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Israel, the spy who 'loves' us
Two former CIA officials - Philip Giraldi and Michael Scheuer - describe the efforts of Israel's lobby to get America to attack Iran.
6-19-08 We lost one of the good guys - Capt. Ward Boston. RIP.
It was June 8, 1967
Our men were viciously attacked 43 years ago
and the perpetrators got away with it.
They were napalmed during an attack by air and by sea that lasted for 75 minutes. Israel sought to sink their ship, and it was due to the sheer heroism and bravery of the men on board - some of whom didn't make it - that that ship stayed afloat. These men and their families have sought and have been denied justice for 42 years. Please support their efforts.
"Whose War?" By Patrick J. Buchanan - one of the most informative and well-written articles to date on the neoconservatives and their agenda. Also, there's Vice Squad - which details how Cheney's office teems with neocons. Though they avoided going into the 'political' reasons behind the neocon push for war on Iraq, PBS Frontline did a special entitled "The Dark Side" about Cheney and the neocons in his office and their role in the runup to the Iraq war which is available to watch for free online at this link. 07/26/06 - James Bamford writes an article for Rolling Stone about the attempts by the neocons and their AIPAC cohorts to get America to attack Iran. Click here to read it. See also, John Bolton - Israel's man at the UN.
The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran - post updated 08/23/08. If the link doesn't work, try this one.
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8/25/2010 - Withdrawal Reports Anger Families and Soldiers Fighting in Iraq Recent reports have been touting the end of combat operations in Iraq, saying the last of the combat troops have left, but the reports are angering some of the tens of thousands of troops who are still there and will remain there.
8/25/2010 - Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed A huge trove of newly declassified documents subpoenaed during a Senate investigation reveals how Israel’s lobby pitched, promoted, and paid to have content placed in America’s top news magazines with overseas funding. The Atlantic (and others) received hefty rewards for trumpeting Israel’s most vital – but damaging – PR initiatives across America. Wow. How many media outlets, magazines, newspapers, radio programs are they funding now? 99 percent of the mainstream media carries Israel's side of the story 99 percent of the time. Not a coincidence.
8/25/2010 - Russia: Israel need not fear reactor Israelis should not be concerned about the uranium fueling of a Russian-built nuclear reactor in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr that is set to take place on Saturday, diplomatic officials at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv told The Jerusalem Post.
8/25/2010 - U.S. support for Israel is decreasing, new poll shows One of the questions that the poll presented was "Does the U.S. need to support Israel?" In August of 2009, 63% of Americans polled said that the U.S. does need to support Israel. In June of this year, 58% of respondents shared the same view; by July only 51% of respondents said the U.S. needed to support Israel. This means that the Israeli PR machine will be in full swing, much stronger than it normally is. Be on the lookout (for increased BS).
8/25/2010 - Iran unveils long-range bomber drone The presentation of the drone came a day after Iranian and Russian technicians began fuelling Iran's first nuclear power station, something Israel called "totally unacceptable." Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/iran_unveils_long_range_bomber_drone_8CvLKX48uNQrfmrdagy2wN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=#ixzz0yE6Hv1ay
8/25/2010 - Mossad in America By Philip Giraldi As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as “U.S. intelligence.” Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It’s referred to as a “false flag” operation...In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story.
8/25/2010 - Military Computer Attack Confirmed A top Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever,” a 2008 episode in which a foreign intelligence agent used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
8/25/2010 - Russia: Iran entitled to peaceful nuclear energy
8/25/2010 - Tales from the Northwest Frontier by Philip Giraldi Americans should be skeptical about anything being promoted by the government or the mainstream media. They should challenge every dollar being demanded by the Defense Department, the intelligence agencies, and by the Department of Homeland Security. Put an end to the American empire and its symbiotic military industrial complex and you can stop writing a blank check every year for the Pentagon, you can stop borrowing money to fund the wars, and you can take sensible steps to reduce the size of governmen Amen, Phil.
8/25/2010 - Iran says it may halt high-level fuel enrichment Iran would stop higher-grade enrichment if it is assured of nuclear fuel supplies for a research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in a Japanese newspaper on Friday.
8/25/2010 - Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber
8/25/2010 - Iran hopes Russia's next step be delivery of S-300 missiles system: MP
8/25/2010 - Anti-Mosque Coalition’s Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney the coalition’s website StopThe911Mosque.com is registered to the Center for Security Policy, a neo-conservative think tank and advocacy group run by Reagan defense official and far-right hawk Frank Gaffney: Big surprise there.
8/25/2010 - US Military 'Overwhelmed' by Mental Health Problems of Soldiers Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month.
8/25/2010 - Iran condemns possible US military action Iran has taken its case against the United States to the United Nations and is strongly condemning the top US military chief for saying military action remains a possibility if the country develops nuclear weapons. Iran's acting UN ambassador Eshagh Alehabib reiterated that Iran will respond to any attack.
8/25/2010 - The Erosion of America's Middle Class Finley calls them "the new poor." "That is a different category of people that I think we're seeing," he says. "They are people who never in their wildest imaginations thought they would be homeless." They're people who had enough money -- a lot of money, in some cases -- until recently......the United States, in the wake of a real estate, financial economic and now debt crisis, which it still hasn't overcome, is threatened by a social Ice Age more severe than anything the country has seen since the Great Depression......While 90 percent of Americans have seen only modest gains in their incomes since 1973, incomes have almost tripled for people at the upper end of the scale. In 1979, one third of the profits the country produced went to the richest 1 percent of American society. Today it's almost 60 percent. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel
8/25/2010 - Israel Places Order For 20 F-35s; U.S. Picks Up The Tab To sweeten terms of the deal, Lockheed Martin agreed to buy more component parts for the JSF from Israeli firms; at a price of around $4 billion. Read more: http://defensetech.org/2010/08/16/israel-places-order-for-20-f-35-jsf-u-s-picks-up-the-tab/#ixzz0yDlrjmGi Defense.org America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel
8/25/2010 - 22 cities in danger of a double-dip recession A new report from Moody's Economy.com singled out 22 cities that are at risk of slipping back into a recession in as early as three months. To come to this conclusion, the economists considered dwindling progress in employment, housing starts, home prices and industrial production. (See the map above for the full list.) America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel
8/25/2010 - US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005, government data released on Tuesday show, as the economy slows and the unemployment rate hovers just below double digits. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel.
