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World War
(Xinhua) – Iran plans to produce missile systems similar to Russia S-300: official – Read More Here
(ArabTimes) – Israel releases Hamas minister; 7,500 Palestinians remain under detention
Israel on Wednesday released a Hamas minister after three years of imprisonment. Hamas said in a press statement that that Wasfi Kabaha, minister of state for separation wall and settlements affairs, was released from the southern Israeli prison of Negev and returned to his home in the West Bank village of Barta’a near Jenin. Read More Here
(IrishTimes) – Sarkozy orders Bill banning full Islamic veils – Read More Here
(Dawn) – Early Afghan pullout would be worse than 9/11: Merkel
Leaving Afghanistan too soon would be “far more disastrous” than 9/11 due to the risk of extremists acquiring nuclear materials, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, defending an unpopular mission. Read More Here
(RiaNov) – Drills in Far East to involve warships of three Russian fleets
Warships of three Russian fleets will meet in the Sea of Japan during large-scale military exercises in the Far East, a Pacific Fleet source told RIA Novosti on Friday. Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – The Korean Maritime Crisis Goes Suicidal: Damn the Torpedos? Read More Here
(Yonhap) – N. Korea to carry out freezing of S. Korean assets over four days next week Read More Here
(IPS) – U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat
The Barack Obama administration’s declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does not bow to the demand that it cease uranium enrichment. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Syria providing ‘wider array’ of missiles to Hezbollah: US – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Afghan ‘Exit Strategy’ Won’t Involve Removing Any Troops – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Iraq, Afghan wars drop bombs on US image abroad as Obama’s fame fades – Video Link Here
(FarsNews) – Iran Stresses Preparedness to Repel Enemy Attacks
The massive wargames conducted by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Persian Gulf showed that any enemy threats against the country will be reciprocated by Iran’s powerful response, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Read More Here
(OGJ) – Saboteurs hit Iraq’s northern oil pipeline, halting exports
Iraqi oil exports have been cut due to sabotage along the northern pipeline system, according to officials who say repairs could take up to a week. The 970-km line transports crude oil from the country’s Kirkuk fields to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Read More Here
(TrubuneMedia) – Lies and Wars – William Pfaff
It is a dismaying reflection that the facilitator of major violence thus far in the twenty-first century have been lies told by democratic governments. The lies are continuing to be told, about the supposed “existential” menace posed by Iran to Israel, America and (if you believe some European leaders) to Western Europe. Read More Here
(Reuters) – No Sign Scuds Moved to Lebanon – U.S. Officials
Doubts are growing within the U.S. defence and intelligence community about allegations that long-range Scud missiles from Syria have been shipped to the Hezbollah guerrilla group in neighbouring Lebanon, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Bulldozers return to destroy children’s playground in Beit Jala. Six activists arrested
Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Read More Here
(PopularMechanics) – Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America’s New Global Strike Weapon
The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon’s bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war? Read More Here
(AntiWar) – US Rules Out Removing Its Nukes From Europe
Despite increased calls from European officials to remove them, the United States today ruled out moving its hundreds of “battlefield nukes” from Europe, insisting that they must remain to ensure that Europe shares the “nuclear risks and responsibilities.” Read More Here
(TheStar) – Tony Blair Stands Accused – Malaysia must not allow this mass murderer to be immune from justice
It is distressing to note that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been invited to Malaysia as an honoured guest of an NGO when he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by many learned and independent scholars of international law. Read More Here
World War
(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. – Continue reading
MSM: Equating Iran nukes with Holocaust highlights Israel’s isolation
(Haaretz) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the official ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday to warn about the Iranian threat. “The world gradually accepts Iran’s statements of destruction against Israel and we still do not see the necessary international determination to stop Iran from arming,” Netanyahu said, calling on “all enlightened countries” to strongly condemn Iran and act with “genuine determination” to prevent it from building nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Video: Helen Thomas On Her one Question for Obama
DC’s most experienced journalist says Obama lost credibility when he dodged question on Israeli nukes
In part one of his interview with Helen Thomas, longest-serving member of the White House Press Corps, Paul Jay asks her about her first question for President Obama. The question, asking President Obama to name all the countries in the Middle-East that have nuclear weapons, was avoided by the President, who claimed to not want to “speculate”. Thomas claims that knowledge of Israeli nukes is very public in DC and Obama’s answer shows a lack of credibility. She explains the importance of this question for U.S. policy in the region. Finally, she confides that she has not been called on by the President since that day, but that if she does, she will ask him whether or not he has found any more information about nukes in the Middle-East since their last encounter. Continue reading
Washington Post Omits Fact That Saddam’s Nuke Salesman Was Protected By U.S. Government
(PaulWatson) – Whitewash fails to mention that deal to build nuclear bomb was offered by the Bush administration’s favorite peddler of weapons of mass destruction Continue reading
Video: Bolton – Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’
Last week, Iran’s President Mahmoud Amadinejad said Tehran would have “no problem” agreeing on a deal to send its enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. But today, Iran told the IAEA that it would back out of the deal and begin enriching its uranium stockpile in Iran. Continue reading
World War
(Reuters) – China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.
Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – AP Pulls Iran Nukes Story After Antiwar.com Exposé
Associated Press issued a story yesterday (Monday) entitled “Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity.” It was full of inaccurate and misleading information implying that Iran had admitted trying to enrich weapons-grade nuclear material. The story appeared on a wide variety of media. Read More Here
(TheStar) – U.S. missile defence plans aimed at Russia, top military official says
U.S. missile defence plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Italy says Iranian militia attacked its embassy
Italy said dozens of members of Iran’s hardline religious Basij militia had tried to attack its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, but Iranian media described the incident as a student protest and did not mention any violence. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Four things Netanyahu needs for an Israeli strike on Iran
To give the green light for a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requires evidence of a clear and present danger; the assurance of the Israel Defense Forces that it can do the job; domestic support; and also the consent of President Obama, who learned from his predecessors in the Bush family that you should only go to war in the Persian Gulf three years into your presidential term, after congressional elections. Tehran is in the crosshairs, but not before 2011. Read More Here
(Video) – Iran’s Nuclear Facilities: The Facts – Video Link Here
(IslamTimes) – ‘Iranian weapon ends Apache copters’ air supremacy’
A senior Iranian military official says Iran has developed a special weapon that can bring down Apache helicopters. Read More Here
(Film) – Iran is not the Problem
IRAN (is not the problem) is a feature length film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. View Film Here
(ChristianScienceMonitor) – Most Iranians support Ahmadinejad and nuclear power, poll finds
Most Iranians support Ahmadinejad and the country’s nuclear program, even as they favor restoring diplomatic relations with the US. Read More Here
(CNSNews) – ‘Stop Sending Your Spies Here,’ Judge Tells China
With a message to Beijing to “stop sending your spies here,” a U.S. judge on Monday sentenced a Chinese-born former Boeing engineer to more than 15 years in prison for economic espionage and acting as an agent for China. Read More Here
(AsiaTimes) – Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity
While the furor over cyber-attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digital warfare is expected to intensify in the near future Read More Here
(Reuters) – US wants UN sanctions resolution on Iran within weeks
The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to approve a resolution within weeks, not months, laying the ground for new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Leader says Iran stands tall in face of threats
Ahead of the anniversary ceremonies of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, its Leader said Monday threats against Iran emanate from the enemy’s inability to comprehend the divine roots of the Islamic Republic. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Middle East will determine fate of the world’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Middle East is the region that “will determine the fate of the world.”
“The Zionist regime and its allies are on the losing side, and the free nations’ resistance is empowered,” Ahmadinejad said in Tehran on Monday during a meeting with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary General Ramadan Abdullah Shallah. Read More Here
(LATimes) – U.S., EU castigate Iran for human rights abuses
The United States and the European Union on Monday condemned human rights abuses in Iran in the wake of the Islamic Republic’s announcement that it would expand its nuclear materials enrichment effort. Read More Here
Obama Declares War On Pakistan – Webster G. Tarpley
Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a country of 160 million people armed with nuclear weapons. In the process, Afghanistan is scheduled to be broken up. This is no longer the Bush Cheney Afghan war we have known in the past. This is something immensely bigger: the attempt to destroy the Pakistani central government in Islamabad and to sink that country into a chaos of civil war, Balkanization, subdivision and general mayhem. Continue reading
Video: Bolton – Iran will never give up nukes
(RussiaToday) – As Iran weighs its response to the latest offer from the international community over its nuclear program, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton says that diplomacy has failed and it’s time to look at other options – including a pre-emptive strike by Israel. Continue reading
Ahmadinejad: Iran will keep nukes as long as Israel does
Iran will continue to progress in its nuclear program as long as Israel continues to have nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Continue reading
Video: Beneath the Hype – Is Iran Close to Nukes?
