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“The 2010 election had one purpose, war with Iran, even if the risk is world conflict and the real loser, no matter what happens on the battlefield is the United States.�?
(Sabbah) – Plans are in motion for a “false flag�? attack on America. Iran will be blamed, everyone knows that and Iran will be totally innocent. This is the last thing Iran would ever want. The most likely scenario is a nuclear attack. Two bombs are missing, bombs built by Israel in South Africa and lost long ago. These were supposedly Saddam’s bombs. Now we are told Iran has them. Israel has had them all along and the fear, they may be inside the United States already. Read the rest of this entry »
(Helium) – West Coast mystery missile may be North Korean
“A shot over the bow,�? is what some in America’s intelligence community are whispering under the stunned media’s demands for answers. Read More Here
(PalestineTimes) – Israel devouring East Jerusalem
Flying in the face of the international community, including its own guardian-ally, the United Sates, Israel has approved a wide-ranging plan to obliterate the remaining vestiges of the traditional Arab-Islamic identity of East Jerusalem. Read More Here
(YNet) – Canada ‘bruised’ for pro-Israel stand?
In speech against anti-Semitism, Canadian PM Harper suggests his country did not secure seat at UN Security Council due to its failure to ‘go along with this anti-Israel rhetoric’ Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Ariel Sharon – Not Wanted Dead or Alive – Read More Here
(Guardian) – Waterboarding is torture, Downing Street confirms – Read More Here
(IntifadaPalestine) – The Parcel Bomb Plot – Alqaeda’s Gift to Israel
While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to their avowed enemies. Read More Here
(Salon) – Waterboarding for dummies
Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water” Read More Here
(Redress) – Israel’s pillars of Samson: not quite Armageddon but…
As the US edges toward an unprovoked and utterly needless war with Iran, some remarks by an eminent and experienced observer of that part of the world caught my attention. First, he noted that “Israel and the US realize that the next war will burn much of the Middle East and may well spell the end of Israel.�? Read More Here
(CBS8) – Video catches mystery missile launch off L.A. coast – View Video Here
(Google) – Taliban call on US to send fact-finding team to Afghanistan
The Taliban called on the US Congress on Sunday to send a “fact-finding mission” to Afghanistan to investigate what they called the lies and propaganda spread by American military chiefs to prolong the war. Read More Here
(Yahoo) – Gates: US open to request from Iraq to stay – Read More Here
(Guardian) – Israeli plans to build hundreds more homes in West Bank settlement risk US anger – Read More Here
(BBC) – Israel plans 1,300 East Jerusalem Jewish settler homes – Read More Here
REPOST - (Yahoo) – Netanyahu to press U.S. for military threat on Iran – Read More Here
The U.S. Defence Department said Tuesday it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and, if so, who might have fired it. Read More Here
(AFP) – US open to keeping troops in Iraq after 2011: Gates
“In terms of the future strategic relationship beyond the end of 2011, I would say that the initiative clearly needs to come from the Iraqis,�? Gates said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Scarborough: Call to attack Iran ‘neoconservatism on crack’
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted the Republican Senator of South Carolina Monday for saying the United States should seek regime change in Iran through the use of military force.
“I don’t get this,�? said Scarborough on his show Morning Joe. “This is neoconservatism on crack. How many miles of terrain does the United States have to occupy?�? Read More Here
(TheRealNews) – Rand Paul Calls for Debate on War
Rand Paul said today that there needs to be a national debate on Afghanistan and presidential power. Read More Here
Video
(NYPost) – Former NATO Ambassador: Missile “Mystery�? Was US “Show Of Force�? To Asia
UPDATE: About that missile launched off the coast of southern California yesterday? The one that the military is saying they don’t know anything about? CBS shows the footage to Robert Ellsworth, former ambassador to NATO, who says the rocket is possibly an intercontinental ballistic missile. Ellsworth says perhaps it was fired as a “show of force,�? related to President Obama’s Asia trip, and from what he tell, it looks like it’s a “test firing from an underwater submarine to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that…�? Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. vice president Joe Biden on Sunday only a “credible military threat can deter Iran from building a nuclear weapon,�? according to Reuters. Sources in Israel report growing impatience with economic sanctions imposed on Iran, described by the Israelis as diplomacy. Netanyahu pulled Biden aside at the American Jewish conference in New Orleans. Read the rest of this entry »
Israel does not want anything that could conceivably be called a genuine peace. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Iraq church gunmen in mercenary outfit’
An Iraqi official has revealed that the gunmen involved in the country’s recent church drama could have been members of foreign security companies. Read More Here
(PressTV) – US deploys fourth submarine in PG
The United States has deployed its fourth submarine in the Persian Gulf region following the deployment of three others near the Bahrain Port. Read More Here
(MailOnline) – The entente frugale: Cost-cutting 50-year deal that will see French take command of the SAS and Britain share nuclear secrets – Read More Here
(WashingtonsBlog) – As many writers have documented, the corporate media is usually pro-war. See this.
And so Washington Post hack David Broder’s op-ed arguing that war with Iran will save America’s economy is not all that surprising.
Of course, China and Russia might not sit idly by and let their ally, Iran, be attacked. So there’s the wee complication that bombing Iran could start WWIII. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says the West is spreading of Iranaphobia to revive the arms market and distract regional states from other threats.
Ramin Mehmanparast made the statements in response to a Press TV correspondent’s question regarding some Arab states’ initiative to boost their military equipment and plans to purchase advanced weapons from the West. Read the rest of this entry »
(Fox) – Iran Injects Fuel Into First Nuclear Reactor
Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start-up of a facility that the U.S. once hoped to stop over fears of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Read More Here
(CounterPunch) – Echoes of El Salvador in US-Approved Death Squads – Read More Here
(DailyMail) – Heavily armed police train for possible Mumbai-style terror attack on the streets of Britain – Read More Here
(DailyMail) – War protester hurls shoes at ex-Australian prime minister John Howard on live television – Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘US troops beheaded Iraqi detainee’
American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents. Read More Here
(PoorRichard) – Jeffery Blankfort: Israel Is The Most Immediate Threat To The Future Of The Planet – Read More Here
(CBC) – Video: “No One Defended Helen Thomas First Amendment Rights!” – View Video Here
(PressTV) – ‘Israel abused Gazans during war’
Israeli troops have abused Palestinian detainees during the 2008-2009 attack on the Gaza Strip, new photos released by a rights group show. Read More Here
(DissidentVoice) – Can I Be on Abe Foxman’s Hit List?
Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and others are on the defensive now that the hate-monger Abe Foxman and his Anti-Defamation League have listed them as anti-Israel. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools – Read More Here
(Desert Peace) – Israel Fears Losing It’s Status of ‘Eternal Victim’
The zionist wants you to believe that every Palestinian is an armed terrorist or potential suicide bomber. They have been painting that picture for over 62 years enabling Israel to maintain the status of ‘eternal victim‘. Read More Here
(PressTV) – 25 Afghans killed in US-led airstrike
US-led forces have targeted a mosque in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 25 civilians during the airstrike, Afghan officials say. Read the rest of this entry »
(TasmanTimes) – What a coincidence! The U.S. has been baiting Iran for years and attempted to provoke it into war on numerous occasions and now some very convenient documents have been released by Wikileaks that suggest Iran is arming and training Shi’ite militants in Iraq to “carry out attacks on coalition troops and Iraqi government officials.�?
(StopNATO) – The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree.
(ShadowForeignPolicy) – It is widely believed that the massive $60 billion U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia is directed against Iran. After all, Israel did not object to the deal. As one analyst told China’s Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, of all places, was simply adhering to the ancient principle of: “My enemy’s enemy is my friend.” Read the rest of this entry »
(LewRockwell) – Dirty War in Afghanistan – Read More Here
(PakistanObserver) – “Obama Wars�?: Woodward’s Ominous Narrative on the Af-Pak War – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – The Weaponization of Space: Corporate Driven Military Unleashes Pre-emptive Wars – Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat – Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Show Us All the Map!
Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.”
That’s a completely logical and totally reasonable demand. Read More Here
(Intifada) – Israeli Occupation Bar Farmers from Harvesting their Olives – Read More Here
(Palestine-Info) – Erdogan: US is backing Israel’s “state terrorism” – Read More Here
(CNN) – What the numbers say about progress in Afghanistan
The latest poll from CNN and Opinion Research Corporation found only 37% of all Americans favor the war, 52% say the war in Afghanistan has turned into a Vietnam. Read More Here
140,000 U.S. soldiers diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iraq, Afghan tours
Some 140,000 U.S. soldiers dispatched to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) between 2001 and October last year, according to a U.S. Department of Defense study.
