Neocon Watch 2010 archive

2010 archive

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?

7/28/2010 - Congress, on behalf of Israel, about to declare war on Iran The mainstream media in America has thus far ignored this issue.

7/28/2010 - Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama? by Philip Giraldi House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will 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.

7/28/2010 - Blix: U.S. 'High On Military Action' Before Iraq War At a London hearing, Blix said those who were "100 percent certain there were weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq turned out to have "less than zero percent knowledge" of where the purported hidden caches would be found. And yet, not one person in America has been held accountable for this.

7/28/2010 - American Jews don military uniforms for volunteer service They left their comfortable lives in lap of their families for meals in soldiers' residence during combat training. Volunteers of 'Aish Machal' project come to contribute to Israel in only way they see fit – military service ......"Nathaniel told me that if he's going to take a bullet, he'd rather take one in Israel, for the country," Is there something wrong with joining the military of the country in which they were residing - AMERICA? We've got TWO WARS going on, something is not right with this picture. A MUST READ from start to finish.

7/28/2010 - Clarification: BC-US--US-Iran story The Associated Press reported that former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CNN's "State of the Union" that U.S. military action against Iran now "seems inexorable." A spokeswoman for Hayden responded that he made his reference to Iran's push toward acquiring a nuclear program and not to military action.

7/28/2010 - British PM visits Turkey: Iran, Gaza on agenda British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Turkey on Tuesday, saying the world needs Turkey's help in pushing Iran to address concerns about its nuclear program and harshly criticizing Israel's raid on a Gaza–bound flotilla that killed nine Turkish activists. Cameron, addressing Turkish businessmen, also declared that Britain was a staunch backer of Turkey's troubled bid to join the European Union. The visit – coming early in his term – was a measure of Britain's acknowledgment of Turkey as a critical ally in a conflict–prone region.

7/28/2010 - Israel, U.S. sign deal to upgrade Arrow missile shield The Arrow III will allow Israel "to deal with the threat of ballistic missiles with long range" and will give it "the ability to shoot down weapons of mass destruction outside the atmosphere," the ministry said in a statement. America pays, and pays again (in more ways than one) for Israeli 'security'.

7/28/2010 - Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans Hawkish former Bush Administration official John Bolton recently laid out the game plan to prod Israel into attacking Iran, arguing that outsiders can "create broad support" for a strike by framing it as an issue of Israel's right to self defense. Supporters for military strikes, Bolton says, should "defend the specific tactic of pre-emptive attacks" against Iran. He urges that Congress can "make it clear" that it supports such strikes and that "having visible congressional support in place at the outset will reassure the Israeli government, which is legitimately concerned about Mr. Obama's likely negative reaction to such an attack." John Bolton is a traitor to the American people, and ought to be treated as such. He works FOR ISRAEL.

7/28/2010 - House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran Such a move puts our troops in the region in grave physical danger.

7/28/2010 - Audit: US cannot account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds

7/28/2010 - EU, Canada adopt new sanctions against Iran

7/28/2010 - Ex-CIA chief: Strike on Iran seems more likely now Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."

7/28/2010 - TAC Goes Nonprofit — and Needs Your Help

7/28/2010 - Iran offers terms to halt 20 percent uranium enrichment Iran sent a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on Monday, saying it was ready to negotiate the details of exchanging 2,646 pounds of its own 3 percent enriched uranium for 265 pounds of 20 percent enriched uranium.

7/28/2010 - As WikiLeaks Shake Washington, Congressmen Propose Vote to Exit Pakistan "We already know the U.S. has had missile strikes inside Pakistan since March of 2005 with a lot of innocent villagers killed. All that we can do is to expand the war into Pakistan, destabilize that government and have the United States fighting on still another front. We have to get out of Pakistan and that's why Ron Paul and I have come together, for the first time, to force a vote on this question."

7/28/2010 - US 'Fails to Account' for Iraq Reconstruction Billions The funds in question were administered by the US Department of Defense between 2004 and 2007, and were earmarked for reconstruction projects. But, the report says, a lack of proper accounting makes it impossible to say exactly what happened to most of the money.

7/28/2010 - Iran won't trade with countries imposing sanctions

7/28/2010 - Respect Which Authorities?

7/28/2010 - Russia: EU sanctions on Iran 'unacceptable' Russia on Tuesday criticized the decision by the EU to impose a fresh round of sanctions on Iran. Using sanctions outside the UN Securtiy Council framework was "unacceptable," a Foreign Ministry statement released in Moscow said.

7/28/2010 - Terror’s Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone By Ray McGovern Neither contractor nor intelligence agency staffers seem to see much incentive in touching the third-rail issue with which even former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld openly wrestled — what motivates these incorrigible terrorists to attack the United States and U.S. targets? Not even his Princeton pedigree seemed of much help to him in figuring this out, so he opted for torture. Yet, there is zero appetite to address what effect U.S. invasions and occupation of Muslim countries and our Siamese-twin relationship with Israel might be having among young Muslim men.

7/28/2010 - Israel to UN: North Korea arms proliferation destabilizing the Middle East Hey pot, this is the kettle calling.

7/28/2010 - Ahmadinejad says Russia part of anti-Iran campaign

7/28/2010 - Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran

7/28/2010 - Iraqi city has higher cancer rates than Hiroshima

7/28/2010 - Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran.

7/28/2010 - ADL accepts Oliver Stone apology over Holocaust, U.S. Jews remarks "I do agree that it was wrong of me to say that Israel or the pro-Israel lobby is to blame for America’s flawed foreign policy," Stone said in a statement released on Wednesday, adding that his comment was "not true and I apologize that my inappropriately glib remark has played into that negative stereotype." Are you f'king kidding me, Oliver Stone? You are 100 % CORRECT. Why the hell did you back down from the truth?

7/28/2010 - Reading the tea leaves hopes received a hard knock by reading here that a lion’s share of GOP congresspeople with Tea Party ties signed on to an idiotic resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran. The resolution is dumb in the first place, because Israel would only attack Iran if it had assurances that the US would step in to clean up the mess, and basically continue the war Israel started. But since that war would probably immiserate the United States with oil price spikes, plus ramp up the casualties in Iran and Afghanistan, it’s a bad deal

7/28/2010 - Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state–run Press TV.

7/28/2010 - USS Liberty survivor Death was possible on Gaza freedom flotilla

7/28/2010 - Medvedev 'mouthpiece' of Iran enemies: Ahmadinejad

7/28/2010 - Iran supports three insurgent groups in Iraq: US general "It's very difficult to say if the extremist groups are directly connected to the Iranian government," he said. But I'm sure this will still be used as a means to go to war.

7/28/2010 - Pipes: To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran a recent interview with the right-wing Christian Zionist Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, neoconservative pundit Daniel Pipes shared his view that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a means of “applying pressure” on the United States. Pipes is another traitor to America. An attack by Israel on Iran puts our troops and our missions in the region in GRAVE DANGER. Pipes, Kristol, Bolton, most of US Congress and countless others that are pushing for support for such a strike are all TRAITORS. They do not have the interests of AMERICANS as their primary concern.

7/28/2010 - Haters Go After the 'Ground Zero Mosque' by Justin Raimondo To begin with, the proposed Islamic center – not a mosque, but the Muslim equivalent of the YMCA – a nonprofit foundation wants to build in New York City isn’t at "ground zero," it is four blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. But that doesn’t deter demagogues like Newt Gingrich and various other unsavory opportunists from making it into a political issue.

7/21/2010 - Army suicides hit record number in June Tim Embree of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America testified Wednesday before the House Veterans Affairs Committee that many soldiers fear seeking help.

7/21/2010 - Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 The ex–spy chief, giving evidence in a public session, said she had been asked by the British government after the invasion to persuade deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to ditch his plan to disband Iraq's army. She said she found she had "not a hope" of changing Wolfowitz's mind.

7/21/2010 - Obama official assures on Israel defense aid An Obama administration official committed to sustaining a 10-year defense assistance program to Israel, saying that advanced technology is endangering Israel. Did you see what's going on in America lately? More Americans face foreclosure the economy has not yet fully recovered from the recession, and yet OUR PRIORITY IS TO MAKE SURE THE CRIMINAL STATE can continue to plunder and pillage in the Middle East?

7/21/2010 - We will continue to shield Israel, militarily and diplomatically, U.S. official says The United States will continue to maintain Israel's military advantage as well as protect it in the diplomatic arena, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Wednesday, adding that the American commitment to Israel's security was "not negotiable." Disgusting. It's treason; our support of Israel gravely endangers our national security. It's why we were attacked on 911, according to the 911 Commission Report.

7/21/2010 - Poll: Most Americans would back Israel attack on Iran This is what happens when my fellow Americans get their news from our mainstream media. They are lying to us. Iran is not a threat to the USA, nor has it threatened us in the absence of any threats we've made. This whole Iran scare, just like during the runup to the war with Iraq, has been put forth by Israel and its lobby here in America. THE LATTER are the REAL threat to America. They should be sent packing to teh country to which they are loyal: Israel. Our troops are sitting ducks when Iran retaliates after any Israeli strike on their country. No American would ever support that. But you won't hear about the fallout in our mainstream media, who all cower in fear of the Israeli lobby.

7/21/2010 - Israel re-arms ready for war with Iran While much of the concern in the Middle East and South West Asia is with the post-election problems in Iraq and the worsening conflict in Afghanistan, much more attention needs to be paid to Iran, and the thoroughly dangerous consequences of yet another war in the region. Paul Rogers is Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group and Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.

7/21/2010 - Iron Dome success excites, but army balks at the bill The U.S. Congress passed last week the Obama administration's initiative to provide Israel with a $205 million grant to procure Iron Dome batteries As millions of Americans go hungry.

7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a former CIA officer. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official, told IPS that his sources are CIA officials with direct knowledge of the entire Amiri operation. Really now? Pay particular attention to the last two paragraphs.

7/21/2010 - 'Abducted' nuclear scientist returns to Iran Flashing a victory sign, an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted and abused by U.S. agents a year ago returned Thursday to his homeland and into the heart of the latest crossfire between Washington and Tehran.

7/21/2010 - 'Israel convinces US with credible military plan on Iran' Have Israel’s efforts to convince the US to threaten Iran with a credible military option paid off? According to recent media reports, the answer might be yes.

7/21/2010 - Iran blames West, Israel for bombings Iran blamed the West and Israel on Saturday for twin suicide bombings which killed at least 27 people, despite condemnation of the attack by the European Union, United Nations and United States.

7/21/2010 - Clues Suggest Amiri Defection Was an Iranian Plant

7/21/2010 - Iran Guards warn U.S. of "fallout" over bomb attack "Jundollah has been supported by America for its terrorist acts in the past ... America will have to await the fallout of such criminal and savage measures," said Jazayeri, deputy head of the dominant ideological wing of Iran's armed forces.

7/21/2010 - Report: Russian military confirms no S-300 missile for Iran

7/21/2010 - Israel's nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation It is worth mentioning that in the 1980s, regardless of Jonathan Pollards' espionage activities for Israel, Israeli companies and individuals were involved many cases of technological espionage, steeling U.S. secrets, technology and equipment. The most outstanding case involved Milco, a U.S. based company owned by Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan, which bought and shipped equipment with which could have also been used as triggers for nuclear weapons. These people are not our allies, not even close.

7/21/2010 - The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out Hey, I know, let's give Israel a few more billion dollars in US taxpayer aid, and how about we fight another of their wars too?

7/21/2010 - Study: Attack on Iran would be ‘start of long war’ An Israeli attack on Iran would fail to stop Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program and would lead to a "long war" that would be marked by economic instability and mass civilian casualties, says a study from British think tank

7/21/2010 - A hidden world, growing beyond control * An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. How many Israeli spies are in that group?

7/21/2010 - Iran FM: Nuclear fuel talks to commence in September Talks between Iran and western powers over a plan to supply fuel for a Tehran nuclear reactor should start late September, the Bloomberg news network quoted Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying on Thursday.

7/21/2010 - Demands for Release of Nuclear Whistleblower as Israel Holds Vanunu in Solitary Confinement

7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Would Not Play Curveball The facts beneath the competing narratives permit a key conclusion; namely, that U.S. intelligence has learned nothing to change its assessment that Iran halted work on the nuclear-weapons related part of its nuclear development program in the fall of 2003 and has not restarted that work......hold onto your hats. I’m waiting for arch-neoconservative Ken Adelman, erstwhile clone of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to arise from – and dust off – the ashes of Iraq to reassure us that attacking Iran, too, will be a “cake walk.” Ray McGovern is former CIA.

7/21/2010 - 4 Reasons Israel Hasn't Bombed Iran

7/21/2010 - Democracy Depends on Diverse Media, Senators Say Today, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski reminding him that the Senate continues to be concerned about the dangers of media consolidation. They did something right for a change, something that actually benefits Americans, not Israelis. Imagine. But yet it still won't prevent our mainstream media from being so totallly biased in favor of Israel as it is today.

7/21/2010 - New sanctions crimp Iran's shipping business as insurers withhold coverage Just weeks after the United States and the United Nations imposed new rounds of sanctions on Iran, Tehran's ability to ship vital goods has been significantly curtailed as some of the world's most powerful Western insurance companies cut off Iranian shippers out of fear that they could run afoul of U.S. laws, the insurers say.

7/21/2010 - Sayanim - Israeli Operatives in the U.S. When the “con” is clearly seen, “the mark” (that’s us) will see that all roads lead to the same duplicitous source: Israel and its operatives. The secret to Israel’s force-multiplier in the U.S. is its use of agents, assets and sayanim (Hebrew for volunteers). A great piece by Veterans Today.

7/21/2010 - Karl Rove Strikes Back Karl Rove devotes his latest WSJ column to settling scores over the Iraq war. Calling “shameful” charges by Democrats that Bush exaggerated the evidence underlying the case for war, Rove accuses them of “hypocrisy and cynicism” and intones that they have “lost their honor and blackened their reputations.”

7/21/2010 - US told to review terrorist list THE State Department must review its designation of the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran, or PMOI, as a foreign terrorist organisation, a US appeals court ruled on Friday.

7/21/2010 - Iran Tells Lawmakers to Respond to Fuel Sanctions Tehran: Iran's parliament approved a law yesterday calling on the government to retaliate against any countries that inspect the Islamic state's ships and aircraft or refuse to provide fuel to its aircraft as part of foreign sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

7/21/2010 - Iran urges US to drop 'cowboy logic' over nuclear issue Mr Ahmadinejad added that the US's real concern was not that Iran may make a bomb, but its rise as a regional power. Israel is behind that concern.

7/14/2010 - Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel

7/14/2010 - Obama says Israel unlikely to surprise US with Iran attack "I think the relationship between the US and Israel is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other," he said, when asked if he was concerned Israel could catch the US off guard with an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel didn't give us any warning when they attacked USS Liberty.

7/14/2010 - 'US will attack Iran if it must' There is wide support in Congress for using all means to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power, “through diplomatic and economic sanctions if we possibly can, through military actions if we must,” visiting US Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Wednesday in Jerusalem. These traitors must be stopped.

7/14/2010 - U.S. Congress United in its Support of Israel, says Republican Minority Whip U.S. Republicans and Democrats differ on nearly every issue in the U.S. Congress but are united in their support of Israel, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) told a congregation of U.S. Jews on Saturday. Behold the treason.

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu doubts Mideast peace deal possible by 2012 "There's only been one time that Iran actually stopped the program and that was when it feared U.S. military action," Netanyahu said. "So when the president [Obama] says that he's determined to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and that all options are on the table, I think that's the right statement of policy."

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu: Only US military threats can stop Iran from making nukes

7/14/2010 - U.S. conservatives form new pro-Israel lobby group The Emergency Committee for Israel presents a potent combination of Republican Party neoconservatives and Evangelical Christians. The new group’s board includes Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate who leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist. The neocons are back in full force.

7/14/2010 - Iran scientist heading home from US, vows to tell all Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who surfaced in Washington after going missing for more than a year, left for home Wednesday vowing to reveal details of his claimed abduction at gunpoint by US spies.

7/14/2010 - Russia says Iran moving closer to nuclear weapons Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Iran was moving closer to having the potential to create nuclear weapons.

7/14/2010 - Afghan Corruption Doubled Since 2006: Survey

7/14/2010 - Britain 'Did Not Believe Iraq's Weapons Programme Was A Real Threat' "This process of exaggeration was gradual, and proceeded by accretion and editing from document to document, in a way that allowed those participating to convince themselves that they were not engaged in blatant dishonesty. "But this process led to highly misleading statements about the UK assessment of the Iraqi threat that were, in their totality, lies." To date, no one in America has been held accountable for deliberately deceiving the American people into going to war with Iraq.

7/14/2010 - Economic recession to bring down American Empire? The US is overextended in multiple wars and its economy is continuing to falter; is the American Empire beginning to fall? Thank the neocons for getting us into Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with 911, had no WMDs, and was not a threat to the United States of America.

7/14/2010 - Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran a familiar clutch of Iraq war hawks appear to be preparing the ground for a major new campaign to rally public opinion behind military action against the Islamic Republic. Guess who? The neocons are back. That means more war for Israel.

7/14/2010 - Why Are We in Afghanistan?

7/14/2010 - 'Iranian surrogates' preparing attack on US troops General Odierno said it was unclear whether the Iranian government was directly involved in the plot, but he said the people getting ready to conduct the attacks had gone back to Iran for training and that experts had come from Iran to help plan the attacks in the last month or so. Sounds like someone is making the case for war.

7/14/2010 - U.S. Casualties to Mount as Afghan War Widens, General Says U.S. troops deaths in Afghanistan, which reached record highs in the last two months, will continue climbing, a top U.S. military commander warned Wednesday because the military is trying to oust the Taliban from places they've never been challenged before.

7/14/2010 - critics US too low-key on Islamic radicalism talk President Barack Obama has argued that words matter, and administration officials have said that the use of inflammatory descriptions linking Islam to the terror threat feed the enemy's propaganda and may alienate moderate Muslims in the U.S. By the way, the WINEP, mentioned in this article, is part of AIPAC, the Israeli lobby. Notice the Associated Press laps up this puff piece largely drawing from WINEP. THe AP is often a mouthpiece for the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

7/14/2010 - Hezbollah says it has list of targets in Israel A senior official with the militant Hezbollah group said Sunday they have a list of military targets inside Israel to strike in any future war.

7/14/2010 - Israel is waiting for Palin Look at what’s happening: The prime minister of Israel is holding the president of the United States at bay, bending him to his will, because he’s got the Republicans behind him.

7/14/2010 - Russia to Continue Energy Cooperation with Iran

7/14/2010 - Prices Soar as Sanctions Hit Ordinary Iranians

7/14/2010 - Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose Apart from the newly unemployed, about 39 million people in the U.S. are chronically poor and do not have enough food to eat, according to the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Agriculture. And yet, we continue to pour billions of dollars to Israel to fund its state based on religious supremacism - a state which by the way has not suffered the same economic fate from which America is suffering.

7/14/2010 - Obama: 'I Have Met Israel and It Is "Us"' Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu set up another illegal Jewish settlement, this time on the White House lawn. And, it appears, President Obama has agreed to serve as its armed guard. And again.

7/14/2010 - The Israel-Turkey Imbroglio

7/14/2010 - The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby I quote Mr. Tenet here: “All this weighed heavy on my mind as I walked beneath the awning that leads to the West Wing and saw Richard Perle exiting the building just as I was about to enter. Perle is one of the godfathers of the neoconservative movement and, at the time, was head of the Defense Policy Board, an independent advisory group attached to the Secretary of Defense. Ours was little more than a passing acquaintance. As the doors closed behind him, we made eye contact and nodded. I had just reached the door myself when Perle turned to me and said, 'Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. 'They bear responsibility.' (Italics added). Perle is one of the neocons responsible for deliberately deceiving Americans into going to war with Iraq.

7/14/2010 - Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson "I think there’s a very clear-cut case that Wurmser was not only working for Rumsfeld and Feith and the Pentagon, but he was also working for Israel. I think Feith was working for Israel too." Several more neocons who deliberately deceived Americans into going to war with Iraq.

7/14/2010 - Castro: War on Iran 'Imminent' Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro warned on Monday that a US-Israeli attack on Iran is "imminent" and predicted that this could trigger a global nuclear war

7/14/2010 - CNN fires veteran editor for Mideast over Tweet CNN has fired a senior editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi'ite cleric branded a terrorist by the United States, U.S. and British media said on Thursday. Have sympathy for Israeli Jewish terrorists (such as Begin, Sharon, and more), and you'll get accolades and opportunities.

7/14/2010 - Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again The clout of Washington’s neoconservatives and the political fear induced by Israel’s Likud hardliners were on display again with recently released e-mails in which Gen. David Petraeus grovels before a key neocon and in White House meetings at which President Obama pandered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

7/14/2010 - Israel’s Nukes Harm US National Interests by John Mearsheimer there’s no accountability for Israel on any issue. You don’t need opacity. If I went to the Middle East, and visited Israel, and I was killed, somebody shot me, do you think there would be any accountability? Seriously. If any of you went to the Middle East and were killed, do you think there would be accountability? There wouldn’t be. This is how outrageous this situation is. Just think about the [USS] Liberty, think about Rachel Corrie, think about this Turkish-American who was just killed on the flotilla.

7/14/2010 - Obama Should Keep Bush's Word, But Bibi Needn't Keep Olmert's? In effect, the Israeli right doesn’t want Israel to have negotiate its relations with its neighbors on its own. It wants America to impose a solution. Of course JINSA wouldn’t put it that way. JINSA is a neocon (pro-Israel) 'thinktank'.

7/14/2010 - Syrian secularism a model for the Middle East

7/14/2010 - World powers mull Brazil, Turkey's presence in Iran talks

7/14/2010 - Passing of Shiite cleric Fadlallah spells trouble for Lebanon Notwithstanding his fiery Friday sermons targeting Israel and the United States, the Iraqi-trained Fadlallah opposed the concept of velayat-e-faqih, which puts an Iranian mullah at the pinnacle of Shiite theology and politics. He also condemned Al Qaeda and so-called honor killings of Muslim women, stances that led many Westerners to see Fadlallah, a man Washington labelled a terrorist, as a kind of moderate.

7/7/2010 - Iran to halt 20% enrichment if uranium swap implemented

7/7/2010 - Americans Are Hanging on by Their Fingertips "Will Washington tell my constituents and people like them, all over America, ‘We have money for war but no money for the unemployed? We have money for military contractors but no money for the unemployed? We have money, billions, for corrupt foreign governments but no money for our unemployed in the United States? We have money for tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans but no money for the unemployed? Hundreds of billions for Wall Street but no money for the unemployed?'

7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman: US ready to strike Iran if it must Although US officials often say no option should be taken off the table in relation to Iran's nuclear program, this is one of the few times an official of Lieberman's standing has explicitly used the term "military action" while in Israel. Lieberman is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.

7/7/2010 - Iran warns EU of "dire consequences" over sanctions

7/7/2010 - China denounces new unilateral U.S. sanctions on Iran China denounced the United States on Tuesday for imposing its own sanctions on Iran, saying Washington should not unilaterally take such steps outside of U.N. resolutions.

7/7/2010 - Iran Planes 'Refused' Fuel in U.K., Germany, United Arab Emirates The unilateral U.S. action and other measures planned by the European Union go well beyond a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran approved on June 9.

7/7/2010 - Report: Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

7/7/2010 - Lawmakers ask for Afghanistan exit strategy Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, joined other House members in calling for President Obama to provide Congress with "a clear commitment and plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan" before a vote expected later this week that would provide $58 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

7/7/2010 - Iranian planes can still refuel in Dubai: airport spokesman

7/7/2010 - Pakistan and Iran 'backing Afghan attacks on British troops'

7/7/2010 - Iran 'has proof US kidnapped missing scientist' The evidence, the contents of which have not been disclosed, has reportedly been given to the Swiss embassy, which represents US interests in Iran.

7/7/2010 - US Cuts Aid After Millions Siphoned Off to Dubai Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off aid to the Afghan government.

7/7/2010 - Blair 'exaggerated' Iran support for al-Qaida, says former ambassador As international pressure continues to ratchet up over Tehran's alleged efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, Dalton warned that military action against Iran would be illegal unless there was evidence it posed an "imminent and real" threat to another country.

7/7/2010 - Growing Consensus: Israel Abusing Its Status as ‘Indispensable’ US Ally

7/7/2010 - Obama backs Israel on nuclear conference Obama also agreed to work with Israel to oppose any efforts to single out the Jewish state at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in September.

7/7/2010 - Despite Rift, Israel Gets More U.S. Aid Than Iraq More than any other nation, including war-torn Iraq, Israel gets the most U.S. aid, according to the Feds.

7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman says force may be needed in Iran U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman says there is a broad consensus in Congress that military force can be used if necessary to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Lieberman = agent of Israel.

7/7/2010 - Military official: Iran did not send radar to Syria

7/7/2010 - Executive Privilege by Philip Giraldi the right of Americans to associate freely, guaranteed by the first amendment, can be limited by Congress and the White House if they disapprove of or criminalize the group you are associating with. The Supreme Court is curiously siding with the executive and legislature and denying that it has any right to uphold the constitution, which becomes, by that standard, truly just a piece of paper. The government can call anything a security threat and can proceed without restraint. Libertarians were dismayed by the ruling, but the Israel Lobby’s Anti Defamation League called the ruling "right on target.".....Lieberman, of course, has a particular passion for Israel and it is reasonable to assume that his ultimate intention might be to use the cyberwarfare justification combined with anti-terror legislation to shut down internet sites that provide news and commentary critical of the Benjamin Netanyahu government. Note Giraldi's comments on the bill to 'shut down the internet' in the face of 'danger' proposed by one of Israel's top agents, Lieberman.

7/7/2010 - 'Israel trying to block U.S.-Saudi Arabia defense contract' Israel, however, hopes that if the deal goes forward, Saudi Arabia will receive fewer advanced versions of the F-15 than those possessed by Israel, which seeks to maintain its air force's superiority. "Today these planes are against Iran, tomorrow they might turn against us," the source said.

