VT Interviews Nima Shirazi on Israeli-American Relations, Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Death of Osama Bin Laden and Western Media Propaganda against Iran http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/26/israel-existential-threat/

Still, I find analysis of Western and Israeli promotion of color revolutions (the impressive research of Maidhc Ó Cathail comes to mind) to be vitally important in assessing the many complex dynamics of what directs U.S. and Zionist foreign policy. “Democracy promotion” is an imperial and post-colonial construct that hopes to engineer and capitalize (pun intended) on changing and nascent power structures. I think the democracies both the U.S. and Israel would want to see emerge in the Middle East – since the dictatorships they have long propped-up are clearly unsustainable – are vastly different than what is actually happening. And that’s certainly a good thing.