(RealNews) – Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks on disinformation, Iran, and “faith-based intelligence” Continue reading
Dry Heaves and Sucker Ploys: The Great New Iran “Crisis”
The new “Iran crisis” is such a sickening concoction of stupidity and lies that it almost defies comment. It certainly defies contemplation; even to think about it for thirty seconds is enough to bring on a bout of the dry heaves. Continue reading
Intelligence Agencies Say No New Nukes in Iran
The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003. Continue reading
Israel’s Super-Thermite Lab
The thesis of my book, Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the World, is that a small gang of high-level Zionist extremists carried out 9-11. This group centers around the senior Israeli terrorist, Shimon Peres, who is currently president of Israel. Continue reading
Predictive Programming 2.0: Operation Blackjack
In January of this year the London Telegraph began featuring several graphics under the name operation blackjack. The images themselves are artistically inferior, depicting major ‘terrorist’ attacks both in Europe and the continental United States. But the artistry- or lack of it- is less interesting than the intent. Continue reading
MSM: Pakistan has 60 N-warheads – US Congressional report
Two weeks after Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the US Senate that Pakistan has been expanding its nuclear arsenal, a US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report released on Wednesday has estimated that Pakistan has 60 nuclear warheads. Previous estimates pegged the number of warheads at 80-100. Continue reading
North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government
Amidst the cacophony of condemnation from all sides following North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test, there has been no mention whatsoever of how the secretive Stalinist state got its weapons in the first place – they were paid for by the U.S. government. Continue reading
Israel to ignite all-out regional war?
The Israeli military holds its most extensive nationwide drill, signaling its intentions for a possible attack on Iran which they admit can ignite an all-out war in the region. Continue reading
Israel used depleted uranium in offensive on Gaza – NGOs
Action of Citizens for the total Dismantling of Nukes (ACDN) said Saturday that it has just produced a 33-page report concluding that the presence of as much as 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza soil is highly probable to the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead” offensive. Continue reading
Video: FLASHBACK – Iran Nukes Funded By US Taxpayers!
Wouldn’t it be mind blowingly stupid for the United States government to be funding Iran’s nuclear program with U.S. taxpayer dollars?
You say that it could never possibly happen?
Well, perhaps you should reserve judgment until you view this CNN video report. Continue reading
MSM: Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months
Pakistan could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says. Continue reading
Geithner’s First Order of Business: Impose Sanctions on Iran
Now that Timothy Geithner has put his tax problems behind him and he will head up the Treasury, it is time to get down to business. Job One for Geithner and the Obamatrons is Iran. One might ask what the Treasury has to do with Iran. It’s all about money and leaning on the Iranians financially. Continue reading
US defense secretary expands pre-emptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes. Continue reading
MSM: US plans to sell Israel 1,000 bunker-buster bombs
The U.S. plans to sell Israel 1,000 buster-bunker bombs which Israeli military experts said Monday could provide a powerful new weapon against underground arsenals in Lebanon or Gaza.
The experts said they doubted, however, that the bombs could be used to deliver a crippling blow against Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading
Daniel Ellsberg: The Next War
A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended escalation of the Vietnam War, and 2002, the year leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Continue reading
Biggest Newspaper In Holland Says Dutch Intelligence Helped Prepare Imminent Attack On Iran
The biggest Newspaper in the Netherlands today devotes its front page to news that the Dutch intelligence agency has helped the CIA prepare for an air attack on Iran which it now believes is imminent. Continue reading
Russia warns US naval build-up may lead to war and accuses America of shipping arms to Georgia
Tensions between Russia and the West were ratcheted even higher today after Moscow warned that the American naval build-up in the Black Sea could be seen as a ‘declaration of war’. Continue reading
MP3: Nuclear Armaggedon: Jason Bermas Interviews Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, tells Jason Bermas on the Alex Jones Show that the Bush neocons are leading the United States into a nuclear confrontation with Russia over the situation in Georgia and South Ossetia. Roberts gives the conflict “almost total certainty if John McCain gets in office… this is not something that will happen in the next fifty years, it’s going to happen in the next two or three years.” Continue reading
Nuking Iran For Israel – Updated 02-13-09
ANY HOUR NOW Continue reading
Pakistan nukes pose greater threat than Iran: Russian expert
MOSCOW: Pakistani nuclear weapons pose a greater threat to the regional security than the Iranian uranium enrichment, a top Russian security expert has claimed Continue reading
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