Neocon Watch January 2007 archive

January 2007 archive

01-31-07 - Report: US plans strike against Iran ** The US was drawing up plans to attack sites where Iran is believed to be enriching uranium before President George W. Bush's candidacy comes to an end, the UK-based Times reported on Wednesday.

01-31-07 - US military probing Iran link in Iraq attack that killed five **

01-31-07 - U.S.-Iran tensions could trigger war ** As the rhetoric grows more strident, a U.S. military official in the Gulf likened the U.S.-Iran standoff to the buildup in hostility in Europe before World War I, when the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne triggered a tragic war that engulfed a continent.

01-31-07 - Iraq's Maliki warns US and Iran "But we're asking you please, solve your problems outside of Iraq. We do not want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria, and we will not accept Iran to use Iraq to attack the American forces."

01-31-07 - Hague calls for tough Iran sanctions Britain should not rule out military action against Iran, the shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said yesterday

01-31-07 - Saudi Arabia FM says Iran cooperating U.S. ally Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it was working with Iran, America's top rival in the Mideast, to find ways to ease the crises in Lebanon and Iraq - a departure from Washington's confrontational stance toward Tehran

01-31-07 - US 'reluctant' to hold direct talks with Iran: top US official The US is "reluctant" to hold direct talks with Iran until there is progress in the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, John Negroponte, the incoming number two US diplomat, said.

01-31-07 - U.S. under pressure to stop saying no Millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing violence and sectarian cleansing after the U.S.-led invasion four years ago are finding it nearly impossible to get safe harbor in America, including those who risked their lives helping President George W. Bush's war effort.

01-31-07 - Iran nuclear negotiator lukewarm on proposed 'timeout'

01-31-07 - Iran two to three years from nuclear weapon: think tank Iran could be only two or three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, the head of a leading international security think tank in London said.

01-31-07 - CCR and Other Groups Issue Open Letter Warning of Illegality of Any Offensive Military Action by US against Iran **

01-31-07 - Chuck Hagel and the Return of the Old Right Hagel represents a real threat to the hegemony of the neocons, especially if he earns the fealty of the Republican old guard and the Iraq Study Group crowd.

01-31-07 - Bush Is Not Above the Law by James Bamford Last Aug. 17, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the United States District Court in Detroit issued her ruling in the A.C.L.U. case. The president, she wrote, had ?undisputedly violated? not only the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, but also statutory law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

01-31-07 - US 'Victory' against Cult Leader Was 'Massacre'

01-31-07 - Europeans Fear US Attack on Iran as Nuclear Row Intensifies **

01-31-07 - Sen. Robert Byrd: Bush Wants War with Iran **

01-31-07 - Europe Resists U.S. on Curbing Ties With Iran At issue now is how the resolution is to be carried out, with Europeans resisting American appeals for quick action, citing technical and political problems related to the heavy European economic ties to Iran and its oil industry

01-31-07 - Inflation: The Hidden Cost of War by Rep. Ron Paul As the war in Iraq surges forward, and the administration ponders military action against Iran, it's important to ask ourselves an overlooked question: Can we really afford it

01-31-07 - Iran Clock Is Ticking ** Military and intelligence sources continue to tell me that preparations are advancing for a war with Iran starting possibly as early as mid-to-late February....According to intelligence sources, Bush?s Iran strategy is expected to let the Israelis take a lead role in attacking Iran's nuclear facilities in order to defuse Democratic opposition and let the U.S. intervention be sold as defensive, a case of a vulnerable ally protecting itself from a future nuclear threat.

01-31-07 - Rerun: Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers Not neocon-related, but a story of import and one from a well-respected science news outfit. Don't want to see any CORPORATE interests quash this drug (if indeed it cures cancer).

01-31-07 - US money is 'squandered' in Iraq Millions of dollars in US rebuilding funds have been wasted in Iraq, US auditors say in a report which warns corruption in the country is rife.

01-31-07 - The Big Question: Does the US intend to attack Iran, or is it only sabre-rattling? **

01-31-07 - Israel has no plans against Iran ** Asked if he would rule out military action, Peres said, "By Israel, yes. Israel doesn't intend to use military action." Because in all likelihood, WE'LL be doing it for them.

01-31-07 - Rice to press for faster 'roadmap' plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace 'We need to attack Iran NOW!'

01-31-07 - "We Probably Gave Powell the Wrong Speech" The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy.

01-31-07 - Iran Blame Game Shifts into High Gear CNN, as a faithful propaganda handmaiden, is speculating, thus adding fuel to the attack Iran fire now smoldering, ready to break out into a five alarm conflagration, as planned, with the appropriate admixture of irresponsible speculation, as usual backed up with little more than thin air.

01-31-07 - Turkey, Syria call for Iraq's territorial integrity, unity

01-31-07 - Journalist Sy Hersh has harsh words for Bush On Friday, Hersh spoke at length about the administration's ambitions to cope with the threat of a nuclear Iran, drawing from his research for "The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb," published in the New Yorker on April 17, 2006.

01-31-07 - Libby lawyers pepper Cooper about Rove Cooper, Time magazine's White House reporter at the time, became the second reporter to testify at the CIA leak trial that Libby was a source for their learning that Valerie Plame, wife of ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a CIA operative

01-31-07 - Peretz visits NATO Amir Peretz visited the international security alliance?s headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday for what his aides said was primarily a discussion of the global threat posed by Iran?s nuclear program

01-31-07 - The neocons have learned nothing from five years of catastrophe by Francis Fukuyama

01-31-07 - 9 arrested in alleged plot to behead soldier Counterterrorism police arrested nine men in an alleged kidnapping plot Wednesday - a plan that reportedly involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and broadcasting the killing on the Internet.

01-31-07 - French report: Former U.N. envoy Bolton says U.S. has 'no strategic interest' in united Iraq

01-31-07 - Hysteria at Herzliya by Patrick J. Buchanan ** There is no need for war. Yet, Israelis, neocons, and their agents of influence are trying to whip us into one. Senators who are seeking absolution for having voted to take us into Iraq ought to be confronted and asked just what they are doing to keep us out of a war in Iran. Give 'em hell, Buchanan.

01-31-07 - Lebanon Crisis Fails Mediation, Plays into Israeli Hands It was sarcastically ironical for Bush to describe the Syrians as ?occupiers,? a word that he has so far missed to learn or utter in reference to his country?s four-year old occupation of Iraq or to the 40-year old Israeli occupation of the Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese Arab territories.

01-31-07 - Muslim congressman condemns Iran's Holocaust denial Singer said the meeting is part of WJC's efforts to solicit condemnations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s Holocaust denial from world leaders.

01-31-07 - Spooked Beirutis fear new 'balloon-borne' Israeli plot "It wasn't enough that they violate our skies daily with their drones and warplanes, now they sending over their balloons to terrorize the Lebanese people,"

01-31-07 - Judge Refuses To Deport Two Men Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, two Palestinian men who were accused along with six others of having ties to Palestinian terrorists, were allowed in a ruling made public Tuesday to retain their U.S. citizenship, The Los Angeles Times reported. Strike that. Reverse (my earlier comments)...

01-31-07 - Textbooks promote jihad, Israeli study says Israel 'promotes Jihad' when it continually goads the US into fighting its wars in the Middle East. This has proved very costly both in terms of American blood and treasure.

01-31-07 - American Road Trip Through Arab Eyes

01-31-07 - Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat While many groups have been terrifying their members by depicting Ahmadinejad as bent on exterminating Jews, the Israeli lobby has been doing the same job on our government.

01-31-07 - Soldier's wife joins lawmakers' appeal U.S. Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) held a news conference Tuesday with Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband, Ehud, is one of two Israeli soldiers being held captive in Lebanon. Somebody out there with time on their hands should compile a report detailing exactly how much time Capitol Hill is engaged in Israel-related activities, and exactly which legislators are involved.

01-30-07 - Senators warn against war with Iran ** Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb., a possible presidential candidate, asked Negroponte if he thinks the United States is edging toward a military confrontation with Tehran. In response, Negroponte repeated President Bush's oft-stated preference for diplomacy, although he later added, "We don't rule out other possibilities."

01-30-07 - Officials: White House Holding Back Report Detailing Iran's Meddling in Iraq ** A plan by the Bush administration to release detailed and possibly damning specific evidence linking the Iranian government to efforts to destabilize Iraq have been put on hold, U.S. officials told FOX News.

01-30-07 - Iranian Reveals Plan to Expand Role in Iraq

01-30-07 - Bush 'spoiling for a fight' with Iran** US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence "dossier" this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war.

01-30-07 - The Feingold Option - How to end the war

01-30-07 - Negroponte says Iran cannot go unchallenged in Iraq

01-30-07 - Experts: US-Iran tensions could trigger accidental war ** Neocons are giddy at the prospect, no doubt.

01-30-07 - Miller testimony contradicts Libby story

01-30-07 - FBI turns to broad new wiretap method "What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets."

01-30-07 - US chief seeks new tack on Iraq Admiral William Fallon told a Senate confirmation hearing that "time is short" for the US to turn Iraq around. Countering Iranian influence in Iraq would also be an important priority if he was confirmed in his post

01-30-07 - Sockgate featuring Paul Wolfowitz Listen, it could happen to any of us...

01-30-07 - Kucinich: Bush's actions 'could lead to impeachment' ** Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says the White House is "up to its old tricks" as it preparess for a U.S. attack on Iran, according to a press release.

01-30-07 - Israel not likely to face sanction for breaching cluster-bomb pact A pro-Israel lobbyist said one possible repercussion is that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) may reintroduce legislation to make the sale of cluster bombs explicitly conditional on not using them in civilian areas.

01-30-07 - Bush: Iraq failure impacts Iran ** Israeli leaders have expressed concerns that controversies surrounding the Iraq war will inhibit U.S. resolve in confronting Iran?s nuclear program.

01-30-07 - Avoiding another US war in the Middle East **

01-30-07 - Pentagon halts sale of F-14 parts

01-30-07 - U.N. says 700 Palestinians stranded at Iraq border Some 700 Palestinians are stranded at the Iraq-Syria border, living in inhumane conditions in no-man's land after fleeing violence in Iraq, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

01-30-07 - Israeli Realism on Iran Belies Threat Rhetoric Occasionally, Israeli officials do let slip indications that their fears of Iran are less extreme than the "second holocaust" rhetoric would indicate. Last November, Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh explained candidly in an interview with the Jerusalem Post that the fear was not that such weapons would be launched against Israel but that the existence of nuclear capability would interfere with Israel's recruitment of new immigrants and cause more Israelis to emigrate to other countries.

01-30-07 - Baker: Syria talks may help Israel If the Bush administration opened a dialogue with Syria it could remove a major roadblock to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking - Hamas' refusal to recognize the Jewish state - former Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Tuesday.

01-30-07 - Consequences of US commitment to Iraq America's focus on Iraq is allowing Russia and China to assert themselves

01-30-07 - Judge rejects complaint in AIPAC ex-staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers dismissed their request for a hearing on what they called violations of grand jury leak laws.

01-30-07 - Iran, Israel, and our shared security goals By Newt Gingrich The US should have as an explicit goal, regime change in Iran, as its constitution makes them a revolutionary regime.....If we are going to live with the Palestinians then we need to gain control of their urban spaces

01-30-07 - Nasrallah vows Lebanon will be graveyard for invaders Nasrallah, addressing a huge crowd gathered for the sacred Shiite day of Ashura, accused US President George W. Bush and Israel of "trying to defeat resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq by starting civil wars."

01-30-07 - Israel was skeptical of Iraq, scholar says "Israel was very aware of the fact that from its point of view, Iran was the bigger threat." Israel wants all of its enemies removed - by US.

01-30-07 - Here We Go Again - Pentagon leaks 'proof positive' against Iran

01-30-07 - Event billed as speech by ex-terrorists draws ire "Where is the FBI? Where is the (Immigration and Naturalization Service) to strip his citizenship, as they did with so many others with so fewer allegations?" These 'former terrorists' are darlings of the Israeli lobby - THAT'S why they're allowed in this country; to propagandize. Others that committed lesser crimes are in our PRISONS right now.

01-30-07 - Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist

01-29-07 - Soldiers Against Iraq Desert To Canada "A lot of guys whose skin was melted off," he said. "A lot of guys who you couldn't recognize literally from their face to their feet. Missing arms, missing legs, couldn't breathe on their own, couldn't feed themselves. These kids, literally kids ? 17, 18, 19, 20. And this look in their eyes that ? Oh, I?m never gonna forget it. The look in their eyes when they finally come to understand that they're never gonna walk again. They're never gonna hold their wife and their children again. And having them ask me, 'Why?' Ya know ? a 'big-picture why.' And I couldn't tell them."

01-29-07 - US rejects Iran nuclear 'timeout' The US has rejected a call from the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog for a "timeout" in the showdown with Iran over its nuclear programme.

01-29-07 - Bush warns Iran, Syria, Hezbollah on Lebanon US President George W. Bush deplored recent violence in Lebanon and warned that Iran, Syria and Hezbollah must be "called to account" for trying to destabilize that country.

01-29-07 - On Iran, Bush confronts echoes of Iraq ** Washington: As President Bush and his aides calibrate how directly to confront Iran, they are discovering that both their words and their strategy are haunted by the echoes of four years ago ? when their warnings of terrorist activity and nuclear ambitions were clearly a prelude to war. It's what happens when people who stampede America to war under false pretenses are not held accountable. Read on: "It has not helped that even as the administration is making its case against Iran, the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, was opening just a few blocks away." Is Fitzgerald going to be our savior? Will the Libby trial and all that comes with it deliver us from another major Middle East war?

01-29-07 - Bush Warns Iran Against Action in Iraq "If Iran escalates its military actions in Iraq to the detriment of our troops and - or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly," Bush said in an interview with National Public Radio.

01-29-07 - Fleischer recalls discussion about Plame Fleischer said Libby told him about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA over a lunch in the White House mess on July 7, 2003. But Libby has told investigators he thought he first learned about Plame on July 10 from NBC reporter Tim Russert.

01-29-07 - America ?Poised to Strike at Iran's Nuclear Sites' from Bases in Bulgaria and Romania** Sofia's news of advanced war preparations along the Black Sea is backed up by some chilling details. One is the setting up of new refuelling places for US Stealth bombers, which would spearhead an attack on Iran

01-29-07 - US must abandon Iraqi cities or face nightmare scenario, say experts Everywhere looms the shadow of Iran. In a "war game" testing US options, the Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution found that, as the descent into civil war gathered pace, confrontation between the US and Iran intensified, and Washington's leverage on Tehran diminished. Why the Saban Center is so named.

01-29-07 - Bush's backdoor attack: Iran via Hizbullah New policy authorizing attacks on Iranian agents in Iraq also allows for covert ops against Iran-backed terror groups all across ME, including Hizbullah Evidently, the US just isn't doing enough to take out Israel's enemies.

01-29-07 - United States: Cut Off Cluster Munition Sales to Israel "We've investigated cluster munitions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, but we?ve never seen use of cluster munitions that was so extensive and dangerous to civilians," said Steve Goose, director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch. "The issue is not whether Israel used the American cluster munitions lawfully, but what the US is going to do about it."

01-29-07 - Rep. John Conyers: "Congress Can Fire Bush!"

01-29-07 - No Substitute for Free and Unfettered News Gathering by Phil Donahue

01-29-07 - US studies Israel's cluster bomb use in Lebanon Opinion among US officials was divided, the New York Times reported at the weekend. The paper said some middle-ranking officials at the Pentagon and the state department were arguing that Israel had violated prohibitions on using cluster munitions against civilian areas......"What is shocking and completely immoral is 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution," the UN humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, said soon after the war ended.

01-29-07 - Murdoch: Big media has less sway on Internet Big media conglomerates have less influence amid the continued explosion of news sites, blogs and podcasts, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said in the session moderated by Charlie Rose and available via Webcast. "It's so pluralistic," Murdoch said. "We all have less power, much less...(we) the big companies." And that's a good thing. The power belongs in the hands of the people.

01-29-07 - Saudis to Keep Oil at $50 Barrel It's about time.

01-29-07 - Cluster bomb wounds two Belgian soldiers in Lebanon A cluster bomb explosion has wounded two Belgian soldiers on demining operations in southern Lebanon following last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel, a UN spokesman said.

01-29-07 - Beirut family struggles with war's legacy echoing the views of Hizbullah leaders, this family's anger is aimed at Israel and the US, which many Lebanese and Arabs blame for not stopping Israel from systematically destroying Lebanon's infrastructure.

01-29-07 - Exclusive: IAF to buy US smart bombs According to defense sources, the funds for the deal will come from the IAF's procurement fund. The deal will not require congressional approval since Israel is exercising a previously approved option to purchase the system.

01-29-07 - Israel is the real winner of America's War on Iraq and Iran (If attacked)

01-29-07 - Former CIA chief: Let Pollard go "My view is that a 20-year sentence is enough," James Woolsey, who directed the spy agency from 1993-1995, told Arutz Sheva, an Israeli radio station. They're both traitors.

01-29-07 - Israel's existence is in peril, expert tells crowd at temple ''The goal is getting the Palestinians to give up,'' scholar and columnist Daniel Pipes told the crowd Sunday night. Pipes is a neocon.

01-28-07 - White House defies Congress, public to push Iraq surge

01-28-07 - Russia vows to keep schedule for Iran nuclear plant Russia's security chief Igor Ivanov vowed to launch Iran's nuclear plant on schedule in September after talks in Tehran with leaders of the Islamic republic.

01-28-07 - Iraq's deputy PM chides U.S. and Iran

01-28-07 - 11th-hour bid to halt Iraq war revelations The foreign office has made a last-ditch attempt to stop one of its former senior diplomats from publishing a book claiming that the government knew that Iraq did not represent a significant threat to the West in the run-up to the Iraq war.

01-28-07 - Iraq: UN Agency Raises Third Alarm in Week at ?Unrelenting Violence? Against Palestinians

01-28-07 - U.S. Army Probes War Contractor Fraud It's about time.

01-28-07 - Cheney Nearly Breaks Reagan's 11th Commandment "Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican," Cheney said. "But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."

01-28-07 - Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders ** The detailed descriptions of Iran's problems in enriching more than a few grams of uranium using high-speed centrifuges - 50kg is required for two nuclear devices - comes in stark contrast to the apocalyptic picture being painted of Iran's imminent acquisition of a nuclear weapon with which to attack Israel.

01-28-07 - Mysterious death of Iran's top scientist

01-28-07 - A warning for West: Pressure aids hard-liners He and other young Iranians warned at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that the growing U.S.-Iranian standoff and fears of U.S. military strikes could strengthen the hard-liners who now control their government.

01-28-07 - Expanding the War to Iran: Another 'Urban Legend'? **

01-28-07 - US attacks Israel's cluster bomb use A congressional investigation found Israel improperly used US-made cluster bombs during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. President Ronald Reagan's administration imposed a six-year ban on sales of the weapons to Israel. However, the country also makes its own cluster munitions.

01-28-07 - Kerry Blasts Foreign Policy, Says U.S. Has Become 'International Pariah' That's because we've taken up the policies and orders from that OTHER international pariah (strange that nobody else has).

