May 2006 archive
05-31-06 - Stolen VA data goes beyond initial reports Personal information on 26.5 million veterans that was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month not only included Social Security numbers and birthdates but in many cases phone numbers and addresses, internal documents show.
05-31-06 - A new US bid to contain Iran Some observers see parallels between the US offer to join multilateral talks with Iran and similar, though stalled, talks with North Korea. Mr. Kimball notes that the US did not insist that North Korea first cease its plutonium operations
05-31-06 - Powers aim to seal Iran package after US offer
05-31-06 - UN seeks 80 percent increase in aid to Palestinians The United Nations called for an 80 percent increase in emergency humanitarian aid to Palestinians on Wednesday, citing a deepening crisis that follows a freeze in Western assistance to the government...Shearer said the World Food Program had also warned the international community that more Palestinians were unable to meet their daily food needs. The US government is deliberately starving a people for voting against corruption.
05-31-06 - Trade with Arab bloc set to grow China aims to increase trade with Arab nations to US$100 billion in 2010
05-31-06 - Israel backs U.S. on Iran standoff Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Rice had told her about the initiative beforehand Naturally. Since any initiative requires prior approval from Tel Aviv.
05-31-06 - Leftists for Occupation - The neocons' unlikely bedfellows
05-31-06 - Plenty of oil, but few refineries for Iran
05-31-06 - Russia, China welcome U.S. offer on Iran Russia and China welcomed a U.S. offer Wednesday to hold talks with Iran if it suspends uranium enrichment, but China said Washington's offer should be unconditional and include security guarantees.
05-31-06 - Former lobbyist testifies against official A convicted lobbyist described Tuesday how he obtained insider information and advice from Bush administration procurement chief David Safavian to advance two projects for Republican influence-peddlar Jack Abramoff, who then took the official on a lavish golf trip to Scotland.
05-31-06 - Lebanon condemns Israeli attacks in letter to UN Lebanon's Foreign Ministry has sent an official letter to the United Nations complaining about "the recent Israeli aggressions and clear breaches to Lebanon's sovereignty and the international community's resolutions."
05-31-06 - Jewish groups welcome Senate immigration bill Jewish groups welcomed a U.S. immigration bill that includes paths for undocumented immigrants to legalize their status. This fits in with yesterday's news about the Latino vote, which was foreshadowed here: paragraph 15Note the double standard here with regard to Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinian refugees back to their lands, but America is to absorb potential Israel-supporters.
05-31-06 - Egypt, Saudi urge Hamas to recognize Arab peace plan
05-31-06 - Zionist Democrats The DLC is blatantly adopting the policies of the neocons populating the right-wing think tanks in Washington that produce such human anomalies as John Bolton, Richard Perle and Daniel Pipes, all rabidly Zionist neoconservatives who advocate a much more aggressive US military agenda aimed directly at Islamic nations and peoples everywhere. The neocons are what brought the Bush presidency down. It is clear - no matter which party we are dealing with in American - both parties are teeming with Israel-firsters.
05-31-06 - Israel?s Navy Steps Up to Security Challenge in Wake of Gaza ... The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Whose national security does this outfit represent?
05-30-06 - ElBaradei: Iran not an immediate nuclear threat Lest we forget : "Mr. Negroponte, testified to Congress in February that Iran "will likely have the capability" to produce a nuclear weapon within 10 years......Some of the shortest estimates, of less than two years, come from Israel, source .
05-30-06 - Iran says overstretched US cannot launch strikes
05-30-06 - Veterans official steps down after theft
05-30-06 - U.S. Cautious on New Iran Diplomacy
05-30-06 - Iraq to probe US massacre claims
05-30-06 - Frustration mounts between US, Pakistan US lawmakers urged Pakistan to wring more information from disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, alleging that he may yet hold the blueprint to some of Iran's nuclear secrets.
05-30-06 - Cheney desperate to attack Iran, World Cup offers pretext
05-30-06 - Truce holds as Lebanese hold mass funeral for guerrilla slain by Israel
05-30-06 - Security Council meeting degenerates Syrian and Iranian diplomats traded barbs with Israel's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday, as a routine Security Council meeting on fighting terrorism degenerated into insults and accusations...... Alhariri said Gillerman should consider Israel's own nuclear program before criticizing other countries for theirs. Touche.
05-30-06 - NAM backs Iran, condemns Israel's "brutal" occupation
05-30-06 - Bush, Jordan's King Abdullah, dine at White House The embassy said that the two leaders also discussed the Palestinian-Israeli issue, with Abdullah underscoring the importance of pursuing a two-state solution, and the need to provide humanitarian assistance to inhabitants of the Palestinian territories.
05-30-06 - Iran minister snubs Israel Asked about Israeli calls for economic sanctions on Iran, Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday: "What country is that? There is no such country."
05-30-06 - Turkey tells ally Israel it opposes Iran nukes Turkey reassured its ally Israel on Monday that it opposed Iran, arch-foe of the Jewish state, acquiring nuclear weapons and said it wanted to see the whole Middle East region freed of the atomic threat.
05-30-06 - Iran's Khatami urges more oil money to Palestinians
05-30-06 - Arab League chief calls for nuclear-free Middle East
05-30-06 - The Best Congress Money Can Buy
05-30-06 - Schroeder opposes Hamas boycott Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he opposes sanctions against Iran and the boycott of the Hamas-run Palestinian government.
05-29-06 - Universal National Service Act of 2006 (Introduced in House) To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes. The draft.
05-29-06 - Showdown Over Iran; Washington grudge match: neoconservatives versus Republican realists Our old friends at the Office of Special Plans - who channeled so much of the phony "intelligence" that ginned up the war with Iraq - are planning a little reunion, it seems
05-29-06 - 6 nations plan to sign off on Iran package former U.N. nuclear inspector David Albright said the announcement was probably "not very worrisome."
"They like to pretend they are competing but their program is (probably) pretty rudimentary," said Albright, who runs the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
Someone in this administration needs to tell the Israelis that. Their figures are WAY off.
05-29-06 - Iran says won't move all atomic work to Russia
05-29-06 - World powers ready to guarantee Iran's right to nuclear energy: Russia
05-29-06 - Analysis: Alleged killing of civilians by Marines could enrage Iraqis
05-29-06 - Neo-cons question Bush's democratisation strategy on Iran, for example, they believe the Bush administration is moving towards a cold war-style strategy of containment and deterrence with as broad an international coalition as possible.......Russia, which Mr Bush saw as a declining power when he came to office in 2001, is asserting itself on the international stage. So is China.
The neocons are angry because Bush doesn't appear to be in too much of a hurry to go to war for them (again). This attack on Iraq (that was urged on by the neocons armed with their 'cherrypicked' intel) may spell the end of the American Empire.
05-29-06 - Iraq poised to become main Iranian ally If Iran is attacked, "Iraqi Shiites will not take this lightly. They will not sit and watch," said Diaa Rashwan, a Cairo-based analyst.
05-29-06 - George Washington Had It Right He warned against foreign influence, calling it a poison to republican government. While he was no doubt thinking of the French, his advice applies to Israel. No foreign country should be allowed to influence American policy because that country will always seek to influence policy to favor its interests, not ours. If we followed Washington's advice, the only thing we would be sending to the Middle East would be oil tankers and tourists.
05-29-06 - Israeli jets overfly Lebanon after clashes The Lebanese army said Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon's airspace, one day after rockets fired from south Lebanon sparked tit-for-tat clashes in which two militants were killed.
05-29-06 - US pushing Europe, Japan for sanctions against Iran leaders It described the plan as designed to rein in the financial freedom of every Iranian official, individual and entity which the Bush administration considers connected not only to nuclear enrichment efforts but also to terrorism, corruption, suppression of democratic freedoms, violence in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
05-29-06 - The children of Guantanamo Bay
05-29-06 - China eyes closer energy, political ties at Sino-Arab forum China will become the second United Nations Security Council member after Russia to host a Hamas leader since the radical Islamic movement formed a government following its victory in Palestinian elections in January
05-29-06 - Critics savage Russian G-8 role as 'leader of democracies'
05-29-06 - Syria opposition to meet in London on regime change plan An exiled Syrian opposition group created two months ago said it will meet in London next week to discuss an "action plan" for regime change in Damascus.
05-29-06 - Hezbollah urged to hand over arms
05-29-06 - Cheney aide is screening legislation Cheney has used his power over the administration's legal team to promote an expansive theory of presidential authority. Using signing statements, the administration has challenged more laws than all previous administrations combined.
05-29-06 - Non-aligned states urged to support nuclear Iran
05-29-06 - Neocons in the Democratic Party Neocons are 'former' liberals as described in this article.
05-29-06 - Top Democrat slams AIPAC prosecution The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee questioned the statute used to prosecute two former AIPAC lobbyists. Has the matter of the national security of this country ever entered the mind of this Congresswoman? Evidently not.
05-29-06 - Iran boosts Hezbollah's reach Haaretz reported
05-29-06 - Senate delays P.A. vote With 89 co-sponsors, the act is guaranteed passage. This bill will harm US interests. It's apparently not a concern to these AIPAC-beholden legislators.
05-29-06 - Israel tightens NATO ties amid Iran nuke jitters Israel announced on Monday it would fully participate in a NATO naval exercise for the first time, bolstering defense ties with the Western military alliance in the face of arch-foe Iran's nuclear program.
05-29-06 - Jewish group calls for energy legislation The American Jewish Congress urged passage of a bill that would facilitate U.S.-Israel energy cooperation.
Both houses are considering legislation that would help spur Israeli research into energy-saving technology.
05-28-06 - Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV' Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.
05-28-06 - Russia opposes use of force against Iran The chief of Russia's security council said Sunday that Russia opposes any use of force against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, the Iranian state-run television reported.
05-28-06 - Iran, Russia agree to continue nuclear talks Russia and Iran wrapped up high-level talks on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, with Tehran saying both sides agreed to continue negotiations and work towards a peaceful solution to the crisis.
05-28-06 - US lawmaker vows probe into Iraq civilian deaths A senior United States Republican Senator has vowed to hold hearings on US Marines' role in the deaths of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians last November, as a leading Democratic war critic alleged a military cover-up.
05-28-06 - U.S. uncertain on direct Iran nuke talks
05-28-06 - Iran Azeris protest over cartoon Someone trying to stir up things, mm?
05-28-06 - Iran and Iraq to Join to Seal Border Against Insurgents
05-28-06 - At least 1,000 British troops 'desert' since Iraq war, BBC reports
05-28-06 - Iran: U.S. will fail to spark unrest
05-28-06 - Violence flares on Lebanon-Israel border One Palestinian militant and a Hizbollah fighter were killed and two Lebanese civilians and another Israeli soldier were wounded in the fighting.
05-28-06 - Civilian deaths could fuel Taliban support Afghan officials and human rights activists say a U.S. airstrike that killed at least 16 civilians this month - possibly as many as 34 - undermines President Hamid Karzai and boosts support for the resurgent Taliban.
05-28-06 - Bloggers can shield sources, court rules
05-28-06 - A bit of good news from the US Congress This is not the first, nor will it be the last piece of bizarre anti-Palestinian legislation coming out of Congress. Its architect, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annually creates these "hoop jumping exercises" to test their strength and see how far they can push Congress. Look at the comments by Congressman Hinchey. Excellent.
05-28-06 - Review of Deadly Dogma: How Neoconservatives Broke the Law to Deceive America by Grant F. Smith As for Israel, "a priori devotion to Israel is a common denominator for all neoconservatives," Smith writes. Many of the neoconservatives were strongly pro-Likud Party and worked to restrategize Middle East policy on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the Likud, shortly before he became Israeli prime minister. Support for Israel is the only explanation of why so many neoconservatives have risked violating US criminal law by passing on secret information to Israel.
05-28-06 - Punishment of Palestinians will create a crucible of trouble for the world what most shocks Arabs and Muslims is that it stems from a conscious political decision by the world's only superpower. First, they say, you give us Iraq, now on the brink of civil war. Then this: the starving of a whole people.
05-28-06 - Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad "We say if the Holocaust happened, then the Europeans must accept the consequences and the price should not be paid by Palestine. If it did not happen, then the Jews must return to where they came from."
05-27-06 - The pretext for the attack on Iran has now been set US officials opposed to an attack on Iran fear the Bush Administration would take advantage of such terror attacks to launch an offensive that, according to the officials, would settle the Iranian nuclear crisis and boost the president?s approval rating.
The officials added that should the terror attacks be masterminded by a third party, they would still be used to justify an attack on Iran. This is the pretext for an attack on Iran by America that the neocons have been waiting for.
05-27-06 - U.S. Is Debating Talks With Iran on Nuclear Issue
05-27-06 - Russian envoy to visit Iran for nuclear talks
05-27-06 - Iranian politician urges U.S.-Iran ties Iran's former parliament speaker on Saturday urged direct talks with the United States to break down the "walls of mistrust," but said Tehran would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel and pursue other technological advances.