7/7/2010 - US questions its unwavering support for Israel "This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace," Biden told Netanyahu. Americans need to get Congress back from chokehold of the Israeli lobby.

7/7/2010 - The General, the Journalist, and the Power of Israel It indicates that Gen. David Petraeus, who just replaced Gen. McChrystal as commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, has frankly assessed that the intimate U.S. relationship with Israel is costing U.S. lives in the Middle East. But he’s concerned that his views may cost him politically and so uses buddies in the media to conceal them.

7/7/2010 - What to read this Fourth of July weekend by Stephen M. Walt This year, I recommend you spend a few minutes reading George Washington's Farewell Address, originally published in September 1796. Read the whole thing. Our first president has many wise things to tell us today, but none is more telling than his trenchant advice on the conduct of foreign policy Beware of the evils of the passionate attachment (in present times, this would be the attachment to Israel).

7/7/2010 - Senators Raise Prospect of US Attack on Iran Sen. Graham was even more blunt in his support for launching the war on Israel’s behalf, saying that “the Congress has Israel’s back.” Passionate attachment, right there.

7/7/2010 - Palestinian who planned Munich attack dies in Syria A former leader of the Black September Palestinian guerrilla group, Abu Daoud said he planned the Munich hostage–taking in which 11 Israelis died. But Abu Daoud, who did not take part in the attack, said he was not directly responsible for the deaths. "I didn't kill anybody and I didn't order anybody's killing," Abu Daoud told Reuters 1999 after publishing memoirs in which he boasted of planning the abduction.

7/7/2010 - Israel: Hezbollah storing weapons inside villages The rare publication of what seemed to be detailed intelligence material appeared aimed at demonstrating Israel's reach and preparing public opinion for possible strikes inside villages and the attendant civilian casualties if a future round of fighting erupts.

7/7/2010 - Iran moves radar to Syria: US official Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early–warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran's nuclear sites, a US defense official said on Friday.

7/7/2010 - Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline Very interesting.

7/7/2010 - Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Weapons Intel Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran.

7/7/2010 - Big push begins for war on Iran

7/7/2010 - Views now acceptable In the face of the neocons calling for Steele’s resignation, Rep. Paul stepped up and defended Steele and it paid off, Steel will survive the brouhaha still RNC Chairman unless he bumbles into another crisis (entirely possible knowing his track record) he can’t escape from

7/7/2010 - The War on Michael Steele by Patrick J. Buchanan What the War Party is up to here is a naked attempt to impose its orthodoxy, about the threat of “Islamofascism” and the Long War, on the entire GOP, 28 months before a presidential election. Republicans of all persuasions should recoil at such arrogance. For whence does it come, if not the same hawks and neocons who beat the drums for a unnecessary war on Iraq that cost 4,000 U.S. dead, 35,000 wounded and $700 billion, while making widows and orphans of half a million Iraqis? And what was that all about? Invading and occupying a country that never attacked us — to strip it of weapons it did not have.

7/7/2010 - U.A.E. denies backing use of force against Iran

7/7/2010 - IRAQ: Turkish, Iranian shelling displaces villagers in north Militants from the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Iranian Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) have used northern Iraq as a springboard for hit-and-run attacks on Turkish and Iranian targets since 1984. Both are fighting for autonomy in the predominantly Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. More than 40,000 people, mainly Kurds, have died in the intermittent war.

7/7/2010 - Obama’s New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War Iran must import the majority of its oil from foreign corporations and nations, since it does not have the technology needed to refine the fuel that it pumps from its soil. By cutting this refined oil off, the U.S. will be causing massive, irreparable damage to the Iranian economy — equaling an act of war.

7/7/2010 - Israel and the Infinite Limits of US Patience : No Woodshed for Netanyahu It may be in the interests of the US to restrain Israel but this is almost certainty not going to happen. The reason why is shown by the strange story of the attempt by General David Petraeus, now commander in Afghanistan, previously head of Central Command and America's most prestigious general, to put on the record the fact that US support for Israeli actions in the Middle East was endangering the safety of US troops. He reiterated this in written testimony before Congress in March. But no sooner had General Petraeus done so than he was swiftly rowing back. The explanation for General Petraeus's swift turnaround suggests that he wants to keep open the option of running for the presidency as Republican candidate in 2012 and does not intend to alienate Jewish voters or militant neocons

7/7/2010 - Terrorism: Why They Want to Kill Us

7/7/2010 - Me, General Petraeus & The Lobby Why the panic? Why the rush to consult neocon Max Boot? Why the nervousness?

7/7/2010 - Why West Lost Afghan War by Michael Scheuer

7/7/2010 - The War That’s Not a War by Rep. Ron Paul The sad story is, this war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well-being and common sense. And at the rate we’re going, it’s going to end badly.

7/7/2010 - Sean Hannity Displays His True Colors - Blue and White (Israeli Flag) When Caller Mentions USS Liberty Sean Hannity evidently went full throttle into 'defend Israel' mode and proceeded to repeat the Israeli propaganda regarding that incident, rather than stick up for the AMERICAN (sailors) that were viciously attacked.

7/7/2010 - Bill Kristol Must Resign! by Justin Raimondo The entire political Establishment, from the right-wing neocons at the Weekly Standard to the left-neocons at The New Republic, is uniting around a “hate Michael Steele” campaign. I’ve never been a Steele fan until now, but anyone who can provoke such enmity from such a wide variety of creeps and cretins deserves to be supported to the hilt. Here here.

7/7/2010 - Bibi's Trifecta: Reach Out to Turkey, Boost Fuad, Diss Lieberman some influential American Jewish organizations are following Yvet’s lead on Turkey. They’re giving its envoys a cold shoulder and flooding the internets with bad stuff about Turkey, including sophomoric nastiness as well as criticism of behavior that they used to be the first to defend. This could be a case of American Jewish freelancing, using a sledge hammer while Israel approaches it with a scalpel. Or it could be that Bibi is using them as his own sledge hammer, getting them all worked up against those mean Turks as a little show of force while he quietly negotiates.

7/7/2010 - Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again The clout of Washington’s neoconservatives and the political fear induced by Israel’s Likud hardliners were on display again with recently released e-mails in which Gen. David Petraeus grovels before a key neocon and in White House meetings at which President Obama pandered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

7/7/2010 - General Petraeus’s leaked emails about Israel In a gaffe that hasn't yet attracted the same amount of press as Stanley McChrystal's bizarre interview with Rolling Stone, Petraeus accidentally leaked an email exchange of his -- with the belligerent, neoconservative, pro-Israeli columnist Max Boot -- to an activist named James Morris, who then passed it on to the blogger Philip Weiss:

7/7/2010 - Total CEO calls Iran oil embargo'an 'error' The CEO of French energy giant Total on Friday criticised sanctions against Iran, saying an embargo on petrol products was an "error" that would harm ordinary people.

6/30/2010 - Sinking Ship - The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer It is easy to see why. Because the United States gives Israel so much support and U.S. politicians routinely laud the “special relationship” in the most lavish terms, people around the globe naturally associate the United States with Israel’s actions. Unfortunately, this makes huge numbers of people in the Arab and Islamic world furious with the United States for supporting Israel’s cruel treatment of the Palestinians. That anger in turn helps fuel terrorism against America. Remember that the 9/11 Commission Report, which describes Khalid Sheik Muhammad as the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks,” concludes that his “animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.” Osama bin Laden’s hostility toward the United States was fuelled in part by this same concern. An absolutely superb piece by Mearsheimer. If you're American (like me), please read it.

6/30/2010 - G-8 'fully believes' Israel will attack Iran, says Italy PM

6/30/2010 - Is Benjamin Netanyahu Rational? by Philip Giraldi Israel appears to have little concern about doing whatever is necessary to drag the United States down with it if that is what is required. It is we Americans who should be fearful. Each American should be very concerned about what Bibi is actually thinking, particularly as our Congress and media have already been bought and occupied and we have a president who is so unsure of the support of his own party that he is afraid to face down an Israeli prime minister. I encourage my fellow Americans to heed (former CIA) Philip Giraldi's words.

6/30/2010 - Iran cancels aid ship to Gaza: report "In order to deprive the Zionist regime of any excuse, the aid collected for the oppressed people of Gaza will be delivered to them by other means without mentioning the name of Iran."

6/30/2010 - Kucinich: We Are Losing Our Nation to Lies About the Necessity of War "Today, we learned that suitcases of $3 billion in cash have openly moved through the Kabul airport. One U.S. official quoted by the Wall Street Journal said, ‘A lot of this looks like our tax dollars being stolen.' $3 billion. Consider this as the American people sweat out an extension of unemployment benefits.

6/30/2010 - US Military Chief: Doesn’t Trust Iran but Israel, US “in Synch” Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chief of Staffs, returned home from Israel and said that although he has “no reason to trust” Iran, Israel knows that attacking the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites would be "incredibly destabilizing.”.....Mullen’s visit to Israel Sunday was the 15th time he has met with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi since taking office in 2007. He said that he considers Chief of Staff Ashkenazi a “personal friend” and that he always tries to share Israel’s view of threats against the country.

6/30/2010 - Chronic Pain Often Follows U.S. Soldiers Home: Study About nine in 10 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who registered for care with the Department of Veterans Affairs are experiencing pain, and more than half have significant pain, according to a study presented in May at the American Pain Society's annual meeting. Significant pain is a 4 or greater on a scale of 1 to 10.

6/30/2010 - War Makes Us Poor

6/30/2010 - US Approves New Iran Sanctions The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs committee (AIPAC) praised the sanctions, saying they “provide the best hope that political and economic measures can peaceably persuade Iran to end its illicit nuclear program before it is too late.” AIPAC is pulling the strings.

6/30/2010 - Questions for Supreme Court Nominee Kagan by Ralph Nader Does a Congressional delegation of the war-making discretion to the President in the form of a war resolution meet the test of Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution?

6/30/2010 - If CIA has new info on Iran’s nuclear plans, RF interested in details – Lavrov

6/30/2010 - Russia complains about German seizure of Iran items Russia complained to the Security Council on Monday about what U.N. diplomats said was Germany's seizure of items bound for a nuclear power plant in Iran, saying such moves were "not in line" with U.N. rules.

6/30/2010 - Russia alarmed by CIA view of Iran's weapons Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta told ABC's "This Week" television program that the agency thinks Iran has enough low–enriched uranium now for two weapons, but that Tehran would have to further enrich the material first. "As to this information –– it needs to be checked," Medvedev told reporters in Toronto, where he was attending the Group of 20 summit of rich and emerging nations.

6/30/2010 - Congresswoman Raises Red Flag on Hezbollah-Cartel Nexus on U.S. Border AIPAC is no doubt behind this effort..

6/30/2010 - Hezbollah not interested in dialogue with US Hezbollah's deputy chief said Monday his group is not interested in a dialogue with Washington until the U.S. changes its Mideast policy, which he said is totally biased in favor of Israel.

6/30/2010 - Congress faces grim numbers in new Gallup poll Here's something that might help President Obama feel better about his dismal poll numbers: The public is even more unhappy with Congress. A new Gallup poll finds just 20 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, among the lowest ratings ever recorded for the House and Senate ahead of a midterm election. Maybe they ought to try representing OUR interests for a change.

6/30/2010 - CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs Asked about a potential Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, Panetta said he thinks Israel is giving the U.S. room on the diplomatic and political fronts.

6/30/2010 - Chavez: Israel and US 'empire' are enemies "Someday the genocidal state of Israel will be put in its place, in the proper place and hopefully a real democratic state will be born," Chavez said Saturday. "But it has become the murderous arm of the Yankee empire – who can doubt it? – which threatens all of us."

6/30/2010 - Sen. Kerry in Israel: Praise for Israel, Worried over Iran . Kerry previously has visited Syria and Gaza in an effort to win backing for a regional peace summit, even though the United States considers Syria a country that supports terrorism.

6/30/2010 - Venezuela's Chavez meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad, vows to fight US 'imperialism'

6/30/2010 - Iran says Egypt barring Gaza aid ship from Suez Canal The Iranian Red Crescent said on Sunday that in addition to restrictions imposed by Israel, Egypt had barred a Gaza-bound aid ship from entering the Suez Canal, leading to the trip being postponed.

6/30/2010 - Chances of Israeli Bombing Increase

6/30/2010 - ISRAEL 'PLOTS TEHRAN RAID' Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.

6/30/2010 - Palin: Obama administration selling out Israel Who chooses to take the side of a foreign nation over their own? It's treason.

6/30/2010 - Punishing Turkey by Philip Giraldi The Gaza flotilla has been handled by the mainstream media in precisely that fashion – blaming the victim with a unanimity that overwhelms both justice and fairness. No humanity, no mention of the deliberate attempt to starve Gaza most recently endorsed by alleged United States Senator from New York Charles Schumer who said "strangle them economically." Or, if one prefers the wisdom of Representative Eliot Engel, also from New York, the flotilla was "filled with hate-filled provocateurs bent on violence." Punishing Turkey - all because of Israel.

6/30/2010 - Infrastructure Minister warns Hezbollah: Israel will fight for its gas fields Lebanon parliament speaker Nabih Berri earlier this month urged his government to start exploring its offshore natural gas reserves, claiming that otherwise Israel would claim the resources.

6/30/2010 - Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast The chart, published by Stratfor and obtained by the Zero Hedge financial blog, shows that over the last few weeks a naval carrier -- the USS Harry S Truman -- has been positioned in the north Indian Ocean, not far from the Strait of Hormuz, which leads into the Persian Gulf. The carrier joins the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was already located in the area. The chart is dated June 23, 2010.

6/30/2010 - THE REAL SEAN HANNITY a man called into Hannity’s radio talk show on Friday June 25th, and politely informed him he was disappointed that Hannity showed a bit too much biased obsequiousness, often referring to Israel as “Americas greatest ally” and refusing to admit any inequities. The caller pointed out that it was Israeli fighter jets which bombed the U.S.S Liberty and killed American sailors, and that nearly all, if not all, those aboard the vessel claimed it was an obviously intentional act. However, Hannity would not even consider the man’s statements as objectively inquisitive and instead began insinuating that the caller was a “conspiracy theorist.” The sober disappointment could be heard in the caller’s voice as he respectfully requested that Hannity just research the incident.

6/30/2010 - Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah at White House

6/30/2010 - Jewish Groups Turn a Cold Shoulder To Turkey, as Turks Refuse To Budge Jewish groups, who until recent months defended the Israeli-Turkish alliance, are now taking on the task of portraying the Erdogan government as supporting terrorist and extremist regimes. As the Jewish groups turn, so too does the US Congress.

6/30/2010 - How Many Americans are Targeted for Assassination?

6/30/2010 - G8 leaders welcome Turkish, Brazilian efforts for solution to Iran's nuclear issue

6/30/2010 - 10 alleged Russian secret agents arrested in US

6/30/2010 - A Wasteland Called Peace by Philip Giraldi the US Central Command is expanding clandestine operations "to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region." The new directive also permits "reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran."

6/30/2010 - Congresswoman Fears Hizbullah ‘Israel-Like Bombings’ in US Federal government documents have shown that that the United States apprehended two Syrians and 17 Iranians over a 12-month period ending this past April. Also nabbed at the border were dozens of others from other Muslim countries, including Sudan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

6/30/2010 - Panetta Right or Wrong by Philip Giraldi If CIA Director Leon Panetta is correct and al-Qaeda has been reduced to a tiny remnant http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_afghanistan why are we spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on defense, intelligence, and homeland security

6/30/2010 - Petraeus Holds Obama Hostage by Patrick J. Buchanan If Obama has not noticed, the neocons, who want a “long war” in the Islamic world and a new war with Iran, are celebrating the Petraeus appointment with far greater unanimity than Obama’s own staff. Interesting.

6/30/2010 - 'The U.S. will have to confront Iran or give up the Middle East' Amitai Etzioni, professor of International Relations at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., believes the only option available to contain Iran's atomic ambitions is a series of assaults on its non-nuclear facilities. Amitai Etzioni naturally has ties to Israel (he served in the Haganah, the Jewish terror organization).

6/23/2010 - Long Island Rep. Pete King says House Dems forced to choose between Israel and Obama - NYPOST.com Rep. Pete King says President Obama's weak Mideast policy is forcing House Democrats to make the difficult choice of either supporting Obama or supporting Israel. "I hope they put our relationship with Israel above their relationship with Obama," King (R-LI) said yesterday. Do Americans fully understand the treason within that statement?

6/23/2010 - Gates: 'Reasonable chance' for UN's Iran penalties He gives new U.N. penalties a "reasonable chance" of persuading Iran's clerical leadership to end what the U.S. claims is its drive to build a bomb. Iran denies it is seeking a weapon.

6/23/2010 - Iran says UN sanctions show double standard The Supreme National Security Council said that U.S. and other nuclear–armed powers have punished Iran with the sanctions even though it doesn't have nuclear weapons, while at the same time they support Israel, which is widely believed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal.

6/23/2010 - Report: Lebanon forbids launch of Gaza-bound flotilla Earlier Sunday, Haaretz reported that Israel had initiated diplomatic efforts designed to prevent the departure of at least one vessel, carrying 50 to 70 Lebanese women and food aid. Israel has been in touch with the UN, United States, France, Spain and Germany. It has also been speaking with the Vatican because the ship is expected to include several dozen Catholic nuns.

6/23/2010 - Israel to UN: We reserve the right to stop Lebanon Gaza-bound flotilla Earlier Friday the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said that it would not take part in Gaza-bound aid missions so as not to give a pretext for Israel to attack Lebanon.

6/23/2010 - Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.

6/23/2010 - Al-Qaida warns of new attacks deadlier than before

6/23/2010 - Investigators probing US money flow to insurgents

6/23/2010 - US envoy cautions Pakistan over Iran gas deal The U.S. warned Pakistan that a recently signed gas pipeline deal with Iran could run afoul of new sanctions being finalized in Congress, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan said Sunday.

6/23/2010 - EU leaders approve fresh sanctions against Iran

6/23/2010 - Rowley, McGovern and Ellsberg -- Statement on Wikileaks In April, Wikileaks released the "Collateral Murder" video showing U.S. soldiers in Iraq killing civilians including a Reuters photographer and then shooting at people, including children, in a van attempting to rescue the wounded.

6/23/2010 - Strong Support For Attack On Iran (Israeli) propaganda really does work.

6/23/2010 - Turkey vows to press forward with Iran nuclear fuel swap

6/23/2010 - Iran could fire 'hundreds' of missiles at Europe: Gates US intelligence has shown Iran could launch an attack against Europe with "scores or hundreds" of missiles, prompting major changes to US missile defenses, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said on Thursday.

6/23/2010 - More than twelve United States Naval warships and at least one Israeli ship crossed the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on Friday, British Arabic Language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday.

6/23/2010 - Gas deal with Iran: US warns Pakistan The U.S. warned Pakistan that a recently signed gas pipeline deal with Iran could run afoul of new sanctions being finalized in Congress, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan said Sunday.

6/23/2010 - U.S. Tax Dollars Fueling Afghan Insurgency Committee investigators found that private contractors in Afghanistan have been paying local warlords, criminals, government officials and a list of others for security on Afghanistan's roads, to get much needed supplies to U.S and NATO bases. But even worse, anecdotal evidence indicates that U.S. tax dollars are also going into the hands of the Taliban, who own many of the roads and areas through which the trucking convoys have to pass, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.

6/23/2010 - Atomic chief says Iran has 17 kilograms of enriched uranium

6/23/2010 - Russia 'schizophrenic' on Iran: US defense chief Russia appears to have a "schizophrenic" approach to Iran, viewing Tehran as a security threat while pursuing commercial deals with the country, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.

6/23/2010 - U.S. targets bank, shipping in new Iran sanctions U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman said he expects Congress to finish shortly legislation tightening U.S. sanctions on Iran that will include provisions affecting the supply of refined petroleum products to Tehran, and add to sanctions on its financial sector. Lieberman is one of Israel's main agents in Congress.

6/23/2010 - Peter King Calls For U.S. Removal From UN Human Rights Council Though Congressman King does not have an exceptionally large identifiable Jewish constituency, he nevertheless has been a most outspoken and passionate defender of Israel and the role it plays as America’s greatest ally....Today, Mr. King introduced, the America Stands with Israel Act. This legislation reaffirms America’s support for Israel by calling for the removal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council and prohibiting the use of American taxpayer dollars to fund a U.N. investigation into the flotilla incident. King is a traitor to America.

6/23/2010 - The Critic of My Friend is My Enemy Stephen M. Walt The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic, but who ever said that political organizations had to be ethically consistent? Once relations between Israel and Turkey began to fray, however -- fueled primarily by Turkish anger over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians -- the ADL and AIPAC withdrew their protection and Congressional defenders of Israel began switching sides, too. .......The neocons have turned from friends of Turkey to foes for one simple reason: Israel.....whether a state is democratic or not matters little for the neocons; what matters for them is whether a state backs Israel or not Great article.

6/23/2010 - Report: U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea According to the report, thousands of Egyptian soldiers were deployed along the Suez Canal guarding the ships' passage, which included a U.S. aircraft carrier.

6/23/2010 - YouTube - Ron Paul Exposes Israeli Agent Nancy Pelosi

6/23/2010 - Lebanon permits Gaza-bound ship to sail to Cyprus Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said the ship named "Julia" is now docked at the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli and can set sail once it is cleared by port authorities there. He said it would be allowed to sail to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and not directly to Gaza because Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war and Lebanon views Gaza as Israeli controlled.

6/23/2010 - Israel warns UN over Lebanon to Gaza aid bid

6/23/2010 - Obama Admin.: Don’t Question Torturers’ Sincerity The Canadian government has publicly apologized to Arar for providing false information to the U.S. government about Arar’s suspicious connections. The U.S. government has refused to admit it did anything wrong in shipping Arar to the Middle East to be tortured at U.S. behest.

6/23/2010 - Report: Egypt refuses to stop Iranian ships Egypt rejected Israel's request not to assist the Iranian ships slated to sail to the Gaza Strip in the coming days, Kuwaiti paper al-Dar reported on Friday. The report was not confirmed by any official Egyptian elements.

6/23/2010 - Global Poll Shows Muslims Leery of US and Obama The surveys were taken before Israel's deadly May 31 clash with a flotilla of boats trying to break the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which sparked widespread condemnation of Israel.

6/23/2010 - Lebanon: Israel fully responsible for any attack Israel's ambassador to the United Nations warned the world body last week that the Jewish state was entitled to use "all necessary force" to stop the Lebanese activists' boats.

6/23/2010 - Iran warns against cargo inspections In response to a US-sponsored sanctions resolution imposed by the UN Security Council against Iran, Tehran threatens to retaliate if its cargo ships come under inspection.

6/23/2010 - Report: Hezbollah prepares retaliation for potential Nasrallah assassination

6/23/2010 - Giving Peace Advice to Terrorist Can Be Illegal Civil liberties advocates said they also feared repercussions for U.S.-based critics of the Israeli government, who might be charged with aiding Hamas, which Washington has designated as a terrorist group. One such critic is former President Jimmy Carter, whose private Mideast diplomatic efforts have included contact with Hamas. The ruling "threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organizations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence," said Carter, whose organization filed arguments with the court.

6/23/2010 - White House Moved Quickly to Replace McChrystal The president said that while he admired McChrystal's military career, comments in an article in Rolling Stone magazine simply crossed the line.

6/23/2010 - Ex-Mossad Chief Strike Iran Now Israel should launch a pre-emptive strike to prevent arch-foe Iran from going nuclear, a former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency said on Monday.

6/23/2010 - Canada imposes Iran sanctions

6/23/2010 - What Price Afghanistan? by Patrick J. Buchanan saying the U.S. can succeed in the next 12 months in what we have failed to accomplish, at a rising cost in blood and money, for the last eight years, is not credible.

6/23/2010 - Senate Bill Would Give Obama Internet ‘Kill Switch’ The bill, proposed by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) claims the entire Internet, the whole global computer network and everything on it, as a “national asset” of the United States, and seeks to give President Obama the power to seize control over broad swaths of it with no oversight during a “National Cyber Emergency,” which would itself be something the president would be able to declare at any time.

6/23/2010 - Syria: Israel raid on Gaza flotilla raises risk of Mideast war Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that Israel is being run by a "pyromaniac government", warning that its raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip had increased the risks of war in the region.

6/16/2010 - No sign of Iranian incursion in Iraqi north: US The US military said Thursday it had no evidence to substantiate a report that Iranian troops have been building a small fort on Iraqi territory since crossing the border in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.

6/16/2010 - Ahmadinejad: Israel, U.S. trying to sabotage Iran's relations with Saudi Arabia Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday charged Israel and the United States of trying to sabotage relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a day after Riyadh denied a report in the Times claiming it had agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran.

6/16/2010 - Gulf states not to back attack against Iran Riad Kahwaji, General Director of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said the "[Times] report, in my opinion, is part of the psychological warfare between Iran and the US, because there is no need for Saudi-Israeli cooperation to allow the Jewish state to attack Iran." Well which is it?

6/16/2010 - Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies to Attack Iranian Nuclear Sites “The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.”

6/16/2010 - America leaves Iraq a toxic legacy of dumped hazardous materials An investigation by The Times in five Iraqi provinces has found that hazardous material from US bases is being dumped locally rather than sent back to America, in clear breach of Pentagon rules.

6/16/2010 - US 'inciting conflict to trigger war' A former US Senator, Mike Gravel spoke to Press TV in an interview on Thursday calling the new round of sanctions "a terrible mistake" and that the US is "inciting conflict" to "push Iran to make some silly mistake that could trigger a response". A Congressman with cojones. Kudos.

6/16/2010 - Russia to freeze missile sale to Iran, Putin tells Sarkozy Earlier Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its contentious nuclear program do not oblige Moscow to scrap a controversial deal to deliver surface-to-air missiles to Iran.

6/16/2010 - Iran to Inspect Gulf Ships If Sanctions Used on Cargo “The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz will be our maneuvering front,” Ebrahimi said. “Anybody who wants to harm our interests, we will severely harm theirs in retaliation.”

6/16/2010 - Effectiveness of Iran Sanctions Widely Questioned

6/16/2010 - Obama urges support for Iranian 'freedom' Echoes of Iraq...