01-28-07 - Lebanon faces prospect of civil war

01-28-07 - US Mideast policies ?radicalise? moderates

01-28-07 - UN Changes Mission of Korean Troops in Lebanon

01-28-07 - German-Israeli movie invited to Tehran film festival Avital was very surprised by this, and said in an interview to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that "the movie is not pro-Palestinian, and it is clear that it was made by an Israeli. It?s a very balanced movie."

01-28-07 - US official cautions of ME states'' acquiring nuclear weapons Allowing certain countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons will throw the region into a spiraling arms race, Deputy Chairman of US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Gary Seymour said Sunday. No kidding?

01-28-07 - Hezbollah leader condemns Bush attack "What we did wrong is that we do not succumb to the United States of America, what we did wrong is that we stand and still stand by the Palestinian people ...That is what we did wrong,"

01-28-07 - Olmert: Israel won't let the world be indifferent to calls for Israel's destruction

01-27-07 - Iran nuclear installation denied Iran's nuclear body has denied claims by a senior MP that it has begun installing 3,000 nuclear centrifuges to boost its uranium enrichment.

01-27-07 - Stop the Iran War Before It Starts By Scott Ritter ** Summon the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or any other lobby promoting confrontation with Iran, to the forefront, so that the warnings they offer in whispers from a back room can be articulated before the American public. Hold these conjurers of doom accountable for their positions by demanding they back them up with hard fact.

01-27-07 - Russia queries US presence in Mideast: agencies

01-27-07 - N. Korea denies sharing nuke secrets with Iran

01-27-07 - Khatami says door remains open for Iran-U.S. negotiations He said he made proposals for talks with Washington when he was president, but to no avail.

01-27-07 - Think tank launches Iran-nuclear ads A conservative think-tank launched a TV ad campaign on the Iranian nuclear threat.

01-27-07 - Russia warns US against further unilateral sanctions against Iran In the row over Iran's controversial nuclear programme, Russia warned the United States Saturday against additional unilateral sanctions against Tehran now that a compromise resolution has been passed by the United Nations Security Council.

01-27-07 - Rumsfeld's transition raises questions Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department. On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said.

01-27-07 - Lawyers probe Fleischer's immunity deal "I didn't want to give him immunity. I did so reluctantly," Fitzgerald said in court Thursday. "I was buying a pig in a poke." I'll say.

01-27-07 - UN nuclear chief calls for 'timeout' over Iran

01-27-07 - Fonda, Sarandon among Iraq war protesters

01-27-07 - US plea to Britain: 'Don't abandon main Iraq base'

01-27-07 - Saudi king says Iran putting region in danger: paper Saudi Arabia told an Iranian envoy this month that Shi'ite power Iran was putting the Gulf region in danger, in a reference to Iran's conflict with Washington over Iraq and nuclear policy, a newspaper said.

01-27-07 - Bush Is About to Attack Iran **

01-27-07 - Israel to assist the U.S. in efforts to boycott Iranian banking The American government has asked for help from Israeli sources to comprehend the internal developments in Iran and elements that affect the stability of the regime. The intelligence community in the U.S. has hired Farsi speakers and experts on Iran, but U.S. officials believe that Israeli intelligence has more experience with the subject and has great advantages in this field.

01-27-07 - U.S. may cite Israel for use of cluster arms - report Several U.S. officials said they expected little further action on the matter, the Times said.

01-27-07 - U.S. opposes Iranian, Saudi meddling in crisis

01-27-07 - Rattling the Cage: Against a preemptive Holocaust ** The Iranians have weapons of mass destruction - chemical and possibly biological, too. They also have missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel. If they are so bent on wiping us out, even if it means their own extermination, why haven't they showered tiny little Israel with WMD-armed missiles? The answer, again, is that while the Iranians are crazy, they're not that crazy. Some excellent points made towards the end there.

01-27-07 - Israeli warplanes intrude on Beirut airspace

01-27-07 - Khatami to Haaretz: No chance of talks between Iran, Israel

01-27-07 - Ex-Cheney aide details media tactics

01-27-07 - Israel planes dump "suspicious green balloons" on southern Lebanon

01-27-07 - Wyden wants F-14 parts sale banned A Jewish U.S. senator introduced legislation banning the sale of parts for F-14 aircraft, saying the sales are end-runs around bans on arms sales to Iran.

01-27-07 - Jewish sect ostracized over Iran meeting When Cohen returned from Iran, he needed police protection. His house was barraged by hundreds of eggs, his window smashed by a brick and a billiard ball and he continues to be pelted with pebbles, eggs and insults in the street, he said. Last week, two tires on his Volvo were slashed, he said, and his synagogue has closed its doors to him

01-27-07 - Barack and Hillary: Can Israel rely on either? Hillary Clinton also voted for the war in Iraq and, as of yet, has not called for a timetable for troop withdrawal despite the pressure to do so. One must conclude that there is little basis on which to doubt Hillary Clinton?s sincere support for and dedication to Israel?s safety and security and her determination and strength when it comes to national security and defense. So voting for the war in Iraq is seen as 'dedication to Israel's safety and security'? Read on. "the next US President will have to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, which will impact Israel first and then the entire world. At this point we simply cannot afford to allow a person with incoherent, weak and inconsistent views on national security and foreign policy to become the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States." Who's 'we'???

01-27-07 - Homage to Herzliya - The Lobby wants war with Iran **

01-27-07 - Report: Russia tracking IDF movements

01-27-07 - World War III has already begun, says former Israeli spy chief A third World War is already underway between Islamic militancy and the West but most people do not realize it, the former head of Israel's intelligence service Mossad said in an interview published in Portugal.

01-27-07 - Lawmakers to launch captive Israelis appeal Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Middle East subcommittee; Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the ranking member of the subcommittee; and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will join Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband Ehud is among the captives, in launching the appeal on Tuesday.

01-26-07 - Report: US adopts new lethal strategy against Iranian agents in Iraq **

01-26-07 - Iran former president warns against US threats Influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has called on Iranian officials to act with caution against US threats aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions.

01-26-07 - US warns Iran of global wrath if it cranks up nuclear capacity ** "And if they think that they can get away with 3,000 centrifuges without another Security Council resolution and additional international pressure then they're very badly mistaken," Burns said.

01-26-07 - US unveils tougher line on Iranians in Iraq ** Bush's comments came as US and Iraqi officials confirmed a report in The Washington Post that US forces were now authorized to kill or capture Iranian spies or members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

01-26-07 - Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence In the 45-minute interview, Rockefeller said that it was "not hearsay" that Cheney, a leading proponent of invading Iraq, pushed Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., to drag out the probe of the administration's use of prewar intelligence.

01-26-07 - Iran rejects UN's chief inspector The move follows a ban on 38 inspectors from four countries that Tehran imposed on Monday. The inspectors are from key Western nations that had pushed for UN sanctions against Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium.

01-26-07 - US says its has proof Iran is interfering in Iraq ** The Los Angeles Times said the US government lacks any proof of Iranian involvement in Iraq and that some observers fear there is a US plot under foot for a military operation against Iran. Before attacking Iraq in March 2003, the administration of President George W. Bush said it had irrefutable evidence dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but no such weapons have been found since in the country.

01-26-07 - Iran condemns Bush's capture or kill order ** Iran says United States President George W Bush's order to his military to capture or kill Iranian agents in Iraq is a terrorist act that shows he has lost control of his senses.

01-26-07 - The Ideologue by Patrick J. Buchanan Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush's purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of US forces into Iraq might yet succeed.

01-26-07 - Iran Attack **

01-26-07 - Iran gas price formula 'agreed' Iran, Pakistan and India have agreed on a pricing formula for the delivery of Iranian gas via a $7bn pipeline, a top Iranian energy official has said.

01-26-07 - US missile system to counter Iranian threat ** America's proposed missile defence sites in Poland and the Czech Republic are designed to counter the potential missile threat from Iran and will not affect Russian security, a senior US defence official said.

01-26-07 - Jordan's king gives US Iraq plan six months to work

01-26-07 - Ex-CIA Official Testifies About Libby's Calls

01-26-07 - U.S. slams Canada for complaining about Arar case

01-26-07 - Bolton: U.S. following flawed Iran plan In an interview with Fox News airing Wednesday night, Bolton said that contrary to administration claims, the U.N. Security Council U.N. Security Council resolution against Iran that was approved last month is "very weak."

01-26-07 - Canada to pay Arar $10.5 million for Syria ordeal In Washington, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record) issued a statement saying he was seeking answers as chairman of the Senate judiciary committee as to why Arar was sent to Syria.

01-26-07 - Russia will not extradite Lugovoy to Britain: Ifax Russia would not extradite Andrei Lugovoy if Britain asked for him to be handed over to stand trial for poisoning ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, a source in the prosecutor-general's office told Interfax news agency on Friday.

01-26-07 - Israeli army blows up two Hezbollah bunkers The Israeli army says it has blown up two Hezbollah bunkers discovered near the Jewish state's border with Lebanon.

01-26-07 - Gordon R. England, then Navy Secretary, was honored with JINSA?s Henry M. "Scoop"Jackson Distinguished Service Award in 2001 England is currently OUR Deputy Secretary of Defense.

01-26-07 - Candidates court Israel, cite Iran risks

01-26-07 - Al-Qaida No. 2: PA Chair Abbas is a 'traitor,' sold Palestinian land

01-26-07 - Israel hails UN condemnation of Holocaust denial Diplomats in New York have said the resolution, which does not name any country, was inspired by the behaviour of Iran, where certain leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have described the Holocaust as a "myth."

01-26-07 - Khatami slams controversial Holocaust conference Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has criticised a controversial conference on the Holocaust -- held in Tehran late last year -- in an interview published in Israel's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot.

01-26-07 - Iran's Khatemi denies criticising Holocaust conference "I never gave any interview to any Israeli newspaper and the comments attributed to me have been made up,"

01-26-07 - Lebanon clashes fuel civil war fears

01-26-07 - Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations Clinton, he said, "has personally proved herself to the Jewish community on Israel, on which she was once questioned." Read on.

01-26-07 - Netanyahu urges pension to quit Iran Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urged Massachusetts pension fund officials to pull money out of businesses that deal with Iran.

01-26-07 - Fear of a Shia full moon "If the Americans succeed, we will be able to regain Iraq. The extremists want to defeat the Americans at the expense of losing Iraq. If Iraq is divided into two sectarian states, they will be magnets for sectarian war across the Muslim world."

01-26-07 - Beirut lifts curfew after clashes A civil war for every state in the region. Iran and Syria are the next candidates for 'democratization'- neocon-style.

01-26-07 - Fearing Iran Israel fears an Iranian bomb will only enhance Iran's confidence to shape the future of the region as it likes. Israel's nukes have pretty much guaranteed Israel's confidence to shape the future of the region as IT likes.

01-26-07 - Saudi ambassador says U.S., Iraq should agree before troop withdrawal Prince Turki called for the revival of the Middle East "road map for peace", first outlined by Bush, that aims to establish an independent Palestinian state.

01-26-07 - Palestinian cleric denies ties to militants that got him deported

01-26-07 - Hezbollah buries dead, urges Lebanese unity

01-26-07 - Jewish Shoah conference participants banned from Israel Neturei Karta members who attended Iran's Holocaust denial conference to be denied entrance to Israel by Interior Minister Bar-On, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper

01-26-07 - U.N. condemns Holocaust denial The resolution was passed by consensus, without a vote; Iran dismissed it as a political ploy.

01-26-07 - June 4 date set for AIPAC staffers case The judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers set a June 4 trial date Oh sweet mystery of life at last I've found thee....OHHHH....

01-26-07 - Hezbollah blames clashes on Israel Hezbollah?s leader said Israel was to blame for internecine violence in Beirut.

01-26-07 - Bush commemorates Auschwitz liberation President Bush commemorated the liberation of Auschwitz with a call to reject Holocaust denial, particularly from Iran.

01-26-07 - Holocaust-denial law for Europe? The European Commission on Friday backed the criminalization of Holocaust denial in the 27-member European Union.

01-26-07 - U.N. adopts Holocaust denial resolution Venezuela, while supporting the resolution, said Israel's "excesses under the pretext of legitimate defense has led to a new holocaust against the Palestinian people."

01-25-07 - Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq ** The White House has authorized a widening of what is known inside the intelligence community as the "Blue Game Matrix" -- a list of approved operations that can be carried out against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.....Officials said Hayden counseled the president and his advisers to consider a list of potential consequences, including the possibility that the Iranians might seek to retaliate by kidnapping or killing U.S. personnel in Iraq. It's beginning to appear that there will be an escalation in the Middle East that will include Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and possibly others - being instigated by Israel and the US. As to the last statement of the above excerpt - it seems that this administration is looking to get a response from Iran so that it can get the pretext it needs to attack. "The decision to use lethal force against Iranians inside Iraq began taking shape last summer, when Israel was at war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Officials said a group of senior Bush administration officials who regularly attend the highest-level counterterrorism meetings agreed that the conflict provided an opening to portray Iran as a nuclear-ambitious link between al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the death squads in Iraq.Among those involved in the discussions, beginning in August, were deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams, " Say no more.

01-25-07 - Iran ready to launch satellite, raising arms alarm: report

01-25-07 - UN nuclear agency asks Iran to back off on rejection of 38 inspectors

01-25-07 - Iranian sees border danger A ranking Iranian diplomat on Monday said the chaos of Iraq was spilling over into his country, spreading a destabilizing influence to its Arab population.

01-25-07 - IAEA chief says attack on Iran would be catastrophe

01-25-07 - Iran takes possession of Russian air defense missiles MosNews also reports that Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has repeatedly said the arms deal did not violate any international treaties or UN resolutions because the Tor-M1 system is defensive only and cannot be used to attack

01-25-07 - US seeks change in Iran ties with Iraq -ambassador

01-25-07 - Ex-spokeswoman contradicts Libby account Fitzgerald got Martin to testify that Cheney personally wrote out statements and talking points for Libby and other aides to give to reporters to deny he was behind Wilson's trip or ever learned Wilson's conclusions.

01-25-07 - US soldier jailed for Iraq deaths During his trial, Hunsaker testified that Sgt Girouard gave an order to kill the victims and make it look as if they had been fleeing.

01-25-07 - International Mobilization To Stop U.S. Attack on Iran **

01-25-07 - Escalation of US Iran military planning part of six-year Administration push

01-25-07 - US military power seen at risk by China's satellite-busting ability If the Chinese pursued the satellites during hostilities, it could cause Washington to have second thoughts about getting involved.

01-25-07 - Belarus, Iran sign memorandum of understanding on defense

01-25-07 - Litvinenko killer 'will die of poisoning within three years'

01-25-07 - EU committee slams Irish complicity in CIA "torture flights"

01-25-07 - Huge majority say civil liberty curbs a 'price worth paying' to fight terror An overwhelming majority of people in Britain are willing to surrender civil liberties to help tackle the threat of terrorism, the nation's leading social research institute will disclose today. Then the terrorists have in fact won.

01-25-07 - Canada still demanding U.S. take Canadian off its terror watchlist

01-25-07 - Netanyahu urges trial for Iran leader, fearing new Holocaust He added he was also trying to drum up support within the United States for a trial. "Wolf. WOLF!!!"

01-25-07 - Timeline of Events in CIA Leak Case

01-25-07 - Jury for CIA leak trial includes some critics of Bush Iraq policies

01-25-07 - Antiwar protesters target Congress Organizers of the Washington event are anticipating between 300,000 and 500,000 people. Among Americans, 70 percent opposed a troop surge, according to a recent AP-Ipsos poll

01-25-07 - Gov't offers aid to Palestinian refugees at Lebanon donors meet Beckett said Thursday that in addition to the 58 million pounds London has pledged for Lebanon over the next four years, "Today I am announcing an extra 48 million dollars (24.3 million pounds) to go to UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees)."

01-25-07 - US, Iranian Publics Not So Different

01-25-07 - Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers Not neocon-related, but a story of import and one from a well-respected science news outfit. Don't want to see any CORPORATE interests quash this drug (if indeed it cures cancer).

01-25-07 - The hidden cost of free congressional trips to Israel These trips are defended as "educational." In reality, as I know from my many colleagues in the House and Senate who participated in them, they offer Israeli propagandists an opportunity to expose members of Congress to only their side of the story. The Israeli narrative of how the nation was created, and Israeli justifications for its brutal policies omit important truths about the Israeli takeover and occupation of the Palestinian territories. The CSM gets one right.

01-25-07 - The Trial of Dick Cheney

01-25-07 - Israel tries to cut off Tehran from world markets Pressure will be applied to major US pension funds to stop investment in about 70 companies that trade directly with Iran, and to international banks that trade with its oil sector, cutting off the country's access to hard currency. The aim is to isolate Tehran from the world markets in a campaign similar to that against South Africa at the height of apartheid.

01-25-07 - Allies rally behind Lebanon with aid

01-25-07 - Anti-War Groups Plan Surge on Washington

01-25-07 - More Deception from the War Criminal The Bush Regime is the first neoconservative regime in US history. Bush hides the neoconservative agenda behind "the war on terror," which essentially is a hoax. The main purpose of the neoconservatives' "war on terror" it to eliminate any effective Muslim opposition to Israel's theft of Palestine and the Golan Heights.

01-25-07 - Small steps, not giant leaps However close Iran is to getting the bomb (and US military analysts are noticeably cooler about the imminence of armageddon than their Israeli counterparts) a convenient conclusion emerges from the current Israeli military consensus: yet again Israel faces an "existential threat".

01-25-07 - Beirut under curfew after clashes Four people were killed and more than 150 injured, police said.

01-25-07 - U.S. Picks an Inauspicious Time to Restart Mideast Talks David Makovsky, a Middle East expert with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said for the United States the Israeli-Palestinian issue was not central. "The issue is a derivative of getting Arab support for Iraq and Iran policy," he said. "They want a broad front, and this is part of helping those Arab leaders they see as important on these other issues." Bingo.

01-25-07 - Guilford president urges patience with investigation as students plan walkout Prompted by the Muslim advocacy group's involvement, a conservative California news website that monitors radical Islamic groups and advances a counterterrorism agenda, PipeLineNews.org, launched an inquiry into the incident the following day. Looks like the neocons are going to look for an excuse to justify this attack. Any old excuse will do.

01-25-07 - Hollywood Is Accused Of 'Islamophobia' Hollywood has for years portrayed Arabs/Muslims in a negative light. It may coincide with the foundation of Israel.

01-25-07 - Russia bans dual citizens from gov't Hmm, say I wonder - where is Douglas Feith?

01-24-07 - Al Qaeda deputy warns US of reprisal if policies remain Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri has warned Americans of a reprisal "far worse than anything they have seen", if Washington did not change its policies towards Muslim states.

01-24-07 - U.S. generals - Iraq hurt ability to fight elsewhere

01-24-07 - US Senate panel rejects Iraq plan A US Senate committee has rejected President Bush's plan to send extra troops to Iraq, passing the measure to a full Senate vote likely next week.

01-24-07 - Iran vows to crush any threat as US steps up rhetoric ** Iran vowed it was ready to crush any military strike or threat as the United States and its allies turned up the rhetoric over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and its growing clout in the region.

01-24-07 - Arab League's Moussa warns U.S. on Iran attack ** There is a 50/50 chance the United States will attack Iran and any such strike would risk spreading sectarian violence through the Middle East, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Wednesday.

01-24-07 - Iran Must Get Ready to Repel a Nuclear Attack **

01-24-07 - GOP Opposition to Troop Increase Grows

01-24-07 - Baker warns al-Qaida still poses threat

01-24-07 - McCain Bashes Cheney Over Iraq Policy "The president listened too much to the Vice President . . . Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the Vice President and, most of all, the Secretary of Defense."

01-24-07 - Senior British prosecutor says fight against terror not a 'war'

01-24-07 - Britain accuses Iran, Syria of spitting in West's eye

01-24-07 - U.S. Military Spied on Hundreds of Antiwar Demos At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon's domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.

01-24-07 - The American hostility towards Iran ** The mood in the administration coincides with some strong talk in Israel about the dangers from Iran. No sh#t?

01-24-07 - Oil rebounds despite stock rises On Tuesday, oil prices jumped by almost 5% because of colder weather and US plans to keep more oil for emergencies

01-24-07 - Russia warns US - 'use of force in ME unacceptable'

01-24-07 - Canadian to Remain on U.S. Terrorist Watch List Despite a Canadian inquiry that cleared a Syrian-born Canadian citizen of any terrorist ties, the Bush administration has formally refused a Canadian government request that it remove the man, Maher Arar, from the terrorist watch list, saying that the United States has secret information justifying his inclusion. Unreal.

01-24-07 - Israel raises nuclear stakes with Iran ** A senior British military source said yesterday that the Israelis were serious about the use of military force to stop Iran, and were now engaged in preparing public opinion for such a prospect. "They're watering the turf. The Iranians are not under enough pressure," the source said.

01-24-07 - Bush: Hezbollah a threat

01-24-07 - Demise of US, Israel Imminent According to a statement released by the Presidential Press Office, Ahmadinejad further noted the frequent failure of the plots of the hegemonic system in the Middle-East region, and said that the demise of the US and Zionist regime is imminent.

01-24-07 - IRAQ: PALESTINIAN ENVOY DENIES REPORTS OF THREATS BY SHIITE MILITANTS

01-24-07 - Peres grateful to Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad

01-24-07 - Police to present Litvinenko evidence to prosecutors The police file provides evidence against two Russian businessmen, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, both former KGB officers. The two men are in Russia and have denied being involved in the murder plot.

01-24-07 - Military Builds Robotic Insects British Special Forces already use 6-inch MAV aircraft called WASPs for reconnaissance in Afghanistan. The $3,000 WASP is operated with a Gameboy-style controller and is nearly silent, so it can get very close without being detected.

01-24-07 - Funds pledged for Lebanon summit Why should the world be expected to pay for the destruction that Israel has continued to rain down upon Lebanon (and Palestine)?

01-24-07 - Saudi, Iran working on deal to end Lebanon crisis Saudi Arabia and Iran, backers of the main rivals in Lebanon's political crisis, are negotiating a deal to end the standoff, Lebanese political sources said.

01-24-07 - Hezbollah says opposition holding back from ousting cabinet

01-24-07 - Lebanon conflict oil 'contained' the report indicates that the conflict has left other significant environment problems, some of which pose a threat to human health and welfare. A number of bombed sites, including Jiyyeh, are contaminated with toxic substances which may compromise water supplies

01-24-07 - Israel faces nuclear Holocaust warns Gingrich The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, former US Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the Herzliya Conference held by the Institute for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya on Tuesday afternoon.

01-24-07 - Israeli PM warns of 'severe steps' against Iran he also reassured the Israeli public that "as serious as the Iranian threat is, the threat of a nuclear attack on Israel is in no way imminent."

01-24-07 - The new cold war in Lebanon and Palestine

01-24-07 - Conference of Presidents postpones Dubai trip

01-24-07 - Edwards Veers Hard Right During a lamentable speech he made in Tel Aviv, Edwards sanctioned a US war against Iran; denied the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and bashed the Palestinian people.

01-24-07 - American Jews should change their stance

01-24-07 - Academic begins hunger strike to protest 'government harassment' Sami Al-Arian stopped eating after being held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Virginia. That's according to a news release from the Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace.

01-24-07 - US politicians rip Iran in Herzliya US politicians grovel at the altar of Israel.

01-24-07 - Out to check Iran n-work, Israel lobby in US meets PM Seeking to build a bridge with New Delhi, a delegation of the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group at the Capitol Hill met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last evening. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee's current agenda is to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government and seek greater security for Israel.

01-24-07 - Smears for Fears Everything Clark said, in short, is true. What's more, everybody knows it's true. The worst that can truthfully be said about Clark is that he expressed himself in a slightly odd way.

01-23-07 - Iran says still heeding IAEA despite curbs

01-23-07 - US cannot hurt Iran: Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad spoke after coming under increasing criticism from both conservatives and reformists for his handling of foreign and domestic policy, including Tehran's disputed nuclear drive.

01-23-07 - Criticism of Ahmadinejad mounts

01-23-07 - U.S. warns Iran to back down

01-23-07 - Russia fulfils Iran missile deal Russia has completed a contract to sell some 30 air defence missile systems to Iran, a senior official has said.

01-23-07 - Seized Palestinians freed in Iraq Some 30 Palestinians seized by armed men in Baghdad have been freed, the UN refugee agency says.

01-23-07 - Al-Qaeda deputy 'mocks Bush plan'

01-23-07 - INTERVIEW-Arab states urged to let in Palestinians from Iraq A U.N. refugee agency appealed to Arab governments on Tuesday to take in 600 Palestinians who have been stranded for months at the Iraqi-Syrian border after fleeing persecution in Baghdad.

01-23-07 - Webb Offers Blunt Challenge to Bush "Many, including myself, warned even before the war began that it was unnecessary, that it would take our energy and attention away from the larger war on terrorism and that invading Iraq would leave us strategically vulnerable," Webb said

01-23-07 - Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link **

01-23-07 - Libby's Attorneys Say He Was Being Set Up To Take Fall for Rove in CIA Leak Case Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told a far different story from Wells. He described for jurors a Bush administration effort to beat back early criticism of the Iraq war and accused Libby of lying to investigators about his role in that campaign. Using a computerized calendar during opening statement, Fitzgerald described a tumultuous week in 2003 when he said the White House was under "direct attack" from Wilson.

01-23-07 - The Unthinkable: The US- Israeli Nuclear War on Iran **

01-23-07 - Russia not delivering arms to Palestine - defense ministry

01-23-07 - Ministers 'knew about rendition flights' There is more outrage in Britain over the CIA rendition flights than there is in America. Why is that?

01-23-07 - Prosecutors must prove Libby's guilt Though Fitzgerald says the trial isn't about the war, the case will be set to the tumultuous backdrop of the war's early months. He is expected to tell jurors that the White House was preoccupied with discrediting Wilson's criticisms, so it's unlikely Libby forgot that effort. Go get 'em, Bulldog.

01-23-07 - Neoconservative Kristol wishes Democrats would 'be quiet' about Iraq for six or nine months

01-23-07 - Musharraf, Assad vow to combine efforts to fight terror

01-23-07 - Twice Displaced: The Plight of Palestinians in Iraq

01-23-07 - Vision of Rebuilding Lebanon Wanes

01-23-07 - Israeli minister advises that Nasrallah 'not try to put Israel to the test again'

01-23-07 - In pictures: Lebanese intifada

01-23-07 - As candidates enter 2008 race, they begin courting Jewish support Bowing down at the altar of Israel is an essential part of political campaigning in America.

01-23-07 - Palestinian problem key to closing West-Muslim divide: Malaysian PM Speaking to a London think tank, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the "single most powerful factor" dividing Islam and the west, with the US-led conflict in Iraq a close second.

01-23-07 - Muslims see no conflict between Islamic law and democracy: poll

01-23-07 - Musharraf calls for new Mideast initative Talks focused on "the unresolved Palestinian issue" as well as violence and political tensions in Iraq and Lebanon, he said before leaving Jordan for Syria ahead of a wrapping up a regional tour in the United Arab Emirates.

01-23-07 - Lebanese villagers spend winter in ruins All but two rooms of Chaitou's apartment in this southern Lebanese town were destroyed by Israeli shelling. Even in those rooms, where her family sleeps, the winter rain drips through cracks, leaving big puddles.

01-23-07 - Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli obstacles Israel, on the other hand, has not been fully cooperative with the UN forces in implementing Resolution 1701; the Israeli withdrawal on the ground was slow and incomplete in the Ghajar sector, and its violations of Lebanon's airspace have not ceased.

01-23-07 - Lebanon opposition halts strike Three people died and 100 were injured as protesters, who blocked many roads, clashed with government supporters.

01-22-07 - Pentagon struggles to get safest vehicles for troops In congressional testimony and interviews last week, senior Army and Marine Corps officers acknowledged that they are struggling just to meet the needs of service members already in Iraq. Even if the Pentagon can find millions of dollars not currently budgeted, and even if it can find factories to produce the armored vehicles, most U.S. troops in Iraq will not have access to the best equipment available, as President Bush has often promised.

01-22-07 - Ahmadinejad: U.S. Claims 'Ridiculous' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described U.S. accusations against his country of meddling in Iraq as the "most ridiculous" of Washington's charges against Iran, state media reported Monday.

01-22-07 - Iran to block 38 UN nuclear watchdog inspectors In December 2006, parliament adopted a bill requiring the government to revise its cooperation with the IAEA after the UN Security Council passed a resolution to impose sanctions on Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment work.

01-22-07 - Iran launches missile tests amid fresh nuclear defiance ** Short-range missiles were to be tested in the four-day exercise southeast of Tehran, which came as the US military was sending a second warship to Gulf waters amid growing international tension over Iran's atomic programme.

01-22-07 - Iran's strongman loses grip as ayatollah offers nuclear deal ** Under proposals now being debated, an international group made up of the permanent five members of the UN security council, plus Germany or a nuclear power such as India, would oversee and monitor Iran?s nuclear programme. Good idea.

01-22-07 - Is this bad reporting or propaganda? Update Earlier this morning, Reuters (and AP too) news service ran a piece citing one UK government official and an anonymous Iranian source alleging that the IAEA inspectors were thrown barred out of Iran. Now just to make clear why this is important, Saddam Hussein had allegedly done the same thing according to reports, which was not true.

01-22-07 - After query, AP says nuke watchdog didn't respond to after hour calls on Iran nuke claim

01-22-07 - Iranian cleric attacks president Iran's senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, has attacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over nuclear issues and the economy.

01-22-07 - China tries to reassure the world on space missile 'aimed at peace' China signalled yesterday that its first missile strike against an orbiting satellite was intended to force the US into talks aimed at abolishing weapons in space.

01-22-07 - U.S. image around world sharply worsens: BBC poll Sixty-five percent disapproved of U.S. policy on last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas, 60 percent of its handling of Iran's nuclear program, 56 percent of its stance on global warming and 54 percent of its policy on North Korea's nuclear program.....Fifty-three percent of Americans said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East "provokes more conflict than it prevents," the survey said.

01-22-07 - Intelligence vs. Evidence ** Forget the Iraqi civil war: the consequences of a U.S. military confrontation with Iran could prove particularly deadly to our troops in Iraq, where they are sitting ducks for Iranian attacks.

01-22-07 - Syria Considers Itself Possible Target of U.S. Military Attack ''They want to secure the Iraqi border?'' said Nasser Eddin Kharallah, a Parliament member from the ruling Baath party. ''Let the Americans do it from the Iraqi side.''

01-22-07 - The X Factor in 2008 -- Iran By Patrick J. Buchanan ** Democrats failed to stop this war. Can they stop the next one? Or do they suspect and support what they think is coming?

01-22-07 - Conservatives slam Bush policies

01-22-07 - ACLU and CNSS Seek Records on Warrantless Mail Surveillance The groups say there are major facts that need to be made public, including whether and how often this asserted power has been used, whether people whose mail is searched are notified after the fact, and what policies have been put in place to conduct the searches.

01-22-07 - Saudis Pressing Oil Prices Down ** We believe an Israeli attack is pending. It is just a question of when.

01-22-07 - Palestinian state won't solve conflict, says Israeli ex-army chief And grabbing more of their land will?

01-22-07 - Verbal blows at Shia-Sunni forum Washington's purported plan to forge a Sunni front to contain the growing influence of Iran's radical politics has sent alarm bells ringing in many Arab states, fearing that Israel will be the greatest beneficiary of such policy.

01-22-07 - Israel Readies Nuclear Bunker The maze of tunnels and underground rooms is scheduled to be completed in the next year or two as fears of an attack from Iran intensify, the Baltimore Sun reported.

01-22-07 - Jordan urges Iraq to protect Palestinian refugees

01-22-07 - Israel: 2007 'decisive' on Iran ** Burns said the United States and Israel have the right to self-defense if Iran presses ahead toward attaining nuclear capability

01-22-07 - Exclusive: NSC drafting strategy to make Israel a member of NATO The problem lies more with the military contributions that Israel would have to make to NATO actions elsewhere in the world, such as in Afghanistan and Somalia. "Would Israel want to send troops to other countries and perhaps give up lives for those missions?" he asked. Exactly. That's for the troops of those OTHER nations of the world.

01-22-07 - Can U.S. Achieve Peace in the Middle East? by Rep. Ron Paul Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. Sorry, Ron. Your attempt at 'balance' by mentioning 'billions of foreign aid' going to Muslim countries doesn't address the inherent problem in the Israel-Palestinian conflict: that Americans taxpayers are funding Israel's colonial project - to the detriment of Palestinians. Are we giving the Palestinians the same amount of military/financial aid and political support? NO. Therefore, we have chosen sides. THAT is what Washington was referring to in his famous farewell address.

01-22-07 - Woolsey at the Herzliya Conference The whole hee haw (neocon) gang attended. Or so it would seem.

01-22-07 - A no-brainer for American Jews Hillary Clinton told Israeli and Palestinian youth via a video broadcast that "it will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state, and for it to be a state that is responsible for its citizens' well-being, a state that has responsibility for providing education and health care and economic opportunity to its citizens." The remarks immediately upset the Jewish establishment and prompted the White House spokesman to explain that they do not represent the president's position.....During the 2000 Senate campaign, the Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky, who lives in New Square, New York, visited the White House. The American press reported that Hillary Clinton promised the revered Hassidic leader that she would lighten the punishment of four of his followers convicted of fraud. Clinton won a solid majority in New Square.

01-22-07 - U.S. Drafts Holocaust Denial Resolution The draft resolution "condemns without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust," but doesn't single out any specific country for criticism. The U.S. said it planned to circulate the draft to General Assembly members on Monday. Not a matter for Capitol Hill.

01-22-07 - U.S. will make new contribution to Lebanon reconstruction at coming donors' conference Just take it right out of the slated 2007 aid money to Israel.

01-22-07 - Israel says it enjoys 'peak' relations with Harper government in Canada And it has its influential Israeli lobby in Canada to thank for it.

01-22-07 - GOP presidential hopeful in Israel Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republication nomination for the U.S. presidency, is in Israel. Our politicians must also campaign in Israel.

01-22-07 - Swiss admit Israel-Syria mediation the disclosure appeared to confirm a Ha?aretz report earlier this month that a European country had mediated two years of unofficial talks between a retired Israeli diplomat and a Syrian-American businessman about how the two countries could resume peace talks that were cut off in 2000.

01-22-07 - Sea still spitting oil six months after Lebanon war The coast was polluted by around 15,000 tonnes of fuel oil after the Israeli military bombed Lebanon's southern Jiyeh power plant in mid-July during its 34-day offensive against the Shiite militia Hezbollah.

01-22-07 - Rap mogul addresses WJC He called on the Beastie Boys and other Jewish entertainers to create another public service announcement with him, this one focusing on Islamophobia.

01-21-07 - Paralympic summit held for wounded vets "Right now they're having to ask themselves some difficult questions," said John Register, himself a former world-class athlete, a veteran of Desert Storm, and an amputee, who helped run the summit. "They're asking, 'Who am I now? Am I still a father? Am I still a husband or wife?' Sports help put answers to some of those questions."

01-21-07 - A Grim Milestone: 500 Amputees

01-21-07 - Iran president defies U.N. sanction resolutions "The (U.N.) resolution was born dead and even if they issue 10 more of such resolutions it will not affect Iran's economy and policies," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to parliament broadcast live on state television.

01-21-07 - Pentagon sees U.S. war cost in Iraq rising The steadily rising Iraq war price tag will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year, Pentagon spokesmen said on Thursday, as heavy replacement costs for lost, destroyed and aging equipment mount

01-21-07 - Troop Escalation Could Delay US Departure From Iraq, Official Says

01-21-07 - Germany proposes wider Iran sanctions The European Union could expand the range of sanctions against Iran beyond United Nations-mandated measures, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.

01-21-07 - US plans to foment strife in Iran: Rezai ** "America will exploit (sanctions) against Iran to incite people to rise up against the (Islamic) revolution, provide aid to movements hostile to Iran, carry out operations inside Iran and promote a sectarian war," said Rezai, a former Revolutionary Guards commander. "An Iranian-US confrontation is inevitable," he said, adding that he would not rule out US missile strikes against Iran's nuclear installations.

01-21-07 - How Congress Can Stop the Iran Attack **

01-21-07 - Iraq war may intrude on Libby trial Libby's lawyers, Theodore Wells and William Jeffress, have labored to keep opponents of the war and the administration off the jury.

01-21-07 - Show Me The Intelligence

01-21-07 - Request for NBC reporter's notes withdrawn Defense in Libby trial had demanded to see notes related to CIA leak

01-21-07 - U.S., Iran and Venezuelan battling for influence in Ortega's new Nicaragua Ortega has avoided openly criticizing Washington, but his focus so far has been strengthening ties with Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, both of whom have agreed to spend billions of dollars around the globe on projects to counterbalance U.S. influence, especially in Latin America and Africa.

01-21-07 - US prison is 'threat' to Geneva treaties THE United States is undermining international law by unilaterally rejecting demands to grant detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp protection against mistreatment and torture, an influential committee of British MPs has warned.

01-21-07 - Ex-US official: Bush would approve Iran attack ** If all options were exhausted in the attempt to stop the Iranian nuclear project, and US military involvement was needed for a successful strike on Tehran, US President George Bush would give the green light for the operation, former director of the US Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, Richard Perle, told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday evening. Note who he is speaking to.

01-21-07 - US under secretary of state: We won't allow nuclear Iran' ** (VIDEO) Nicholas Burns says ?There is no doubt Iran seeking nuclear military weapons; stationing of two battle groups in Persian Gulf is part of our response?; adds: We are committed to being Israel's strongest security partner Note who he is speaking to.

01-21-07 - Pa. man's letter brings Secret Service Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who - I could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday.

01-21-07 - Action Alert! Google did it again! (updated) Google seems to dislike critics of the neocons.

01-21-07 - Israel, U.S. discuss Iran ** Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz hosted visiting U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns on Sunday for the first in a series of bilateral consultations on international efforts to ensure Iran does not acquire atomic weapons.

01-21-07 - Is Bush planning war against Iran? ** Bush appears to have been influenced by pro-Israeli advisers such as Eliott Abrams, the man in charge of the Middle East at the National Security Council, and by arm-chair strategists at neoconservative think-tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, who have long clamoured for "regime change" in Tehran.

01-21-07 - Inquiry into Lebanon war will decide the future of Olmert

01-21-07 - Gulf states to hold nuclear talks with UN watchdog At a summit in Riyadh last month, leaders of the oil-rich Arab monarchies in the Gulf outlined plans for a joint programme for the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

01-21-07 - Gen. Clark's Controversy "While we know (Clark) is a good friend of Israel and is not an anti-Semite, he still engaged in inappropriate language by talking about how Israel and Jewish money will move this country to war on Iran," Foxman said. Oh dear.