8/25/2010 - Bad news on homes, goods adds to air of recession It's starting to feel like another recession. Businesses are ordering fewer goods. Home sales are the slowest in decades. Jobs are scarce, and unemployment claims are rising. Perhaps most worrisome, manufacturing activity, which had been one of the economy's few bright spots, is faltering Let's send a few more billion to Israel.
8/25/2010 - Prepare For Another 4-5 Million Job Cuts And again.
8/25/2010 - Report: Iran needs year to develop nuclear weapon American and Israeli officials believe that Iran has only enough nuclear materials for two weapons. And to build those two would require the country to kick out international inspectors, which would make it clear what its intentions were. It would also take some time for Iran to convert its nuclear facilities to produce weapons–grade uranium.
8/25/2010 - Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday.
8/25/2010 - Iran says it's ready to sell arms to Lebanon Iran is prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon if Beirut asks for help in equipping its military, Iran's defense minister said Wednesday.
8/25/2010 - Senior Hezbollah member killed in Beirut clashes Two Lebanese men, including a senior member of Hezbollah, were killed in Beirut on Tuesday in clashes between supporters of the Shi'ite militant group and a Sunni faction, security sources said
8/25/2010 - Fidelity: 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans up Let's give a couple more billiion to Israel.
8/25/2010 - Iran to supply Lebanon with anti-missile system: report Iran is expected to make the offer to Lebanon during Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit to Beirut shortly after the holy month of Ramadan. Iran would also offer to supply some other weapons during his visit, said the report.
8/25/2010 - U.S. to spend $100 million on Afghan bases
8/25/2010 - 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy What we are now witnessing are the early stages of the complete and total breakdown of the U.S. economic system. The U.S. government, state governments, local governments, businesses and American consumers have collectively piled up debt that is equivalent to approximately 360 percent of GDP. At no point during the Great Depression (or at any other time during our history) did we ever come close to such a figure. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel
8/25/2010 - ACLU Report: Spying on Free Speech Nearly At Cold War Level The ACLU said that the old political spying tendencies are running high again. Individuals and groups are being monitored and harassed for "little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights."
8/25/2010 - Only Bigots Oppose the Mosque! by Patrick J. Buchanan I disagree with some of the arguments Mr. PJB makes here, my comments at the end if they posted them.
8/25/2010 - America Has Disgraced Itself Once upon a time, Republicans were so confident that the vast majority of Muslims preferred freedom to jihad that they believed the U.S. could install democracy in Iraq within months. Now, confronted with a group of Muslim Americans who want to build a cultural center that includes Jews and Christians on the board (how many churches and synagogues do that?), GOP leaders call them terrorists because they don’t share Benjamin Netanyahu’s view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..... I wonder how David Petraeus feels about all this. There he is, slogging away in the Hindu Kush, desperately trying to be culturally sensitive, watching GIs get killed because Afghans believe the U.S. is waging a war on Islam, and back home, the super-patriots on Fox News have… declared war on Islam. Good point.
8/25/2010 - Steinitz demands ultimatum for Iran The US should issue a strict ultimatum to Iran, warning that the possibility of a military strike will turn into reality within weeks should Tehran fail to curb its nuclear program, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Thursday. ....Steinitz, who is a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Whose war is this?
8/25/2010 - Al Qaeda Already Gaming Out War Between Israel and Iran Israel will stage air strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations to start. Shehri expects the Iranian Shia regime to try to take advantage of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities to seize the holy cities of Mecca and Medina by blaming Saudi Arabia for helping Israel attack. In turn, the Israelis will seize territory in the Levant to establish “the greater state of Israel.” The Sunni Arab population of the Middle East will be caught between the “Jews in the Middle East and Iran in the Peninsula.”
8/25/2010 - Obama's Silent Jewish Majority The Wall Street Journal reported last week, “U.S. military aid to Israel has increased markedly this year. Top-ranking U.S. and Israeli soldiers have shuttled between Tel Aviv and Washington with unusual frequency in recent months. A series of joint military exercises in Israel over the past months has included a record number of American troops.” Even AIPAC is on board, at least when asked a direct question
8/25/2010 - Glenn Beck spoke of ‘good Muslims’ with Imam Rauf in ’06
8/25/2010 - The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway – and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
8/25/2010 - US funds restoration of global Islamic sites
8/25/2010 - NY archbishop worries about tone of mosque debate The tense climate around a proposal for an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero could put New Yorkers in danger of losing their sense of tolerance and unity, values they embraced in the days after Sept. 11, the leader of the area's Roman Catholics said Tuesday.
8/25/2010 - 9/11 families, others rally in favor of NYC mosque
8/25/2010 - Supporters: Church ignored in NYC mosque furor
8/25/2010 - Sex shop and strip clubs near ground zero show double standard over Park51
8/25/2010 - NY mayor: Stopping mosque compromises terror fight Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered an impassioned speech at an event marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying that not allowing a proposed mosque to be built near ground zero would be "compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom."
