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(InGaza) – Loaded opposition
One can imagine that were US soldiers to open fire with live ammunition on American protesters, this would not be acceptable. Likewise for Canada and most democratic nations.
Yet somehow there is a void, a gaping hole in the media into which fall most potential reports on Israeli soldiers shooting with live ammunition on visibly unarmed demonstraters. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Pentagon Report: Still Not Enough Troops in Afghanistan
After 15 months in office President Obama has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by an almost impossible amount, going from 30,000 (itself the product of an end-of-term escalation by President Bush) to 86,000… with the troop level pushing 100,000 by the end of the summer. Read More Here
(BBC) – US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals
Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. Read More Here
(TheStatesman) – Demonizing Ahmadinejad – Hillary Clinton Calls Ahmadinejad Anti-semitic President
“Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism,” Mrs Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner here. Read More Here
(CounterCurrents) – Can You Pass The Iran Quiz
What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream media) assault on Iran ? Read More Here
(Pravda) – What’s At Stake in the Issue of Iran – Noam Chomsky
In an interview with the German publication, Freitag, Noam Chomsky talks about U.S. pressure on Israel and Iran and its geopolitical significance. “Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country has not behaved aggressively beyond its borders for centuries. Israel invaded Lebanon with the blessing and help of the U.S. five times in thirty years. Iran has not done anything like this,” he says.´ Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – How Wars Are Born: China versus the U.S. – Shamus Cooke
The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic (corporate) interest” — raw materials, cheap labor, shipping lanes, markets, etc. — through military buildup. Read More Here
(LewRockwell) – The CIA Coup That Kept America on the Road of Militarism – Read More Here
USS LIBERTY: The Fifth Fleet Sacrifice – Why did it happen?
A review of the USS Liberty story explains a lot of how and why we have arrived at the state and conditions in which we currently find America and its governance! Vis: Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Playing Peace to Target Iran
Obama needs Palestine merely to pursue his scheme to isolate Iran, says Khalid Amayreh cynically in occupied Jerusalem Read More Here
(Guardian) – Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns Nato official
Nato’s top civilian official in Afghanistan warns of further deaths in ‘very tough year’ for British and other foreign troops Read More Here
(AFP) – Iran warns Israel against attacking Syria
Iran will “cut off Israel’s feet” if the Jewish state attacks Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Rida Rahimi vowed on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to key regional ally Syria. Read More Here
(Guardian) – Turmoil in Iraq threatens US withdrawal plans
Iraq continues to be embroiled in its messy post-election coalition-building process. It has become so messy that the US may well be rethinking its withdrawal plans, and particularly its withdrawal of all combat troops at the end of August. Read More Here
(Aletho) – US: We stand by Israel at UN
Washington has invariably invoked the veto power to block the UN resolutions against the Israeli aggression on the Palestinians and the regime’s building up the occupied lands. Read More Here
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(JoongAngDaily) – North Korea Makes Major Troop Shift, Postures For Direct Attack
The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region, a military source said yesterday. South Korean commanders will meet next month to discuss the change and their response to it. Read More Here
(JTA) – Abrams: U.S. must address Iran’s threat to Israel
A former Bush administration official said he hopes the United States will address the Iranian president’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map.”
“Israelis are living under the threat of annihilation every day,” Elliot Abrams, the Bush administration’s National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African Affairs, said April 25 at the Baltimore Zionist District’s “U.S.-Israel Relations In A New Era” symposium, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. “If the world does not act, I believe Israel will act, and I hope the U.S. will.”