6/16/2010 - U.S. and Norway lead bid to rebuke Iran at U.N. rights forum

6/16/2010 - Senior White House Official: UN Sanctions Alone "Would Not Be Sufficient" to Change Iran's Behavior -- But Much More to Come

6/16/2010 - U.S. sources: Turkey vote against Iran sanctions - a slap in the face Israel and the United States on Wednesday hailed a UN Security Council vote to impose a fourth round of sanctions on a defiant Iran, which immediately vowed to continue with its nuclear program. Turkey and Brazil were the only votes against the sanctions, while Lebanon abstained.

6/16/2010 - Israel vs Iran: The Risk of War

6/16/2010 - Phantom Iranian Ship sails for Gaza that's what makes the reports of a "phantom" Iranian ship headed for Gaza so unsettling, because it could be used as a justification for another war.

6/16/2010 - Obama Goes with Neocon Flow on Iran Just as the neocons and Israel wanted “regime change” in Iraq, they have long hungered for “regime change” in Iran, too. A favorite neocon joke at the time of the Iraq War was to speculate on which direction to go next, to Syria or Iran, with the punch-line, “Real men to go Tehran!”

6/16/2010 - Reading Washington’s Linkage Map If the post-9/11 presence of hundreds of thousands of American troops in the Middle East initially seemed to Israelis to be a blessing, it has now emerged as a serious challenge for Jerusalem.

6/16/2010 - Israeli Request for More Arms from US Raises Fears of Regional Violence

6/16/2010 - Turkey calls charges turning from West 'dirty propaganda' US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday the European Union's refusal to offer Turkey a swift accession process has partly caused Ankara's foreign policy shift and the deterioration in its relations with Israel. .....Doubts among Western countries about Turkey's shifting foreign policy began in 2009 when Erdogan strongly criticised Israel for its deadly military campaign in Gaza.

6/16/2010 - More Spin from Israel by Philip Giraldi The Israelis expected to lead the vessels into port like sheep, but to their surprise some of the sheep resisted. .....What were soldiers doing attacking a vessel in the middle of the night in international waters in the first place?....Washington’s backing of Israel in what surely must be viewed as a massacre will further erode any support from Islamic countries for US policies and will serve as a recruiting tool for groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Even if one is not a fan of US empire and the current crop of pointless wars, it is heartbreaking to have to witness an increasing number of young Americans delivered up as cannon fodder in a growing confrontation with a Muslim world that is angry with Israel and taking revenge by attacking the United States.

6/16/2010 - China reverses stance with Iran sanctions support Israel may have also played a role in persuading China to back harsher sanctions against Iran, according to Israeli officials. In recent weeks, three Israeli delegations have gone to China, and all discussed the Iranian nuclear program, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were secret.

6/16/2010 - Arab states: Israel nuclear danger reinforced by its aggression Iran is seen by Western nations as an NPT renegade and bomb risk for hiding sensitive nuclear activity. They say Israel is not comparable because it is not in the NPT while Iran is. Many developing nations say that this is precisely the problem.

6/16/2010 - Possible Western Pennsylvania Link to Israeli Nukes Boosted A recently declassified federal report bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear arms efforts.

6/16/2010 - U.S. targets bank, shipping in new Iran sanctions U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman said he expects Congress to finish shortly legislation tightening U.S. sanctions on Iran that will include provisions affecting the supply of refined petroleum products to Tehran, and add to sanctions on its financial sector. What would Israel do without its agents in Congress?

6/16/2010 - Iran warns Israel of retaliation if its Gaza-bound aid ship is attacked

6/16/2010 - Arab nations cheer Turkey for tough Israel stand Arab nations burst into applause Thursday as Turkey's prime minister walked to the podium at a summit, reflecting Turkey's meteoric rise on the world stage amid disputes over Israel's blockade of Gaza and U.N. sanctions against Iran.

6/16/2010 - Israeli Nuclear Missile Boats Off Iranian Coast

6/16/2010 - YouTube - Arrest me, I'm a terrorist They turned themselves in on account they were deemed 'terrorists' by Brad Sherman. A very good news report.

6/16/2010 - Russia: Iran sanctions won't affect sale of S-300 missiles, will only impact deals regarding mobile missiles. Earlier Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that new United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its contentious nuclear program do not oblige Moscow to scrap a controversial deal to deliver surface-to-air missiles to Iran.

6/16/2010 - Russia threatens payback if Iran sanctions affect its interests The Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Wednesday of retaliatory measures if new sanctions against Iran affected Russian companies or individuals.

6/16/2010 - Iran says nuclear fuel swap still possible

6/16/2010 - EU ministers propose extra sanctions against Iran: diplomat EU foreign ministers on Monday proposed new sanctions going further than UN restrictions, in a bid to pressure Iran over its nuclear programme.

6/16/2010 - Internet 'kill switch' proposed for US That emergency authority would allow the Federal Government to "preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people," Joe Lieberman, the primary sponsor of the measure and the chairman of the Homeland Security committee, told reporters on Thursday. Can't be good (for Americans) if Lieberman is behind it.

6/16/2010 - Toppling the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi

6/16/2010 - Democrats demand flotilla "terrorists" be denied entry into U.S. Congress needs a reboot at this point. Its incessantly doing the bidding of Israel to the detriment of American taxpayers.

6/9/2010 - Remembering the USS Liberty Congress never formally investigated the attack and to this day, bitterness lingers among the survivors of the only ship in U.S. naval history that was ever deliberately attacked by an ally. No one at any level — Israeli or American — was ever held accountable for what happened to the USS Liberty.

6/9/2010 - June 8th, Anniversary of Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty Veterans Today “I have never believed that the attack on the USS Liberty was a case of mistaken identity,” Admiral Moorer has said. “What is so chilling and cold-blooded, of course, is that they [the Israelis] could kill as many Americans as they did in confidence that Washington would cooperate in quelling any public outcry. I have to conclude that it was Israel’s intent to sink the Liberty and leave as few survivors as possible.”

6/9/2010 - Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone In a stirring tribute to the D–Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military's top officer said Sunday that World War II's defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not "suffer in quiet desperation."

6/9/2010 - June 8 1967 - Honor those aboard the USS Liberty Find out the truth (from the survivors) and most importantly, HONOR THEIR HEROISM, for it was their sheer bravery that prevented Israel from sinking that ship and killing ALL ABOARD.

6/9/2010 - 43rd Anniversary of Israel’s Attack on USS Liberty It is naive to think that the Obama team would give a damn about getting the truth out about last week’s Israeli attack on the humanitarian relief ship, considering how the U.S. government has vigilantly covered up the IDF killing of 34 American sailors.

6/9/2010 - Call Center ‘Saves’ 8,000 Suicidal Vets

6/9/2010 - Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally "It is time Israel realised that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it (has to) become far more careful about the extent to which it test(s) the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of Americans Jews," he went on, noting the Israeli government "should be sensitive to the fact that its actions directly affect U.S. strategic interests in the Arab and Muslim worlds..."....."When someone as balanced and centrist as Tony Cordesman begins to worry about the extent to which Israel is making itself into a strategic burden for the United States, Israel should pause for some self-reflection," Freeman told IPS.......on the eve of Obama's inauguration, the influential National Journal ran a symposium on the question: "Is Israel a Strategic Liability for the United States?" in which a surprising number of respected national security analysts answered in the affirmative.

6/9/2010 - Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships

6/9/2010 - The Strategic Ally Myth by Philip Giraldi Zuckerman’s latest contribution to international harmony is a lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled “Israel Is a Key Ally and Deserves US Support.” It is a propaganda piece that promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United States.

6/9/2010 - More Spin from Israel by Philip Giraldi The flotilla, consisting of nationals from as many as twenty countries, was unarmed and carrying relief supplies that had been carefully inspected by the Turkish authorities. It was in international waters when it was attacked. More than 600 passengers and crew, apart from those who were killed, were subsequently arrested by Israel for refusing to identify themselves. If all that is correct, then Tel Aviv is guilty of piracy, kidnapping, and murder while the armed attack on a Turkish flagged vessel might be construed as inviting a military response from NATO. One of the vessels bore an American flag and there were at least eight US citizens on board, including a former ambassador and a USS Liberty survivor, suggesting that a strong reaction from Washington would not be inappropriate........US congressmen are already lining up to support the Israeli action and the State Department is silent about the American student who had her eye shot out by Israeli border policemen while demonstrating peacefully against the attack on the flotilla

6/9/2010 - US Used Cluster Bombs on Yemen Civilians: Amnesty

6/9/2010 - Israel and Obama Hail UN Sanctions as Defiant Iran Vows to Keep Enriching Uranium

6/9/2010 - Israel asked U.S. to increase weapons supply, Haaretz learns Israel recently approached the United States with new requests for security-related purchases, Haaretz has learned. The requests included Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM ) bombs for the Israel Air Force, as well as a significant expansion of the emergency stores held by the U.S. army in Israel.

6/9/2010 - 'Israel may have ordered Kurdish terror attack' Turkish authorities are accusing Israel of "ordering" a terror attack carried out by Kurdish rebels on the same day the Israeli Navy raided a Turkish-owned Gaza-bound ship last week in revenge for Ankara's involvement in the incident, Turkish newspaper Zaman reported Sunday.

6/9/2010 - Millions forced to wait for food stamps benefits Americans literally go hungry as we continue to shovel billions of our taxpayer dollars to Israel - which then uses it to starve and imprison a million plus people, and take their land.

6/9/2010 - U.N. council hits defiant Iran with new sanctions Russia and China, which have strong economic ties with Tehran and have at times resisted sanctions, fully backed the new U.N. move to blacklist dozens of Iranian military, industrial and shipping firms.

6/9/2010 - Iranian troops building fort in Iraq Iranian troops pursuing Kurdish guerrillas in the remote mountains of northern Iraq have begun constructing a small fort on Iraqi territory, suggesting they plan on staying for a while, Kurdish officials said Tuesday.

6/9/2010 - Iran Warns Russia Not To Play Dangerous Games with UN’s New Sanctions

6/9/2010 - U.S. accused of Iran 'siege' "Some parts of the territories occupied by Armenia lie in Iran's neighborhood and the (United States) wants to deploy its forces in the region under the cover of the U.N. peace-keeping troops," Samadov said.

6/9/2010 - Combat's Hidden Toll: 1 in 10 Soldiers Report Mental Health Problems The most surprising finding was that the rates of depression and PTSD symptoms among the National Guard soldiers increased sharply 12 months post-deployment, while those same problems remained stable among full-time active duty soldiers.

6/9/2010 - 1967 USS Liberty survivor was onboard flotilla ship Meadors expects an investigation will show that Israel violated international law and should be held accountable for its actions. He holds the same hope for the USS Liberty case, which has yet to be settled. “We filed a war crimes report with the Department of Defense in 2005. They claim they already investigated the allegation we made, but they can’t show us where they have,” said Meadors. Meadors said that Israel was the aggressor in the flotilla attack and that the only story being portrayed is Israel’s version, because the Israeli forces confiscated all video and recording equipment from the flotilla passengers.

6/9/2010 - Local Veteran Talks About Israeli Attack on Flotilla A local veteran says the Israeli attack on a flotilla in the Meditteranean brings back painful memories of an incident that occured some 43 years ago this month. John Hrankowski was serving aboard the U.S.S. Liberty when it was attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats in the Six-Day War in June of 1967.

6/9/2010 - Extra letters from readers The Times Union recently reported on the memorial services for the USS Stark and its crew attacked in international waters by an Iraq aircraft during the Iran-Iraq war. We deservedly remember their sacrifices and the bravery of the crew in saving their ship. But there are no memorial services for the crew of the USS Liberty attacked in international waters by the Israeli navy and air force during the 1967 Israeli war against the Arabs.

6/9/2010 - Russian PM gas pipeline unlikely to go to Israel "Blue Stream II most likely will not be extended to Israel for purely financial reasons," Putin said on the sidelines of a security summit here. "They simply don't need it."

6/9/2010 - Israel’s bet The U.S. military, whose job it now is to tamp down on Islamic extremism, may find it impossible to do so if it is seen as enabling Israel to attack other Muslims. Americans troops may wish to have it explained to them why the “special relationship” is so important given how detrimental it is to their jobs. It may very well be the only institution in government that could demand a change in U.S. foreign policy for the sake of the war effort and get away with it.

6/9/2010 - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Sorry, 'Georgie', I doubt the flotilla passengers were 'pro-Hamas' as claimed here. But otherwise, good article which mentions USS Liberty, Pollard and the Lavon Affair.

6/9/2010 - Gaza flotilla: Turkey accused of behaving like Iran by Israel The Turkish ruling party AKP was savagely attacked by an unrepentant Israeli government last night, which said it was behaving like Iran and was "wholly to blame" for the deterioration in relations between the two countries.

6/9/2010 - Israel: U.S. Asset or Burden? Asset, Say ADL, AIPAC, 334 Congressmen. Burden, Says Mossad Pro-Israel advocates have maintained for decades that it is an asset, and a darned valuable one. This view has been emphatically restated in the past few days by, among others, the Anti-Defamation League (here), AIPAC and 334 members of the House of Representatives in (a letter) to President Obama THe Israeli Lobby has our Congress over a barrel. Believe it.

6/9/2010 - Four reasons the US could get Israel to talk about a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction

6/9/2010 - The IAEA: From UN Nuclear Watchdog to US Lapdog The most glaring indication of the IAEA’s appeasement of US belligerence over the latter’s allegations of Iranian nuclear ambitions, and therefore the need for further punitive UN sanctions, is the gaping omission from the agency’s report of the Tehran nuclear fuel swap declaration.

6/9/2010 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2010 Congressional Candidates Notice the highest dollar amounts go to those who are routine and flagrant Israel-defenders, but who also hold key positions on important congressional committees.

6/9/2010 - Videos deepen mystery over Iran nuclear scientist Amiri He says he was in the Saudi city of Medina as part of a Muslim pilgrimage when Saudi intelligence officers drugged and kidnapped him. "When I became conscious, I found myself in a plane on the way to the US," he said.

6/9/2010 - Erdogan, Putin: Israel won’t get our gas

6/9/2010 - General Patton Museum plans veteran tribute Fellow desert veteran Navy Capt. William McGonagle, who earned his medal in 1967 as commanding officer of the USS Liberty, is also recognized in the exhibit. McGonagle is a graduate of Coachella Valley High School.

6/9/2010 - Commando raid revealed On Memorial Day, did we all remember the 34 dead on spyship USS Liberty? Who's to blame if we didn't, since the coverup by government and big media was well-executed

6/9/2010 - Are American politicians afraid to take on Israel As a veteran and American, I recall the similar murderous Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, in which the American federal government subsequently became complicit. I would ask of the president, senators and congressmen: Are you afraid of Israel? Do you have a superseding allegiance to Israel over your allegiance to America? Is subservience to the small foreign country, Israel, a condition precedent to holding American national political office? The American-Israeli relationship is now and has been a costly disaster for America and Americans. Great article by a true American patriot.

6/2/2010 - EXCLUSIVE: Terror Attacks Against U.S. At All-Time High The pace and number of attempted terror attacks against the U.S. over the past nine months has surpassed the number of attempts during any previous one-year period, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report issued on Friday, May 21.

6/2/2010 - The Strategic Ally Myth by Philip Giraldi Zuckerman’s latest contribution to international harmony is a lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled “Israel Is a Key Ally and Deserves US Support.” It is a propaganda piece that promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United States

6/2/2010 - Terror link alleged as Saudi millions flow into Afghanistan war zone Millions of dollars of Saudi Arabian money have flowed into Afghanistan over the past four years, the country’s intelligence officials say, with the sponsorship of terrorism its most likely use.

6/2/2010 - U.S. Keeps Watch on Iranian Shipping Over the past 18 months, the U.S. and its allies have heightened surveillance of the fleet of Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. That has led to the seizure of thousands of tons of arms officials say they believe were headed to Iran's allies in Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories.

6/2/2010 - Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.

6/2/2010 - Israel recoils as US backs nuclear move Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear–free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally.

6/2/2010 - Israel rejects new drive to ban nukes from Mideast Israel declared late Saturday that it would not take part in a 2012 conference on establishing a nuclear–free Middle East – an Arab–led initiative backed by top ally U.S. and the 188 other signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

6/2/2010 - How Disinformation Works by Philip Giraldi The Times story additionally relates that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barack allegedly showed President Obama “classified satellite images of a convoy of ballistic missiles leaving Syria on the way to Hezbollah in Lebanon.” The fact is that US intelligence, which has far better capabilities than the Israelis, cannot verify the missile story that the Israelis have been peddling for several months. The Israelis clearly want the US to buy into the scud threat, but CIA analysts have so far found the evidence unconvincing.

6/2/2010 - Turkey PM: Critics of Iran should get rid of nukes Nations criticizing an Iranian nuclear fuel–swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey should eliminate their own nuclear weapon stockpiles, Turkey's leader said Friday

6/2/2010 - US reassured Netanyahu ahead of NPT deal: Israeli official Consternation over the resolution has welled up in Israel, where the top–selling Yediot Aharonot daily said Netanyahu's government was "furious with the Obama administration for having failed to prevent the resolution from passing... and for choosing to support it." Israel needs to get with the program. They are not above the law.

6/2/2010 - State official: Obama provided Israel with historic guarantees The source noted that the US had effectively promised Israel that no decision made by the NPT conference would harm Israel's vital interests. One rule for Israel, one rule for the rest of the world.

6/2/2010 - Gaza convoy raid may boost militancy, experts say Revulsion at the bloodshed on a Turkish vessel sailing to the Palestinian enclave could translate into increased fund–raising for transnational militant groups such as al Qaeda or like–minded allies, or foster tolerance or even sympathy for such groups among Muslims who are not otherwise ideological. In some cases, it could push passive al Qaeda sympathizers into active participation against Israel or its Western allies, and undermine the international cooperation needed for tracking down illicit funding of militant groups, they said.

6/2/2010 - Israeli Murders, NATO and Afghanistan nobody wants or expects military action against Israel. But there is an uneasy recognition that in theory that ought to be on the table, and that NATO is obliged to do something robust to defend Turkey.

6/2/2010 - The U.S.S. Liberty and the culture of impunity Soon after the Liberty attack, [National Security Agency director Lieutenant General Marshall] Carter appeared before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to discuss the Liberty. [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Cyrus Vance joined him... "Cy Vance just told me to keep my mouth shut," [Gerard] Burke [Carter's chief of staff] recalled his boss telling him.... "There was absolutely no question in anybody's mind that the Israelis had done it deliberately," Burke said. "I was angrier because of the cover-up... The only mystery to me was why was the thing being covered up."...

6/2/2010 - What’s Behind White House Strategy To Woo U.S. Jews Military cooperation, an issue usually discussed privately between the governments of Israel and the United States, has been a key theme of the administration’s outreach effort. In public speeches and in private meetings, Obama administration officials have provided Jewish audiences with a detailed list of U.S. measures taken to strengthen Israel.

6/2/2010 - Iran and Russia clash in worst row for years In unusually strong criticism of Russia, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admonished the Kremlin for bowing to what he said was U.S. pressure to agree sanctions and bluntly warned President Dmitry Medvedev to be more cautious.

6/2/2010 - U.S. Senate panel votes new Iran constraints The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require Pentagon contractors to certify they are not doing any prohibited business with Iran.

6/2/2010 - IAEA: Iran is expanding atom work, bomb fear remains Tehran has however allowed the agency's inspectors better oversight at the site, something which they had been requesting for several months to ensure the material was not being diverted for military purposes.

6/2/2010 - Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea So, you see, the Israeli military resorted to violence only in self-defense. Right........“Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights.” A very good article by former CIA Ray McGovern.

6/2/2010 - Neocon Vampires Sink Their Fangs Into the Tea Parties

6/2/2010 - Expert Advice from The Washington Times by Philip Giraldi Scarborough quoted a retired US Air Force Colonel named John Warden (possibly General Jack D. Ripper in alias) who suggested that the United States should deal with Iran by shutting down the country’s electrical generation capability for the foreseeable future because “Iran cannot sustain a nuclear research program if they don’t have electricity and oil and a bunch of other things like that.” John Pike, a “longtime analyst of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies” also quoted in the article, suggests that Israel target the workers at the Iranian nuclear sites.

5/26/2010 - Petraeus orders US spies to prepare for anti-nuclear strike on Iran Teams of American special forces have been authorised to conduct spying missions intended to pave the way for a military strike on Iran in case President Obama orders one, US government sources have confirmed.

5/26/2010 - Obama: U.S. can't act alone in world Obama: U.S. can't act alone in world Reuters Date: 5/23/2010 By Patricia Zengerle Patricia Zengerle – Sat May 22, 4:10 pm ET WEST POINT, New York (Reuters) – President Barack Obama declared on Saturday the United States cannot act alone in the world and pledged to shape a new "international order" as part of a national security strategy to seal his break with Bush–era policies. Setting out his vision for keeping America safe as it fights wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama stressed international engagement over predecessor George W. Bush's "cowboy diplomacy" and signaled his likely repudiation of Bush's justifications for pre–emptive war. "The burdens of this century cannot fall on our soldiers alone, it also cannot fall on American shoulders alone," Obama told graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "Our adversaries would like to see America sap its strength by overextending our power."

5/26/2010 - US/Israel Challenged on Iran despite the rhetoric, Israel and its supporters in Washington do not view the current dispute over Iran's nuclear program as an "existential threat." Rather, it is viewed as another golden opportunity to bring "regime change" to a country considered one of Israel's adversaries, as Iraq was under Saddam Hussein Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst.

5/26/2010 - Congress OKs $205 million for Israel Israel, facing the threat of a massive missile attack by Iran and its proxies, breathed a sigh of relief after the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved giving it $205 million to buy 10 batteries of a new missile-defense system.

5/26/2010 - Israel impatient with international effort to thwart Iran's nuclear ambition Israel wants war.

5/26/2010 - 'Israeli Retaliation Must Include Major Muslim Sites' A new paper from the BESA Center for Mideast Security and Policy says any Israeli response to a non-conventional attack from Arab countries must include an attack on sites of “major symbolic importance for the Muslim world”.

5/26/2010 - PA's Abbas slams Iran As to the Palestinian boycott on settlement products, Abbas declared that he too takes part in the campaign.

5/26/2010 - Shaping the Story on Iran by Philip Giraldi There have been recent reports that Iran has enabled the travel of al-Qaeda leaders to Afghanistan and Pakistan where they will be able to confront and kill American soldiers. If you think you have heard the story before, you have, in another context. In the earlier rendition it was Saddam Hussein who was hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda, helping the group in its nefarious planning to attack the United States and kill Americans Another must read by Philip Giraldi.

5/26/2010 - Brazil: Iran is willing to talk, others must do the same Photo by: Reuters "Iran, which had been sold to the world as the devil... sat down at the negotiating table. I want to see the others comply with what they wanted Iran to do," Lula said during a speech to mayors in the capital, Brasilia.

5/26/2010 - U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus, authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces. Officials said the order also permits reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran if tensions over its nuclear ambitions escalate.

5/26/2010 - General Petraeus's Secret Ops If President Obama knew about this, authorized it and still supports it, then Obama has crossed a red line, and the president will stand revealed as an aggressive, militaristic liberal interventionist who bears a closer resemblance to the president he succeeded than to the ephemeral reformer that he pretended to be in 2008, when he ran for office.

5/26/2010 - U.S. Media Censors U.S. Support of Iran Fuel Swap But if you get your information from major U.S. media, here's something that you almost certainly don't know: Brazil and Turkey say that before they reached the deal, they understood that they had the backing of the Obama Administration for their efforts. The available evidence suggests that Brazil and Turkey had good reason to believe that they had U.S. support, and that the Obama Administration has taken a 180 degree turn in its position in the last few weeks, and is now trying to cover its tracks, with the active collaboration of major U.S. media.

5/26/2010 - Iran: No nuclear swap deal without support of Western powers

5/26/2010 - Syria's Assad says US has lost Mideast peace influence Assad was quoted as telling the Italian daily La Repubblica that Washington "has no influence because they don't do anything for peace. But they remain the greatest power."

5/26/2010 - Take Iran’s Deal, Mr. President by Patrick J. Buchanan Not only did Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Lula da Silva of Brazil put their prestige on the line by flying to Tehran, the deal they got is a near-exact replica of the deal Obama offered Iran eight months ago. Why is President Obama slapping it away? Does he not want a deal? Has he already decided on the sanctions road that leads to war?

5/26/2010 - BILL TITLE: To authorize assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system

5/26/2010 - From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard Few of you know that 10 days after the attempted terrorist attack in Times Square, an actual terrorist attack took place in Jacksonville when a firebomb exploded outside the city's biggest mosque, the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida. Some 60 worshippers were praying inside when the bomb went off and started a fire. No one was injured. The bomber is still at large.

5/26/2010 - Rand Paul and Israel

5/26/2010 - Getting Serious About Iran There is no conceivable solution to the threat of a nuclear Iran that will not require American leadership. All of the options — whether economic sanctions or military action — are impossible without American support.

5/26/2010 - America Moves the Goalposts If all the mistrust needed further illustration, it has just been provided by the Brazilian-Turkish deal on Iran’s low enriched uranium (LEU), the peevish U.S. reaction to it, and the apparent determination of the Great Powers, led by the Obama administration, to burrow deeper into failure.

5/26/2010 - Expert Advice from The Washington Times by Philip Giraldi A copy of The Washington Times was on display with a large front page picture of yesterday’s Salute to Israel parade in New York. Next to the picture was an article by Rowan Scarborough entitled “Israel arms may not be enough to stop nukes.”

5/26/2010 - Syria defies Western pressure over Hezbollah "A Scud missile is as big as this room. How could it be hidden and smuggled with Israeli planes and satellites all over the region?" Moualem asked, adding that cumbersome Scuds were not suited to Hezbollah's guerrilla tactics.

5/26/2010 - Iran sends letter to IAEA on swap deal Iran Sunday handed over a letter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano on a nuclear swap deal reached with Brazil and Turkey, the Iranian state-run Press TV reported.