8/25/2010 - Muslim Cab Driver Stabbing Mosque Madness Blowback The man, 21-year-old Michael Enright, was visibly drunk. He asked the driver if he was Muslim and, some time after the driver answered yes, attacked the driver while shouting "Assalamu alaikum -- consider this a checkpoint!"
8/25/2010 - Two Minutes to Midnight?: Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate The pièce de résistance in the most recent drum roll of bomb-Iran alerts, however, came from Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic Monthly. A journalist influential in U.S. pro-Israeli circles, he also has access to Israel's corridors of power. Because sanctions were unlikely to force Iran to back down on its uranium enrichment project, Goldberg invited readers to believe that there was a more than even chance Israel would launch a military strike on the country by next summer.
8/25/2010 - Mideast passions quiet over NY mosque showdown
8/25/2010 - Man Mistaken for Muslim Harassed at NY Anti-Mosque Rally An African-American man who was mistakenly thought to be Muslim was harassed at an anti-mosque rally yesterday in New York City. A crowd shouting "no mosque here" confronted the man and called him a "coward." The man is led away by rally organizers while one man shouts "Muhammad is a p*g." One person shouted "he must have voted for Obama." Who will the angry mob of bigots turn on next?
8/25/2010 - Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?
8/25/2010 - Bahrain: We won't let US attack Iran from our territory Bahraini Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa said Saturday that his country will not allow the United States to use its military base to attack Iran.
8/25/2010 - Ankara tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions on Iran Foreign Ministry officials said the delegation had offered details about the US sanctions but that Turkey's response was negative, the Anatolia news agency reported. “We told them we don't feel obliged to adhere to sanctions other than those imposed by the UN,” an official said.
8/25/2010 - War Veterans/Military Family Members Successfully Blockade Fort Hood Deployment to Iraq
8/25/2010 - US to Fund Israeli Purchase of 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters he $2.75 billion arms deal will be paid for by American taxpayers as part of the US military aid package to Israel. Israel will become the first foreign country to sign an agreement to buy the F-35 outside the eight international partners that helped to develop the plane. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel
8/25/2010 - Statement of Muslim American Imams and Community Leaders on Holocaust Denial
8/25/2010 - Will US Navy board Iranian ships for AIPAC/Israel next month?!
8/25/2010 - Gary Hart Is Right 4. Bombing Iran would virtually assure an attack of considerable dimensions carried out against Israel. This would involve both Iranian and Lebanon-based missiles. Israel would necessarily retaliate. We would then have all-out war in the Middle East.
8/25/2010 - Mosque-Issippi Burning Salman Hamdani died on Sept. 11, 2001. The 23-year-old research assistant at Rockefeller University had a degree in biochemistry. He was also a trained emergency medical technician and a cadet with the New York Police Department. But he never made it to work that day. Hamdani, a Muslim-American, was among that day’s first responders. He raced to Ground Zero to save others. His selfless act cost him his life.
8/25/2010 - Mosque Demagoguery Is Bipartisan by Rep. Ron Paul It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.” Couldn't agree more. While corporate-owned media has everyone in an uproar over a mosque in NYC, the economy is tanking faster than the Titanic. Keep your eyes on the real problem, folks.
8/25/2010 - Lebanon moves to address widespread use of weapons
8/25/2010 - Poll: Public doubts Islam more prone to violence
8/18/2010 - Iran's Nuclear Chief: Bushehr Plant Will Go Online by Month's End
8/18/2010 - Iran condemns possible US military action Iran took its case against the United States to the United Nations on Wednesday and strongly condemned the top U.S. military chief for saying military action remains a possibility if the country develops nuclear weapons.
8/18/2010 - Russia defends Iran nuclear plant ahead of launch In somewhat acid remarks typical of the Russian foreign minister's style, Lavrov added: "I would recommend all those who believe this to be a wrong signal to turn to classics, in particular former US president George Bush, who called the Bushehr project an example of cooperation with Iran, in particular in nuclear sphere."
8/18/2010 - Commentary: Guns of August? There is little doubt that an Israeli attack on Iran would trigger mayhem up and down the Persian Gulf and trigger a third war that would be yet another force multiplier for the U.S. deficit: Federal spending is now at $3.6 trillion; the national debt, $13.4 trillion; cost per citizen $43,000; cost per taxpayer $120,000. Check the debt clock online -- in real time.
8/18/2010 - Point of Return: Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran
8/18/2010 - Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton John Bolton (and all others like him) should be stripped of his US citizenship and put on the next plane to Israel.
8/18/2010 - Iraqi child cancer 'linked to US weapons' A report published on The Independent says cancers and other diseases in the city of Falluja are higher than those recorded in the survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
8/18/2010 - The Weak Case for War with Iran the Islamic Republic is not Hitler's Germany, particularly regarding Jews. No matter how many anti-Zionist or even anti-Semitic quotes Gerecht, Goldberg, and others may marshal from Iranian politicians, inconvenient realities undermine the Islamic Republic/Third Reich analogy: Roughly 25,000-30,000 Jews continue living in Iran, with civil status equal to other Iranians and a constitutionally guaranteed parliamentary seat. It is illegal in the Islamic Republic for Muslims to consume alcohol --but Jews (and Christians) are permitted wine for religious ceremonies and personal consumption.