The total makes up about 7 percent of all U.S. servicemen and women dispatched to the two countries. Read More Here
(AmericaHijacked) – Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon – Read More Here
(Redress) – Why Israel will never show a map of its borders
Alan Hart explains that Israel will never produce a map of its internationally-recognized borders because no Israeli leader would ever have the courage and leadership to stand up to and remove Jewish squatters from the occupied territories. Read More Here
(Google) – Israel settlers start fires amid West Bank harvest
Thick black smoke billows from the olive grove under the gaze of Israeli soldiers as Palestinian farmers use branches to try to beat out the fires lit by Jewish settlers. Read More Here
(TheAge) – Troops ‘overwhelmed and cannot defeat Taliban’ – Read More Here
(MediaMonitors) – New War Rumors: U.S. Plans to Sseize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext�? that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says.
When Obama administration officials, like those of the Bush regime before it, say “all options are on the table,�? they are threatening nuclear war and that is prohibited by international law, says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Not only has the International Atomic Energy Commission said this charge against Iran “is simply not true,�? Boyle pointed out, but threatening Iran with nuclear war in itself constitutes an international crime. Read the rest of this entry »
(RawStory) – In a little noticed remark on Fox News last week, President George W. Bush’s former ambassador to the UN remarked that the US should have kept Pakistan’s dictator in power and derided those who “think democracy is always the answer.�?
John Bolton, whose nomination was so controversial Bush tapped him during a Senate recess and then declined to resubmit him after his recess appointment expired, made the comments on Fox News Thursday. The discussion was highlighted Saturday by ThinkProgress, a liberal blog. Read the rest of this entry »
(ActivistPost) – Let’s set up the geopolitical chess board for a moment. Iran is a rogue nation according to the Western world. Which basically means that they sit on a sea of oil and don’t comply with the demands of the Western-based multinational oil firms. Iran has also made strong alliances with America’s oil-thirsty quasi-enemies China and Russia, while finding a partner-in-rogue in Venezuela. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Kowsari says Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) is ready to form a truth-finding committee on 9/11 and present the results to the UN.
“We hope that the UN pays attention to the suggestions made by [Iran's President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and permits UN investigators to form this committee,” deputy head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says half of people in Europe and America are suspicious of the September 11 events in the United States.
“Many in the West blame the US government in the occurrence of the September 11 incident,�? IRNA reported Mehmanparast as saying at a press conference in the Iranian city of Isfahan on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
(GlobalResearch) – Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire – Andrew Gavin Marshall – Read More Here
(Salon) – “Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at any Cost” What Adam Winfield, one of the U.S. soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, told his father – Read More Here
(Salon) – War on Terror Logic – Glenn Greenwald
Jim White — in a post this morning entitled “Stuck in Feedback Loop: Drone Strikes Provoke Terrorists Who Provoke More Drone Strikes” — documents exactly the process at play here: Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Mission Creep In Afghanistan / Pakistan – Eric Margolis
The focus of the Afghan War is clearly shifting south into Pakistan, drawing that nation and the United States forces ever closer to a direct confrontation. This grim development was as predictable as it was inevitable. Read More Here
(LoonWatch) – Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 99.6% that Aren’t – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran Ready to Give Lebanon Military Aid
‘Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expresses Tehran’s readiness to provide “unlimited” economic and military support for Lebanon. “Stability and peace in Lebanon is a gift that benefits all countries,” Mottaki said on Monday. Read More Here
(AlJazeera) – Israeli Extremists Set Mosque Ablaze
‘A group of radical Israeli settlers have attacked a mosque near the West Bank city of Bethelem, ransacking the holy site and burning copies of the holy Qur’an, residents say.’ Read the rest of this entry »
(WarInContext) – A USB memory stick carrying the Stuxnet malware is believed to have provided intruders with access to Iran’s nuclear program. The same technique was used in November 2008 to break into CENTCOM, providing a foreign government with unfiltered access to the Pentagon’s command of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did both attacks come from the same source?
Earlier this week, Reuters reported:
Cyber warfare has quietly grown into a central pillar of Israel’s strategic planning, with a new military intelligence unit set up to incorporate high-tech hacking tactics, Israeli security sources said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly opened its airspace to Chinese warplanes taking part in joint military maneuvers with Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »
(Bloomberg) – Pakistan Blocks NATO Supplies After Deadly Air Strike – Read More Here
(Redress) – Israel’s reasoning against peace: deal comes at high cost to Jewish privilege – Jonathan Cook – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel jails Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Maguire from Ireland was blocked from entering Israel and arrested at an airport in Tel Aviv on Tuesday because she had taken part in an attempt to break the crippling Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Read More Here
(WSWS) – CIA runs private army in Afghanistan and Pakistan – Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – Robert Gates: ‘We’re Not Ever Leaving’ Afghanistan
In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes that the U.S. military will never leave the war-torn country. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Why the US doesn’t talk to Iran – Read More Here
(CP) – The full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week was printed in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz (9-25-08).
Although our Founding Fathers would have comprehended and endorsed Ahmadinejad’s speech to the United Nations, present-day Americans would find it strange should they happen to hear about it.
Unlike their forbears, Americans today live a material life, not a spiritual one. Americans are far too likely to dismiss Ahmadinejad’s words about obeisance to God and justice as the mumbo-jumbo of an “Islamist extremist.�? Read the rest of this entry »
New analysis contradicts earlier assessments that Stuxnet worm was targeted at nuclear reactor in Bushehr. Read More Here
(ForbesBlogs) – Iran Admits Stuxnet Infected Its Nuclear Power Plant – Read More Here
(WSWS) – US slaughter intensifies in Afghanistan – Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Israel to use all means in next Gaza war’ – Read More Here
(AP) – Iran crosses into Iraq to hit Mossad bombing suspects
Omitted from this AP article was the rest of Fars quote, “Investigations show that the Israeli spy agency [Mossad] was the mastermind of the Mahabad terrorist attack.” Read More Here
(Uruknet) – The American Way: Spreading Democracy to Afghanistan, One Journalist’s Arrest at a Time – Read More Here
(Uruknet) – UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style at point blank range by Israeli commandos. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Israel Navy to use force if Jewish aid boat heading for Gaza refuses to comply
The military has been closely watching the vessel, named the Irene, since it left the port of Famagusta in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus on Sunday. Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Photo Essay – Viva Palestina 5 Prepares to Sail to Gaza – Read More Here
(TheIntelHub) – Israeli settlers to resume West Bank construction – Zionists Cheer WorldWide! – Read More Here
(Snard) – Former UN official Denis Halliday questioned on Iraq, Iran and false flag
Former UN official Denis Halliday, appearing on a KPFT’s Arab Voices to discuss President Obama’s announcement of the end of combat missions in Iraq, was asked about the possibility of a false flag terror event to use as a pretext to invade Iran Read More Here
(Redress) – Reaping terror’s reward: get in there first – that’s the secret
Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove. Read More Here
(WBAIX) – A powerful speech from Cynthia McKinney to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his Friday Press Conference. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – An international lawyer says many now question the truth behind the 9/11 attacks, and that American citizens are demanding an international probe into the incident.
“Ahmadinejad is absolutely rational and correct on this, that the American people are now coming to the point of demanding an international inquiry (into the 9/11 attacks), �? Franklin Lamb told Press TV. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Nearly 200 Iranian lawmakers have expressed support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the UN General Assembly last week. Read the rest of this entry »
(PaulWatson) – Israel and the United States have emerged as the prime suspects behind the Stuxnet worm attack, which has infected the Iranian nuclear plant at Bushehr, following the discovery that a “wealthy group or nation�? must have been responsible for the malware assault. Read the rest of this entry »
(GlobalResearch) – War Crimes in Fallujah, Tony Blair and a “Man with a Mission”
Dr Bill Wilson, knows a bit about duplicity and is not a man to give up, as a glance at his website shows. (1) Dr Wilson is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) in the Scottish National Party,for the West of Scotland. This week, he lodged a Parliamentary Motion (2) “highlighting the consequences of the US and UK’s use of weapons of mass destruction in Fallujah, in 2004.” Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – The Truth Will Set U.S. Free – Breaking Israel’s Stranglehold over American Foreign Policy
If Israel’s stranglehold over U.S. foreign policy is to be broken, Americans will need to be informed about the harm that Washington’s unconditional support for the Jewish state is doing to American interests, say leading analysts of U.S.-Israeli relations. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – The President and I – “Peace can not be obtained under the shadow of nuclear bombs”
I was pleasantly surprised when my request for an interview with Mr. Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president was accepted. President Ahmadinejad has never shied away from being heard, but these interviews had been exclusive to prominent mainstream media personalities such as Larry King and Charlie Rose. However, it was the mainstream media’s projection of Mr. Ahmadinejad that always remained questionable. Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – Following the Iranian president’s doubts on the 9/11 event, a top military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the CIA and Mossad were involved in the attacks.
