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(C-Span) – Ron Paul: Today’s Conversation Was Nothing But War Propaganda!

(AsiaTimes) – US warms to strike on Iran

“With sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could probably develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] capable of reaching the United States by 2015,” claimed a Pentagon report that was declassified on Monday. The almost simultaneous timing of two key recent revelations – this and Israeli accusations that Syria had transferred Scud missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon – has contributed to a fresh escalation of tensions in the Middle East and to speculation that the stage is being set for a military show-down. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Iran shows off ‘high destruction’ speed boats in war games

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards launched a new “ultra-fast” boat capable of causing severe destruction after testing it during a three-day military drill. Read More Here

(NYTimes) – Wave of Bombings Kills Dozens in Iraq

A series of bombings on Friday struck mosques, a market and a shop in Baghdad, as well as the homes of a prosecutor and police officers in western Iraq on Friday, killing dozens, only five days after a joint Iraqi-American raid killed the country’s top two Al Qaeda leaders. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – NKorea says it will seize 5 SKorean assets

North Korea said Friday it will confiscate five South Korean-owned properties at a jointly-operated mountain resort in the isolated communist country, a development likely to worsen already-soured relations. Read More Here

(Aletho) – US: All Options on the Table Against Syria

Though they have admitted once again that they still haven’t actually got any proof that any such thing happened, the US State Department insisted today that “all options are on the table” with respect to retaliating against Syria over its alleged delivery of Scud missiles to Hezbollah. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Iran’s military begins large-scale war games

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has begun three days of major military manoeuvres in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz Read More Here

(Reuters) – North Korea torpedoed South’s navy ship: report

South Korea’s military believes a torpedo fired from a North Korean submarine sank its navy ship last month, based on intelligence gathered jointly with the United States, a news report said on Thursday. Read More Here

(GaryNullShow) – Video: Gerald Celente : They are taking us to the Great War

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(Wired) – Joint Chiefs Chair: No, No, No. Don’t Attack Iran

We are all screwed if Iran gets a nuke. And we may be just as screwed if the United States attacks Iran to keep Tehran from getting that nuke.

Okay, I’m paraphrasing a bit. But that’s the core of the message from America’s top military officer, who reiterated today his canyon-deep reservations about any military solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis. Sure, U.S. strikes might set back Tehran’s atomic weapons program — for a while. But the “unintended consequences” of a hit on Iran’s nuclear facilities could easily outweigh the benefits of that delay, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen told a forum at Columbia University. Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Benjamin Netanyahu Urges ‘Crippling Sanctions’ Against Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH’-hoo) is calling for “crippling sanctions” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapons capability. Read More Here

(Aletho) – Barak: “The Only Way out of Iran Crises is a Bold Israeli Move”

Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio on Monday that the only way out of the current “stalemate” with Iran is a bold Israeli move, adding that he felt that Iran did not pose an “immediate existential threat” to Israel. Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Video: Pentagon chief raises threat of attack as Iran taunts US with missile display

The Pentagon was ratcheting up pressure for military action against Iran last night as America’s top uniformed official said for the first time that a strike on nuclear targets would “go a long way” towards delaying Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme. View Video Here

(LATimes) – Secret Prison Revealed in Baghdad

Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country’s Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say.Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Pentagon’s Fantasy Numbers on Afghan Civilian Deaths

“The American public is conditionally tolerant of [military] casualties and consistently indifferent to collateral damage” Dr. Karl P. Mueller, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base
The Politics of Counting Dead Afghan Civilians: Responses by the Libertarian Right and Obama Liberals to McChrystal’s Numbers Read More Here

(Reuters) – Mullen: Military “Options” Exist for Dealing with Iran

The nation’s top military officer said Sunday that military options existed to try to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon but that diplomatic efforts were the best way forward now. Read More Here

(AFP) – Afghanistan: More than 100 dead in bloody week

More than 100 people including dozens of civilians were killed in violence related to Afghanistan’s ongoing war against the Taliban in the past week, authorities said Sunday. Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Israel warns Syria over Hezbollah attacks “We’ll return Syria to the Stone Age”

Israel has delivered a secret warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese-based Islamist group, by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself. Read More Here

(ConsortiumNews) – Lie to Congress; Get Fourth Star – Cyber-Warfare Chief’s Deception – Ray McGovern

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the proverbial thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment — and instead getting rewarded handsomely — for lying about the Iran-Contra Affair: “Is this a great country or what!” Read More Here

(AntiFascistCalling) – The Pentagon’s Cyber Command: Civilian Infrastructure is a “Legitimate” Target – Tom Burghardt

When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates launched Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) last June, the memorandum authorizing its stand-up specified it as a new “subordinate unified command” under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), one that “must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and international partners.” Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Why “Blackwater” is behind suicide bombings in Pakistan – Webster Tarpley –

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(InfoClearingHouse) – Recovering From Empathy

We’re . . . killing . . . people.