01-21-07 - Netanyahu: West must stop Iran from executing new Holocaust ** "When we are talking about rallying public opinion on genocide, who will lead the charge if not us?" he said. "No one will come defend the Jews if they no not defend themselves. This is the lesson of history." 2002, Netanyahu on Iraq: "Wolf! Wolf!". 2007, Netanyahu on Iran: "Wolf! Wolf!".

01-21-07 - From 2004: Agents of Influence Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq?

01-21-07 - Strategic talks with U.S. focus on Iranian threat Washington intends to pledge about $1 billion to rebuild Lebanon following last summer's war with Israel, they said, and it expects the Europeans and Saudi Arabia to make hefty pledges as well. Thus does America get stuck with cleaning up after Israel. If there were any justice, that money would be deducted from the 2007 US aid to Israel.

01-20-07 - Iran says forces ready for any threat

01-20-07 - U.S. plans envision broad attack on Iran: analyst ** "You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years

01-20-07 - Iraq Signals Changes in Protocols With Iran

01-20-07 - U.S. 'knew damn well' Arar would be tortured: senator

01-20-07 - Senators blast Bush security policies Influential senators on Thursday demanded that the Bush administration provide more details about its move to place its controversial National Security Agency domestic spying programme under supervision by a special court.

01-20-07 - "Cheney Has Stepped Way Over the Line" Prior to the March, 2003, invasion of Iraq, Cheney repeatedly visited the CIA headquarters and demanded that briefers confirm his personal theories about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and about supposed links between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.

01-20-07 - See the Superpower Run by Patrick J. Buchanan What we need to face now are the consequence of the folly of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice in launching this unnecessary and unprovoked war, the folly of the neocon snake oil salesmen who bamboozled the media into believing in this insane crusade to bring democracy to Baghdad in the belly of Bradley fighting vehicles and the folly of the Democratic establishment in handing Bush a blank check for war out of political fear of being called unpatriotic.

01-20-07 - Iraqi president urges US to talk to Syria Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is urging the United States to talk with Syria, claiming in an interview that Damascus "supports" Iraq in fighting the insurgency.

01-20-07 - Iranian lawmakers feared 'social upheaval' from sanctions An Iranian parliamentary report several months ago warned the powers in Tehran that heavy international sanctions could trigger internal instability and a social upheaval, it was reported.

01-20-07 - Bush briefed on Middle East trips Ms Rice rejected an appeal from the Emir of Kuwait to engage directly with both Iran and Syria to prevent the Iraq conflict spreading beyond its borders.

01-20-07 - Iran masses troops along borders with Iraq -- source

01-20-07 - NY Times: Parallels to Iraq in US strategy on Iran anger senator

01-20-07 - Lebanon opposition to stage national protest strike The Lebanese opposition has called for a one-day general strike, stepping up a protest campaign to bring down the Western-backed government that has paralysed the nation's leadership for weeks.

01-20-07 - PM: U.S. wants base in Czech Republic The United States has asked the Czech Republic to host a radar base that would be part of a global missile defense system, the prime minister announced Saturday, drawing a warning from Russia of retaliatory actions.

01-20-07 - Hezbollah threatens to block key roads across Lebanon Lebanese Hezbollah has threatened to block key roads across Lebanon as part of campaign to topple Prime Minister Fouad Seniora's government, the local Naharnet news website reported on Thursday.

01-20-07 - Official: U.S. Culture Dampens Extremism The country's history as an immigrant nation and its "experience with bringing in various groups and giving them, frankly, more opportunity than they might have elsewhere has helped us immeasurably" in dampening extremism, Hayden said Maybe the Europeans could take the cue...

01-20-07 - DoD procurement laws routinely broken, IG says

01-20-07 - Leak Lawyer Wants Bush Critics on Jury Fitzgerald told Walton that that defense attorneys had crossed the line when they told jurors the case was political and about war policies.

01-20-07 - Hostile Intent Just what is the Bush administration up to regarding Iran?

01-20-07 - Jewish groups to visit UAE, discuss Iran "The UAE is a critically important place on the issue of terrorism, the fight against extremism and Iran," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Presidents Conference, a 51-member umbrella organization that serves as the Jewish community's main collective voice on Middle East affairs. "We want to see improved relations with the U.S., of course, but also hope that this can foster relations with Israel."

01-20-07 - French politician fined for Holocaust denial A French court fined Gollnisch, deputy head of Jean-Marie LePen?s National Front Party in France and a member of the European Parliament, $6,450 and gave him a three-month suspended sentence for questioning in 2004 how many Jews died in the Holocaust and whether the Nazis had gas chambers in concentration camps. Where are the cries for freedom of speech in Europe now?....

01-20-07 - Senate bans lobbyist travel The Senate bill allows non-profit affiliates of lobbies to run tours for lawmakers, a provision that the pro-Israel lobby aggressively sought. That compromise preserves trips run by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has a non-profit spin-off, as well as those run by local Jewish federations that do not employ lobbyists. AIPAC wins (America loses).

01-20-07 - US homeland security market beckons Outsourcing our homeland security to a nation that routinely violates international and humanitarian law. ~Swell~.

01-19-07 - Dems seek to bar U.S. attack on Iran ** Democratic leaders in Congress lobbed a warning shot Friday at the White House not to launch an attack against Iran without first seeking approval from lawmakers.

01-19-07 - US alarmed by Chinese 'missile strike' on satellite

01-19-07 - Iran reportedly set for talks with U.S. President Jalal Talabani said in remarks published Friday that the Iranians were ready to meet with the U.S. for talks about security issues - part of an apparent effort by Talabani to encourage a dialogue between two nations that are increasingly at odds, and vital to Iraq.

01-19-07 - Iran complains about U.S. detentions Iran charged in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that the United States illegally attacked its consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil last week and demanded the immediate release of five detained Iranians.

01-19-07 - The battle to save Iraq's children The desperate plight of children who are dying in Iraqi hospitals for the lack of simple equipment that in some cases can cost as little as 95p is revealed today in a letter signed by nearly 100 eminent doctors.

01-19-07 - Iran accuses US of fanning tensions with Iraq The war of words between Iran and the United States has intensified, with a senior official pointedly accusing Washington of trying to drive a wedge between Tehran and Baghdad and of fanning tensions between Sunnis and Shiites.

01-19-07 - EU to move on imposing UN sanctions against Iran The European Union will call next week for the full and rapid implementation of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear programme. Because Condi won some concessions from Israel?....

01-19-07 - Retired Generals Criticize Bush?s Plan for Iraq

01-19-07 - Democracy Languishes, but Neo-Con Strategy Lives Thus, just as ousting the Taliban and capturing or killing bin Laden and his associates were depicted by the neo-cons five years ago as a mere prelude to the main business of decisively defeating Israel's regional foes, so the administration appears to have once again relegated both Afghanistan and al Qaeda to the margins in its war on terrorism, despite the Taliban's unexpected resurgence of the past year.

01-19-07 - U.S. Marine admits to shooting defenseless Iraqi A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Thursday to shooting a defenseless Iraqi grandfather dragged from his house in the middle of the night in what his squad informally called "Operation Vigilante."

01-19-07 - Moscow, Beijing eye space weapons

01-19-07 - Five Reasons Why I'll March on Jan. 27 (and You Should Too)

01-19-07 - Hume again declared Libby did not commit the "actual leak" in Plame case

01-19-07 - NY Times quoted Libby supporters, failed to ID them as officials of his legal defense fund NY Times - another part of the Israeli lobby.

01-19-07 - Stop the Next War Before it starts. Support H. J. Resolution 14.** Madam Speaker, after all, co-sponsored a bill during the last session of Congress, introduced by Rick Santorum and Ileana Ross-Lehtinen, both Republicans, that not only tightened sanctions on Iran, but also made "regime change" in Tehran official U.S. policy Pelosi is loyal to Israel.

01-19-07 - Perhaps Thinking of Legacy, Bush Has Rice on the Move ?I tend to place a lot of emphasis on the fact that people see their interests differently now than they did 5 years ago or 10 years ago," she said. "They see their interests less as continuing or having maximalist positions about this conflict and are more concerned about the kind of broad strategic picture." She said that the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon "was a major contributor to that shift in alignment" and that it made a Middle East peace deal more promising, and that toppling Saddam Hussein, despite the current violence within Iraq, removed what she called an "eastern front" against the Israelis. By removing regional threats to Israel in the region, 'peace is more promising' because Israel then does not feel the need to make any 'concessions' (giving stolen land back).

01-19-07 - Activists condemn Iran Holocaust meeting In a statement to be published next week, more than 100 Iranian activists outside that country have condemned its recent conference questioning the Holocaust.

01-19-07 - Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison

01-19-07 - Iraq Surge: Dilemma For Congress, Worries For Israel ** "Israelis and the American Jewish community are very concerned about Washington's total ineptitude in coming up with a strategy on Iran,"...But Jewish leaders are also wary of being seen as cheerleading for war with Iran. Too late. It is abundantly clear just who is pushing for this war. It is also clear that the US is being blamed for failure in Iraq - a war that was based on the Clean Break Strategy (crafted in Israel) and then foisted on this administration via the neocons. Read the entire article and note the unbridled chutzpah.

01-19-07 - Fox and Friends Finally Covers Libby Case For co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, the story of the Libby trial is that he's on trial and Sandy Berger isn't. Fox News - friends of the neocons.

01-19-07 - Bush's Plan: Resolve Without Prudence In this volatile part of the world, there's just one area where I wish President Bush would take more risks - and that's in diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. If you want to strike a blow at Iran, Sunni insurgents and Shiite death squads all at once, that's the way to do it

01-19-07 - Iran's President Did Not Say "Israel must be wiped off the map"

01-19-07 - Israel calls for harsher Iran sanctions

01-19-07 - Paper: Jordan King wants nuclear program Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons of its own, but has never officially confirmed that it does. Actually, yes Israel did confirm that it has nuclear weapons. A mere oversight on the part of the Associated Press, I'm sure. Mmm k.

01-19-07 - As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse

01-19-07 - Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs Experienced photo editors and other senior editorial staff went through thousands of images published during the Lebanon conflict. We are satisfied no other images were digitally altered.

01-19-07 - Rice's Mideast Trip; Obama And The Jews "The idea is that winning Arab support for what they?re doing in Iraq and what they are contemplating for Iran requires having something called a peace process. They?ve heard that from so many people that they can?t ignore it." As I have noted before, this whole new emphasis on the 'peace process' is, like with the case just prior to and after the runup to the Iraq war, a move to get other countries on board for their support for new military action - this time Iran.

01-19-07 - Michael Savage - part of the Israeli lobby?

01-19-07 - The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts As in so many things, conventional elite opinion lives in a bubble, believing mere assertion and ranting about anti-Semitism will carry the day. The New York Times featured a spectacularly disingenuous hatchet job by its deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, and another assault by former Clinton-era Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. The New York Times = Israel Lobby

01-19-07 - McCain Lines Up N.Y. Money Men, Raising Pressure on Rudy Giuliani For years, McCain, who has been calling for more American troops to be sent to Iraq, has developed strong ties with neoconservatives in Washington, sharing their hawkish voices on several key fronts.

01-19-07 - Why did The Israel Factor panelists downgrade Rice? The panelists who are worried by the possibility of American pressure on the Palestinian issue lowered her grade because they believe that some of her statements show she is over-committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

01-18-07 - US congressmen seek Iran block ** One of the Democrats who supports the legislation said that a new resolution was needed because the Bush administration had lied so many times in the run up to the Iraq war.

01-18-07 - IAEA suspends some technical aid to Iran

01-18-07 - Iraq tells Iran, US to take their fight elsewhere Iraq told the United States and Iran to settle their scores elsewhere, while the US military confirmed it had searched Sudan's embassy in Baghdad as part of an anti-insurgent operation.

01-18-07 - Rice resists seeking talks with Iran Until the Iranians comply, "this is not the time to break a long-standing American policy of not engaging with the Iranians bilaterally," Rice said during a press conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

01-18-07 - Iran offered to cut off Hezbollah in overture to US in 2003: BBC Iran offered to cut off aid and support for the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas, and promised full transparency on its nuclear program in a secret letter to the United States soon after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British media reported.

01-18-07 - Iran offers to help train, equip Iraqi forces

01-18-07 - Report: Cheney rejected Iran's offer of concessions in 2003 A package of concessions offered to the US by Iran in 2003 was very close to what the US is now asking from Tehran.

01-18-07 - US forces raid Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq In recent months Turkey has repeatedly asked the United States to move against PKK camps in northern Iraq but the US authorities have refused to act, saying their forces in Iraq are already stretched.

01-18-07 - Vast Data Collection Plan Faces Big Delay

01-18-07 - Gates: Iranians 'overplaying their hand' The Iranians are "overplaying their hand" on the world stage in a belief that setbacks in Iraq have weakened the United States, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

01-18-07 - Senators denounce Iraq buildup as against US interests

01-18-07 - Bush Backs Down on Warrantless Wiretaps The Congress still needs to investigate whether the warrantless wiretapping program was used to monitor not merely terrorist threats but domestic dissent.

01-18-07 - Libby on Trial The witness list is a veritable who's who of the OVP, and the Washington press corps, with some CIA to spice up the mix: star witnesses include Cheney, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Colin Powell. The prosecution is out to prove that, in an effort to throw sand in the faces of investigators, the defendant deliberately misled them as to his interactions with the media. Power to the (special) prosecutor.

01-18-07 - Iraq rape soldier to plead guilty A US soldier has agreed to plead guilty in the rape of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her and her family in the Iraqi town of Mahmudiya last year

01-18-07 - US sets terrorism trial rules The new rules for military courts in the US allow convicted terrorists to be imprisoned or put to death using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony.

01-18-07 - U.S. Launches Armed Force to Block Iranian Influence in Iraq ** U.S. officials see Iranian fingerprints in violent attacks throughout Iraq and all but blame Iran for complicity in the deaths of American soldiers. This is the type of propaganda that the NY Sun was referring to when it alleged that Larry Franklin is vindicated. But it's just that - propaganda. Because we are about to attack Iran (a goal of Aipac/neocons).

01-18-07 - Iranians' love affair with America We can blame the Bush administration's poor grasp of daily realities in Iran on an almost three-decade-long freeze of contact between the American and Iranian governments. As a result of this isolation, so-called experts who have never been to Iran (or at least not since the Islamic Revolution of 1979) advise US government officials on the opinions of the Iranian populace. The comment by one influential US scholar comparing Iran to a concentration camp in which people would rather be bombed than live another day under such conditions, is a glaring example of misinformation.

01-18-07 - Simplify, then exaggerate:the neo-cons' route to disaster The "surge" idea was developed and promoted at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think-tank that has long served as neo-con central. The neo-cons, like President Bush, are getting another throw of the dice in Iraq......the experience of recent years should caution against basing policy on the urgings of neo-conservative journalists, no matter how persuasively they write.

01-18-07 - US condemns China 'space weapon' The United States, Australia and Canada have criticised China over a weapons test it is said to have carried out in space last week.

01-18-07 - Vindicating Larry Franklin Franklin, it turns out, was trying ? unconventionally ? to influence a debate in the administration in 2003 over a national security policy directive regarding Iran. He provided Aipac's Iran specialists, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, with his own list of specific instances of how Iran was sending teams from its Quds Force to sow terror, kill American soldiers, and pose a threat to Israeli operatives in northern Iraq Actually, all the latest news about Iran and etc has proven is that the Israeli lobby (via AIPAC, the neocons, and their cohorts at news outlets such as Fox News, the AP, etc) have still succeeded in lobbying the US to deal with Iran despite the Larry Franklin/AIPAC scandal. (And the NY Sun is a part of this lobby).

01-18-07 - Iraqi Refugees: Resettle the Most Vulnerable Although the violence in Iraq is so extreme that all civilians are at risk regardless of their religion or ethnicity, certain groups are particularly vulnerable. One such group is the Palestinians of Iraq.

01-18-07 - CIA leak case figures reject Cheney immunity

01-18-07 - Rice to brief PM on Mid-East tour

01-18-07 - Internet as Political Force Grows, Poll Finds The survey indicates that 11 percent of Internet users have become online political activists, defined as users who posted their own commentary to a newsgroup, Web site or blog, or posted or forwarded someone else's commentary, video or audio recordings.

01-18-07 - Response to Tough Dove on Dual Loyalty Charge, and Others I don't think a Washington thinktank should tell us to invade Iraq based on the views of someone who is voting in both Israel and the U.S.?without telling us as much. I don't think the New Yorker should be running pieces on All the good reasons to invade Iraq by a guy who served in the Israeli military, without telling us that

01-18-07 - Olmert seeks to cool rhetoric on Iran Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has appealed to fellow politicians to cool their rhetoric about Iran?s nuclear ambitions and stop instilling in the public a fear that they threaten Israel?s existence. 'This fear campaign is directed at the American sheeple, it's not meant to scare our people, dammit!'

01-18-07 - New resident: No gov't will return Golan to Syria Construction continues in the Golan, despite media reports, which were denied Tuesday by the Prime Minister, of contact between Israel and Syria as a prelude to peace.

01-18-07 - Middle East hasn't turned out the way Bush, Rice predicted

01-18-07 - Lebanon says needs massive global aid Immediate material damage from the war has been put at 3.5 billion dollars in a country where public debt currently runs at 41 billion dollars -- or more than 180 percent of gross domestic product. Send the bill to Israel.

01-18-07 - The death of Saddam

01-18-07 - UN head says will work toward captive IDF soldiers' release "The UN needs to deal more with the Iranian threat," Gillerman said. Ban replied that denying the Holocaust, and the declarations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel's destruction, are unacceptable.

01-17-07 - Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure **

01-17-07 - Iran invites IAEA envoys to visit nuclear sites Iran has invited envoys from developing nations accredited to the U.N. nuclear watchdog to visit its nuclear sites in a show of openness about its atomic fuel program, diplomats said.

01-17-07 - Iran ready but says strike on nuclear sites unlikely ** Iran believes a military strike against its nuclear installations is highly improbable but has nonetheless taken the necessary precautions in case it is attacked, top officials have said.

01-17-07 - Senators oppose Iraq troop boost The three senators behind the non-binding resolution are Democrats Joseph Biden and Carl Levin, and Republican Chuck Hagel, a long-standing critic of the war.

01-17-07 - Despite Charges, No Evidence Iran Sending IEDs to Iraq

01-17-07 - NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. turns focus to Iran ** Provocative words by President Bush and a fresh American military buildup in the Persian Gulf seem to mark a new focus on Iran that could signal another Cold War or even a deadly confrontation.

01-17-07 - U.S. Offers Scant Help to Fleeing Refugees The burden of the refugee flow is falling mainly on Jordan and Syria whose social welfare and education systems have been unable to absorb the influx. UNHCR estimates that some 700,000 Iraqis are currently living in Jordan and another 600,000 in Syria.

01-17-07 - History is not preordained: a new cold war can be averted : Mikhail Gorbachev

01-17-07 - Dictator's hanging was botched: Bush The comments came as Mr Bush conceded in a television interview that the invasion of Iraq had greatly destabilised the country - although he insisted that Iraqis should still be grateful to the US for starting the war.

