MSM: ‘Act of aggression’ sank Korean ship

(ABCNews) – North Korea has threatened “full-scale war” after an international report concluded a torpedo fired by one of the reclusive regime’s submarines sank a South Korean navy ship in March.

A multinational team of independent investigators concluded that North Korea was behind the sinking of the 1,200-tonne corvette Cheonan that killed 46 sailors.

World War

(Salon) – A stark truth: Israeli arms, U.S. dollars

One does not normally see this truth stated so starkly in places like Time Magazine — from Michael Scherer’s interesting article on AIPAC’s current strategy to “storm Congress”: Read More Here

(MotherJones) – Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) laid it on thick at AIPAC’s annual gala banquet on Monday. Referring to the pro-Israel lobby, Graham declared, “The Congress has your back.” (What other lobby would he say that to?) He declared that Israel is “our best friend in the world.” (Does that tick off Canadians?) But Graham went especially far when he endorsed the idea of a military strike against Iran. Read More Here

(AntiWar) – Iran forcing us to impose sanctions: Kouchner

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday there was “no other choice” but to impose fresh sanctions on Iran as its nuclear programme is suspect. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Interceptors Will Target Russian Nuclear Capability: Commander

Russia says no arms reduction deal without missile defense clause Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Obama the Cold Warrior? Hostile Relations with Russia and China

After observing recent pronouncements from Hillary Clinton that Venezuela start ‘playing by the rules’ and revert to free market capitalism, it’s starting to look like we might be heading into an era of deja vu once more. Provocations from Obama against China and Russia, are making the current climate look a lot like the recent past. One would have thought in a world where the United States only has the courage to attack much lesser third world ‘powers’, that Obama wouldn’t be ginning up a great deal of antagonism with much more evenly matched states; but that’s precisely what seems to be occurring under team Obama’s charge. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Iran: US ‘works on’ China to Isolate Iran

Among the many inadvertent insights into the twisted US logic and policy towards the Middle East revealed in Hillary Clinton’s barnstorming speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week was her fatwa of “biting sanctions” on Iran. Read More Here

MSM: ‘Significant chance’ of second financial crisis, warns World Economic Forum

(LondonTelegraph) – There is now more than a one-in-five chance of another asset price bubble implosion costing the world more than £1 trillion, and similar odds of a full-scale sovereign fiscal crisis, a key report warned.

MSM: AP NewsBreak – Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb

(Yahoo) – Iran experts at the U.N nuclear monitoring agency believe Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.

Waging War Upon Our Friends

The trusted watch-keepers of the world have turned their hearts to midnight plunder, while they carried-out their duty standing guard over mankind, who blissfully, unaware, continued to sleep. Morning rapidly approaches and the householders are sure to demand an accounting.

Iran: Israel attack triggers full-scale response

(PressTV) – A senior Iranian official has warned that any aggression against his country would trigger a “decisive and full-scale response”.

MSM: Israel keeps Mossad chief on for Iran “shadow war”

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended the tenure of the Mossad chief to an eighth year on Sunday, a testament to the spymaster’s perceived success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies.