If the US, NATO or Israel ATTACK Iran it will be a MAJOR DISASTEROUS (DANGEROUS DICTATORSHIP)

If the US, NATO or Israel ATTACK Iran it will be a MAJOR DISASTEROUS for everyone (DANGEROUS DICTATORSHIP) 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." RT: Let's get started with protests in the United States. We've seen the Arab Spring, we've seen the uprisings in Europe, we've seen Occupy Wall Street in the United States. Who do you think is really the face of the modern protester in the US today? Bill Ayers: Well, I think Occupy is an unpredictable but wonderful development and it comes directly out of the Arab Spring. The idea that people can actually make a difference is infectious. And so Occupy came out of Madison and Madison came out of Tahrir Square and Tahrir Square came out of Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. So we kind of can see a real development where people are saying that the world as it is, is not the world as it must be, it could be otherwise and when people feel that way they get into motion, they get into action. Very exciting, very hopeful. RT: We obviously have critics of Occupy Wall Street who say that the main flaw of the movement is a lack of a tangible unified message. Do you think this kind of message exists apart from the obvious Occupy Wall Street, what is it really about? BA: Well, I think people are mistaken with that kind of criticism. Occupy is not a point of arrival, it is not a manifesto, it is not a demand. Occupy is an invitation and it is an opening of a public space. That means that every grievance, every complaint, as well as, every aspiration and dream can find a place in a new, open public square. I think Occupy already has accomplished something amazing, which has shifted the frame on how we discuss wealth, how we discuss war, how we discuss austerity. The metaphor the 1 per cent, 99 per cent is a marvelous metaphor. But as usual power responds to these kids of upheavals in a pattern that is predictable. They ignored Occupy for a while, then they ridiculed it, then they tried to co-opt it with language like "what is your demand" and then they beat it up and then they repeat it. That is very typical of how these things happen, but Occupy is not going away: it's morphed, it's transformed. So Occupy is a marvelous thing and is still evolving and we shall see. RT: Occupy also seems to have brought police violence and arrests that we have not seen in a while in the United States. And every time there are clashes, like we saw here in Chicago, it seems to be the protesters are saying the police are violent, the police are saying the protesters are violent. Who is right? BA: What we see in our whole society is militarization of our society. So when NATO comes together for example for a summit, this is an organization all wearing suits and ties, all speaking very quietly, but they represent three-quarters of the military budget in the world, three-quarters are represented by the NATO-G8 world. And that is violence that is institutional violence. So in Chicago, when there were clashes between NATO demonstrators and police we have to also note that the city was incredibly militarized. That is there were tens of thousands of police in the streets, gear that nobody had ever seen before, troop carriers, buses transformed into military vehicles. We take for granted in this country that the military must be under civilian control. If it's not under civilian control it is a dictatorship. Well what is NATO under, how is NATO governed? Who takes care of making sure that it is not a military dictatorship and the problem is in many ways it is. Tags: 2012 Massreport147 news media interview US NATO Israel Iran Tehran dictatorship democracy dangerous zion zionism NWO New world order economy economic gold silver bullion fuel oil terror terrorism terrorist Al-Qaeda 9/11 Army Military civilian contol regime change revolution nuclear program nuclear weapons missiles arsenal guns research attacks battle ww3 world war iii global elite world power energy source Oil refinery strait of hormuz