01-17-07 - Top Iraqi condemns US over Iran

01-17-07 - Protesters' Names in Pentagon Database A Defense Department database devoted to gathering information on potential threats to military facilities and personnel, known as Talon, had 13,000 entries as of a year ago ? including 2,821 reports involving American citizens, according to an internal Pentagon memo to be released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

01-17-07 - Military Members Make an Antiwar Plea on Capitol Hill

01-17-07 - Bill Would Require Congress Approval to Increase US Troops in Iraq In a statement, the office of Senator Chris Dodd said the original US military mission in Iraq, which Congress authorized in 2002, "has been radically transformed by events in the region," and that Bush therefore must seek an entirely new authorization from the US legislature before expanding it.

01-17-07 - Bush administration provokes open war on Iran **

01-17-07 - Saudi Arabia casts wary eye on its Shiites

01-17-07 - Reclaiming our America It's up to us ordinary citizens to do what our government fails or refuses to do : to uphold the ideals that were envisioned by our founding fathers - to stand up for justice.

01-17-07 - RJC demands Clark apology The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Wesley Clark to apologize for claiming that ?New York money people? were trying to push the United States into war with Iran.

01-17-07 - Growing role of military irks U.S. allies

01-17-07 - Israeli Army 'delighted' at reported selection for new head of UNIFIL Last week, Israeli Army officers bid "good riddance" to Pellegrini, whom they claimed was pro-Hizbullah and had not made sufficient efforts to prevent the resistance from rearming along the Lebanese border with Israel.

01-17-07 - 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel

01-17-07 - Thousands gather in Beirut to celebrate Halutz resignation

01-17-07 - What's next -- war with Iran? ** The American Jewish Committee took out a full page ad in The New York Times showing Iran in the center of concentric circles, including all the Middle East and beyond, asking: "Can anyone within range of Iran's missiles feel safe?"

01-17-07 - The Bush Threat to Iran ** Israel and its friends have been pressing for such an attack, or threatening that Israel might make such an attack itself.

01-17-07 - Israel Warns Russia on Iran Arms Sale ** Defense officials predicted the systems would be used to defend Iran's nuclear facilities, particularly the uranium enrichment center at Natanz.

01-17-07 - Gulf group: Israel-Palestinian conflict key to peace The United States joined a statement saying that the Middle East would never be stable without a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

01-17-07 - Rabbi calls on world to curb Iran

01-17-07 - Syrian state media call for Israeli pledge on Golan heights

01-17-07 - Israeli foreign minister says Iran spreading radical ideology Sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are not working, Israel's foreign minister said during a visit to Tokyo on Wednesday, and accused the Islamic country of spreading radical ideology around the Middle East.

01-17-07 - Inquest finds Israel had 'no clear objective' during war

01-17-07 - Rice wraps up Middle East mission Most Arab rulers are worried about Iran's new regional power and secretly wish it could be cut down to size - but not if that means military action by the United States or Israel, something they fear would further destabilise an already turbulent Middle East.

01-16-07 - UN marks soaring Iraq death toll More than 34,000 civilians were killed in violence in Iraq during 2006, a UN human rights official has said.

01-16-07 - Allies 'go after' Iran as beefed-up naval force sails for Gulf ** Britain?s contribution is two minehunters HMS Blyth and HMS Ramsey, which will remain in the Gulf for an unusually-long two-year mission to keep shipping routes open in the event that Iran attempts to block oil exports.

01-16-07 - Terror: 'We're Going to Get Hit' Agitprop via MSNBC. Must get sheep lined up for new boom boom in Middle East.

01-16-07 - Escalation Against Iran ** This has to be called escalation. We have to remind ourselves, just as Iran is supporting groups inside Iraq, the United States is supporting groups inside Iran. Just as Iran has special operations troops operating inside Iraq, we?ve read the United States has special operations troops operating inside Iran. Good point.

01-16-07 - Iraq edges closer to Iran, with or without the U.S. "We, as Iraqis, have our own interest," Zebari said in an interview with The Times. "We are bound by geographic destiny to live with" Iran, adding that the Iraqi government wanted "to engage them constructively."

01-16-07 - Judge rules agent can sue CIA The lawsuit said Doe's CIA superiors either refused to disseminate the intelligence or demanded he falsify his report to indicate several countries were developing the weapons.

01-16-07 - AP: Iran gets army gear in Pentagon sale Fighter jet parts and other sensitive U.S. military gear seized from front companies for Iran and brokers for China have been traced in criminal cases to a surprising source: the Pentagon.

01-16-07 - Russia completes delivery of missiles to Iran ** Russia has completed delivery of TOR-M1 surface-to-air missile defence systems to Iran, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said

01-16-07 - Mr. Bush, Meet Walter Jones by Patrick J. Buchanan ** The day after Bush's threat to Iran, Jones introduced a Joint Resolution, "Concerning the Use of Military Force by the United States Against Iran." Under HJR 14, "Absent a national emergency created by attack by Iran, or a demonstrably imminent attack by Iran, upon the United States, its territories, possessions, or its armed forces, the president shall consult with Congress, and receive specific authorization pursuant to law from Congress, prior to initiating any use of force on Iran."

01-16-07 - Iran president sends note to Saudi king Iran's overture to Saudi Arabia appeared to be an attempt to counter American efforts to rally its allies in the region and isolate Tehran.

01-16-07 - Spain seeks US soldiers' arrest

01-16-07 - U.S. push to strip Iran of aid resisted

01-16-07 - Rice could testify in Libby trial Cheney has already said he expected to testify. Others on the list include White House political advisor Karl Rove, former CIA director George Tenet and former Pentagon secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

01-16-07 - Arab states watch Iraq with dread Washington's main Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, have watched the recent rise of Iranian power and influence in the Middle East with mounting trepidation. But they are reluctant to be drawn into an anti-Iranian regional alliance led by an unpopular United States, especially if such an alliance tacitly included Israel.

01-16-07 - Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations The US, the IMF and their allies are using fear to pursue their agenda of privatising and selling off Iraq's oil resources

01-16-07 - US, Arab allies call on Iran not to meddle in Iraq US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and eight Arab counterparts called on Iran not to meddle in Iraq's affairs after discussing Washington's plan to quell sectarian violence in the country, Kuwait's foreign minister said.

01-16-07 - Palestinian Killed By Unexploded Israeli Ordnance In South Lebanon A Palestinian man was killed in southern Lebanon Tuesday when he tried to defuse an unexploded Israeli bomb, police said

01-16-07 - Growing pressure on Ahmadinejad A group of reformist and moderate members of parliament have now started collecting signatures to summon him to answer questions about his policies.

01-16-07 - Critics See 'Slippery Slope' in Reintroduced Federal 'Hate Crimes' Law Opponents of the bill believe it threatens free speech by opening the door for legislation aimed at curbing offensive speech.

01-16-07 - Chirac wants envoy to Iran Officials said the purpose of a visit would be to discuss regional stability, including the situation in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories and not to hold a separate discussion of the nuclear dossier.

01-16-07 - Turkey plans to extend gas, oil and water pipelines to Israel The oil shipments to Israel would be delivered through an extension of either an existing Iraqi oil pipeline to Ceyhan or one that Turkey is planning to build from Samsun to Ceyhan to export Caspian oil, the ministry said.

01-16-07 - Israel's military chief resigns The head of Israel's armed forces, Lt Gen Dan Halutz, has resigned amid inquiries into last summer's conflict with Hezbollah, the military has said.

01-16-07 - Gulf Arabs, Jordan back US plan on Iraq Moderate Arab states told the United States they supported President George W Bush's plan for a military buildup in Iraq, hoping it would halt a slide to civil war. Hmm..related to Israel's latest 'peace moves' today?

01-16-07 - Saudi Arabian court upholds ban on head crucifixes A court on Monday upheld a ban on Christian teachers wearing crucifixes in the schools of Saudi Arabia under a law that says teachers' attire must be in line with "Islamic" values. play on words there.

01-16-07 - U.S. officials: Cheney was kept abreast of Israel-Syria talks These meetings, which took place in Beirut, were also attended by two former senior Central Intelligence Agency officials. Haaretz reported at the time that Cheney also know about the existence of these meetings, and received regular reports from the American participants.

01-16-07 - Russian Jewish banker charged in murder

01-16-07 - Secret talks led to Israeli-Syrian peace roadmap, paper claims

01-16-07 - Hezbollah Inside America: FOX News Tells All in Documentary** This is pure propaganda - a la Fox News - to get you to believe that (another) one of Israel's enemies is our own (to justify an upcoming attack on Iran-who purportedly sponsors Hezb).

01-16-07 - Jordanians becoming increasingly disenchanted with U.S. policies

01-15-07 - How US is deferring war costs As war spending on Iraq and Afghanistan nears the levels for Vietnam and Korea, concern is rising over the 'borrow now, pay later' approach. Send the bill to Halliburton and the neocons.

01-15-07 - Iran says pressing ahead with expanded enrichment

01-15-07 - Gates: Time is not right for Iran talks **

01-15-07 - Criticism of Iraq hangings grows United Nations and European Union leaders have condemned the executions in Baghdad of two of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's top aides.

01-15-07 - On the Mideast Escalator by Rep. Ron Paul ** As I said last week on the House floor, speculation in Washington focuses on when, not if, either Israel or the U.S. will bomb Iran ? possibly with nuclear weapons. The accusation sounds very familiar: namely, that Iran possesses weapons of mass destruction. Iran has never been found in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and our own Central Intelligence Agency says Iran is more than 10 years away from producing any kind of nuclear weapon. Yet we are told we must act immediately while we still can!

01-15-07 - It's All About Iran ** Washington wants war?

01-15-07 - Russian Admiral Says U.S. Navy Prepares Missile Strike on Iran **

01-15-07 - Iran's leader urges Muslim unity He told a gathering of Shia and Sunni scholars the US and Israel were trying to sow seeds of sectarian division in order to bring insecurity to Iraq.

01-15-07 - Washington trial forces Cheney into the spotlight It is not clear whether Mr Cheney will appear in court in person or give evidence by video-conference. Either way, however, his cross-examination by the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most tenacious lawyers in the US, could be a courtroom clash for the age. How I wish I could watch.

01-15-07 - Rice seeks Saudi backing on Iraq

01-15-07 - Is Iran driving new Saudi diplomacy?

01-15-07 - Rice: UN sanctions on Iran 'not enough'

01-15-07 - Tehran largest donor in �500m Muslim pledges to Palestinians An international boycott of the Hamas-led authority imposed last year has given Iran an opportunity to increase its influence. If the US, goaded on by Israel, hadn't besieged the Palestinians for over a year by allowing Israel to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in tax customs, then the Palestinians would not have been forced into the arms of others. This must be rocket science.

01-15-07 - Politics at forefront in Libby trial

01-15-07 - Major investment bank issues warning on strike against Iran ** Preisdent Bush recently removed General John Abizaid as commander of US forces in the Middle East and John Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence, both of whom have said attacking Iran is not a priority or the right move at this time.

01-15-07 - Israeli strategic chief proposes peace plan with Syria "We should not keep to old territorial formulas, and there is no more reason to think that the price of peace with Syria is a complete withdrawal from the Golan,"

01-15-07 - US blocking Lebanon reconciliation: Hezbollah chief

01-15-07 - Secret understandings reached between representatives from Israel and Syria Aronson said the idea of a park on the Golan Heights allows for the Syrian demand that Israel pull back to the June 4 border, on the one hand, while on the other hand, the park eliminates Israeli concerns that Syrians will have access to the water sources of Lake Kinneret.

01-15-07 - It's Not Torture and It Is Necessary by Rabbi Aryeh Spero

01-15-07 - Outside View: Iran must be stopped 'Their aim is to become a hegemony. Their aim is to drive the United States out (of the Middle East) and replace it. If they become a nuclear power it can start a nuclear arms race with Turkey and others. I don't think that the U.S. and the West can allow such a thing,' Sounds like Ayalon is talking about Israel. Read on about Ayalon and Israel's 'demographic' problem.

01-15-07 - What to Do About Iran? A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...

01-14-07 - White House: Can't rule out attack on Iran ** on ABC's "This Week," Hadley would not rule out the possibility of such an attack and would not say whether he agrees with those senators who say that the Bush administration would need congressional backing for such a move. Hadley is a neocon.

01-14-07 - Cheney says critics of new US Iraq plan play into hands of Bin Laden Cheney plays the terror card (again).

01-14-07 - Top Iran official meets Saudi monarch Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani held talks with Saudi King Abdullah, the official SPA official news agency reported.

01-14-07 - US under fire in Mideast over Iraq plan "The American administration has no right to ask Iraqis and other countries of the region to follow its strategy... when the administration itself is incapable of convincing even Americans of this policy,"

01-14-07 - U.S. accuses Iran over officials seized in Iraq ** The United States accused five Iranians it arrested in Iraq of running arms and money to Iraqi militants as Iraq joined Iran in calling for the men's release. Washington also told Arab allies it would do more to contain Tehran.

01-14-07 - Cheney admits expanded military spying role inside US

01-14-07 - Anti-U.S. allies Venezuela and Iran seek OPEC oil cut Venezuela and Iran strengthened their growing ties on Saturday with a stream of anti-U.S. statements, various commercial agreements and a pledge to push for a cut in world oil supplies to counter plunging prices.

01-14-07 - Libby Trial May Show Cheney's Role in Run-Up to War

01-14-07 - Pentagon Using Little-Known Power to Obtain Financial Records of Americans

01-14-07 - UN-weary, US opts for unilateral moves against Iran ** US administration officials now describe Iran as the single greatest threat the United States faces in the Middle East. Why, what a coincidence! Because Israel has made the same announcement (after we took care of Iraq for them).

01-14-07 - Cheney: U.S. Will Work With Allies to Prevent Iranian Adventurism

01-14-07 - Senators: Cross-border raids not approved ** U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during hearings Thursday that the administration doesn't have the authority to send troops into Iran and Syria as part of Iraq operations, CNN reported Friday.

01-14-07 - John Bolton: Mideast Peace Efforts a Waste Now back at American Enterprise Institute, Bolton let loose on a variety of topics during the interview, from negotiating nuclear weapons with Iran to the reunification of the Korean peninsula....Regime change, he said is "preferable" to a U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear sites, though ?the only course worse than the use of force is an Iran with nuclear weapons." Bolton's back at neocon central with the rest of the bellicose Israel-firsters.

01-14-07 - America threatens to 'deal with' Iran over its support for insurgents **

01-14-07 - Iraq's Talabani arrives in Syria Jalal Talabani has arrived for talks in Syria, becoming the first Iraqi president to pay an official visit to the country in nearly 30 years.

01-14-07 - Iran demands nationals' release **

01-14-07 - Arabs look to link Iraq, Mideast deal It echoes widespread Arab feelings that a lasting Middle East peace cannot be achieved as long as Israel doesn't reach a settlement to hand over lands it occupied during the 1967 Mideast war to the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

01-14-07 - NGOs to sue US over WMD claims SOME 30 non-governmental organisations in Niger said overnight they are going to sue the United States for nearly two billion dollars for "unfairly accusing" Niger of selling uranium to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

01-14-07 - Germans critical of US pressure The US was criticised for pressing German companies to cut business ties with Iran yesterday after Commerzbank decided to end dollar transactions with Tehran.

01-14-07 - Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal

01-14-07 - Hezbollah chief: Hariri probe political Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the U.N. Security Council debate over naming the 10 nations was further proof that the investigation into Hariri's February 2005 killing was being politicized.

01-14-07 - House resolution calls for Ahmadinejad genocide charges The non-binding resolution brought last week to the House?s Foreign Affairs Committee and initiated by Reps. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), says statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the destruction of Israel amount to crimes according to the 1948 Convention on Genocide genocide def - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group . Who has driven nearly 3/4 million people from their homes, who has wiped Palestine off the map, who continues to squeeze a people into smaller and smaller areas of land by unlawful land confiscation (this includes by way of the wall)? Is it the Palestinians? And what of Avigdor Lieberman's comments calling on Israel to transfer the Arabs out of that country, hmm? He was just put in a very powerful position in the Israeli government. Can you say HYPOCRISY.

01-14-07 - New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home What he and the Iranian president have in common, he explained, is their belief that the Holocaust has been exploited to justify the existence of Israel.

01-14-07 - Damra now gone, but saga continues Damra's deliverance to an Israeli checkpoint stokes suspicion that U.S. immigration authorities never intended to deport him to the West Bank, or just didn't care where he landed. Some are calling Damra's deportation an "extraordinary rendition," a reference to the shadowy practice of sending suspected terrorists to nations where they could be punished or interrogated under less-strict laws.

01-14-07 - Talk of Israeli strike in Iran shows risks-Rice U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that speculation about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities underscored the risk of failing to persuade Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.

01-14-07 - Halutz: Military intelligence shows Syria is not preparing for war

01-14-07 - Clinton vs. McCain: Who's really better for Israel? Whose really better for America (never gets factored in both here and there)?

01-14-07 - Germany revives plan to outlaw Holocaust denial throughout EU "This would give a good signal that there are no safe havens for racists or xenophobes in Europe." Really? But it was ok to publish those Mohammed cartoons knowing full well the ramifications. This double standard is not lost on the people of the world.

01-13-07 - Syria insists it is cooperating on Iraqi security "Contrary to arguments circulating in the media and political circles, Syria has cooperated, and continues to cooperate, on securing and stabilizing the situation in Iraq,"

01-13-07 - Rice: U.S. aims to curb Iran aggression U.S. raids that President Bush approved against Iranian targets in Iraq are part of broad efforts to confront Tehran's aggression, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. Oh the irony.

01-13-07 - U.S. Forces Fighting Iranians In Iraq ** Pentagon sources tell CBS News the U.S. military has planned covert cross-border raids into Iran ? but so far none has been approved.

01-13-07 - US sends warplanes to Turkey''s Incirlik military base **

01-13-07 - Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection

01-13-07 - Russia backs Syria in probe request In an attempt to help its ally Syria, which so far has been singled out as refusing to cooperate with the U.N. investigation, Russia has asked that all countries not fully cooperating be publicly named. If one of the (nations that are not cooperating) were Syria, it would be trumpeted on every major US news source for a time.

01-13-07 - China tells U.S. not to meddle in ties with Iran

01-13-07 - More American soldiers seeking to flee to Canada, group says

01-13-07 - US seeks to banish Iran war 'rumor' ** Too late. The cat ain't going back into the bag.

01-13-07 - Iran president tours Latin America bolstering anti-US ties

01-13-07 - Lebanon opposition protests slow pace of murder cases "We want to know why the government doesn't reveal the truth about these political assassinations," read banners carried by some of the 1,000-odd people who took part in the sit-in protest.

01-13-07 - Bush's Iraq Plan - Goading Iran Into War ** The next move may be Iran's. Tehran has likely sniffed the trap and will sit idly by for now and deprive the Bush administration of a pretext for escalation. But continued provocations from the U.S. through additional raids of Iranian consulates and offices will likely lead to an intentional or unintentional response, after which escalation and war may become reality. Iran has at times failed to exhibit the discipline necessary to refrain from responding to aggressions.

01-13-07 - Torn loyalties of Israel's Iranian Jews Yossi Melman, the author of a forthcoming book on Iran's nuclear programme, says concerns about an Iranian attack have been exaggerated, an unusual view here in Israel.