“We keep saying it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a bomb, but we don’t mean it. We mean it’s terrible, we don’t want it. But when Israel says it’s unacceptable, they mean it.” Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Ahmadinejad calls UN veto power ‘satanic tool’ – Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Chavez accuses US plane of `electronic warfare’
Without giving details, he said Venezuela’s military intelligence intercepted a conversation between the pilot and air traffic controllers in the northern Colombian city of Barranquilla. The aircraft conducted espionage operations, he said. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really? – Ray McGovern
With all the current hype about the “threat” from Iran, it is time to review the record – and especially the significant bits and pieces that find neither ink nor air in our Israel-friendly Fawning Corporate Media (FCM). Read More Here
(WSWS) – US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan
The New York Times reported Sunday that American special forces units are operating in and around the Afghan city of Kandahar, assassinating or capturing alleged leaders and militants of the Taliban resistance ahead of the major US-NATO offensive scheduled for June. Read More Here
(HumanRightsWatch) – Iraq: Detainees Describe Torture in Secret Jail
Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraq should thoroughly investigate and prosecute all government and security officials responsible, Human Rights Watch said. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Iraq Today: Afflicted by Violence, Devastation, Corruption, and Devastation – Stephen Lendman
Seven years under occupation, Iraqis still cope with what Refugees International calls “a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced (and other Iraqis) struggl(ing) to survive,” a situation “for which the US bears special responsibility” but does nothing to correct. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Syria,Iran arm Hezbollah with improved missiles: US
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday accused Iran and Syria of arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles, saying the militia’s arsenal undermined stability in the region. Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: Iranian Jet Follows U.S. Aircraft Carrier – Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 – Continue reading
Video: America Can Exist Just Fine Without Israel! But Israel CANNOT Exist Without America! – Jack Cafferty
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(Haaretz) – Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran could cause a global catastrophe
An Israeli strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral into a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called “smart” sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its nuclear program. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Netanyahu: Iran wants to destroy Israel and the world remains silent
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres used the platform at yesterday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem to urge countries around the world to work unwaveringly to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – 1974 CIA Estimate Declared, “We Believe That Israel Already Has Produced Nuclear Weapons.”
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu abruptly announced that he has decided not attend President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, sending Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor in his place. The Washington Post reported this was due to concern over “Arab criticism of Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal.” Attempting to be topical, I’m reposting this 1974 CIA document in which the Agency declared, “We believe that Israel already has produced nuclear weapons.” Read More Here
(AFP) – US slaps import duties on Chinese steel pipe
The United States has slapped trade sanctions on a billion dollars worth of Chinese pipes, the Commerce Department said Friday just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington. Read More Here
(VOANews) – US Says Iranian Nuclear Announcement Shows Nefarious Intentions
The Iranian move came a day after world powers began negotiations on a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Tehran. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – Iranian Spy for CIA: ‘Weak West’ Will Cause War with Iran
The American-led “engagement” policies towards Iran is going to result in the very war it wants to prevent, according to an Iranian CIA spy. He says the only way to prevent a possible nuclear war with Iran is to attack the country now. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – Think Tank Speculates War Could Break Out with Syria
The increasingly open threats made by Syrian leaders and members of the Hizbullah terrorist group in Lebanon have led analyst David Schenker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) think tank to warn that war may be on the horizon. In addition, he noted, a future war could include Syria and not only its proxy Hizbullah: in February, Syrian leaders said Syria would not “sit idly by” in case of another war with Israel. Read More Here
(AP) – Iran says new US policy a nuclear threat
Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday that President Barack Obama has “implicitly threatened” his country with nuclear weapons in a newly outlined U.S. policy and Tehran said it intends to file a formal complaint with the U.N. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. Read More Here