8/18/2010 - Hillary’s Enemies List by Philip Giraldi The State Department report sometimes seems like a press release for the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Regarding the horrific Israeli invasion of Gaza and its aftermath...Nothing about Israeli provocations and no mention of the deliberate destruction of schools and infrastructure and the targeting of UN relief operations or the high level of civilian casualties.....The report suggests a new, heavily armed and malignant axis of evil. It clearly makes opponents of Israel the designated bad guys and fails to note that US intelligence has not been able to confirm Tel Aviv’s allegations, making one wonder why uncorroborated claims from biased foreign sources should appear in a United States government document without any additional caveats.....So Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies and Hillary won’t let you forget that fact. All Americans should read this.
8/18/2010 - A campaign for war with Iran begins Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats, passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran were necessary to avoid war. But contrary to their predictions, the drumbeat for war -- particularly from Israel – has only increased since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution against Tehran in June.
8/18/2010 - Iran to build 10 uranium enrichments plants in mountain strongholds
8/18/2010 - Israel to buy world's most advanced warplane Delivery of the first F–35s, which are still not yet operational, is expected only in 2015, the paper said.
8/18/2010 - Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran
8/18/2010 - Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many Joblessness has taken hold in America, with the numbers of long-term unemployed reaching levels not seen since the Depression of the 1930s. The figures are frightening and illustrate a society that remains in deep trouble......America appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-notsAmerica appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots This is hardly the time to get sucked into yet another war in the Middle East, at Israel's urging (again).
8/18/2010 - How Propagandists Function
8/18/2010 - John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an 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.
8/18/2010 - A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran The neocons seem to be as strong now as under George W. Bush, with their Real-Men-Go-to-Tehran-type macho undiminished.
8/18/2010 - Iraq to Iran: Propaganda for War
8/18/2010 - Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran
8/18/2010 - 25,000 Jews live in Iran 25,000 Jews live in Iran. It's the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused by the state, in fact, they are protected under Iran's constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, they are not brutalized by an occupying army, and they are not herded into a densely-populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of survival. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
8/18/2010 - Repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran - CSMonitor.com
8/18/2010 - Israel, the bomb, and openness It's time for Israel to come out of the closet. After five decades of maintaining a nuclear weapons program without acknowledging its existence, Israel should proactively announce and provide information about its nuclear weapons status. Though Israel's bombs have long been an open secret, unprecedented international scrutiny in coming years will make this "nuclear opacity" increasingly untenable.
8/18/2010 - How propagandists function Exhibit A - Glenn Greenwald Goldberg wouldn't possibly claim what he claims now -- that the 1981 strike permanently halted Saddam's "nuclear ambitions" -- because, back then, his goal was to scare Americans about The Threat of Saddam. So in 2002, Goldberg warned Americans that Saddam had "redoubled" his efforts to turn Iraq into a nuclear power after the Israeli attack, i.e., that Saddam had a scarier nuclear program than ever before after the 1981 bombing raid. But now, Goldberg has a different goal: to convince Americans of the efficacy of bombing Iran, and thus, without batting an eye, he simply asserts the exact opposite factual premise: that the Israelis successfully and permanently ended Saddam's nuclear ambition back in 1981 by bombing it out of existence (and, therefore, we can do something similar now to Iran)....The purpose of this Atlantic article is as obvious as it is odious: to mainstream the debate over an Israeli or American attack on Iran by defending its rationale, all masquerading as objective reporting
8/18/2010 - Why Israel Wants a US War with Iran Last month, in The Weekly Standard, Reuel Marc Gerecht made the case for an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear targets. With the publication of Jeffrey Goldberg's "The Point of No Return" in the Atlantic, the campaign for war against Iran is now arguing that the United States should attack so Israel won't have to.
8/18/2010 - AP: Arab nations lobby U.S. on anti-Israel vote Islamic nations have long called for Israel – which is widely believed to have nuclear arms – to open its program. But the fact that the Arab League has directly approached Washington and other Israeli allies for support at the September meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency is significant, considering that President Barack Obama last month warned against using that forum to single out Israel.
8/18/2010 - Hamas leader: Ground zero mosque must be built Mahmoud al–Zahar said Muslims "have to build everywhere" so that followers can pray, just like Christians and Jews build their places of worship.
8/18/2010 - Some Muslims question mosque near ground zero
8/18/2010 - How the US economy is being 'Japanised' As things stand, the US is rapidly beginning to look like Japan (a country that has as yet failed to recover properly form a property and stock market bubble that burst in 1990). Like Japan, the US appears to be stuck with a zombie banking system, ineffective monetary policy, an ever-rising national debt and persistently low economic growth.
8/18/2010 - Economic Growth Prospects Dim in U.S. After Retail Sales, Trade Reports America can ill afford another war in the Middle East.
8/18/2010 - US 'Virtually Certain' to Fall Into A New Recession: Rosenberg
8/18/2010 - US unemployment: Don't let the elite pass the buck The point is that a large part of Congress, large enough to block any action on jobs, cares a lot about taxes on the richest 1% of the population, but very little about the plight of Americans who can't find work.
8/18/2010 - Pro-Mosque Mom Who Lost Pregnant Daughter In Trade Center: 9/11 Families 'Not Monolithic' "There is no simple, singular 9/11 group who really should or could speak for all 9/11 family members," said Donna Marsh O'Connor of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a coalition of more than 250 families which recently endorsed the mosque. Since the endorsement, the membership numbers have grown, she said.
8/18/2010 - Barack Obama 'may be prepared to meet Iranian president’
8/18/2010 - Turkey to continue sending fuel to Iran
8/18/2010 - New intelligence on Iran antiaircraft missiles in Afghanistan The WaPo is making the case for war.
8/18/2010 - When Shuls Were Banned in America When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood on Governors Island, in sight of the Statue of Liberty, and forcefully defended the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, he expressly made a point of distancing himself from an earlier leader of the city: Peter Stuyvesant, who understood the relationship between religion and state altogether differently than Bloomberg does.