But it didn’t matter then and it doesn’t matter now. Those who defend this war, or war in general –- or the infinitesimal slice of war depicted in the WikiLeaks video -– have an endless supply of rationalizations that only make sense within a heavily fortified consciousness: a consciousness unable or afraid to cross the line demarking us and them, to ask, fleetingly, “What if those ‘dead bastards’ were my parents, my brothers, my children?” Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Nation of Laws and Lawlessness: America is Policing Itself and the World – Prof. John Kozy

The peoples of the world are angry and are getting angrier. Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, in a piece published in 2004, claim that about one in four Americans, termed “guard workers,” is employed to keep other people in line. I suspect the number is higher. The war on terror is fought by guard workers, the entire legal system and the entire homeland security apparatus consist of guard workers. Shouldn’t someone be asking why Americans need so much protection? Read More Here

Video: Be Nice to America. Or We’ll Bring Democracy to Your Country! – William Blum – Video Link Here

(NorCalTruth) – Video: Obamafear: Al Qaeda is an Upcoming Nuclear Power According to President Obama

Obama at the summit: “The biggest threat to American Security in the short term, medium term, and long term would be a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weopon.” – Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Jordan’s King Says Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon War “Imminent”

Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a “Members Only” meeting of the ‘Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus’ in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

According to one attendee in the session, “the King’s message was sobering.”

King Abdullah seemed significantly concerned that conflict was about to break out again between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Read More Here

(CPSAN) – Video: Israel Is Our Only Real Ally In The Middle East! Congressman Burton – Video Link Here

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Nukes And Temples

Evidently, American presidents wish to continue to guard Israel’s nuclear “secret”. If the motivation is thought to be a simple case of double standard, surely one must be deplored by the submissiveness of the general community. On the other hand, the more inquisitive mind would prod deeper and question the drive behind the guarding of this “secret”? Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Russian Justifying an Iranian attack – Paul Craig Roberts

A top Chinese official after the Nuclear Security Summit said that China would consider new ideas about Iran. Paul Craig Roberts says that the summit has nothing to do with Iran but rather the United States casting a shadow over its bunker buster bomb programs that they plan to use against Iran. He also says that the US will find a way to justify an attack on Iran. –

MSM: Israel Conducts Covert Assassination Campaign

(TimesOnline) – Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.

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(AntiWar) – Lebanon PM Vows to Stand With Hezbollah in Event of Israeli Invasion

In an interview released today, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed growing concern about the number of threats against the nation made by the Israeli government. “This is something that is escalating, and this is something that is really dangerous,” Hariri warned. Read More Here

(MontrealGazette) – Obama may look past UN on Iran

U.S. President Barack Obama signalled Tuesday that a response beyond the United Nations may be necessary to deal with Iran over the Islamic republic’s latest bid to expand its nuclear program. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Obama’s empty threats weaken US

If Iran continues to break non-proliferation rules, Barack Obama needs international consensus before threatening Tehran again Read More Here

(UKPA) – PM warns Iran of fresh sanctions

Gordon Brown has issued a new warning that Iran could face tougher sanctions unless it gives up its nuclear weapons ambitions. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Ahmadinejad warns Israel against any military move

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel should be resisted and finished off if it launched military action in the region, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Thursday. Read More Here

MSM: Obama aide says Iran may lash out at Israel

(Yahoo) – President Barack Obama’s national security adviser is citing a heightened risk that Iran will respond to growing pressure over its nuclear program by stoking violence against Israel.

Video: Salbuchi – False Flag Attacks in Argentina – AMIA and Israeli Embassy Bldgs

Argentina suffered its two worst terrorist bomb attcks in March 1992 and July 1994 against the Israeli Embassy and AMIA Jewish Mutual Building, respectively. Both were in Buenos Aires and show all the traces of False Flags.

Murdering Palestinians for their organs: “All facts on the ground prove Swedish report correct”

Former Palestinian detainee, researcher Abdul-Nasser Farwana, stated that all facts on the ground, since decades, prove that the Israeli occupation executed Palestinian detainees after they surrendered and refused to hand their bodies to their families. Hundreds of bodies were transferred to the families days, months or even years after the fact, and when the bodies were sent back, they were missing vital internal organs.

How Apathy Will Destroy America

“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction”
-William Osler

Israel Pushing for Sanctions on Iran, “Time Running Out”

“Time is running out, and Israel has decided not to depend on the United Nations in terms of sanctions on Iran”, Israeli daily Ynet said on Friday. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has launched extensive diplomatic activities aimed at pressuring a series of the world’s leading countries to impose sanctions on Iran, even if the Security Council fails to make such a decision.

MSM: Hezbollah stockpiles 40,000 rockets near Israel border

(Times) – Three years after Israel fought a bloody war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, there are fears that hostilities could erupt again — this time with the militant group better armed than ever.

From Mossadegh to Ahmadinejad: The CIA and the Iranian experiment

The news of alleged election fraud has spread through Tehran like wildfire, pitching ayatollah Rafsanjani’s supporters against ayatollah Khamenei’s in street confrontations. This chaotic situation is secretly stirred by the CIA which has been spreading confusion by flooding Iranians with contradicting SMS messages. Thierry Meyssan recounts this psychological warfare experiment.

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.

Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax

There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite.

Israel begins major drill, preparing for regional war

Israel has launched its largest-ever military exercise to test its capabilities against potential missile attacks, bombings and riots.