01-13-07 - Why Condemning Israel and the Zionist Lobby is so Important

01-12-07 - For US troops, new duties, more danger On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, many military officers and analysts predicted that US and coalition forces would have to fight their way into Baghdad and then conduct the kind of house-to-house urban warfare against Republican Guard and Fedayeen Saddam troops that is the most dangerous and the most deadly. Speaking of urban warfare. And again.

01-12-07 - US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomads

01-12-07 - Detained Iranians had Iraq approval The Iraqi foreign minister said Friday that the five Iranians detained by U.S.-led forces in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq were working in a liaison office that had government approval and was in the process of being approved as a consulate.

01-12-07 - US under fire for swoop on Iranian office in Iraq A night-time swoop by US forces on an Iranian office in northern Iraq triggered strong criticism, with Kurdish leaders and even Moscow branding the raid unacceptable.

01-12-07 - McCain defends Bush's Iraq strategy ** "I want to address kind of a rumor and urban legend that's going around, and it comes from language in the president's Wednesday night address to the nation, that in talking about Iran and Syria that he was trying to prepare the way for war with either country and that there are war preparations under way, Snow said. "There are not." Mm k, Tony.

01-12-07 - Rice denies US 'escalating Iraq'

01-12-07 - US won't set troop withdrawal timetable

01-12-07 - Negroponte: Al-Qaida the biggest threat In his annual review of global threats, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte highlighted an increasingly worrisome assessment of Hezbollah - backed by Iran and Syria - since its 34-day war with Israel last year. Negroponte suddenly sings the neocon tune.

01-12-07 - Video: Recent US actions could signal Iran conflict, despite White House denials; GOPer's bill requires Congress OK on Iran **

01-12-07 - Iran and Syria in the Crosshairs **

01-12-07 - Cheney enters the twilight of his career while Cheney himself is in the twilight days of his political career, he's still there, with little evidence that his influence with Bush has waned. Bush is merely a front man to Cheney and his gaggle of neocons.

01-12-07 - UPI Intelligence Watch ** "President Bush is using the idea of security in Iraq to put himself in a better position to strike Iran. And this is the one thing politically that he can control in the United States to prove who's really in charge,"

01-12-07 - White House Spokesman Blasts Sen. Boxer's Exchange With Secretary Rice "I spoke the truth at the committee hearing, which is that neither Secretary Rice nor I have family members that will pay the price for this escalation. My point was to focus attention on our military families who continue to sacrifice because this Administration has not developed a political solution to the situation in Iraq."

01-12-07 - Poll: Two-thirds of Americans oppose more troops in Iraq The will of the American people is not being adequately represented in Washington.

01-12-07 - US says raid in N. Iraq, capture of Iranians, based on plans "to kill "It is important to go after people who are trying to kill Americans," Snow said during a White House briefing

01-12-07 - Eye on Iraq: An admiral to command a land war?** President George W. Bush's choice of a Navy admiral to head Central Command after Gen. John P. Abizaid has set tongues wagging. Why send an admiral to command a land battle unless you don't expect the battle to remain a land one? Because we are going to attack Iran.

01-12-07 - Escalation is Hardly the Answer By Congressman Ron Paul ** We should remember that Iran, like Iraq, is a third-world nation without a significant military. Nothing in history hints that she is likely to invade a neighboring country, let alone do anything to America or Israel. I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.

01-12-07 - Rice offers to meet Iranian ladership if it suspends uranium enrichment U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday she was ready to meet "any time, anywhere" with Iran's leadership if it suspended its enrichment of uranium.

01-12-07 - Iran cleric raps Bush's 'ignorance' Bush on Iraq US President George W. Bush's plan to dispatch more troops to Iraq is a sign of his ignorance and a move that he will come to regret, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati has warned.

01-12-07 - Rice says Bush authorized raid on Iranians in Iraq: report ** Administration officials now describe Iran as the single greatest threat the United States faces in the Middle East, though some administration critics regard the talk about Iran as a diversion, one intended to shift attention away from the spiraling chaos in Iraq, the report said.

01-12-07 - Iran summons Iraqi, Swiss ambassadors after US raid

01-12-07 - Iraqi president to visit Syria on Sunday Qaradaghi would not elaborate on Talabani's goals for the visit. But the Iraqi president was expected to discuss security on the country's long desert border with Syria.

01-12-07 - Bush's ace up his sleeve by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What Bush signaled in the clear Wednesday is that air strikes on Iranian "networks" are being planned. That would produce an Iranian response. That response would trigger U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, for which Israel and the neocons are howling.

01-12-07 - Iran conservatives scold fiery Ahmadinejad "At the very moment that the nuclear issue was about to move away from the UN Security Council, the fiery speeches of the president have resulted in the adoption of two resolutions (against Iran),"

01-12-07 - The Lebanese deserve to know who is not cooperating with the Hariri probe If Syria was one of the countries not cooperating, it would surely be headlined by now.

01-12-07 - Beyond the Call to Surge, the Need to Purge Our Media There was no analysis of likely consequences especially the threats to attack Syria and Iran. In short, there was no reporting. How is this possible on an event that had been hyped for a week and whose key tenets were well known BEFORE it was delivered? Who wants America to stay in Iraq? Who wants America to attack Iran and Syria (same culprit for both)? And why is the media still beholden to this group?

01-12-07 - The "Surge" Is A Red Herring ** Near the end of his "surge" speech, Bush adopts the neoconservative program as US policy. The struggle, Bush says, echoing the neoconservatives and the Israeli right-wing, goes far beyond Iraq.

01-12-07 - Baghdad Crackdown ** Bush knows that if Iran was seriously involved in arming the Iraqi resistance, we?d be seeing the Russian-made, armor-piercing rocket launchers that were used so effectively by Hezbollah during their 34 day war with Israel. That hasn?t been the case.

01-12-07 - From Mar. 2006: Top U.S. Military Official: No Evidence of Iran Involvement in Iraq ** Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, said today he has no evidence the Iranian government has been sending military equipment and personnel into neighboring Iraq.

01-12-07 - From Oct 2006: British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran **

01-12-07 - Libby perjury and obstruction trial set to begin

01-12-07 - Jimmy Carter Speaks Truth to Propaganda We must not let the Israel Lobby get away with demonizing an American president who dares to stand up to their lies. It's a good book.

01-12-07 - Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave ** In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so far, despite generally being allowed to travel to Israel and emigrate abroad, Iranian Jews have stayed put. Why are they encouraging Iranian Jews to leave Iran, know something we don't?

01-12-07 - Oil edges up on Opec speculation

01-12-07 - Sharon advised Bush: You need Iraq exit plan The former Israeli prime minister, who has been in a coma for a year, met with Bush in early 2003, prior to the U.S. invasion. According to a report in the Forward this week, Sharon said he believed, as Bush did, that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the region. No sh#t?

01-12-07 - Uranium 'killing Italian troops' The US says it fired around 40,000 depleted uranium rounds during the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts.

01-12-07 - Advocate Criticizes Govt Data Mining

01-12-07 - Action against Iran, Syria could escalate conflict: Rudd **

01-12-07 - Iranian bank denies U.S. charge it is a weapons proliferator Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah on Wednesday denied U.S. charges it was helping the country to acquire nuclear weapons and threatened unspecified legal action, an Iranian news agency said.

01-12-07 - Blair says UK must continue fighting wars

01-12-07 - Hezbollah weapons and supplies found hidden along northern border The patrol found the supplies within Israeli territory, but on the Lebanese side of the Israeli-constructed border fence. The action represents the first time Israeli soldiers have crossed the border fence since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in the wake of the second Lebanon war.

01-12-07 - US churches chief resists Bush's urge to surge

01-12-07 - Did We Just Declare War on Iran? ** Biden looked sternly at the secretary and made one last point: "If the president concluded he had to invade Iran ? or Syria in pursuit of these networks, I believe the present authorization granted the president to use force in Iraq does not cover that and he does need congressional authority to do that. ? I just want to set that marker."

01-12-07 - U.S. delivers Hummers to Lebanon The delivery was part of a U.S. effort to bolster Lebanon?s western-leaning government against Syria and Hezbollah

01-12-07 - U.S. policies have made Israel less safe, experts say The conclusion that the United States has made Israel less safe and the growing criticism of Bush administration policy are ironic, to put it mildly. Securing Israel, America's closest ally in the region, was one of the Bush administration's justifications for toppling Saddam and for promoting democracy throughout the region America invaded Iraq at the behest of Israel and its minions in the US - the neocons. In fact, it's safe to say that Bush's entire Middle East agenda is crafted by Cheney and the neocons. He sure as hell isn't listening to the ISG, now is he? Bush relied heavily on Natan Sharansky's book about Middle Eastern democracy as well. All of these policies are now backfiring, and it's all being blamed on Bush. Half of the blame rests with Israel and the neocons. None of these policies have made the US any safer. To the contrary. The US (again at the behest of Israel) has run roughshod over moderates in the region and has refused to engage in diplomacy in the region - thereby encouraging extremism. Diplomacy at the barrel of a gun will continue to bite us in the ass (as it has done with Israel) over time.

01-12-07 - Syria: No preconditions to Israeli talks

01-12-07 - What Israel Can Do for America The rejection of the L-word is often prompted by denial of the tragic, obvious fact that U.S. support of Israel is one the main reasons why Muslims throughout the world despise Americans.

01-12-07 - Anti-Zionist Jew excommunicated in Vienna The community said in a statement that Israel?s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, asked in December for a cherem, or excommunication, against all Jews who participated in the Tehran conference

01-11-07 - U.S. forces raid Iranian office in Iraq: Tehran

01-11-07 - Senators fear Iraq war may spill to Iran, Syria ** "You cannot sit here today -- not because you're dishonest or you don't understand -- but no one in our government can sit here today and tell Americans that we won't engage the Iranians and the Syrians cross-border," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and possible 2008 presidential candidate.

01-11-07 - Soldiers doubt an influx of American troops will benefit Iraqi army

01-11-07 - Iran, Syria denounce Bush's Iraq plan Iran depicted the U.S. plan as an attempt to control Iraq for the benefit of Israel. Hosseini said the deployment of Patriot missiles in the region "is part of the U.S. policy direction to create a support umbrella for the Zionist regime through an Islamic country."

01-11-07 - Bush unlikely to face showdown over 'surge'

01-11-07 - US legislator fears Bush preparing to attack Iran ** "He has blamed Iran for attacks on America. The president is vowing to disrupt Iran. He is going to add an aircraft carrier to the shores off the coast of Iran. He has promised to give Patriot missiles to 'our friends and allies.' Isn't one war enough for this president?"

01-11-07 - Controversy as US arrests six in raid on 'Iranian consulate'

01-11-07 - Bush plan rejects dialogue with Syria

01-11-07 - Bush's Rush to Armageddon ** Though not considered a Middle East expert, Fallon has moved in neoconservative circles, for instance, attending a 2001 awards ceremony at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a think tank dedicated to explaining "the link between American defense policy and the security of Israel."

01-11-07 - Rift widens between US and British military strategies in Iraq

01-11-07 - China defends Iran gas deal talks China has demanded that the US stop interfering in its trade affairs with Iran, after Washington raised concerns over a planned energy deal with Tehran.

01-11-07 - Soldier Gets 9 Months for Iraqi Deaths A 101st Airborne Division soldier who had been charged with murder in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees pleaded guilty Tuesday to a lesser charge of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to nine months in military jail.

01-11-07 - US to target anti-Iraq activity Her statement comes hours after US forces stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil - prompting condemnation from Tehran.

01-11-07 - Pentagon abandons active-duty time limit The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty, officials said Thursday, a major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by longer-than-expected combat in Iraq.

01-11-07 - Lieberman applauds president's plan for Iraq

01-11-07 - Gates Cleans House

01-11-07 - Turkey, Egypt call for disbanding of militia, oil sharing in Iraq Foreign ministers Ahmed Abul Gheit of Egypt and Abdullah Gul of Turkey also underlined that US arch-foes Iran and Syria should be engaged in efforts to stabilize Iraq, rather than being isolated by the United States.

01-11-07 - Rice to head to Middle East with Iran in her sights The focus on Iran could overshadow efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not the first time the issue has received a lower priority during President George W. Bush's tenure.

01-11-07 - "Scooter" Libby Judges Denies Request to Release Audio Recordings of Trial to News Media A federal judge will not make the audio recordings of the upcoming trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff available to the news media.

01-11-07 - Neither sanctions nor bombs will end the Iran nuclear crisis ** It is not as if Iran presents any immediate, compelling threat. Israeli officials argue that a nuclear bomb in the hands of a man who talks about Israel being "eliminated from the pages of time" poses an unacceptable risk, but he wields no power in foreign affairs. Moreover, Israel's nuclear deterrent would mean mutually assured destruction.

01-11-07 - China: Will do anything to solve Iran issue

01-11-07 - Syrian envoy at Madrid Conference: We want negotiations The Palestinians were represented by Hanan Ashrawi, who also participated in the first Madrid Conference. According to her, the Palestinian problem is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

01-11-07 - Bush's tough tactics are a 'declaration of war' on Iran ** But if the US is preparing to confront Iran militarily - which some top military officials in Israel are reportedly recommending - the Bush administration will find itself involved in conflicts on four fronts.

01-11-07 - Texas Congressman Ron Paul files for GOP presidential bid Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican. Excellent. He gets my vote.

01-11-07 - Israel, Hezbollah violated laws of war during conflict: HRW "In its conduct of hostilities, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) repeatedly violated the laws of war by failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians," the US-based rights group said Thursday. "The IDF claims that the high proportion of civilian deaths in the war was due to Hezbollah hiding its rockets and fighters in villages and towns, but IDF attacks responsible for a majority of the civilian deaths took place at times when there was no evidence that Hezbollah fighters or weapons were even in the vicinity," the report said.

01-11-07 - From Jordan's harsh Ruweished desert camp to a new life in Ottawa The world seemed to have forgotten the family and their fellow Palestinians, several of whom decided to return and take their chances in Iraq rather than waste away in Ruweished. But UNHCR was onto their case, trying to find a long-term solution for the 150 Palestinians who remained in Ruweished.

01-11-07 - Brief Fire Fight between Army and Jund al-Sham in Ein el-Hilweh A brief fire fight broke out between Lebanese soldiers and Palestinian Islamists in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp Thursday. A soldier was wounded.

01-11-07 - UAE rules out US or Israeli strikes on Iran from its soil **

01-11-07 - Defense attorneys make pleas After telling jurors he's Jewish, defense attorney Michael Deutsch condemned Israel's "brutal and genocidal occupation" of what once was Palestine. His voice cracking with fatigue and emotion three hours into his speech, he concluded by praising Salah and his family.

01-11-07 - Damra OK at N. Israel jail, lawyer tells family If he's such a threat to Israel and the US, why did Israel let him go in the first place?

01-10-07 - U.N. nuclear inspectors arrive in Iran Iran says that as a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, it has the right to develop a peaceful nuclear power program. But the Security Council in December imposed limited sanctions on Iran for its refusal to cease uranium enrichment - a process that can produce the material for either nuclear reactors or atomic bombs.

01-10-07 - Bush boosts troop numbers in Iraq

01-10-07 - Bush vows action on Iran, Syria; beefs up defense in Middle East ** Announcing his latest strategy to tame Iraq, Bush said he had ordered the deployment of an additional carrier strike group and Patriot anti-missile systems in the Middle East to beef up regional security. Because we are about to strike Iran.

01-10-07 - Iraq's migrants from violence The true scale of the refugee exodus from Iraq is impossible to calculate, but the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says that during some periods this year it has run as high as 100,000 a month.

01-10-07 - Bush policy means second tours in Iraq, military says

01-10-07 - How Congress may block a troop 'surge'

01-10-07 - Division of congressional posts seems to favor Jewish issues Perhaps the most prominent pro-Israel boost is of Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who becomes majority leader. Hoyer is on a first-name basis with much of the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and has been to Israel multiple times, exhibiting broad knowledge of its political workings.

01-10-07 - Recent events fuel Arab ire toward U.S.

01-10-07 - Israel's Olmert upbeat on Iran nukes amid China talks

01-10-07 - Ayalon: Israel is not alone ** Iran has attempted to dispatch emissaries to try and get the United States to rule out military action against Tehran, and their efforts have failed, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, and Co-Chairman of the Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah program, said during an interview with Ynetnews.

01-10-07 - China 'reassures' Olmert on Iran "China made it absolutely clear that it opposes an Iran with a nuclear bomb," Mr Olmert told reporters after the 90-minute meeting with the Chinese premier.

01-10-07 - Intelligence concerns hindering UN Hariri probe: US official The US official said the reticence of the 10 governments "could involve intelligence" secrets, but he declined to elaborate. Yeh, that the Mossad was likely operating in the area at the time - coincidentally, I'm sure.

01-10-07 - Is US Army blocking use of Israel's anti-RPG weapons in Iraq?

01-10-07 - Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan: Iran **

01-10-07 - Top lawmakers query Interpol on Iran Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking member, wrote Ronald Noble, Interpol?s secretary general, asking why his agency "appears to have taken the unusual step of undertaking its own review of the evidence," according to a statement released Wednesday by the two congressional offices. Israel's top two agents on Capitol Hill.

01-10-07 - Community expects U.N. choice to continue strong backing of Israel In 1997 he put his name ? alongside fellow Bush allies Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz ? to the statement of principles of the newly formed Project for a New American Century, a conservative group that advocated global American leadership, increased defense spending and promotion of American values abroad.

01-10-07 - After Tehran Holocaust conference, anti-Zionist Jew shunned in Vienna Three lawsuits have been filed against a Viennese rabbi who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Iran in December. Unreal.

01-10-07 - Terror trial defendants described as humanitarians Hoarse from hours of talking, defense attorneys said Wednesday that two men accused of bankrolling Hamas terrorists sought to ease the plight of downtrodden Palestinians but never violated the law.

01-10-07 - IDF: Growing chance of war on Lebanese, Syrian fronts

01-10-07 - Terror suspect halts British hearing

01-10-07 - Why no outrage from community as Bush ignores embassy pledge? When ZOA President Morton Klein met with Bush for several minutes at a Newark Airport hotel in 2000, he raised only one point: Would a President Bush move the embassy? "No," was the reply, since it would "screw up the peace process." When those views hit the press, the Bush campaign staff went into full damage control, insisting with straight faces that their boss must have been misunderstood. It's bothersome that someone who worked at the Justice Department (and who also worked at AIPAC) is advocating America officially recognize Israel's illegal annexation of Jerusalem.

01-09-07 - Iran warns again on nuclear cooperation

01-09-07 - U.S. cautions China over reported multibillion dollar gas deal with Iran

01-09-07 - N. Korea nuclear test likely: general North Korea is likely to test another nuclear device, the commander of the U.S. military in South Korea said on Tuesday, but he declined to comment on reports that an explosion was imminent.

01-09-07 - Bush to Face Street Protests over Iraq Escalation Plan "It is unbelievable that after the voters and the Iraqis said they want and end to this war, Bush is going to escalate it,"

01-09-07 - US blacklists Iranian state bank **

01-09-07 - Russia sets off controversy over UN Hariri murder probe the United States and European members of the council objected to Russia's bid to press Brammertz to identify the 10 countries which have so far failed to cooperate with the probe.