8/18/2010 - Poll: NY voters opposed to mosque near ground zero The Siena College poll showed 63 percent of New York voters surveyed oppose the project, with 27 percent supporting it. That compares with 64 percent opposed and 28 percent in favor two weeks earlier, results that are within the polls' sampling margins.
8/18/2010 - Obama warns Turkish PM over stance on Israel, Iran: report President Barack Obama has warned the Turkish prime minister that Ankara's position on Israel and Iran could lessen its chances of obtaining US weapons, a report said Monday.
8/18/2010 - Republicans attack Obama over Muslim center comments
8/18/2010 - Muslims pray daily at Pentagon's 9/11 crash site As part of its massive renovation, the Pentagon opened the nondenominational chapel in November 2002. The chapel hosts a daily prayer group and weekly worship service for Muslims and provides similar services for Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Protestants, Catholics and Episcopalians. Pentagon officials say that no one in the military or the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has ever protested.
8/18/2010 - Facts don't calm debate over New York Islamic center Former New York City Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on NBC Thursday morning, called putting a Muslim prayer space near ground zero a "desecration." Giuliani failed to mention that such a prayer center already exists about six blocks from ground zero and has been in lower Manhattan since 1970, the year the World Trade Center opened to its first tenants. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/20/99457/facts-dont-calm-debate-over-new.html#ixzz0xZhvugZu
8/18/2010 - FACT CHECK: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood A New York imam and his proposed mosque near ground zero are being demonized by political candidates – mostly Republicans – despite the fact that Islam is already very much a part of the World Trade Center neighborhood. And that Muslims pray inside the Pentagon, too, less than 80 feet from where terrorists attacked.
8/18/2010 - 'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Helped FBI With Counterterrorism Efforts
8/18/2010 - Culture Jihad by Patrick J. Buchanan Indeed, if, as backers claim, the purpose of this Cordoba mosque and community center were healing, reconciliation, and harmony, it has failed in its purpose. It has already had the opposite effect, enraging and dividing the city and country. Patrick J. again weighing in on the mosque issue. The comments are interesting.
8/18/2010 - ADL Continues To Suffer Harsh Criticism for Its Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero “It is a betrayal of our first principles, and it’s tearing the league apart,” said one board member, who asked not to be named.
8/18/2010 - Lebanon debates giving Palestinians rights
8/18/2010 - Iran sanctions helping Ahmadinejad: Karroubi
8/18/2010 - Ground Zero mosque as wedge issue Muslims vs. 'real' Americans - CSMonitor.com
8/11/2010 - Food Stamp Use Hit Record 40.8m in May The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. America can ill afford to embark on another war in the Middle East (this time, with Iran).
8/11/2010 - Iraq Veterans Against the War Calls for Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes At its seventh annual national convention in Austin, Texas, IVAW called for the prosecution of senior Bush administration officials for allegedly conspiring to manipulate intelligence in order to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
8/11/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP — or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan is startling to learn 47 House Republicans just signed on to H.R. 1553 declaring unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … including the use of military force.” These Republicans have just given Tel Aviv a blank check for a pre-emptive war that Israel, unless it uses its nuclear weapons, can start but not finish. Fighting and finishing that war would fall to the armed forces of the United States
8/11/2010 - U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High Our government must protect Israel at all costs, even as its own citizens go hungry. Thank Israel's lobby.
8/11/2010 - A Cakewalk Against Iran by Philip Giraldi A resolution (HR 1553) is making its way through Congress that that would endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates. The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of "all means necessary…including the use of military force." The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region.
8/11/2010 - Russia Ready to Launch Iranian Nuclear Power Plant The Iranian state owned FNA news service reports that the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kirienko will visit Iran in late August to attend a ceremony to inaugurate the country's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.
8/11/2010 - Will Israel Really Attack Iran Within a Year? Based on dozens of interviews the Atlantic correspondent conducted in recent months with Israeli, American and Arab officials, Goldberg came to the conclusion that the likelihood of an Israeli strike has crossed the 50 percent mark. And Israel might not even ask for the famous "green light" from the U.S. - or even give couple of false pre-attack alerts, so that Washington won't try to stop the unilateral operation......Israel is trying to convey the message not only through the official channels - Israeli military intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin visited Chicago recently to meet with the billionaire Lester Crown, one of Obama’s supporters, and asked to him to convey Israel's concerns to the American President, Goldberg reports.
8/11/2010 - New al-Qaeda leader lived in U.S. for years Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, has taken over a position once held by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, Miami-based FBI counterterrorism agent Brian LeBlanc told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview. That puts him in regular contact with al-Qaeda's senior leadership, including Osama bin Laden, LeBlanc said.
8/11/2010 - Iran ready for talks with Washington, says Khamenei aide
8/11/2010 - Afghan civilians dying at a faster pace, U.N. says Most of the civilian casualties — nearly 1,300 dead and almost 2,000 injured — were caused by improvised bombs, which are also the principal killer of NATO troops. Insurgents are building not only more bombs, but more powerful ones, the U.N. said.
8/11/2010 - U.S. and EU fail to isolate Iran Efforts by the United States and its European allies to build a united front to halt Iran's nuclear program are facing increasingly bold resistance from China, Russia, India and Turkey, which are rushing to boost their economies by seizing investment opportunities in defiance of sanctions imposed by the West......The countries say they will honor the weaker set of sanctions imposed on Iran in June by the U.N. Security Council, but are under no obligation to follow the more stringent rules that the United States and European Union tacked on in July.