05-27-06 - Official: Iraq civilian deaths unjustified Military investigators probing the deaths last November of about two dozen Iraqi civilians have evidence that points toward unprovoked murders by Marines, a senior defense official said Friday.
05-27-06 - Government Sees 'Israeli Fingerprints' in Islamic Jihad Leader Assassination
05-27-06 - White House invokes privilege in spy cases The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
05-27-06 - US in talks with Iraq over Turkish Kurdish rebels: ambassador Ankara has long been frustrated by US and Iraqi reluctance to clamp down on bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the mountains of northern Iraq, from where the rebels infiltrate neighboring Turkey to engage in anti-government violence.
05-27-06 - Iran takes court action against Saddam over war Iran has filed a lawsuit against ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for his regime's 1980s war against Tehran, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a joint statement with his Iraqi counterpart.
05-27-06 - Egypt president's top aide defends Iran's nuclear program
05-27-06 - Iran's Ahmadinejad says wants Europe on his side Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted on Saturday as saying European nations should stand by his country in the dispute over its nuclear programme or suffer damages.
05-27-06 - Her majesty won't be wearing a burqa Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, her family fled to Jordan along with thousands of others when Saddam invaded in 1990
05-27-06 - Kudos to Congress From Israel
05-26-06 - Testimony: Cheney angered over envoy's column on war Vice President Dick Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq, and he repeatedly instructed his former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony released late Wednesday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.
05-26-06 - Iran says ready to retaliate against any US strike
05-26-06 - Blair 'too busy' for Iran conflict PRIME Minister Tony Blair said he does not want to start a conflict with Iran as Britain's armed forces already have enough problems to handle.
05-26-06 - Russia will fulfill missile contract with Iran Russia will honor its contract to deliver TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, "except in case of some major event", the Russian defense minister revealed.
05-26-06 - US Marines likely to face massacre charges
05-26-06 - Iran open to enrichment cap Iran is willing to accept a cap on its uranium enrichment capability to ensure the fuel produced is not used to develop nuclear weapons, its ambassador to the United Nations says.
05-26-06 - Iran puts US Iraq talks on hold
05-26-06 - Iraq respects Iran's right to nuclear program
05-26-06 - Officials: Greece conveying Tehran messages
05-26-06 - Eavesdropping, Gagging, and the Constitution
05-26-06 - Steering Into a Third Intifada by Patrick J. Buchanan Rightly, Americans say we will not let Israel be destroyed. But why must we acquiesce in Israel's annexations of Arab land? Why must we remain silent to her deprivations of the Palestinians?
05-26-06 - Enough Is Enough: People have had it up to here with The Lobby After describing the Lobby's largely successful efforts to cow the Clinton administration, Massing illustrates a point made by Mearsheimer and Walt, that the Lobby serves as the de facto agent of a foreign power
05-26-06 - Lebanon blast kills two officials "Israel will be held responsible for this attack, which crosses red lines by targeting officials outside the Palestinian territories and that changes things." The bomb was planted in a vehicle which both men were about to travel in. When the ignition was turned on, it exploded, security sources said, reducing the car to a charred mass of twisted metal and showering the area with debris
Not the first time Israel conducted a car-boming in Lebanon, is it?
05-26-06 - Why Can't the US Apply Its New North Korea Policy to Iran? The hardliners in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and in the Pentagon achieved their first political-bureaucratic victory by getting President Bush to publicly repudiate Mr. Powell and by insisting that the North Korean regime could not be trusted and needed to be "changed." Mr. Powell and the realists in the administration were checkmated by the neocons, to the chagrin of South Korea and China The neoconservatives have been an unmitigated disaster for Bush's presidency (and for America). What was he thinking?
05-26-06 - US, allies hold WMD-seizing drills in Mediterranean Air and naval forces from the United States, Turkey, France and Portugal "seized" a ship carrying mock weapons of mass destruction in drills which Turkey has denied are aimed at neighboring Iran.
05-26-06 - US urges Russia to reconsider missile export to Iran The Tor-M1 unit is an all-weather air defense system intended for fulfilling air defense tasks at the battalion unit level. It ensures effective protection from cruise missiles, guided bombs, warplanes, helicopters, and pilotless and remotely controlled attack aircraft.
05-26-06 - Justice Department Probe Foiled because investigators were denied security clearances to do their work
05-26-06 - Pressure Grows on Bush to Engage Iran Directly The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing pressure ? both here and abroad ? to engage Iran in direct talks despite the continued opposition of pro-Israel neoconservatives and Vice President Dick Cheney.
05-26-06 - Musharraf for peaceful solution to Iran N-issue
05-26-06 - Public Hearings Sought in Phone Record Scandal
05-26-06 - Iran to lobby developing states on nuclear issue
05-26-06 - Lebanese PM blames Israel for car bombing
05-26-06 - Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks At the White House press conference, Bush made several statements that were music to the ears of Olmert and his entourage. The president delivered the most explicit commitment he ever has made to defend Israel against an Iranian attack. "In the event of any attack on Israel," Bush said, "the United States will come to Israel's aid."
05-26-06 - US approves aid to Israel, Egypt During committee deliberations it was also feared that Egypt may turn to Russia and China to purchase military equipment. The policies of the AIPACers/neocons are driving Middle Eastern regimes into the arms of Russia and China.
05-26-06 - Judge rejects reporter CIA leak case subpoena A judge rejected a request by former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Friday to force ex-New York Times reporter Judith Miller to turn over all her notes, telephone records and appointment calendar
05-26-06 - HENRY HYDE'S PLEA by Robert Novak Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, sent along with his letter a five-page, single-spaced report prepared by his staff based on visits to Israel and Palestine over the past two years. It contends "the Christian community is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The Israeli security wall and expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the report continues, "are irreversibly damaging the dwindling Christian community."
05-26-06 - Israel's American Constituency Even as Olmert met with President George W. Bush at the White House Tuesday, the House voted by an overwhelming 361-37 margin to impose strict conditions on aid to Palestinians, as demanded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington's most powerful pro-Israel lobby.
05-26-06 - Blair urges United Nations reform Hamas should drop its refusal to accept Israel so negotiations could begin on an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, with a two-state solution to the conflict
05-25-06 - U.S. veterans' data theft may cost $500 million The head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faced angry lawmakers on Thursday and described how the theft of a device the size of an iPod containing personal data on 26.5 million veterans may cost taxpayers as much as $500 million.
05-25-06 - War Provoking Terror, Amnesty Says "The war on terror and the way it has unfolded actually is premised on the principle that by eroding human rights you can reinforce security,"
05-25-06 - Bush to talk incentives if Iran halts nuclear moves
05-25-06 - Qatar pours cold water on Gulf initiative on Iran
05-25-06 - Marines' Iraq conduct scrutinised The commander of the US Marine Corps is going to Iraq to reinforce standards of behaviour, after allegations that marines unlawfully killed civilians.
05-25-06 - Amnesty urges U.S. on Iraq contractors The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
05-25-06 - Olmert, Bush agree on Iran deadline Ynet learns that Bush told Olmert US time limit for action to stop Iran's nuclear program fits Israel's own timetable, but American diplomats make it clear diplomacy will be given chance
05-25-06 - Lieberman to be Honored by Neocons Tonight He once said "some of my best friends are neocons." And those friends are honoring him tonight at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
05-25-06 - VA breach discovered through office gossip The theft of personal data for 26.5 million veterans came to the attention of the Veterans Affairs inspector general only through office gossip, he told Congress Thursday.
05-25-06 - Iran color-coded religious badges story 'untrue' Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star looks at the public relations firm Benador Associates, of which Mr. Taheri is a member. The Jewish Week also describes the firm as "a boutique firm specializing in promoting neoconservative figures such as Taheri, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Charles Krauthammer and others who supported the Iraq war and 'regime change' in Iran now."
05-25-06 - Dobbs noted that Israeli PM "told CNN Iran could make a nuclear bomb within months"; didn't mention that U.S. intel says otherwise
05-25-06 - U-turn by White House as it blocks direct talks with Iran The White House yesterday ruled out previously authorised direct talks between Tehran and the US ambassador in Baghdad Was that before or after Bush's meeting with Olmert?...
05-25-06 - White House tries to cool Hastert's anger over leak Hastert demanded a "full retraction" of an ABC News report that he is being investigated in connection with the Jack Abramoff corruption probe
05-25-06 - For Neocons, the Irony of Iraq The neocons have refocused their attention on foreign policy and, in championing the Iraq war, have come to embody everything they once mocked and despised in '60s liberals. Bolsheviks in the cause of their vaporous intentions, so bent on ignoring reality that they dismissed and suppressed all intelligence that prophesied the bloody complexities of the post-Hussein landscape, they conjured from nowhere and guaranteed the world an idealized postwar Iraq.
05-25-06 - Iranian nuclear weapons 'inevitable' It is all but impossible to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, a leading British think-tank said yesterday, as the world's powers struggled to find a common strategy to face the threat.
05-25-06 - Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush President Bush appointed a longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to be his top domestic policy adviser The AEI is a neocon thinktank.
05-25-06 - More than 100 Iranians pledge lives as suicide bombers' to defend country this gathering _ coming at a time when many Iranians worry their country could come under attack by the United States or Israel _ was clearly tailored to send a message of defiance against any possible military action over Iran's nuclear program.
05-25-06 - Hizbullah factor in Iran fray "If Israel attacks Iran, it may well attack other targets at the same time, including Hizbullah in Lebanon," he says. "In that case, Hizbullah has the right to defend itself and Lebanon with all possible means." Far from a theoretical concept, Malli's scenario is one that is under serious consideration by Israel, says Gerald Steinberg, professor of politics at Israel's Bar Ilan University.
05-25-06 - AJCongress Urges Senate to Enact S. 1614 to Provide Diverse Perspectives in Teacher Workshops Funded by Higher Ed Act Long at the forefront of opposition to biased and inaccurate anti-Israel and anti-American teacher workshops funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, the American Jewish Congress today issued a resolution adopted earlier this week at its 2006 Annual Meeting to urge the Senate to follow the lead of the House, which unanimously passed H.R. 609, requiring the teaching of diverse perspectives and a wide range of views on world regions and international affairs They're baaaack. Free speech with regard to Israel on campus? No more if these folks get their way.
05-25-06 - Olmert to go to Europe According to Israeli officials, Olmert will assess bilateral ties in Paris and London, as well as Europe?s role in diplomatic efforts to curb Iran?s nuclear program.
05-25-06 - About 200,000 mark anniversary of Israeli pullout from Lebanon at Hezbollah rally About 200,000 flag-waving, cheering Hezbollah supporters massed Thursday near the site of the former Israeli military headquarters in south Lebanon to hear their leader pledge to continue fighting until victory.
05-25-06 - New U.S. anti-Semitism ambassador has a big job ahead That legislation, introduced in 2004 by U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), required the U.S. government to monitor and report on anti-Semitism around the globe
05-24-06 - Cheney may be called in CIA leak case Go Bulldog, GO!!
05-24-06 - Veterans secretary says he's 'outraged' Under intense bipartisan fire from Capitol Hill, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Wednesday he was outraged by his agency's decision to keep the theft of veterans' personal data quiet for two weeks.
05-24-06 - Iran accuses U.S. of provoking tension Iran's president accused the United States and its allies on Wednesday of "hatching plots" to provoke ethnic tensions and destabilize Iran, a day after the government closed a state-run newspaper for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by an ethnic minority.
05-24-06 - Iran ready for nuclear talks with United States without preconditions Iran has told UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei it wants nuclear talks with the United States but without preconditions such as its giving up uranium enrichment, diplomats said.
05-24-06 - Iran Proposal to U.S. Offered Peace with Israel
05-24-06 - Russia backs EU proposal, urges Iran to cooperate
05-24-06 - National Post apologizes for anti-Iran story "It is now clear the story is not true,"
05-24-06 - Olmert tells US Congress world must confront Iranian threat
05-24-06 - US sees progress, no final agreement on Iran package
05-24-06 - U.S. Says Taliban Strength Is Growing
05-24-06 - Right-Wing Israel Lobby Seizes on Olmert Visit
05-24-06 - U.S. Public Widely Distrusts Its Leaders
05-24-06 - Fake but Accurate This reminds me of the Niger uranium hoax, in which "intelligence" from a crudely forged packet of documents alleging that the Iraqis were trying to purchase weapons-grade uranium in order to fuel their nonexistent nuclear weapons program somehow made it into the president's 2003 State of the Union speech. In short, this isn't an honest error, but evidence of outright deception.....The Israeli strategy ? which they are now making no effort to disguise ? is to use the United States military as their instrument, and it has, so far, succeeded. Agreed.
05-24-06 - Bush: U.S. would aid Israel if attacked The US, go to war for Israel? Whodda thunk it!!
05-24-06 - How Bush Brewed the Iranian Crisis Olmert's claim is absurd, as every weapons expert knows, and, indeed, as he knows himself. The only possible purpose of such a nonsensical claim is propaganda. Olmert is helping the Bush regime use fear to prepare Americans to accept an attack on Iran, just as Dick Cheney and Condi Rice invoked images of mushroom clouds to prepare Americans for the illegal invasion of Iraq.
05-24-06 - House Speaker Hastert under investigation: ABC The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is probing corruption in Congress, See the other story about Hastert from today's news.
05-24-06 - A Warbot Lets the Truth Slip
05-24-06 - Israeli, Russian FMs to visit Turkey The foreign ministers of Israel and Russia are set to visit Turkey to discuss regional issues and bilateral cooperation, the foreign ministry said.
05-24-06 - Remarks of Speaker Hastert at Luncheon Honoring Israeli Prime Minister Another member of Congress panders to Israel.
05-24-06 - Olmert praises House of Representatives He also praised Congress for legislation known as the Iran Freedom and Support Act that would further isolate the Islamic republic.
05-24-06 - Republican chairman to Israel The chairman of the Republican Party is slated to meet with top Israeli leaders.
Ken Mehlman is due to leave Wednesday evening for Israel, and will return on June 1.
05-24-06 - House Vote Harms Palestine, Israel, US
05-24-06 - China unmoved by Israeli protest over invitation to Pales FM
05-24-06 - Six years after Israel's ouster, Shebaa farmers believe Hezbollah is their 'saviour' 'How can they (Israelis) say that Shebaa is not Lebanese?'
05-24-06 - Heeeeere's Osama! A title shouldn't be too hard. "The Osama Factor." "Bin Laden Country." "Laden & Zarqawi."
05-23-06 - China, Germany Against Iran Nuke Program But Merkel, speaking after a meeting with Hu, did not say whether the two sides discussed possible sanctions on Tehran, which Germany supports and Beijing opposes.
05-23-06 - Moscow angered by US plan for 'star wars' bases in Europe to counter threat of Iran
05-23-06 - Avoiding War With Iran by Rep. Ron Paul Is Iran a nuclear threat? Not according to our own CIA, which says Iran is years away from developing nuclear weapons.
05-23-06 - Son of slain Lebanese PM says Syria's Assad threatened father Syrian President Bashar al-Assad personally threatened Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri before he was killed in a bomb attack in February 2005, Hariri's son, Saad, claimed in an interview published in Russia
05-23-06 - Bush Praises Israeli Plan for New Borders "Israel is a close friend and ally of the United States. And in the event of any attack on Israel, the United States will come to Israel's aid," Bush said.
05-23-06 - China key to resolving nuclear crises: Annan
05-23-06 - Syria calls on Interpol to arrest Lebanese MP Jumblatt
05-23-06 - Bin Laden: Moussaoui Not Linked to 9/11
05-23-06 - Our rockets can hit any n. Israel target - Hizbollah Lebanon's Hizbollah group said on Tuesday it has thousands of rockets capable of hitting any target in northern Israel, and maybe beyond, should the Jewish state attack Lebanese territory again.
05-23-06 - China military upgrades a potential threat to US: Pentagon Israel, which supplied China HARPY unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, has begun to strengthen controls over its military exports, the report said.
05-23-06 - 2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors' charge that Vice President Cheney's chief aide lied to them, court papers show.
05-23-06 - Iran the Target of Disinformation Campaign
05-23-06 - Alleged AIPAC informant promoted The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.
05-23-06 - Iran carries out missile test - Israeli source
05-23-06 - Implementing Israel?s Strategy
05-23-06 - Members of the Tribe / Thriving in China In a controversial appearance at the recent American Jewish Committee centennial convention in Washington, author A.B. Yehoshua predicted that Diaspora Jews would move to China if it were to become a world power. Dr. Avrum Ehrlich, a professor at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the University of Shandong, says that this process is actually already under way It's no coincidence that China - the superpower of the 2020's - is the next place that pro-Israelis seek to take root.
America, being sapped by a war waged largely because of neocon/AIPAC urging - is on the precipice of being relegated to third world status. All of this is something that I predicted over three years ago. We're being used like a you know what, until the next sugar daddy pulls up.
05-22-06 - Thieves Steal Personal Data of 26.5M Vets Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday.
05-22-06 - U.S. Pushes Gulf States to Boost Defenses Analysts and former U.S. officials say the goal is to gird for retaliation against oil-rich allies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in case of any U.S.-led attack on Iran.
05-22-06 - ElBaradei seen citing Iran security issue in US talks John Bolton, U.S. envoy to the United Nations, hinted on Monday that Iran risked regime change if it continued to ignore U.N. calls to "give up their pursuit" of doomsday weapons. If Iran reversed course, their "regime can stay in place and they can have a different relationship with the United States and the rest of the world," Bolton told a meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization.
05-22-06 - U.S. Is Proposing European Shield for Iran Missiles The Bush administration is moving to establish a new antimissile site in Europe that would be designed to stop attacks by Iran against the United States and its European allies.
05-22-06 - U.S. strike kills scores of suspected Taliban Afghan governor says 17 civilians also killed in attack on rebel stronghold
05-22-06 - China set to be largest economy China is set to become the world's biggest economy by 2026 according to a poll conducted on behalf of the BBC.
05-22-06 - Iran nuclear plans may be environment hazard: UAE
05-22-06 - Israel's UN ambassador slams Qatar, praises Bolton Israel's U.N. ambassador, in unusually blunt comments, criticized Russia, China and Qatar on Monday for disappointing the Jewish state in their role as U.N. Security Council members this year.
But Ambassador Dan Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one point as a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations.
The joke is on America. For John Bolton primarily functions as ISRAEL'S ambassador to the UN. Look at his track record - it speaks for itself. Even the Israelis know this.
05-22-06 - INTERVIEW - Hizbollah sees no need to aid Iran if U.S. strikes Kassem said it was hard to predict how any conflict would play out and that decisions would be made according to the situation on the ground, but that in principle Hizbollah would only intervene to defend Lebanon, primarily from Israeli attack
05-22-06 - Israel-US crisis over warplane project The United States is refusing to allow Israel to install any more advanced systems in their batch of the F-35 planes -- no navigation, sighting or fire control systems, or Israeli-developed missiles, the Maariv newspaper reported
05-22-06 - U.S. Envoy Wants Talks With Iran Over Iraq
05-22-06 - Olmert to tackle withdrawal, Iran in Washington meetings this week Yediot Achronot reported that Olmert would ask Bush to "do away" with the Iranian threat during what remains of his term in office
05-22-06 - Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up
05-22-06 - State's Burns Travels to London To Discuss Concerns on Iran
05-22-06 - U.S. Pressure Yields Curbs on Iran in Europe
05-22-06 - U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran A campaign to promote democracy and fund dissidents prompts speculation that the administration's goal is to change the regime.
05-22-06 - House wants to block aid to Palestinian government The House bill, introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and Tom Lantos, D-Calif., has 295 sponsors from both parties and has been vigorously supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby. All three are agents of a foreign government occupying the US Congress.
05-22-06 - Israelis aim to sue Ahmadinejad Lawyers are preparing to send a file on Mr Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, to the International Court of Justice
05-22-06 - Bolton: U.N. council likely anti-Israel The newly formed U.N. Human Rights Council is likely to be stacked against Israel, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.
That's because Israel is a major human rights offender, and no amount of bullying at the UN is going to change that fact.
05-22-06 - Israeli envoy: Russia, China delaying Iran resolution Russia and China are impeding passage of a Security Council resolution addressing Iran?s nuclear ambitions, Israel?s ambassador to the United Nations said.
05-22-06 - Effort to reconcile AIPAC, congresswoman Harper stands by the charge. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), a strong friend of AIPAC, defended McCollum, saying the alleged attack reminded him of the Taliban.
05-22-06 - Israelis held over arms export An Israeli aviation firm is suspected of violating arms-exports regulations to China.
Four staff members of a Tel Aviv area company that produces unmanned aerial vehicles were arrested Monday on suspicion of selling controlled technology without Defense Ministry approval.
05-22-06 - Saudis have assured not boycotting Israel: US aide Oh thank God. This matter so vital to American national security really kept me awake at night.
05-22-06 - Arabs at Sharm slam US Mideast policy American foreign policy in the Middle East, including its unfaltering support for Israel, were the main targets of criticism by Arab participants who attended a working lunch on Saturday attended by US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and 10 US senators and members of Congress
05-22-06 - A new rival to 'regime change' A US plan to stop nuclear programs - without toppling leaders - is under debate.
05-21-06 - U.S. Seeks to Curb Iran With Neighbors' Help
05-21-06 - Iran rejects incentives to halt nuclear program
05-21-06 - Rice: US offers Iran no security guarantees
05-21-06 - Iran Rejects Reports of Gas Enrichment
05-21-06 - Lavrov accuses West of paranoia on nuclear issue "If a country wants to force its ideology on the world and says, 'either you're with us or on the other side of the barricades', then that's bullshit," said Lavrov in reference to the US.
05-21-06 - The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool
05-21-06 - 'Peacemaker' Blair wants troops out of Iraq next year
05-21-06 - Iran: security pledges can't solve atomic dispute
05-21-06 - U.S. says no split with Europe on Iran Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on CNN's "Late Edition" he believed Tehran was already seriously engaged in uranium enrichment, placing it "months rather than years" away from achieving the technology to build a nuclear bomb. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-21-06 - Iran biggest beneficiary of US-led Iraq war: Albright Iran has benefitted most from the US-led war in Iraq and would make further gains if the continuing violence ended up dividing the country, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright has said.
05-21-06 - Soldiers to get life in jail for refusing to act as occupiers SOLDIERS who object to taking part in a military occupation of a foreign country will face life in prison under measures due to be rubber-stamped in the House of Commons on Monday.
05-21-06 - 'Yellow badge' report withdrawn the newspaper backtracked after it emerged that while the Iranian Parliament had recently passed legislation setting a dress code for Muslims, there was no specific law singling out Jews.
05-21-06 - West urged to halt Iran The West has less than a year to block Iran's ambition to develop nuclear weapons before it touches off "hyper-proliferation" throughout the Middle East, says Israel's military intelligence chief. That's not what our intelligence says. Who will this administration believe (this time)?
05-21-06 - Gulf Arabs to discuss nuclear fears with Iran "any effort to get rid the region of weapons of mass destruction must not exclude Israel,"
05-21-06 - Israel lobbyists go to Washington In meetings with some 400 representatives, lobbyists focused on issues including support of the Iran Freedom and Support Act, alternative energy research and the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act.
05-20-06 - Some Iraq war vets go homeless after return to US About half of all homeless veterans suffer from mental illness, and more than two-thirds suffer from alcohol or drug abuse problems, the VA says
05-20-06 - Iran Rejects U.N. Plan Before It's Offered Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told journalists in Kuwait City that while Iran wants the council to end its involvement, "suspending nuclear activities goes against our legitimate rights and is not part of the NPT," or Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
05-20-06 - Split emerges in West's front against Iran: diplomats
05-20-06 - Moscow doubts case for Iran sanctions: EU deputy
05-20-06 - Kissinger: President Bush Will 'Do the Right Thing' on Iran
05-20-06 - Energy, Iran in focus as German FM begins Gulf tour
05-20-06 - Why the United States invaded Iraq, and now is thinking about invading Iran
05-20-06 - Prosecutors Appeal on DeLay Indictment
05-20-06 - Reversing Policy, U.S. 'Froze' Iran Talks in March
05-20-06 - Riot at Guantanamo as torture watchdog calls for its closure
05-20-06 - Iran denies non-Muslim badge plan "The bill is not related to minorities. It is only about clothing," he said. "Please tell them (in the West) to check the details of the bill. There is no mention of religious minorities and their clothing in the bill," he said.
05-20-06 - Michael Savage, Israel-firster Not only does Savage refuse to address the matter of the Israeli lobby, but he uses the same tactics employed by that group to smear anyone that dares to criticize Israel.
05-20-06 - A LETTER TO AIPAC AIPAC should not have a lower standard for persons affiliated and representing its organization when they label a Member of Congress who thinks for herself and always puts the interest of our nation and people first a supporter of terrorists. My God! This Congresswoman dared to put the interests of the American citizens first. Traitor!
05-20-06 - Israeli Plan Divides U.S. Conservatives In the United States, the realignment is widely opposed by conservative Jewish voters whom Bush has courted with strong support for Israeli security. Conservative Christian leaders, including television evangelist Pat Robertson, who back Bush have endorsed the expansion and defense of Jewish settlements. The question that should be at the fore to these 'American' Congressmen and Senators is: WHAT POLICY IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF AMERICA? That is the heart of the problem; our legislators would appear to be servile to a FOREIGN nation.
05-20-06 - Russian FM to visit Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia The discussions will be aimed at finding "ways of overcoming the crisis in Palestinian-Israeli relations and preventing a further deterioration in the... situation in the Palestinian territories,"
05-20-06 - Syria accuses EU of rights hypocrisy "The European Union, which has imposed a blockade on the Palestinian people to starve them and to nullify their free democratic choice, has no right to pretend to defend human rights or democracy,"
05-20-06 - Analysis: Sino-Russian ties gaining momentum The strategic partnership forged between China and Russia as a counterweight to American predominance on the world stage a decade ago is gaining momentum.
05-20-06 - Syria dissatisfied with Hariri murder inquiry - minister
05-20-06 - Mubarak Chides U.S. on Double Standards The president said he saw a double standard in the U.S. nuclear policy, under which Washington maintains a resolute silence about the nuclear arsenal Israel is believed to possess while it conducts a campaign to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
05-19-06 - N.Korea may be preparing missile launch: reports North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range ballistic missile that could reach parts of the United States, Japanese media reports said on Friday, but Japan's government said it did not believe a launch was imminent. Hey, I know. Let's attack Iran.
05-19-06 - House Conservatives Cut $500M Off Vet Bill "This sends a terrible message to our troops here at home, in Iraq, and Afghanistan,"
05-19-06 - EU aims to offer Iran atomic plants, fuel: diplomat
05-19-06 - Pentagon secret spending said at post-Cold War high Classifying Pentagon programs means they get less oversight by Congress, watchdog groups and the media.
05-19-06 - US 'must end secret detentions'
05-19-06 - Lebanese soldier dies after clashes with Palestinians
05-19-06 - Iran sees foreign link behind unrest in southwest During the weekly Friday's prayers at Tehran University, Iran's Shiite leadership accused the United States and Israel of being behind unrest in the country's border areas
05-19-06 - AP: UN Could Deepen Lebanon-Syria Tension The U.N. Security Council's call for Syria to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon will likely only stiffen Damascus' resolve against a move it has steadfastly rejected for six decades.
05-19-06 - Prodi: War in Iraq Was 'Grave' Mistake
05-19-06 - Fifteen Guantanamo Saudis freed
05-19-06 - The Iranian "badge" story: Neo-con propaganda? So, without knowing whether the story is true or not, our antennas should be up for the distinct possiblity that, like the propaganda in the lead up to the Iraq war, this story is a neo-con plant seeking to support an attack on Iran.
05-19-06 - The Snooping Goes Beyond Phone Calls The Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security spend millions annually to buy commercial databases that track Americans' finances, phone numbers, and biographical information, according to a report last month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office,
05-19-06 - Rice rejects Kissinger call for talks with Iran
05-19-06 - IAEA Head to Meet With Rice Next Week The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog plans to urge the Bush administration next week to ease its push for tough U.N. Security Council action against Iran, diplomats said Friday.
05-19-06 - Democrats ask Bush for intelligence update on Iran "In order to avoid repeating mistakes made in the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, we must have objective intelligence untainted by political considerations and policy preferences,"
05-19-06 - Saud Satisfied With Bush Mideast Push
05-19-06 - Is US fading as superpower? Critics argue that war in Iraq has sapped US ability to influence world events.
05-19-06 - Savage: "Jimmy Carter is like Hitler" Summary: On his radio show, Michael Savage declared that former President Jimmy Carter is a "Jew-hater" and a "war criminal" who "is like Hitler" because of his criticism of Israeli policies in the West Bank. Savage also called Carter a "communist, anti-American, anti-Semitic bastard." Is there any doubt left that Michael Weiner Savage is an Israel-firster? I've read all of the latest articles by Carter with regard to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Savage has only the interests of Israel at heart, never does he mention the Israeli lobby's control over the US government in any of his radio broadcasts; a big problem here in the US. Boycott this man.
05-19-06 - Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter.
05-19-06 - U.S.: Saudis not boycotting Israel The United States sought and received assurances from Saudi Arabia that it?s not observing the Arab boycott of Israel.
Oh thank God. I can sleep better at night knowing that this matter of American national security has been addressed. Mmm k.
05-19-06 - State: Egypt deserves aid Egypt deserves to maintain current levels of U.S. aid because of the role it plays in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the U.S. State Department said.
05-19-06 - US fumes as Iraq backs Israel boycott The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week's meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, The Jerusalem Post has learned, prompting criticism from members of Congress Members of Congress? Who are they representing here - the America people or the Israeli government?
05-19-06 - Israel and U.S. at odds over nuclear treaty proposal Although Washington sent messages to Israel assuring it that it has nothing to fear from the treaty, Jerusalem is worried by any move that might erode its policy of nuclear ambiguity and generate future pressures on it over its nuclear program. As a result, Israel made a last-minute effort to persuade the U.S. not to submit the draft for discussion
05-18-06 - Doubts over Iran nuclear capacity Doubts have been raised about how technically advanced Iran's nuclear programme is, after it emerged Tehran may have used material from China.
05-18-06 - Iran using Chinese-made feedstock for enriched uranium: diplomats The diplomat, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue
05-18-06 - Iran wants accord but will enrich regardless Iran wants international help to broaden its uranium enrichment program to an industrial scale but if assistance is not forthcoming it will forge ahead with the work, which it insists is peaceful.
05-18-06 - EU weighs security pledge for Iran, US resists One EU diplomat said the United States had promised Israel it would never give Iran a security guarantee before it recognised the Jewish state's right to exist and ended all support for anti-Israeli militants.
05-18-06 - Iranian nuke crisis to top agenda of Olmert-Bush meeting The prime minister is planning to describe the severity with which Israel views the Iranian nuclear threat, and explain that the country is not leading an international struggle against Iran,said the report. However, Israel expected the United States and other countries to do everything they can to halt the threat,
05-18-06 - Assad: Iran has right to go nuclear
05-18-06 - Keep Iran military option, says Rifkind Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary, said yesterday that western countries should be ready to consider military action against Iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail to curb Teheran's uranium enrichment programme.
05-18-06 - Americans Predict New War in 10 Years Geez. I wonder whatever gave them THAT idea?....
05-18-06 - Saudi FM says oil market situation is "wierd" Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal pledged to work for lower oil prices and said it was "weird" they had risen so high with a surplus of crude available on the market
05-18-06 - US to propose treaty on nuclear fuel production The United States, trying to boost an imperiled nuclear deal with India, this week plans to introduce a draft international treaty to halt production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, administration officials said.
05-18-06 - Israel protests China's invitation to Hamas' foreign minister Regev said that at Thursday's meeting Israeli officials urged China to revoke the invitation.
05-18-06 - US to monitor behavior at more airports George Naccara, the federal security director at Logan, said the TSA program is modeled on behavior detection systems used in Israel and some other countries. That's quite ironic since it's been stated that all four airports on 911 were using an Israeli security company.
05-18-06 - West Bank Fence Provides Example for U.S. BS. America has no intention of building a fence on or through Mexican territory. Unlike Israel's fence which was built such that it confiscates swaths of Palestinian land in violation of international law, our fence will be built on American soil. There is a difference, folks.This is just another propaganda piece by who else? - the Associated Press.
05-17-06 - US spells out plan to bomb Iran THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed.
05-17-06 - UN presses for Syria-Lebanon ties The 15-member council adopted the resolution by 13-0 with Russia and China abstaining.
05-17-06 - Iran Rejects European Nuclear Incentives The fiery Ahmadinejad said Tehran had put its trust in the European Union in 2003 and suspended its nuclear activities as a confidence-building measure as negotiations continued. The EU then demanded that Iran permanently stop uranium enrichment. "We won't be bitten twice," Ahmadinejad said.
05-17-06 - Israel 'Will Not Allow' Iran Nuclear Weapons He noted that the timetable for military strikes must occur when Iran develops acquires the capability to make nuclear weapons, long before it acquires the weapons themselves. "People tell me that this means months and not years," he added....Israel needed to make its intentions clear, as a warning to Iran but also to its friends in the United States and elsewhere, Olmert said.
05-17-06 - Pentagon denying Israelis security clearances New York Sun reports State Department citing AIPAC leak case as basis for denying employees with dual Israeli-American citizenship security clearances. In one case, government lawyers argued Israel was 'actively spying on United States' to justify withdrawing clearance from worker
05-17-06 - Bowing To The Police State Like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water, we have become inured to what goes on in the name of national security. Recent disclosures about increased government surveillance and illegal activities would be shocking, were it not for the prevailing outrage-fatigue brought on by a long train of abuses Former CIA officials need to coalesce with regard to the current situation here in the States - particularly involving the neocons and their agenda - to form a bloc which may prove to be more effective.
05-17-06 - . . . nightmare For world opinion, rightly or wrongly, Israeli action against Iran could not take place without a green light from the White House....Interestingly enough, the raid did not retard but actually accelerated Saddam Hussein's program....A religious fanatic who believes the return of the 12th imam to Earth will be preceded by global death and destruction in his own lifetime, Mr. Ahmadinejad presumably sees an Israeli and/or U.S. attack against Iran closing Muslim ranks the world over against the imperialist infidels. Now that's an interesting take I had not yet heard before.
05-17-06 - Two Injured in Clashes Near Syria Border Clashes between Lebanese troops and Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas Wednesday near the border with Syria seriously wounded at least one soldier and one guerrilla, security officials said.
05-17-06 - Judge Weighs Libby's Media Records Request
05-17-06 - Gulf states envoy to urge Iran to forgo nuclear arms
05-17-06 - Is America Becoming a Police State? The Founders envisioned a republic, not an empire: they set up a system designed to govern the 13 former colonies, not the world.
05-17-06 - U.S. reserves nearly 'broken,' says chief Explain to me again how our invasion of Iraq has made us more secure?
05-17-06 - Russia seeks thaw in frosty rhetoric
05-17-06 - FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S. The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight. And the sheep graze on...
05-17-06 - China seeks to tie knot with Arabs to boost trade, energy China will host officials from 22 Arab countries in talks to promote cooperation in areas including trade and energy, China?s foreign ministry said. Representatives from the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority have also been invited.
05-17-06 - McCain: 'Proudly Pro-Israel' - Says Haaretz Article Left 'Serious Misimpressions' The McCain that both supporters and opponents have come to know, said the consultant, is the McCain who in June 2001 told a special AIPAC seminar that "America?s unequivocal support for Israel ? not evenhandedness, not moral equivalence, not winking at Palestinian violence ? is the best guarantor of peace in the Middle East." McCain reaffirms the fact that he is willing to forgo American national security in order to gain the AIPAC vote. It's a joke to see these types still touting Israel as the 'only democracy in the Middle East'. Total BS. That's a slap in the face to the families of the US soldiers that have died in Iraq.
05-17-06 - 9/11 Commission report is a lie It turns out those oral histories reveal details about what was happening in the World Trade Center buildings that are completely inconsistent with the tale told by the commission. Dozens of firefighters and medics reported hearing, seeing and feeling explosives going off in the buildings that collapsed
05-17-06 - Iranian Jews in Israel worry for former homeland Close allies when Iran was ruled by a U.S.-backed Shah, Iran and Israel have been implacable foes since the 1979 revolution
05-17-06 - American Credibility Erodes Abroad In increasing numbers, people around the globe resent American power and wealth and reject specific actions like the occupation of Iraq and the campaign against democratically elected Palestinian leaders, in-depth international polling shows.
05-16-06 - Europe Weighs Giving Reactor to Iran Bolton has been a key proponent of tough Security Council action unless Iran renounces enrichment, including a militarily enforceable resolution packing the threat of sanctions. However, the United States last week agreed to a new European effort to entice the Iranians back to the negotiating table in an attempt to secure Russian and Chinese backing for tough council actions John Bolton is a neocon.
05-16-06 - Iran says not interested in EU incentives
05-16-06 - Russia, China: Don't Use Force in Iran Russia and China will not vote for the use of force in resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday in a sign of persisting differences with the U.S. Cheney and the neocons as well as the AIPACers are fuming, no doubt.
05-16-06 - Russia challenges American policy on Iran, North Korea
05-16-06 - Whose God may we mock? by Patrick J. Buchanan If you would know who wields cultural power, ask yourself: Whom is it impermissible to offend?
05-16-06 - Syrian oil draws Asian help US renews sanctions but China, India, and Russia are eager to invest in Syrian oil.
05-16-06 - Pentagon releases 9/11 video So indistinct are the pictures they are unlikely to quell conspiracy theories on the internet that there was no plane, but a missile, that day. The real question is why the Pentagon blocked their release for so long.