“The US and the Zionists developed the strategy of the September 11 attacks in an effort to counter the Islamic vigilance and to control energy resources in the Middle East,” IRNA quoted Brigadier General Yahya Rahim-Safavi as saying on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
(NorCalTruth) – On Thursday Sep, 23rd the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stood at the podium of the New York United Nations Assembly and expressed his concern that there is more to the 9/11 events than the world has been told. Furthermore, he expressed if that is the case than we need to further investigate the events in an open tribunal. Ahmadinejad expressed remorse for the innocent civilians killed in the ensuing “war on terror�?. From his speech at the U.N. : Read the rest of this entry »
(GlobalResearch) – The Iranian leader did not accuse the U.S. of conspiring to murder thousands of its own people to create a pretext for launching wars as conveyed by the US media.
A large portion of the American people, on the basis of media reports, probably think that during his UN speech Sept. 23 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the U.S. government secretly arranged for the 9/11 attacks. He did not say that, however. Read the rest of this entry »
(Bloomberg) – ‘Experts say a computer worm that has targeted Iran’s industrial sites may be part of a cyber-attack by the US or Israel against the Islamic Republic. The Stuxnet, a computer worm that is viewed as potentially the most dangerous piece of computer malware discovered, has targeted industrial computers in Iran. The complex worm recognizes a specific facility’s control network and then destroys it.’ Read the rest of this entry »
(LiveShots) – He was greeted by applause when he walked into the United Nations General Assembly, and applauded again, even after questioning 9/11 and claiming that the American government may have been behind the attack.
That’s right, applauded after questioning the motivation for the terrorist attacks, who was responsible for them, and essentially suggesting they were a U.S. plot. Read the rest of this entry »
(SteveWatson) – The reaction of establishment politicians and their corporate media mouthpieces to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments about 9/11 is akin to that of a guilty child caught with his hand in the cookie jar and chocolate smeared all over his face.
The move to inflate the situation by creating a media circus will ultimately backfire as more people discover that, unfortunately, the Iranian President’s comments, although cloaked in an ever present anti-Israel sentiment, are accurate. Read the rest of this entry »
(PaulWatson) – The spectacle of a minority of UN diplomats walking out on a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in which he questioned the official story behind 9/11 was instantaneously seized upon by the establishment media and exploited as a way of demonizing any inquiry into the terror attacks.
The media hyped the event as a massive walkout even though the majority of diplomats remained seated during the speech, and launched a talking point centered around feigned outrage in an effort to characterize skepticism of the 9/11 official story as an extremist, fringe viewpoint held by vulgar people. View More Here
(RussiaToday) – Speaking on the UN summit sidelines, Iran’s leader says the biggest trouble facing the world is domination by the United States. In an exclusive interview with RT, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad explains how he wants to change the existing world order. Read the rest of this entry »
Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased by 150 percent since 1990, when U.N. sanctions were first imposed. By 2008, only 50 percent of primary school-age children were attending class, down from 80 percent in 2005, and approximately 1,500 children were known to be held in detention facilities.
In 2007, there were 5 million Iraqi orphans, according to official government statistics. More than 2 million Iraqis are refugees and almost 3 million internally displaced. 70 percent of Iraqis do not have access to potable water. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Chavez wants a break from U.S. meddling. Can you blame him? – Read More Here
(TheTownTalk) – Megaphonies load up newspaper letter columns with anti-Muslim propaganda – Read More Here
(Salon) – The “Obscenity” of Comparing Americans to “Killers and Terrorists” – Glenn Greenwald – Read More Here
Palestine
(Haaretz) – European Jewish aid ship bound for Gaza ready to sail – Read More Here
(YNetNews) – ‘Largest flotilla yet’ en-route to Gaza
Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid. Read More Here
(Sabbah) – Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters
“Over the last 10 years, the (IDF has) increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as (offshore waters) along the Gaza beach, a United Nations report (just) revealed.” Read More Here
Afghanistan
(PressTV) – US-led strike kills 70 in Afghanistan
Provincial officials say the victims were all militants, however, locals and eyewitnesses say the attack claimed civilian casualties. Read More Here
(WashPost) – Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport – Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – U.S. Contractor Accused Of Fraud Still Winning Big Projects In Afghanistan – Read More Here
Israel
(PressTV) – Iran wants IAEA to inspect Israel
“This year we hope… that they would follow up on this, that the Zionist regime [of Israel] will open its nuclear sites to inspection by the IAEA and … that the IAEA will also pursue this issue very firmly,�? Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi told Press TV. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Israel’s Barak to begin five-day US visit – Read More Here
Iran
(CSM) – Reality Check: Iran is Not a Nuclear Threat
Forget the neoconservative hype. The facts show Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either the United States or Israel. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Poll: Vast Majority Opposes Attack on Iran – Read More Here
(Retuers) – Iran detains seven U.S. troops
Iranian border guards detained seven U.S. troops as they tried to illegally enter the Islamic state, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday, without giving a source. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Those who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of “United Against Nuclear Iran”, a “non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization” that seeks to “prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons”
UANI has compiled an elaborate list of the foreign companies and firms which do business with Iran and calls on its readers and visitors to send condemnatory letters and complaints to these companies so as to persuade them to withdraw their capitals and resources from Iran and stop doing business with a country which the United States and its European allies consider to be an emerging nuclear threat in the Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »
(Intifada) – The terrorist attack of 911 had been used to launch WWIII called “Global war on terror�?. The American administration had enlisted world political bodies such as UN, EU, and NATO to wage wars in different kinds of shapes and intensity against other countries; Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Iran.
This global war on terror had been deliberately manipulated to take the shapes of underlying war against Islamic extremism, war against Islam, clash of civilizations, and Judeo-Christianity against Islam. This conflict had been carefully planned and executed. It is only one link in the chain of perpetual wars along the history of mankind. Read the rest of this entry »
(WarIsCrime) – War Criminals Rewarded for their Contribution to World Peace: Only in America Can Tony Blair Go Out in Public – David Swanson – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Gunning for Islam
Three people are dead because US “pastor” Terry Jones, in collaboration with the American media, staged (or threatened to stage) an anti-Muslim Koran-burning exhibition, which predictably stoked anti-American protests in Afghanistan: also predictably, US troops fired on demonstrators. The result: yet more “collateral damage.” Read More Here
(AOLNews) – Blair receives human rights award – Read More Here
(NewStatesman) – The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky – “President Obama is involved in war crimes right now�? – Read More Here
(LoonWatch) – The Connection Between Zionism & Organized Islamophobia – The Facts – Read More Here
Afghanistan
(Telegraph) – The West has made even more mistakes in Afghanistan than us, says Russian envoy to Kabul – Read More Here
(AlterNet) – For the People of Afghanistan, Things Have Gone from Bad to Worse
For years, American leaders have hailed the way Afghans are supposedly benefiting from the U.S. role in their country. They’re not. – Read More Here
(AFP) – Canada denies troops involved in Afghan drug smuggling – Read More Here
Iran
(TheVarsity) – Double standards: The United States and its allies should look at their own nuclear policy before criticizing Iran – Read More Here
(VeteransToday) – CASMII: Fact Sheet on US-Iran Standoff
The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to U.S. interests�?. Read More Here
(RawStory) – US plans massive arms sale to Saudi to counter Iran threat – Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Iran Ayatollahs Issue Fatwas Calling for Killing Those Who Burn the Koran – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Ahmadinejad: Koran burning will bring about Israel’s annihilation – Read More Here
(Xinhuanet) – Ahmadinejad: Israel is decaying, cannot attack Iran – Read More Here
Palestine
(SouthLebanon) – Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
“Damning (September 9) CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF.” Military officials refused to “respond to abuse charges as no details (were) provided,” a spokesman saying “We cannot address general claims on the subject in the absence of a specific complaint.” Read More Here
(Intifada) – The Black Heart Over Palestine – Thirty Pieces of Silver – Read More Here
China
(Reuters) – Beware starting trade war, China economist tells U.S. – Read More Here
Video
(MoVLog) – Video: Islam must be good if the bad guys hate it
Are we all being driven to Islam? By megalomaniac war criminals. Is Islam turning out to be the last refuge.
(AntiWar) – Speaking today at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism conference, former Mossad chief Danny Yatom urged the international community to come together and form a joint air force led by the United States to launch massive air strikes across Iran.