(RawStory) – ‘All bets are off’ if US under WMD attack: Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States could not rule out using nuclear weapons if it came under biological attack, saying in that case “all bets are off.” Read More Here
(DavidRothscum) – Evidence that Depleted Uranium is intended as a weapon of genocide
Now that the horrors of Depleted Uranium are being revealed to the world, we can expect for apologists to begin moving into the next phase of damage control within the coming months. It will likely be claimed that the depopulation of much of the Middle East was an unfortunate result of the DU that the Pentagon used because it was not aware of the health effects it would have. Read More Here
Video: Gordon Brown paid for Depleted Uranium Weapons – Video Link Here
Claim: Nuclear Material Dropped by Israeli Jets to Frame Syria
(ArabNews) – VIENNA: Syria said on Thursday that Israel dropped uranium particles onto Syrian soil from the air to make it look as if a covert nuclear weapons plant was being built there, diplomats at a UN nuclear watchdog meeting said. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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(PressTV) – ‘Russia guarantees delivery of S-300 system to Iran’
Iran’s ambassador to Russia says Moscow has guaranteed that it will deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran. Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Israel warns Syria it would lose future war
Israel’s outspoken foreign minister harshly warned Syria Thursday against drawing the Jewish state into another war, saying the Syrian army would be defeated and its regime would collapse in a future conflict. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Turkey can’t be silent about Israel’s crimes in Gaza
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Israel’s conduct in Gaza, saying Ankara cannot be silent when innocent civilians are killed, phosphorus bombs are used, infrastructure is destroyed, and people are forced to live in an open-air prison. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel threatens Syria’s Assad with collapse
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatens to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad if Damascus enters into a war with the Israeli regime. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Syria warns Israel against military offensive
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has cautioned Israel against any act of adventurism and launching a war against his country, saying such a move would only endanger the regime’s stability. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Attack on Iran could backfire, Petraeus says
Chief of US Central Command Gen. David Petraeus says any military action against Iran could backfire by increasing “nationalist tendencies” in the country. Read More Here
(RiaNov) – U.S. calls Iran’s Kavoshgar rocket launch ‘provocative act’
The United States considers Iran’s launching of a Kavoshgar-3 rocket a “provocative act,” White House spokesman Bill Burton told journalists on Wednesday. Read More Here
(Xinhua) – France to seek strong sanction against Iran: PM
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced Wednesday that France is going to seek “strong sanctions ” from the United Nations against Iran’s nuclear program as negotiation time is “pressing.” Read More Here
UN chief calls for treaty to prevent cyber war
The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday. Read More Here
America’s 100 Years of Overthrow
(AlterNet) – The US is addicted to overthrowing foreign governments — 14 in the past century — from Cuba to Chile to Iran. Read More Here
A Brief History of US Interventions in the Middle East 1949-2002
1949: CIA backs military coup in Syria, ousting elected government.
1953: CIA overthrows democratically elected Iranian government, placing the Shah in power. In 1951, Iranian parliament had nationalized the British Anglo-Iranian oil company. This popular move was spearheaded by the reformer, Mossadegh, who was elected prime minister shortly after. Britain and the US organize ruthless economic blockade. Shortly before the coup, the Communist Party calls a 100,000 strong demonstration to protest the US and the Shah. Nine hours of street fighting finally quells popular rebellion against the coup.
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MSM: Barak – Without Syria peace, we could be headed for all-out war
(Haaretz) – Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Monday that the stalled peace process with Syria could augur ill for the future of the Middle East. Continue reading
MSM: Report – Iran and Syria sign defense cooperation pact
(Haaretz) – Iran and Syria signed a defense cooperation pact in Damascus on Friday, and pledged to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by the “Zionist regime,” Iranian news agency Al-Alam reported. Continue reading
MSM: Report – IDF, U.S. military to simulate Iran missile strike on Israel
(Haaretz) – The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military will soon hold a training exercise in which they will simulate missile attacks on Israel from Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
MSM: Chavez tells Israelis to disobey ‘genocidal’ govt
(Google) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the Israeli people not to support their government, which he described as “genocidal” on Friday, the second day of his trip to Syria. Continue reading
MSM: Israel has Iran in its sights
(LATimes) – Unless Tehran responds to by late September to international proposals on its nuclear program, history strongly suggests the Israelis will act alone. Continue reading