5/26/2010 - John Bolton's North Korea plan: Bomb Iran! The former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. already advocated bombing Iran on the Wall Street Journal opinion page once this month (and last month, and the month before that), but North Korea's apparent torpedo attack on a South Korean warship earlier this year gives Bolton an entirely new reason to suggest an immediate preemptive strike against Iran:

5/26/2010 - Russian official: Iran's reactor ready by August Russia's top nuclear official says that work on Iran's first nuclear plant is on schedule and the reactor will start operation by August.

5/26/2010 - Confiscating Your Property "One of the main reasons they do this and why they love civil forfeiture is because in Texas and over 40 states and at the federal level, police and prosecutors get to keep all or most of the property that they seize for their own use," he said. "So they can use it to improve their offices, buy better equipment."

5/26/2010 - India snubs US, hails Iran's N-plan

5/26/2010 - PM: Radical Islam with nukes – danger to mankind Amid international efforts to impose fresh sanctions against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Russia to cooperate with Israel in order to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.

5/19/2010 - US gets China, Russia on board for Iran sanctions

5/19/2010 - Obama seeks $205 million for Israel rocket shield President Barack Obama will ask Congress to provide $205 million to Israel to spur production and deployment of a new short-range rocket defense system, administration officials said Thursday.....The money comes on top of annual US assistance to Israel. Think about that as my fellow Americans are jobless and struggling to pay their mortgage and feed their families: we keep shoveling billions to Israel to uphold its state built on apartheid and supremacism.

5/19/2010 - Israel fears Iran nuclear deal will delay UN sanctions

5/19/2010 - Iran to sign nuclear swap deal with Turkey, Brazil The United States has been pushing for a fourth round of UN sanctions on Iran. Turkey and Brazil, both non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, objected to sanctions and have been mediating an agreement on a fuel swap plan.

5/19/2010 - Many Voices Singing One Song by Philip Giraldi Schumer’s very interesting comments, suggesting that he has a rather narrow view of his responsibility to represent all the people of New York State, were not reported anywhere in the mainstream media. It was apparently not considered newsworthy that a Senator from the Empire State had pledged love and loyalty to a foreign country....Has anyone wondered at the large number of foreigners who have somehow made their way into Washington’s think tank and media punditry industry? They are found most commonly at places like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Saban Center at Brookings, and, of course at the AIPAC-founded Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy (WINEP). Another must read article by Philip Giraldi.

5/19/2010 - US tries to blunt Iran anti-sanctions push The Obama administration moved Thursday to head off a joint Turkish–Brazilian effort that could help Iran avoid new United Nations sanctions over its suspect nuclear program.

5/19/2010 - Russia warns US against unilateral Iran sanctions

5/19/2010 - No 'serious response' from Iran without sanctions: US

5/19/2010 - A Hard Push to Get Tough on Tehran the White House is reported to be urging the insertion of language that would allow for exemptions to so-called “cooperating countries.” Against White House denials, a Republican congresswoman and member of the conference committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, has claimed that the exemption provision is a specific sop for China and Russia in exchange for their votes in favor of an “almost do-nothing U.N. resolution.”

5/19/2010 - Gates plays down chances of atomic deal with Iran His comments stood in contrast to those by Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, who said on Friday he saw good prospects for clinching a deal with world powers on exchanging LEU for higher-grade fuel it can use in a reactor producing medical isotopes.

5/19/2010 - Iran faces fresh sanctions as Russia and China support UN resolution The 10-page draft resolution also calls for stopping Iranian ships suspected of containing cargo related to Iran's nuclear or missile programmes. Such a policy could create potentially dangerous stand-offs between US naval ships and Iranian vessels.

5/19/2010 - Itching to Fight Another Muslim Enemy Indeed, looking at this American propaganda campaign objectively, you would assume that the only acceptable outcome of U.S. differences with Iran is another Iraq-like ratcheting up of tensions, using Washington’s influence within the UN Security Council to impose escalating sanctions, leading ultimately to another war, as if the lessons of Iraq have already been forgotten.....The Post’s neocon editorial writers reprised the usual anti-Iran propaganda themes with all the arrogance that they once showed in declaring as flat fact that Saddam Hussein possessed stockpiles of WMD.

5/19/2010 - Turkey Urges West to Forget Iran Sanctions Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he saw no need for United Nations Security Council sanctions after Iran agreed to send some of its uranium abroad.

5/19/2010 - Iran dismisses U.N. sanctions draft Iran on Wednesday dismissed a draft U.N. resolution to expand sanctions over its nuclear program, saying the measures were unlikely to be approved and would not break its economy if they were implemented.

5/19/2010 - Former US General Warns of Chemical Attacks against Israel Gen. Paul Vallely speaks to PJTV exclusively and reveals how Iranian submarines are now equipping Israel's enemies with Scud missiles armed warheads filled with chemical weapons I couldn't watch the whole thing. This man is disturbing. Hard to believe he's a General.

5/19/2010 - New Miss USA: Islamic fundamentalism in a bikini? Fakih, a 24–year–old Arab–American whose family hails from Lebanon , has almost nothing in common with the religious zealots who inspire militant Islam. Yet the tiara had scarcely come to rest on her cascading dark tresses Sunday night when the far reaches of the right wing blogosphere went ballistic. You'll notice that most of her critics were Israel-supporters who need for Americans to see all Arabs as terrorists, or they may feel sympathy for the Palestinians.

5/19/2010 - U.S. wants to build up Hezbollah moderates: adviser The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard–liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.

5/19/2010 - The Iran nuclear deal and the new premier league of global powers

5/19/2010 - Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations Kennedy delivered a final ultimatum to Israel on July 5, 1963, insisting that Dimona undergo serial inspections “in accord with international standards” in order to verify its “peaceful intent.” Simultaneously, the Kennedy Justice Department was waging an intense battle behind closed doors to register and regulate Israel’s elite U.S. lobby, the American Zionist Council, which was bringing in funds from overseas to lobby. Kennedy’s assassination in November traumatized the nation and led to the complete and permanent reversal of both initiatives. Interesting.

5/19/2010 - Russia to sell Syria warplanes, air defense systems

5/19/2010 - Humiliating Turkey and Brazil The Turks and Brazilians, who felt they had “delivered” Iran on the terms demanded by the United States, were surprised and disappointed at the negative reactions from Washington. Little did they know that their success in Tehran, which had been given a 0-30 percent chance just days earlier, came just as the Americans were putting the final touches on a package of sanctions to be presented to the UN Security Council.

5/19/2010 - Jewish Democratic group asks syndicate to nix Pat Buchanan's column Buchanan found himself in hot water last week after he penned a piece saying that if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is confirmed, the number of Jews on the Court will be highly disproportionate to the U.S. population.

5/19/2010 - Why Christian Zionists Really Support Israel Christians attending these churches will also learn about the miraculous rise of the modern State of Israel and the existential threats it faces today. Many will leave church with a better understanding of the dangers of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Palestinian terror and the international campaign against Israel’s legitimacy. Authored by the Supreme Christian ZioNutter in Charge, John Hagee.

5/19/2010 - Arab-Americans delight in Miss USA victory Fakih was born in Srifa, a village in southern Lebanon that was heavily bombed during the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah war. She moved to the United States with her family in 1993 and attended a Catholic school in New York. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003.

5/19/2010 - Still Fighting Them Here Aren’t we “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here?” And if so, why are we still fighting them here?

5/19/2010 - 'Iran entitled to nuclear program' Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva met with Iranian leaders on Sunday, and called the relationship between the two countries “strategic.”

5/19/2010 - MP attacks Brazilian president “You new companero send rockets and bombs to terrorist Jew-killers in Hezbollah. He swaggers around the world threatening every democracy with the wrath of his hate of freedom.”

5/12/2010 - A Timetable For War by Philip Giraldi Second, the Israeli government having sold the "existential threat" fiction does want a war, but its options are limited. It knows it can only do temporary damage to Iran and wants the United States to do the heavy lifting. That will require contriving a situation that will bring about US entry into the conflict, otherwise an Israeli attack will have only limited value, possibly slowing down Iran’s nuclear program but not stopping it while also guaranteeing that the Mullahs will make the political decision to develop a weapon A must read for all Americans.

5/12/2010 - Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America To punish Iran for its speculative interest in nuclear weapons, Harman called for sanctions to “cripple Iran’s ability to import refined petroleum products.” (As a Harvard-educated lawyer, she should be aware that, under international law, such a blockade would be an act of war. It also would inflict widespread hardship on the Iranian people.) But Israel’s right-wing Likud government and America's neocons have identified Iran as the new enemy.....What concerns me greatly, however, is that the American people are being played again by those both in government and the media who wish to zap Iran. Like Giraldi, McGovern was also in the CIA. Heed their warnings.

5/12/2010 - Iran over decade away from anti-U.S. missile: study

5/12/2010 - Israel to Russia: Hamas is like the Chechen terrorists The Foreign Ministry also said that it was very disappointed that the Russian president met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Damascus on Tuesday.

5/12/2010 - Israel says N.Korea shipping WMDs to Syria

5/12/2010 - US Troops Executing Prisoners in Afghanistan: Seymour Hersh "What it means is, and I've been told this anecdotally by five or six different people, battlefield executions are taking place," he continued. "Well, if they can't prove they're Taliban, bam. If we don't do it ourselves, we turn them over to the nearby Afghan troops and by the time we walk three feet the bullets are flying. And that's going on now."

5/12/2010 - Why the War Is Coming Home by Patrick J. Buchanan We are being attacked over here because we are over there.

5/12/2010 - Russia urges active US role in Mideast Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the United States on Wednesday to actively work to achieve peace in the Mideast with the support of other nations, saying there is a "human tragedy" in Gaza...."The Mideast must be a region cleared from nuclear weapons," Medvedev said. "The use of nuclear weapons in the region would be a disaster."

5/12/2010 - Israel FM: Iran, Syria, NKorea new 'axis of evil' Israel = Chicken Little.

5/12/2010 - Syria: Israel would never declare war without U.S. permission Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem denied that the Middle East was on the brink of armed conflict, telling Radio Monte Carlo on Thursday that Israel was unlikely to declare war without first consulting Washington.

5/12/2010 - Israel sees no discord with U.S. on nuclear issue Israel voiced confidence on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama would not challenge its long-standing policy of neither confirming nor denying it has nuclear weapons.

5/12/2010 - More on the Clash of Civilizations by Philip Giraldi

5/12/2010 - Why Was Cheney in Saudi Arabia?

5/12/2010 - U.S. joins U.N. council at Iran dinner in New York

5/12/2010 - Syria and Russia in talks on nuclear power

5/12/2010 - Israel Official Defends Nuclear Ambiguity as 'Strategic Advantage'

5/5/2010 - Arab states: Israel's nuclear program is destabilizing Mideast On the second day of the month-long meeting at the United Nations, Arab countries were reiterating calls for a nuclear-free Middle East with criticism of Israel's unacknowledged nuclear arsenal and failure to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).

5/5/2010 - Schumer: I'm on a Mission From God (to Be Israel's Guardian in Senate) Then there are these quotes from Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to the Zionist Organization of America that is currently organizing opposition to President Obama and to any negotiations with Palestinians.....Of course, every one of these legislators criticizes US policies they disagree with and certainly US Presidents. But when it comes to Israel, they are drum majors for Netanyahu (God-appointed in Schumer's case). Treason.

5/5/2010 - Clinton warns Iran, Syria on threats to Israel

5/5/2010 - Tehran warns Israel against attack on Syria as arms tension mounts "We will stand alongside Syria against any [Israeli] threat," Rahimi said at a news conference with the Syrian prime minister, Mohammad Naji Otri. "If those who have violated Palestinian land try anything, we will cut off their feet," he promised.....The sabre-rattling followed a spate of US statements accusing Damascus and Tehran of arming the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah with sophisticated weapons that could threaten Israel.

5/5/2010 - Iran warns US against taking UN 'hostage' Iran warned Washington on Saturday against taking the United Nations "hostage" by rejecting visas for Iranian delegates led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a nuclear conference in New York.

5/5/2010 - Iran moves to challenge U.S. in Mideast: Gates "Iran is combining ballistic and cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, mines, and swarming speedboats in order to challenge our naval power in that region," Gates told a conference of U.S. Navy advocates outside Washington.

5/5/2010 - Ahmedinejad accuses US, Israel of planning Iran nuclear attack Delegates from the UK, US, France, Hungary, New Zealand and Holland at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference left the room as Mr Ahmedinejad denied that Iran was building nuclear weapons.

5/5/2010 - Neocon John Bolton in the neoconservative WSJ advocating for war on Iran

5/5/2010 - AP source: US Navy has encounter with Iranian jet The official says the jet buzzed a Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Eisenhower, coming within about 1,000 yards of the ship. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said the April 21 incident occurred in international waters.

5/5/2010 - Clinton, Ahmadinejad trade barbs over nukes at UN Speaking from the podium of the General Assembly Hall, Clinton accused Iran of "flouting the rules" of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty with its suspect uranium enrichment program, and said it is "time for a strong international response." For his part, Ahmadinejad earlier rejected such allegations, saying Washington has offered not "a single credible proof."

5/5/2010 - Outsourcing Security Greases Corporate Warmongering As a result of the sheer expense of privatized warfare on the US taxpayer, it has driven protestors to demand Congress to pass the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act" - a bill that would drastically downsize the use of corporate contractors in war zones.

5/5/2010 - Can Brazil Save the World from War with Iran? Brazil has likened the current push for expanded sanctions against Iran to the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In particular, Brazil has expressed the fear that expanding sanctions now will undermine the prospects of a diplomatic solution and therefore set the stage for war later, just as the imposition and maintenance of U.S./U.N. sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s set the stage for the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq in 2003. And well, they're right. Israel is once again leading the US into war.

5/5/2010 - Clinton: We support Israel against Syria, Iran Israel is becoming increasingly concerned over the possible transfer of Scud missiles to Hizbollah, which would allow terrorists to hit Israeli targets more easily.....The US is currently considering renewing its diplomatic relations with Damascus, which has been without a US ambassador for five years.

5/5/2010 - U.S. and other big powers back Mideast nuclear arms ban Israel has tried to fend off Egyptian–led scrutiny of its arsenal by urging Cairo to view Iran's atomic ambitions as the regional threat, an Israeli official has said. Egypt says both Israel and Iran are nuclear threats to the region and wants action on both countries.

5/5/2010 - Jewish groups: Boycott Ahmadinejad in NYC The World Jewish Congress asked its member communities to contact their government representatives to persuade them to participate in the protest walkout See related story in this news batch: their orders were followed by the US, UK and others.

5/5/2010 - APNewsBreak: IAEA chief focuses on Israel The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog is asking for international input on how to persuade Israel to join the Nonproliferation Treaty, in a move that is sure to add to pressure on the Jewish state to disclose its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal.

5/5/2010 - Israel: N. Korea smuggling arms to Iran Peres provided no proof to back up his claims, but his comments echoed similar allegations last month in which he accused Syria of providing Scud missiles to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

5/5/2010 - Video: Did You Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map? The question and answer is at minute 4:47.

5/5/2010 - US, Egypt negotiate Mideast nuclear-free zone report US officials are in talks with Egypt over a plan to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, part of an effort to block the Iranian nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

5/5/2010 - William Hague: I have Iran in my sights The ex-Tory leader has argued for Britain to adopt the same sanctions regime against Iranian financial institutions as the United States and to seek European agreement on putting a stop to investments in Iran's vast oil and gas fields.......Perhaps the ideological common ground between the Tories and Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud might be a help. The Brits too are about to be dragged into WWIII thanks to Israel.

5/5/2010 - Hillary Clinton Calls Ahmadinejad Anti-semitic President “Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism,” Mrs Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner here

5/5/2010 - ElBaradei says sanctions on Iran will fail

5/5/2010 - Who Are the Jews Behind Palin in 2012? Not only does she continue to receive the hearty backing of William Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard and contributor to Fox News, but at the end of March, Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary and godfather of the neoconservative movement, took to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal to offer a “defense of Sarah Palin.” Neocons love Sarah Palin. And neocons are traitors to America: pro-Israel = anti-America. Support for Israel endangers America's national security. It was the primary motivation given by the mastermind of 911.

5/5/2010 - How the US helps al-Qaida "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland," Robert Papes, the pre-eminent US expert on suicidal terrorists, told The American Conservative Magazine in 2005.

5/5/2010 - NPT 101: Is Iran violating the nuclear treaty?

5/5/2010 - Muslim leader says US enemies should leave A leader of the Ahmadiya Islamic minority on Tuesday implored US Muslims who would attack the country to leave, after a Pakistani–American was charged in a car bomb plot.

5/5/2010 - Real Conservatives Are Antiwar

5/5/2010 - Hezbollah: Egyptian jailings 'unjust and politicised' Hezbollah has said the charges are politically motivated and in revenge for the movement's stance on Egypt's support for the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

5/5/2010 - A Lesson From Brandeis Jewish communal leaders wring their hands at the studies showing a diminishing interest in and affection toward Israel among younger American Jews, and then respond by calling for more free trips to Israel, more identity programs, more and better advocacy. But they should also listen. It’s possible that the policies of the Netanyahu government, which Oren represents, also contribute to this alienation.

5/5/2010 - Terror case bias alleged The resolution describes "pre-emptive prosecution'' as an FBI program in which Muslims not involved in criminal activity are targeted and then prosecuted based on electronic surveillance and other "secret'' evidence.

4/28/2010 - Obama tells Barak US committed to Israel's security Monday's meeting with Obama and Jones was the first in a series of meetings Barak is scheduled to hold with administration officials. The talks are expected to focus on the Iranian nuclear threats, the developments in Lebanon and Syria and the stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

4/28/2010 - Israel warns against giving Iran too much time Iran and the rearming of the Hezbollah militia were major topics of Barak's session at the Pentagon. He met earlier Tuesday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

4/28/2010 - Mideast peace would thwart Iran ambitions: Obama aide While acknowledging disagreements with Israel, Jones said the U.S. commitment to its ally was "unbreakable." "There is no space –– no space –– between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security," he said.

4/28/2010 - Netanyahu: Iran provoking Israel-Syria conflict Netanyahu says Iran is trying to convince Syria that an Israeli attack is imminent, which he says is a "lie."

4/28/2010 - Demonizing Iran: US Media Continue Beating War Drums Aside from the fact that there is no hard evidence that Iran is trying to make a nuclear bomb or even to refine uranium to obtain nuclear-grade material, the paper ignored one crucial point: Israel cannot "go it alone" in any strike on Iran, since its key weapons--F15 and F-16 fighter-bombers--are supplied to it, and kept flying, thanks to the equipment and spare parts provided by the United States

4/28/2010 - U.S. lawmaker: Obama should deal with Iran nukes, not criticize Israel Ros-Lehtinen lashed out at Obama for neglecting to deal with the "urgency" of Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons: "After months of generous offers and repeated rejections with one deadline after another passing without action, nothing of substance has been accomplished and Iran continues to relentlessly move forward. Ros-Lehtinen is one of Israel's top agents in Congress. She spends more time on all matters Israel than she does on those of America, evidently.

4/28/2010 - 'All options' open if Syria gives Hezbollah missiles: US

4/28/2010 - US: Missile transfers could lead to war Earlier, Israeli officials have warned of the grave consequences of Scud missile transfers to Hezbollah. No kidding? Say I wonder who our lawmakers take their cues from?

4/28/2010 - Biden: Israel won't attack Iran before sanctions allowed to work On Wednesday, the Obama administration said that progress toward Middle East peace would help thwart Iran's ambitions by preventing it from "cynically" using the conflict to divert attention from its nuclear program.

4/28/2010 - An Act Of War By Congressman Ron Paul Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing. Ron Paul- one of the few to stand up to Israel's lobby and its minions on Capitol Hill.

4/28/2010 - U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat Although administration officials have carefully refrained from drawing any direct connection between the new nuclear option and the Israeli threat, the NPR broadens the range of contingencies in which nuclear weapons might play a role so as to include an Iranian military response to an Israeli attack.

4/28/2010 - Egypt: Scud controversy ups Israel-Lebanon tension Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit traveled to Beirut on Saturday to discuss the issue and later told reporters there the scud allegations are "lies and are laughable."

4/28/2010 - Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really? By Ray McGovern All right. Secretary Clinton concedes that Iran does not directly threaten the United States. Now who are these "friends" to whom she refers? First and foremost, Israel, of course. How often have we heard Israeli officials warn that they would consider nuclear weapons in Iran's hands an "existential" threat?

4/28/2010 - US Senate leader: Iran is 'festering sore' Reid's comments came as the US Congress took a key step towards imposing new sanctions targeting Iran's imports of gasoline and other refined petroleum products to force the Islamic republic to halt its suspect nuclear program.

4/28/2010 - Sanctions on Iran's gasoline imports? That's war talk. there’s a big problem: The only way to really enforce such a crippling sanction against the Iranian economy would be through an American-led naval blockade which, by international law, is an act of war.

4/28/2010 - McKeon, House reaffirm support for crippling sanctions against Iran

4/28/2010 - Iran to give UN better access to nuclear sites, say diplomats

4/28/2010 - US official: Iran military strike 'off the table' "Military force is an option of last resort," Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy said during a press briefing in Singapore. "It's off the table in the near term."

4/28/2010 - Smoke and Mirrors from the Washington Post by Philip Giraldi There were two odd intelligence related articles in today’s Washington Post. The first , on the front page, was “Discontented Iranian Officials Provide Wealth of Intelligence.” The article relies on unnamed intelligence sources to claim that the CIA has been receiving so much information from disgruntled Iranians that it has delayed the completion of the next National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Having worked as a CIA case officer against the Iranian target, I am deeply skeptical of the article’s thrust and suspect that the piece is itself disinformation designed to convince the Mullahs that Washington knows just about everything going on inside Iran.

4/28/2010 - Option of striking Iran never off the table: Pentagon "We are not taking any options off the table as we pursue the pressure and engagement tracks," Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said. "The president always has at his disposal a full array of options, including use of the military ... It is clearly not our preferred course of action but it has never been, nor is it now, off the table."

4/28/2010 - Is Iran Running Out of Uranium? Wait now, I thought they were so close to having the bomb that we need to act immediately, so our Israeli overlords tell us.

4/28/2010 - Iran begins war games in Persian Gulf oil route Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said "they don't seem out of the ordinary" from what Iran's military has done in the past. He also said Tehran often makes exaggerated claims about its weapons testing.

4/28/2010 - Diplomats: Iran agrees to more IAEA overview Iran has agreed to give the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency greater inspection and monitoring rights to a sensitive site where it is enriching uranium to higher levels, diplomats said Friday.

4/28/2010 - Hezbollah vows to continue amassing 'arms of resistance' Israel and the U.S. have accused Syria of supplying Hezbollah with Scud missiles, which are capable of striking deep into Israel. BothBeirut and Damascus have denied this.

4/28/2010 - Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan

4/28/2010 - Abrams: U.S. must address Iran’s threat to Israel “Israelis are living under the threat of annihilation every day," Elliot Abrams, the Bush administration's National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African Affairs, said April 25 at the Baltimore Zionist District’s "U.S.-Israel Relations In A New Era" symposium, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. "If the world does not act, I believe Israel will act, and I hope the U.S. will.”

4/28/2010 - Scuds or no Scuds, south Lebanon beckons tourists "We are defying Israel with projects like these," said Moussa Nasrallah, the Lebanese engineer in charge of the park project. "The idea was to show that this area that was leveled and where Israeli tanks were once positioned is now a booming place." ....."This is a form of civilian resistance, which is even more important than military resistance," he told The Associated Press. "Resistance can be in going to have lunch, dinner or just a drink along the border."

4/28/2010 - Lies and Wars Once more the threat is a polemical invention, intended to frighten American, Israeli (and European) voters, and prompt a preemptive attack on Iran. The reason Mr. Gates reports his uncertainties to the president is that he too recognizes that the conflict with Iran is constructed from fictions – which, as with the lies about Iraq, may turn into another war, whose consequences are sure to be worse for all concerned than the fiasco and tragedy of America’s invasion of Iraq.

4/28/2010 - Video: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: A great video. Five minutes long. Watch it.

4/28/2010 - Hezbollah slams US accusations In comments published Wednesday in the Arabic–language newspaper As–Safir, which is close to Hezbollah, Fadlallah said Hezbollah's arms do not compare to "the level of armament of the United States, which it used in its crimes against peoples around the world, from Hiroshima to the more than 100,000 martyrs killed in Iraq and the tens of thousands killed in Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan."

4/28/2010 - Tectonic Shifts at CIA by Philip Giraldi

4/21/2010 - Top Military Brass Concur Mideast Conflict Affects All U.S. Army general David Petraeus might have shocked some pro-Israel activists when he openly spelled out the difficulties caused to American military efforts by the lack of progress in the Middle East, but fellow generals were not taken by surprise. “CENTCOM commanders had always said this was the No. 1 issue that affects everything that goes on in the region,” said Anthony Zinni, who headed the U.S. Central Command, known as CENTCOM, a decade before Petraeus.

4/21/2010 - State Dept.: U.S. unsure whether Syria sent missiles to Hezbollah Earlier Tuesday, Lebanon's Western-backed prime minister Saad Hariri denied Israeli allegations that Hezbollah has obtained Scud missiles, comparing them to the false American charges that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ahead of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Israel: the monkey on America's back, constantly feeding us phony intel.

4/21/2010 - Dr. Strangelove, Made in Israel by Philip Giraldi While it is perhaps not unusual for American citizens to volunteer with the Israel Defense Forces as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel did in 1991, it would have to be considered unprecedented for a senior Israeli military officer to obtain a high level position at the Pentagon. In fact, it is hard to imagine that anyone carrying out a security background investigation would approve such a transition under any circumstances, suggesting the possibility that Kass’s ascent to high office might have been aided or even godfathered by friends in key positions who were able to override or circumvent normal procedures.

4/21/2010 - Iran nuclear conference urges Israel to join NPT

4/21/2010 - Netanyahu urges 'crippling sanctions' against Iran In an interview broadcast Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Netanyahu said he worries that the international community isn't acting aggressively enough to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

4/21/2010 - Obama affirms 'unbreakable' US-Israel ties President Barack Obama has said on the Jewish state's 62nd anniversary that the United States shares an "unbreakable bond" with Israel and he was confident the relationship "will only be strengthened" into the future. Sick. Our support for Israel got us 9/11.