(GlobalResearch) – 9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001 – Michel Chossudovsky – Read More Here
(Alternet) – 9 Shameless Warmongers Who Call Fox News Home
During the run-up to the Iraq war, some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq had a home at Fox News, and their ranks have swelled considerably since then. Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox News’ contributors and analysts. Read More Here
(PoorRichardsBlog) – During War There Are No Civilians
Sitting in on the Rachel Corrie trial alarmingly reveals an open Israeli policy of indiscrimination towards civilians.
Rachel Corrie’s plight symbolised the ruthless policy of Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the social psyche of millions of people outside of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Read More Here
(DailyMail) – ‘We are still determined’: U.S. pastor vows to carry out Burn-a-Koran day on Sept 11 despite death threats – Read More Here
Iran
(GlobalResearch) – Who pays for the loss of life in Iran? – Read More Here
(CSMonitor) – South Korea sanctions Iran — under US pressure
South Korea on Wednesday reluctantly joined the US-led drive for sanctions against Iran after an internal struggle that pitted financial interests against diplomatic interests – and strained the US-Korean alliance. Read More Here
Palestine
(Redress) – The boycott of Israel is “gaining speed”
Lawrence Davidson outlines the reasons why the boycott of Israel is gaining speed, from “the horrors of the Israeli occupation and its ghettoizing of the people of Gaza�?, to the segregation and economic and social discrimination against Israel’s non-Jewish population, to the corrupting influences of Zionism on policy-making institutions of Western governments, especially those of the United States. Read More Here
(PLSWeb) – U.S. Aim in “Peace Process”: Liquidation of Palestinian struggle – Read More Here
Afghanistan
(Uruknet) – US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’
Soldiers face trial over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Read More Here
(Uruknet) – US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’
(Uruknet) – Israeli raids claim lives in Gaza – Read More Here
(Wired) – Pentagon Bulks Up Yemen’s Arsenal as Shadow War Grows – Read More Here
(Sott) – Dead Souls: The Pentagon Plan to Create Remorseless ‘Warfighters’ – Read More Here
Film: Dead In The Water – The Sinking of the USS Liberty – View Video Here
(LATimes) – 12 die in attack on Baghdad military headquarters – Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Nuclear Hypocrisy – UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability
United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – “The Militarization of Hollywood”: Unlocking “The Hurt Locker” – War Propaganda wins the Academy Award – Read More Here
(ACLU) – Targeted Killings
The United States has reportedly initiated a targeted killing program under which the CIA and the military have the authority to hunt and kill individuals, including U.S. citizens, far away from the battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan and even the Pakistani border regions, and potentially anywhere in the world. The program operates without any checks and balances; all of the essential details about the program remain secret. Read More Here
(CounterPunch) – The Humanitarian Invastion of Afghanistan: Occupation by NGO
They’re called NGOs — non-governmental organizations — but the description is misleading at best, or an outright lie generated by intelligence agencies at worst. Read More Here
(GRTV) – Video: Pentagon’s Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War
$547 million. That’s the Pentagon’s P.R. budget. They’re using it to spread mistruths and misplaced hope in ‘progress’ with one goal in mind: to extend the brutal, costly Afghanistan War. Read the rest of this entry »
(PalTelegraph) – US provides Israel with fuel for militant purposes
United States has decided to provide the Israeli occupation with large quantities of fuel for military purposes, which include fuel for war aircrafts and helicopters, along with large quantities of fuel for tanks and militant vehicles as bearers of soldiers and others. Read More Here
(WarIsACrime) – Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Resistance: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century – Michael Schwartz – Read More Here
(DailyTech) – USB Stick Led to Worst Cyber Attack on U.S. Military; Russia Suspected – Read More Here
(CBSNews) – Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Canada Opens Arctic To NATO, Plans Massive Weapons Buildup – Rick Rozoff
The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently concluded the largest of a series of so-called Canadian sovereignty exercises in the Arctic, Operation Nanook, which ran from August 6-26. Read More Here
(GregFelton) – America – Land Of The Freak, Home Of The Depraved
The Lobby’s control over the U.S. is hardly news-it’s an open secret, just like Israel’s nuclear arsenal-but the manufactured hysteria over an innocuous Muslim community centre in New York shows that U.S. democratic culture, and I use that term loosely, is essentially despotic and criminal. Read More Here
(JPost) – ‘Israel ready to destroy LAF in 4 hours’
According to the report, Frederick Hoff, assistant to US Middle East Peace Envoy George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that Israel was ready to implement a plan to destroy within four hours all Lebanese military infrastructure, including army bases and offices, should a similar confrontation occur in the future. Read More Here
Police in Afghanistan have confirmed that the US-led warplanes are to blame for the killing of six Afghan children in the country’s volatile east. Police said on Friday that the children were collecting scrap metal in the mountain of eastern Kunar Province when a US-led plane dropped bombs on the area on Thursday. “In the bombardment six children, aged six to 12, were killed. Another child was injured,” AFP quoted a regional police commander as saying. – Source: Legit Gov
(Makow) – Illuminati Mosque: Divide & Conquer
Barack Obama knew exactly how people would react to his Aug. 13 endorsement of the Ground Zero mosque, and created a firestorm of controversy by design. Read More Here
(AmericaHijacked) – Israel to attack Syria (and drag US into it!)? – Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War – Read More Here
(SOTT) – Apartheid Israel: Education ministry approves new ‘whites-only’ settlement school – Read More Here
(PressTV) – US media ‘giving rise to Islamophobia’
Speeches by certain public speakers covered by US media have been giving rise to Islamophobia in the Unites States, a senior member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says.
Speaking in an interview with Press TV, legislative director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Corey Saylor hit out at US media for making Muslims feel increasing alienated and insecure in the society. Speeches by certain public speakers covered by US media have been giving rise to Islamophobia in the Unites States, a senior member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says.
Speaking in an interview with Press TV, legislative director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Corey Saylor hit out at US media for making Muslims feel increasing alienated and insecure in the society. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel preparing to attack Syria: report
Israel is reportedly preparing to strike arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, claiming they belong to the Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah, a report says. Read More Here
(RevoltofthePlebs) – Burn, Witch, Burn!: America Rages Against Islam
Islamophobia is sweeping the nation—and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Just when the American people were starting to become distracted with trivial issues like the potential stock market crash, the re-branding of the war in Iraq, and the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf—along comes a crisis of Biblical proportions, that threatens to destroy the moral fiber of America itself, and deliver its Christian population into the diabolical hands of an Islamic dictatorship ruled under the precepts of Sharia law. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Video: New Spill – WikiLeaks to release ‘CIA paper’ as Julian Assange under investigation
The whistle-blowing website that angered the Pentagon by publishing 90 thousand secret U.S. files, is now set to reveal a CIA paper. Wikileaks made the announcement as its founder Julian Assange is under investigation in Sweden on suspicion of molestation. Video Link Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Inside Job? – Iraqi govt ‘involved in deadly bombings to get US troops to stay’
More than 40 people have been killed in a string of bombings that have rocked Iraq. In Baghdad alone, over 20 bombs exploded in at least 12 separate incidents. Today’s bombings are raising questions the Iraqi government’s ability to deal with an ongoing insurgency. Sabah Al-Mukhtar from the Arab Lawyers Association says the bombings may actually be the Iraqi government’s way to get US troops to stay… Video Link Here
(MarketWatch) – WWIII ahead: Warfare defining human life by 2020
Commentary: ‘Mother of all national security issues: desperate wars over food, water, energy’ Read More Here
(LibertarianStandard) – Another U.S.-Inflicted “Ground Zero�? in Pakistan
If opinion polls are reliable at all, most Americans are too enthralled by the manufactured outrage over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque to notice that the government claiming to represent them just massacred, via remote-controlled drone, at least twenty innocent people in Pakistan. Read More Here
Iran
(WRH) – Iran vs Israel: What The Media Wants You To Forget
Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget.
1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington’s chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Peres warns IAEA chief of Iran nuclear threat
“Iran jeopardizes Israel and the rest of the world, as it threatens to use nuclear weapons,” said Peres told Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Jerusalem. Read More Here
Palestine
(VeteransToday) – A People That Shall Dwell Alone – Israel’s Attack On The Gaza Flotilla – Read More Here
Video: Father, Forgive me, I will not Fight for your Israel
Omer Goldman told me that the crucial moment of her metamorphosis occurred this year when she went to a Palestinian village where the Israeli army had set up a roadblock. Video Link Here
(MondoWeiss) – Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestinian identity, ’self-hating’ Jews, and anyone who criticizes Israel
A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on “the crisis” of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – UN: Israel Not Cooperating in Flotilla Probe
The international investigation into the May 31 Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, which left nine aid workers dead, is going extremely poorly according to UN officials, because Israel is refusing to cooperate and has not allowed the investigation team to visit the nation. Read More Here
Pakistan
(AntiWar) – US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan
The Obama Administration’s policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of “suspected militants�? in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.