01-09-07 - Iran says it has arrested a nuclear spy The Paris-based group, regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States, has frequently made accusations about Iran's nuclear activities, reporting on what it says is secret information received from insiders in Iran.

01-09-07 - The Real Iraq Study Group Forget Jim Baker's crew. The neocon hawks who sold the war, joined by John McCain and Joe Lieberman, unveiled their new plan for "victory": At least 25,000 new troops in combat roles well into 2008

01-09-07 - Ominous Signs of a Wider War ** If engagement with Iran and Syria was even remotely on the agenda, Abizaid is exactly the man you'd want on the job at Centcom overseeing US forces and strategy in the region. But if that's not on the agenda, if you're thinking instead of using force against Iran and/or Syria, then Admiral Fallon is exactly the man you'd want at Centcom.

01-09-07 - Lawmakers brace for showdown with Bush over Iraq

01-09-07 - Tories back US action on Iran ** Mr Fox gave the clearest signal yet that the Conservatives would support military action, including the use of nuclear strikes by the US or Israel, to halt the alleged production of a nuclear weapon by Iran.

01-09-07 - Selective Amnesia The pundits who sold the Iraq War change their tune and bury their records.

01-09-07 - Ex-CIA analyst says West misunderstands Al-Qaeda I resigned because I thought the 9/11 commission had thoroughly failed America by not finding anyone responsible for anything before 9/11. The amount of individual negligence and culpability at the highest levels of the American government was completely whitewashed by the 9/11 commission. And I resigned because I wanted to speak out on those issues.

01-09-07 - Who Is Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Israel's war, says Bibi, must be sold as America's war. We are thus forewarned. A propaganda campaign, using Israeli agents and their neocon auxiliaries and sympathizers, who stampeded us into war in Iraq, is being prepared to stampede us into war on Iran. Great article.

01-09-07 - Bush-Abramoff Photo Published on Web It was taken by a private photo contractor who posted it on a Web site, but then was removed before it made it into distribution

01-09-07 - Oil prices record slight recovery Oil prices recovered slightly on Tuesday to reach above $55, after hitting 18-month lows.

01-09-07 - Saudis expect Eurofighters 'soon'

01-09-07 - Hundreds protest group whose members attended Iran's Holocaust conference Mordechai Levy, head of the JDO, said over the loudspeaker that Weiss and other Neturei Karta members should be driven out of the community. "We know where you live. We know where you daven," he said, using the Yiddish word for "pray." "We know where you work. And we're going to get you fired from your jobs, thrown out of shuls (synagogues) and driven from Monsey. Neturei Karta are traitors to the Jews." And the supreme irony here is - I bet the Iranians treat their Jewish brethren better than these JDO thugs treated the Neturei Karta Jews.

01-09-07 - A Middle East free of nuclear weapons

01-09-07 - Major loophole in Democrats' ethics bill will benefit controversial lobbying groups Though tasked with authoring the legislation, Rules Committee Chair Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said she disagreed with the exemption in an exclusive interview. "I would've done it straight out," Slaughter said, noting that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Aspen Institute are exempt from many of its harshest restrictions AIPAC, of all lobbies, will benefit from this new loophole? What a coincidence!

01-09-07 - Israel plans to nuke Iran **

01-09-07 - From Dec: Jewish Groups To Challenge Ethics Reform Two of America?s most influential Jewish organizations are gearing up for their first direct confrontation with the incoming, Democratic-led Congress. The topic: Democratic proposals for congressional ethics and lobbying reform. The Israeli lobby wins again (majority of Americans lose).

01-09-07 - No-goodniks and the Palestinian shootout The Abrams program was initially conceived last February by a group of White House officials who wanted to shape a coherent and tough response to the Hamas electoral victory of January. These officials, the authors were told, were led by Abrams, but included national security advisers working in the office of the vice president, including prominent neo-conservatives David Wurmser and John Hannah. The policy was approved by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Neocons.

01-09-07 - Arab Americans seek watch-list clarity The Bush administration has dramatically expanded its "watch lists" of banned terrorist groups to include charities that allegedly fund Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that target Israel with terrorist attacks.

01-09-07 - CIA gets the go-ahead to take on Hizbollah The Central Intelligence Agency has been authorised to take covert action against Hizbollah as part of a secret plan by President George W. Bush to help the Lebanese government prevent the spread of Iranian influence. Senators and congressmen have been briefed on the classified "non-lethal presidential finding" that allows the CIA to provide financial and logistical support to the prime minister, Fouad Siniora. Because one and 3/4 civil wars in the region are not enough.

01-09-07 - Jones: US will stand by Israel in face of Iranian threat ** He assured the audience that, "Israel's security and well being are of vital importance to the United States."

01-09-07 - Lebanon opposition renews protest

01-09-07 - Correction: Iran-Holocaust-Conference In a Dec. 12 story about an Iranian-sponsored conference on the Holocaust, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a claim that Zionists have exaggerated the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.

01-08-07 - 2006 was deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq

01-08-07 - Iran leader asserts nuclear right

01-08-07 - Russia says US sanctions on arms dealers 'illegal' Russia hit back at the United States after Washington had imposed sanctions on three Russian firms for exporting weapons to Libya and Iran, branding the US action "illegal."

01-08-07 - Nominee played big role in outsourcing intelligence J. Michael "Mike" McConnell, in line to become the nation's top intelligence official, has been a leading figure in outsourcing U.S intelligence operations to private industry, records and interviews show. Oh how comforting.

01-08-07 - Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist

01-08-07 - War with Iran is imminent ** The political deck shuffling also reflects a Bush administration decision to expand the war in the Middle East....The one wild card that would change the equation would be an aggressive move by Iran. Should Iran launch a cruise missile at a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf, we will have war right now. Should an Iranian missile sink a U.S. carrier, the U.S. population would experience another 9/11 moment. At that point, a massive U.S.-led military strike on Iran would become inevitable. A note of caution: Corsi is a neocon. Note the last part of that excerpt there. Neocons anxiously await such a move which would be the pretext for war that they have been waiting for.

01-08-07 - Charges dropped in Miami port scare

01-08-07 - UN makes $60m Iraq refugee appeal It said the exodus was the largest long-term movement since the displacement of the Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948.

01-08-07 - Children die worldwide after seeing Saddam hang

01-08-07 - Officials believe White House chose new Intelligence chief in effort to darken Iran Intelligence Estimate, broaden domestic surveillance ** "The NIE on Iran is at issue," said one former senior intelligence officer close to Negroponte.... "McConnell will go along with whatever (Cheney tells him to do) and make sure that no objective NIE comes out," one former senior intelligence officer said.

01-08-07 - Treasury terror official plans Iran announcement U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey will make an announcement on Iran at a news conference on Tuesday, the Treasury said on Monday. Alert: propaganda forthcoming.

01-08-07 - For airport screeners, more training about Muslims

01-08-07 - Israel denies planning nuclear attack on Iran ** Ephraim Kam ? a former senior intelligence official now at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Strategic Studies ? also suggested the report should not be taken literally. "No reliable source would ever speak about this, certainly not to the Sunday Times," he said

01-08-07 - Syria says Israeli occupation at root of Mideast crisis

01-08-07 - Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction, A Threat to Peace: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal "In developing their "ethno-bomb", Israeli scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying distinctive a gene carried by some Arabs, then create a genetically modified bacterium or virus... The scientists are trying to engineer deadly micro-organisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes." Dedi Zucker, a leftist Member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament, denounced the research saying, "Morally, based on our history, and our tradition and our experience, such a weapon is monstrous and should be denied."

01-08-07 - Palestinians from Iraq are refugees once again: Syrian government allocates small plot for new camp The Ministry of Refugees announced Monday that the Syrian government has agreed to allocate 10 dunams of land to build houses for the hundreds of Palestinian refugees fleeing Baghdad.

01-08-07 - Police believe Litvinenko poisoned twice

01-08-07 - Execution Sparks Arab Support for Saddam

01-08-07 - Five years on, no end to the horror that is Guantanamo

01-08-07 - For Jews and women, several vignettes capture shift in Congress Powerhouses like the UJC and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee will not be affected under the new rules. UJC devolves such tours to local federations, which do not employ lobbyists, while AIPAC long ago spun off an educational nonprofit that does not employ lobbyists to handle the tours. Smaller boutique groups such as the American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League and the Republican Jewish Coalition are examining their options. The ADL, for instance, employs three registered lobbyists and hosts at least two lawmaker tours a year.

01-08-07 - Brother: Israel arrested deported imam

01-08-07 - The Coming Attack on Iran ** The Israeli/neoconservative plan, of which Bush may be a part or simply be a manipulated element, is to provoke a crisis with Iran in which the US Congress will have to support Israel. Both the Israeli government and the American neoconservatives are fanatical. It is a mistake to believe that either will be guided by reason or any appreciation of the potentially catastrophic consequences of an attack on Iran.

01-08-07 - Hamas used US as base for Israeli terrorist attacks: prosecutor "This is a case where the Israeli government is using the US courts to fight its own so-called war on terrorism," Rima Kapitan, a civil rights lawyer with the Chicago branch of the Council of American-Islamic Relations told AFP. The US 'war on terror' largely benefits Israel. Most of these trials of late have to do with ISRAEL'S enemies.

01-07-07 - U.S. puts squeeze on Iran's oil fields a new U.S. campaign to dry up financing for oil and natural gas development poses a threat to the republic's ability to continue exporting oil over the next two decades, many analysts say

01-07-07 - Divisions deepened by Saddam's death

01-07-07 - For Female Soldiers, Sexual Assault Remains a Danger

01-07-07 - Half of Americans Link Hussein and al-Qaeda A testament to the power of the propaganda machine (msm) of this administration.

01-07-07 - Saddam Is Dead - So Are 3,000 Americans by Rep. Ron Paul

01-07-07 - Capitol Hill prepares for tough hearings on Iraq Even before President Bush lays out his "new way forward" in Iraq, the Demo-cratic majority in Congress and a growing number of Republicans say they will oppose any troop surge - but not to the point of blocking funding for the war.

01-07-07 - Bonkers Bolton's Legacy

01-07-07 - The War and the New York Times The war in Iraq, one of the most disastrous military enterprises in the history of the Republic, has the New York Times' fingerprints all over it. The role the newspaper played in fomenting the 2003 attack is now one of the best known sagas in journalistic history, as embodied in the reports of Judy Miller, working in collusion with Iraqi exiles and US spooks to concoct Saddam's imaginary arsenal of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Judy Miller - the neoconETTE.

01-07-07 - CIA panel blocks book by outed agent Valerie Plame According to Newsweek magazine, the CIA panel that must approve writings by former employees ruled Plame can't even mention the widely-known fact she worked for the agency because she had "nonofficial cover," posing as a private business-woman instead of a government official.

01-07-07 - Military strike is only way to stop Iran, says top Israeli strategist ** Zvi Shtauber, director of Tel-Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, was speaking last night after the Foreign Ministry denied a report in The Sunday Times that Israeli pilots were already training to strike three targets with low-yield nuclear weapons.

01-07-07 - To Win in Baghdad, Strike at Tehran ** This is a writer that is, not surprisingly, featured on both FreeRepublic and FrontPagemag - neocon country.

01-07-07 - American diplomat secures top political post at UN The appointment is certain to provoke fear among other UN member states that Washington will have too much power in the organisation.

01-07-07 - The Bush administration's committee for regime change in Iran ** As was the case during the runup to the war with Iraq, the mainstream media outfits are filling their pages with neocon rhetoric for war - this time Iran. This is what happens when you fail to hold people accountable for deliberately deceiving the people of this nation into believing that another nation (Iraq) is an immediate and grave threat to us. They're at it again.

01-07-07 - Hoyer and Dems Set Stage for Iran Attack

01-07-07 - U.S. v. Salah has elements of Jews vs. Arabs During a two-week stretch of the trial, jurors heard unprecedented testimony from a pair of agents from Israeli's Shin Bet security service. The two agents -- testifying under assumed names and in a courtroom closed to the public -- were involved in an interrogation of Salah that lasted nearly two months after his arrest at an Israeli checkpoint in 1993. Disguised agents of a foreign government (that routinely violates international law) are allowed to testify - in secret - during criminal proceedings in the US of A. Outrageous.

01-07-07 - Syrian president meets European delegation over regional issues

01-07-07 - US deports Israeli convicted of conspiring to aide Hizbullah

01-07-07 - Beltway Insiders Versus Neo-Cons Would it not be wonderful if an anti-Lobby organization of Jewish Americans emerged with a title like "Not in Our Name"? There is such an organization - called 'Not in my name'.

01-07-07 - Friends say recently deported Ohio imam has disappeared Immigration authorities said Friday that Damra was flown to Amman, Jordan, at 4 a.m. EST Thursday, then crossed the Allenby Bridge to the West Bank. But his friends and family in Cleveland and in Damra's hometown of Nablus say no one has heard from him since he was taken.

01-07-07 - Man dies after being critically wounded by cluster bomb in south Lebanon A 70-year-old Lebanese farmer died three months after he was critically wounded by a cluster bomb explosion in south Lebanon

01-07-07 - US: Jews launch Operation Screwball Follow the link to the website. The Zionists published the home addresses and phone numbers of these Neturei Karta Orthodox Jews, much like they do to Jews on the Massada hit list. Swell bunch, ain't they?

01-07-07 - Doves become new source of Ain al-Hilweh violence Armed clashes have become increasingly commonplace in Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, located on the outskirts of Sidon. In the past, however, frequent skirmishes usually involved disputes between rival armed factions.

01-07-07 - Hezbollah: 'Captured soldiers will not be freed unless Quntar is released'

01-07-07 - AUSTRALIAN ISRAELI LOONY LOBBY CRANK UP THE WARMONGERING AGAINST IRAN.

01-06-07 - Democrats step up Iraq pressure

01-06-07 - Iran reformists slam government's nuclear policy

01-06-07 - John Michael McConnell, a Member of the Club

01-06-07 - Lawmakers Criticize Video of Hussein?s Final Minutes

01-06-07 - Selling the Surge Who needs to support the President? Only 12 percent of Americans want to escalate the war. Most now want the US to get out. Nothing they've heard from the neocons since the beginning of the war has turned out to be right.

01-06-07 - "Surge" Without Congressional Approval Is Impeachable Offense

01-06-07 - Officials: No Support for Marines Claims in Haditha Probe

01-06-07 - Neocons' hand seen in 'the surge' A key part of the new Iraq plan that President Bush is expected to announce next week - a surge in U.S. troops coupled with a more focused counterinsurgency effort - has been one of the chief recommendations of these neocons since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

01-06-07 - Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity

01-06-07 - Osirak Redux? ** A few days of Israeli bombing may or may not retard the Iranian nuclear program, but it would impede any plan by the realists to engage Iran in an effort to stabilize Iraq, start withdrawing U.S. troops, and change the direction of American policy in the Middle East

01-06-07 - Can We Let Intelligence Officials Lie With Impunity??

01-06-07 - FBI probes death threat against Muslim leader

01-06-07 - Report: Israel Planning Nuke Raid on Iran Uranium Enrichment Sites ** Some sources in Washington said they doubted if Israel would have the nerve to attack Iran. Did Israel leaks its plans to the media before it struck Osirak? If not, why not? This would appear to be a move to extort some kind of action by the US.

01-06-07 - Future of Iraq: The spoils of war The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. They point to statements such as one from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said in 1999, while he was still chief executive of the oil services company Halliburton, that the world would need an additional 50 million barrels of oil a day by 2010

01-06-07 - Democrats: Nuclear Iran unacceptable Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position.

01-06-07 - Israel's Bad Influence ** By coincidence, an Israeli general has verified everything Ritter says.

01-06-07 - Saddam now a 'martyr' In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of an imprisoned dictator, has undergone a resurgence of admiration and awe.

01-06-07 - German FM warns hanging could make Saddam "cult" hero German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned that the execution of Saddam Hussein risked making the Iraqi dictator a martyr with cult status.

01-06-07 - Saudis, France urge compliance from Iran " Israel should not be excluded from the international efforts and procedures,"

01-06-07 - Effort to Recover Leaked Documents Ends This was part of the AIPAC scandal.

01-06-07 - Iran and trade to top Olmert's agenda in China visit Along with pushing Israeli concerns over the prospect of its arch-foe obtaining an atomic bomb, Olmert will also seek to bolster important bilateral economic ties with the rising world power, officials say.

01-06-07 - MICHAEL RIVERO JOINS THE ON-AIR LINEUP AT GENESIS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. This Saturday's show is "The Lie Of The Century" with special guest James Bamford.

01-06-07 - Fresh from the horse's ass 'Saddam' terror group says it's targeting U.S. Mmm k.

01-05-07 - Former Officers Warn 'Surge' in Iraq Could Place Fatal Strain on U.S. Military "Surge? Yes, we can," said retired Army Col. Douglas MacGregor, a decorated combat veteran who led armored cavalry in Operation Desert Storm. "It will break the force, which in my estimation is broken already. It will leave you with no strategic reserves."

01-05-07 - China tells Iran to make 'serious response' to UN resolution Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged Iran to make a "serious response" to a United Nations Security Council resolution on its nuclear program, China's state media said.

01-05-07 - Bush: No peace with Iran developing nuclear arms

01-05-07 - Cakewalk Crowd Abandons Bush by Patrick J. Buchanan Almost all the neoconservatives have now departed the seats of power in the Bush administration and retreated to their sinecures at Washington think tanks, to plot the next war ? on Iran. Meanwhile, brave young Americans, the true idealists and the casualties of the neocons' war, come home in caskets, 20 a week, to Dover and, at Walter Reed, learn to walk again on steel legs.

01-05-07 - Throngs protest Saddam hanging in Jordan Thousands of mostly Sunni Muslim protesters marched through Jordan's capital Friday, condemning Saddam Hussein's execution and lashing out at American and Shiite Muslim influence in the Arab world.

01-05-07 - McCain: 'I'll sleep a hell of a lot better' if we stay in Iraq

01-05-07 - Negroponte's Exit Planned Ahead of Time "Negroponte made the same mistake Tenet made," a former senior intelligence official stated. "He's become a member of the White House team, making policy, not providing intelligence."

01-05-07 - White House visitor records closed The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

01-05-07 - Litvinenko inquiry closes in on suspected killers Detectives are close to identifying the suspected killers of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent, but it looks increasingly likely that the alleged assassins will escape prosecution.

01-05-07 - UN nuclear chief to report on whether to continue atomic aid to Iran

01-05-07 - Rice Warns North Korea Against Second Nuclear Test

01-05-07 - Foreign spying on U.S. defense technology seen rising In one case, a female spy seduced an American translator to learn his computer password. His unclassified network was later found to be infected by viruses planted by a foreign intelligence service. Hmmm...this story sounds familiar.

01-05-07 - Hearing in two days for anti-war officer

01-05-07 - The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil

01-05-07 - 2007: Decisive Year for the Israeli-Neocon Attack Iran Plan

01-05-07 - Cairo dismayed at 'primitive' Saddam death Mr Mubarak said that when it became clear the former Iraqi dictator was about to be hanged he sent a message to president George Bush asking to get it postponed

01-05-07 - Chirac renews attack on Iraq war

01-05-07 - Oil prices climb after sharp dip Oil prices rose to some $56 a barrel, after seeing their sharpest drop in two years a day earlier.