Armageddon Now?

Of all the analysis generated by the Obama-Netanyahu meeting Robert Satloff’s is the most significant. Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which serves as AIPAC’s think tank. His piece, circulated Thursday, provides insights into what the lobby — and Israel — might do next. And it should ring alarm bells.

US Colonel Advocates US ‘Military Attacks’ on ‘Partisan Media’ in Essay for Neocon, Pro-Israel Group JINSA

In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to risk their lives to place themselves on the other side of the barrel of the tank or the gun or under the airstrikes, history would be written almost entirely from the vantage point of powerful militaries, or—at the very least—it would be told from the perspective of the troops doing the shooting, rather than the civilians who always pay the highest price.

Diplomacy, Militarism and Imagery

President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence. A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal objectives and methods pursued by the Obama regime.

Israel grits teeth as ‘doom day’ draws near

As the Israeli-predicted date for war on Iran draws closer, a report says Israeli’s missile operators have begun weekly drills to hone their skills.

MSM: Lieberman – U.S. to accept any Israeli decision

The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his first comprehensive interview on foreign policy since taking office.

MSM: Israel’s Peres says Iran aspires to “take over” the Mideast

Israel’s President Shimon Peres said on Monday that Iran aspired to control the Middle East, in his first comments on Egypt’s efforts against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group.

IDF planning largest-ever drill to prepare Israel for war

The Home Front Command is preparing to hold the largest exercise ever in Israeli history, scheduled to take place in about two months, in hopes of priming the populace and raising awareness of the possibility of war breaking out.

Video: Galloway faces his accusers a Jewish Defence League (JDL)

The decision to ban George Galloway from Canada seems odd, but now it emerges that the Jewish Defence League (JDL) pressured the Canadian Government to so the action takes on sinister connotations for Canada, why? Because the Jewish Defence League are according to the FBI a Terrorist Group.

LaRouche: Israeli Leadership Is Suicidally Insane

Lyndon LaRouche today warned that the present leadership of Israel is displaying clear evidence of suicidal, clinical insanity. “From Lieberman and Netanyahu to the ostensibly more sane leadership of Kadima and Labor,” LaRouche observed, “I see nothing but madness. The Gaza invasion was as much a poke in the eye to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama, as it was a crime against humanity, directed at the elimination of the 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza. The fact that the invasion ended, like clock-work, 48 hours before the Obama inauguration, was as clear a message to the incoming U.S. Administration as one could imagine.”

Obama & The Coming Energy Wars

Obama’s national security warlord, General James Jones, has designs on energy sources abroad.

Jones, who as NATO supreme commander in 2006, advocated broadening the Afghan war across Pakistan’s border, was recently the Director of Chevron Oil and head of the powerful energy lobby group, the Institute For 21st Century Energy.

Jones says that America must seek new energy sources to ensure its “security:”

Israel on the verge of war with Syria

A senior Israeli official has warned that Tel Aviv is on the verge of a military confrontation with Syria should peace efforts fail.

“We’re on a collision course with Syria,” said Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, who heads the Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau.

Video: Israel & Gaza, calling in to Alastair Crooke on the Liberty Hour

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Israeli army masses along Lebanon border

Israel deploys military units along the border with Lebanon amid growing concerns that the assault on Gaza was the onset of a multi-front war.

The Blame Game in Gaza: Covering for Israel, Concealing War Crimes

In his January 8 article, “Gaza Under Fire,” John Pilger quotes the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko saying: “When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” America’s dominant media suppress facts, sacrifice accuracy, and conceal the greater lie that:

The Middle Eastern Powder Keg Can Explode at Anytime

Historically, some great powers have originated in the Middle East: The Persian Empire, the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Following the collapse of the latter as a result of World War One, no great power indigenous to the Middle East has emerged,

Cheney wanted Israel to attack Hezbollah for war with Iran

Press TV ‘Fine Print’ broadcast just conveyed (via streaming video link at top of www.presstv.com) that Cheney wanted Israel to attack Hezbollah to have war with Syria and Iran and is furious that Israel didn’t follow through with such which would have been in accordance with the rest of the ‘A Clean Break’ agenda (access the ‘A Clean Break’ link on the upper right side of http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM). Press TV’s ‘Fine Print’ broadcast also conveyed that Israelis studied Nazi Warsaw Ghetto war crime tactics for Gaza attack!

MSM: Kristol says Gaza invasion ‘a favor for Obama’

Bill Kristol thinks that President-elect Barack Obama should be thankful for Israel’s attack on Gaza.

“If you care about the peace process you should want Israel to embarrass and humiliate Hamas. That’s the only chance — there would be no peace process if Hamas were governing Gaza. That would be the worst thing for Obama. This is a favor for Obama if it de legitimizes and weakens Hamas,” Kristol said.

Olmert pronounces Greater Israel dead

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the idea of “Greater Israel”– the main motto of the Zionist founders of the Israeli regime– is dead.

PM ‘says Israel pre-planned war’

Israel’s prime minister has said that the strategy used in last year’s war with Lebanon was drawn up months in advance, an Israeli newspaper reports.