The combined toll from the blast was 20 people killed, with at least four women and three children among the slain. At least 13 other civilians were also reported wounded, including a number of other children. Read More Here
Afghanistan
(InfoClearingHouse) – There Are No Heroes In Illegal And Immoral Wars
When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.�?
While we can understand the pride of professional soldiers and the emotion behind that statement, it’s time for Americans — military and civilian — to face a difficult reality: In seven years of the deceptively named “Operation Iraqi Freedom�? and nine years of “Operation Enduring Freedom�? in Afghanistan, no member of the U.S. has been a hero. Read More Here
The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan David Patraeus, in an interview with BBC radio said that the momentum of the Taliban has been reversed in the south of the country and capital Kabul and that if his strategy were be implemented more forcefully, they would see a much bigger chance of success in Afghanistan.
We believe due to pressure from Washington, the heavy workload that he inherited from previous generals and his strategy’s complete failure have forced him to turn to the media to try and portray his defeat into a success story. Read More Here
(SocialistProject) – Afghanistan Crisis Deepens: U.S., Canada and NATO Threaten to Extend War
On March 13, 2008, Canada’s Parliament voted to extend the country’s military “mission�? in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The warmakers correctly estimated that fixing an exit date would deflect mounting opposition to the war among the Canadian public and buy time for Canada’s continued participation. Since then, the political and military situation in Afghanistan has continued to deteriorate for the occupying forces, and leading politicians are now floating proposals to extend Canada’s claimed exit date for a military mission that already constitutes a gross violation of the national sovereignty and human rights of the Afghan people. Read More Here
Israel
(FPJ) – Four Reasons Why Americans Should Oppose Zionism
Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 400 Palestinian children. In May, 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence activists on the relief flotilla Mavi Marmara. It only got worse for Israel when it was revealed that soldiers stole and sold personal items such as laptops from the ship. Last week, former Israeli soldier Eden Abergil posted photos onto Facebook showing her preening in front of blindfolded and despondent Palestinian prisoners, in some instances mocking those prisoners with sexual undertones. The photos were part of an album entitled “IDF—the best time of my life.�? Read More Here
(OpinionMaker) – Israeli intelligence infiltrated throughout Lebanese government – Wayne Madsen
WMR has learned from its Lebanese intelligence sources that the Lebanese government is coming to realize that Israeli intelligence penetration of all political groups in the country is worse than originally believed.
Israel’s Mossad, once content on penetrating the Christian and Druze parties in the country, has now thoroughly infiltrated the top echelons of Sunni and Shi’a parties, as well. Recently, Lebanon charged retired General Fayez Karam, a senior member of retired General Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, which is allied with Hezbollah, with spying for Mossad. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex talks with author and journalist Webster Tarpley about the impending war with Iran. Webster is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup, and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both now available at the Infowars Store. Tarpley is also the author of Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History, 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA and George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Read the rest of this entry »
(SunNews) – South Carolina High School Automatically Enlists Students in ROTC
The entire freshman class at Carvers Bay High School has been automatically enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, a military-sponsored program that trains high school students in military discipline and concepts. Principal Richard Neal, a Navy veteran, said the school’s Marine Corps JROTC class is fulfilling the student’s physical education requirement and is part of the school’s Ninth Grade Academy. Read More Here
(AntifascistCalling) – Space Warfare: Preparing the “Battlespace” for A New Imperial Adventure – Secretive Mini-Shuttles and Spy Satellites – Tom Burghardt – Read More Here
Video: Course – Zionist Editing on Wikipedia – Video Link Here
(ABCKITV) – Violent Cases In Hawaii Involving PTSD Patients Likely To Increase – Read More Here
(UPI) – U.S. to spend $100 million on Afghan bases
Despite growing disaffection with the war and President Obama’s pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July 2011, many of the projected installations have extended completion deadlines, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
All three of the bases are for the sole use of U.S. forces. Read More Here
Palestine
(Gilad) – An open letter to Israel From: Lauren Booth, UK
“This morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the aid Flotilla to Gaza, by your soldiers. As you may have read, an Israel Defense Forces officer, has been remanded by a military court, suspected of stealing laptop computers from passengers. Interestingly, Haretz newspaper, now refers to the fleet as an ‘aid flotilla.’ Which it was. Rather than the ‘terror’ fleet your leaders would have had you call it. But I digress.
So, there I was, all ready to write my piece, when I came across an article on ynetnews. It sought to spell out the shock perhaps felt by some about the looted goods. A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said of the flotilla thefts: ‘there must be a serious problem in the IDF in terms of values.” Read More Here
Iraq
(CNN) – Hundreds protest bad basic services in Iraq
At least 15 people, including nine police officers, were wounded Saturday night when hundreds of people protested in Nasiriya over power outages and bad basic services, city police officials told CNN.
Some of the roughly 200 protesters hurled stones at a local government building in the city, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) south of Baghdad, and some beat police officers with sticks, officials said. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – The Long Road to The Hague: Prosecuting Former Prime Minister Tony Blair – Part 1 – Read More Here
(FPIF) – What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq. Read More Here
(NCR) – Iraqi bishop says U.S. betrayed country, Christians suffer most
The United States has “betrayed its duty to bring peace and security�? to Iraq, according to Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, in an interview on Friday with the Italian daily La Stampa. The Americans leave behind “an Iraq worse off than the one they found seven years ago,�? said Warduni, who’s widely regarded as the most charismatic voice among the Iraqi bishops. Read More Here
(ArmyTimes) – Combat brigades in Iraq under different name
7 Advise and Assist Brigades, made up of troops from BCTs, still in Iraq Read More Here
Iran
(Rense) – A United Iran Against Collapsing Israel
As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives wider support from the world’s nations for its uncompromising resistance against the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots. Read More Here
(WABC) – Video: Israeli Official Warns – ‘We’re Preparing for War’
Likud member of Israel’s Knesset, Danny Danon, appeared on Aaron Klein’s WABC radio program Sunday Afternoon. “We are prepared for all risks,�? Danon said. “And I think our enemies should know that even though we are speaking of peace, we are getting ready for a time of war, as well.�? Read the rest of this entry »
(AmericanThinker) – Jim Wallis, the man behind the so-called “religious left�? – a left wing evangelical activist who worked to get evangelical support for Obama — has been exposed as another stooge of George Soros. And he had the gall to accuse Marvin Olasky, the conservative evangelical who asked Wallis to admit his connections to Soros, of lying. Sarah Pulliam Bailey
(GlobalResearch) – Obama’s Delusions: The Economy and Iraq – Shamus Cooke
If you’ve listened to recent speeches the President has given about the economy and the Iraq war, you’d think that two of the biggest social issues facing working Americans are improving. But facts are stubborn things. Read More Here
(StopNATO) – U.S. Marshals Military Might To Challenge Asian Century – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Israeli DM: Aid Ship’s Goal Is to Help ‘Kill Israeli Civilians’
The all-women Bolivian-flagged ship Mariam (named for the Virgin Mary) is loaded down with cargo and poised to try to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip this weekend. But Israeli officials are pressing hard to see it stopped, threatening Lebanon if they even allow the ship to leave port.
The ship that is preparing to sail from Lebanon has nothing to do with humanitarianism,�? insisted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, adding that the ship is plotting to help “kill Israeli civilians.�? Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Blood Money. – Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Q.C., former Prime Minister, alleged potential war criminal – Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Corporate Media Poll Claims Majority of Americans Support Iran Attack
According to a Rasmussen poll posted last week, most Americans consider Iran an enemy of the United States, believe Iran’s nuclear program is developing weapons, and they would support the United States helping Israel attack the Islamic country.
57% say Iran is an enemy. 66% say Iran’s uranium enrichment program is developing nuclear weapons (53% state an Iranian nuke is very likely). 51% say if Israel attacks Iran, the United States should lend a helping hand. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Fox News co-owner funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report
The second largest shareholder in News Corp. — the parent company of Fox News — has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Video: Iran Fires Up Nuclear Plant Despite Threats
Iran has begun to fuel its first nuclear power station in Bushehr despite a massive propaganda campaign launched against the reactor by the United States and Israel and largely ineffectual United Nations and U.S. Congress sanctions.