8/11/2010 - Report: U.S. downgrades Saudi arms deal over Israeli concerns The Wall Street Journal said Monday that the United States had signed on to sell dozens of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, but that details in the final deal had been negotiated to quell Israeli concerns over the possible exchange.
8/11/2010 - IAEA: Iran activates enrichment equipment
8/11/2010 - Iran pays 25 pct more for gasoline Sanctions on Iran's fuel imports are forcing the Islamic Republic to pay well above the market rate for its gasoline, figures from the Turkish government seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.
8/11/2010 - Eyes on the Skies Over Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Iranian and Russian nuclear scientists and officials have announced Bushehr's reactor will soon be receiving its first shipment of nuclear fuel 36 years after construction first began on the project. This claim may be quietly fueling speculation that a military strike on Iran by Israel - or the U.S. - may be imminent.
8/11/2010 - Mayor Bloomberg’s Monumental Folly by Patrick J. Buchanan But the issue here is not religious tolerance. There are a hundred mosques in New York City. The issue here is the appalling insensitivity, if not calculated insult, of erecting a mosque two blocks from a World Trade Center where 3,000 Americans were massacred by Islamic fanatics whose Muslim religion was integral to their identity and mission. Not sure I agree with Pat on this one, but the comments are interesting.
8/11/2010 - Israel-Lebanon border clash has Israel complaining of Hezbollah's influence - Yahoo! News “In a way, the Israelis are shooting themselves in the foot with their criticism of the Lebanese Army,” says Timur Goksel, a university lecturer in Beirut and former official with the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. “They had been saying for years that they want the Lebanese Army to deploy along the border [to replace Hezbollah] and now [that they have]... they are saying they’re terrorists.” Israelis will complain about anyone that doesn't bow down and kowtow to them.
8/11/2010 - Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.
8/11/2010 - U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know Most likely we will see a combination of all three responses with dramatic increases in poverty, tax, interest rates and consumer prices. This is an awful, downhill road to follow, but it’s the one we are on. And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.
8/11/2010 - Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money, giving students the shortest academic year in the nation and sending working parents scrambling to find care for them. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.
8/11/2010 - Camden Closing Library System New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.
8/11/2010 - Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants presented aerial reconnaissance footage Monday that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
8/11/2010 - Iran Holocaust-denying website angers Israel
8/11/2010 - Social Security in the red this year Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled in 1983, according to the annual authoritative report released Thursday by the program's actuary. America is getting poorer as we continue to shovel billions to the Middle East to Israel and others in order to make the world a safer place not for us, but for Israel. Because, our support for Israel actually endangers us. It was the sole motivation given by the mastermind of the 911 attacks, Khaled S. Mohammed.
8/11/2010 - Lebanon: US military aid halt is 'unwarranted' "We will address the concerns that congressional leaders have rightfully raised about what happened recent and what it's potential implications are," Crowley said. "But nonetheless we continue to support our assistance programs to Lebanon." I would think Congress would have more important things with which to concern itself. Such as things having to do with AMERICA.
8/11/2010 - Syria, Iran underline support for Lebanon against Israel
8/11/2010 - Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran A new poll shows that the percentage of the Arab world that thinks a nuclear-armed Iran would be good for the Middle East has doubled since last year and now makes up the majority. You'll note that the critic of the poll who was cited in this article is from the WINEP, a thinktank associated with AIPAC, Israel's lobby. Naturally they're going to try to refute this poll's findings; it goes against their propaganda effort to paint the Arab world as in opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.
8/11/2010 - Lebanon: We'll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can't be used against Israel
8/11/2010 - Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US killed Iraq. I wish I was martyred' Aziz says the events of 9/11 were shocking to him and Saddam. "We were against that at the time, but we were not speaking to the American government. Saddam Hussein called me and said he would like me to write a letter to Ramsey [Clark, a former US attorney general] and say that we condemn the attack. I did that."
8/11/2010 - Speak No Evil by Philip Giraldi surely Clemons knows that Ross and Makovsky are leading members of the Israel Lobby. Ross, who is currently at the National Security Council, has been described as “Israel’s lawyer” while Makovsky is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. They are gatekeepers whose purpose in life is to protect Israel from any and all criticism. To suggest that as policymakers they have been focused on doing what’s best for the United States and its citizens is contradicted by their personal histories and their recorded statements. That they receive a free pass and even a pat on the head from Clemons and others is precisely why US foreign policy is as dysfunctional as it is.
8/11/2010 - Jewish Leaders Enter Fray Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero All three Jewish groups issued statements affirming the right of Rauf and his allies to build the center. But the ADL, unlike the others, said it was opposed to the construction. “This is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right,” the ADL said.
8/11/2010 - The Mosque and Us Before it became a cause célèbre for Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich and other rank opportunists, before the Anti-Defamation League sullied a once-noble reputation by siding against religious liberty, before the tweets and satellite trucks spun this all out of control, the plan to turn an eyesore of an empty building two blocks from Ground Zero into a mosque and Islamic center was embraced as a sign of true healing.
8/11/2010 - Google-Verizon Pact Worse than Feared
8/11/2010 - Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation.
8/11/2010 - Britain's Cameron criticized for Iran nuke gaffe Opposition politicians are needling British leader David Cameron for telling a town hall audience that Iran has a nuclear weapon.
8/11/2010 - Turkey backs petrol sales to Iran Turkey will support petrol sales by Turkish companies to Iran, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told Reuters on Wednesday, despite U.S. sanctions that aim to squeeze the Islamic Republic's fuel imports.
8/11/2010 - Kucinich Bill Will Stop the Extrajudicial Killing of Americans It has been reported that the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) maintain lists of individuals they can target for execution simply for being suspected of involvement in terrorism, in subversion of their most basic constitutional rights and due process of law. These individuals can be targeted for killing at anytime, despite being far from any battlefield, wherever they may be.