01-05-07 - Dead Russian spy planned blackmail: acquaintance

01-05-07 - House reforms travel provisions Jewish groups were concerned that the travel reform would crimp Israel trips, but were assuaged by reassurances that such trips were certain to continue, albeit run by non-profit groups and not lobbies.

01-05-07 - AIPAC welcomes Khalilzad Khalilzad is considered a loyal Bush staffer and is unlikely to deviate from administration policies of strong support for Israel and confrontation with Iran.

01-05-07 - U.S. deports Ohio imam A Muslim leader convicted of lying about his involvement with a suspected terrorist organization has been deported to his native Palestinian territories, immigration authorities said Friday.

01-05-07 - Brother of avowed suicide bomber pleads Haven't seen too many arrests/trials of Al Qaeda suspects these days. The 'war on terror' largely serves Israel.

01-05-07 - Lebanese stage symbolic funeral for Iraq's Saddam

01-05-07 - Attack on Iran could bring devastation to Arab world Still in the grip of the neoconservative cabal which has destroyed his presidency by its insane belligerence, Bush continues to see the Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah-Hamas axis as the main enemy to confront and bring down.

01-05-07 - Most Jews ever set to enter Congress Also, much of the Democratic leadership is considered strong on Israel, including incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois), head of the House Democratic Caucus. And many Republican backers of Israel, who no longer head committees, still continue to serve in minority leadership roles.

01-05-07 - APN chides Bush on Middle East Americans for Peace Now accused President Bush of neglecting Arab-Israeli peace and urged him not to obstruct Israel-Syria talks.

01-04-07 - Iraq Vets Left in Physical and Mental Agony

01-04-07 - Bush says feds can open mail without warrant Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it.

01-04-07 - Iran to 'honor principles' of nuclear control treaty: negotiator Iran's top nuclear negotiator has said during a visit to China that Tehran will continue to honor the principles of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Chinese state media has reported.

01-04-07 - Iranians 'up to no good' in Iraq The White House has suggested the arrests validated US claims of Iranian "meddling" in Iraq.

01-04-07 - U.S. Finds Iran's 'Smoking Gun' in Iraq Deja vu. For, this was previously claimed several months back - and that claim was later discovered to be unfounded.

01-04-07 - Blair Fails to Condemn Hanging as Bush Ducks the Question

01-04-07 - Mission Accomplished ** The War Party is desperate to provoke the Iranians into a military conflict, and they are pulling out all the stops to do so. With economic sanctions against Iran already in place, and likely to be ratcheted up ? along with the anti-Iranian propaganda campaign ? the likelihood of war with the mullahs of Tehran is an eventuality that seems almost fated to occur, whether or not the American people support it

01-04-07 - Russia warns against Iran action COUNTRIES taking action against Iran independent of the United Nations, as called for by Washington, would not be helpful in luring Tehran back to negotiations on its nuclear program, Russia said today.

01-04-07 - Bush concern at Saddam execution US President George W Bush has said he wished the execution of ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had been more dignified but insisted that justice was done.

01-04-07 - Iran nuclear chief in China talks Beijing needs Iranian oil and gas for its booming economy, and China supports Iran's right to a nuclear programme.

01-04-07 - Bush: Syrian groups are WMD proliferators "Syria is using official government organizations to develop nonconventional weapons and the missiles to deliver them," Stuart Levey, the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism, said in a statement.

01-04-07 - Bush, German chancellor discuss Iran, Mideast "We talked about Iran. And I thanked Chancellor Merkel's strong support for a Chapter 7 Iranian resolution -- a Chapter 7 United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran," Bush said at a press conference after their meeting.

01-04-07 - Soldiers filmed beating Iraqis avoid prosecution A group of British soldierswho were filmed while beating Iraqi civilians will not face criminal charges.

01-04-07 - Oil in biggest fall in two years US light crude oil fell $2.73 to $55.59 a barrel in New York, falling by over $5 in two days.

01-04-07 - The Surge to Nowhere What's astonishing about the debate over Iraq is that the President -- or anyone else, for that matter, including the media -- is paying the slightest attention to the neoconservative strategists who got us into this mess in the first place. Having been egregiously wrong about every single Iraqi thing for five consecutive years, by all rights the neocons ought to be consigned to some dusty basement exhibit hall in the American Museum of Natural History

01-04-07 - 'Clean sweep': Bush replaces top general in Middle East who opposed troop surge

01-04-07 - Israeli Experts Say Middle East Was Safer With Saddam in Iraq "When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos," Diskin said, unaware that the meeting was secretly recorded. "I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam." The tape was later broadcast on Israeli television. Be careful what you wish for next time.

01-04-07 - Exclusive: Iran War "In 2 Years" ** CIA specialist on Iran Reuel Marc Gerecht said there had been a "tidal shift" of opinion towards military action, especially in Israel.

01-04-07 - Iraqis Say They Were Better Off Under Hussein

01-04-07 - From 2003: Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.

01-04-07 - Saddam bid "courteous" adieu to U.S. captors

01-04-07 - Israeli warplanes monitor Lebanese-Syrian borders Despite a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14, the Jewish state has continued to carry out flights over Lebanese territory, maintaining they were vital to gather intelligence on alleged arms smuggling to Hezbollah.

01-04-07 - Hezbollah detainees in Israel seek POW status

01-04-07 - Ugly voices tarnish debut of Congress' first Muslim Several million Muslims live in the USA. It is to the nation's credit that one of them will join Congress this week. And if Goode is worried about Muslim immigrants, he's about 260 years too late in Ellison's case. Ellison traces his ancestors to Louisiana in 1742

01-04-07 - How Hillary became New York Senator She knew that New York's Orthodox and chasidic communities would be a hard sell, as they were expressing their personal dislike for her and her positions, particularly regarding Israel. She needed to show she could win some support in Orthodox circles.

01-04-07 - Fresh from the horse's ass You know who. If it's something the Israeli Foreign Ministry needs (to further their propaganda), then our favorite 'reporter' will just so happen upon some 'Palestinians' who can give him exactly what he needs.

01-04-07 - Defense rests after hearing from torture expert at U.S. Hamas trial Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified that she witnessed part of Salah's 54-day interrogation at a high-security prison in Ramallah. She said he seemed to be in good spirits. Salah attorneys say Miller saw only a small fraction of what went on and was easily fooled.

01-04-07 - Mubarak hints: We?ll develop nukes

01-04-07 - Report: Guantanamo detainee draped in Israel flag

01-03-07 - US would have executed Saddam 'differently'

01-03-07 - Iran to launch production of industrial nuclear fuel

01-03-07 - Second U.S. carrier group to deploy to Gulf: sources ** The Pentagon will send a second aircraft carrier and its escort ships to the Gulf, defense officials said on Wednesday, as a warning to Syria and Iran and to give commanders more flexibility in the region.

01-03-07 - US raised concerns over Saddam hanging The United States said it told Iraq it was concerned about the timing and procedures for Saddam Hussein's execution before he was hanged, but insisted the former dictator got justice.

01-03-07 - Pentagon not pursuing Guantanamo report FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the facility, including one in which a detainee's head was wrapped in duct tape because he chanted the Quran and another who pulled out his hair after hours in a sweltering room.

01-03-07 - Negroponte to leave intel director post National Intelligence Director John Negroponte will resign to become deputy secretary of state, a government official said Wednesday night.

01-03-07 - Iraq arrests Saddam guard in filming probe

01-03-07 - US to launch campaign to isolate Iran financially: report "The plan is to use the language of the (UN) resolution to help persuade foreign governments and financial institutions to cut ties with Iranian businesses, individuals in its nuclear and missile programs and, by extension, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps," the report said, quoting Stuart Levey, under secretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.

01-03-07 - Grannies read NY, NJ, CT war dead names

01-03-07 - Free Press Takes on Corporate Ownership

01-03-07 - Sheehan, Iraq War Protesters Break Up House Democrats' Press Conference Chanting "de-escalate, investigate, troops home now," the protesters disrupted a briefing aimed at outlining priority goals when Democrats take over the House and Senate on Thursday.

01-03-07 - Israel seeks operational link with U.S. missile defense system ** The request for information from the U.S. was intended, according to the same source, "in the event that the American systems are deployed in Israel for reinforcement.

01-03-07 - Iran leader says believes Israel will soon collapse

01-03-07 - Hezbollah holds talks with Saudi king: source

01-03-07 - Keane/Kagan Plan Means More Bloodshed Bush's proposal, if he makes it, is the work of retired army general Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is the second most important Israeli lobby in Washington after AIPAC.

01-03-07 - Getting the Middle East Back on Our Side By BRENT SCOWCROFT A vigorously renewed effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict could fundamentally change both the dynamics in the region and the strategic calculus of key leaders

01-03-07 - Geopolitical Diary: Israel's Options Against Iran ** With the United States currently lacking any solid options to contain Iran via a political resolution in Iraq, there has been intense speculation over the possibility that Israel might have to get its hands dirty and take military action against Iran -- with or without U.S. cooperation..... If the military option is to be used, Israel sees the value in having U.S. forces that are well-positioned in Iraq to help carry out the attacks. Israel - the monkey on America's back.

01-03-07 - Lieberman to Ban Ki-moo: Don't Link ME Conflict with Iranian Nukes

01-03-07 - Israeli PM to China for talks with President Hu: official Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to travel next week to China for talks with President Hu Jintao and other senior officials focusing on economic and diplomatic ties, his office said.

01-03-07 - 2006: Israel defense sales hit record India was Israel's biggest customer, Ben-Hanan said, with purchases reaching $1.5 billion.

01-03-07 - Stop That Spin House Democrats boast that their proposed ethics legislation will ban travel provided by lobbying organizations to lawmakers. Don't believe it. Maneuvering by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and others has opened a gaping loophole in the bill. Lobbies such as AIPAC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have their own nonprofit foundations, which will still be allowed to underwrite congressional junkets under the new rules.

01-02-07 - GIs hope for life after Iraq in 2007 Get home safely. That's the top New Year's resolution for many U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

01-02-07 - Iran warns West of 'historic slap' over nuclear drive ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has kept up his defiance over Iran's nuclear programme, saying Tehran would deal an "historic slap" to Western nations if they launched military action.

01-02-07 - Iran will press ahead with nuclear work - president

01-02-07 - Afghans protest killings by US-led troops

01-02-07 - What My Brother Is Fighting for It's not too late for us to honor the almost 3,000 U.S. service members who have died defending the principles of our democracy. It is morally imperative for us to honor our living service members and to do what is demanded of us by our democracy and by common decency

01-02-07 - 16,273 deaths reported in Iraq in 2006

01-02-07 - US troops kill 6 people in Baghdad raid, military says

01-02-07 - Russia anti-aircraft weapons sales to Syria, Iran on schedule ** The air defence systems are being stationed around Iran's civilian nuclear sites, according to ITAR-TASS.

01-02-07 - Bush prepares for Congress battle over Iraq

01-02-07 - Covert US group plots to isolate 'rising' Iran ** The US has repeatedly said its policy is not to overthrow the Iranian regime, but one former US official who attended a preliminary meeting of the group said he got the impression that regime change was a goal of many participants

01-02-07 - US will be defeated in Afghanistan: Former CIA official Scheuer told the Daily Times in Washington that by failing to accomplish the only mission that had to be accomplished in Afghanistan, the US was now faced with a growing insurgency that probably already outnumbered the combined US-NATO forces.

01-02-07 - Kristol Clear at Time On March 5, 2003, Kristol said, "I think we'll be vindicated when we discover the weapons of mass destruction and when we liberate the people of Iraq." Why was this blundering neocon put in such a position at a major US news outfit? Because the neocons aren't done yet. There's still Iran (and Syria) they want America to attack.

01-02-07 - American groups protest Saddam hanging in Times Square

01-02-07 - Chris Hedges: America?s Holy Warriors

01-02-07 - Iraq investigates Saddam footage

01-02-07 - Analysis: Threat to Israel looming larger ** Today, the Bush-Cheney team faces the same spin scenario: how to weave the global war on terror and the Shiite powers that be in Iran. This one is relatively simple: Iran trains and funds Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories. Anticipating the new line, Sen. Joe Lieberman (Independent-CT) referred to "Iran and al-Qaida" on Wolf Blitzer's Sunday program on CNN. That Iran is Shiite and al-Qaida Sunni becomes irrelevant in the new game plan that will most probably lead to U.S. air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2007/08...... The "neocons" who work closely with Netanyahu on what could be the next phase of a nascent regional war in the Middle East, say Bush has the authority to take out Iran's nuclear threat. Because it has only one purpose -- to take out Israel.....And if Bush doesn't take on Iran, prominent Israelis are speculating that president Clinton 2 (Hillary) will do so

01-02-07 - An all-consuming 'war on terror' We are trapped in fighting an unwinnable - even nonsensical - "war on terror" because its invention was required in order to fight in Iraq. After years of slaughter in Iraq, the neoconservative fantasy of a series of cheap, fast, neo-imperial victories is dead. But the war on terror lives on, stronger than ever

01-02-07 - Rings of War Congress, of course, could stop the war by cutting off the funds. That is one of the great checks and balances the founders wrote into the Constitution. Congress has 100 percent of the responsibility for and control of all federal expenditures. There is nothing the executive branch can do about it.

01-02-07 - Israel to test installation to monitor Iran's nuclear activity: report Israel on Tuesday will test, for the UN, an underground installation in the Negev desert designed to monitor any attempt by arch-foe Iran to test nuclear devices, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported.

01-02-07 - Attacks against United Nations personnel in 2006 go unpunished, Staff Union says On 24 July, an Israeli tank shell hit a position run by UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon, wounding four Ghanaian soldiers. On 25 July, an Israeli air strike hit the building and shelter of a United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) observer post in the town of Khiyam.....On 29 July, two UNIFIL Indian soldiers were wounded and their observation post damaged by an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon.....On 12 August, a UNIFIL Ghanaian peacekeeper was wounded by Israeli artillery fire near the southern village of Haris.....On 14 August, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) staff member Abdel Saghir, 48, was killed in a residential area by a missile fired by Israeli forces

01-02-07 - Poll: Americans Predict Attacks in 2007 25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

01-02-07 - Funeral procession in Bethlehem in honor of Hussein: the intrepid advocate for Arabism

01-02-07 - Iraq war: Good or bad for Israel? Saddam's execution revives debate If the Americans had not taken Saddam out, Israel would have had to spend billions of dollars building ground forces to check a possible Iraqi ground sweep through Jordan. Sever Plocker, Yediot's economics editor, observes that both American-led Iraq wars, in 1991 and 2003, were followed by economic booms in Israel. He points out that in both cases, Israel received American loan guarantees, which injected new energy into the economy. As America goes deeper into the red.

01-02-07 - AG rejects criminal probe into PM's remarks on Israeli nukes

01-02-07 - Syria expert: Assad overtures serious

01-02-07 - Litvinenko murder may be linked to mystery Russian poisonings In August Golubovich gave an interview accusing Leonid Nevzlin, the former co-owner of Yukos, of being behind the attempts. The Russian prosecutor- general?s office announced last week that Nevzlin, who is now based in Israel, is suspected of involvement in the death of Litvinenko......Golubovich, 41, had fallen out with Nevzlin over business related to Yukos. Well now.

01-02-07 - Israel may opt for U.S.-made missile over own Arrow system The same sources added that Israel will be able to purchase THAAD with American military funding assistance, and have in its arsenal the same advanced missile system that will be used by U.S. armed forces.....Funding for the development and production of the Arrow came mostly from American aid sources.

01-02-07 - Think tank: Israel could attack Iran's nuclear program alone ** Only if they can't get us to do it for them.

01-02-07 - Lieberman asks new UN chief to revoke Iran's membership Minister of Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday sent a letter to new United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking him to revoke Iran's UN membership, Army Radio reported.

01-02-07 - Israel eyeing U.S.-made missile-killer Israel?s purchase of THAAD would be at least partly funded by U.S. aid disbursements

01-02-07 - New Jews in Congress One item expected to pass, the minimum wage hike, has the support of several Jewish groups, including the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Reform movement. Another item, ethics reform, will ban lobbyists from involvement in congressional travel. The travel reform is a compromise that Jewish groups have accepted in order to preserve educational tours of Israel for members of Congress.

01-02-07 - America doesn't have to run the world by Patrick J. Buchanan Interventionism has failed us. Americans are groping toward a new foreign policy that puts America first and a trade policy that puts Americans first.

01-02-07 - Israeli military chief refuses to resign over Lebanon war Israeli Defence Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Dan Halutz, insists he will not resign over his conduct during last year's Lebanon war, despite admitting several shortcomings.

01-02-07 - israel desperately seeks war with Iran **

01-02-07 - Has Lebanon's Cedar revolt come undone?

01-02-07 - Jewish groups are expecting action with Democrats controlling Congress The American Israel Public Affairs Committee also plans to emphasize the Iranian threat at its traditional round of Capitol Hill briefings for lawmakers and their staffs, said Jennifer Cannata, an AIPAC spokeswoman. "Iran is on the top of the legislative agenda," she said

01-01-07 - Poll of military finds dimmer view of Iraq war

01-01-07 - Saddam's supporters vow revenge

01-01-07 - Iran vows $1bn Iraq loan

01-01-07 - Crowds protest Saddam hanging in Iraq Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator.

01-01-07 - Sunnis fear Saddam's execution will provoke sectarian violence

01-01-07 - Americans Want a Rapid Exit from Iraq but Elected Leaders Aren?t Even Considering It

01-01-07 - Journalists may testify in CIA leak case the trial is certain to renew questions about whether the administration used reporters to drum up support for the war.

01-01-07 - States setting up own antiterror centers

01-01-07 - World faces hottest year ever, as El Ni�o combines with global warming A combination of global warming and the El Ni�o weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned. Not neocon-related but important all the same.

01-01-07 - Timing of Saddam execution risks Arab backlash: analysts

01-01-07 - Former Saddam judge says execution violates Iraqi law Rizkar Mohammed Amin, who later resigned as the trial's chief judge, said Iraqi law banned executions during the Eid al-Adha festival period that marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

01-01-07 - As inmate, Saddam read poetry, fed the birds: US nurse "One day when I went to see him, he asked why we invaded. Well, he made gestures like shooting a machine gun and asked why soldiers came and shot up the place. He said the laws in Iraq were fair and the weapons inspectors didn't find anything. "I said, 'That's politics. We soldiers don't get caught up in that sort of thing.'"

01-01-07 - Iraq Govt probes filming of Saddam hanging

01-01-07 - Iran can still be stopped ** The diplomatic and PR effort: We must immediately launch an intense, international, public relations front focusing first and foremost on the US. The goal being to encourage President Bush to take up his specific promises not to allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make it clear to the government, the Congress and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the US and the entire world, not only Israel.

01-01-07 - 'DreamBox' surveillance system from Israel protects American water supply Another major part of our homeland security is put in the hands of Israel. That should scare you.

01-01-07 - Lieberman eyes NATO, E.U. membership Jerusalem has previously balked at the idea of full membership in groups like NATO out of concern it would curb Israel�s military autonomy. Lieberman denied that this would be the case. "There is no doubt that membership in NATO would still afford us 100 percent freedom in terms of military activity," he said.

01-01-07 - Parallels between Henry VIII and the fate of Saddam It was only when he began to express support for the Palestinian cause that he became a nuisance.

01-01-07 - Lebanon Destroyed, Destabilised, Desperate for Change

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