“‘It is totally unacceptable that a country that so blatantly violates resolutions of the (United Nations) Security Council, decisions of the International Atomic Energy Agency and its commitments under the NPT (non-proliferation treaty) should enjoy the fruits of using nuclear energy,�? said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yossi Levy. “The international community should increase pressure … to force Iran to abide by international decisions and cease its enrichment activities and its construction of reactors.�? Read the rest of this entry »
(VHeadline) – There’ll be no peace for Chavez until USA gets its hands on Venezuela’s oilfields – Read More Here
(OnlineJournal) – ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ inflating Islamophobia
I have the feeling that like the Broadway Bomber, the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial and where it should be held, and other ‘false-flag’ events that building this new Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is inflating the inherent Islamophobia of New Yorkers and America. And that ain’t good, for New York, Muslims, Americans and America, or the world. Read More Here
China
(Forbes) – If Israel Attacks Iran, What About China? – Read More Here
(PeopleDaily) – Vietnam advised not to play with fire (from China) – Read More Here
(StopNATO) – Geopolitical Chessboard: U.S. Global Strategy: Defeating Potential Challengers In Eurasia – Rick Rozoff
“Eurasia is…the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played.”
In its annual report to Congress on the Chinese military this week, the U.S. Department of Defense “voiced alarm over China’s military buildup,” with particular emphasis on what was described as the nation “investing heavily in ballistic and cruise missile capabilities that could one day pose a challenge to U.S. dominance in the western Pacific.” Read More Here
Palestine
(Haaretz) – Organizers: All-woman Lebanese aid ship to set sail for Gaza Sunday – Read More Here
(DYR) – Deir Yassin Remembered
Against his better judgment Rifkin solicited Albert Einstein to help the Stern Gang raise American money for arms to drive out the Arabs and help create a Jewish state. On April 10th, the day after the infamous massacre of Arabs at Deir Yassin, Einstein replied calling the Stern Gang terrorists and misled criminals. Read More Here
(Rense) – Palestine – Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed And Unaided
Imagine the following: You’re ruthlessly oppressed in an occupied country under a system of institutionalized racism, affording rights solely to Jews. You have no recognized nation, no right of citizenship, no democratic freedoms or civil liberties, including no power over your daily life. Read More Here
Afghanistan
(AllGov) – Military Deaths in Afghanistan under Obama Top Those under Bush
In less than two years, the United States has suffered more combat deaths in Afghanistan under President Barack Obama than it did during the two-term presidency of George W. Bush. Read More Here
Video: Azizabad Massacre
This is the video of my visit to the village of Azizabad in Western Afghanistan, where US forces killed more than 90 civilians – Video Part 1 Here – Part 2 Here
Iraq
(IND) – Iraq war was illegal, repeats Clegg – Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today restated his view that the Iraq War was illegal, saying: “I don’t think the legality of that invasion has been proven.” – Read More Here
(IND) – US Troops Say Goodbye to Iraq – Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has certainly left its mark – Read More Here
(InfoLiberation) – US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War
It was another of those great TV moments. Embedded reports filming as the “last�? brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end. America was, at last, at peace.
But like so many other great TV moments, this one was a scripted fantasy, a fake exit done purely for political gain by an increasingly unpopular president trying to look like he is keeping at least one campaign promise. Read More Here
Iran
(Debka) – Arab sources: A major military surprise is close. Galant scandal a smokescreen
In Tehran, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced Friday, Aug. 20: “IRGC is in full readiness to encounter firmly with the stupidity of the US and the Zionist regime.” – Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Video: Iran broadcasts missile launch on state television – Iran has test fired a surface-to-surface missile, according to the country’s defence minister – Video Link Here
(CSMonitor) – 3 Reasons Israel will attack Iran – Read More Here
(NationalPost) – Christopher Hitchens: The price of not disarming Iran – Read More Here
(NYTimes) – U.S. Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash�? for a nuclear weapon, according to American officials. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Fueling of Iran’s nuclear plant begins
Iran has begun loading its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr with fuel in an effort to provide the country with nuclear-generated electricity. Read More Here
(ZeroHedge) – Iran Test Fires, Touts Advanced Surface-To-Surface Missile Day Ahead Of Nuclear Reactor Launch – Tyler Durden
Nothing like a little geopolitical ruckus to spoil the fun…the fun. Xinhua reports that hours ago, and just a day before the Bushehr nuclear reactor is supposed to go online, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said that Iran had test fired a surface-to-surface missile, Qiam, footage of which was shown on state television. Surely this fits well as a time slot segue from the recent clip showing mass graves prepared for Iran’s “aggressors.�? Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: ‘Israeli lobby central, Jewish groups push US to attack Iran’
Secret files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities by Israel. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. Alison Weir of the Council for National Interest in the U.S. – a pressure group on Middle East policy – believes Israeli influence is corrupting the American media, which no longer represents the views of the country’s people. Read the rest of this entry »
(PaulWatson) – Newly declassified documents highlighting how the Israeli lobby routinely paid off journalists in the U.S. corporate media to write pro-Zionist propaganda in support of Israeli aggression against Palestine and Iran during the 60’s have taken on new significance after the Atlantic Monthly, which is named in the documents as being complicit in the bribing scandal, recently published a cover story hyping the necessity and inevitability of an Israeli attack on Iran.
“Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010. The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel’s clandestine programs for “cultivation of editors,�? the “stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines�? as well as U.S. reporting about sensitive subjects such as the Dimona nuclear weapons facility,�? reports the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy.
The documents make specific reference to The Atlantic Monthly publication, and how “arrangements�? are made with The Atlantic to publish articles sympathetic to Israel and hostile to Palestine and Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
(WolvesOfLiberty) – Nullification – it’s all the rage these days – and a big part of that effort is educating Sheriffs across the country about their constitutional duties as the ultimate law enforcement power broker in their county. Thanks to retired Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack and his strategy of No Sheriff Left Behind, a number of Sheriffs are beginning to stand up to federal tyranny as they exercise their authority as a county’s top cop. Finally, the false meme of federal supremacy over the states is beginning to crumble. Read the rest of this entry »
(SouthLebanon) – Zionism – A Terrible Disease of the Mind: Part II – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Military Intervention in Africa: The New Blueprint for Global Domination
The United States’ intervention in Africa is driven by America’s desire to secure valuable natural resources and political influence that will ensure the longevity of America’s capitalist system, military industrial complex, and global economic superiority – achieved through the financial and physical control of raw material exports. While America’s prosperity may be waning due to a number of current factors, policy makers are bent on trying to preserve America’s global domination and will pursue policy objectives regardless of the downturn in the economy at large. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Why the Wars can’t be Won – Prof. John Kozy – Read More Here
Iran
Video: It is ILLEGAL for Israel to attack Iran- VIOLATION of RESOLUTION 533 – View Video Here
(GlobalResearch) – Flashback to 1953 : “Operation Ajax”: Joint CIA/MI6 Military Coup in Iran – Read More Here
(OpinionMaker) – Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?
Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we’re now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of “will attack Iran�?; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Who’s blowing up Iran’s gas pipelines?
In the past few weeks Iran’s gas infrastructure, which is central to the country’s energy requirements, has been hit by a series of unexplained explosions. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran protests to UN over US war plan
In letters to the heads of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the General Assembly that circulated Wednesday, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Eshaq Alehabib, slammed the US plan for an Iran strike which is based on “totally false�? grounds, AP reported. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Masterminds, Mosques and Mass Insanity: “War on Terrorism�? Propaganda Ratcheted up Ahead of War Escalation
Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque�? in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind�?, 9/11 “war on terrorism�? propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions.