4/21/2010 - Presence of Brzezinski, Scowcroft at White House Meeting Draws Muted Comment – Forward.com The two, both former national security advisers of previous administrations, are known as supporters of the realist doctrine in foreign policy — a doctrine viewed by many in the Jewish community as unsympathetic to the case of Israel......Realism in foreign policy is seen as an approach that puts a country’s own interests first when determining its path in the world, before any other considerations, including moral views of other countries. When it comes to the Middle East, Realists are usually considered to be those who believe that America’s interest lay in strengthening ties with the Arab world rather than in supporting Israel unconditionally. Based on an appropriate inference of the above excerpt, then it's safe to presume that the policy that Israel's lobby seeks America to adopt is one that puts Israel's interests over our own. I call that TREASON. Read on.

4/21/2010 - Strain in U.S.-Israel Ties Spurs Anxiety About ‘Dual Loyalty’ So totally aligned have the United States and Israeli governments been for most of the past 20 years that American Jews have not been forced to seriously consider that these two identities could be in conflict The issue here is though - that this alignment was brought about by the overwhelming influence of the Israeli lobby.It's more than dual loyalty though. Advocating for policies that put THIS nation, America, in danger, is not dual loyalty. It's TREASON.

4/21/2010 - Syria denies it gave Hezbollah Scud missiles Syria warned Thursday that Israel was paving the way for new military action by alleging that that Damascus is providing Scud missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

4/21/2010 - Israel warns Syria over Hezbollah attacks Israel has delivered a secret warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese-based Islamist group, by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself.

4/21/2010 - From December: No-Fault Espionage by Philip Giraldi FBI counter intelligence officer John Cole has reported on the frustration of his colleagues over the many cases of Israeli espionage that are dropped under orders from the Justice Department. He provides a "conservative estimate" of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage in the US involving both American citizens and Israelis stopped due to political pressure from above. Israeli citizens and diplomats who are caught in the act spying are routinely freed without criminal charges and allowed to return home.

4/21/2010 - Iran wins regional support for its nuclear programme Syria, Lebanon and Iraq backed Iran's atomic programme on Saturday, which they said has "peaceful" aims, and insisted that Israel be stripped off its nuclear arsenal. ....The three leaders, however, strongly urged for Israel to join the NPT.

4/21/2010 - Iran exports 'revolutionary principles' to Venezuela, report claims The report on Iran's military states that paramilitaries from the Quds Force, a special paramilitary unit attached to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, have "an increased presence in Latin America, particularly Venezuela". It also alleges that Iran is continuing to supply weapons and explosives to the Taliban to help them kill American and British troops in Afghanistan. Let us see this alleged report. I don't buy it.

4/21/2010 - Netanyahu: Less Time to Act on Iran with Each Passing Day Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sounded an urgent note regarding the Iranian threat in a Monday interview on America's ABC network, saying that “we have a lot less time with each day that passes.” Who's we?

4/21/2010 - Veterans of "Wikileaks" Incident Announce "Letter if Reconciliation" to Iraqis Injured in Attack Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" incident have written an open-letter of "Reconciliation and Responsibility" to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees.

4/21/2010 - After surgeries in Mich., Iraqi teen to head home A 13-year-old Iraqi boy brought to Michigan a year ago by a National Guardsman so he could get plastic surgery to repair scars from a house fire no longer is shy about pulling off his beloved Detroit Tigers baseball cap.

4/21/2010 - Gates says US is prepared on Iran's nuclear plan

4/21/2010 - US officials: Usable Iran bomb not imminent Having said that Iran could amass sufficient highly enriched uranium to build one bomb in roughly a year, Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that a nation driving for a weapon generally needs three to five additional years to make the leap to a bomb it can field.

4/21/2010 - More hype about Iran? Despite what some alarmists think, Iran is not the reincarnation of Nazi Germany and not about to unleash some new Holocaust against anyone.

4/21/2010 - Iran reveals air defense system The parade in Tehran showcased Iran's surface-to-surface Ghadr, Sajjil and Shahab-3 missiles, which have a range of up to 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers), putting Israel and US bases in the region within Iran's reach.

4/21/2010 - US top military official says strike against Iran would halt nuclear programme

4/21/2010 - Moyers on the Cost of Wars In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in tax dollars Binghamton citizens collectively and individually have contributed to the war effort.

4/21/2010 - Israeli president: Iran threatens whole world

4/21/2010 - From December: Christians United for War by Philip Giraldi

4/21/2010 - Democrats and Republicans Each Believe That American Jews Are Leaning Their Way – Forward.com Republicans say that friction between the Obama administration and Netanyahu’s government in Israel is taking its toll on Jewish support for the president and his party. Jewish voters, they argue, feel uncomfortable with Obama’s pressure on Israel and will make their concerns known by shifting toward the Republican side.

4/21/2010 - The Latest Scare Story About Iran: Missiles Targeting US by 2015 Today, the papers are full of a claim that the new Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report (PDF) from the US Dept. of Defense says Iran could have the missile capability to reach the U.S. by 2015. You'll find the claim being repeated by the UK's rightwing Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, by NewsMax, Israel's press, Pakistan's "Dawn", ABC News, Reuters and more.

4/21/2010 - Graceful Decline: The end of Pax Americana The end of Pax Americana

4/21/2010 - U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS TAKE ANOTHER TURN More and more since the failure of the Oslo Accords in the 1990s and the virtual takeover of Israeli politics by the Far Right, often represented by natively anti–American Russian Israelis and ultra–conservative Sephardics from the Arab world, relations have deteriorated between the two countries. Israel has become the petulant and demanding dependent, and the U.S. has become the long–suffering Sugar Daddy, often angry and insulted but afraid to say anything because of the power of the lobbies.

4/21/2010 - World poll: Only 19% see Israel in positive light Only Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan are viewed in a more negative light than Israel, according to a poll conducted in 28 countries and published Tuesday by the BBC.

4/21/2010 - Video- A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation—as well as the reactions to those reactions—thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed—by way of deception. Well worth watching all three parts.

4/21/2010 - YouTube - Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11, Interviewed by Ch. 4

4/21/2010 - From January: Review: Iran Never Halted Nuke Work in '03 A senior U.S. military officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week revealed that the new argument among analysts is over Iran's decision to move forward with weaponization. "There is a debate being held about whether the final decision has been made. It is fair to argue that the supreme leader has not said, 'Build a nuclear weapon.' That actually does not matter, because they are not at the point where they could do that anyway." Somebody is trying to make the case for war with this piece.

4/21/2010 - Picnicking on Mount Vesuvius? On March 29, 2010 the US Embassy instructed Americans not to travel to Lebanon citing ’safety and security concerns.” Simultaneously it warned those who are in Lebanon to seriously consider leaving.....It comes following Opposition charges, emphasized by Hezbollah’s Secretary Hassan Nasrallah the preceding week, that the US Embassy in Beirut engages in espionage activities for Israel and cautioning that the collaboration was very dangerous for Lebanon. America is doing Israel's bidding in Lebanon too. Read on.

4/21/2010 - Video: Antiwar Panel at CPAC

4/21/2010 - Report: Assad due in Egypt to discuss fear of Israel-Syria war Syrian President Bashar Assad was due Tuesday night to land in Egypt "within hours," his first visit in four years, several Arab media outlets reported. The urgency of the surprise trip stems from a fear of war between Israel and Syria.

4/21/2010 - Malaysia suspends gasoline supplies to Iran The announcement of the suspension by Petronas came after Najib held talks with US President Barack Obama, who called for the world to move "boldly and quickly" on new Iran sanctions on the sidelines of a 47–nation nuclear security summit this week.

4/14/2010 - U.S., Israeli attack on Iran would be 'unacceptable' - Russia military

4/14/2010 - Military Suicides Up Among Soldiers in Repeat Army Tours The surge in suicides, which have risen five years in a row, has become a vexing problem for which the Army's highest levels of command have yet to find a solution despite deploying hundreds of mental–health experts and investing millions of dollars. And the elephant in the room in much of the formal discussion of the problem is the burden of repeated tours of combat duty on a soldier's battered psyche. We need to bring our troops home now.

4/14/2010 - How to eat well on a food stamp budget $68.88 At the end of last year, roughly 1 in 8 Americans received food stamps, the highest rate ever America can ill afford going to war with another country (Iran).

4/14/2010 - Canceled Netanyahu trip spotlights Israel nukes Muslim countries have long complained of a double standard when the West asks them to stay nuclear-free while turning a blind eye to Israel's program. Many Israelis see atomic weapons as their ultimate defense against annihilation in a hostile Middle East.

4/14/2010 - Clinton defends role of Israel at nuclear summit Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Israel has much to contribute to this week's nuclear security summit even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is skipping the Washington conference.

4/14/2010 - Israel viewed as world's sixth nuclear power: analysts Analysts at British defence specialists Jane's believe the Jewish state has between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads, putting them among the more advanced nuclear weapons states and roughly on a par with Britain.

4/14/2010 - Israeli officials say Syria gives Hezbollah Scuds In Washington, the Syrian Embassy dismissed the allegations and accused Israel of trying to divert attention from questions about Israel's nuclear program.

4/14/2010 - Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

4/14/2010 - Nuking the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi The truth is that Israel is fast becoming a pariah nation, like South Africa before the final collapse of apartheid, because no one any longer accepts the legitimacy of its settlement growth and occupation policies. Like South Africa, the Israeli response to criticism has been to become more reactionary and inward looking, constructing a police state internally and waging unending war against its neighbors to maintain cohesion against foreign enemies....To be sure, there is a certain danger in isolating the Israelis too much as it could easily feed the always present Masada complex that might influence a dangerously unstable government to take action that might include exploiting its nuclear arsenal in search of Armageddon

4/14/2010 - Obama: Israel should sign NPT

4/14/2010 - US Generals and Admirals Who Have Accepted Free Trips to Israel We, the undersigned, have traveled to Israel over the years with The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). We brought with us our decades of military experience and, following unrestricted access to Israel's civilian and military leaders, came away with the unswerving belief that the security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to the United States and its policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Anyone that signed onto that is a traitor to the United States of America.

4/14/2010 - Commentary: Armchair warriors Three former CENTCOM commanders, now retired, with expert knowledge of the Middle East and all the key players, have said that learning to live with Iran as a nuclear power is wiser than bombing Iran. Israel wants us to attack Iran. Beware.

4/14/2010 - US confident it could intercept an Iranian missile The Pentagon is "very confident" that it could defend the U.S. against the threat of an Iranian ballistic missile strike, the Defense Department's chief spokesman said Wednesday. A recent Defense Department report to Congress concludes that Iran could develop a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015.

4/14/2010 - Iran announces batch of higher enriched uranium The uranium has been enriched from around 3.5 percent to 20 percent purity, needed to fuel a medical research reactor, Salehi said, according to the ISNA news agency. That level is far below the more than 90 percent needed to build a nuclear weapon, but U.S. officials have expressed concern Iran may be moving closer to the ability to reach weapons-grade level.

4/14/2010 - Obama, Hu in Iran sanctions breakthrough: US US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have agreed to jointly push for new nuclear sanctions on Iran, US officials said, heralding an apparent diplomatic breakthrough.

4/14/2010 - Iran Could Get Bomb Uranium, Block Oil, Pentagon Says Iran probably would need three to five years to complete a bomb, Marine Corps General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington. Cartwright said U.S. officials have no evidence Iran has decided to build a weapon and noted the timeline was based on historical estimates.

4/14/2010 - US officials: Iran could be a year away from bomb Sen. John McCain, R–Ariz., complained that the U.S. has been a paper tiger, threatening Iran but never fully confronting it. "We keep pointing the gun. We haven't pulled a single trigger yet, and it's about time that we did," McCain said. McCain should be sent to the front lines in Iraq if/when he gets his wish that America attack Iran. Let him put his money where his mouth is.

4/14/2010 - US Developing New Non-Nuclear Missiles The Prompt Global Strike program, which the Pentagon has been developing for several years, is already raising hackles in Moscow, where Russian officials predict it could trigger a nonnuclear arms race and complicate President Obama's long-term vision of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

4/14/2010 - The Crime of Silence

4/14/2010 - China offered oil for sanctions deal over Iran China is being privately reassured that its supplies of oil would be guaranteed in the event that it supports tough new UN sanctions on Iran, its third largest supplier of crude.

4/14/2010 - China cools US hopes of Iran sanctions breakthrough

4/14/2010 - Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Knew They Were Innocent it's devastating to have a former high Bush-Cheney official state under oath that the last administration knew it had countless innocent prisoners, lied about it, and tortured many.

4/14/2010 - Iran says it is ready for uranium exchange if IAEA is guarantor

4/14/2010 - One Marine’s ‘Liberty Walk’ for the Rest of Us

4/14/2010 - EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo! in asking a federal court Tuesday to block a government attempt to access the contents of a Yahoo! email account without a search warrant based on probable cause.

4/14/2010 - Pentagon: Iran needs 3-5 years to build usable atom bomb Cartwright said taking military action against Iran might delay its nuclear development but was unlikely to be decisive in stopping the program for good.

4/14/2010 - Iran: We will join 'world nuclear club' within a month Soltani added that the construction of a 360 megawatt nuclear power plant and a 40 megawatt research reactor in Iran's central city of Arak are 70 percent finished.

4/14/2010 - Anat Kam: I stole IDF documents to expose West Bank war crimes

4/14/2010 - Israel's nuclear standoff What Israeli officials are not talking about is the most probable reason behind this cancellation – Netanyahu's unwillingness to stop settlements in East Jerusalem, despite US requests.

4/14/2010 - Why Netanyahu Canceled His DC Visit, and Why the GOP Is Applauding Ever since Netanyahu's government took office, there has been a never-ending stream of stories from unnamed sources taking shots at the Obama administration, trying to undermine its standing with the Israeli public, and sending the signal to the Likud echo chamber stateside to swing into action. This would appear to be the latest example and who better today than Liz Cheney to be on the receiving end of the Netanyahu long ball.

4/14/2010 - Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons Recep Tayyip Erdogan remarked that Iran's nuclear program is being scrutinized because of its membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency whereas Israel, which has not signed a nonproliferation treaty, is free to do what it wants.

4/14/2010 - Obama recalls bunker-buster bomb kits to bar Israeli strike on Iran

4/14/2010 - Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran to lead to global catastrophe

4/14/2010 - Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran's Nuclear Program If All Else Fails Regarding Israel, Lieberman says some of the steps Obama has taken, such as demanding a freeze on the building of Israeli settlements, don’t help the peace process and are in fact “missteps.” Come again?

4/14/2010 - America’s Loose Nukes in Israel In the early 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began documenting suspicious lapses in NUMEC’s security, inexplicably lax record-keeping, and the ongoing presence of large numbers of Israelis at the plant. Very interesting article.

4/14/2010 - Worry That New Sanctions Will Not Curb Iran’s Nuclear Goals As another set of sanctions against Iran makes its way through the United Nations — the fourth in as many years — heads of American Jewish organizations and pro-Israel foreign policy analysts are wondering if these or any other measures will really be able to change the behavior of the regime in Tehran.

4/14/2010 - Joe Lieberman Strikes Again by Philip Giraldi Ah, those crafty Iranians. Threatening to destroy the world yet again. Thank God Joe is around to remind us over and over and over again about the global threat coming from the Mullahs

4/14/2010 - Netanyahu: Iran wants to destroy Israel and the world remains silent Israel=Chicken Little

4/14/2010 - Can Obama erase ‘Bush nostalgia’ in the Middle East Now as then, US policy continues to be anchored by a cynical bargain with Arab autocrats: If they faithfully support US regional objectives, the US turns a blind eye to their suppression of domestic dissent. It’s business as usual.

4/7/2010 - Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits Only a fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied in the two years since Congress, acting on concerns the military was cutting costs by downplaying injuries, ordered the Pentagon to review disputed claims.

4/7/2010 - Defense secretary warns Iran and North Korea Gates told a Pentagon briefing that a new policy restricting the use of nuclear weapons did not apply to countries such as Iran and North Korea, which are pursuing nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.

4/7/2010 - What War with Iran Means by Patrick J. Buchanan As to who starts it, we know the answer. Tehran has not started a war in memory and is not going to launch a suicide attack on a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. As with Iraq in 2003, the war will be launched by the United States against a nation that did not attack us — to strip it of weapons it does not have. We know who is behind this war too. Can't say you weren't in the know this time.

4/7/2010 - Obama: Evidence Shows Iran is Developing Nukes U.S. and Israeli efforts are focused on convincing Beijing that the best alternative to preventing a nuclear Iran and a military operation targeting it would be to agree to more severe sanctions - without actively supporting these.....The head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, recently traveled to China and relayed to his hosts details of the Iran's progress toward nuclear arms.

4/7/2010 - White House in calming message to U.S. Jews: Obama is Israel's friend National Security Council Middle East Senior Director Dan Shapiro stressed to American Jews that that the U.S. did not intend to insist that Israel halt construction in East Jerusalem................Shapiro said that Iran is the most important national security issue facing the United States and that no one should doubt the determination of the U.S. to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Really now. And how did Iran become the number 1 American national security issue? Two words: Israeli lobby. Israel's problems become OUR problems.

4/7/2010 - Ambassador Oren Israel protects US troops Speaking in an interview with CNN, Oren said that if Israel did not exist, extremists in the region would join Al-Qaeda in its anti-American sentiment. "The US is much safer thanks to Israeli-American cooperation," he said. Is this some kind of a sick joke? America is a target of Al-Qaeda because of our support for Israel. It was the primary motivation of Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 911.

4/7/2010 - Iran vows to strike Israel immediately if attacked

4/7/2010 - Obama Claims ‘All Evidence’ Supports Allegations Iran Developing Nukes Indeed, less than two months ago Obama’s own spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed Iran didn’t even have the ability to enrich uranium beyond 20 percent, let alone to rich to weapons grade, which would be above 90 percent. Just days after Gibbs made this statement he insisted that the US would not rule out attacking Iran.

4/7/2010 - Dismantling the Constitution One Step at a Time by Philip Giraldi The act would make it possible for the US military to seize and imprison anyone anywhere in the world, including American citizens, on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. This includes “material support” which is not otherwise defined.

4/7/2010 - To Pressure Iran, the U.S. Leans on Dubai

4/7/2010 - Kristol: ‘Better’ for US to attack Iran than if Israel did The Obama administration should be seriously considering a strike on Iran, according to neoconservative Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. An Israeli Deputy Defense Minister said last week that he expected Israel would have to attack Iran within a year. Kristol believes it would be better for the US to attack first. Kristol should be deported to his true homeland - Israel. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

4/7/2010 - How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too Nader’s status as a pariah corresponded with an unchecked assault by corporations on the working class. The long-term unemployment rate, which in reality is close to 20 percent, the millions of foreclosures, the crippling personal debts that plague households, the personal bankruptcies, Wall Street’s looting of the U.S. Treasury, the evaporation of savings and retirement accounts and the crumbling of the country’s vital infrastructure are taking place as billions in taxpayer subsidies, obscene profits, bonuses and compensation are enjoyed by the corporate overlords. We will soon be forced to buy the defective products of the government-subsidized drug and health insurance companies, which will remain free to raise co-payments and premiums, especially if policyholders get seriously ill. Take a read about the influence of CORPORATE interests on our lives. When corporate and foreign interests are better represented on Capitol Hill than YOU, the American taxpayers are, then we've got serious problems. That is NOT what this country was supposed to be about (read, no taxation without representation).

4/7/2010 - The Iraq war still a massive mistake First are the sacrifices in terms of blood and treasure. The broad consensus is that the war has cost the US economy well over $700 billion – with the meter still running. The Iraq war has also left nearly 4,400 American troops dead, more than 31,000 physically disabled, and countless more psychologically traumatized. The war on Iraq was conceived in Israel and put forth by Israel's minions - the neocons.

4/7/2010 - Israel's deadly legacy still lurks in Lebanon Most of the victims are sappers, farmers and unsuspecting children, who mistake the shiny objects for toys.

4/7/2010 - An Israeli General Explains Why Stopping Iran Requires a Real Settlement Freeze Haaretz has two opinion essays right now arguing that Israel should freeze construction because it needs to stop Iran’s nuclear project and it needs America to lead the effort. Bingo. See last news batch for more. Also take notice of reason number 9.

4/7/2010 - The WaPo’s Frum Forum Getting fired from the American Enterprise Institute might have been the best thing that’s ever happened to David Frum.

3/31/2010 - A Defining Moment by Philip Giraldi Earlier this week a letter signed by 300 Congressmen pledged commitment to the “unbreakable bond that exists between the US and the State of Israel.” The public, God bless them, have no ability to overturn Congressional knee jerk support for Israel, and besides, the ability of the MSM to control the coverage of the issue means that most Americans will have no clue that there is any school of thought that Israel constitutes a liability.

3/31/2010 - Dispute with Israel underscores limits of U.S. power, a shifting alliance President Obama and his aides have cast the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not just the relationship with Israel, as a core U.S. national security interest. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the military's Central Command, put it starkly in recent testimony on Capitol Hill: "The conflict foments anti-American sentiment due to a perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel." His comments raised eyebrows in official Washington -- and overseas -- because they suggested that U.S. military officials were embracing the idea that failure to resolve the conflict had begun to imperil American lives. Petraeus speaks the truth. Our support for Israel (and its policies of apartheid and colonialism) has cost us Americans dearly - in more ways than one.

3/31/2010 - Six powers to start work on Iran sanctions: U.S. envoy "China has agreed to sit down and begin serious negotiations here in New York with the others in the (group of six) ... as a first step toward getting the entire Security Council on board with a tough sanctions regime against Iran,"

3/31/2010 - Nearly 300 Congress members declare commitment to 'unbreakable' U.S.-Israel bond Read the letter they signed contained in the article. This is treason. Our support for Israel was the reason given by the mastermind of the attack on 911.

3/31/2010 - Bibi’s Hollow Victory by Patrick J. Buchanan “This is starting to get dangerous for us,” Biden reportedly told Netanyahu. “What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Yedioth Ahronoth further reported: “The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel’s actions and U.S. policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops.”

3/31/2010 - Barak: US Gives Israel Aid, Ammunition and Vital Spare Parts "Even when there are disagreements between friends – and there are also disagreements – it is vital that we remember that the US is friendly toward Israel in a deep and basic sense,” Barak explained. “It is the US we turn to when there is a Goldstone Report; it is the US we turn to when an intervention or veto is needed in the [UN] Security Council and it was there that we found support and backing in every central crisis in Israel's history, from the War of Independence onward.” They use us to abet their crimes against their neighbors. It got us 911. And it's all possible thanks to the Israeli lobby and its overwhelming influence over our government.

3/31/2010 - Clinton: China to play role in Iran sanctions push

3/31/2010 - Muslim scholars recast jihadists' favorite fatwa Prominent Muslim scholars have recast a famous medieval fatwa on jihad, arguing the religious edict radical Islamists often cite to justify killing cannot be used in a globalized world that respects faith and civil rights.

3/31/2010 - Obama says wants Iran sanctions within weeks

3/31/2010 - Iran nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri 'defects to US' ABC News said Shahram Amiri had been resettled in the US and was helping the CIA in its efforts to block Iran's nuclear programme.

3/31/2010 - The Crisis That Wasn’t by Philip Giraldi Clinton did make one intriguing comment, perhaps not completely understanding the implications of what she was saying: "We cannot escape the impact of mass communications." She meant that many people have now become concerned about what is going on in Israel and Palestine because of what appears on the internet. But if Israel were truly the cowboy in the white hat upholding truth and justice that would hardly matter, would it? In reality, the narrative of Israeli exceptionalism and entitlement that has been carefully shaped by the Israeli government and its friends in the mainstream media has been thoroughly discredited by alternative sources of information made available through the internet

3/31/2010 - Scott Horton Interviews Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses Israel’s ability to drag the US into a war with Iran, the difficulty of destroying Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility even with bunker-busting bombs, Pentagon war games that exposed serious US vulnerabilities to Iranian retaliation, the need to vastly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia and why the aircraft carrier-based US Navy is becoming obsolete.

3/31/2010 - Arab League chief urges closer ties with Iran The push to engage Tehran seems to be at least partly fueled by Arab frustration over Washington's failure to get Israel to back down on plans for more Jewish settlements on land the Palestinians want for a future state.

3/31/2010 - Video: An Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress? Short, but good. The link to the letter appearing in Haaretz is included in this news batch.

3/31/2010 - The Ugly Head of America The hatred and anger towards Muslims in this country and around the world has gone beyond the tipping point. This is not acceptable. The hatred of Islam, Muslims and Arabs is fostered and put forth, in my opinion, by Israel's lobby here in America. It is a means to conflate Israel's enemies with our own, thus making Israel's enemies our enemies.

3/31/2010 - Exclusive / Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal Each aircraft costs $70 million. The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs, and include a large number of systems produced by Israel's defense industry. The deal will be covered by American foreign assistance funds.

3/31/2010 - Saudi: Israel's arrogance challenges the world Mullen added that he had been in contact with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi twice this week and that the U.S. was concerned with Israel's security because: "It is in our national interests obviously or we wouldn't be so engaged... the United States has considered peace in the Middle East to be a national security interest for decades." To further demonstrate the obeisance to Israel on the part of America's government officials. Petraeus (and Mullen) drop into a low kowtow.

3/31/2010 - Israeli Intelligence, Our Constant Companion The 21 documents, obtained by Grant F. Smith, a Washington, D.C. author who has made a career out of writing critical books on Israeli spying and lobbying, detail the FBI’s investigation into the theft of a confidential U.S. document on the Reagan administration’s position going into the 1984 U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Negotiations. Acting on a complaint that the document was circulating on Capitol Hill, the FBI discovered that an Israeli diplomat had acquired the paper and given it to officials at AIPAC, the lobbying group whose annual convention drew both Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week.

