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(Uruknet) – Genetic Mutations, Peculiar Injuries: More Evidence Emerges that Israel Used Gaza as Testing Ground for Experimental Weapons
Pages upon pages have been written about the 2008-2009 Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip by human rights groups and fact-finding missions. The scale of the destruction is well-known: some 1,400 Palestinians were killed by Israel, the vast majority of them civilians; over 15,000 homes were destroyed or so severely damaged that 100,000 Palestinians were rendered homeless; nearly half of health facilities in Gaza were destroyed or damaged.
But allegations that Israel used new, experimental weapons in Gaza have not been adequately investigated. Read More Here
(AFP) – US plans naval exercises with South Korea:Pentagon – Read More Here
(SteveWatson) – Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video
Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence officers dressed up as Osama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the middle east. Read More Here
(PaulWatson) – Nuclear War Between Koreas: Brought To You By The U.S. Government
Kim Jong-Il has put North Korean troops on combat alert and threatened military action if the South trespasses in its waters as global stock markets freak out at the prospect of a war which, if it occurs, can be blamed on the U.S. government’s history of arming the Stalinist dictator with nuclear weapons. Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Stock Futures Drop as North Korea Orders Military to Prepare for Combat
U.S. stock futures fell, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may slip to 2010’s lowest level, as bank borrowing costs rose and a report said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il ordered his military to prepare for combat. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – U.S. Expands Covert Military Disruption of Iran
A not so secret directive penned by Gen. David H. Petraeus authorizes sending American Special Operations troops into Iran. The directive mentions a wide swath of countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, but is obviously tailored for Iran, the number one target on the Pentagon’s radar. Read More Here
(BBC) – North Korea “severs all ties” with Seoul
KCNA said the North was also expelling all South Korean workers from a jointly-run factory north of the border. Read More Here
(WorldThreats) – PsyOps Against North Korea
Joongang Ilbo English language edition is reporting that South Korea will resume loudspeaker broadcasts across the Demilitarized Zone to the people of North Korea. Read More Here
(BBC) – US troops in Afghanistan outnumber those in Iraq
There are more US troops in Afghanistan than Iraq for the first time since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, officials say. Read More Here
(Komo4News) – Video: 10 Stryker Brigade Soldiers Accused Of “Deliberately” Killing 3 Afghan Civilians
(May 24) – Video: Alex Breaks Down Why The Globalist Want Iran and WW3
Alex breaks down in detail why the globalist want iran and world war 3 with other countries that are not under their control. Continue reading
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(DesertPeace) – Eye on Palestine – Video’s of Resistance – Video Link Here
(RawStory) – Oops! MSNBC graphic suggests Taliban set fire to Bangkok
People watching MSNBC Wednesday morning could be forgiven for believing that the Taliban had invaded Bangkok. As NBC’s Ian Williams reported on violent protests in the capital city of Thailand, a graphic on the lower third of MSNBC’s screen read: “NEW TALIBAN ATTACKS, BANGKOK BURNS.” View Picture Here
(SouthLebanon) – Israel’s Exclusion and Restriction of Goods to Gaza – Stephen Lendman
After Hamas was overwhelmingly elected in January 2006, Israel, Washington and the West ended all outside aid, imposed an economic embargo and sanctions, and politically isolated the new government. Read More Here
(AlethoNews) – Official: Israeli forces destroy pipelines in Hebron village
Israeli army bulldozers reportedly destroyed several water pipes as they attempted to block the main road from the Adh-Dhahiriya village to Hebron on Wednesday, effectively cutting off the village’s water supply, an official said. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Baghdad to enclose city with 15ft wall
Baghdad is to resort to one of the oldest forms of defence by building a massive wall around the capital to keep out insurgents, The Times has learnt. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel ‘mulling reoccupation of Gaza’ – Read More Here
(WPost) – NATO says night raid killed Afghan insurgents; residents say it killed civilians
District police chief Abdul Ghafour woke to a cellphone call after 1 a.m. Friday: There was gunfire at Rafiuddin Kushkaki’s home. Ghafour put on his uniform, sent two police trucks ahead and followed in a third. Read More Here
(AP) – Video: Raw Video – Thai Troops Open Fire at Encampment
Thai troops opened fire at a fortified encampment of anti-government protesters in central Bangkok Wednesday. It came amid reports of a final assault on the area the protesters have occupied for weeks. – Video Link Here
(TheGlobalReport) – Video: Afghanistan Runs On Drugs, Corruption & Aid – U.N. – View Video Here
(AlethoNews) – Remarkable Urgency
“It’s quite remarkable,” says Adie, one of us accompanying the farmers. “It’s unbelievable that the Israeli army would fire on a scene like this. It’s one of the most tranquil things you could be doing, this hand-harvesting.” Read More Here
(MorningStarr) – ‘Gorilla Baby’ Born In Gaza
The births of deformed babies in Gaza has increased since the Israeli offensive which took place last year, Palestinian doctors claim.
Most recently a woman gave birth to a child at the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip which was severely deformed, the baby boy’s face was malformed, his nose is flattened, there is reddish-brownish skin discoloration and the limbs are short with the feet curling in, a similar shape to a gorilla’s. Read More Here
(WRH) – The Maps Tell The True Story
The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show what Israel has actually done. View Maps Here
(WashPost) – South Korea: North responsible for torpedo attack on warship
South Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships in March, causing an explosion that killed 46 sailors and heightened tensions in one of the world’s most perilous regions, U.S. and East Asian officials said. Read More Here
(CNN) – Reluctant Russia, China have agreed on Iran sanctions, Clinton says
She said they forged “a strong draft with the cooperation of Russia and China,” the two countries that have been reluctant to impose strong sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program. Read More Here
(BBC) – North Korea calls rare second parliamentary session
The North’s official news agency said the Supreme People’s Assembly would meet on 7 June but did not say why.
The assembly usually meets just once a year to approve proposals from the governing party. It has not held a second annual session since 2003. Read More Here
(WPost) – CIA director, national security adviser to meet with officials in Pakistan
President Obama’s national security adviser, James L. Jones, and CIA Director Leon Panetta were set to travel to Pakistan on Monday night for meetings with top government, military and intelligence officials on progress in the Times Square car bomb investigation and concerns about future terrorist attacks. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Chossudovsky – Obama, not Osama, is threat No.1 to global security
Barack Obama is masking the real issues over nuclear weapons by presenting the idea that nuclear terrorism is a major threat, says Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Canadian Centre for Research on Globalization. Continue reading
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(HuffingtonPost) – Caught On Video: Moments Before Afghan Massacre, A Family Celebrates
The video is haunting: Three Afghan men are dancing in joy, whirling, clapping, throwing their arms in the air. One has just had a baby boy. There is music in the air. The whole extended family has gathered to celebrate.
Hours later, two of the men lie dead, shot and killed by U.S. troops, the victims of a deeply disturbing massacre and cover-up that the White House, Congress and the United Nations continue to ignore. Video Link Here
BREAKING NEWS: (PJTV) – Video: Former US General Warns of Chemical Attacks Against Israel
Potential Hezbollah offensive includes chemically armed SCUD missiles with a 450 km range, preemptive strikes on air fields, and a wave of tunnel attacks that cross from Lebanon into Israel. Full Video Here(extra 2+ minutes)
(WSWS) – Afghans protest over US massacre of civilians
At least two people were killed Friday when several hundred Afghan villagers clashed with security forces while attempting to march to the eastern city of Jalalabad to protest the latest massacre of civilians by US military forces. Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – AP Bombshell: “US Drug War Has Met None of Its Goals”
Using Freedom of Information Act requests, archival records, federal budgets, and interviews with leaders and analysts, the AP tracked where that money went — and found that the U.S. repeatedly increased budgets for programs that did nothing to stop the flow of drugs. The AP article states that in 40 years taxpayers spent more than: Read More Here
(AntiWar) – How US Weapons Grade Uranium was Diverted to Israel
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations Read More Here
(TheNews) – ‘Mini-3rd world war’ being fought on Pakhtun soil
PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti said that an undeclared mini-Third World War was being fought on the soil of Pakhtuns for the last many years.
“The US, China, Russia, Iran, India and other big powers are involved in this war being fought in the Pakhtun belt of Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he told The News in an interview. He said the world powers needed to sit together to find a negotiated political solution to the conflict in this region. He said these countries had chosen to fight each other on Pakhtun soil. Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – US funds ‘apartheid’ road network in Israel
The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for Palestinians – leaving the main roads for exclusive use by settlers – is being financed by a US government aid agency, a map prepared by Palestinian researchers has revealed. Read More Here
(PressTV) – S Korea fires shots at North’s ships
South Korea says its navy has fired warning shots to drive away North Korean patrol ships that had crossed the western maritime border between the two countries.
The two North Korean vessels violated a disputed inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea, known as the ‘Northern Limit Line’, on Saturday night, South Korea’s military said. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘US attack on Iran highly unlikely’
In an exclusive interview conducted by the Al Jazeera network on Friday, Ahmadinejad stated that no country has the power to confront Iran, and added that Tehran advocates diplomacy as the ideal way to deal with international issues, the Fars news agency reported. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – IDF Prepares Public for Nationwide Home Front Exercise
The IDF Home Front Command has launched a media campaign in preparation for the national Home Front exercise known in Hebrew as Nekudat Mifneh 4 Read More Here
(TimesOnline) – Essex home raided over Iran dirty bomb threat
A BRITISH chemicals firm is involved in a secret MI5 inquiry into the illegal export to Iran of material that could make a radioactive “dirty bomb”. Read More Here
(Guardian) – Redshirts warn of civil war as Thai troops told to shoot on sight
International leaders appeal for calm amid escalating violence on streets of Bangkok Read More Here
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(VeteransVoice) – Gordon Duff: Times Square Bombing Part of CIA False Flag Against Pakistan
This looks like a tale of fiction and movies. But this is a real life drama unfolding in Pakistan around us.
The secret web of betrayal and treachery – The untold story of Khalid Khawaja, Hamid Mir, Mullah Barader and Faisal Shehzad
Any links between the three?? Seems impossible! But not in this high stakes State-sponsored dirty, sinister world of covert ops, double agents, sting operations and assassinations.