Nearly a decade since Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 false flag deception, a fearful, self-destructive American mass public remains fully brainwashed by “war on terrorism�? deception— ignorant of history, and militantly oblivious to facts. Read More Here
Iraq
(AntiWar) – US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War – Read More Here
(CBSNews) – Video: Petraeus Says, ‘We Are Not Leaving’ Iraq
“The real bottom line in Iraq I think is that despite all of its challenges, it is a much, much more hopeful place than in January/February 2007 when the surge was launched and when there were fifty dead bodies in Baghdad every 24 hours. There’s going to be violence in Iraq. There’s still al Qaeda in Iraq, there are other extremist elements, there are residual militia elements. But the 700,000 Iraqi security forces on the ground there generally can deal with this with some assistance from the United States. View More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Last of the Combat Troops Leaving Iraq? – Only in your Dreams – Read More Here
Palestine
(Redress) – The secrets in Israel’s archives – Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key – Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones
Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Video: A Beautiful Gift from the BBC
If you Haven’t Seen It, Check out the BBC Panorama’s “Death in the Med” program (watch video below) and You’ll be Treated to First Class Propaganda as Only the BBC Can Deliver Video Link Here
FLASHBACK - (WRH) – Iraq WMD Lies: The Words of Mass Deception – Read More Here
Iran
FLASHBACK - (MSNBC) – Video: U.S. Caught Lying About Iran Supplying Weapons to Insurgents – Video Link Here
(Xinhuanet) – Iran says U.S. can participate in Iran’s nuclear projects – Read More Here
(MailOnline) – Israel has three days to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, warns former U.S. ambassador
The deadline was set by outspoken former envoy John Bolton, who claimed that time was running out for the West to crush Tehran’s atomic ambitions. Read More Here
(RoyTov) – Iran’s Victory
On August 21, 2010, Iran would mark a large victory over Zionist propaganda: Russia would begin then to load nuclear fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Within six months after the fuel loading the plant would be fully operational, producing 1000 megawatt. Read More Here
(FarsNews) – Iran Calls for Formation of Islamic Union to Start New World Order
He stated that Tehran’s goal in forming an international union is opposite to the objectives normally pursued by the western countries, and said, “Westerners embark on forming unions to loot the other nations.” Read More Here
REPOST – (AmericaHijacked) – Intelligence professionals warn Israeli attack on Iran would drag US into war
We have disturbing and urgent news. Our new executive director, Philip Giraldi, and other former U.S. intelligence officers have just published an extremely important analysis warning that Israel may plan to attack Iran as early as this month (full-length article below). Read More Here
(Straight) – Gwynne Dyer: There’s no way for the U.S. to win a non-nuclear war with Iran – Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – America Cannot Go to War for Israel
The mongrel dogs of war are foaming at the bit. For years they’ve cowered in their damp trenches, bristling in the heat. But they’re back now. They’ve gathered their sagging flesh and cast their milky, crusty eyes at Iran. The mongrel dogs of war are planning another war. Read More Here
(SalemNews) – Americans Won’t Back Attack on Iran – If Iran is attacked, a large percentage of Americans will have nothing to do with it – Read More Here
(FoxNews) – Video: Bolton – Only Days Left to Strike Iran Facility – Read More Here
(RealPolitik) – Israelis conducting covert maritime operations in Persian Gulf(WMR)
Chinese and Japanese intelligence agencies, which closely monitor events in the Persian Gulf due to the dependence of both countries on oil from the region, report that Israeli Navy commandos have recently been active in creating maritime incidents in the Gulf that could be blamed on Iran. Read More Here
Palestine
(France24) – IDF soldier’s prisoner photos are the ‘tip of the iceberg’ – Read More Here
(TruthJihad) – American Professor Charges Israel with Genocide – Publisher Censors Title! – Read More Here
(Intifada) – The IDF’s Sociopathic Mentality Towards Palestinians: a Reflection of the Israeli “State of Mind�? – Read More Here
(AWIP) – The Message of the Bulldozers
On the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last portion of the Mamilla cemetery, an historic Muslim burial ground with graves going back to the 7th Century, hitherto left untouched. The government of Israel has always been fully cognizant of the sanctity and historic significance of the site. Read More Here
(Rense) – Impact Of Israeli Military Order No. 1650 – Stephen Lendman
Potentially, all West Bank and East Jerusalemites risk dispossession and expulsion, part of Israel’s longstanding policy to seize all parts of Palestine it wishes, removing indigenous Arabs from their homeland illegally, controlling those remaining under an oppressive apartheid system critics call worse than South Africa’s with good reason. Read More Here
Afghanistan
(AP) – Anti-US protest blocks highway in east Afghanistan – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: William Engdahl – No pull-out in 2011, US will spread Afghan war
The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says he is not bound by the July 2011 date set for a troop pull-out. General David Petraeus said he could well advise President Obama not to go ahead if he believes it’s the wrong time. American public support for the war is at an all-time low, with July being the deadliest month for U.S. and NATO troops since 2001. With frustration growing about the occupation of Afghanistan, politicians in Germany have even suggested talking to the Taliban and terrorist organizations to avoid a further escalation of violence. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex welcomes back Congressman Ron Paul to the show to discuss the latest on Iran, legislation in the house, and more. Dr. Paul is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During the 1960s, he served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. Read the rest of this entry »
(MotherJones) – Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation’s largest annual conference of conservative activists, Bolton, one of the hardest hardliners of the George W. Bush administration, spoke at length about Obama’s naiveté and how various nations – Russia, North Korea, Iran – will be exploiting the new president. The most dramatic moment of his speech may have been when he cracked a joke about the nuking of Obama’s hometown.
“The fact is on foreign policy I don’t think President Obama thinks it’s a priority,” said Bolton. “He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city” – here Bolton changes his tone subtly to prepare for the joke – “pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?”
Bolton wasn’t the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause. Read the rest of this entry »
Video: Military Warned to Not Watch/View Wikileaks info or be “Court Marshalled!” – Alex Jones Tv – Video Link Here
(KurtNimmo) – Air Force Issues Memo Warning Soldiers, Employees Not to Read WikiLeaks Docs
An Infowars.com reader at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida sent the memo below, originally posted on the 482 FW Community Bulletin Board. The memo instructs government personnel to not access the Wikileaks website or download “publicized classified information,�? namely over 70,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan. “Looks like they don’t want us government employees to know the truth,�? remarked the person who sent the memo.
In essence, the memo confirms that the Pentagon is monitoring the web activity of its soldiers and employees. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Racketeers for Capitalism – Cindy Sheehan
“I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
Today, (August 17) we learn that in Afghanistan, three U.S. troops, three NATO troops and at least seven civilians were killed. This is another grim marker along the Imperial Road to Ruin as Barack Obama’s regime has managed to kill as many troops in Afghanistan in 19 months as the Bush stain did in seven years. Read More Here
(Makow) – Why Rudolf Hess Was Murdered – “I have come here, in Great Britain, to save humanity,” he said. “I am Rudolf Hess.” – Read More Here
China
(GlobalResearch) – US-Vietnam Military Cooperation Directed Against China – Read More Here
Palestine
(PressTV) – Israeli fighters launch 4 attacks on Gaza
The Israeli Air Force has launched four aerial attacks on the southern Gaza Strip, but fails to inflict any injuries on the targeted Palestinians. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Video: Israel Threatens to Kill Lebanese Women on Gaza Aid Ship – Video Link Here
Iran
(KurtNimmo) – CIA Launches “Counterproliferation Center�? as Iran Attack Rhetoric Kicks Into High Gear
As the rhetoric heats up in preparation for an attack on Iran, the CIA has announced it will christen a “counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant,�? reports the Associated Press. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Iran will block Hormuz if attacked’
“The first action would be to take full control of the Strait of Hormuz whereby we wouldn’t allow any move by anybody”, the top military official underlined. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – CIA Launches “Counterproliferation Center�? as Iran Attack Rhetoric Kicks Into High Gear
As the rhetoric heats up in preparation for an attack on Iran, the CIA has announced it will christen a “counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant,�? reports the Associated Press. Read More Here
Iraq
(LegitGov) – U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 Military Pullout – Read More Here
(LondonGuardian) – Iraq suicide bombing kills scores of military recruits
At least 60 Iraqi army recruits and soldiers were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army base in the centre of Baghdad this morning. Read More Here
Alex talks with David MacMichael, a former CIA analyst who also served as an analyst for the National Intelligence Council from 1981-1983. MacMichael resigned from the CIA in July 1983 because he felt the Agency was misrepresenting intelligence for political reasons. He is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, founding member of Association of National Security Alumni and the Association for Responsible Dissent, and an outspoken critic of the Iraq War. Mr. MacMichael talks with Alex about the impending attack on Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Former US envoy to the United Nations says Israel has until August 21st to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. This is before Russia finalizes its shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran. So is an Israeli attack forthcoming? Wayne Madsen says that if there is an attack, multiple nations would join and there could be a major war ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
(GlobalResearch) – The UN Security Council Regime of Tribunals and Sanctions: A Smokescreen for Military Seizure of Regions and Resources – Read More Here
(StopNATO) – U.S.-China Crisis: From “Gunboat Diplomacy” to Confrontation – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here
(DefenseTech) – Israel Places Order For 20 F-35s; U.S. Picks Up The Tab – Read More Here
(TheUglyTruth) – The Man With The Israeli Accent–USS LIBERTY Survivor’s Life Threatened by Mossad on American Soil While Uncle Sam Yawns
One would think that in this–the post 9/11 age–that a direct, face-to-face threat against the life of a decorated American war hero by someone claiming to be an agent working for a Middle Eastern country tied to previous acts of terrorism against the US would rouse some concern.
That is of course, unless the country from which this foreign agent hails is Israel and the war hero being threatened is a survivor of the USS LIBERTY, attacked by the Jewish state in 1967, leading to the deaths of 34 American servicemen. Read More Here
(AlJazeera) – Nuclear inspection of Israel sought
Arab nations have urged Washington and several other nuclear powers to push for inspections of Israel’s nuclear programme, diplomats have told the Associated Press news agency.