3/31/2010 - Turkey makes case against sanctions on Iran In an apparently veiled reference to Israel, the Turkish leader referred to another country in the region that possessed nuclear weapons.

3/31/2010 - Netanyahu and Obama are at point of no return Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decisively supported General David Petraeus, the first American military man in years to describe Israel as a strategic burden on the U.S. Gates said America's rivals in the Middle East are abusing the standstill of the political process between Israel and the Arabs. He stressed that he had no doubt a lack of peace in the region was influencing American interests there.

3/31/2010 - "Reporting" on Iran Should Seem Familiar This misleading "reporting" is hardly confined to Fox News Israel's friends in the media are beating the drums of war.

3/31/2010 - Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah Sarah Palin has a passionate attachment to Israel and is thus the darling of the neocons.

3/31/2010 - Helen Thomas on Obama, the WH Press Corps, and More DC's most experienced journalist says Obama lost credibility when he dodged question on Israeli nukes

3/31/2010 - Senor Decides Against Running for Senate, Citing Family and Business “Start-up Nation” presents Israel in an extremely positive light as a bastion of entrepreneurial spirit and technological achievement. It skirts a discussion of the conflict with the Palestinians, or even the wealth inequality within Israel, thereby dovetailing nicely with recent public relations efforts by Israel to shift attention away from its problems and toward its achievements. Isn't it nice how so many of our current and would-be politicians - particularly those that push and have pushed us to take on Iraq and Iran- have such strong ties to Israel?

3/31/2010 - A Confrontation That Was Inevitable Either way the message is the same: America has gone to great lengths to defend Israel’s security. How far will Israel go to protect America’s security? They won't do a damned thing.

3/31/2010 - The Four Questions About Israel’s Future Unlike the days of my parents, Israel, stronger than ever, now has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, who, along with other Arab states, also fear Iran. We also have a strong bond with the United States, which is determined to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. What we need to do is quickly restore trust between Jerusalem and Washington, so we can face the Iranian threat together. Oh hell no. Someone needs to tell these people to fight their own battles. America has enough problems of its own right now.

3/31/2010 - Moscow metro bombings Russia should reinvent how it handles terrorism Russia’s foreign-policy responses to terror in the North Caucuses have failed as well. The Kremlin maintains contacts with Hamas and Hezbollah and, until now, has resisted meaningful sanctions against the biggest state sponsor of terrorism – Iran. Notice that the author of this piece is from The Heritage Foundation, a neocon thinktank.

3/31/2010 - Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran: thinktank Preparing the US sheep for the war we're about to get dragged into?

3/24/2010 - The Crisis That Wasn’t by Philip Giraldi the truly amazing part was that the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was so confident of the outcome that it didn’t even bother to hide very much of what it was doing, hardly deigning to engage in its usual clandestine arm twisting and slipped under the door "position papers." It immediately issued a public statement slamming the White House, asserting that "The Obama Administration’s recent statements regarding the US relationship with Israel are a matter of serious concern. AIPAC calls on the Administration to take immediate steps to defuse the tension with the Jewish State." It then unleashed its friends in Congress and the media. Its brazen campaign against the American president was executed all out on public view, right up front and recorded on the AIPAC website. I conjure you to read this excellent article by former CIA Philip Giraldi, my fellow citizens.

3/24/2010 - Medicating the military At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.

3/24/2010 - Ranks of amputees have risen steadily in 8 years of war In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 967 American service members have lost at least one limb, as of March 1.

3/24/2010 - Obama to Iran: U.S. offer of dialogue still stands

3/24/2010 - A Third Muslim-World War? "Secure in the support of its powerful friend, the weak ally can choose the objectives and methods of its foreign policy to suit itself," Morgenthau warned. "The powerful nation then finds it must support interests not its own and that it is unable to compromise on issues that are vital not to itself, but only to its ally." This is what George Washington warned us about in his Farewell Address - the evils of a passionate attachment. Read entire article if you can, paying attention to the last paragraph.

3/24/2010 - Iran sanctions may be secured with China abstention Levitt said steps were being taken by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to increase their oil supplies to China, effectively weaning it off Iranian supplies. That might increase the likelihood of China backing a resolution.

3/24/2010 - US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government 2.AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kenen was the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and for a time duly registered in that role. http://www.IRmep.org/Kenen.pdf The Justice Department ordered Kenen to personally re-register after he formally left the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head up private lobbying and publicity for the Israeli government at the nonprofit American Zionist Council. Kenen never complied with the order

3/24/2010 - Rupert Cornwell: Obama won't restrain Israel - he can't power lies in the perception of power, and no organisation in Washington is perceived to wield more power than AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. For proof, look no further than January 2009, when most of the rest of the world was horrified at the Israeli offensive in Gaza. At that moment the US House of Representatives, by a vote of 390 to five, chose to blame the entire crisis on Hamas.

3/24/2010 - US Lawmakers Stand Up Against Obama for Israel For whom do they work?

3/24/2010 - Clinton: US wants biting sanctions on Iran Headline should be changed to : 'Clinton: AIPAC said that the US wants biting sanctions on Iran'

3/24/2010 - Gen. Petraeus No Nukes for Iran ‘This Year’ Gen. Petraeus claimed this was because Iran’s efforts had been “delayed a bit.” He called for more international pressure against Iran, and declined to answer questions about a possible attack plan against the nation.

3/24/2010 - US, Russia clash over startup of Iran nuke plant Lavrov forcefully asserted that, whatever the U.S. concerns, his country will finish its work on the Bushehr nuclear power plant shortly.

3/24/2010 - Report Claims Iran Arms Taliban The allegation that arms from Iran are being supplied to the Taliban is not new. As my colleague Michael Gordon reported in 2007, Gen. Peter Pace, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, told reporters, “We have intercepted weapons in Afghanistan headed for the Taliban that were made in Iran.” At the time General Pace added that it was not clear if the arms from Iran were coming from that country’s government. Still trying to make case for war.

3/24/2010 - Taliban fighters training in Iran, U.S. officials say The officials who spoke with CNN did not say how many Taliban fighters have been trained in Iran, or whether the training was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Iranian government.

3/24/2010 - Israel to ask US for bombs in the fight against Iran's Nuclear sites Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will use a visit to Washington this week to press the US to release sophisticated bunker-busting bombs needed for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear sites.

3/24/2010 - 2nd mystery 'hit': Israeli jet flyover amid Hungary slay In a possible sequel to the Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew uninvited and unannounced over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot to death in his car, Hungarian media reported yesterday.

3/24/2010 - Syrian murder, Israeli planes not linked: official Two Israeli airforce planes that made a low-level pass over Budapest this week had nothing to do with the killing of a Syrian man in the Hungarian capital on the same day, Hungarian officials said on Friday. Come on, really, Hungary?

3/24/2010 - The ADL targeting ….Gen. Petraeus

3/24/2010 - Israel Lobby Wants Iran, not the Peace Process to Top the U.S. Agenda The amateur activists were preparing for Tuesday's blitz of Congress that has become a ritual of the annual policy conference of AIPAC, one of the nation's most influential interest groups. This year, according to Aserkoff, as many as 4,000 activists will hold roughly 500 meetings with their members of Congress or their staff. This is possible, this overwhelming influence on Congress by the Israeli lobby, because YOU are not paying attention. The apathy on the part of the American people is half the problem. The lobby fills the void that should be filled by ordinary Americans that have no passionate attachment to Israel.

3/24/2010 - The American Conservative » Neocons Target Rand Paul neoconservatives still set the foreign-policy agenda for the GOP. But they’re genuinely worried that the combination of a grassroots movement and an independently-minded candidate will deliver a blow to their power — especially if Rand Paul becomes only the first of many by showing that there is an alternative to Bushes and Kristols.

3/24/2010 - AIPAC's Talking Points On Iran and Palestinians AIPAC has also posted their talking points memo regarding making the case for final passage of "crippling" Iran sanctions and pressing for better enforcement of existing sanctions - Crippling Sanctions Needed to Prevent Nuclear Iran .

3/24/2010 - Zionism’s Dark Forces Don’t Want the Lights On blind though AIPAC is for that reason, it’s not completely out of touch with reality. It knows that the more Zionism’s on-going colonisation is exposed to the light, the more the world understands that Israel is the obstacle to peace. (The world now includes some of the U.S.’s top military men who are going on the public record with their view that support for Israel right or wrong is not in the best interests of America).

3/24/2010 - Netanyahu to AIPAC: Stop Iran or Israel Will After the worst week in U.S.-Israel relations in 35 years, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington Monday and gave a powerful and effective speech at the AIPAC gala dinner at the Washington Convention Center, warning the world to stop Iran — or Israel will — and respectfully but directly challenging the Obama administration on Jerusalem and the peace process.....Netanyahu received scores of standing ovations from the 7,800 guests in attendance, the biggest event in the history of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee). More than half of the members of the U.S. House and Senate were there Note the comments by Schumer and Graham.

3/24/2010 - Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale added Graham, a member of the Senate armed services committee, "sometimes it is better to go to war than to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time." And he told the crowd that "time is not on our side" and that this AIPAC conference could be the last of the lobby's annual get-togethers before Iran possesses nuclear weapons. Military action ought to be taken against Iran, he said, before the country acquires a nuclear bomb.

3/24/2010 - Lebanese army fires on Israeli warplanes: military Lebanese anti–aircraft guns opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating its airspace at medium altitude on Sunday, the military said....Israel's regular overflights into southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, are a breach of Resolution 1701 Why no sanctions for Israel?

3/24/2010 - World will do "whatever it takes" to stop Iran nuke: Blair "Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability. Iran must know that we will do whatever it takes to stop them getting it," Blair told the pro–Israel lobby AIPAC, adding it was a matter of global security.

3/24/2010 - Are Israel’s Policies a Threat to the U.S.? Suggestions that Israeli policies might threaten American national security thus far seem not to have gained much traction among lawmakers, said an official with a pro-Israel organization in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said that the prevailing attitude on Capitol Hill is still that Israel is a security asset in the Middle East, not a burden. Congress- AIPAC's overwhelming influence thereof - is the real problem. We've got Congressmen and women that have the passionate attachment to Israel, and the rest are beholden to Israel's lobby. Our support for Israel is in fact a danger to this nation. And anyone in Congress that supports this is betraying the majority of the American people.

3/24/2010 - Eric Cantor to the Forward: Administration Is 'Bullying Israel' Cantor and several other Republican lawmakers have criticized the administration’s tough stance on Israel in light of the dispute over the Jewish state’s approval of another 1,600 homes in contested East Jerusalem. Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, have also said that the Obama administration was wrong in pressuring Israel. I'm going to remind readers what former CIA head of the Bin Laden unit has to say about Israel in this CSpan video. Long, but worth the watch.

3/24/2010 - Powell Says New Sanctions on Iran Won’t Stop Nuclear Program - Bloomberg.com “The Iranians are determined to have a nuclear program,” Powell said in the interview, which will be broadcast on Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff” this weekend. “Notice I did not say a nuclear weapon. But they are determined to have a nuclear program, notwithstanding the last six or seven years of efforts on our part to keep them from having a nuclear program.”

3/24/2010 - Israel & Aid By Ralph Nader Since 1996, the American taxpayers are still sending Israel $3 billion a year and providing assorted loan guarantees, waivers, rich technology transfers and other indirect assistance. Before George W. Bush left office a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Israel stipulated an assistance package of $30 billion over the next ten years to be transferred in a lump sum at the beginning of every fiscal year. Israel’s wars and colonies still receive U.S. taxpayer monies....the U.S. economy is mired in a recession, with large rates of growing poverty, unemployment, consumer debt and state and federal deficits. In some states, public schools are shutting, public health services are being slashed, and universities are increasing tuition while also cutting programs. Even state government buildings are being sold off. Read on.

3/17/2010 - China envoy urges Iran to compromise, wary on sanctions China faces mounting demands from Western powers to approve a proposed United Nations resolution imposing new sanctions on Tehran, which they say wants the means to make nuclear weapons and has broken non–proliferation safeguards.

3/17/2010 - Report: US shipping arms ahead of strike on Iran Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean ahead of a possible attack on Iran, The Herald reported Wednesday.

3/17/2010 - report US Sending Massive Amounts of Weaponry to Diego Garcia The proximity is not lost on Iran’s state media, which is reporting that the bunker-busters are a clear move to threaten Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran over its civilian nuclear program.

3/17/2010 - Petraeus says Iran nuke won't happen this year The top U.S. commander in the Middle East says Iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon have been delayed "a bit" and that Iran won't get a nuclear weapon this year.

3/17/2010 - Pentagon vs. Israel? "Not surprisingly, what Biden told Netanyahu reflected the importance the administration attached to Petraeus's Mullen briefing: 'This is starting to get dangerous for us,' Biden reportedly told Netanyahu. 'What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.'

3/17/2010 - “This is Starting to Get Dangerous” “The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel’s actions and US policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops fighting against Islamic terrorism.”

3/17/2010 - Poodle Biden Gets Kicked by Patrick J. Buchanan Israeli and U.S. interests often run parallel, but they are not the same. Israel is concerned with a neighborhood. We are concerned with a world of 300 million Arabs and a billion Muslims. Our policies cannot be the same. If they are, we will end up with all of Israel’s enemies, who are legion, and only Israel’s friends, who are few.

3/17/2010 - Report: Petraeus Warns Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen that Israel Is Jeopardizing US Security Interests

3/17/2010 - The Petraeus Briefing: Biden’s Embarrassment Is Not The Whole Story UPDATE: A senior military officer denied Sunday that Petraeus sent a paper to the White House.

3/17/2010 - Supporting the War Instead of the Troops by Rep. Ron Paul the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us.

3/17/2010 - The Rogue Nation

3/17/2010 - Pakistani Scientist Khan Describes Iranian Efforts to Buy Nuclear Bombs Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

3/17/2010 - Petraeus Cites Progress, But Says Difficult, Uncertain Year Ahead in Afghanistan, Iraq he called Iran "the major state-level threat to regional stability," accusing its leaders of supporting violent groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and, to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. The general said he believes Iran is working to develop a nuclear weapon, but he does not expect the process to be completed this year. Come on, really, Gen. Petraeus?

3/17/2010 - China: Iran Sanctions 'Counterproductive' China's new Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva says his country does not want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But he says his country is opposed to sanctions against Iran, calling them counterproductive.

3/17/2010 - US to Turkey: Step up pressure on Iran, support IAEA or you'll pass another bill iterating that the Armenian Genocide was in fact a genocide?...

3/17/2010 - Petraeus Confirms Link Between Israel-Palestine and U.S. Security Petraeus’ willingness to publicly — and in uniform with all those decorations on his chest — make the connection between Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and the spread of “anti-American sentiment” and the deterioration of the U.S. position in the region — a connection which, of course, is completely evident to any casual observer of Middle East — marks what can only be considered a major breakthrough in the debate over the relationship between the United States and Israel.

3/17/2010 - Knesset to Biden For Smooth Relations, Free Pollard With impeccable timing, a broadly representative group of Israeli Knesset members sent a joint letter to Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday and asked him to work to free confessed spy Jonathan Pollard from federal prison in honor of the Passover holiday and “as an expression of the good relations and friendship between our two peoples.” It was signed by party whips or representatives of eight of the nine Jewish parties in the Knesset

3/17/2010 - U.S. TELLS ISRAEL: “YOU ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA, ENDANGERING TROOPS” the extent of Israeli involvement in areas that had taken the “special relationship” into an area of disaster for the United States. This is what was discovered: Read on.

3/17/2010 - Jerusalem Pitches Goldstone Report as a Threat to U.S. Military and its Allies So far, based on the voting on the Feb. 26 U.N. resolution, many of the countries other than America toward whom Israel is aiming this argument seem unpersuaded. I wonder why that is?

3/17/2010 - Arab world says hopes in Obama are dwindling the mistrust has already hurt U.S. policy. U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Gulf nations have rejected U.S. pressure to make diplomatic gestures to Israel to encourage it in the peace process, citing its hard line on settlements. It could bleed over into other realms, such as U.S. attempt to isolate Iran, which Washington and its allies accuse of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the claims.

3/17/2010 - Biden steers past spat over Israel settlement plan Addressing a key Israeli security concern, Biden also said the U.S. is "determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons."

3/17/2010 - Subservient Superpower by Philip Giraldi The real indication of whether or not the White House will or can begin to break the chains that bind will come at the end of this week when AIPAC holds its annual conference. AIPAC is keenly aware of the need to pull the American colossus back in line and will do so by playing the evil Iran card over and over again and by demanding obeisance from a long line of politicians and media pundits. The AIPAC lovefest will conclude with an address by Hillary Clinton next Monday.

3/17/2010 - Gates appeals to Saudis to back sanctions on Iran With China apparently the strongest holdout to sanctions among the five veto–wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council, the Americans have turned to their Saudi allies to persuade China to reconsider. Washington hopes the Saudis could guarantee China stable oil supplies in the event of disruption from Iran. And the Saudis in turn probably want progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, progress which we cannot obtain because of Israeli intransigence with respect to illegal settlements. This is a supreme irony since it is Israel that is behind this whole Iran-sanctions push.

3/17/2010 - Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel/Iran Israel: Elephant Not Allowed in the Room

3/17/2010 - Knesset to Biden: For Smooth Relations, Free Pollard With impeccable timing, a broadly representative group of Israeli Knesset members sent a joint letter to Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday and asked him to work to free confessed spy Jonathan Pollard from federal prison in honor of the Passover holiday and “as an expression of the good relations and friendship between our two peoples.” It was signed by party whips or representatives of eight of the nine Jewish parties in the Knesset

3/17/2010 - Foxman: Don't blame the Jews Eytan Gilboa, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and a specialist on US-Israeli relations, said the government needed to frontally counter this argument because it risked eroding support for Israel among the US public. Notice the knee-jerk reaction by Foxman to label this as anti-Jewish (read, anti-Semitic).

3/17/2010 - Israeli FM reportedly boycotts Brazil's President Lula Mr Lieberman was reportedly upset that Mr Lula refused to visit the grave of the founder of the Zionist movement. Mr Lula also opposes sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program Oh dear.

3/17/2010 - Spy Takes US/Israeli Secrets to Grave Extensive evidence now exists that Begin’s preference for Reagan led the Israelis to join in a covert operation with Republicans to contact Iranian leaders behind Carter’s back, interfering with the President’s efforts to free the 52 American hostages before the November 1980 elections. David Kimche could have been a key witness to these events. Ben-Menashe identified the Israeli spymaster as a middleman between Begin and CIA veterans who initially supported former CIA Director George H.W. Bush, who ran against Reagan before ending up as his vice presidential choice.

3/10/2010 - Many Voices Calling for War with Iran by Philip Giraldi Sarah Palin is on the Pipes bandwagon, showing up at the mid-February Nashville Tea Party convention sporting an Israeli flag lapel pin and subsequently urging the president to do the right thing in supporting Israel by attacking Iran. .... As Israel knows its air force cannot cripple Iran, its government has had to devise a scheme to get the US to do it instead, which is precisely what is being promoted by Anne Applebaum, Daniel Pipes, and all the other usual suspects who have already brought America fun and games in Iraq and Afghanistan....Cohen and Applebaum together make the case that preemptive war against Iran is somehow both justifiable and inevitable, ignoring the fact that Iran has never threatened the United States. Their Israel-centric view makes it appear completely acceptable for Washington to yet again go to war on behalf of Tel Aviv. Excellent article.

3/10/2010 - Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. He has been worrying aloud that Israel will mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran.....Mullen, for his part, seems acutely aware that the Constitution he has sworn to defend makes no provision for the kind of war he might be sucked into in order to defend Israel. God bless you, Admiral Mullen. Bless your heart.

3/10/2010 - Officers: Pakistan arrests American-born al-Qaida The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.

3/10/2010 - US lawmakers push for tougher Iran sanctions Massa Israel pleased!

3/10/2010 - What’s In a Name by Philip Giraldi The Mossad assassination could also result in real consequences from the European governments whose passports were cloned or stolen, though the French and Germans are unlikely to make waves and the British are already backpedalling to make sure they do not offend Israel.

3/10/2010 - Biden to try to boost Middle East peace prospects An Israeli cabinet minister, commenting on Joe Biden's visit, pointed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's description of the September 11 attacks in the United States as a "big fabrication" as cause for concern. "What we have here is a madman, and crazy people can do only crazy things," Industry and Trade Minister Binyamin Ben–Eliezer told Israel Radio. "The Americans ... must see how they can create a reality in which they stop the madman." An Israeli political source said Israel expected Biden's main message would be "Don't bomb Iran," a cautionary note Washington has sounded before in contacts with Israeli leaders.......The Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will meet Biden, was "disappointed" by sanctions proposed thus far by the United States. "This is not what we've been promised," he said.

3/10/2010 - West softens stance on Iran nuclear sanctions Another diplomat said urging vigilance about Iran's central bank in the U.S.-drafted proposal should be more acceptable to Russia and China than blacklisting it, which would have made it difficult for anyone to invest in Iran.

3/10/2010 - U.S. criticized on Iran sanctions China has balked at supporting a fourth round of U.N. sanctions on Iran. That has emboldened countries on the council, such as Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon, to also express opposition.

3/10/2010 - Iran vents frustration with Moscow, expels Russian pilots The move is a further sign of strains between Iran and Russia, which has indicated it could back new sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear work. For its part, Iran has voiced frustration over Moscow's failure to deliver a defense missile system.

3/10/2010 - China wants more diplomacy before Iran sanctions

3/10/2010 - Clinton fails to win over Brazil on Iran While most attention is focused on Russia and China, which hold veto power over any U.N. resolution, the United States had hoped to win over key nonpermanent Security Council members such as Brazil and Turkey to present a united front on the Iran nuclear standoff.

3/10/2010 - Gates appeals to Saudis to back sanctions on Iran Washington hopes the Saudis could guarantee China stable oil supplies in the event of disruption from Iran

3/10/2010 - Iran's Ahmadinejad Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie' "September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."

3/10/2010 - Biden's Israel visit is a year too late Biden's visit is designed to open a new chapter in relations between Netanyahu and the U.S. administration, with a two-fold message: recognition of the political importance of Israel and its supporters in America in advance of the November Congressional elections; and giving Netanyahu the credit he's not yet earned for his statement in support of "two states for two peoples" and his settlement construction freeze. He will get it now under the threat of a preemptive war against Iran. Israel has our officials alarmed. Israel is threatening to attack Iran. Such an attack would automatically implicate us, Israel's big brother. Our troops in the region would come under attack. Israel knows this, and is hanging this threat of an attack on Iran over our heads. It's blackmail.

3/10/2010 - Barak: Iran not currently posing existential threat to Israel

3/10/2010 - Bolton: Israel's Options – Attack Iran or Accept Nuclear Power Neocon John Bolton back making the rounds. His American citizenship should be stripped from him. He works for Israel, not us.

3/10/2010 - Israel to unveil plans to create nuclear generated power Israel will unveil this week plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention towards its assumed atomic arsenal.....Unlike other countries in the region, Israel has not signed the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which curbs the spread of nuclear technologies with bomb-making potential. Yet Israel does have a delegation at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN watchdog. Yeh, that makes sense.

3/10/2010 - Syria hints Israel planted nuclear traces on its territory In a closed-door debate by the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors, Syria reiterated its assertion that the uranium traces came with munitions Israel used to destroy the complex.

3/10/2010 - '4-8 Weeks Left for Diplomacy on Iran' Four to eight weeks remain to test the option of diplomatic engagement as means of stopping Iran’s nuclear program before sanctions will likely be imposed, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told an audience of foreign military officers and government officials in Herzliya on Monday.

3/10/2010 - Iranian missiles pose no threat to U.S. and Europe - Lavrov "It is evident that Iran currently poses no threat to the U.S. and European countries... At the moment, Iran has no missiles capable of striking Europe, let alone the U.S., and is unlikely to develop [such missiles] in the foreseeable future," Lavrov said.

3/10/2010 - AIPAC calls for swift action to block U.S. companies supporting Iran To which Congress will respond, 'Yes Massa!'

3/10/2010 - Commentary: Move over Dubai The worst case scenario came up at the Club of Monaco (retired senior statesmen and women from Europe, the Middle East, including Israel, and the United States) in Doha last week. Diplomatic code was "detonator," which was designed to conjure up an Israeli airstrike against an Iranian nuclear facility that would automatically unleash Iran's asymmetrical retaliatory capabilities against U.S. and pro-U.S. targets up and down the Persian Gulf. Most world governments would assume the United States had given Israel the green light, and Iran, in turn, would feel justified in "counterattacking" throughout the Gulf. Thus, Israel becomes the "detonator."

3/10/2010 - Israel: Did the Alleged Mossad Hit in Dubai Really Help? If Netanyahu authorized the hit, though, the real question is whether he really considered the strategic implications. Look at the map. If Israel goes ahead and bombs Iran's nuclear facilities, it will need over–flight clearances from the Gulf Arabs. Antagonizing the U.A.E. in this way, leaving almost no doubt Israel was behind Mabhouh's assassination, does not seem the best way to facilitate such clearances. Nor does it help build an Arab Sunni coalition against Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hizballah.

3/10/2010 - Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions Both countries laid out their hopes at an international conference on civilian nuclear energy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

3/10/2010 - Bunning’s Best Game In George W. Bush’s last full year in office, we spent $29 billion for “international affairs.” The lion’s share of that was foreign aid. In FY 2011, the year for which Congress has begun to budget, spending for international affairs and foreign aid is to jump to $54 billion and continue to surge through the Obama years. What is the rationale for the United States, the world’s greatest debtor nation, putting itself deeper in debt to China to send foreign aid to nations that will never repay us and that vote habitually with China and against us in the United Nations? America cannot afford to keep sending foreign aid to countries such as Israel, especially at a time when American Jews are moving to Israel because of a better economy there.

3/10/2010 - New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet

3/3/2010 - Brazil rebuffs US, says it will go own way on Iran

3/3/2010 - Iran says UN nuclear watchdog bends to political influence

3/3/2010 - Dig deep: Gasoline prices ready to move higher Seasonal influences are strong this time of year and account for much of the expected increase that many analysts say will push gasoline to a nationwide average of at least $3 per gallon this spring.