8/11/2010 - Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted Since stepping down as prime minister in 2007, he has accumulated an estimated £20 million, much of it as a result of his ties with the Bush administration. The House of Commons Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, which vets jobs taken by former ministers, was pressured not to make public Blair’s "consultancy" deals with the Kuwaiti royal family and the South Korean oil giant UI Energy Corporation. He gets £2 million a year "advising" the American investment bank J P Morgan and undisclosed sums from financial services companies.
8/11/2010 - China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran China’s defiance irks the US to the point that American officials are now openly critical of Beijing. Perhaps the US knows something about Israel’s intentions toward striking Iran that China doesn’t. A prime opportunity for Israel to strike Iran would be this fall, just before the US elections when politicians are most prone to support Israel despite its actions.
8/4/2010 - July Is Deadliest Month of Afghan War for US Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.
8/4/2010 - Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity This time around, Mullen returned with sweaty palms from a visit to Israel in February 2010. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran, while adding the obligatory assurance that the Pentagon does have an attack plan for Iran, if needed. Veteran intelligence officials including Philip Giraldi and Ray McGovern warn our government about the impending strike on Iran by Israel, and the consequences. These intelligence veterans are heroes.
8/4/2010 - Afghanistan Civilian Deaths: NATO Data Shows Sharp Increase In Attacks After Civilians Killed Each time U.S. or NATO forces accidentally kill Afghan civilians, insurgents and their sympathizers typically retaliate with six additional assaults on foreign forces over the next six weeks, researchers using newly declassified NATO data conclude
8/4/2010 - United States, Iran to Restart Talks Significantly, Iran has reportedly told Turkey that it is prepared to halt further enrichment of uranium from 3-5 percent to 20 percent (the level needed for the Tehran medical research reactor) in hope of restarting the accord reached last October in Geneva
8/4/2010 - Lebanon, Israel clash near border; at least 4 dead Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire Tuesday in a fierce border battle that killed a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist – underlining how easily tensions can re–ignite along the frontier where Israel and Hezbollah fought a war four years ago.
8/4/2010 - Chas Freeman Lets Rip on Israel as a Strategic Liability having been very publicly and unfairly discredited by the pro-Israel crowd, Freeman can walk that rare line and speak honestly about the Jewish state without drowning in the caveats that accompany most such attempts in Washington. All Americans need to read the excerpt of Freeman's speech.
8/4/2010 - US boosts Israeli missile funding US House appropriators have pushed funding for Israeli missile defense programs to its highest level ever, with $422.7 million now slated for 2011. Americans need that money more than Israel does.
8/4/2010 - Lebanese president: Stand up to Israel Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has vowed to "stand up to Israel's violation of Resolution 1701, whatever the price" following the border flare-up between the Lebanese and Israeli armies Tuesday.
8/4/2010 - Assad: We'll support Lebanon in face of criminal Israeli aggression Three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed Tuesday when Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers at the border.
8/4/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP — or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan Since June 1914, a “blank check” given by one nation to another for war has been regarded as strategic folly. Thus it is startling to learn 47 House Republicans just signed on to H.R. 1553 declaring unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … including the use of military force.” These Republicans have just given Tel Aviv a blank check for a pre-emptive war that Israel, unless it uses its nuclear weapons, can start but not finish. Fighting and finishing that war would fall to the armed forces of the United States...Indeed, the principal purpose and result of an Israeli pre-emptive war on Iran, bringing retaliation on Israel, would be to drag America in to fight and finish a war Israel had begun. The mainstream media has still refused to pick up this story.
8/4/2010 - US military chief admits to Iran attack plan Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said military action against Iran could have "unintended consequences that are difficult to predict in what is an incredibly unstable part of the world." The only reason we would have such a plan in place is in the event that Israel strikes Iran, which Congress has veritably given via resolution 1553.
8/4/2010 - White House Pushes for Warrantless Access to Internet Records The White House has asked Congress to make it possible for the FBI to demand that Internet service providers turn over customers' records in cases involving terrorism or other intelligence issues without first obtaining a court order. Those that would trade liberty for security deserve neither..
8/4/2010 - Iran: Ready for Nuclear Talks With Vienna Group Iran's nuclear chief says his country is ready to enter negotiations with the United States, Russia and France on a possible nuclear fuel agreement.
8/4/2010 - Iran warns of unforeseen consequences in event of US attack Iran's chief diplomat was commenting on remarks by Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said Sunday that the US has an attack plan prepared against Iran.
8/4/2010 - More War All the Time by Philip Giraldi A featured op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Post is entitled in the printed edition “A Nuclear Iran. Would America Strike to Prevent it?” with the subtitle “Imagining Obama’s response to an Iranian missile crisis.” The authors are Steven Simon and Ray Takeyh, both fellows of the Council on Foreign relations, where leading neocon Max Boot also hangs his hat.
8/4/2010 - China says it disapproves of EU sanctions against Iran
8/4/2010 - Iran official: We have obtained the S-300 missile system
8/4/2010 - U.S. Blacklists Iran Military Leaders, 21 Firms Massa Israel pleased.
8/4/2010 - Sanctions-hit Iran defiant but 'ready' for nuclear talks
8/4/2010 - Obama’s a Bigger Big Brother Than the Last Guy Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can access without warrant for so-called counter-terror investigations:
8/4/2010 - Damascus: Syria-Saudi ties are none of U.S.'s business Abdullah will hold talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Syrian capital before they travel together to Beirut on Friday to try to calm tension over a tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik Hariri. They are, thanks to Israel. Israel's problems have become OUR problems.