Ehud Barak warns Iran of possible Israeli strike on nuclear facilities
(Times) – With the US Defence Secretary standing at his side, Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister, today warned Iran that a military strike on its nuclear facilities was still an option. Continue reading
Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’
Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.” Continue reading
Israeli Navy in Suez Canal Prepares for Potential Attack on Iran
Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Continue reading
Obama’s Rollback Strategy – Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan(and the Boomerang Effect)
The recent events in Honduras and Iran, which pit democratically elected regimes against pro-US military and civilian actors intent on overthrowing them can best be understood as part of a larger White House strategy designed to rollback the gains achieved by opposition government and movements during the Bush years. Continue reading
Halt Cheney’s and Now Obama’s Covert Iran Operations
In March of 2002 Dick Cheney appointed his own daughter Elizabeth to head a shadow operation (ISOG) whose covert purpose was to fund dissident groups in Iran ~ money which may have been used to fund and arm terrorists. Obama has now evidently picked up where the Cheney’s left off: Continue reading
John Bolton’s Iranian Erection
John Bolton is a man obsessed with war in the middle east and, in particular, with Iran. Indeed, it seems that promoting a war with Iran has become his full time job. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
A Sick Joke? – Obama Calls for Demilitarized PA “State”
Amid much speculation over US President Barack Obama’s upcoming address to the Muslim world, reports published on Wednesday outlined the details of his Middle East peace plan, which are said to include a demilitarized Palestinian state. Continue reading
America’s Shame – Paul Craig Roberts
For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small number of unconnected ghettos or bantustans. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Commander confirms Netanyahu war plans
Israel is preparing for all-out war on multiple fronts that include Iran, Syria and Lebanon, a senior military commander claims. Continue reading
Cheney’s Mission Accomplished
Dick Cheney: “I guess my general sense of where we are with respect to Iraq and at the end of now, what, nearly six years, is that we’ve accomplished nearly everything we set out to do….” Continue reading
Assad: Peace with Israel now impossible
The Syrian President has ruled out the normalization of ties with Israel unless Tel Aviv ‘ends its aggression against Palestinians’. Continue reading
NATO In The Persian Gulf
From Third World War To the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative
The NATO summit held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on June 28-29, 2004 was nothing less than epochal in terms of its geopolitical repercussions, where several historical thresholds were crossed and post-World War II international taboos violated. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy: From Gaza to Tehran
Introduction
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style: Indiscriminate aerial bombings of civilian and military facilities, a savage blitzkrieg led by armored vehicles, disdain and repudiation of all criticism from international agencies was accompanied by an open, military buildup for a new and bigger war against Iran. Like the Nazi leadership, who played on the ‘Bolshevik threat’, the Israeli high command has set in motion a vast world-wide propaganda campaign led by its world Zionist network, raising the specter of ‘Islamic terror’ to justify its preparations for a military assault on seventy-four million Iranians. Continue reading
Control Of the World’s Oceans. Prelude To War?
In of the most monumental and sweeping, though frequently overlooked, efforts by the former Bush administration to project worldwide military dominance and in so doing further vitiate international relations is what its initiator, John Bolton, in his capacity of Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the time called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
Video: Syria’s first lady on Gaza
Cal Perry speaks to Syria’s first lady about suffering in Gaza… Continue reading
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, Continue reading
Beating the Drums of a Broader Middle East War – May 7, 2008
Israel, Syria, and Lebanon Prepare the “Home Fronts”
The Levant could be the starting point of a major international conflict with global ramifications and which could quickly spin out of control. Such a conflict could even involve the use of Israeli or American nuclear weapons against Iran and Syria. Syria has additionally declared that it is preparing for an inevitable war with Israel despite the fact that it believes that the chances of a war in 2008 are slim. Continue reading
Israel to bomb Iran through Turkey?
Israel will be resolved to use Turkish air space to attack Tehran’s nuclear facilities, says a prominent US political strategist.
In a recent political panel, Charles Krauthammer ruled out the possibility of Israeli warplanes flying through US-controlled Iraqi airspace to launch potential air strikes on the Islamic Republic and claimed that Tel Aviv would most likely opt to use Turkish air space instead.
He claimed that Israel would bomb the Iranian uranium enrichment infrastructure in the same manner it bombed Syria in September 2007. Continue reading
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