3/3/2010 - Canada pushes G8 nations on Iran sanctions Mr. Cannon signalled that, before the June leaders summit in Huntsville, Ont., Canada will press for the G8 to take action at the meeting on March 29 and 30, when he hosts the foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. Israel's puppets busily doing their master's bidding.

3/3/2010 - In U.S., Barak signals Israeli autonomy against Iran Washington's clout over its Middle East ally is under scrutiny after Israel's veiled threats to attack Iran preemptively if international diplomacy fails to rein in Tehran's uranium enrichment, a process with bomb–making potential.

3/3/2010 - Israel urges U.S. to adopt Cuba-like embargo on Iran "We are a little worried by the pace of developments in the international arena," Lieberman told reporters. "I think that from now on Israel should perhaps change its Iran policy a little, and we should ask the United States to adopt the Cuban model ... Here the United States alone can do everything in order to stop this (Iranian) program."

3/3/2010 - Clinton: Iran sanctions months away The United States is working "expeditiously and thoroughly" to win new international penalties on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday night. Israel's puppets busily doing their master's bidding.

3/3/2010 - Iran rebel, on death row, says US supported group Iranian authorities presented a condemned Sunni rebel to reporters on Tuesday who said his group had received support from both the United States and al Qaeda to attack targets inside Iran.

3/3/2010 - US Visits to Israel Seen Trying to Prevent Attack on Iran A form of blackmail: 'give us what we want (sanctions), or we will draw you into a regional war'.

3/3/2010 - Iran: US behind IAEA charge that Iran making bomb

3/3/2010 - US Congress Extends Patriot Act without Privacy Improvements

3/3/2010 - Report: US tells Lebanon can't stop Israeli strike

3/3/2010 - That was a war council in Damascus The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi.

3/3/2010 - Convicted Holocaust denier Zundel released In February 2005, a Canadian judge ruled that Zundel's activities were a threat to national security as well as "the international community of nations," clearing the way for his deportation to Germany later that year. It's the Muslims that are taking over Europe, this being one example of their laws to curb freedom of speech. Find out how many European nations (and also Canada) have these laws, and then tell me again that it's Islam that is the threat to our freedom..

3/3/2010 - Israel offers 'full intelligence picture' to get China to agree on Iran sanctions At the very least, Israel wants to ensure that China does not oppose the sanctions when they come to vote. What else did they offer to China?

3/3/2010 - Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us Edmonds said that Feith and Wolfowitz were involved in plans to break Iraq into U.S. and British protectorates months prior to 9/11. She also claimed that the duo shared information with Grossman on how to blackmail various officials and that Grossman had accepted cash to help procure and sell nuclear weapons technology to Israel and Turkey—and, from there, on to the foreign black market.

3/3/2010 - A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades, as saying that Jundullah was one of the militant groups in Iran benefiting from U.S. support.

3/3/2010 - Ahmadinejad: Arab world will usher in new Mideast without Zionists Ahmedinejad's trip comes on the heels of several important overtures to Syria by the U.S., including the nomination of the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus since 2005.

3/3/2010 - US, Israel resume 'strategic dialogue' on Iran The meeting came during a visit to the United States by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak in which he was to meet with several top US officials.

3/3/2010 - The Annual Armenian Genocide Bloviation by Philip Giraldi Looks like it passed. I wonder why the AIPACers let it slide? Perhaps because Turkey didn't kowtow to Israel with respect to the '08 assault on Gaza?

3/3/2010 - Obama's inner GOP

3/3/2010 - Muslim leader issues anti-terror fatwa Well we know we won't be seeing THIS headline on Fox News (and most US media stations). It goes against what our AIPACer overlords want us to believe.

3/3/2010 - British journalist warns of Israeli plot to draw USinto war with Iran Patrick Seale who is here attending the Monaco Club conference told reporters on the sidelines of the event that Israel believes that if it wages a war against Iran on its own public opinion would force the White House to intervene, especially if Tehran targets US military interests in the Gulf.

2/24/2010 - Iran's supreme leader denies seeking nuclear arms From the deck of Iran's new guided–missile destroyer, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied Friday that Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons and criticized the U.S. military presence in the Gulf.

2/24/2010 - Iran's nuclear plans draw sharp response from US Iran's announcement that it might build two new uranium enrichment plants inside mountains to avert air strikes has drawn a sharp reaction from Washington.

2/24/2010 - Obama's Problems -- and Ours by Patrick J. Buchanan pressure on the president is mounting for "crippling" sanctions on Iran that could lead to a third U.S. war against a nation with a population larger than Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

2/24/2010 - Behind Clinton's tough talk on Iran The goal of Hillary Clinton's rhetoric seems to be to promote conflict and convince Americans Iran is a threat to their security....The public relations campaign is working. A new Gallup poll finds that 61% of Americans see Iran as "as a critical threat to US vital interests," with an additional 29% believing that it is "an important threat". Red alert, folks. You are being prepared for another war based on false pretenses and by the same crowd.

2/24/2010 - Liquidating the Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan Even if it is the economy that will inevitably bring about the undoing of American empire it is hard to ignore the fact that the economic crisis was fueled by spending on wars and homeland security using borrowed money and pushing the government deep into deficit spending.

2/24/2010 - Clinton avoided nuke question - student If the Americans "so vehemently oppose Iran's nuclear programme,'' she had asked, "then why isn't the US asking Israel to give up their nuclear weapons?'' Ms Clinton gave a lengthy answer detailing the US case against Iran, but did not mention Israel.

2/24/2010 - Barak heads to U.S. to discuss Iran, Mideast peace talks Barak will devote much of his visit to the Iranian threat and its implications for Israel's relations with its closest neighbors.

2/24/2010 - US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation How Much Military Aid to Israel The budget deficit in New York State is roughly equal to the amount that New York State taxpayers are paying in aid to Israel. While more Americans go jobless, homeless, and as Paterson is poised to close many state parks in New York State, we are instead giving the hard-earned taxpayer's dollars to a nation that repeatedly commits war crimes, that is stealing and occupying the land of another people, and whose economy is evidently not in the grave state as is the case with ours.

2/24/2010 - Rep. Ron Paul surprise winner of CPAC presidential straw poll Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished second with 22 percent of the vote, ending a three-year winning streak at CPAC. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finished third with 7 percent of the vote, followed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty at 6 percent and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence at 5 percent.

2/24/2010 - US Muslim group calls IRS plane attack terrorism A major US Muslim group has decried officials' "double standard" in refusing to label Texas suicide plane crash as an act of terrorism. If a Muslim or Arab had done the same act, we all know it would have been called terrorism.

2/24/2010 - New Grist for Hype on Iran by Ray McGovern Press reports over the past few days – as well as past experience – strongly suggest that the “new evidence” cited by the Times may have comes from the usual suspects – agenda-laden sources, like Israeli intelligence.

2/24/2010 - Syria's Assad holds security talks with U.S. official

2/24/2010 - U.S. Delays Iran Sanctions While Persuading Israel Not To Attack “The main issue is coordination and exchange of views on Iran,” an Israeli diplomat briefed on the talks said. “It is mainly about sharing estimates and intelligence.” But another official, based in Israel, said it is clear that both countries have also used these talks to shore up unwritten understandings regarding the way forward on Iran......"as the nuclear issue escalates, dealing with Israel could become as big a challenge for the United States as dealing with Iran.” Because Israel is more willing than the United States to use military force, “an eventual U.S.-Israeli crisis is likely,” the analysts wrote.

2/24/2010 - Same Old, Same Old by Philip Giraldi Even if it is the economy that will inevitably bring about the undoing of American empire it is hard to ignore the fact that the economic crisis was fueled by spending on wars and homeland security using borrowed money and pushing the government deep into deficit spending.

2/24/2010 - UN nuke agency worried Iran may be working on arms Thursday's 10–page IAEA report did not go into specifics, and it many of the alleged activities listed had appeared in previous reports. But a senior international official familiar with the IAEA probe of Iran said the agency continued to receive new intelligence from agency member nations on activities allegedly linked to attempts to build nuclear arms. And which 'agency member nations' would those be?

2/24/2010 - US conservatives prefer Paul to Palin: poll A straw poll of US conservative activists saw Texas congressman Ron Paul emerge as the preferred Republican presidential candidate to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. Even the CPACers dislike those out for their own interests and/or special interests as opposed to those like Paul who don't pander to any corporate or foreign interests.

2/24/2010 - US State Department lifts travel warning for Syria The U.S. has lifted an advisory warning American travelers of security concerns in Syria, officials said, as Washington tries to boost ties with a country seen as key to peace in the region.

2/24/2010 - The Chalabi Factor in Iraq If the neocons want to blame someone for the loss of Iraq, they ought to look in the mirror.

2/24/2010 - Chossudovsky: US Will Start WW3 by Attacking Iran Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war.

2/24/2010 - Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran The rapid pace of the escalation - almost daily reports of missile shield expansion in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Persian Gulf and Turkey; heightened and progressively more bellicose words and actions directed against Iran - is occurring at a breakneck and almost dizzying speed, drawing in larger and larger tracts of Europe and Asia.

2/24/2010 - West turns diplomatic screw – but Israel refuses to crack The international fallout into Mabhouh's death showed no sign of abating. In Paris, the French government also summoned an Israeli diplomat, and Germany – often seen as one of the West European countries most sympathetic to Israel – called on Israel to "provide any information it had which might help explain the circumstances" of the Hamas militant's death.

2/24/2010 - Russia warns West against crippling Iran sanctions

2/24/2010 - Israel unveils new drone fleet that can reach Iran Israel and the U.S. believe Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons; Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes. Notice how the Associated Press continues to say that the US believes Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons when our NIE assessment still does not bear this out. Read the related article by Giraldi in this news batch.

2/24/2010 - Nearly 20 percent of U.S. workers underemployed In findings that appear to paint a darker employment picture than official U.S. data, Gallup estimated that about 30 million Americans are underemployed, meaning either jobless or able to find only part–time work. Again, America can ill afford another war (this time- with Iran).

2/24/2010 - Some Straight Thinking About Iran by Philip Giraldi the Annual Threat Assessment and the possibly forthcoming NIE would really only confirm the 2007 NIE’s judgment that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, does not appear to have an in-place weapons program, and is still several years away from having a nuclear device even if the political decision is made to proceed.......Why is Iran the target of so much rage even though it has not threatened the United States or any vital American interest? Influence over Congress and the media from Israel and its friends is surely a large part of the answer. America beware.

2/24/2010 - The New Poor Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. The United States can ill afford a new war in the Middle East.

2/24/2010 - Attack Iran? Applebaum, not exactly an Iran expert, used her ink in the Post today to warn that President Obama had better start preparing for an Israeli strike on Iran. In fact, that was the title of her op–ed: "Prepare for war with Iran." In it, she suggests that "at some point" Israel's restraint vis–avis Iran could evaporate, partly because President Ahmadinejad "makes(s) the Israelis paranoid." An Israeli strike, she says, "would be followed by retaliation, some of which would be directed at us, our troops in Iraq, our ships at sea." Worth a read, from a few years back: "Four Day War"

2/24/2010 - 'An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada' Junior Foreign Affairs minister Peter Kent is suggesting Canada stands ready to throw its full military weight behind Israel, telling a Toronto publication that “an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada.” Canada has become another Israeli occupied territory thanks to the efforts of its influential Israeli lobby. They will likely at some point face the 'blowback' that my country has as a consequence of this support of Israel.

2/24/2010 - Audio: Israeli Ambassador: ‘Don't Expect Much from Obama on Iran’ In a powerful interview, Yoram Ettinger, a former U.S. consul in the United States, said that Israel should not expect Washington to take on Iran.

2/24/2010 - CNN Poll: American believe Iran has nuclear weapons Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll. Propaganda put forth by Israel's minions in our media works! Congratulations.

2/24/2010 - ‘S-300 delivery a serious development’ Should Teheran acquire the system, a potential military strike on Iranian nuclear sites could become far more difficult, but it remains far from clear when and if Moscow intends to transfer the military hardware to Iran.

2/24/2010 - War game shows how attacking Iran could backfire Here's a war game involving Iran, Israel and the U.S. that shows how unintended consequences can spin out of control:

2/24/2010 - Prepare for war with Iran -- in case Israel strikes In a nutshell: we have to prepare for a war on Iran in case Israel strikes. Because if she does, then we will automatically be dragged along.

2/24/2010 - The alleged Iranian threat Another war conceived in Israel

2/24/2010 - Ron Paul’s Victory: How Sweet It Is! Fox News simply repeated the word "unscientific" whenever it mentioned the CPAC poll results, as its "news" reporters wondered aloud if indeed Paul’s runaway victory had any meaning at all. Most of the attendees were young activists, Fox anchors endlessly reminded their viewers – and oh those wacky kids!

2/24/2010 - US Supreme Court Considers 'Material Support' Law "The government cannot, consistent with the Constitution, make it a crime to engage in lawful discussion of peaceable activities,"

2/24/2010 - The End of Obama’s Vision of a Nuke-Free World by Scott Ritter

2/24/2010 - We can't win anyway by Michael Scheuer The military option should be taken off the table in all instances -- save an immediate response to foreign attack -- until we elect a president and congress that will abide by the constitutional requirements and machinery for declaring war that were put in place by the Founders

2/24/2010 - US demands Syria distance itself from Iran

2/17/2010 - US military chief discusses Iran on Mideast tour Egypt's state news agency says President Hosni Mubarak met with Adm. Mike Mullen on Sunday. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will travel later in the day to Israel.

2/17/2010 - Hezbollah warns of retaliation for any Israeli hit "If you bomb our ports, we will bomb your ports. If you bomb our oil refineries, we will bomb your oil refineries," said the black–turbaned Nasrallah. "If you bomb our factories, we will bomb your factories. If you bomb our electricity stations, we will bomb your electricity stations."

2/17/2010 - Israel general doubts power to hit Iran atom sites "I think that the State of Israel should not take it upon itself to be the flag–bearer of the entire Western world in the face of the Iranian threat," Halutz, whose previous military post was as air force commander, told Channel Two. This is precisely why Israel will get us to do it for them.

2/17/2010 - Lebanese troops open fire on Israeli warplanes The Lebanese army said in a statement that its troops used anti–aircraft fire Sunday to force the Israeli warplanes out of Lebanese airspace. The army said the planes were in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in central Lebanon.

2/17/2010 - Myth of the Iranian Nuke by Patrick J. Buchanan Last December, however, The Times of London reported it had a secret document, which “intelligence agencies” dated to early 2007, proving that Iran was working on the final component of a “neutron initiator,” the trigger for an atom bomb..... U.S. intelligence, however, has not confirmed the authenticity of the document, and Iran calls it a transparent forgery. When former CIA man Phil Giraldi sounded out ex-colleagues still in the trade, they, too, called the Times’ document a forgery. Shades of Saddam seeking yellowcake from Niger. Are the folks who lied us into war on Iraq, to strip it of weapons it did not have, now trying to lie us into war on Iran, to strip it of weapons it does not have?

2/17/2010 - Ahmadinejad warns Israel against any military move

2/17/2010 - Lebanon troops fire at 4 Israeli warplanes flying overhead Lebanese soldiers opened fire on four Israeli warplanes that flew into its airspace, the Lebanon Army said on Sunday, The Lebanese army said in a statement that its units used anti-aircraft fire Sunday to force the Israeli warplanes out of Lebanese airspace.

2/17/2010 - Attack on Iran's nuclear facilities 'worries' US admiral "The outbreak of a conflict will be a big, big, big problem for all of us, and I worry a great deal about the unintended consequences of a strike," Admiral Mullen said. ......Mullen, who was speaking to journalists during a visit to Israel, went on to say however that US President Barack Obama had been "very clear that from a policy standpoint, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapons."

2/17/2010 - U.S., Israel up pressure for sanctions on Iran

2/17/2010 - Netanyahu: Israel not planning war with Iran That's because he knows he can get US to do it.

2/17/2010 - U.S. vows commitment to Israel, wary of war over Iran nukes "If Russia agrees to sanctions, China will find itself alone and may be forced to line up with the Western powers," an Israeli official said. "That's why persuading the Russian leadership is so important." .....Jerusalem and Washington have held several high-level consultations on Iran in recent weeks. Last month U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones visited Israel for talks with Israeli colleagues, and two weeks ago Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta paid a secret visit to the country. The U.S. officials briefed their counterparts on sanctions the Obama administration intends to levy against Iran, but reportedly asked them to keep a low media profile and to "act responsibly."

2/17/2010 - US dismisses Iran's uranium claims At the White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs said Iran's leadership has made a series of statements about its nuclear prowess based on politics, not physics. He challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim that Iran has produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level than ever before, meaning it may be closer to the producing material to build a nuclear weapon.....On Capitol Hill, senators introduced separate legislation aimed at punishing Iranian officials and others responsible for the crackdown and also promote regime change in Tehran

2/17/2010 - US Media Omission: Iran Calls for Global Nuclear Disarmament the media's Sarah Palin obsession means that more Americans heard repeated calls to start a new war with Iran in the past week.

2/17/2010 - 'Iran Won't Simply Sit There and Accept an Attack' Hans Blix is the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and also worked as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He talks to SPIEGEL about whether Iran really has the ability to enrich uranium and if economic sanctions can ever be effective.

2/17/2010 - No options ruled out on Iran, White House says The White House on Tuesday would not rule out any options, including the military option, for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

2/17/2010 - Saudi plays down oil incentive for China on Iran sanctions Clinton's top assistant for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman, told reporters travelling with her that China had an "important trading relationship" with the Saudi oil kingpin. "We would expect them (the Saudis) ... to use their relationship in ways that can help increase the pressure that Iran feels," said Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs.

2/17/2010 - Who Wants to Bomb Iran They're back! The "Bomb Iran" crowd is making a big return to the political center stage after months of puzzlement over what to do about developments in the Islamic Republic.

2/17/2010 - Flying laser zaps missile in first for U.S. A high–powered laser aboard a modified Boeing Co 747 jumbo jet shot down an in–flight ballistic missile for the first time, highlighting a new class of ray guns best known from science fiction.

2/17/2010 - Iranian Nukes? Not So Fast The Post today quotes Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, saying that Iran's boasts are "based on politics, not on physics," adding: "We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they are enriching."

2/17/2010 - Secession in the Air by Patrick J. Buchanan When the tea partiers want to rally against the evils of the passionate attachment that George Washington warned us against, one if not the greatest danger to America (as the war cries against Iran from the neocons and ilk reach near hysteric levels), then I will be there with bells on.

2/17/2010 - Russia tells Netanyahu it will hold off on Iran arms deal An hour before Netanyahu's plane took off on Sunday, Russian officials said that Moscow sees no reason to delay the sale of the S-300, a powerful air-defense system, to Iran. In addition, on Friday, Russian intelligence officials leaked comments expressing their displeasure with plans by an Israeli firm to close a major arms deal with Georgia.

2/17/2010 - Obama, The War President In his speech, Obama warned Iran of "consequences" if it didn't play ball and co-operate on nuclear inspections. It's unclear whether those consequences are of the financial variety or of a pre-emptive military strike by the U.S. or Israel. All this comes at a time when the U.S. has bolstered its naval presence in the Persian Gulf and the neo-conservatives are calling for "regime change" in Iran.

2/17/2010 - Israel asks Russia for Iran "sanctions with teeth"

2/17/2010 - More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers How much will another war in the Middle East, being pushed by the same corners that got us into Iraq, cost American taxpayers?

2/17/2010 - Saudi official questions new sanctions on Iran Prince Saud al–Faisal told a news conference in the Saudi capital that the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions demands a more immediate solution than sanctions. He described sanctions as a long–term solution, and he said the threat is more pressing. ....The Saudi minister also said efforts supported by the U.S. to rid the Middle East of nuclear weapons must apply to Israel.

2/17/2010 - Obama names U.S. envoy to Muslim world body Why now?

2/17/2010 - Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families As more Americans are finding themselves jobless and possibly even homeless, the billions of taxpayer dollars continue to flow to the Middle East where Israel sees the lion's share of the foreign aid budget (in many different forms such as aid to Egypt and Jordan for making peace with her). Americans could use that money RIGHT HERE at home, where liberty and justice for ALL reigns, unlike in Israel.

2/17/2010 - US senators seek regime change in Iran Senators John Cornyn and Sam Brownback introduced the so-called “Iran Democratic Transition Act” bill on February 11, coinciding with the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, in which unprecedented tens of millions of Iranians poured into the streets to rally and celebrate the 31st anniversary. .....Observers point to the fact that both conservative Senators Brownback of Oklahoma and Cornyn of Texas have been on the payroll of pro-Israeli lobby groups in the United States and have regularly submitted anti-Iran measures in congress to satisfy the influential pro-Israeli lobby.

2/17/2010 - Obama backs justice for Hariri killers Obama gave the assurance in a telephone call, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, adding the president also emphasized US support for Lebanon's "sovereignty and independence." Then he will step in and ask the Israelis to stop the (illegal) overflights of Lebanon? Doubtful.

2/10/2010 - IAEA suggests Iran's new enrichment modest A confidential document from the U.N. nuclear agency says that Iran is only using a fraction of its capacities to enrich its uranium stockpile to higher levels.

2/10/2010 - Iran's leader orders further enrichment of uranium

2/10/2010 - Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity

2/10/2010 - Defense chief disputes deal on Iran's nuke program

2/10/2010 - US slaps new sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard The Obama administration on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps amid stepped–up efforts to get U.N. penalties against Tehran because of its nuclear and missile programs.

2/10/2010 - Obama says US developing new sanctions for Iran

2/10/2010 - Iran nuclear issue the 'top global security threat' Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme poses the greatest threat to international security, US National Security Advisor James Jones warned on Saturday. Because my Israeli masters tell me so!

2/10/2010 - China Renews Opposition to Iran Sanctions

2/10/2010 - U.S. missile test mimicking Iran strike fails The abortive test over the Pacific Ocean coincided with a Pentagon report that Iran had expanded its ballistic missile capabilities and posed a "significant" threat to U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East region.

2/10/2010 - Palin: Obama Will Win Again If He Backs Israel and Bombs Iran Speaking on Fox News, Palin stated, “Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected.” Yes, she really did say this.

2/10/2010 - Wars sending U.S. into ruin Obama’s total military budget is nearly $1 trillion. This includes Pentagon spending of $880 billion. Add secret black programs (about $70 billion); military aid to foreign nations like Egypt, Israel and Pakistan; 225,000 military “contractors” (mercenaries and workers); and veterans’ costs. Add $75 billion (nearly four times Canada’s total defence budget) for 16 intelligence agencies with 200,000 employees. Much of that money - and that includes aid to Egypt and Jordan to buy peace with Israel - is for the protection of Israel.

2/10/2010 - Syria: We're ready for peace, but also for war Lieberman on Thursday said "Assad should know that if he attacks, he will not only lose the war. Neither he nor his family will remain in power." His remarks came after Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos that Israel was pushing the Middle East toward a new war.

2/10/2010 - Iran's leader predicts Israel's destruction "Definitely, the day will come when nations of the region will witness the destruction of the Zionist regime," Khamenei was quoted as saying. "How soon or late (Israel's demise) will happen depends on how Islamic countries and Muslim nations approach the issue." He did not elaborate.

2/10/2010 - U.S. Senator Lieberman: Impose sanctions on Iran or attack it The world faces a stark choice between imposing tough sanctions on Iran to stop its nuclear program, or attacking it, United States Senator Joe Lieberman said Saturday. Lieberman is the influential chairman of the Senate committee on homeland security.

2/10/2010 - Four things Netanyahu needs for an Israeli strike on Iran Four-star General Kevin Chilton was in Israel last week. He is head of the U.S. Strategic Command, whose sphere of operations includes responsibility for missiles on submarines and in underground silos, as well as bombers and satellites, and computer-network warfare. If American forces were to take part in an offensive campaign against Iran, Chilton would play a significant part in preparing them for battle and in long-distance missile launches......The crushing blow that comes after the [US] pressure will not be dealt before next year. It's coming, folks. Round 2.

2/10/2010 - Obama turns up the heat on Iran He indicated that his administration had made headway in persuading Russia to overcome its traditional resistance to imposing new sanctions on Iran, even if there was still some opposition from China. ....The loudest call for sanctions came from Israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for "crippling" measures against Tehran during a gathering of European Union ambassadors in Jerusalem.

2/10/2010 - Lebanon warns of dangerous situation with Israel "We see what's happening on the ground and in our air space and what's happening all the time during the past two months –– every day we have Israeli war planes entering Lebanese air space," he said. "This is something that has been escalating, and this is something that is really dangerous,"

2/10/2010 - US accelerating missile defenses in Gulf report The US administration is speeding up deployment of defenses against potential Iranian missile attacks in the Gulf to heed off any possible retaliation, The New York Times reported Saturday. ....."Our first goal is to deter the Iranians," a senior administration official told the newspaper. "A second is to reassure the Arab states, so they don't feel they have to go nuclear themselves. But there is certainly an element of calming the Israelis as well."

2/10/2010 - Will Obama Play the War Card by Patrick J. Buchanan despite the hysteria about Iran’s imminent testing of a bomb, the U.S. intelligence community still has not changed its finding that Tehran is not seeking a bomb....U.S. anti-missile ships are moving into the Gulf. Anti-missile batteries are being deployed on the Arab shore.

2/10/2010 - AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria -- News from Antiwar.com Western officials, and some writers at the Associated Press, however, see fit to look beyond the lack of concrete threats and instead rely on public fear of the unknown to make the case for escalating tensions beyond all reason, and bringing the West ever closer to a needless war with Iran.

2/10/2010 - Ron Paul: USA is Bankrupt, Quit Buying Bombs or We're Done

2/10/2010 - Russia condemns US move to put missiles in Romania The Kremlin said it was taken aback by news that Romania's top military body had agreed to host US SM-3 interceptor missiles and other military infrastructure in response to an alleged missile threat from Iran.

2/10/2010 - UN to monitor Iran's nuclear enrichment The UN nuclear watchdog says that a team of its inspectors is in place in Iran to monitor Iran's plans to start enriching uranium to higher levels.

2/10/2010 - Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens In an admission that took the intelligence community and its critics by surprise, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair acknowledged in a congressional hearing Wednesday that the U.S. may, with executive approval, deliberately target and kill U.S. citizens who are suspected of being involved in terrorism. 'Suspected', eh? What's next?

2/10/2010 - U.S., Germany say Iran not ready for nuclear deal U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Iran had failed to address Western concerns and suggested it was time for more sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which denies its nuclear programme has a military goal.

2/10/2010 - Israel warns Syria it would lose future war Israel's outspoken foreign minister harshly warned Syria Thursday against drawing the Jewish state into another war, saying the Syrian army would be defeated and its regime would collapse in a future conflict.

2/10/2010 - Netanyahu Israel open to peace talks with Syria

2/10/2010 - Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror “The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder’” applies only “to a Jew who kills a Jew,” write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and attacks on them “curb their evil inclination,” while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since “it is clear that they will grow to harm us.”.... the book’s wide dissemination and the enthusiastic endorsements of prominent rabbis have spotlighted what might have otherwise remained an isolated commentary. I'm sorry, but which side was it that I was supposed to believe preaches hatred in their religion?

2/10/2010 - Palin Misreads Pat Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do

2/10/2010 - Netanyahu calls for 'crippling' Iran sanctions Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran in a meeting with European ambassadors in Israel.

2/10/2010 - UN prepares to intervene as Iran declares new nuclear plans "This is additional proof that Iran is ridiculing the world," Barak told members of his Labor party at a faction meeting. "The correct response is to impose decisive and permanent sanctions. I hope that the international community will not turn a blind eye to Iran's declaration."

2/10/2010 - The Truth About the US - Israel Relationship as told by former CIA Anyone that tells us Americans that we are attacked for our freedoms is either grossly misinformed, or a liar.

2/10/2010 - Arab media: 2 Israeli Navy ships passed through Suez Canal The sources did not provide the exact ultimate destination of the missile boats. However, Egyptian maritime sources quoted in the Arab media estimated that both ships were headed to the Persian Gulf and may reach it within four days. The veracity of these estimates is unclear. The sail through the Suez Canal was coordinated with Egyptian authorities, which reportedly adopted strict security arrangements to ensure the safe passage of the two Israeli ships

2/10/2010 - Tories would back war with Iran The Tory policy on Iran differs from the Government's stated position that military action was "inconceivable". ....He said that while for the west Iran was a major diplomatic challenge, for Israel it remained an "existential threat". Oh Canada, you too have been sucked into Israel's problems.

2/10/2010 - Senate Passes AIPAC's Iran Sanctions Bill in Five Minutes just last week the Senate passed comprehensive sanctions on Iran -- a bill being pushed by AIPAC neocons and the other "usual suspects" -- in record time. It was brought up with only three senators on the floor; there was a five minute debate and it passed by voice vote. Just like that.

2/10/2010 - Video: Rep. Mike Pence: Israel Should Dictate U.S. Policy Pence is literally saying, Israeli officials should tell us what they want us to do, and we'll support it. That's an insane premise, and if you replace "Israel" with any other country, no U.S. politician would accept it.

2/10/2010 - I don't mean to say I told you so, but... In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered the following account of his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. Blair reveals that concerns about Israel were part of the equation and that Israel officials were involved in those discussions. Israel is pushing us to attack another country - this time, Iran.

2/10/2010 - Time for an American Intifada? Republican George W. Bush, another Christian-Zionist president, was induced with phony intelligence to wage war in Iraq. The false intelligence was traceable to Israelis, pro-Israelis or assets developed for that purpose. That invasion had long been a priority goal of those who believe-truly believe-in their right to an expansionist Greater Israel. Intifada literally means to shake off. Yes, it is time for Americans to shake off Israel like a bad set of fleas. It's the reason I have owned and operated the website with the aforementioned name for as long as I've known the true nature of Israel. Read further into the article to find out what went on behind the scenes in the Truman administration when it came time to ponder recognizing the newly-created state of Israel.

2/10/2010 - U.S. Jew indicted as possible Israel spy The FBI searched Nozette's home and computer and found additional proof of his connection to Israel. He visited here several times, but did not report this - as is required by his high security clearance.

2/10/2010 - It's Her Party: The Brilliance of Sarah Palin her support for bombing Iran was, no doubt, the work of her new Washington–insider neoconservative policy advisers, Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, who had John McCain singing from the same warmongering songbook in 2008. .

2/10/2010 - Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or 'Israel Or Somebody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It' /

2/10/2010 - Wiesel: If Ahmadinejad were assassinated, I wouldn't shed a tear "We all know that Ahmadinejad - an open anti-Semite and the world's biggest Holocaust denier - intends to destroy Israel and bring disaster to the entire world," Wiesel told Army Radio commentator Razi Barkai.

2/10/2010 - Immigration Debate Prompts Growing Jewish-Latino Ties Jewish activists also see the joint work as an opening for cooperation with the Hispanic community on other issues, such as Israel. I've read similar articles in the past which basically state as this one does that pro-Israel groups (which historically are very powerful) are the ones behind the push for amnesty for illegals. Why? Because they see it as a way to get more support for Israel. Let's not forget, it's the Latino community that is expected to become the majority in America in the years to come.

2/10/2010 - More airport security won’t do much to stop terrorists. Leaving the Middle East would.

2/3/2010 - Iran says ready to send uranium abroad as UN wants

2/3/2010 - Russian reports: No obstacles over Iran arms deals Russian news agencies are quoting the head of Russia's state arms export monopoly as saying there are no obstacles to military cooperation with Iran, despite international tensions over its nuclear program.

2/3/2010 - Scenarios: How could China hit back at U.S.? As a permanent member of the Security Council, China has the power to veto any resolution, and it has never been a supporter of strong sanctions against Iran, a major oil supplier. Now Beijing could drag its feet even more.

2/3/2010 - Senate OKs sanctions on Iran's fuel suppliers

2/3/2010 - British Invasion of Iraq Was Illegal: Ex-govt Lawyer The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was illegal, a former top British government lawyer told a public inquiry into the war Tuesday, three days before ex-prime minister Tony Blair appears.

2/3/2010 - Assad: Israel leading the Middle East to war

2/3/2010 - Senators Seek 'Crippling' Iran Sanctions The letter is signed by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and David Vitter (R-La.). Say, I wonder if this has anything to do with Israel? Nahh..

2/3/2010 - 'Iran, Nazi Germany must be compared' Comparisons between contemporary Iran and Nazi Germany are not only appropriate, but pertinent and true, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said while on a visit to Hungary on the morning of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

2/3/2010 - Iran Sanctions, ‘Regime Change,’ Take Center Stage With the Senate set to take up major sanctions legislation against Iran by mid-February, neo-conservative and other hawks are calling on the administration of President Barack Obama to pursue a more aggressive course of "regime change" in Tehran.....Under heavy pressure from the so-called "Israel Lobby", the House of Representatives last month approved one long-delayed bill that would, among other things, impose penalties on foreign energy companies that provide gasoline to Iran or invest more than 20 million dollars a year in Iran’s energy sector. The vote was 412-12.

2/3/2010 - Clinton: China risks diplomatic isolation over Iran The United States is the most visible leader in the new push for UN Security Council sanctions, and Clinton spent much of her time in Europe this week lobbying major powers whose support she needs to pass and enforce new economic penalties Our government officials are once again doing the bidding of Israel.

2/3/2010 - The United States is expediting the deployment of missile defenses against Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, the New York Times reported on Saturday. According to the New York Times report, the Obama administration is also trying to show Israel that there is no immediate need for military strikes against Iranian nuclear and missile facilities. Read the third to last paragraph where Peres is telling the new head of the IAEA that Iran isn't respecting the rules. Iran, unlike Israel, has actually signed on to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and has its nuclear sites opened up for inspection. The Israelis are total hypocrites.

2/3/2010 - US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles American officials said the move is aimed at deterring an attack by Iran and reassuring Gulf states fearful that Tehran might react to sanctions by striking at US allies in the region. Washington is also seeking to discourage Israel from a strike against Iran by demonstrating that the US is prepared to contain any threat.....The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, met the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and other senior officials in Jerusalem last week to discuss Iran.....Pro-Israel lobby groups in the US have joined Republican party leaders in trying to build public pressure on the administration to take a tougher line with Iran. One group, the Israel Project, has been running a TV campaign warning that Iran might supply nuclear weapons to terrorists. Beware America, the Israel crowd is now gearing up for our next war for Israel. This time - target Iran.

2/3/2010 - Obama adviser: U.S. and Israel working very closely on Iran Jones said the United States and Israel are in close coordination over how to handle Iran. "We have very good dialogue with Israel, continual dialogue," he told The Jerusalem Post. "We're working very closely with them." No kidding?

2/3/2010 - Strengthening US 'Defense' In Gulf A Step To War An article in the New York Times by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt states: "The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf." It continues that this move "appears to be part of a coordinated administration strategy to increase pressure on Iran." Since there is about a zero chance that Iran would dare to launch a first strike on the US or its Arab allies, the US would only need to strengthen its missile defenses in order to deal with an Iranian counterattack after the US had first bombed Iran. Oh, you noticed that too, hmm?

2/3/2010 - U.S. report: Iran's nuclear program gaining ground "Iran's technical advancement, particularly in uranium enrichment, strengthens our 2007 NIE assessment that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity to eventually produce nuclear weapons, making the central issue its political will to do so," Blair said. Advertisement "We continue to assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that bring it closer to being able to produce such weapons, should it choose to do so. We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons," Last sentence. Iran has not built the bomb, folks, despite all of the BS Israel has been feeding us (for several years now).

2/3/2010 - Israel Says Iran Can Build Nuclear Bomb by 2011 Iran will possess the technology to build a nuclear bomb by early 2010 and be able to produce one the following year, Israeli media quoted Israel's defense minister as saying Monday.

2/3/2010 - US businesses urge Obama to resist Iran sanctions bill "The proposed sanctions would incite economic, diplomatic, and legal conflicts with US allies and could frustrate joint action against Iran," the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups said in a letter to top White House officials.

2/3/2010 - China calls for more diplomatic efforts on Iran nuclear issue

2/3/2010 - Hillary Clinton among those praising Yemen's efforts against al-Qaeda Outside the Yemen and Afghanistan conference halls, Clinton is holding meetings with members of the P5 +1 negotiating group (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany) on Iran. The group has failed to reach an agreement on imposing a fourth round of U.N. sanctions on Iran following its lack of response to an offer to provide enriched uranium for energy production.

2/3/2010 - Netanyahu at Auschwitz: World must unite to confront new threats

2/3/2010 - Truth about Israeli influence over US foreign policy gets out on C-SPAN

2/3/2010 - German firm cancels deal with Iran port due to Israeli pressure

2/3/2010 - The Terrorism Conundrum by Philip Giraldi Terror is not a nation nor is it a group. It is a tactic. It has existed since men first picked up rocks to strike each other but in its modern form it was developed in Palestine in the 1940s when the Haganah and Stern Gangs struck against civilian targets like the King David Hotel to drive the British out. It was then used by the nascent state of Israel against Palestinian Arabs to force them to leave their homes. Terrorism consists of attacking civilian targets to demoralize the local population and weaken its ability to resist.

2/3/2010 - Blair warns that world faces decision to halt Iran’s nuclear programme He warned that world leaders, including the British Prime Minister, now faced the same kinds of decision about the dangers posed by repressive regimes as he did seven years ago. Tony Blair - still a stoolie for Israel despite not holding office in the UK.

2/3/2010 - Barack Obama, Interventionist and Ultimate Jihadi Hero by Michael Scheuer For Obama and most members of our governing elite, today’s Iran fairly screams for Western intervention to break the mullahs’ backs and install secularism; to destroy an Israeli foe and ensure AIPAC funds to continue to flow into their pockets; and to make them feel good about themselves, no matter the cost to Americans and their children. God love you, Mr. Scheuer. You dare speaketh the truth.

2/3/2010 - U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians “I think they received the message,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, of the Obama administration. Foxman, who has been at the forefront of the effort to ease American pressure on Israel, said that “reality has come to Washington” and that Obama and his advisers now understand “that singling out Israel doesn’t work.” Another example of who is the driver of US foreign policy right here. The author of the related Forward piece in this news roundup is deluded if they think Israel is not the driver. It is. It's all here in print. Read the rest of the article for more proof of Israel's unprecedented influence of our high - level officials.

2/3/2010 - U.S. official: Hezbollah arms flow may signal plans for war with Israel The U.S. is concerned that the continued flow of arms to the Hezbollah militant organization could prompt a war between Israel and Lebanon, State Department official Jeff Feltman said in remarks published Sunday by the London-based Al-Hayat daily. Why is this our problem?

2/3/2010 - How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran Daniel Pipes is a noted Israel-firster. He and like 'Americans' should be deported to Israel where he can bring no (more) harm to America and her (America First) citizens herein.

2/3/2010 - What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t Lawmakers often compete to introduce, sponsor or vote for pro-Israel measures — generally non-binding and mostly meaningless “sense of Congress” resolutions — to prove their pro-Israel bona fides without taking any political chances. It’s part of their search for bragging rights. One curmudgeonly old chairman blocked a senator’s amendment not because he opposed it but because, as he explained, “I ain’t gonna be out-Israel’d by anyone.” I don't agree with the author; not only does the Israeli lobby steer US foreign policy, it is in fact the driver.

2/3/2010 - Iran a threat to the world - Peres

2/3/2010 - Counterterrorism in Shambles; Why? Take, for example, what Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the "mastermind" of 9/11, said was his main motive. Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report wrote on page 147. You will not find it reported in the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): "By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed...from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel."

2/3/2010 - Netanyahu Singles Out Iran, Venezuela for Anti-Semitism

2/3/2010 - Blair the British Neo-con Though the Chilcot Inquiry is concerned only with Iraq - how Blair’s government made the decision to go to war and what lessons should be learned – Blair could not resist beating the drum for war on Iran. He did that four times. One might have been listening to John Bolton or any of America’s or Israel’s lunatics. When he was going on about terrorism being a threat to all, he threw in: “It’s a constant problem for Israel. They get attacked.”

1/27/2010 - New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story Former Central Intelligence Agency official Philip Giraldi has said U.S. intelligence judges the "nuclear trigger" document to be a forgery, as IPS reported last week. The IPS story also pointed out that the document lacked both security markings and identification of either the issuing organisation or the recipient

1/27/2010 - Analysis Iran looms over Obama Mideast peace bid Israel wants to see the Iranian threat dealt with before pursuing peace deals with the Arabs.

1/27/2010 - Graham: U.S. may have to use military action against Iran Israel, which Iran’s leaders have threatened to destroy, must weigh its options, Graham said, but it does not have the capabilities. “Israel attacking Iran is a nightmare,” Graham said. The U.S. may have to act militarily, he said, if other methods fail. What Graham is saying is that since Israel cannot attack Iran, the US must.

1/27/2010 - Scientist appears in court in secrets case A scientist who allegedly tried to sell classified secrets to Israel had worked on the U.S. government's Star Wars missile shield program, and the Justice Department declared Tuesday that he had tried to share some of the nation's most guarded secrets.

1/27/2010 - Iran nuclear threat hyped IAEA's ElBaradei Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there was no concrete evidence that Tehran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program. "But somehow, many people are talking about how Iran's nuclear program is the greatest threat to the world. In many ways, I think the threat has been hyped," he told the specialist Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

1/27/2010 - Iran slows nuclear pace but bomb suspicions grow

1/27/2010 - Gulf war jitters Gulf Cooperation Council members -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman -- are getting ready for what many now assume will be retaliation from Iran following Israeli bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities later this year. Up and down the Persian Gulf, Patriot missile batteries have been quietly deployed around key oil installations.

1/27/2010 - Cheney No 'evidence' of Iraq, 9-11 link Former Vice President Dick Cheney says there was “never any evidence” that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq played any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Wow.

1/27/2010 - Cheney said Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link The head of the Criminal Investigation Task Force at Guantanamo from 2002-2005 confirmed to McClatchy that in late 2002 and early 2003, intelligence officials were tasked to find, among other things, Iraq-al Qaida ties, which were a central pillar of the Bush administration's case for its March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

1/27/2010 - CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

1/27/2010 - Accepting Various Truths Michael Scheuer, a former CIA specialist on the al-Qaida terrorists, complained on C-SPAN recently that any debate about American support for Israel is "normally squelched." "For anyone to say our support for Israel doesn't hurt us is to just defy reality," he added. Another former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, says the 9/11 Commission report noted that Khalid Sheikh -- the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- cited his violent disagreement with U.S. support for Israel as the motivating dynamic behind the attacks.

1/27/2010 - Netanyahu To Obama Stop Iran, Or I Will The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons--and quickly--or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran's nuclear facilities itself.

1/27/2010 - Israel on Iran Anything it takes to stop nukes U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reassured Israel that the new Obama administration was not naive about Iran's intentions, and that Washington would press for new, tougher sanctions against the Iranians if they balk.

1/27/2010 - Israel Says Iran Can Build Nuclear Bomb by 2011

1/27/2010 - U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

1/27/2010 - Israel says still has military option on Iran A Kremlin transcript of an interview Medvedev gave to CNN last Tuesday quoted him as saying that an attack on Iran would lead to "a humanitarian disaster" and risk provoking retaliation against Israel that would also affect other nations.

1/27/2010 - Iran's leader predicts Israel's destruction The all-powerful Iranian leader also said that Israel's continued "pressure to erase Palestine from the world of Islamic nations" will fail

1/27/2010 - Black Propaganda Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran In sum, the conclusion among Israelis is that the Obama administration won't lift a finger to stop Iran, much less will the "international community." So Israel has pursued a different strategy, in effect seeking to goad the U.S. into stopping, or at least delaying, an Israeli attack by imposing stiff sanctions and perhaps even launching military strikes of its own.

1/27/2010 - US Ships Arrive in Israel for Joint Drill The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the Iranian threat, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week.

1/27/2010 - U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing

1/27/2010 - U.S. Jew indicted as possible Israel spy The FBI searched Nozette's home and computer and found additional proof of his connection to Israel. He visited here several times, but did not report this - as is required by his high security clearance

1/27/2010 - Making Jane Go Away by Philip Giraldi The Israeli on the phone was committing espionage against the United States by trying to influence the actions of a government official and Harman was committing a number of possible crimes by agreeing to cooperate in return for her own personal advancement.......why isn’t the MSM interested in aggressively pursuing this story? Because it's about Israel

1/27/2010 - And It’s Not Only Sibel Edmonds Who Says So by Philip Giraldi John M. Cole, a former FBI Counterintelligence and Counterespionage Manager, has publicly confirmed the FBI’s decade long investigation of the former State Department Official Marc Grossman. Cole worked for 18 years in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. According to Cole, as in over one hundred cases involving Israeli espionage activities directed against the US government, the Grossman case was covered up and buried despite mountains of evidence that was collected.

1/27/2010 - FBI Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship An FBI agent posing as a Mossad agent contacted Nozette in September. In conversations transcribed in the complaint, Nozette says he is surprised that Israel did not approach him to spy sooner and asks for an Israeli passport, saying he is entitled to Israeli citizenship because his parents are Jewish. He allegedly told the FBI agent that he had top security clearance until 2006 and could remember details that would be of use to Israel.

1/27/2010 - US sees Iran edging closer to nuclear arms knowhow

1/27/2010 - Containment for Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan

1/27/2010 - Bin Laden Attacks on U.S. to go on as long as it supports Israel A purported audio tape of Osama bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a Dec. 25 attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound plane, and vowed to continue attacks on the United States, as long as it supports Israel. The irony here is that the US media failed to mention Israel in its headlines for this story - but the Israeli news source Haaretz here DID headline it. Americans are being deceived (by our own media, as one example) as to the true reasons for the bullseye on our country.

1/27/2010 - Pity for a Constitution Stomper Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC’s former top officials.

1/27/2010 - U.S. Counters Israeli Claim Iran Nuclear Facility Bomb-proof A top U.S. commander on Sunday countered Israeli claims that Iran had constructed its nuclear facilities to be resistant to attack.

1/27/2010 - Bin Laden reportedly calls Obama 'powerless' The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

1/27/2010 - Eyeing Iran, Israel tests missile defenses with U.S. Israel and the United States launched a major air defense drill Wednesday as part of what Israeli public radio called preparation for a faceoff with Iran. Whose war is this?

1/27/2010 - Iran nuclear leaks 'linked to Israel' That false and misleading charge from an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces two of Israel's key themes on Iran - that the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran is wrong, and that Tehran is poised to build nuclear weapons as soon as possible

1/27/2010 - Outlasting the Ayatollahs by Patrick J. Buchanan

1/27/2010 - Why They Are At War With Us by Patrick J. Buchanan First, the U.S. military presence on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. Second, U.S. sanctions causing terrible suffering among the Iraqi people. Third, U.S. support for Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians.

1/27/2010 - Telling Israel No by Patrick J. Buchanan an Israeli strike on Iran, which Joe Biden foolishly said was Israel’s call, would drag this country into a third war in the Middle East and destroy a policy that is visibly succeeding.

1/27/2010 - Diplomats Iran improves access to nuke activities Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site

1/27/2010 - The Dark Side of the ‘Special Relationship’ by Justin Raimondo The search for Mega and his underlings continues to this day, as U.S. counterintelligence attempts to rip up what appears to be a vast Israeli spy operation by its very deep roots. That’s why they went after Ben Ami Kadish, who handed over U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv and shared a handler with Pollard, and why they indicted Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. That’s why they were listening on the other end as Jane Harman promised an Israeli agent to intervene in the Rosen-Weissman case. And now a new front has been opened up in this subterranean war with the arrest of Stewart David Nozette, a top U.S. scientist who worked for the Pentagon, had access to the most closely guarded nuclear secrets, and was the lead scientist in the search for water on the moon.

1/27/2010 - Still More on Sibel by Philip Giraldi

1/27/2010 - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Bernard Shaw In his usual let-the-words-fall-where-they-may manner, Vice President Biden let it be known one early July weekend that the U.S. would not intervene if Israel decided to militarily attack Iran.

1/27/2010 - Differences with US on Mideast 'semantic' Israel Katz, a member of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, said discussions with Washington will focus on security issues, particularly the "threats by Iran as well as Hamas," the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.

1/27/2010 - Mission Memorial: Remembering the USS Liberty

1/27/2010 - Spy Conference: The Strange Pollard Spy Case At the Raleigh Spy Conference last week, Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent Ron Olive spoke about how his team solved the strange spy case involving Jonathan Jay Pollard, who literally passed truckloads of U.S. secrets to Israel in the 1980's.

1/27/2010 - YouTube - Is Israel spreading misinformation about Iran

1/27/2010 - The Media: Israel and Nuclear Weapons Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC’s former top officials.

1/27/2010 - Citizens Group Urges Fair Trial for AIPAC Employees Indicted Under Espionage Act The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. (IRmep) urges the Department of Justice to proceed with its long delayed prosecution of former AIPAC employees Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. The case was dropped altogether shortly thereafter.

1/27/2010 - Medvedev Israel not planning to strike Iran

1/27/2010 - J Street Changing Course by Philip Giraldi There is in fact little difference between J Street’s position and that of AIPAC.

1/27/2010 - Bibi Wins, Barack Loses by Patrick J. Buchanan Undaunted, the War Party has a new war planned for us. Target: Tehran. And Obama may just have boxed himself in.

1/27/2010 - Door Open for Iran Talks The drums of war are beating again over Iran, but sadly it's a representative of the Obama administration who wielded the heaviest drumstick.

1/27/2010 - Obama prods Netanyahu, Iran in Mideast foray

1/27/2010 - Netanyahu draws fire in Israel over secret trip Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Netanyahu had, in fact, flown secretly to Moscow to voice concern over the possible sale of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Iran

1/27/2010 - Obama's lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyahu Over the past nine months, Netanyahu has managed to curb pressure from Obama, who enjoys a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. Now, however, Obama will be more dependent on the support of his Republican rivals, the supporters and friends of Netanyahu.

1/27/2010 - Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us why isn't there a frank discussion by America's leaders and media about the real motivation of Muslim anger toward the United States? Why was Helen Thomas the only journalist to raise the touchy but central question of motive? by yet another former CIA - Ray McGovern

1/27/2010 - Jewish Leaders Firm on Broad Iran Sanctions Despite Unrest “For us, this was always the primary concern, because a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to Israel,” said Meagan Buren, director of research and training at The Israel Project, a pro-Israel group active on the Iranian issue. Another war for Israel is in the making. The target this time: Iran.

1/27/2010 - Aipac's hidden persuaders Richard Silverstein Israel is in the midst of a massive diplomatic, political and intelligence campaign, both public and covert, that could lead – if those officials behind it have their way – towards a military strike on Iran. It is a war for the hearts and minds of Americans....Aipac's members carried a unified message to Capitol Hill during their lobbying of US senators and members of Congress. They demanded that Congress pass the most draconian sanctions ever proposed against Iran.

1/27/2010 - VFW Tribute to USS Liberty

1/27/2010 - Helen Thomas Deviates From the Terrorism Script Brennan's answer -- they do this because they're Evil and murderous -- is on the same condescending cartoon level as the "They-Hate-us-For-Our-Freedom" tripe we endured for the last eight years. Apparently, if Brennan is to be believed, Islamic radicals, in their motive-free quest to slaughter, write down the names of all the countries in the world and put them in a hat and then stick their hand in and select the one they will attack, and the U.S. just keeps getting unlucky and having its name randomly chosen.

1/27/2010 - Just 6 More Months to Victory! by Philip Giraldi So what might happen in President Obama’s next six months? A number of highly plausible scenarios come to mind.

1/27/2010 - Analysis Iran plant could defer Israel strike It may seem counterintuitive, but the news that Iran has a second, clandestine uranium enrichment plant, and has just test-fired long-range missiles, could actually put off any plans for a quick Israeli strike.

1/27/2010 - Video Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S. Part 1

1/27/2010 - What Role Did The U.S.-Israeli Relationship Play In 9-11

1/27/2010 - Syria's Mufti Islam commands us to protect Judaism "If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.

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