Lets start the story: Read More Here
(BeforeItsNews) – Another War in the Falklands? British Fleet on Standby, New Maps Highlight Disputed Territory With Oil and Gas Reserves
Researchers at Durham University have drawn up new maps to show the competing claims of Argentina and the UK for resources in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans. At stake are a potential 60 billion barrels of oil and nine trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Fighting For Our Freedom?
Of course, this argument rests upon an assumption. The assumption is that if the U.S. had not fought any of its past or current wars or had not maintained its military presence around the world, that we would have lost some or all of our freedom. This fundamental assumption is never questioned (or I suspect even considered) by supporters of U.S. foreign policy, despite the fact that it completely disintegrates under even superficial examination. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Report Emphasizes Dubious Iran-al-Qaeda Ties
The claims are centered around a murky, and supposedly canceled CIA program known as RIGOR, which officially aims to track al-Qaeda members who fled into Iran but which officials are saying is more of a “feasibility study” into the possibility to infiltrating Iran to assassinate them. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Senate panel approves money for Afghan, Iraq wars – Read More Here
(PressTV) – UN group to probe Israeli crimes
A UN panel is to investigate the ongoing unlawful actions taken by Israel against Palestinians, despite the resumption of so called “proximity” talks. Read More Here
(StopNATO) – NATO In Afghanistan: World War In One Country
There are currently 134,000 foreign troops in the nation counting U.S. soldiers serving separately with Operation Enduring Freedom, although the aggregate number is to reach 150,000 by the summer and most American troops not now under NATO command will soon be. There are 47,000 troops from NATO member and partner countries in the nation. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Turkey positions missiles to repulse Israeli aerial incursions
According to a leading Turkish newspaper, Turkey has set up anti-aircraft batteries against Hawk planes in a village near the Turkey-Syria border. The news item was reproduced by the Israeli daily ‘Maariv’ which refrained from mentioning its Turkish source. Read More Here
(YNet) – Russia to sell Syria warplanes, air defense systems
Head of Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation says Moscow to supply Damascus with MiG-29 fighters, truck-mounted Pantsir short-range surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery systems Read More Here
(GlobalSecurityNewsWire) – Video: U.S. Intelligence Claims Iran Unleashing al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda members long held within Iran began crossing the country’s borders in late 2008, prompting fears among current and former U.S. intelligence insiders that Tehran might be allowing the terrorist network to regain its strength, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, March 18). View Video Here
(Telegraph) – Medical journal warns of ‘tidal wave’ of mental trauma among servicemen
Medical services face a tidal wave of servicemen suffering from mental trauma as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a leading medical journal has warned. Read More Here
(RawStory) – US warns of ‘last chance’ on sanctions as Iran hosts summit – Read More Here
(PaulWatson) – Trilateral Commission Wants War With Iran
Trilateral Commission member Mikhail Slobodovsici, a chief adviser to the Russian leadership, unwittingly provided a revealing insight into the plans of the global elite during the group’s recent meeting in Dublin Ireland, when he mistakenly told a We Are Change Ireland activist he thought was a fellow TC member that the globalists are planning a war with Iran. Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: Award For Soldiers Who DON’T Kill Civilians! – Video Link Here
(BBC) – Video: WH Asks Congress To Fund Israeli Rocket Defense System! – Continue reading
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(ABC) – Israel FM: Iran, Syria, NKorea New ‘Axis of Evil’
Israel’s foreign minister on Wednesday declared North Korea, Syria and Iran the new “axis of evil,” claiming that North Korean weapons seized in Bangkok in December were bound for Middle Eastern militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel must sign NPT, IAEA chief says
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has called for international input to pressure Israel into joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Read More Here
Video: Seymour Hersh – U.S. troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan – View Video Here
(ThePeoplesVoice) – No Influential Voice in U.S. Supporting War on Iran: Peter Feaver
A Harvard University graduate, a current Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University, and the director of Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), Peter D. Feaver is perhaps best known for his mission under President Bush as the special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council from 2005 to 2007. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – 6,500 disabled children in Gaza after war
Recent statistics shows an increment in the number of children who have lost at least one or more of their limbs during the war in Gaza. The number is an estimated 6,500. Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – The Tragedy That is Gaza Today And The Role Of The EU
In mid January 2010, the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza (ECESG) organized a 50-person delegation of MPs, politicians and former ministers into Gaza to witness firsthand the conditions on the ground one year after the 22-day Israeli invasion that laid waste to the Gaza Strip. Here is the report the delegation prepared (PDF) Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: 50 Killed by Drone Attack in Pakistan – Drone Attack – Video Link Here
(LATimes) – Digging up chemical weapons in D.C.
After World War I, munitions including shells of poisonous liquid mustard were buried in a then-rural area. The cleanup has forced evacuations at American University and prompted concerns about illness. Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Iraq Genocide and More… – Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
In this digest: Resumption of indirect negotiations a waste of time, video of protest in Nabi Saleh, John Greyson calls on Elton John to cancel appearance in Tel Aviv, Obama’s wrong appointment to the Supreme Court, proposal for an commemoration of Iraq Genocide, how an Israeli general tried to cover-up the murder of Rachel Corrie, and two Nakba articles. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Obama adviser warns Russia against arms sale to Iran
The United States has made it clear to Russia that delivering an anti-aircraft system to Iran would have severe consequences for U.S. ties with Moscow, a senior advisor to President Obama said Tuesday. Read More Here
(Almanar) – Barak: Israel to Keep Nuclear ‘Ambiguity’ with US Backing
Media reports have said the United States agreed in 1969 that as long as Israel did not test a nuclear weapon or publicly confirm that it had one, Washington would not press it on the issue. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – MESS Report / Nobody wants war, but Israel-Lebanon border is heating up
As Hezbollah grows in strength, concern over a possible confrontation in the north is becoming an international issue. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Netanyahu on northern border: Iran is trying to drag Israel, Syria into war
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday blamed Iran for trying to drag Israel and Syria into a military confrontation. During a meeting with reservist officers at a Northern Command training base, Netanyahu said that “Iran is trying to stir up war between Israel and Syria in order to cause tension in the region.” Read More Here
(AsiaTimes) – Helmand’s poppy growth surges – Read More Here
(Rense) – Top Prof Fired For Opposing Israeli Gaza Slaughter
Denis Rancourt is a distinguished, tenured Professor of Physics, a recognized expert in his field, and an Environmental Science Researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Yet because of his activist position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he was unfairly fired and barred from campus on threat of arrest – a violation of his tenure, academic freedom, and beliefs about human rights and equal justice. Read More Here
(Newswise) – Multi-Symptom Pain Disorders Plague Returning Service Men and Women
Nine in 10 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return with some form of pain and about 60 percent have significant pain, mainly from the cumulative effect of exposure to recurring blasts which cause unimaginable injuries, according to prominent VA pain clinicians speaking at the American Pain Society’s annual scientific meeting. Read More Here
(C-Span) – Video: We Must Give Israel Intelligence Logistic & Political Support So They Can Successfully Attack Iran!
(CNN) – Video: No Reason To Be In Afghanistan! – Continue reading
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(AntiWar) – Deputy PM: Israel ‘Primed’ for War With Iran
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and former military chief Moshe Ya’alon today announced that Israel’s air force was “primed” for a war against Iran, and said that the nation also had the capability to attack Gaza, Lebanon, and fight a conventional war against Syria. Read More Here
(AmericanEveryman) – The Fake “Global War on Terror” in a Nutshell
You want to go to war with Afghanistan to run the Trans Afghan Pipeline? Falsely claim the Taliban refused to give up al Qaeda…
You want to go to war with Iraq to get control of oil fields? Falsely claim Saddam is helping fund al Qaeda… Read More Here
(Lataan) – Is The U.s. Preparing to Escalate Their War in Pakistan?
Much Western media attention has been devoted to the Saturday, 1 May, failed bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Clinton: Pakistan Officials ‘Harboring’ Bin Laden
In perhaps the clearest signal yet that tensions between the US and Pakistan are on the rise, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused unnamed parties in Pakistan’s government of harboring al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Read More Here
(SouthLebanon) – Israeli Hypocrisy: Talking Peace While Preparing for War and Institutionalizing Dire Conditions in Gaza – Read More Here
(TomDispatch) – Afghan Escalation Funding – More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses – David Swanson
Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Early in 2009, President Barack Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan with 21,000 “combat” troops, 13,000 “support” troops, and at least 5,000 mercenaries, without any serious debate in Congress or the corporate media. The President sent the first 17,000 troops prior to developing any plan for Afghanistan, leaving the impression that escalation was, somehow, an end in itself. Certainly it didn’t accomplish anything else, a conclusion evident in downbeat reports on the Afghan war situation issued this month by both the Government Accountability Office and the Pentagon. Read More Here
(SydneyMorningHerald) – Allawi warns of sectarian war
Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister who scored a surprise win in the recent general election, has warned that Iraq risks descending into a new sectarian war. Read More Here
(NYTimes) – Times Square Fizzle Non-bombing Provides Excuse to Launch Drones in Pakistan – Read More Here
(Reuters) – U.S. missiles kill at least 24 in Pakistan
U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 24 suspected militants in two attacks on Tuesday in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary, Pakistani security officials said. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Iran says it warned off U.S. plane near manoeuvres
Iran’s military warned off a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft trying to approach Iranian naval manoeuvres, Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The incident involving the two old foes happened on Monday, the semi-official news agency quoted the armed forces chief as saying. Read More Here
(FireDogLake) – Video: Afghan Mothers Face Worst Conditions in the World
Each year Save the Children publishes a report for Mother’s Day on the state of women and children in countries around the world. It’s a valuable and sobering view that may surprise many. Norway led in conditions this year, the US comes in at 28th – and Afghanistan is at the very bottom of the list, even compared to other “least developed” nations.
Here are the facts: Video Link & Stats Here
(Antiwar) – Who lied us into war?