In a letter sent ahead of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting scheduled for September, the Arab League also sought support for a resolution that calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Read More Here
Afghanistan
(BBC) – Video: Afghan Pres Gives ‘Contractors’ 4 Months To Get Out of Afghanistan! – Video Link Here
(NewsCore) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes possibility of casualties as ‘acceptable risk’
Any US and allied casualties that result from the publication of classified Afghan war documents would be an acceptable risk, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said today,, saying “such information is also likely to save a great many lives.�? Read More Here
(CNN) – Poll: Opposition to Iraq, Afghanistan wars reach all time high
Two-thirds of Americans favor President Obama’s plan to remove combat troops from Iraq by the end of the month as opposition to the war in that country, as well as the one in Afghanistan, has climbed to new highs. Read More Here
Iraq
(RawStory) – Soldiers with PTSD dismissed, told they have ‘personality disorder’
At the height of the Iraq war, the Army routinely dismissed hundreds of soldiers for having a personality disorder when they were more likely suffering from the traumatic stresses of war, discharge data suggests.
Under pressure from Congress and the public, the Army later acknowledged the problem and drastically cut the number of soldiers given the designation. But advocates for veterans say an unknown number of troops still unfairly bear the stigma of a personality disorder, making them ineligible for military health care and other benefits. Read More Here
(LewRockwell) – Will the US Really Pull Out of Iraq? – Eric Margolis – Read More Here
Iran
(Guardian) – Iran details plans for new mountain nuke sites – Read More Here
(SteveWatson) – Video: Former Pakistani Intel Chief Fears World War Three Is Imminent – View More Here
(AFP) – Iran says to unveil array of weapons next week
Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday that Iran will unveil next week an array of weapons, including missiles, speedboats and a long range drone, the ISNA news agency reported. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Neocon Bolton Renews Call for Israel to Bomb Iran
Last Friday the former interim UN ambassador during the Bush administration went on Fox News and warned that if Israel did not conduct a bombing raid against Iran’s nuclear energy program within a few days, the window of opportunity would be lost. Bolton made his comment following a report last week that Russia will begin loading nuclear fuel at Iran’s Bushehr reactor on July 21. Read More Here
(SodaHead) – Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton Says Russia Helping Iran Ready for 8/21/10 Deadline for Israeli Attack!
Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran’s Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively “immune” to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton. Read More Here
REPOST – (InfoClearingHouse) – How Would Iran Respond to US Attack?
This is the first time that a high-ranking U.S. official has spoken about the existence of military plans to prevent the Islamic Republic from crossing the nuclear threshold. There is considerable evidence that Mullen’s frank statement, coupled with the Obama Administration’s increasingly hostile and dismissive attitude towards Iran, and reinforced by the fourth round of United Nations sanctions imposed in June (followed by even harsher unilateral sanctions imposed by both the European Union and the United States), has radically altered the Tehran regime’s strategic calculations on the possibility of a military confrontation with the United States. Read More Here
(MSNBC) – Video: War With Iran – Scott Ritter – View Video Here
Palestine
(GritTV) – Video: USA criminalises giving humanitarian aid to Gaza – View Video Here
(PressTV) – Video: Israel threatens to kill Lebanese Women on Gaza aid ship – View Video Here
(ABCKITV) – Flotilla Survivor Criticizes Israelis
Retired U.S. Army colonel turned peace activist Ann Wright is back home in Hawaii. On May 31, she took part in a flotilla attempting to run an Israeli blockade to take humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
“I went on the flotilla because I had been to Gaza three times in 2009 after the Israeli attack and had seen the conditions there. To go on the flotilla was another way to bring attention to the international community about the plight of Palestinians. It’s immoral and illegal to have blockades like this as collective punishment on people,�? Wright said. Read More Here
(TruthDig) – Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab
Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it. The Jewish Diaspora, especially the young, has a waning emotional and ideological investment in Israel. The demographic boom means that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories will soon outnumber Jews. And Israel’s increasing status as a pariah nation means that informal and eventually formal state sanctions against the country are probably inevitable. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – New Flotilla to Challenge IDF Off Gaza Coast
Former British MP and longtime anti-Israel activist George Galloway has announced that a new international flotilla from Britain, Morocco and Qatar will set sail for Gaza on September 18 with the aim of breaking Israel’s naval blockade on Hamas. Read More Here
Former interim U.N. ambassador and leading neocon John Bolton went on Fox News on Friday and sounded the alarm bells over Russia’s pending delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr reactor. If Israel plans to attack Bushehr, Bolton said, it must act now because allowing the Russians to load nuclear fuel rods at the site will make Iran “essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf.”
“The fuel will be loaded on Aug 21. This is the start of the physical launch” of the reactor, said Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Rosatom, the Russian Energy State Nuclear Corp. “From that moment the Bushehr plant will be officially considered a nuclear-energy installation.” Russia is currently operating under a $1 billion contract with Iran and has worked for over a decade on the reactor. Read the rest of this entry »
(NYTimes) – Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
The attack offered a glimpse of the Obama administration’s shadow war against Al Qaeda and its allies. In roughly a dozen countries — from the deserts of North Africa, to the mountains of Pakistan, to former Soviet republics crippled by ethnic and religious strife — the United States has significantly increased military and intelligence operations, pursuing the enemy using robotic drones and commando teams, paying contractors to spy and training local operatives to chase terrorists. Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – Army Report: AWOLs Up 234%
The Army includes this fact on page 92 of the 350 page document, in a section on misdemeanor crimes — alongside motor vehicle violations, substance abuse, and other crimes — which collectively have been rising at the rate of more than 5,000 a year for the last five years. Read More Here
(MSNBC) – Video: They Destroyed ALL The Evidence! With NO Criminal Investigation! Pat Tillman’s Mom Mary – Part 1 Below – Part 2 Here
FLASHBACK - (GlobalResearch) – Israel ’s War with Iran and The Zionist Power Configuration in America – Prof. James Petras – Read More Here
Afghanistan
(VOANews) – WikiLeaks to Publish More Secrets With Some Data Removed
The founder of WikiLeaks says his group will not be threatened by U.S. officials, but the website will remove the names of “innocent parties” before publishing more secret military documents from Afghanistan. Read More Here
Iran
REPOST - (GlobalResearch) – Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran – Part II The Military Road Map – Michel Chossudovsky – Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘US fears backing Iran attack by Israel’
Syrian Premier Mohammad Naji al-Otri says Israel lacks US backing for an attack on Iran in fear of potential consequences of an ensuing conflict, a report says.
“It is unlikely that there will be a future war and I doubt America would give Israel the permission” for a strike on Iran over the country’s nuclear program “because the reaction from Iran would be unexpected,” Syrian media reported the prime minister as saying in a recent interview with Yemen’s September 26 weekly. Read More Here
Palestine
(Rense) – Gaza’s Poisoned Water – Stephen Lendman
This article follows an August 6 one discussing Palestinians Denied Access to Water, found through the following link:
It explained how Israel exploits Palestinian water resources, using most of it, forcing them to find ways to get by. Water, of course, is essential to life, rights to it natural and usufructuary. Belonging to everyone as part of the commons, it must be used, not owned or abused, an essential truth Israel corrupts. Read More Here
(AlterNet) – Why the Deadly Attack on the Freedom Flotilla Was the Breakthrough That Made the World See Israel’s Cruelty in Gaza
This excerpt from the new book, “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara,” explains how the world is now forced to reconsider what Zionism has actually built in the Middle East. Read More Here
Video: War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler is a famous speech denouncing the military industrial complex. This anti-war speech by two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient exposes war profits that benefit few at the expense of many. Throughout his distinguished career in the Marines, Smedley Darlington Butler demonstrated that true patriotism does not mean blind allegiance to government policies with which one does not agree. To Hell with war. Read the rest of this entry »
In September 2006, the world experienced a paradigm shift when a strong lobbying effort by grassroots organizations effectively derailed an initiative: A move that was tantamount to a declaration of war on Iran.
U.S.: Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for Israel Lobby
In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has decided to shelve a long-pending, albeit non-binding, resolution that called for President George W. Bush to launch what critics called a blockade against Iran.
But an unexpectedly strong lobbying effort by a number of grassroots Iranian-American, Jewish-American, peace, and church groups effectively derailed the initiative.
The decision by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Howard Berman, to shelve HR 362 marked an unusual defeat for AIPAC, according to its critics who charged that the resolution was designed to lay the groundwork for the Bush administration or any successor administration to take military action against Iran.