8/4/2010 - Australia approves new Iran sanctions Outside the pro-Israeli lobby in America, its counterparts reside in Canada, Australia and Britain.
8/4/2010 - Republicans offer Israel green light to bomb Iran
8/4/2010 - Turkey Summons Israel Ambassador over Barak Remark Turkey has summoned Israel's ambassador in Ankara, Gabi Levy, to a diplomatic dressing-down following remarks by Defense Minister Ehud Barak Sunday. Barak expressed concern that Turkey's new undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Hakan Fidan, could pass classified Israeli information into the hands of Iran.
8/4/2010 - Coming Home at Last? by Patrick J. Buchanan what did the Iraqis do to deserve this? Did they attack us? No. They had nothing to do with 9/11 and had complied with the U.S. demand to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction years before the U.S. Army stormed in to discover and destroy those weapons....Have the politicians, journalists and think-tank geniuses who dreamed up these wars suffered ignominy and disgrace? Not at all. They are debating and devising a new war — with Iran
8/4/2010 - Who Owns General Petraeus by Philip Giraldi Many who harbor political ambitions rightly fear the power of the Israel Lobby, but fear is a far remove from affection. Many Congressmen held hostage by the Lobby resent it and long for the time when they would be able to support genuine American interests relating to the Middle East. Petraeus surely understands that no one can get nominated by a major party to run for president of the United States if the Israel Lobby and its media supporters say no. The mainstream media ignored this story, as one would expect.
8/4/2010 - War on terror's other cost: undeserved anger at all Muslims We encountered not one single moment of hostility, not from anyone anywhere in that devoutly Muslim country. It was 1998.
8/4/2010 - Flare-up over tree accents Israel-Lebanon tension The clash started after an Israeli soldier on a crane dangled over a fence near the border early Tuesday to trim a tree that could provide cover for infiltrators. The Israelis said they clear such underbrush at least once a week and coordinate their actions with UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force that has been in the area for more than 30 years.
8/4/2010 - Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran A Palestinian state. My prediction: Israel will strike Iran, drawing the US into a wider war, and there still won't be a Palestinian state in the near future.
8/4/2010 - The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran. That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start.
8/4/2010 - Foxman Really Outdoes Himself on Mosque Issue The ADL’s Abe Foxman, who harshly attacked Gen. David Petraeus when the general asserted Congressional testimony earlier this year that the lack of progress toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement made his job throughout the Arab world more difficult, is, of course, a pillar of the so-called “Israel Lobby.”
8/4/2010 - Russian company: US sanctions bar Iran plane deal U.S. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme are preventing a state-connected Russian company from delivering five passenger jets to Iran under a 2007 contract, the head of the company said on Tuesday.
8/4/2010 - The Law of Return at 60: Revisiting (and Revising) a Zionist Pillar In 1950 and even in 1970, Israel was still a poor and fledgling state surrounded by enemies. Anyone who wanted to immigrate was, almost by definition, someone who desired to cast his or her lot with the Jewish people. Today’s Israel, by contrast, is economically prosperous and, hence, a potential magnet for immigrants. At the same time, it is a society suffering from deep social cleavages. The Law of Return and the corresponding citizenship law need to be reformed to meet Israel’s current needs. Read the excerpt by Freeman in this news batch. Americans by the millions get food stamps as billions of our taxpayer dollars are handed to 'economicall prosperous' Israel.
8/4/2010 - Why put an attack on Iran back on the table? I suspect that the real reason for the new flood of commentary calling for attacks on Iran is simply that hawks hope to pocket their winnings from the long argument over sanctions, such as they are, and now push to the next stage in the confrontation they've long demanded
8/4/2010 - Does the Middle East Face an Israel-Lebanon Regional War?
8/4/2010 - A Neocon Re-write of American History Boot is not just some obscure neocon hawk. He is Gen. David Petraeus’s BFF. In one recently publicized e-mail exchange between them, they discussed how the general could back away from his congressional testimony which mildly criticized Israel. At the end of one e-mail, Petraeus thanked Boot with a sideways happy face made from a colon, a hyphen and a closed parenthesis, :-) .
8/4/2010 - Russian oil companies may sell gasoline to Iran
8/4/2010 - Time's 'horrific' cover: Honesty or sensationalism? Atrocities like the ones endured by Aisha are still happening. But "we have been fighting the cancer" of the Taliban "for nine years now, and we have not gotten rid of it." A
8/4/2010 - US to press China, UAE, others on Iran sanctions The United States announced Thursday that top officials will fan out starting next week to China, the United Arab Emirates, and other key countries in support of tighter sanctions against Iran.
8/4/2010 - Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' Sure, 'Newtie', as long as you, along with every other neocon proponent of such attacks, are on the FRONT LINES, you hypocritical traitors.
8/4/2010 - Pakistan's intelligence officials' UK visit cancelled Pakistan has cancelled visit of its senior intelligence experts to Britain over remarks of British Prime Minister David Cameron who accused Islamabad of exporting terrorism across the world, reports said Friday.
8/4/2010 - Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy Folks, unlike Iran, Pakistan HAS NUKES NOW. And Pakistan, not Iran, harbors Al Qaeda, and many in the ISI are seemingly Al Qaeda sympathizers. And yet we are all to believe, thanks to Israel and its minions in our government, that Iran is the number one threat.
8/4/2010 - Is Pakistan Killing Our Troops? This is the same Pakistan Hillary Clinton called our “partner joined in common cause” while promising $500 million in foreign aid. War, like politics, makes for unsavory bedfellows. Is the US knowingly making cash payoffs to a government that mobilizes and arms its adversaries?
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