05-16-06 - UN council poised to push Syria on ties to Beirut While veto-wielding permanent council members Russia and China opposed the measure along with Argentina and Qatar, the council's sole Arab member, Beijing and Moscow were expected to abstain rather than cast a "no" vote and kill the measure, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
05-16-06 - Russian FM to start Gulf tour in Saudi
05-16-06 - Why US restored ties with Libya "What Arabs and Muslim people around the world will take from this is that the Bush administration is not genuine about the priority to spread democracy," What clued you in?
05-16-06 - Egypt FM calls for peaceful resolution of Iran nuclear row He said Egypt wanted a nuclear-free region -- a reference to Israel which is widely suspected of possessing but has never acknowledged a nuclear arsenal
05-16-06 - Syria starts removing sand berms inside Lebanon Tractors started to dismantle sand berms erected by Syrian border guards several kilometers inside Lebanese territory, the head of a municipality in the region said.
05-15-06 - Iran FM tells EU envoys enrichment halt unacceptable
05-15-06 - Move of Halliburton Meeting Draws Fire Halliburton earned a record $2.4 billion last year,
05-15-06 - EU Prepared to Back Civilian Iran Program The European Union will support an Iranian nuclear program that cannot be put to military use and will boost political and economic cooperation if Tehran accepts international oversight, a top official said Monday.
05-15-06 - Iraqi children suffering 'alarming' malnutrition: survey
05-15-06 - Majority of Americans against phone record collection A majority of Americans disapprove of the government's attempt to collect millions of telephone records from ordinary citizens, an opinion poll showed.
05-15-06 - Mubarak's Son Met Secretly With Cheney The talks came amid increasing criticism from the Bush administration of the Mubarak government for its crackdown on the political opposition, and Mubarak's comments that he does not take orders from Washington.
05-15-06 - Putin offers aid to Palestinians A Kremlin source says Russia intends to help create a normal life for the Palestinian people.
05-15-06 - Fired CIA officer believed agency lied to Congress Mary McCarthy, a US Central Intelligence Agency officer fired last month for unauthorized contacts with journalists, believed her agency deliberately misled Congress about its treatment of detainees, a US newspaper reported.
05-15-06 - Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
05-15-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006 BROADCAST: WEEKEND OF MAY 13-14, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: It was not only cleared by that. I'm sure it was cleared by the president of the United States, the NSA. The truth is, the neoconservatives want a confrontation with Russia.
05-15-06 - Fascism: Are We There Yet? * What's really at stake here is the continued relevance of the Constitution and the legacy of the Founding Fathers. Listen closely ? you can hear them turning in their graves.
05-15-06 - Report: Pakistan supplied nukes to Syria
05-15-06 - Hadley: We oppose paying P.A. payroll Stephen Hadley, President Bush?s national security adviser, met Monday with about 30 Jewish leaders from an array of organizations to discuss next week?s visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hadley is a neocon.
05-15-06 - Israeli Lawyer Registers Criminal Indictment against Ahmadinejad in German Court Shahar has taken the initiative to file a case in the German Court to carry out criminal proceedings in absentia against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his brazen denial of the Holocaust and his urging Germany (and Austria) to resettle all Jews in Israel to Germany and Austria. Denying the Holocaust in Germany is an offense, punishable by law with a maximum of five years in prison and a fine.
05-15-06 - Neocons Commie Bait Ray McGovern ?Authentic neocons descend from the Communist and socialist movements, with the most prominent leaders being Trotskyites (that is, ultra-Left Communists),? writes Dale Vree for the New Oxford Review.
05-15-06 - Israel gets spot on U.N. committee membership would be a "good way to diversify our visibility in the United Nations."
05-15-06 - Ex-Israeli army chief warns of long-range Iran missiles "Ahmadinejad is promising the end of history in two or three years' time and I suggest that we believe him," Ahhh.. aren't we exaggerating things just a tad bit?....
05-15-06 - Ex-spymaster vows to help Pollard Jonathan Pollard's former handler, now an Israeli Cabinet minister, vowed to work for his release from prison.
05-15-06 - Jewish Alliance appeals for negotiations The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace sent a representative to Monday?s meeting between Stephen Hadley and Jewish leaders to present a letter from supporters calling for negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a relative moderate.
05-14-06 - US soldiers with mental problems kept in Iraq The investigation found that at least 11 service members who committed suicide in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 were kept on duty despite exhibiting signs of significant psychological distress, the paper said.
05-14-06 - Cheney suspicions of Iraq WMD probe, CIA spy outed in legal documents The documents, filed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in federal court here, contain direct evidence that Cheney believed Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative at the time, might have helped engineer a trip to Niger by her husband, retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, on a mission not authorized by the White House. I think the picture gets more clear by the minute as to who is the biggest problem in the Bush administration.
05-14-06 - Iran to reject EU offer to end atomic work Iran said on Sunday it would reject any demand to stop what it calls peaceful nuclear work, a day before Europe's foreign ministers discuss incentives and penalties designed to rein in Tehran's atomic ambitions.
05-14-06 - Russia and US trade angry words over Iran at UN dinner The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad-tempered talks at a foreign ministers' summit in New York on Iran's nuclear programme.
05-14-06 - White House dismisses calls for direct Iran talks The White House on Sunday dismissed calls for direct talks with Iran to resolve the stand-off over its nuclear program, saying the United Nations was the best forum for those discussions.
05-14-06 - Putin and Abbas set for key talks
05-14-06 - Iranian 'bandits' kill 12 people
05-14-06 - Lebanon's new resolve on Palestinian issue Lebanon hopes to offer Palestinians greater job opportunities and better living conditions to weaken the lure of the many armed Palestinian factions operating in the camps. Though Beirut has long been under international pressure to disarm the groups, the imminent negotiations - regarded as a key step in allaying that pressure - signal a change in how the government plans to tackle the problem
05-14-06 - Motion filed to intervene in AT&T secrets case The U.S. government filed a motion on Saturday to intervene and seek dismissal of a lawsuit by a civil liberties group against AT&T Inc. over a federal program to monitor U.S. communications.
05-14-06 - Mideast spotlight on EU for Iran, Palestinian moves Washington opposes the fund paying Palestinian Authority salaries, the mainstay of the economy, and envoys said banks were reluctant to take part in anything which might breach a U.S. financial blockade of the Authority.
05-14-06 - Iran denies supplying weapons to Hamas
05-14-06 - U.S. May Shift to Persian Gulf Air Bases *
05-14-06 - Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping - NY Times Another official described the debate as "very healthy," with Cheney's staff "pushing and pushing, and it was up to the NSA lawyers to draw a line and say absolutely not."
05-14-06 - Oil price 'may soar' if US attacks Iran Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the oil price could soar to triple figures if the United States attacks Iran in its dispute with Tehran over nuclear technology.
05-14-06 - Brzezinski rips U.S. policy on Iran, Hamas On cutting off aid to the Palestinians for having elected Hamas, he said: "I think the American foreign policy is mindless. "When Likud came to power in 1977, it had a position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not fundamentally different from the position of Hamas; that is to say, all of the former Palestine should be part of Israel. Some Likud officials even felt the Palestinians should be expelled physically across the Jordan River. But we did not isolate or embargo the Likud government. We kept talking to it and over a period of time, the position of Likud evolved to the point that Likud itself accepted a two-state solution. Excellent point.
05-14-06 - AIPAC case defense cites treaty the attorneys told the court last week that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel.
05-13-06 - EU plans to woo Iran away from nuclear program The package includes freer trade and political rewards in return for a stop on uranium enrichment.
05-13-06 - Iran issues warning on new Europe nuclear offer Iran has warned that it would only consider new European incentives aimed at finding a deal over its atomic program if the offer recognizes the Islamic republic's right to enrich uranium.
05-13-06 - Ahmadinejad says Iran ready to talk to anyone but Israel The Iranian president's comments came as European ministers prepared to discuss a new proposal in Brussels on Monday to end the long-running standoff over Iran's nuclear program
05-13-06 - Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping - NY Times
05-13-06 - Telephone Records are just the Tip of NSA's Iceberg A poster commented : A NATION OF SHEEP BEGETS A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES. My sentiments exactly.
05-13-06 - Spy Agency Watching Americans From Space
05-13-06 - Ex-WMD Inspector: Politics Quashed Facts A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi "bioweapons trailers" were discredited by American experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspection team.
05-13-06 - Hamas may talk to Israel to avert humanitarian crisis "We as an occupied people are ready to talk to all sides in order to receive aid," It's interesting to point out that the Iraqi people are not all held accountable by the United States for the actions of the 'insurgents' in their midst the way that Israel holds all Palestinians accountable for the actions of the militants or terrorists in their midst. Imagine if the United States cut off all aid, closed all borders to the Iraqi people as a way to stop the insurgency and starving all of the people in the process, the uproar?
05-13-06 - Gathering data may not violate privacy rights, but it could be illegal
05-13-06 - Putin to host Abbas next week
05-13-06 - Rights group praises Syria
05-13-06 - U.N. code would limit journalist reports on terrorists
05-13-06 - Israel's Mossad remains in charge of Iran nuclear file: report In December, Dagan, 60, predicted Iran would be able to manufacture a nuclear bomb within one to two years.
05-13-06 - Lebanon hosts first PLO representative in 13 years A new representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation presented his credentials to President Emile Lahoud, becoming the PLO's first envoy to Lebanon in 13 years
05-13-06 - Vilsack to arrive in Israel Sunday The six-day tour of the region, including Jerusalem, was arranged and paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, a group affiliated with the politically powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
05-12-06 - UN finds highly-enriched uranium traces in Iran: diplomats "They have found particles of HEU (highly enriched uranium) but it is not clear if this is contamination from centrifuges that had been previously found (from imported material) or something new," said one diplomat close to the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), referring to the inspectors.
05-12-06 - US rejects call for talks with Iran
05-12-06 - Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.
05-12-06 - Groups to Bush: Drop Iran-Israel Linkage Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American Jewish Committee in Washington last week ? his most recent address before a Jewish audience ? President Bush talked about America's commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and about his administration's commitment to Israeli security, but he did not link the two, as he has several times in recent months.
But there's no Israeli lobby here that can successfully dictate to the President of the United States the contents of his speech. It's all just one big conspiracy theory. Read the bit about Iran.
05-12-06 - US urges Syria to stop pretending Lebanon is an independent nation US Ambassador John Bolton urged Syria to stop pretending that Lebanon is now an independent country and instead to establish diplomatic ties with Beirut and demarcate their common border.
05-12-06 - Iran leader blasts US "propaganda war"
05-12-06 - US must address Iran security concerns: IAEA "Iran is surrounded by countries that have nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear weapons, Pakistan has nuclear weapons, Israel has nuclear weapons, Iraq has used chemical weapons against them. There is a sense of insecurity," he said.
05-12-06 - Annan presses US to start direct talks with Iran
05-12-06 - Iran Leader Taps Into Anti-West Sentiment among many Muslims, he's fast becoming a model of defiance.
05-12-06 - US lambasted on secret detainees The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has criticised the US for refusing to let it visit secret detainees held in the "war on terror".
05-12-06 - Left and right question NSA spying program The newly disclosed practice, however, does include the telephone records of ordinary Americans. Congress, which has so far acquiesced in skirting FISA, should now force the administration to explain this data-mining. If Congress decides it is worthwhile, it must establish a legal framework for it.
05-12-06 - Spying on Americans and John Bolton
05-12-06 - 'Comrade Wolf' and the mullahs by Patrick J. Buchanan There is no reason to believe Iran wants war with us. If she did want war with America, she could have had it any time in the last 27 years
05-12-06 - More Palestinian refugees from Iraq allowed into Syria, UN agency reports
05-12-06 - House To Pass Legislation To Close PLO Missions in New York and Washington The House of Representatives will pass legislation ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's missions in New York and Washington next week, Congressional sources say. More legislation for Israel by our AIPAC-beholden Congress. Whose interests are being represented here? Ours? Hardly. Moves like this actually damage America's standing in a region where we are already disliked, to say the least. Karen Hughes should resign. For, it's actions such as this that render her job utterly impossible.
05-12-06 - The start of a mini-cold war with Russia
05-12-06 - Administration cites state secrets in bid to derail spy lawsuit As lawmakers demand answers about warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans, the Bush administration says its secretive program's constitutionality cannot be challenged.
05-12-06 - A Revisit to 2003 Suggests That the Dollar Sell-Off May Not Be Over Iran has recently claimed that it has ?joined the club of nuclear countries? and has threatened to attack Israel. Should this conflict ignite, the dollar could suffer not only because of the imminent risk, but also because another war would only exacerbate the rise in oil prices and the already burgeoning budget deficit. US consumers will not be able to stomach $5 gallon gasoline, which may be a reality if there is not a peaceful solution to the Iran crisis soon.
05-12-06 - American Dominatrix : We're scaring the world ? and they hate us for it
05-12-06 - Syria rejects Hamas plot confessions in Jordan
05-12-06 - On immigration, Jews seek out interfaith, interethnic partnerships ?If we want to be active partners with these organizations, we can?t look at issues of paramount importance to these communities and say we don?t see it as a Jewish issue, so we?re going to sit it out,? said Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. ?We?ve got to nurture our common agendas ? then we can get them to engage in our other issues, like Israel.? Supporting illegals so they'll support Israel. How nice.
05-12-06 - Syrian FM Says UN May Hinder Lebanon Ties
05-12-06 - Lawmaker cites AIPAC case critiques Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the opinion articles, by Nat Hentoff of the Washington Times and David Wise of the Los Angeles Times, to underscore his criticism of what he said was the Bush administration?s effort to censor journalists BS. This is the puppeteering by the Israeli lobby at work here, nothing more.
05-11-06 - NSA has database of domestic US phone calls: report the National Security Agency has been building up the database using records provided by three major phone companies -- AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. -- but that the program "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
05-11-06 - US Army Troop Build up on Iraq-Iran Borders After the Tehran administration conducted operations against the terror network Kurdish Workers? Party (PKK) by crossing the Iraqi border, the US Army in Iraq is claimed to have increased the military build up of US troops on the Iranian border.
05-11-06 - Iran Says It's Ready to Negotiate
05-11-06 - Oil, gasoline soar on supply worries U.S. crude and gasoline futures ended sharply higher on Thursday as kidnappings in Nigeria and refinery snags in the United States stoked supply worries even though inventories rose last week.
05-11-06 - E-Mails: Bush Aide Offered Abramoff Help
05-11-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran
05-11-06 - Bush extends US sanctions against Syria In a statement Bush says he took the measure because of the threat posed by the Syrian government "in supporting terrorism, interfering in Lebanon, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and undermining United States and international efforts with respect to the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq."
05-11-06 - Military action in Iran could make region 'explode': Russia
05-11-06 - U.S., France Seeking Syria-Lebanon Ties The United States and France circulated a resolution Thursday calling on Syria to respond positively to Lebanon's request to establish diplomatic ties.
05-11-06 - Assad ready to meet Lebanese PM: Sudanese envoy
05-11-06 - Pentagon faulted over stress help for troops Only 22 percent of U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seen at risk for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder have been referred by Pentagon officials for mental health evaluation, a report has found.
05-11-06 - UK told US won't shut Guantanamo The US has rejected the UK government's calls for closing down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terror suspects.
05-11-06 - NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying
05-11-06 - O.U. lauds senators for synagogue security funding Civil liberties groups lobbied against the funds, saying they violated church-state separation.
05-11-06 - Syria agrees to remove border posts inside Lebanon
05-11-06 - Official British reports examine causes of London bombings
05-11-06 - Israel 'one day will vanish', Iranian president says
05-11-06 - Specter wants to talk with Iran "I would like more attention paid to a dialogue with Iran," the Pennsylvania Republican, who is Jewish, said Thursday at the annual Senate luncheon sponsored by the Orthodox Union. "Talking with people is never harmful."
05-11-06 - U.N. Concerned With Israel Flights He expressed the United Nations' "concern at the recent increase in violations by Israeli aircraft of Lebanese airspace" and called on Israel to stop all such flights.
05-10-06 - Iran Says It Won't Exit Nuclear Treaty
05-10-06 - Rice Praises European Plan on Iran A new proposal that European diplomats will soon present to Iran makes plain the international cost of going forward with disputed nuclear development, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
05-10-06 - Russia needs to be strong against 'fortress' US: Putin Russia faces a growing arms race against a "fortress" United States which cares more about its own interests than democracy or human rights, President Vladimir Putin said in his annual state of the nation speech
05-10-06 - Iran dismisses West's atomic proliferation worries Western concern over nuclear proliferation is "a big lie", Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday while his U.S. counterpart again called on Tehran to halt its atomic programme.
05-10-06 - IN WASHINGTON, IT FEELS LIKE EARLY 2003 ALL OVER AGAIN Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, who has extraordinary contacts across the Middle East and whose predictions are nearly always right, wrote last week that a high-level Israeli official told him at Israel's National Day reception that Israel would strike first, in the next "month or two or three."
05-10-06 - Letter Shows Iran's President Seeking Bond With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ.
05-10-06 - Russia Says New Strategies Aimed at Iran Russia's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday the confrontational approach to Iran over its nuclear program has changed to a new strategy of offering Tehran broad incentives to suspend uranium enrichment.
05-10-06 - Thousands march in Beirut to protest government reforms
05-10-06 - Iran unlikely to give nukes to militants - Israel If Iran eventually acquires nuclear weapons, it would be unlikely to share them with the Islamic militants it backs in the Middle East, a senior Israeli security official said on Wednesday.
05-10-06 - U.S. wary of new mechanism for bankrolling PA salaries This wariness was expressed yesterday by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, during a meeting with visiting Israel Defense Forces officers from the National Security College in Israel. John Bolton is a NEOCON.
05-10-06 - Israeli PM to demand America move against Iran PM set to visit Washington in two weeks for summit with President Bush; Olmert to point to link between Tehran nuclear threat, Hamas terror, demand Americans move against Iran
05-10-06 - Iran letter faults US, makes no nuclear proposals
05-10-06 - Russian Businessman Wants to Set Up Jewish Lobby A Russian businessman,Viatcheslav Kantor, an agrochemical magnate who chairs the 100-member Russian Jewish Congress, was in America this week to discuss strengthening Russia?s Jewish lobby. He wants to turn wealthy Russian Jews into a major political and philanthropic force, The New York Sun reports.
05-10-06 - US gives ground on Iran, Palestinian aid
05-10-06 - U.S. calls on president of Azerbaijan to open mission in Israel The American request follows an appeal by Israel to the Bush administration, which was made to boost a similar demand by Jewish American groups Israeli lobby? What Israeli lobby?
05-10-06 - Lobbying on Iran, groups strive to play down the Jewish angle Careful to avoid giving the impression that it's primarily an issue of Jewish or Israeli concern, however, U.S. Jewish groups are taking pains to highlight the greater regional and global threats posed by a nuclear Iran and its Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...."We have to mobilize public opinion in this country and around the word to understand the serious threat that this represents," Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JTA....Jewish groups have vigorously lobbied American and international leaders, and have held meetings to educate members of the media. Well, it acts like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a duck....Oops, it looks like they forgot to tell Olmert.
05-10-06 - US, France circulate draft UN resolution on Syrian-Lebanon ties France and the United States circulated a draft UN resolution urging Syria to formally establish bilateral diplomatic ties with Lebanon and demarcate their common border
05-10-06 - NATO cites "growing threat" of missile attack Military experts reckon Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of some 2,000 km (1,200 miles), meaning Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq lie within their range.
05-10-06 - Why are we baiting Putin? by Patrick J. Buchanan The effect of U.S. expansion of NATO deep into Eastern Europe, U.S. interference in the politics of the former Soviet republics, and U.S. siting of military bases in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia has been to unite Russia and China, and undo the diplomacy of several successive U.S. presidents.
05-10-06 - Jordan 'holds 20 Hamas plotters' "Hamas was attempting to recruit elements in the Jordanian arena and trying to recruit elements from abroad to send to Syria and Iran to get military training,"
05-10-06 - Downer plays down Iran-Indonesia talks
05-10-06 - Letter From Tehran
05-10-06 - Russia against Hamas's isolation - Lavrov
05-10-06 - MEPs seek to ban Iran from World Cup European Union lawmakers will urge political leaders on Thursday to back a letter to FIFA calling for Iran to be banned from the World Cup finals because of controversial remarks by the country's president.
05-10-06 - Israel, caught again with its hand in the cookie jar
05-09-06 - US urges diplomacy in Iran crisis
05-09-06 - US won't reply to Iran letter, wants real progress on nuclear issue International oil prices edged up again following the US rejection of the letter.
05-09-06 - Would an attack on Iran be legal? the US would probably seek to justify an attack under the self-defence principle, and it would first of all have to outline the nature of the threat. .....The US might say that it was acting in protection of or at the request of Israel, which could argue that it was under a greater threat than the US itself.
05-09-06 - Russia may continue giving aid to Palestine - Foreign Ministry
05-09-06 - Experts: U.S. Hasty in Brushoff of Iran
05-09-06 - Iran Letter to Bush Criticizes U.S. Govt
05-09-06 - Russia urges G8 nations to bury "Cold War ghosts" Cheney's comments angered Russia ahead of the G8 summit of industrialized nations in St. Petersburg in July, which President Bush is due to attend.
05-09-06 - Lebanese PM asks for Blair's help on evicting Israel from Shebaa He asked Blair "to exert the pressure on Israel so that the Israelis can withdraw from the Shebaa Farms", and said he wanted the matter raised at the United Nations.
05-09-06 - Syria takes in Palestinian refugees stranded on Iraq border "Neither the Iraqis nor the Jordanians wanted us,"
05-09-06 - MI chief warns that Iran will produce nuclear bomb by 2010 Iran will have acquired nuclear bombs by 2010, the head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
05-09-06 - Hasner leads effort for Florida?s support of Israel "Now is the time to affirm our solidarity with Israel," Hasner stated during debate on the floor of the House of Representatives, "It's a critical time in the Middle East and it's important for the state of Florida to show its solidarity with the lone Democracy in that region." Lone democracy in the region? I don't think so.
05-08-06 - US rejects surprise Iran letter
05-08-06 - Iran Plays Trump Card in Standoff vs. West "It's harder for the Americans to get 15 votes (a unanimous result) in the Security Council if they are seen as not willing to talk to the Iranians," the former State Department official said
05-08-06 - China opposes core of West's resolution on Iran China made clear on Monday it opposed the core of a Western U.N. resolution ordering Tehran to curb its nuclear program but would not use its veto power to kill the measure.
05-08-06 - House Intel Panel Chief Opposes Hayden A leading Republican came out against the front-runner for CIA director, Gen. Michael Hayden, saying Sunday the spy agency should not have military leadership during a turbulent time among intelligence agencies.
05-08-06 - Israel warns Iran against attack Israel's Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres says Iran should understand that it could be destroyed if it were to launch an attack on his country.
05-08-06 - Explosion Hits Office in Southwest Iran A strong explosion injured several people Monday in the governor's office in Kermanshah, a city with a large Kurdish population in southwestern Iran, the Iranian news agency reported.
05-08-06 - Palestinians See No Way Out in Standoff Many Palestinians would likely balk at returning to the polls so soon after the January vote. They have been upset with what they consider the hypocrisy of the West, which they say preached democracy to them, then refused to accept the results.
05-08-06 - Rice Says Iran's Letter Not an Overture
05-08-06 - Blair: Nuking Iran Would Be Absurd
05-08-06 - Straw Canned Over Iran? there is no rational basis for a belief that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a threat to "the world," unless all that is important to you in the world is Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East, or perhaps the continuation of the United States' free hand in the same area
05-08-06 - The Next World War
05-08-06 - Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics Mr. Negroponte, testified to Congress in February that Iran "will likely have the capability" to produce a nuclear weapon within 10 years......Some of the shortest estimates, of less than two years, come from Israel No kidding?
05-08-06 - UK cabinet shuffle may benefit J'lem Israel may have come out the winner following Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet shuffle on May 5. The demotion of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and appointment of Blair loyalist Margaret Beckett to his post are likely to result in a more unified Anglo-American approach to Iran, Hamas and the Middle East
Britain is ruled by neocons, by proxy. Read between the lines.
05-07-06 - Spies Among Us * U.S. News has identified nearly a dozen cases in which city and county police, in the name of homeland security, have surveilled or harassed animal-rights and antiwar protesters, union activists, and even library patrons surfing the Web. Unlike with Washington's warrantless domestic surveillance program, little attention has been focused on the role of state and local authorities in the war on terrorism. That is profoundly disturbing.
05-07-06 - Russia says UN plan for Iran is 'first step to war' Russia will seek the removal tonight of the core of a UK-sponsored draft United Nations resolution on Iran because it fears that it could pave the way to unilateral military action to curb the Iranian nuclear programme.
05-07-06 - Iran says UN steps would spark confrontation Iran said on Sunday any measures taken against its nuclear program by the U.N. Security Council would push Tehran toward confrontation with the West rather than cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
05-07-06 - US general in Iraq warns Iran on bomb smuggling A senior U.S. general flew to Iraq's vast desert frontier with Iran on Sunday and vowed to stop what he said was the smuggling of bomb materials from Iran that is wreaking havoc among American troops.
05-07-06 - Iran Threatens to Pull Out of Nuke Treaty President Bush, in an interview with ARD German television, said "an armed Iran will be a threat to peace. It will be a threat to peace in the Middle East, it will create a sense of blackmail, it will encourage other nations to feel like they need to have a nuclear weapon. And so it's essential that we succeed diplomatically." Unlike Iran, Israel has never signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
05-07-06 - Lawmakers Want More Data on Contracting Out Intelligence
05-07-06 - New Chief Will Find C.I.A. Is Hobbled on Iran As the Central Intelligence Agency undergoes its latest round of turmoil, legislators and former intelligence officials say that serious gaps in the United States' knowledge of Iran are among the most critical problems facing a new director of the spy agency.
Wasn't Plame working on Iran intel before she got outed?
05-07-06 - Iran rejects UN's call for talks with US Iran has rejected a call from UN secretary-general Kofi Annan for Washington to enter direct talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program.
05-07-06 - Task for CIA's next chief: push Bush's agenda
05-07-06 - Interview of President Bush by Sabine Christiansen of Ard German Television I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce [sic] its desire to destroy Israel. On the other hand, the elections did say to people in the Palestinian Territories, we're sick and tired of corruption. We want leaders who don't steal from us. We want leaders who help us educate our children and provide health for our citizens. Our president knows exactly why the Palestinians elected Hamas, yet does nothing in the face of the human catastrophe that is unfolding in the Palestinian Territories. That's the power of the Israeli lobby
05-07-06 - Hezbollah should disarm: Jumblatt
05-07-06 - USA supports Kurdistan Workers? Party to strengthen Israel?
05-07-06 - Opening the debate on Israel If the U.S. news media were to become committed to a single standard of human rights, the shift would transform public discourse about basic Israeli policies - and jeopardize the U.S. government's support for them. It is against just such a single standard that the epithet of "anti-Semitism" is commonly wielded. From the viewpoint of Israel and its supporters, the ongoing threat of using the label helps to prevent U.S. media coverage from getting out of hand. Journalists understand critical words about Israel to be hazardous to their careers.
05-07-06 - Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties
05-07-06 - Bush Taking Iran Threats 'Very Seriously' President Bush says he's paying close attention to threats made against Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
05-06-06 - The Washington connection: Did Bush stick the knife into Jack Straw? There is said to be jubilation this weekend among Washington's neo-conservatives at Mr Straw's demise. One retired senior US intelligence officer told his British counterpart recently that the White House lost confidence in the Foreign Secretary at least six months ago.
05-06-06 - Russia Says U.S. Criticism Is Unfounded Sergey Lavrov said Cheney's remarks were unfounded, and suggested the U.S. vice president was misinformed, after Cheney said earlier this week the Kremlin was backtracking on democracy and using energy to blackmail former Soviet states.
05-06-06 - UN eyes vote next week on Iran nuclear demand the council has bogged down over provisions citing Iran as "a threat to international peace and security" and invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, making the resolutions binding under international law. China and Russia, both of whom have veto power in the council, have insisted both provisions be removed.
05-06-06 - U.S. Pressing Russia, China on Iran Vote
05-06-06 - Criticism of UN Iran draft mounts
05-06-06 - In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy
05-06-06 - Rumsfeld Uses Colin Powell as a Human Shield Challenged by veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern to explain why he had claimed to "know" before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction when that suggestion had been repeatedly called into question, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tried to use former Secretary of State Colin Powell as a human shield.
05-06-06 - DeLay Office Knew Abramoff Arranged Trip Prosecutors have e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arranged the financing for the GOP leader's controversial European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking questions." ...House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting free trips from lobbyists (except those trips to Israel).
05-06-06 - Gulf Arabs want Iran guarantees over nuclear fears Gulf Arab countries, wary of Iranian power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, share U.S. concern at the prospect of Iran having a nuclear bomb but fear another military conflict in the region after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
05-06-06 - Judges Challenge Internet Wiretap Rules A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government's courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook."
05-06-06 - US video shows fumbling Zarqawi who wears Nikes. Sounds like an eminence front, a put on.
05-06-06 - Iraq warns on Iran border moves
05-06-06 - Kurds threaten attacks on Iran "We can't afford to face them in open battle. We'll make hit-and-run raids with our Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and mortars."
05-06-06 - A Bush/Neocon/Zionist Atomic 'Incident' In The US?
I have been speaking about some kind of an "October Surprise," i.e. some kind of a spectacular event designed to assist Bush and his Republicans to overcome growing evidence that his party will be obliterated at the November, 2006, mid-term elections. I have seen a number of vague references to something of this sort on various speculative websites but there is certainly strong evidence that such a project is being discussed. Same here. A speculative and immenent terror attack on US interests is being put forth so routinely, it's scary. It was first put forth in a column for the American Conservative by former CIA official Philip Giraldi.
05-06-06 - Most Americans Urge for Diplomacy with Iran 63 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should resort to economic and diplomatic efforts, but not take military action.
Hence the need for a new Pearl-Harbor like attack to drum up support for a(nother) war.
05-06-06 - Hawks Looking for New and Bigger Enemies? Russia and China, which were initially treated as allies in the "global war on terror," are now seen as the two biggest obstacles to Washington's drive to impose U.N. Security sanctions against Iran, the administration's current top foreign policy priority
05-06-06 - A U.S. 'Propaganda' Program, al-Zarqawi, and 'The New York Times' Christopher Dickey, the Middle East regional editor, on February 13, 2004, asked: "Given the Bush administration's record peddling bad intelligence and worse innuendo, you've got to wonder if this letter is a total fake. How do we know the text is genuine? How was it obtained? By whom? And when? And how do we know it's from Zarqawi? We don't. We're expected to take the administration's word for it." Did you happen to see this article about a letter meant for Zarqawi that was delivered to the United States BY ISRAEL?...
05-06-06 - Cheney Urges Energy Export Routes That Bypass Russia
05-06-06 - Democrats push to end tax breaks for oil companies Democrats on Saturday pressed the U.S. Congress to slash tax breaks for profit-flush oil companies amid record high gasoline prices and quickly pass legislation aimed at protecting consumers from price-gouging
05-06-06 - Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy
05-06-06 - An open letter to Senator John Warner I am writing to you in your capacity as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. I am the wife of James Mahlon Lupton, CT1, who was killed aboard the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967.
05-06-06 - Lebanese premier to urge British pressure on Israel Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is to urge his British counterpart to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from contested territory at the convergence of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Evidently, the US would not pressure Israel for the same reason, despite the attempt by Siniora to lobby our governmment toward that end only weeks ago. The newfound concern by the Bush administration for Lebanon ends when it comes to any pressure on Israel.
05-06-06 - U.S. Warns Russia to Act More Like A Democracy Or we starve them next (like we are doing to the Palestinians)?...
05-06-06 - Rice, Russian official discuss Mideast, Iran The gathering comes amid a growing rift between Moscow and Washington over aid to the Palestinian Authority after the election of Hamas, a militant group that refuses to recognize Israel and is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings.
05-06-06 - The uproar over the Israel lobby
05-05-06 - Libby Loses Bid for Documents in CIA Case
05-05-06 - IAEA still central to solving Iran crisis: Russian FM IAEA inspections "have not supported the conclusion that Iran possesses technologies for producing weapons of mass destruction... On the other hand, the inspections don't support the opposite conclusion,"
05-05-06 - Iran to pursue 'industrial production' of nuclear fuel: president
05-05-06 - Cheney Visits Kazakhstan to Talk Oil Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to Kazakhstan on Friday for talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, seeking to maximize access to the vast oil and gas reserves in the central Asian nation with a troubled human-rights record.
05-05-06 - Russia, China Differ With U.S. on Iran
05-05-06 - US challenges Russia to break Iran draft impasse U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Friday challenged Russia and China to come up with legal alternatives to break the impasse on a draft U.N. resolution ordering Iran to suspend its nuclear program.
05-05-06 - Cheney speech spurs new Cold War: Russian press
05-05-06 - The Israel Lobby At least two of the letters complain that we ?catalogue Israel?s moral flaws?, while paying little attention to the shortcomings of other states. We focused on Israeli behaviour, not because we have any animus towards Israel, but because the United States gives it such high levels of material and diplomatic support. An articulate and well-reasoned response by Mearsheimer and Walt to the criticism of their report on the Israeli lobby. It is a must read.
05-05-06 - Iran will change policies if IAEA asks: Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad told journalists in the Azeri capital that Iran would pursue its civilian nuclear programme within the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and in coordination with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
05-05-06 - US denies terror suspect torture
05-05-06 - CIA health questioned as Goss quits "The Department of Homeland Security has fallen well short of its mandate to protect our borders. The FBI continues to struggle with meeting its national security and counterterrorism responsibilities," Maybe they need to stop spying on the peaceniks, and focus on the real threats to this nation.
05-05-06 - Iran attacks UN draft resolution
05-05-06 - Conservatives Drive Bush's Approval Down
05-05-06 - Iraqi Kurds caught between rebels, foreign forces
05-05-06 - Report: Katrina Contractors Bilk Taxpayers Wasn't Halliburton awarded many Katrina cleanup contracts?......
05-05-06 - Analysts Skeptical of Iran Oil Plan Iran took a step on Friday toward establishing an oil market denominated in euros, a plan analysts described as highly unlikely to materialize but which in theory could have serious consequences for the U.S. economy.
05-05-06 - Turkish mly build-up pressures Iraq, US Turkey has massed troops along its Iraqi border to increase pressure on the United States and the new government in Baghdad to act against a growing threat from Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. But despite a rise in guerrilla violence and media reports of some cross-border military acti
05-05-06 - Palestinians in Lebanon collect aid for compatriots
05-05-06 - Bush: US must ensure Israel's security The US president also said that he would keep pushing for a strong resolution at the United Nations to curb Iran's nuclear programs. "America will continue to rally the world to face these threats," Bush said.
05-05-06 - Russian Bridge to Iran Has Twists
05-05-06 - Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion Halliburton got even richer as a result of the no-bid contracts that it won for the Iraq war cleanup.
05-05-06 - Iraq, Afghan war costs: $439 billion, and counting Hey, I know. Let's attack Iran!
05-05-06 - Comrade Cheney vs. President Putin The U.S. drive to achieve what the neocons call "benevolent global hegemony" is relentless, and Putin is an obstacle in their path: there can be little doubt that the regime-changers of Washington have him in their sights.
05-05-06 - Bolton Refuses To Answer Kucinich?s Questions About US Troops In Iran
05-05-06 - US warns Russia on democracy Mr. Cheney has spearheaded a review of US policy towards the Kremlin in recent months as the White House has become increasingly concerned about Russia's direction under Mr. Putin.
05-05-06 - U.S. cool to French proposal of escrow account to Palestinians I cannot believe that my government is directly causing people to starve, and renal patients in hospitals to die. This is the AIPAC America, folks. The bullseye over America just got bigger, thanks to it.
05-05-06 - Lebanese MPs summoned to Syria
05-05-06 - First Chinese mikvah since WWII The ritual bath, being installed at the new, $1.8 million Rohr Family Chabad Community Center of Chabad of Beijing, will include some distinctive Chinese touches Strengthening Jewish ties to China have suddenly become of high import to Israel and the pro-Israeli community. Could it have something to do with the fact that China is set to become the world's next superpower? Nahh..
05-05-06 - Annan wants full U.N. membership for Israel Kofi Annan said he wants to see Israel?s unqualified membership in the United Nations
05-05-06 - Merkel: German Jews a 'joy' Merkel also said her country would not tolerate a nuclear weapon for Iran.
05-05-06 - China left out of US-hosted anti-terror meet
05-05-06 - Action call over dying Dead Sea "It's shocking really," says Benjamin Harries, visiting from New York. "They shouldn't be able to get away with it. If there's anything they can do then the governments should do it."
05-05-06 - Douglas Feith to Teach National Security at Georgetown
05-05-06 - Albright: Lobby paper 'highly overstated' Appearing at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York City earlier this week, Albright was asked about the paper written by two foreign policy academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University.
05-04-06 - Ex-CIA analyst condemns Bush 'manipulation campaign' on Iraq A former Middle East specialist of the US Central Intelligence Agency has condemned what he called an organised campaign of manipulation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war.
05-04-06 - Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session. Ray McGovern - one of the good guys :)
05-04-06 - French Leader: Don't Fight Iran "My conviction is that military action is not the solution," Villepin said at a monthly news conference. "We have already lived through this type of scenario and we know that not only does it settle nothing, but it can raise risks. We have seen this in the most clear way with Iraq."
05-04-06 - UN chief urges direct US-Iran talks United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging the US to enter direct talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
05-04-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: The czar of American intelligence, Negroponte, says they're years away from this thing. They are hiding a lot of stuff and they've hid a lot of stuff. They are far, far away from this. But I'll tell you this, John. Your problem is our war party in this country, the Israelis, are pushing, pushing, pushing Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, who are all painted into a corner, and said they will n
ot be allowed to enrich at all.
05-04-06 - Oil Prices Fall for Second Straight Day Oil prices sank more than $2 a barrel for the second straight day on Thursday, falling below $70 as traders focused on U.S. government data that show gasoline supplies grew last week, reversing two months of declines.
05-04-06 - Cheney's Sharp Criticism Miffs Russia Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran. Russia refuses to go along with the plan to sanction Iran at the UN. That's what this is all about. Our media have tried repeatedly to vilify Russia in the last few weeks. And lest we forget, Cheney's office is teeming with neocons.
05-04-06 - Bush, Merkel pledge backing for Israel, denounce Iran and Hamas "America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said in a speech in Washington to the influential American Jewish Committee (AJC), which is marking its 100th anniversary.
05-04-06 - Bush, Malaysian PM agree on diplomacy to end Iranian crisis Malaysia has said it would not establish relations with Israel until the Palestinians secure statehood.
05-04-06 - The fallout from a falling dollar For two weeks, the dollar has been hammered as foreign buyers shun the US currency. Hey, I know. Let's attack Iran!
05-04-06 - Colleagues advise Biden to put away Iraq carving knife
05-04-06 - House preserves travel in lobbying amendment The Jewish community, led by the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, lobbied hard for the amendment, fearing it could affect education about Israel, Darfur and other areas.
05-04-06 - "We All Just Want to Leave" Many Palestinians are now served with deportation papers when they show up at the residency office to renew their visas, despite the fact that neighboring countries often won't accept them
05-04-06 - Russia sends aid to Palestinians The transfer, which had been expected, reflected Russia?s stated belief that the Palestinian government should not be isolated after Hamas leaders took office.
05-04-06 - Tension escalates again between Damascus and Beirut
05-04-06 - Turkey praises Iran's efforts against PKK, warns Iraqi Kurds
05-04-06 - The country that wouldn't grow up It seems to me of no small significance that the recent essay on "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has aroused so much public interest and debate. Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent senior academics of impeccable conservative credentials. It is true that - by their own account - they could still not have published their damning indictment of the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy in a major U.S.-based journal (it appeared in the London Review of Books), but the point is that 10 years ago they would not - and probably could not - have published it at all.
05-04-06 - Ex-Mossad chief: Take Iran seriously The former Mossad director noted that "now more than ever," Israel and the US share the same interests "in the face of Iran's threats on Israel and the free world." Bullshit.
05-04-06 - London Bridge A sad attempt to smear the London Review of Books. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in their insane attempts to discredit the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli lobby.
05-03-06 - UN draft on nuclear Iran tabled Despite objections from Russia and China, the draft falls under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, which allows for sanctions and even military action.
05-03-06 - Iran Rejects Statement It Would Hit Israel Brig. Gen. Alireza Afshar, deputy to the chief of Iran's military staff, said the statement by Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani "is his personal view and has no validity as far as the Iranian military officials are concerned," according to the Entekhab News Agency.
05-03-06 - Iraq Seeks Diplomacy to Stop Iran Shelling
05-03-06 - Beirut asks Syria to remove border posts inside Lebanon Lebanon decided to ask Damascus to dismantle military positions and sand berms which Syrian border guards have erected inside Lebanese territory, Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat said.
05-03-06 - Iran Discovers Uranium Ore at 3 New Sites
05-03-06 - Hyde's warning Once the bubble of U.S. power has been pricked, in a global context already tilting in other directions, it could deflate rather more quickly than has been imagined. Hyde's warnings should be taken seriously.
05-03-06 - Congress Says No To Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq; Senate Vote Challenges Bush War Plans, Blocks U.S. Control over Iraq Oil "The Senate vote today sends a clear signal to the people of Iraq, to the international community, and to the people of this country that the United States does not intend to permanently occupy Iraq,"
05-03-06 - Beirut seeks UN extension of Hariri murder inquest
05-03-06 - Cautious Iran There is one reason, however, why we shouldn't worry about a nuclear Iran. The mullahs are not about to give their nukes away to terrorist groups.
05-03-06 - Bush declined to meet Norway's PM: reports Bush's staff would not arrange the meeting because of the Norwegian left-center coalition government's criticism of the war in Iraq, and Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen's support for a boycott of Israeli products, according to Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK).
05-03-06 - War With Iran? It would mean the end of our Republic With the nuke-tracking unit of the CIA put out of commission by Scooter and his friends, the way is opened for various "exile" groups of dubious credentials and ideology to stovepipe phony "intelligence" to the Americans.
05-03-06 - Oil drops $2 as US fuel stocks rise
05-03-06 - Bipartisan support for AJCommitee energy bid The AJCommitee leads the "Set America Free" coalition, which seeks to reduce dependence on foreign oil. More important is the need for America's independence of Israel.
05-03-06 - Al Jazeera polishes its English for new spinoff
05-03-06 - Bush, Merkel hold firm against Iran nuclear program On the Palestinian question, Berlin was a major player in pushing through a European Union boycott of the Hamas-led government, including a freeze on direct funding to the Palestinian authorities worth 500 million euros (630 million dollars) a year
05-03-06 - Impatient Mossad warns of 'monster in the making' Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in Washington last week in preparation for a visit to the U.S. by Olmert on May 23, held secret meetings with U.S. officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, reports the London Times.
05-03-06 - Israel Marks Independence Day with $1.7 Billion Budget Surplus Is it due to the fact that Israel is withholding millions of dollars in customs levies that it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, perhaps? Either way, Israel clearly does not need the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people. We certainly don't have a budget surplus.
05-03-06 - Update on the AIPAC Espionage Case After receiving numerous examples from IRmep of how Pincus' mistake was being propagated into other stories trivializing AIPAC lobbyistWeissman and Rosen's alleged criminal activities, yesterday the Post finally gave in and committed to a correction of the story.
05-03-06 - From 2004: The Stab in the Back Gee, I thought Israel had nothing to do with this war, and that anyone who said otherwise was merely spreading anti-Semitic canards. Why, in that case, does Israel need "other options," or, indeed, any options at all?
05-03-06 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates
05-03-06 - Brandeis removes pro-Palestinian art The Zionist Organization of America condemned the exhibit, and several students lodged complaints with the school.
What happened to the cries of freedom of speech like with the cartoon incident? Total hypocrisy.
05-02-06 - UN powers divided over Iran; US threatens sanctions The hardening stance against Iran, led by the West's push to impose sanctions, sent oil prices to a new record level. Brent North Sea crude for June delivery rose to 74.97 dollars a barrel.
05-02-06 - Iran Threatens Israel if U.S. Attacks Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the Iranian president's past call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
05-02-06 - Burns Sees Europe Backing Iran Sanctions A senior Russian lawmaker with close ties to the Kremlin said Moscow will reject a Security Council resolution on Iran proposed by the United States and its European allies because Russia will not agree to impose sanctions at this stage.
05-02-06 - Outed US spy was researching Iran nuclear program MSNBC television reporter David Shuster said Monday that leaking of her identity as a CIA spy to reporters damaged the US effort to follow what Washington believes are Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons. WHo needs intel from our CIA when the Israelis are more than happy to provide us with their own version (again)? .....
05-02-06 - Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust? *
05-02-06 - Top US senator accuses FBI of spying on anti-war groups
05-02-06 - Strikes on Iran too risky, says US general
05-02-06 - Protesters Demand Better Security in Iraq About 200 Shiites, many of them women in full-length black abayas, rallied Monday outside the Green Zone to demand that U.S. and Iraqi forces do more to stop attacks on Iraqis.
05-02-06 - Israeli: World Has Means to Stop Iran Halutz told Maariv it is not clear if Iran will be able to achieve nuclear capability by the end of the decade, as Israeli officials had predicted earlier.
05-02-06 - Iran welcomes any Gulf Arab role over nuclear row
05-02-06 - Saudi Minister Says Oil Prices Too High He said Saudi Arabia is committed to working with the United States to keep oil markets stable, including plans to increase production to 12.5 million barrels a day by 2009. But he said that producing adequate supplies must involve other suppliers and conservation.
05-02-06 - Iran sanctions premature: UN ambassador Australia's new ambassador to the United Nations says talk of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could be premature.
05-02-06 - Comments by John McCain to Israeli news outfit Haaretz in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction.
05-02-06 - Gulf officials discuss nuclear emergency plan Gulf Arab officials began a two-day meeting in Riyadh to discuss a nuclear-fallout emergency and contingency plan, an official from the oil-rich Gulf bloc said.
05-02-06 - 9-11 LAWSUITS SUPPRESSED In the case of at least one of these security defendants, Huntleigh, there would seem to be a conflict of interest for the judge because the airline security company who is responsible for the shocking security lapses at both the Boston and Newark airports on 9-11 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company (ICTS) headed by men with clear ties to Israel?s military intelligence agency, Mossad.
05-02-06 - FBI and the USA Patriot Act in the spotlight as Congress considers how to fight terror
05-02-06 - Republican chairman booed at AJCommittee event The room burst into applause, however, when AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to "take a message" to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran. "It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran," If the shoe fits.
05-02-06 - Americans Decry Iraq War Casualties, Cost
05-01-06 - Oil Prices Rise Above $73 on Iran Concerns Crude-oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel Monday on supply concerns arising from Iran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council deadline to stop enriching uranium.
05-01-06 - Iran Denounces U.S. Nuclear Strike Stance In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan obtained by The Associated Press, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif called President Bush's refusal April 18 to rule out a U.S. nuclear strike on Iran and a similar follow-up statement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "illegal and insolent threats."
05-01-06 - Iran Shells Rebel Border Area in Iraq Iranian forces again shelled a border area used by Iranian Kurdish rebels, forcing some families to flee their homes Monday but causing no casualties, a Kurdish official said.
05-01-06 - After Bush, the Green Line Every time an Arab leader wants to
provide a distraction, (McCain) argues that the problem is due to Israel, and also
in the matter of Iran, "we would not have been so concerned" over its
nuclear program had it not threatened Israel with extinction
05-01-06 - Bush challenges hundreds of laws Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.
05-01-06 - High Gas Prices Will Last Years, Bush Aides Say
05-01-06 - MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran
05-01-06 - Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution But the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, as laid out in the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and reiterated in 2006, claims for the President the power to attack other countries--like Iran--simply because he asserts they pose a threat. Pose a threat to whom, though? US? Or Israel?
05-01-06 - Syrian envoy takes issue with Annan report on Syria-Lebanon ties
05-01-06 - Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace: police
05-01-06 - Israeli Firm Spins Off Southern Gas Station Chain Like Alon, Delek has been growing through buyouts, consolidating the fragmented U.S. convenience-store industry. It's made three acquisitions in that area since the start of 2003. The most recent came in December, when it bought 21 locations in Tennessee from BP. Of interest.
05-01-06 - Quality of new Israeli spy satellite photos said 'excellent' Photographs sent over the weekend from a new Israeli spy satellite, placed in orbit to monitor Iranian nuclear developments and other key defense developments, were of "excellent" quality
05-01-06 - James C Moore: Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? Israel has American warheads ready to fire Because the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf make the Israeli subs easily detectable, two of them are reported to be patrolling the deeper reaches of the Gulf of Oman, well within range of Iranian targets.
05-01-06 - Don't harm Palestinians, Sistani tells Iraqis Iraq's revered top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has urged the authorities and his followers not to harm the thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq.
05-01-06 - Bush, Ahmadinejad, Clooney most influential personalities: Time Also on the sublist of "Leaders and Revolutionaries" are Japan's "good-looking, straight-talking maverick" Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the Palestinian Hamas leader and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola and Pope Benedict XVI.
05-01-06 - U.S. Calls for Strong International Security Force for Darfur She said the international community is sending the message to Hamas that the best interests of the Palestinian people are served by the peace process 'So let's starve the Palestinian PEOPLE into 'peace', instead!'
05-01-06 - "Lens on Syria": Films Spanning Thirty Years of Contemporary Syrian Cinema to Tour North America Premiering in the US in this program is Mohammad Malas' poignant documentary "The Dream", filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon just months before the notorious massacres took place. It is a unique document that has finally become available after digital remastering and subtitling.
05-01-06 - Jailed spy seeks to block Israel minister In the petition, Jonathan Pollard claimed that Pensioners party leader Rafi Eitan should not be allowed to serve in government as he had "betrayed" him and acted "unethically" over his arrest for spying two decades ago.
05-01-06 - Iran consensus in focus on Merkel US trip Merkel's speech to the AJC, a symbolic first by a German chancellor at the body's annual event, will also allow her to speak out on Iran, an issue even more critical to the Jewish community since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
05-01-06 - Ex-professor jailed in Jihad case Sami al-Arian was sentenced to four years nine months but got credit for time already served.
05-01-06 - Turkey and Israel to build four underwater oil and gas pipelines Turkey and Israel plan to build four underwater pipelines to transport oil and gas from Russia to Israel, the Palestinian Autonomy, Jordan, and Lebanon
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