The easy answer: George W. Bush. But that’s too easy. It’s highly unlikely the President of the United States got up there and knowingly fibbed about the existence of weapons that would surely not be found. No doubt he fully expected the evidence to turn up, verifying what he and other members of his administration had been saying all along: that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction capable of posing a regional threat. Read More Here
Rats in Wolves Clothing – Narco Nexus May Be Managing Terror War – Gordon Duff
Tens of thousands will die from this harvest of death. Who profits and why is it necessary for chaos to continue for the money to flow? Read More Here
(PressTV) – US, Israel hold war game in Germany
The United States and Israel have staged a joint aerial war game in Germany, using live ammunition in their first such maneuver in the German soil. Read More Here
(PressTV) – US missiles kill 14 in NW Pakistan
Pakistani government has publicly condemned the drone attacks, saying they violate the country’s sovereignty, although there is a wide belief that US uses its Pakistani air bases to launch drone attacks against alleged militant strongholds. Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: Are Drone Strikes Moral? Continue reading
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(AntiFascistCalling) – ‘Black World’ Space Shuttle: Air Force Raises the Stakes for a New Arms Race
It’s not as if things aren’t bad enough right here on planet earth.
What with multiple wars and occupations, an accelerating economic meltdown, corporate malfeasance and environmental catastrophes such as the petroleum-fueled apocalypse in the Gulf of Mexico, I’d say we have a full plate already. Read More Here
(ABCNews) – Video: Holder – Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Attack
In his first Sunday morning interview, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Pakistani Taliban was behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing of Times Square last week.
“We’ve now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack,” Holder said on “This Week.”
“We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he was working at their direction.” Video Link Here
(StrategicCultureFoundation) – Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan
A drug trafficking campaign is being conducted against Russia on a broad scale affecting all spheres of its political, social and economic life. Kyrgyzstan plays an important role in this campaign. There are ten main routes of heroin traffic from Afghanistan (occupied by the US forces) with six of them crossing the Kyrgyz city of Osh, an important hub of Afghan drug traffic.
Here are these routes: Read More Here
(StrategicCultureFoundation) – Mounting Tensions and Political Confrontation on the Korean Peninsula
The Pyeongtack naval base near Seoul played host a few days ago to a maritime memorial ceremony for and the funeral of 46 sailors of South Korea’s Cheonan corvette, which sank in unclear circumstances when on a patrol mission in the Yellow Sea on March 26th 2010. The 1,200 – tonne corvette exploded for no obvious reason, broke in two and sank in a matter of minutes, which is quite unusual for this class of ship. 46 crewmembers of the 104-strong crew died in what proved the country’s biggest maritime disaster ever since the Republic of Korea emerged from Korea’s division into two political entities in 1948. The issue of what caused the Cheonan to sink and who is to blame for the disaster is still in the limelight. Read More Here
(StopNATO) – NATO: Global Military Bloc Finalizes 21st Century Strategic Doctrine – Rick Rozoff
As the world faces an almost two-year economic downturn epitomized by the national crisis in Greece and natural disasters like the devastating earthquake in Haiti and the fallout from volcanic eruptions in Iceland, the U.S.-led Western military bloc is preparing for interventions around the world. Read More Here
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(Reuters) – UPDATE 2-U.N. on target for Iran sanctions by mid-June-sources
A new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran will be ready by mid-June, European diplomatic sources said on Friday, but it remained uncertain how soon a draft proposal will be put to the Security Council. Read More Here
(BusinessWeek) – KBR to Get No-Bid Army Work as U.S. Alleges Kickbacks
The Army announced its decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts. Read More Here
(AlterNet) – Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War
Judging by the Barack Obama administration’s reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months point to even greater war-making across the planet. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Report: IAEA to discuss Israel’s nuclear activities for first time
Israel’s secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press. Read More Here
(CounterPunch) – The Downward Slope of Empire – Talking With Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire. He appeared in the 2005 prizewinning documentary film Why We Fight. Read More Here
(LewRockwell) – What I Learned in Afghanistan – About the United States – Read More Here
(RawStory) – ‘Severe consequences’ for Pakistan over terror plots:US
Pakistan faces “very severe consequences” if a terror plot like the failed Times Square bombing was traced to that country, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in remarks made public on Saturday. Read More Here
(IslamMemo) – Israel threatens to bomb Auxiliary ships Gaza – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Vice President Biden: Iran is a Threat to Global Security
The following is an excerpt from Vice President Jo Biden’s address to the European parliament, which calls for the deployment of “the phased, adaptive missile defense program to deter and defend against missile attacks on this continent — on this continent.” Biden points to Iran as the enemy of the Western World. He also underscores the American-European alliance and the need for integration in military and civilian affairs: Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Pentagon: More Money for Weapons, Less for Troops
A decade of massive annual increases in military spending have given the Pentagon record budgets, but officials are warning that, as financial problems make more hikes unlikely, the pay raises and benefits packages Congress has given to troops are “unsustainable.” Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel defiant on its ‘nuclear arsenal’
A senior Israeli official insists that Tel Aviv will not change its nuclear policies despite international calls for the denuclearization of the Middle East.
Under an “ambiguity” policy, Tel Aviv neither confirms nor denies having nuclear weapons. However, according to the British Jane’s Defense Weekly, security experts believe Tel Aviv is in the possession of 100 to 300 atomic warheads. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Russia says Iran attack ‘disastrous’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has highlighted the “necessity” of political discourse with Iran in ending an impasse over its civilian nuclear program. Read More Here
(PressTV) – US mulls force expansion in Pakistan
The US is looking to expand its military presence in Pakistan in the wake of the unsuccessful Times Square bombing that allegedly involved a Pakistani American. Read More Here
(PressTV) – In NY, Ahmadinejad meets with rabbis
The Iranian president praised the Jewish leaders who had shown the dark side of Zionism to the world by distancing themselves from pro-Zionist policies. Read More Here
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(AlterNet) – How the Pentagon Is Cheating Wounded Vets — Soldiers Aren’t Disposable
The military’s sad legacy of denying the care troops need after combat. Read More Here
(WSWS) – Iran, the US and the UN Nuclear Conference
The Obama administration and the US media have exploited the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York to again threaten Iran with further UN sanctions and military action over its nuclear programs and demonise the Iranian president. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Probe concludes torpedo sank South Korea ship: report
Investigators probing the deadly sinking of a South Korean navy ship in March near the North have concluded that a torpedo was the source of an explosion that destroyed the vessel, a news report said on Friday. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Media promotes far-fetched ‘bin Laden in Iran’ report
According to a new documentary, Osama bin Laden has been living in Iran’s capital of Tehran with his family since 2003, enjoying the protection of the Revolutionary Guard and regularly taking part in the elite sport of falcon hunting. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – The pretext of “security” along Gaza’s buffer zone
Unemployment soars at 60 percent as a result of the closed borders under the Israeli-led and internationally-complicit siege of Gaza and the destruction of 95 percent of industry and factories in the tiny coastal strip. Read More Here
(SouthLebanon) – General ‘tried to cover up truth about death of Rachel Corrie’
Israeli war hero accused of suppressing testimony that could reveal what really happened to Gaza activist Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America – Ray McGovern
The omnipresent World War II-era poster with the words “Loose Lips Sink Ships” served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – A Timetable For War – Philip Giraldi
Readers of my articles will know that I am extremely pessimistic about the prospects for peace in the Middle East. I do not believe for a second that the leaders of Israel actually consider Iran to be an “existential” threat but the fact that they have cried wolf so often has convinced the Israeli public that it is so. Worse still, Israel’s friends in the US have convinced the American public of the same thing even though Iran does not threaten the United States at all. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Russia says Iran attack ‘disastrous’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has highlighted the “necessity” of political discourse with Iran in ending an impasse over its civilian nuclear program Read More Here
(CounterPunch) – How to Stumble Into a War: Loose Lips on Iran – Ray McGovern
The omnipresent World War II-era posters with the words “Loose Lips Sink Ships” served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle. Read More Here
(ChristianScienceMonitor) – Uncle Sam wants Micronesians for US military
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia – The portraits of stern-faced young men on armed forces recruiting posters, hanging from cafeteria walls, seem to gaze down at the mingling teenagers. Below, about 130 high school seniors have gathered to sit for a US military aptitude test required by the school’s administration. Several dozen plan to enlist; many more are still on the fence. Read More Here
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(Reuters) – Iran: Punish U.S. for “shameful” nuclear threats
Calling nuclear weapons “disgusting and shameful,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the United Nations on Monday to punish countries like the United States that threaten to use them. Read More Here
(TruthDig) – No One Cares – Chris Hedges
We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands of our own soldiers and Marines have died or been crippled physically and psychologically. Read More Here
(ConspiringTimes) – Taliban Claim Unverified Responsibility: Times Square Car Bomb, Prelude To Nuclear Attack? – Read More Here
(GordonDuff) – Israeli Intel Group Shows Its Hand in Times Square Bomb Hoax
Who would have believed it? Only days after a warning of an Israeli “false flag” bombing against the US “in the works” a massive car bomb is discovered in Time Square! Better yet, though no intelligence organization in the world could discover anyone claiming responsibility for this embarrassing failure, SITE Intelligence, a group rumored as the “voice of the Mossad” has placed the blame on the Pakistani Taliban.
This is the same group that has come up with numerous bin Laden “audio” tapes, seemingly, though tiny and nearly totally unstaffed, whenever it is convenient for Israel to point a finger at someone, magically Site Intelligence, run by former IDF soldier Rita Katz, whose father was executed as a spy by Saddam Hussein, makes another “unbelievable” intelligence find. Read More Here
(PaulWatson) – Al-Qaeda Terror Tape Proven Fraudulent Once Again
Investigators say no evidence of foreign involvement in Times Square car bombing, contradicting alleged Taliban tape released by dubious Pentagon front group Read More Here
(AFP) – Al-Qaeda not behind NY car bomb: mayor
Authorities in New York said Sunday that Al-Qaeda was not behind an attempted car bombing of Times Square and that police had several strong leads, including camera footage of a suspicious man leaving the scene. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – High-Tech Death from Above: U.S. Drone Wars Fuel War Crimes – Tom Burghardt
As America continues its uncontrolled flight towards disaster, Israeli-style “targeted killings” (assassinations) of alleged militants and unarmed civilians in the “Afpak theatre” are on the rise. Read More Here
(TheHindu) – Military Dominance: Obama’s Fake Nuclear Disarmament Initiative allows the U.S. to Assert its Global Military Hegemony
Experts say that U.S. missile defences and Prompt Global Strike weapons, far from promoting nuclear disarmament, may trigger a new arms race.
Hardly had Russia and the United States signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty, New START, the U.S. pushed ahead with the development of new conventional weapon systems that threaten to stall nuclear disarmament and discredit U.S. non-proliferation efforts at the NPT Review Conference opening in New York on Monday. Read More Here
(NewAmericanEmpire) – Obama’s Threat to Launch a Nuclear Attack on Iran
By now, most everybody knows that the (2003-) Bush-Cheney Iraq War was based on fiction [http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/10/elbaradei-regrets-not-doing-more-to-stop-iraq-war/] and on deception [http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/22_lies.html]. There was no such thing as “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, the rationale for an illegal attack against that country. And Bush II and his accomplices knew that. Read More Here
(IranAffairs) – US Threatens to Nuke Iran and Anyone Else it Feels like Nuking – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: US walkout on speech by Ahmadinejad ‘shows West biased against Iran’
The Iranian president has told the UN there’s not a shred of credible evidence his country’s developing nuclear weapons. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also attacked the US accusing it of double standards. He was speaking at the start of a conference reviewing the non-proliferation treaty. Continue reading
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(InGaza) – Loaded opposition
One can imagine that were US soldiers to open fire with live ammunition on American protesters, this would not be acceptable. Likewise for Canada and most democratic nations.
Yet somehow there is a void, a gaping hole in the media into which fall most potential reports on Israeli soldiers shooting with live ammunition on visibly unarmed demonstraters. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Pentagon Report: Still Not Enough Troops in Afghanistan
After 15 months in office President Obama has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by an almost impossible amount, going from 30,000 (itself the product of an end-of-term escalation by President Bush) to 86,000… with the troop level pushing 100,000 by the end of the summer. Read More Here
(BBC) – US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals
Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. Read More Here
(TheStatesman) – Demonizing Ahmadinejad – Hillary Clinton Calls Ahmadinejad Anti-semitic President
“Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism,” Mrs Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner here. Read More Here
(CounterCurrents) – Can You Pass The Iran Quiz
What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream media) assault on Iran ? Read More Here
(Pravda) – What’s At Stake in the Issue of Iran – Noam Chomsky
In an interview with the German publication, Freitag, Noam Chomsky talks about U.S. pressure on Israel and Iran and its geopolitical significance. “Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country has not behaved aggressively beyond its borders for centuries. Israel invaded Lebanon with the blessing and help of the U.S. five times in thirty years. Iran has not done anything like this,” he says.´ Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – How Wars Are Born: China versus the U.S. – Shamus Cooke
The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic (corporate) interest” — raw materials, cheap labor, shipping lanes, markets, etc. — through military buildup. Read More Here
(LewRockwell) – The CIA Coup That Kept America on the Road of Militarism – Read More Here
USS LIBERTY: The Fifth Fleet Sacrifice – Why did it happen?
A review of the USS Liberty story explains a lot of how and why we have arrived at the state and conditions in which we currently find America and its governance! Vis: Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Playing Peace to Target Iran
Obama needs Palestine merely to pursue his scheme to isolate Iran, says Khalid Amayreh cynically in occupied Jerusalem Read More Here
(Guardian) – Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns Nato official
Nato’s top civilian official in Afghanistan warns of further deaths in ‘very tough year’ for British and other foreign troops Read More Here
(AFP) – Iran warns Israel against attacking Syria
Iran will “cut off Israel’s feet” if the Jewish state attacks Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Rida Rahimi vowed on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to key regional ally Syria. Read More Here
(Guardian) – Turmoil in Iraq threatens US withdrawal plans
Iraq continues to be embroiled in its messy post-election coalition-building process. It has become so messy that the US may well be rethinking its withdrawal plans, and particularly its withdrawal of all combat troops at the end of August. Read More Here
(Aletho) – US: We stand by Israel at UN
Washington has invariably invoked the veto power to block the UN resolutions against the Israeli aggression on the Palestinians and the regime’s building up the occupied lands. Read More Here
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(Examiner) – IAEA rejects own reports, purpose, Non-Proliferation Treaty: Orwellian vote condemns compliant Iran
Obvious lies for an illegal War of Aggression against Iran are moving forward just as they did for war against Iraq. Lie is the proper word because this article will demonstrate the KNOWN FALSEHOODS foisted upon us by Orwellian politicians and their prostitute media. Topics of this article: Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Seven Deadly Sins In Afghanistan
If we could establish that funding an escalation of war in Afghanistan was illegal, immoral, against the public will, economically catastrophic, counterproductive on its own terms, and a cynically motivated intentional failure, well then nothing would change. Unless people use that information in pressuring their representatives to vote No. Because most of this is pretty easily known. Nonetheless I think it’s a good place to start, so let me take these points one at a time. Read More Here
FLASHBACK – Video: Gaza – In Plain Language Video Link Here
(PressTV) – Hamas: Egypt kills Gazans with gas
A senior Hamas spokesman has held Egypt responsible for the death of four Palestinians killed in a border tunnel and has demanded for an impartial investigation. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Iran to stand by Syria against Israel’
Iran vows to stand by Syria against any threat posed by Israel, after Washington warned Tehran and Damascus against “making threats” to Tel Aviv’s security. Read More Here
(PalestineTelegraph) – Our Leaders Breached International Law and Committed War Crimes
We read so much now days about gross neglect in high places and also horrendous crimes against human kind but do we really understand the magnitude of what has happened in the past and what can happen in the future. Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: 6000 Veterans Commited Suicide Last Year – Video Link Here
(RawStory) – ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’
UPDATE: CIA drone operators could be prosecuted for war crimes, lawyer tells Congress
Targeted killings program could lead to ‘foreign governments hunting and killing their enemies within our borders’
The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a strongly-worded letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to end an alleged program that allows ‘targeted killings’ of terror suspects outside of war zones. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: World as War Zone
Today, Congressman Denis Kucinich, along with journalists and anti-war activists held a teach in on Capitol Hill. The idea being to discuss plans and strategies for ending U.S. wars abroad. And ending wars, is a beautiful idea. But at the same time, we have ads like this running on TV. Some would call this a perfect example of the military industrial complex. Defense contracts worth hundreds of billions that keep the machine pumping. And Obama, isn’t neccessarily helping to stop it. Quite the opposite, the ACLU just wrote a letter to him, in which they sent this message: “The Entire World Is Not A Warzone”. But is it too late for us to stop treating it like one? Alyona and Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson discuss.
(StopNato) – Global Warfare: U.S. Consolidates Military Network In Asia-Pacific Region – Rick Rozoff
The United States has six naval fleets and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups patrolling the world’s oceans and seas. The U.S. Navy is as large as the world’s next thirteen biggest navies combined.
Washington has as many aircraft carriers as all other nations together. Russia has one; China has none. The U.S. and its NATO allies – Britain, Italy, France and Spain – account for 17 of 22 in service in the world. Ten of the eleven American carriers are Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarriers, substantially larger than most all non-U.S. ones. The U.S. Navy has all ten supercarriers in the world at the moment. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – US War Crimes Exposed: Revelations of an American Soldier
Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. Read More Here
(TheLeafChronicle) – Soldiers Returning from Iraq with Mysterious Lung Disease
Dr. Robert Miller worries that too many Iraq war veterans are not being diagnosed for a disease that can’t be seen on X-ray, CT scan or pulmonary function tests. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Iran no threat to US
Iran’s unwillingness to be open about its nuclear program has led many to see it as a threat to the United States and its allies. But is Iran really building scary nukes? Or is the media just spinning it that way? Dave Lindorff says that the United States should not be worried. Continue reading
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(JoongAngDaily) – North Korea Makes Major Troop Shift, Postures For Direct Attack
The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region, a military source said yesterday. South Korean commanders will meet next month to discuss the change and their response to it. Read More Here
(JTA) – Abrams: U.S. must address Iran’s threat to Israel
A former Bush administration official said he hopes the United States will address the Iranian president’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map.”
“Israelis are living under the threat of annihilation every day,” Elliot Abrams, the Bush administration’s National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African Affairs, said April 25 at the Baltimore Zionist District’s “U.S.-Israel Relations In A New Era” symposium, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. “If the world does not act, I believe Israel will act, and I hope the U.S. will.”
“We keep saying it’s unacceptable for Iran to have a bomb, but we don’t mean it. We mean it’s terrible, we don’t want it. But when Israel says it’s unacceptable, they mean it.” Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Ahmadinejad calls UN veto power ‘satanic tool’ – Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Chavez accuses US plane of `electronic warfare’
Without giving details, he said Venezuela’s military intelligence intercepted a conversation between the pilot and air traffic controllers in the northern Colombian city of Barranquilla. The aircraft conducted espionage operations, he said. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really? – Ray McGovern
With all the current hype about the “threat” from Iran, it is time to review the record – and especially the significant bits and pieces that find neither ink nor air in our Israel-friendly Fawning Corporate Media (FCM). Read More Here
(WSWS) – US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan
The New York Times reported Sunday that American special forces units are operating in and around the Afghan city of Kandahar, assassinating or capturing alleged leaders and militants of the Taliban resistance ahead of the major US-NATO offensive scheduled for June. Read More Here
(HumanRightsWatch) – Iraq: Detainees Describe Torture in Secret Jail
Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraq should thoroughly investigate and prosecute all government and security officials responsible, Human Rights Watch said. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Iraq Today: Afflicted by Violence, Devastation, Corruption, and Devastation – Stephen Lendman
Seven years under occupation, Iraqis still cope with what Refugees International calls “a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced (and other Iraqis) struggl(ing) to survive,” a situation “for which the US bears special responsibility” but does nothing to correct. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Syria,Iran arm Hezbollah with improved missiles: US
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday accused Iran and Syria of arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles, saying the militia’s arsenal undermined stability in the region. Read More Here
(CNN) – Video: Iranian Jet Follows U.S. Aircraft Carrier – Continue reading
US threatens Iran with all options
(PressTV) – Washington says “all options are on the table” in dealing with Tehran, in a veiled threat, which refers to a new US nuclear policy.
During a Sunday address to attendees of a Pentagon briefing, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched on the newly-crafted Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), under which the Obama administration promises not to use nuclear weapons against states that do not possess nuclear warheads, with the exception of Iran. Continue reading
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(Xinhua) – Iran plans to produce missile systems similar to Russia S-300: official – Read More Here
(ArabTimes) – Israel releases Hamas minister; 7,500 Palestinians remain under detention
Israel on Wednesday released a Hamas minister after three years of imprisonment. Hamas said in a press statement that that Wasfi Kabaha, minister of state for separation wall and settlements affairs, was released from the southern Israeli prison of Negev and returned to his home in the West Bank village of Barta’a near Jenin. Read More Here
(IrishTimes) – Sarkozy orders Bill banning full Islamic veils – Read More Here
(Dawn) – Early Afghan pullout would be worse than 9/11: Merkel
Leaving Afghanistan too soon would be “far more disastrous” than 9/11 due to the risk of extremists acquiring nuclear materials, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, defending an unpopular mission. Read More Here
(RiaNov) – Drills in Far East to involve warships of three Russian fleets
Warships of three Russian fleets will meet in the Sea of Japan during large-scale military exercises in the Far East, a Pacific Fleet source told RIA Novosti on Friday. Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – The Korean Maritime Crisis Goes Suicidal: Damn the Torpedos? Read More Here
(Yonhap) – N. Korea to carry out freezing of S. Korean assets over four days next week Read More Here
(IPS) – U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat
The Barack Obama administration’s declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does not bow to the demand that it cease uranium enrichment. Read More Here
(RawStory) – Syria providing ‘wider array’ of missiles to Hezbollah: US – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Afghan ‘Exit Strategy’ Won’t Involve Removing Any Troops – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Iraq, Afghan wars drop bombs on US image abroad as Obama’s fame fades – Video Link Here
(FarsNews) – Iran Stresses Preparedness to Repel Enemy Attacks
The massive wargames conducted by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Persian Gulf showed that any enemy threats against the country will be reciprocated by Iran’s powerful response, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Read More Here
(OGJ) – Saboteurs hit Iraq’s northern oil pipeline, halting exports
Iraqi oil exports have been cut due to sabotage along the northern pipeline system, according to officials who say repairs could take up to a week. The 970-km line transports crude oil from the country’s Kirkuk fields to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Read More Here
(TrubuneMedia) – Lies and Wars – William Pfaff
It is a dismaying reflection that the facilitator of major violence thus far in the twenty-first century have been lies told by democratic governments. The lies are continuing to be told, about the supposed “existential” menace posed by Iran to Israel, America and (if you believe some European leaders) to Western Europe. Read More Here
(Reuters) – No Sign Scuds Moved to Lebanon – U.S. Officials
Doubts are growing within the U.S. defence and intelligence community about allegations that long-range Scud missiles from Syria have been shipped to the Hezbollah guerrilla group in neighbouring Lebanon, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Bulldozers return to destroy children’s playground in Beit Jala. Six activists arrested
Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Read More Here
(PopularMechanics) – Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America’s New Global Strike Weapon
The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon’s bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war? Read More Here
(AntiWar) – US Rules Out Removing Its Nukes From Europe
Despite increased calls from European officials to remove them, the United States today ruled out moving its hundreds of “battlefield nukes” from Europe, insisting that they must remain to ensure that Europe shares the “nuclear risks and responsibilities.” Read More Here
(TheStar) – Tony Blair Stands Accused – Malaysia must not allow this mass murderer to be immune from justice
It is distressing to note that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been invited to Malaysia as an honoured guest of an NGO when he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by many learned and independent scholars of international law. Read More Here
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(InfoClearingHouse) – Recovering From Empathy
We’re . . . killing . . . people.
But it didn’t matter then and it doesn’t matter now. Those who defend this war, or war in general –- or the infinitesimal slice of war depicted in the WikiLeaks video -– have an endless supply of rationalizations that only make sense within a heavily fortified consciousness: a consciousness unable or afraid to cross the line demarking us and them, to ask, fleetingly, “What if those ‘dead bastards’ were my parents, my brothers, my children?” Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Nation of Laws and Lawlessness: America is Policing Itself and the World – Prof. John Kozy
The peoples of the world are angry and are getting angrier. Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, in a piece published in 2004, claim that about one in four Americans, termed “guard workers,” is employed to keep other people in line. I suspect the number is higher. The war on terror is fought by guard workers, the entire legal system and the entire homeland security apparatus consist of guard workers. Shouldn’t someone be asking why Americans need so much protection? Read More Here
Video: Be Nice to America. Or We’ll Bring Democracy to Your Country! – William Blum – Video Link Here
(NorCalTruth) – Video: Obamafear: Al Qaeda is an Upcoming Nuclear Power According to President Obama
Obama at the summit: “The biggest threat to American Security in the short term, medium term, and long term would be a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weopon.” – Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – Jordan’s King Says Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon War “Imminent”
Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a “Members Only” meeting of the ‘Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus’ in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
According to one attendee in the session, “the King’s message was sobering.”
King Abdullah seemed significantly concerned that conflict was about to break out again between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Read More Here
(CPSAN) – Video: Israel Is Our Only Real Ally In The Middle East! Congressman Burton – Video Link Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Nukes And Temples
Evidently, American presidents wish to continue to guard Israel’s nuclear “secret”. If the motivation is thought to be a simple case of double standard, surely one must be deplored by the submissiveness of the general community. On the other hand, the more inquisitive mind would prod deeper and question the drive behind the guarding of this “secret”? Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Russian Justifying an Iranian attack – Paul Craig Roberts
A top Chinese official after the Nuclear Security Summit said that China would consider new ideas about Iran. Paul Craig Roberts says that the summit has nothing to do with Iran but rather the United States casting a shadow over its bunker buster bomb programs that they plan to use against Iran. He also says that the US will find a way to justify an attack on Iran. – Continue reading
Video: Gerald Celente – The Coming Great War of Our Age on Alex Jones Tv
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(WashingtonPost) – Iraq’s Ayad Allawi warns of sectarian war, says U.S. must aid reconciliation
Former prime minister Ayad Allawi, whose bloc won the largest number of seats in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections, warned Wednesday that the country could slide into a sectarian war if his group is shut out of the next government and said the United States should work more aggressively to prevent that from happening. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Syria: Israel’s Scud accusation may be pretense for attack
Israel might be preparing a military strike against Syria by accusing Damascus of supplying Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon with long-range Scud missiles, the Syrian government said on Thursday. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran: Thank West for Israeli crimes
Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations has lashed out at the Western countries for their “full-fledged support” of Israel. Read More Here
(ThePeoplesVoice) – WikiLeaks Video – The Greater Horror
There they are, the people who brought you every bit of the action in the WikiLeaks video and all of the other horrors flowing from invasion of Iraq. Madeleine Albright (far right, above), former Clinton Secretary of State, is a good place to start. From 60 Minutes:
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it. —60 Minutes (5/12/96)
An exhaustive study found that 227,000 children under five (table 13) died during the George H.W. Bush – Bill Clinton regime of total sanctions against Iraq from 1990 through 2000. Read More Here
(AsiaTimes) – Israel Evades ‘Ambush’ at Nuclear Summit
PM Benjamin Netanyahu decided at the last moment to cancel his attendance Read More Here
(RawStory) – WikiLeaks Plans to Post Video Showing US Massacre of Afghani Civilians
The whisteblower website WikiLeaks — which exploded onto the national stage earlier this month after it released avideo recording showing US servicemembers shooting two reporters and six others to death — says they plan to release another, even more harrowing clip. Collateral Murder was the title give to the project which released the video earlier this month and can be viewed by going to the following link: Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Obama Threatens Iran with Nuclear War
In his latest statements, President Obama has expressively warned Iran against an imminent nuclear strike. The surprising remarks by the politician who snatched the Nobel Peace Prize for his conciliatory stance in recent years, violated the UN Charter and astounded public opinion. Read More Here
(ZimbabweHerald) – AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa
The hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884. Read More Here
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(Aletho) – China Reiterates Opposition to Iran Sanctions… Again – Read More Here
(Aletho) – America’s Loose Nukes in Israel – Read More Here
(WSJ) – Syria Gave Scuds to Hezbollah, U.S. Says
Syria has transferred long-range Scud missiles to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Israeli and U.S. officials alleged, in a move that threatens to alter the Middle East’s military balance and sets back a major diplomatic outreach effort to Damascus by the Obama administration. Read More Here
(BusinessWeek) – Iran’s Ahmadinejad Says U.S. Is Practicing ‘Nuclear Blackmail’
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told United Nations leaders that the U.S. was attempting “nuclear blackmail” by retaining the option of using atomic weapons against his country. Read More Here
FLASHBACK – (Bloomberg) – German Spy Agency Says Iran Bomb Years Off, Plays Down Report
Germany’s top spy agency said Iran could have an atomic bomb within four to six years, playing down a report in Stern magazine that the government in Tehran could detonate a nuclear device within six months. Read More Here
(AP) – US officials say Iran could get bomb in year
U.S. officials say Iran’s accelerated nuclear program could produce one weapon in roughly a year, if the country decided to go that route. Read More Here
(JPost) – ‘Iran to go nuclear within month’
Iran will join the global nuclear club within one month, according to the deputy research chief of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy of Iran (AEOI). Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel’s nuclear weapons – Read More Here
(Aletho) – The West Bank expulsion order is merely the latest step in a long process
The Israeli army order that permits Israel to ethnically purge the West Bank of non-Jews (Palestinians and foreigners who are not Jewish) is the next rational step in the evolution of the Jewish state. Read More Here
(KennyBlog) – Setting Us Up?
The farce of the nuclear summit is apparent. Even some of the controlled media are reporting on the foreign press being treated as a protest group designated to a ‘free speech zone.’ It still doesn’t repress the reports about the most dangerous, along with the U.S., nuclear threat … Israel. Read More Here
(EconomicTimes) – China slaps import duties on US, Russian steel
China said on Tuesday it has imposed duties on common electrical steel made in the United States and Russia, in apparent retaliation for Washington’s recent decision to slap tariffs on Chinese pipes. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Fayyad: New IDF orders threaten to empty West Bank of Palestinians
The Palestinian leadership on Monday protested against Israeli military orders that could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Sarkozy: Israel strike against Iran would be disastrous
French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the American news network CBS on Tuesday that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be “disastrous” and that Israel must understand that “we are determined to ensure its security.” Read More Here
(WATimes) – Obama admin hyping terrorist nuclear risk
The Obama administration is warning that the danger of a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons is increasing, but U.S. officials say the claim is not based on new intelligence and questioned whether the threat is being overstated. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Video: McCain Wants to “Pull Trigger” On Iran
Tea Party Sarah’s favorite senator, John McCain, wants to “pull the trigger” on Iran. Continue reading
‘Iran to go nuclear within month’
(JerusalemPost) – Iran will join the global nuclear club within one month, according to the deputy research chief of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy of Iran (AEOI). Continue reading
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(AlethoNews) – US violates UN law by threatening Iran
Iran’s envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog says the US nuclear policy which allows the use of nuclear arms against Tehran is a clear violation of the UN Charter. Read More Here
(Newsmax) – Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran’s Nuclear Program If All Else Fails
Sen. Joe Lieberman says the world is at a “turning point in history,” and the United States should begin preparing plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program — and use that option if all diplomatic and other means fail. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Kyrgyzstan ‘on brink of civil war’ says Dmitry Medvedev
Kyrgyzstan is “on the brink of civil war,” according Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who warned that the country could be ripped apart by the current political upheaval. Read More Here
(TheNation) – War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
War crimes, massacres, and, as Al Jazeera properly calls it, “collateral murder,” are all part of the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military
If you’re like me, now that we’re in the week that federal income taxes are due, you are finally starting to collect your records and prepare for the ordeal. Either way, whether you are a procrastinator like me, or have already finished and know how much you have paid to the government, it is a good time to stop and consider how much of your money goes to pay for our bloated and largely useless and pointless military. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Iran not nuclear weapons capable for “at least a year”-Gates
Iran is not expected to be capable of producing nuclear weapons for at least a year, maybe more, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter – Jonathan Cook
In Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would “remove the gloves” to track him down. Read More Here
(Guardian) – The ‘Obama Doctrine’: Kill, Don’t Detain
George Bush left a big problem in the shape of Guantánamo. The solution? Don’t capture bad guys, assassinate by drone Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Hamid Karzai, R.I.P. – A prediction
The war in Afghanistan, which George W. Bush started and Barack Obama pledged to win, is over – and we lost. No one realizes this, quite yet, but give them time – because the fruits of our defeat are already a veritable cornucopia. And the reason can be summed up rather neatly in two words: Hamid Karzai. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Kyrgyzstan: Another Colour Revolution Bites the Dust
So what’s the real story behind the coup in Kyrgyzstan ? Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – What Kind of Palestinian State in 2011? Neoliberalism and World Bank Diktats – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Latvia’s Cruel Neoliberal Experiment – Prof. Michael Hudson
Latvia is being devastated by two global wars. On the geopolitical front is the Cold War’s coup de grâce. Neoliberals have managed to de-industrialize Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union, persuading parliaments to dismantle government support for economic renewal. The “Washington Consensus” has backed a policy of giving away public enterprises and land to a newly minted oligarchy of insiders, and helped them sell shares to Western investors. The ensuing economic wreckage has helped avert future military rivalry to U.S. hegemony. Read More Here
(FAIR) – Iraq Killings and Media Indifference
Recently a small group of professors at the University of Regina suggested that Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan was an act of imperialism and should not be glorified. The professors were vigorously attacked by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, a number of Conservative Members of Parliament, and a long list of editorial writers, columnists and directors of news in the mainstream Canadian media. Read More Here
(PostcardsFromTheRevolution) – Venezuela: Coup and Countercoup, Revolution – Eva Golinger
Venezuela commemorated the eighth year anniversary of the coup d’etat backed by Washington that changed the bolivarian revolution forever
In just 47 hours, a coup d’etat ousted President Chavez and a countercoup returned him to power, in an extraordinary showing of the will and determination of a dignified people on a revolutionary path with no return. The mass media played a major role in advancing the coup and spreading false information internationally in order to justify the coup plotters’ actions. CIA documents revealed US government involvement and support to the coup organizers
A leaked videotape of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen Iraqis was unveiled on April 5 by the website WikiLeaks. To much of the corporate media, though, it was either not worth reporting at all, or an unfortunate incident to be defended. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Is Canada Fighting an Imperialist War in Afghanistan? – Prof. John W. Warnock
Recently a small group of professors at the University of Regina suggested that Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan was an act of imperialism and should not be glorified. The professors were vigorously attacked by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, a number of Conservative Members of Parliament, and a long list of editorial writers, columnists and directors of news in the mainstream Canadian media. Read More Here
MSM: Equating Iran nukes with Holocaust highlights Israel’s isolation
(Haaretz) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the official ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday to warn about the Iranian threat. “The world gradually accepts Iran’s statements of destruction against Israel and we still do not see the necessary international determination to stop Iran from arming,” Netanyahu said, calling on “all enlightened countries” to strongly condemn Iran and act with “genuine determination” to prevent it from building nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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(Haaretz) – Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran could cause a global catastrophe
An Israeli strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral into a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called “smart” sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its nuclear program. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Netanyahu: Iran wants to destroy Israel and the world remains silent
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres used the platform at yesterday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem to urge countries around the world to work unwaveringly to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – 1974 CIA Estimate Declared, “We Believe That Israel Already Has Produced Nuclear Weapons.”
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu abruptly announced that he has decided not attend President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, sending Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor in his place. The Washington Post reported this was due to concern over “Arab criticism of Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal.” Attempting to be topical, I’m reposting this 1974 CIA document in which the Agency declared, “We believe that Israel already has produced nuclear weapons.” Read More Here
(AFP) – US slaps import duties on Chinese steel pipe
The United States has slapped trade sanctions on a billion dollars worth of Chinese pipes, the Commerce Department said Friday just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington. Read More Here
(VOANews) – US Says Iranian Nuclear Announcement Shows Nefarious Intentions
The Iranian move came a day after world powers began negotiations on a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Tehran. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – Iranian Spy for CIA: ‘Weak West’ Will Cause War with Iran
The American-led “engagement” policies towards Iran is going to result in the very war it wants to prevent, according to an Iranian CIA spy. He says the only way to prevent a possible nuclear war with Iran is to attack the country now. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – Think Tank Speculates War Could Break Out with Syria
The increasingly open threats made by Syrian leaders and members of the Hizbullah terrorist group in Lebanon have led analyst David Schenker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) think tank to warn that war may be on the horizon. In addition, he noted, a future war could include Syria and not only its proxy Hizbullah: in February, Syrian leaders said Syria would not “sit idly by” in case of another war with Israel. Read More Here
(AP) – Iran says new US policy a nuclear threat
Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday that President Barack Obama has “implicitly threatened” his country with nuclear weapons in a newly outlined U.S. policy and Tehran said it intends to file a formal complaint with the U.N. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. Read More Here
(RawStory) – ‘All bets are off’ if US under WMD attack: Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States could not rule out using nuclear weapons if it came under biological attack, saying in that case “all bets are off.” Read More Here
(DavidRothscum) – Evidence that Depleted Uranium is intended as a weapon of genocide
Now that the horrors of Depleted Uranium are being revealed to the world, we can expect for apologists to begin moving into the next phase of damage control within the coming months. It will likely be claimed that the depopulation of much of the Middle East was an unfortunate result of the DU that the Pentagon used because it was not aware of the health effects it would have. Read More Here
Video: Gordon Brown paid for Depleted Uranium Weapons – Video Link Here
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(CounterPunch) – The Cover-Ups That Exploded
The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes. Read More Here
(IND) – US moves from nuclear arms to conventional missiles with global reach
While President Barack Obama speaks overseas of his vision of a world without nuclear weapons, his military commanders at home are quietly accelerating a programme to develop and deploy a new class of conventional intercontinental ballistic missiles which will have the capacity to strike targets anywhere in the world within an hour. Read More Here
( April 8 ) – Video: Alex Takes Calls About Military Abuse in Iraq – Part 1 Here, Part 2, Part 3
(AlJazeera) – Video: Iraq Outrage Over US Killing Video – Video Link Here
(PressTV) – Turkey move deters Netanyahou from nuclear meet
The Israeli Prime Minister has decided not to partake in the forthcoming Nuclear Security Summit in Washington over Egypt and Turkey’s plan to file a motion demanding that Tel Aviv open its nuclear facilities for international inspection. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base
Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders have said they intend to remove a US military base, which currently serves as the premier air mobility hub for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, from their soil. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Cancer patients on the rise in Gaza
Dr. Yousef Ibrahim, the head of the environment quality authority, said on Tuesday that the number of cancer and kidney failure patients in the Gaza Strip is on the rise as a result of the Israeli use of depleted uranium and phosphorus bombs in the war on Gaza last year. Read More Here
Video: BlackWater mercenaries slaughtering unarmed civilians… Video Link Here
(Uruknet) – Israeli Tanks Invade Northern Areas Of The Gaza Strip And Destroy Farm Lands
A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded on Wednesday midday farm lands close to the northern Gaza Strip boarders with Israeli and destroyed farm lands.
The lands are privately owned by Palestinian farmers from the nearby town of Jabalya, local sources reported.
Witnesses said that tanks advanced 500 meters inside the border area and opened fire at residents’ homes while bulldozers destroyed crops and trees. No injuries were reported. – Source: Uruknet
(LewRockwell) – Evidence That Iran Is Developing Nukes? Don’t Expect Any This Time Around
Scarcely a day goes by anymore without some cocksure Israeli cabinet member or loudmouthed American “diplomat” sounding the alarm that Iran is covertly trying to develop nuclear weapons. We hear ominous warnings that the Western world will suddenly be at risk of complete annihilation by those crazy Ayatollahs, should they succeed in their quest to develop the bomb. “No one will be safe!” they cry, “Because, in addition to being hell-bent on incinerating Israel in a nuclear holocaust, those lunatic Iranians might even launch nuclear strikes against other Western countries! We have to crush and kill the Iranians right now, before they finish building their bombs – even if that means making the United States the single most despised country in the world.” – Read More Here
(AllGov) – NATO Admits U.S. Forces Killed Innocent Pregnant Women in Afghanistan
U.S. Special Operations commandoes in February mistakenly killed five Afghans, including two pregnant women, and then tried to cover up their mistake. An investigation by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) determined that American and Afghan special forces arrived at the village of Khataba in Paktia province on February 12, entered a residential compound, and opened fire on two men—a police officer and a local prosecutor—because “they showed what appeared to be hostile intent by being armed,” according to the investigation. The two pregnant women, along with an 18-year-old girl, were also killed by the gunfire. Read More Here
(Aljazeera) – Video: Opposition usurps power in Kyrgyzstan Continue reading
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(RawStory) – UK troops trained by firing at ‘replica mosques’
A political and religious uproar has erupted in Great Britain over news that the British Army trained troops for the Afghanistan mission by having them fire on replica mosques. Read More Here
(WSWS) – Killings of Civilians in Afghanistan: US Special Forces Covered Up Massacre – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here
Breaking News
(PressTV) – Israel launches ground incursion into Gaza Strip
Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced about 500 meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported. Read More Here
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(PressTV) – Ahmadinejad: US bogged down, doomed to fail in region
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the United States is doomed to crumple as it is mired in a swamp in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More Here
(AP) – Video: Top-secret Journey to Keep Nukes From Terrorists – View Video Here
(Xinhua) – China ‘deeply concerned’ over Kyrgyz situations – Read More Here
(BBC) – The day Kyrgyzstan’s anger boiled over
Scores of people lost their lives. More than 400 were injured. This is the day that changed the course of history in this small, mountainous former Soviet state. Read More Here
(ABC) – Kyrgyzstan: Coup in a U.S.-Allied Country?
Key Ally in Afghanistan War May Have Been Overthrown by Opposition Protestors Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘If Israel attacks, Iran’s response instantaneous’
A senior Iranian official warns of immediate retaliation against Israel, should it dare to launch an attack on Iran. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran upset over Russia’s S-300 delivery delay
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman expresses Tehran’s disappointment with continued delay in the delivery of the S-300 air defense missile system from Russia. Read More Here
(PressTV) – General says Israel too weak to launch Iran war
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says Israel is too weak to launch a war against Iran.
“They (Israelis) themselves have stressed on the fact that they could not enter into a war with Iran,” Vahidi told reporters in northeastern city of Orumieh on Wednesday.
He added “the Zionist regime is too weak to launch a war against Iran.” Read More Here
(RFERL) – UN Chief Calls For Total Nuclear Disarmament
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to follow the example of Kazakhstan and “to realize the aspiration and dream of a world free of nuclear weapons.”
Video: Violence In Video Games
Shocking similarities between violence in video games and actual war footage are undeniable. Is this a case of predictive programming? Are they shaping our perception to accept and furthermore proliferate violence. Yes we come from a violent past and the attempt at ‘realism’ is a component here. But there is a fine line between realism and glorification. And still the thinner line of mind control.
At the crossroads of civilization, where do we go from here? Do we continue with our government prescribed brainwashing? Do we continue to plug into these corrupt media nodes? Continue reading
Video: Fox “news” continues CBS, ABC, CNN propaganda to attack Iran – today’s CIA Operation Mockingbird
(Examiner) – In the video clip from Fox below, Bill Kristol advocates US military attack on Iran because he predicts that Israel will attack Iran. This is propaganda for an unlawful war for the following “emperor has no clothes” obvious reasons. Fox “reporting” is also a manipulative variation of the same war drone I’ve documented from CBS, ABC, and CNN. – Read More Here
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(DW-World) – Easter marchers call for Afghanistan withdrawal after soldier deaths
Peace demonstrators took to the streets across Germany in traditional Easter marches against war. A theme of the rallies has been fighting in Afghanistan and the deaths of German and Afghan soldiers on Friday. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Russia ready for nuclear cooperation with Venezuela’
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged to help Venezuela draw up plans for a nuclear power plant. Read More Here
(Antiwar) – North Korea claims South fires toward its border
North Korea is accusing South Korea of opening fire in the military buffer zone that separates the two countries. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – SlayStation – Cindy Sheehan
Don’t get me wrong, I am not in favor of “Manned Aircraft Systems” raining down bombs on civilians, but the idea of Murder by Joystick with the “Unmanned Aircraft Systems” (UAS,) is especially sickening to me. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Time For Another War, Folks? – 59% of America Says YOU BETCHA!!!!
I caught part of a podcast of Meet the Press. A part where David Gregory sets up Senator Joe Lieberman to “war monger” once again for war with Iran. That part begins at 30:25 if you access the podcast link for Meet the Press before next Sunday 4/11/10. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Takeover of Haiti: The centerpieces of the US, UN, and World Bank Plan for Haiti are Sweatshops and Tourisim
When this article appears on the morning of March 31, the much ballyhooed “International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti” will be getting underway at UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
While demonstrators in the street outside protest the continuing US and UN military occupation of Haiti, now over six years old, and the Haitian people’s exclusion from deliberations on the country’s reconstruction, dignitaries inside like UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Haitian President René Préval will unveil a plan with lots of pomp and ceremony but which boils down to just one thing: Washington’s take-over of the “new” Haiti. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Calm before the Storm? The Dollar versus the Yuan: America and China Engage in a “Currency War”
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s recent announcement that the US is postponing its official report on China’s currency is being hailed in the mainstream western media as a diplomatic reprieve to entice Beijing to revalue its yuan (renminbi) and normalise bilateral trade. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Human Rights – Homelessness Or No Free Press
A 2006 BBC poll showed the United States as the “biggest global peace threat.” Read More Here
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(RussiaToday) – Video: What is Brzezinki whispering to Obama? – View Video Here
(SpaceDaily) – Russia ships China 15 S-300 missile systems: report
Russia has shipped China 15 advanced surface-to-air missile systems, the director of the Russian plant which produces the weapons was cited by news agencies as saying on Friday. Read More Here
(Rense) – US Is Waging War Against The Wrong Country
Kourosh Ziabari – Freelance Journalist And Media Correspondent, Iran Read More Here
(YNet) – ‘US, Israel see eye to eye on Iran’
Senior White House official meets with Jewish leaders, says there is no crisis between Washington and Jerusalem; stresses Iranian threat is National Security Council’s top priority Read More Here
(YNet) – Report: Iran gets parts needed for uranium enrichment
Wall Street Journal says little-known Tehran firm linked to Islamic Republic’s nuclear program was able to acquired special hardware despite sanctions Read More Here
(TheCable) – Senators pressure Obama on Iran sanctions – Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Sayyed Nasrallah: Israel Doesn’t Have A Future In Our Region – Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Ahmadinejad: Israel “Closer to Death” if it Attacks Gaza
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talks of imposing new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear program. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – NATO’s Afghanistan: The Champion of Drugs Production – Read More Here
(Reuters) – Putin bolsters oil, defense ties with Venezuela
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Venezuela on Friday to discuss oil, defense and nuclear energy cooperation with Latin America’s main leftist foe of the United States, President Hugo Chavez. Read More Here
(WashingtonPost) – Obama confident of securing broad support for more U.N. sanctions against Iran – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Obama Expands Military Involvement in Africa
When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarized and unilateral security policy that had been pursued by the George W. Bush administration toward Africa and other parts of the world. Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Israel bombards Gaza – and threatens worse
Rocket strike provokes biggest attack in occupied territory for 15 months Read More Here
Video: CIA – Iran Now Capable Of Producing Nukes!
(Fox) – March 30, 2010 Continue reading
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(RussiaToday) – Video: Another Mossad Assassination?
RT Contributor Wayne Madsen investigates an assassination in Hungary that is eerily similar to the January killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai Video Link Here
(GlobalResearch) – ‘At war’ US justifies drone attacks in Pak as act of ‘self-defence’
Amid growing discontent in Pakistan over the continuous drone attacks in the ungoverned tribal regions near the Afghan-Pak border, the United States has justified the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) operated missile hits against Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists citing the right to “self-defence” under international law. Read More Here
(PressTV) – India test-fires two nuclear-capable missiles – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Japanese rally against US base – Read More Here
(XinhuaNet) – UN chief says Israeli settlement activities illegal
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end. Read More Here
(LAHT) – Ecuador, Venezuela Discuss Military Cooperation – Read More Here
(CBN) – U.N. Suspects Iran of Planning More Nuke Sites
Western intelligence officials and United Nations inspectors said they suspect Iran is planning to build more nuclear sites, according to The New York Times. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Erdogan: Nuclear armed countries urge Iran sanctions
‘Erdogan then wondered why the international community refused to impose sanctions against the Middle East’s sole nuclear weapons power, in an apparent allusion to Israel.’ Read More Here
(WAPost) – Tens of thousands protest Israel in Syria
Tens of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians have gathered in a Damascus square in a government-orchestrated “march of anger” against Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem. Read More Here
(DW) – German foreign minister backs tough G8 stance on nuclear Iran
Germany’s foreign minister has called for a hard line on Iran as G8 leaders met in Canada. The question of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions was a key one on the opening day of talks among foreign ministers. Read More Here
(Retuers) – Europe unlikely to join any new yuan offensive – Read More Here
(AP) – SKorean president orders military on alert – Read More Here
(WSWS) – Is a US attack on Iran imminent?
In recent weeks there has been a series of press reports as well as statements by military experts that strongly indicate that either the Obama administration or the Israeli government, or both, may be moving toward an attack on Iran. Read More Here
(Breitbart) – Canada tells Clinton troops are leaving
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011. Read More Here
(ETravel) – Medvedev vows to “destroy” Moscow metro masterminds – Read More Here
(RiaNov) – Lavrov sees foreign backing in Moscow metro blasts – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Pacified
If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – 100 Million Americans Question or Find Fault with the Official 9/11 Story – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – US-NATO Atrocities Committed in Afghanistan: How Did We Become this Pacified to War?
If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm. Read More Here
(TheHindu) – Beijing Challenges the US-NATO-Israel Military Agenda: China’s Stance Boosts Iran
Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister of China, a veto-wielding member, spelt out clearly his country’s opposition to fresh sanctions in early February. Later in March, at a press conference, he said pressure and sanctions are not the fundamental way forward to resolving the Iran nuclear issue. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Media Disinformation regarding America’s Afghan War – Prof. Marc Herold – Read More Here
Video: Israel Does Not Need U.S. Permission To Attack Iran – John Bolton
(Fox) – March 29, 2010 News Corp
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(Hamsayeh) – US Confident of Support for Iran Sanctions
Despite manifestation of self-confidence by the Obama administration there is clearly a high degree of hidden uncertainty beneath the surface.
Today the G-8 is holding a meeting the focus of which is to push for more sanctions against Iran. Read More Here
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(ChannelNewsAsia) – Taiwan on alert after South Korean naval ship sinks
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou activated the country’s national security mechanism on Friday after a South Korean naval ship sank in the Yellow Sea, the island’s Central News Agency reported. Read More Here
(AP) – Military on alert as SKorean ship sinks near North
A South Korean naval ship sank near the disputed maritime border with North Korea early Saturday, prompting the South’s military to rush vessels to the site to rescue its sailors and raising fears of an attack by the North. Read More Here
(SteveWatson) – Korea Tensions Pale Alongside Agenda To Attack Iran
We only go to war with countries who can’t fight back Read More Here
(KoreaHerald) – Possibility Korean Boat Sunk By Own Explosives
A Navy patrol boat with 104 crew members on board sank near the western maritime border with North Korea after an explosion on Friday, the Joint Chief of Staff said. Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – What You Need To Know About The U.S. Military In Korea
The United State military has a significant presence in South Korea, designed as a conflict trip wire that would immediately bring the United States into war with North Korea if they act agressively against South Korea. Read More Here
(Itar-Tass) – Russia needs new modern military archive – Medvedev
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that it is necessary to have a new modern military archive. Read More Here
(IrishTimes) – Leaked e-mail links Merkel to controversial Afghan air strike
An e-mail from Germany’s secret service, leaked to Der Spiegel magazine, suggests the chancellery was informed nine hours after the German-ordered strike on September 4th that 50-100 civilians had been killed. Read More Here
(ArabNews) – Egypt opposition calls for severing ties with Israel
Lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, have called on the government to withdraw its ambassador to Israel, amid heightened tensions in the region. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran: thinktank
Deeply concerned as it is by the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israel has never even hinted at using atomic weapons to forestall the perceived threat. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran calls for ‘serious’ action against Israeli plot
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has urged the international community to foil an Israeli plot to change the identity of Jerusalem (al-Quds). Read More Here
(EthiopianReview) – Iran’s nuclear work brings fear of Mideast arms race
As world powers negotiate on how to deal with Iran’s continuing development of its nuclear program, concerns about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, prompted by Iran’s determination to build nuclear weapons, are mounting. Read More Here
Have a Nice World War, Folks – John Pilger
(InfoClearingHouse) – Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and “bunker-buster” bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Continue reading
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(Salon) – A stark truth: Israeli arms, U.S. dollars
One does not normally see this truth stated so starkly in places like Time Magazine — from Michael Scherer’s interesting article on AIPAC’s current strategy to “storm Congress”: Read More Here
(MotherJones) – Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) laid it on thick at AIPAC’s annual gala banquet on Monday. Referring to the pro-Israel lobby, Graham declared, “The Congress has your back.” (What other lobby would he say that to?) He declared that Israel is “our best friend in the world.” (Does that tick off Canadians?) But Graham went especially far when he endorsed the idea of a military strike against Iran. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Iran forcing us to impose sanctions: Kouchner
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday there was “no other choice” but to impose fresh sanctions on Iran as its nuclear programme is suspect. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Interceptors Will Target Russian Nuclear Capability: Commander
Russia says no arms reduction deal without missile defense clause Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Obama the Cold Warrior? Hostile Relations with Russia and China
After observing recent pronouncements from Hillary Clinton that Venezuela start ‘playing by the rules’ and revert to free market capitalism, it’s starting to look like we might be heading into an era of deja vu once more. Provocations from Obama against China and Russia, are making the current climate look a lot like the recent past. One would have thought in a world where the United States only has the courage to attack much lesser third world ‘powers’, that Obama wouldn’t be ginning up a great deal of antagonism with much more evenly matched states; but that’s precisely what seems to be occurring under team Obama’s charge. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Iran: US ‘works on’ China to Isolate Iran
Among the many inadvertent insights into the twisted US logic and policy towards the Middle East revealed in Hillary Clinton’s barnstorming speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week was her fatwa of “biting sanctions” on Iran. Read More Here
Video: Rick Rozoff – US-NATO Military Strike against Iran?
Rick Rozoff says that the US and NATO are tightening the military noose around Iran. The United States has made many moves, including placing land-and sea-based interceptor missiles in the Mediterranean. In addition, NATO has increasingly been deploying its deputy secretary to the United Arab Emirates, possibly to lay the groundwork for a military strike against Iran. Continue reading
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(KurtNimmo) – False Flag Imminent?
Infowars received the following forwarded email. It is dated Friday, March 19, 2010: Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Video: If Republicans Think Going Into Iraq Was a Mistake, Why Are We Still There?
Reps. Dana Rohrabacher,Tom McClintock and John Duncan, all Republicans, said during a Cato Institute panel that in retrospect invading Iraq was a mistake. They said all of their colleagues in the House Republican Caucus believe invading Iraq was a mistake. Rohrabacher went so far as to say he opposed going into Iraq before the invasion. Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Netanyahu to ask Obama for weapons to strike Iran
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will use a visit to Washington this week to press the U.S. to release advanced weapons needed for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, the Sunday Times reported. Read More Here
(ArutzSheva) – Saudi Arabia Seeks Strike on Iran
The German news magazine Der Spiegel has reported that Saudi Arabia is hoping Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, and is even prepared to open its skies to Israeli warplanes to allow such an operation to take place. Similar reports were published in 2009, and denied by both Israel and Saudi Arabia. Read More Here
(InformationClearingHouse) – Stumbling About In the Graveyard of Empires
If there was ever a decent justification visible for the American war in Afghanistan, there isn’t now. Read More Here
(PoliticsDaily) – Iraq War Triumphalism Ignores a Key Matter: Dead Civilians
Whenever there’s an election in Iraq, U.S. triumphalism follows. In a recent column, Peter Wehner, my PoliticsDaily.com colleague, touts George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and joins others in the it-hasn’t-turned-out-so-bad chorus. But these pronouncements serve as a reminder that it’s rather easy to be a freedom fighter with somebody else’s blood. Read More Here
(MailOnline) – How Criminals Profit From War – Blair’s Fight to Keep his Oil Cash Secret – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Preparations for a Hit against Iran: Stopping Israel’s Next War
“A new war in the region is inevitable.” This is the pronouncement made by Mohammad Seyyed Selim, political scientist and professor at the universities of Cairo and Kuweit. Prof. Selim delivered his forecast on February 13, in a program on Nile TV’s “Cairo Watch,” in which I also participated. The moderator, Mohamed Abdel-Rahim, started off by asking what crisis situations in the region were most acute; Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict were the obvious answers. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – The Most Barbaric Wars in Human History: The Political Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi
The world over these are apocalyptic times. We are witnessing the financial and economic collapse of regions which historically owed the most to capitalist development and simultaneously the most barbaric wars in human history, to re-colonize and to destroy independent nation states in all continents, to seize every nation’s budget and the entire economic space and markets of countries, directly targeting for elimination or mass displacement the civilian population considered rivals for the consumption and use of resources. Read More Here
(Ind) – British military intelligence ‘ran renegade torture unit in Iraq’
Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners. Documents reveal that prisoners were kept hooded for long periods in intense heat and deprived of sleep by defence intelligence officers. They also reveal that officers running the operation claimed to be answerable only “directly to London”. Read More Here
(PressTV) – China won’t turn blind eye to possible US sanctions
The Chinese commerce minister says Beijing will respond to Washington should the US decide to impose sanctions on the Chinese currency, the Yuan. Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – US Plots Against Iran While Offering Dialogue
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei accused on Sunday the United States of “plotting” against the Islamic republic even as it offers talks. Read More Here
Taboo Inhibits Frank Iran/Israel Talk – Ray McGovern
(InfoClearingHouse) – Participants at an otherwise informative discussion on “Iran at a Crossroads” at the Senate on Wednesday seemed at pains to barricade the doors against the proverbial elephant being admitted into the room — in this case, Israel.
This, despite the fact that the agenda virtually dictated that the elephant be allowed in. The cavernous hearing room also could have accommodated it — however awkward and untidy the atmosphere might have become.
Otherwise, as was entirely predictable, the discussion would be lacking a crucial element. Which it turned out to be. Continue reading
Video: Is Catastrophe Ahead for US-China Relations? – Michel Chossudovsky
(RussiaToday) – United States-China relations are on the rocks recently, China says that they have been seriously disrupted. Essentially, China feels that it is being threatened by the United States and this has been mounting since 1999. The threats are coming in the form of diplomacy, however Michel Chossudovsky says that the United States also has missiles pointed at Chinese cities. Continue reading
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