral military strike by Israel" on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Not to be outdone by the Romney bombast on Iran, Obama had some administration officials pointing out sanctions were having a "deep economic impact" on Iran, driving down its "oil exports by 40 to 50% thus reducing revenue by $9 billion each quarter."

So it's tit for tat in this year's presidential sweepstakes as the two major party contenders contend to see who is tougher on Iran; that country being the convenient punching bag and chief bogey man.

If only the Iranian nuclear program controversy constituted the usual "political football" we see every four years then it would amount to nothing more than a food fight in a college dining hall. Unfortunately, that is not the case. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (last seen glad handing candidate Romney in Jerusalem last Saturday) has been chomping at the bit for months wanting to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. That desire was heightened   recently by his blaming Iran for being behind last weeks bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli vacationers, (this without having any conclusive evidence and while the results of a Bulgarian investigation of the incident were still in progress).

Then there's Romney in Israel further roiling the waters, spoiling for a war with Iran.

To be sure, Iran has been affected by the punishing economic sanctions placed upon it (which affects ordinary Iranians directly while doing nothing to shake the hold of the clerical regime). Yet Iran refuses to be cowed and intimidated by U.S. and Israeli military threats, the two American aircraft carrier groups patrolling in the Persian Gulf, the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran or the U.S./Israeli "stuxnet" cyber warfare computer worm that disrupted centrifuges enriching uranium..."     ..............  

The Social Matriarchy, which was linked to the Social historical mechanism, as an independent, indivisible social agency, did have social control over human relations, over wealth and labor, as the means of production called "primitive communism" , and became the model for the Social Enlightenment, to reclaim a social agency, independent, indivisible agency, that could reclaim social wealth, labor and the means of production, from the parasitical hand of the Patriarchal class systems, ending centuries of Feudal class tyranny, ending milleniums of Patriarchal class systems.   They called for "viable", universal, globally established, middle classes around the world, which would gain enough critical social forces to dissolve all class hierarchies, breaking the back of milleniums of Human enslavement by the Patriarchal class mechanism and its class systems.  Their social agenda to reclaim independent, indivisible, social power was called  Social Patriotism and the classical school of Eonomics was based on a social theory of wealth, theories of labor and values of commodities that ended the parasitical control of wealth, ended the tyrannical alliance between the class state and corporations which formed monopolies, setting up rigged, Zero games of social wealth into parasitical class wealth.  All social theorists from Plato to Smith to Marx understood that social wealth and labor is produced by social classes, NOT PARASTICIAL CLASSES, NOT CORPORATIONS.  Jobs and wealth are inherently social, which must be in the hands of indivisible, independent middle classes around the world.   Once Social power is usurped, as it was milleniums ago, enslaving Humanity through class systems, Socialism for the rich, like the ORWELLIAN CLASS PRINCIPLE, inverts it into totalitarian, enslaved, rigged, class systems and becomes as it was in Adam Smith's time, under the Feudal class state, totalitarian MERCANTILISM, and today under Late Capitalism, totalitarian system of Global Fascism, where all class parties defenerate into psychopaths, slave masters, warmongers, promoting the second Axis of Fascism, under Western Fascism, now a global criminal enterprises, global Fascism: