May 2007 archive
05-31-07 - Iran says dead rebels had U.S.-made arms -media
05-31-07 - US looking to long-term presence in Iraq: Gates US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the United States is looking to a long-term military presence in Iraq under a mutually agreed arrangement similar to that it has long had with South Korea.
05-31-07 - Iran continues nuclear defiance Iran's chief nuclear negotiator has reiterated his country's refusal to suspend its nuclear programme after talks with EU officials in Madrid.
05-31-07 - US 'disturbed' by Iran detentions The US has issued a strongly worded criticism of Iran over the detention of several American citizens.
05-31-07 - Nuclear watchdog's attack warning ** The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has given one of his sternest warnings against using military action to halt Iran's uranium enrichment programme.
05-31-07 - Putin issues sharp warning to US, vows to counter 'imperialism' "We warned them then that we would come out with a response to maintain the strategic balance in the world. Yesterday we conducted a test of a new strategic ballistic missile with multiple warheads, and of a new cruise missile, and will continue to improve our resources."
05-31-07 - Panel adds $4 billion for armored vehicles
05-31-07 - US candidates Obama, Romney set out '08 foreign policy Obama stresses however that he will not renounce the final option of military action against Iran, or for other foreign policy challenges.
05-31-07 - Rice Rejects Link of Iran Arrests and Captures of Guards in Iraq Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday rejected linking Iran?s charges against three Iranian-Americans in Tehran to the Bush administration?s capture of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iraq.
05-31-07 - Iraq War Justification Hits Lowest Point in U.S.
05-31-07 - Lugovoy 'blackmailed to murder Litvinenko'
05-31-07 - Edwards wants probe of oil firm mergers Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says a wave of mergers in the oil industry should be investigated by the Justice Department to see what impact they have had on soaring gasoline prices.
05-31-07 - Israel's Military Fears War This Summer ** Israeli forces are making their primary focus repelling a Syrian attack along its northern border in the Golan Heights. Troubles with their Palestinian neighbors are being downgraded to a secondary priority.
05-31-07 - Litvinenko was killed by MI6, claims suspect
05-31-07 - Israel to ready public for 'all-out war' ** With Iran racing toward nuclear power and IDF preparations for the possibility of a conflict with Syria and Hizbullah in high gear, the Home Front Command plans to launch a publicity campaign to prepare the public for war. Know something we don't?
05-31-07 - Does 'The Decider' Decide on War? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran?.....evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war:........While U.S.-Iran discussions have begun, there are reports Vice President Cheney and the neocon remnant, along with the Israelis, are opposed to talks and believe that the only solution to Iran's nuclear program is military. Go get 'em, Pat.
05-31-07 - Libby seeks probation in CIA leak case Fitzgerald said last week that Libby showed no remorse for corrupting the judicial system.
05-31-07 - Economic growth skids to a near halt in first quarter - worst showing in four years Hey I know - let's bomb Iran!
05-31-07 - U.S. ranks low, just above Iran on new peace index The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to a new index released on Wednesday that evaluates 121 nations based on their peacefulness.
05-31-07 - Leading reps, Livni discuss Iran Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) ended a joint visit to Israel on Thursday. Keep those two there, and send over Lantos and others. Let Israel start paying their salary. For, that's who they really work for, not us.
05-31-07 - Robert Fisk: The scar of Hariri's murder will never heal in Lebanon Syria, whose security apparatus remains the principal suspect, roars quietly over the border. Will there be a price to be paid for this tribunal? Probably.
05-31-07 - Hezbollah condemns Hariri court
05-31-07 - PM, Bush to discuss Iran, PA on June 19 ** Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with U.S. President George Bush in Washington on June 19. Talks will focus on the Palestinian issue and the Iranian nuclear threat.
05-31-07 - CARE helps refugees caught in Lebanon crossfire CARE is providing aid to civilians caught in an ongoing confrontation between the Lebanese Army and militants of the Fatah al-Islam faction.
05-31-07 - ANERA responds to crisis in Lebanon Fighting in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon has displaced thousands of Palestinian refugees over the past week. Approximately 20,000 people have fled horrific scenes of conflict and devastation, including over 500 infants and preschoolers, and 100 elderly with chronic illnesses. Many left home without clothing, food, medication and other necessities, and have taken sanctuary in the camps of Baddawi, Chatila and Bourj el Barajneh.
05-31-07 - Crist tours holy sites, shapes trade deal The meetings with government leaders were arranged by Wexler, who is Jewish and among the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress. So while Crist heard from Peres that Palestinians were given Gaza but had not given Israel peace, and from Netanyahu that he would attack Gaza's infrastructure to punish Palestinians for continued rocket attacks, Florida's governor heard no one present the Palestinian viewpoints that Israel has yet to dismantle most of its settlements in the West Bank or that it has destroyed much of Gaza's infrastructure and its citrus orchards.
05-31-07 - Terrorized Let me ask you a hypothetical question. What do you think America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles every day into Buffalo, N.Y.? Let me ask the neocon morons of the AEI a question : What do you think that Americans would do if a foreign army invaded their cities, towns and villages, and proceeded to seize their land by force, demolish their homes, and force them out? WE ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. Which came first - Israeli land theft, Israeli terrorism, or Palestinian terrorism? The first terrorist organizations in the region were JEWISH (Irgun and Stern), and it was Israeli forces that expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, bulldozed their villages, and barred their return (despite UN resn. 194). Israel continues to illegally occupy and colonize Palestinian land nearly sixty years later. The first terrorists, the worst terrorists, were NOT the largely defenseless agrarian peoples that populated a land that another group sought to 'reclaim'.
05-31-07 - Another soldier, 8 militants killed in Lebanon standoff A Lebanese soldier and at least eight Fatah al-Islam extremists have been killed in a surge of fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the army said on Thursday.
05-31-07 - Arabic school in N.Y.C. creates stir Daniel Pipes, a controversial Middle East scholar, wrote that "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage." He pointed to a column in the Middle East Quarterly about Middlebury College's prestigious language schools. It contended that the Arab language curriculum there "indoctrinated [students] with a tendentious Arab nationalist reading of Middle Eastern history." The dean of Middlebury's language schools, Michael Geisler, strongly denies the assertion and says that much in the article Mr. Pipes quoted was "demonstrably wrong." Still, the charge raised concerns among some in New York's influential Jewish community.
Usual suspects.
05-30-07 - Six days of war, 40 years of secrecy This statement by Stephen Forslund (US Air Force intelligence analyst) is clear enough: "The transcripts made specific reference to the efforts to direct the jets to the target, which was identified as American numerous times by the ground controller. The ground control began asking about the status of the target and whether it was sinking. They stressed that the target must be sunk and leave no trace." These men and the families of those that were killed deserve to have their day in court. Who in their right mind would want this travesty of justice to remain so? This is a great article, and one that will never ever be replicated in any mainstream US news medium. The Israeli lobby makes sure of that.
05-30-07 - Remember the Liberty! "If Israel did deliberately attack the most powerful nation on Earth, it knows it can do so and get away with murder. Worse still, U.S. military personnel now know that if the truth is politically inconvenient, they and their legacy are expendable." There is no 'if' about it. That flag was flying that day, as per the testimony of the sailors on board. And I take THEIR word over that of the ATTACKERS (a FOREIGN nation), as one would THINK that our government would do as well. Not so. Israel got away with not just murder, but war crimes. In the not so recent past, Israel got away with it again. Our government does NOTHING, even if the face of this: But instead of punishing the attackers, Israel honors them in a museum. Told of the display, retired Air Force Major General John Morrison, NSA deputy director for operations at the time, commented, "I am offended by that." And retired Army Lieutenant General William Odom, NSA director from 1985 to 1988, and also unaware of the display, remarked, "I am astonished that Israel should put glory on the people who killed my SigInt-ers [signals intelligence personnel]."10 The Liberty's blood-stained flag is exhibited at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland. The US Naval Institute has evidently taken that article down. Thanks to the Internet Archiver, it lives on.
05-30-07 - Why so few bomb-safe US military trucks in Iraq? One senior officer calls it a "moral imperative," and others see it as a no-brainer, but four years into a deadly war, there are only some 350 blast-resistant trucks protecting US troops in Iraq. Officials inside and outside the military want to know why.
05-30-07 - Iran links Iraq and nuclear issue
05-30-07 - Iran kills 10 rebels in border clash Iranian security forces have killed 10 armed "counter-revolutionary" rebels in clashes in a Kurdish-populated area close to its borders with Iraq and Turkey, media said on Wednesday.
05-30-07 - Iran arrests third US-Iranian Iran has arrested a third US-Iranian accused of being a "CIA agent" linked to US efforts to topple the country's clerical authorities, a hardline newspaper said on Wednesday
05-30-07 - Positions harden ahead of talks on Iran nuclear programme
05-30-07 - Neoconservative 'hopes, prays' Bush will bomb Iran ** In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, prominent neoconservative Norman Podhoretz writes that he 'hopes' and 'prays' that President Bush will bomb Iran. Send these neocons to the front lines of every war that they push for - and get - via the US military. See how they like them apples. But it's ok to send SOMEONE ELSE'S kids to fight their battles. Neocons want American men and women to make the Middle East a safer place - for ISRAEL. Whose War is it?.
05-30-07 - Turkey bolsters troops on Iraq border Turkey has reinforced its border with Iraq with large contingents of soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers as it urged the U.S. to crackdown on Kurkish rebel bases there and debated staging a cross-border offensive.
05-30-07 - China Disputes Defense Assessment A sharply worded commentary in The People?s Daily, the main newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, said the Defense Department?s annual report to Congress on China?s military capacity had exaggerated the extent and sophistication of China?s military modernization.
05-30-07 - Send neocons Wolfowitz, Perle to Iraq, says GOP lawmaker Send them to the front lines of Iraq.
05-30-07 - Sadr asks Iraq to oppose U.S.-Iran talks
05-30-07 - Group of Eight May Seek 'Further Measures' on Iran (Update1) Rice now faces the task of persuading Russia and China to back tougher sanctions at the UN Security Council, where they wield veto power along with the U.S., Britain and France.
05-30-07 - Iran spying chief warns academics He said the CIA and British intelligence were involved in spying, but Iran had destroyed several of their networks that were trying to set off bomb blasts, conduct terrorism and kidnappings and also film and photograph sensitive sites.
05-30-07 - Exit From Iraq Should Be Through Iran Restoring cooperation between Washington and Tehran is the single most important step that could be taken to rescue the US from its predicament in Iraq
05-30-07 - Turks seize Syria-bound Iranian arms The weapons, concealed among construction materials, were uncovered when Kurdish terrorists bombed and derailed a train on May 25, Turkish prosecutors said Wednesday.
05-30-07 - Firm sued over secret CIA flights
05-30-07 - Interrogation Methods Are Criticized
05-30-07 - Czech demonstrators protest missile shield plans Two thousand demonstrators marched through Prague on Saturday to protest against a plan to host part of a U.S. missile defence system.
05-30-07 - Was She or Wasn't She? In new court filings, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has finally resolved one of the most disputed issues at the core of the long-running CIA leak controversy: Valerie Plame Wilson, he asserts, was a ?covert? CIA officer who repeatedly traveled overseas using a "cover identity" in order to disguise her relationship with the agency......In mid-May, Libby was a featured guest at a New York dinner honoring Norman Podhoretz, one of the neoconservative movement's intellectual godfathers. According to reports from the scene, the dinner, organized by Commentary Magazine, opened with cheers and a "standing ovation" for Libby.
Traitorous MFers.
05-30-07 - Young US Muslims: a threat? The mainstreaming of US Muslims stands in sharp contrast to what's happening in Europe, where Muslims are often economically and socially ghettoized. Their alienation helps make them susceptible to extreme Islam and the lure of "home-grown" terrorism, as evidenced by the 2005 London bombings.
05-30-07 - Ereikat Receives Members of US Congress, Make Field Visit in the West Bank The delegation, joined by US Consul General, Jacob Walles, consisted of congressmen, Patrick Leahy, Thad Cochran, Chuck Hagel, Ken Salazar and Peter Welch. Chuck Hagel :)
05-30-07 - UN approves Hariri murder court
05-30-07 - Lebanon charges 20 over fighting Twenty people allegedly linked to the 11-day-old battle around a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon have been charged with terrorism.
05-30-07 - Mofaz warns over Hezbollah strength Hezbollah has returned to positions near the Israeli border with Lebanon, Israel?s transportation minister said.
05-30-07 - Rice: Talk to Palestinians before Syria Translation: 'We must please the gulf Arabs and Europeans in order to get their support to bomb the hell out of Iran (and possibly Syria too), so stick to the current charade'.
05-30-07 - Al-Qaida slams U.S. over Israel Gadahn, who was previously known as Adam Pearlman, has been indicted in absentia for treason.
05-30-07 - Sheriff Griffin learns about security in Israel The Israelization of America continues.
05-30-07 - EU president vows support for Israel against Iran "Rest assured that if ever Israel's security and existence are threatened by speeches like those made by the Iranian president, or even actions, the EU will support you unhesitatingly," said Pottering, who is in the region for a five-day visit.
05-30-07 - Russia cautions U.S. on military aid to Lebanon Russia cautioned the United States on Wednesday against further destabilising Lebanon with U.S. arms shipments and to closely follow international agreements in delivering such aid.
05-30-07 - Fighting flares again at besieged Lebanon camp
05-30-07 - Shadow of Iraq jihad falls over Lebanon Jihadists battling the Lebanese army in north Lebanon were either on their way to or from Iraq, Palestinian political sources believe, a sign that the shadow of Sunni militancy there has started to fall over Arab countries nearby.
05-30-07 - Lebanon charges 20 jihadists with terrorism
05-30-07 - Miserable life for refugees on move in Lebanon Crowded into schools with little food and deteriorating sanitary conditions, life is growing more miserable by the day for thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled fighting in northern Lebanon.
05-30-07 - Soldier killed in fighting at besieged Lebanon camp
05-30-07 - Lebanese woman wounded by leftover bomb Mariam Halawi, 35, was collecting herbs with her husband, Hussein Salame, in the southern village of Qaaqaiyet al-Jisr when the bomb went off, the agency said. She was rushed to hospital where her left leg was amputated, it said
05-30-07 - Memorial honors Alamance County's men and women of the armed forces The wars and conflicts included on the memorial include the U.S. Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the U.S.S. Liberty Attack and the Middle Eastern Conflict.
05-30-07 - Maybe there's a reason for anti-U.S. propaganda Do the Arab nations occupy our cities with troops in the hundreds of thousands? Do Iraqi battleships patrol our waterways? Do their fighter planes dominate our skies? Great point. We all know what happened when a foreign army TRIED to occupy OUR citiies and towns. The operative word being TRIED.
05-30-07 - The war that still shadows US diplomacy in Middle East In polls of Arab public opinion, the desire remains for the United States to take a decisive role in pushing the Palestinians and Israelis to a comprehensive peace deal that would encompass all regional powers. "You can see that by far the number-one answer is brokering Arab-Israeli peace based on the 1967 borders. By far that is the issue that they see as most important (for US policy)," Telhami said.
05-29-07 - Spy charges against three US-Iranians 'absurd': US The United States says Iranian allegations of spying against three US-Iranian nationals are "absurd".
05-29-07 - US-Iranians charged with spying Iran has formally charged two Iranian- American academics currently in jail in Tehran with espionage.
05-29-07 - U.S. al Qaeda militant warns of worse attacks Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era, appeared in a video posted on the Internet. Gadahn, wearing robes and a turban, is believed to be in Pakistan.
05-29-07 - Cheney criticizes the Geneva Conventions in Military Academy commencement address
05-29-07 - Group: Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. This comes despite the fact the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that fighting terrorism is the central mission of DHS.
05-29-07 - More Bad Intelligence on Iran and Iraq ** Both cases show how the Administration is still trying to manipulate intelligence to further its strategic goals. ABC says that Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams is behind the covert action against Iran, which reportedly stems from a "nonlethal presidential finding" signed by Bush to launch a plan that "includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions."
05-29-07 - Russia tests missile which 'penetrates any defence'
05-29-07 - Psychological warfare between the US and Iran
05-29-07 - Lawyer: Cheney visitor logs not recorded "The latest filings make clear that the administration has been destroying documents and entering into secret agreements in violation of the law,"
05-29-07 - Ron Paul Gets 91% in Straw Poll; Not the Work of Spammers
05-29-07 - 'We have no rights and no future' "We have no rights and no future. We have a lot of problems; We can't work freely, we cannot own a house, we cannot move around. We are treated as if we are not human,"
05-29-07 - Soldier dies in Lebanon fighting
05-29-07 - Iraq Palestinians taste bitter exile Many Palestinians have escaped the death squads of Iraq only to face an uncertain future on the desert border between Iraq and Syria.
05-29-07 - A tale of two countries It's interesting to see how shocked people are at first when they realize the full extent of the grip that the Israeli lobby has on our government. I was there, four years ago. I know exactly what they feel. It's one of the most Orwellian things I've ever seen; the entire picture- Israel, Palestinians, Israeli lobby, neocons.
05-29-07 - Rice says US not opposed to Israel-Syria talks The United States does not object to the idea of peace talks between Israel and Syria, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
05-29-07 - Palestinian's quandary: Working for U.S. in Iraq He carries a Palestinian passport and, at home, he is unable even to leave his village at times due to the travel restrictions by the Israeli army. But here in Iraq, he's escorting one of the highest-level U.S. State Department employees.
05-29-07 - Gov. Crist begins 5-day tour of Israel Crist's meetings with Israeli officials were set up by his friend, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach. who is among Israel's strongest supporters in Congress.
05-29-07 - Hagel in ?08? ?We?ll let you know.? Hagel, who is considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, said he has not yet made any decisions. He added that, in any event, the Israel Foreign Ministry building was probably not the most appropriate place for an announcement. "We'll let you know," he told the Q. Sadly, in all actuality, it IS the most appropriate place to announce your candidacy.
05-29-07 - Beirut a ghost town on eve of summer season
05-29-07 - Four killed at Beirut checkpoints as security tightened
05-29-07 - Misery doubles in Lebanon refugee camp "We the poor have no one to help us but God,"
05-29-07 - Western sponsors aim for vote on Hariri court draft Wednesday
05-29-07 - AIPAC Intervenes on Iran ** It has happened again, and in the open. The American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) which heads a network of pro-Israeli lobbies, persuaded Congress to drop a provision which would have required President Bush to ask for Congressional approval prior to attacking Iran.
05-28-07 - Fallen troops remembered on Memorial Day "One of my men said to me ... as we were coming back from this mission that, 'It's like they could come back any time, you know?' I know the feeling," Spring-Glace said. "It's like you can just press the button and go back to the way it was."
05-28-07 - Iran, US agree to more talks over Iraq security
05-28-07 - U.S. show of force in Gulf alarming: Afghan paper A U.S. navy show of force on Iran's doorstep is "greatly alarming" for the region and the United States risked a bloody quagmire if it invaded Iran, a state-run Afghan newspaper said on Saturday.
05-28-07 - US warns Iran over arming Iraqis The US has called on Iran to stop arming militants in Iraq at the first bilateral public talks between the two countries in almost 30 years.
05-28-07 - Russia calls for conference on CFE arms treaty
05-28-07 - US concerns as China builds nuclear subs
05-28-07 - Talking to Iran ? or Talking War? ** Just days after the U.S.-Iran meeting, a group of powerful neo-conservatives ?including some of those who were most active in promoting the invasion of Iraq ? plan to gather for an all-expenses-paid conference entitled "Confronting The Iranian Threat: The Way Forward" at a luxurious resort in the Bahamas. Many of the 30 or so invited guests have been strident critics of Iran and hard-liners on maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq
05-28-07 - Britain asks Russia to extradite Litvinenko suspect
05-28-07 - Arabs make plans for nuclear power
05-28-07 - War Widows Lobby for Better Benefits
05-28-07 - Militants accuse US of sending nerve gas to Lebanon Islamist miltants have accused the US of sending nerve gas to the Lebanese army, which is struggling to defeat a group of rebels holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp
05-28-07 - Peretz loses Israeli party vote The two men who defeated him, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and a former head of Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon will now face a run-off vote.
05-28-07 - Lebanon army 'hit by militants' Lebanese troops have reportedly come under attack from Islamist militants barricaded inside a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country.
05-28-07 - Strategic talks stepped up ** Israel's representative to the discussions, Cabinet Minister Shaul Mofaz, is to set off shortly for the United States for a new round that is expected to focus on Iran's nuclear program.
05-28-07 - UN team to report on alleged arms smuggling to Lebanon
05-28-07 - Syrian vice president stresses dialogue best method to solve Mideast issues
05-28-07 - Analysis: Kazakhstan could be Israel's best source for oil and gas
05-28-07 - Muslim nations urged to create new 'Golden Age of Islam' Islamic countries increasingly feel "the overwhelming majority of Muslims ... are being demonized for the actions of a small minority," he said, adding that frustrations have grown because of persistent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestinian territories.
05-28-07 - Firefights erupt at besieged Lebanon camp
05-28-07 - Palestinians seek end to Lebanon standoff
05-28-07 - Lebanese army and Islamists clash violently
05-28-07 - American Treachery in the Attack on the USS Liberty Much Deeper Than Previously Thought
05-27-07 - Iran says keeping word to Russia over atomic plant Iran has met its commitments to Russia over building the Islamic Republic's first nuclear power plant and is ready to go beyond those commitments to assist the work, an Iranian official said on Sunday.
05-27-07 - Iran says EU nuclear talks back on schedule
05-27-07 - Iran protests alleged U.S. spy networks Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador Sunday to protest what it called recently uncovered U.S. espionage networks, state television reported, the day before the Islamic republic planned ambassador-level talks with the U.S. on Iraq.
05-27-07 - Iran says U.S. aims to "lift spirits" with war games Iran dismissed on Sunday U.S. naval war games on its doorstep as a morale-boosting exercise for American soldiers, days after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a show of military muscle.
05-27-07 - 3rd CIA Officer Confirms Ron Paul On Roots of Terrorism McGovern then quoted the 9/11 Commission Report regarding the motivation of Kahlid Sheik Mohammad, the ringleader of the September 11th attacks: "Kahlid Sheik Mohammad was motivated not by any antipathy resulting from his stay in the United States [where he had attended college years before], but by his profound hatred for U.S. policy toward Israel ? favoring Israel one-sidedly."
The LA Times, the only paper in the US (to my knowledge) and subsequently the Kentucky Leader Herald, are the only two news outfits nationwide to give significant airtime to the real motive for the attaks on 911. This article can still be found at the Internet Archiver. If any of our politicians or pundits are telling you that we were attacked because we are free, they are either grossly misinformed or liars. "They're over HERE, because we're over THERE"- PJ Buchanan
05-27-07 - Iran losing interest in nuclear power station: Russian official
05-27-07 - Afghan civilian deaths stir NATO unease
05-27-07 - GOP Rivals Embrace Unproven Iraq-9/11 Tie many GOP candidates have recently echoed Bush?s longstanding assertion that Iraq is the ?central battlefront? in the worldwide war against Al Qaeda and have declared that Al Qaeda would make Iraq its base of operations if the United States withdraws ? notions that Scheuer said do not withstand scrutiny.
05-27-07 - U.S. disbands unit created to pressure Iran and Syria State Department and White House officials said the dissolution of the group was simply a bureaucratic reorganization, but many analysts saw it as evidence of a softening in the U.S. strategy toward the two countries. It comes as the Bush administration has embarked on a significant new effort to hold high-level meetings with Iran and Syria. Well but meanwhile, the Bush admin is conducting 'black ops' in Iran.
05-27-07 - Effecting Regime Change in Iran ** There is reportedly a heated debate underway between members of the Cheney Cabal ? who want to bomb-bomb-Iran ? and members of the Condi diplomacy crowd, who want to conduct "covert" destabilizing operations within Iran and to impose crushing sanctions on the Iranians, themselves.
05-27-07 - Iran: No detail on missing American Iran said Sunday it had "no exact report" about an Iranian-American employee of a U.S. foundation promoting democracy missing after a visit to his homeland - one of several people believed detained in Iran amid rising tensions with the United States.
05-27-07 - Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran **
05-27-07 - Report: Cheney aide clearing path to bomb Iran ** Cheney's team wants to work with Israel, nudging the country at some key moment to mount a small-scale attack on the suspected site of Iran's nuclear infrastructure, which could lead to an Iranian counter attack on US forces stationed in the Persian Gulf, Clemons reports.
05-27-07 - Behind the eyes of the warmongering US hawks whose bright idea was it to let Richard Perle, the US hawk known as the 'prince of darkness', make a PBS documentary arguing that the world needs more military 'interventions'? It is just odd that PBS would allow this warmongering neocon any airtime at all, let alone a complete special. Same goes for neocon Frank Gaffney and his 'documentary' about Muslims. PBS has clearly fallen under the influence.
05-27-07 - Former U.S. defense chief: Israel must not attack Iran ** They are trying to get us to do it.
05-27-07 - Czech Leader Backs U.S. Missile Defense The anti-missile system is also likely to be on the agenda when President Bush visits the two NATO members during a trip to Europe in June.
05-27-07 - Protesters Barred From Cheney?s West Point Speech A federal appeals court on Friday denied an organization permission to stage an antiwar demonstration on Saturday on the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where Vice President Dick Cheney is to deliver the commencement address.
05-27-07 - Fear-Mongering and Fiction: Cheney Addresses West Point Grads The veep last spoke at West Point four years ago. He is still peddling the phony link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
05-27-07 - Ya'alon: Bring down Iranian regime, send ground troops into Gaza ** Attempts to prevent the nuclearization of Iran will fail, according to former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, who asserted that the military option should be examined and the Iranian regime should be brought down.
05-27-07 - Bush okayed 'soft revolution' in Iran ** The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received presidential approval for a covert operation in Iran aimed at destabilizing the Islamic Republic by "non-lethal" means, ABC news reported early Saturday morning.
05-27-07 - I lost my son to a conflict I oppose. We were both doing our duty Andrew J. Bacevich also writes for The American Conservative.
05-27-07 - Jumblatt downplays Lebanon army action at camp Fresh fighting broke out on Sunday between the Lebanese army and militants in a Palestinian refugee camp, but a senior member of the governing coalition said there were no plans to end the standoff by military means.
05-27-07 - The refugees who refuse to flee Nahr al-Bared
05-27-07 - UN agency: More than 5,000 families have left Palestinian refugee camp A majority of families from a besieged Palestinian refugee camp caught in the crossfire between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army have fled the crowded camp but thousands of people remain trapped inside, a U.N. official said Sunday.
05-27-07 - 'Wiped off the Map' ? The Rumor of the Century The full quote translated directly to English: "The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
05-26-07 - U.S. says militant held in Iraq has Iranian ties
05-26-07 - Iran hails UN nuclear chief remarks that drew US rebuke
05-26-07 - Iran says US must change Iraq policy for talks to succeed
05-26-07 - Iran wants to develop shared oil fields with Iraq
05-26-07 - Iran 'uncovers US spy networks'
05-26-07 - Bush threatens veto of anti-gouging bill President Bush is likely to veto legislation passed in the House today that would create hefty fines and criminal penalties for gasoline price-gouging, the White House said Wednesday.
05-26-07 - Democrats Dither As Cheney, Neocons Plot To Nuke Iran ** Now that the US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have failed, the AEI warmongers are conspiring with Vice President Cheney to foment war with Iran.
05-26-07 - The Cabal Strikes Back ** In the end, however, when it comes down to launching a full frontal assault on Iran, it all depends on the Israelis. The War Party is counting on them to strike the first blow, with the guarantee that the Americans will strike the second, third, fourth, and fifth blows, ad infinitum. Blows directed not only at Iran, but also against Syria, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians.
05-26-07 - You Tube: Ron Paul on Bill Maher Excellent.
05-26-07 - You must return the rights of the people you have erred against . . . or pay the price The leader of Fatah al-Islam has threatened Britons with ?destruction through resistance and attacks? for their government?s policies in the Middle East. Odd that they should target Britain in all of this, particularly given this story I read just minutes ago.
05-26-07 - Who Wants War with Iran?**
05-26-07 - You Tube: If Americans Knew
05-26-07 - You Tube: Rosie O'Donnell speaks out on Iran and 9/11 (3/29/07) Elisabeth Hasselbach would appear to be a neocon-loving, neocon-apologist moron. Unreal. She evidently can't get enough of the BS that they along with the MSM shovel onto her plate. Real Republicans don't follow along like sheep, like Hasselbach evidently does.
05-26-07 - Iran is nuclear threat, says Israeli general ** Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the Israeli Defense Forces' defense and armed forces attache in Washington, D.C., was a guest speaker at Temple Beth Jacob's Shabbas service. In his remarks, he said Iran is "the most worrying" of three fronts with which Israel is dealing right now.
05-26-07 - U.S. sends arms to Lebanon, militants issue warning Lebanese leaders have vowed to stamp out Fatah al-Islam, which is led by a Palestinian but has little support among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee community of around 400,000.
05-26-07 - A Palestinian refugee and her daughter cross to safety after fleeing their besieged camp of Nahr al-bared in north Lebanon
05-26-07 - Hezbollah warns Govt not to storm camp
05-25-07 - Iran will push nuclear programme 'to the limit'
05-25-07 - Powers make IAEA Iran complaint Diplomats from the US, UK, France and Japan have complained to the head of the UN nuclear watchdog about comments he made on Iran's nuclear programme.
05-25-07 - Iran Threat On Fox - Again ** He welcomed Alireza Jafarzadeh, author of the book, The Iran Threat and he was also a Fox News Foreign Affairs Analyst. Gallagher said that the coming nuclear crisis seems to get closer everyday and that the president of Iran won't listen and that the sanctions have no teeth. Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, is a pro-Israeli.
05-25-07 - U.S. tried to sabotage in Iran
05-25-07 - On Patriotism by Rep. Ron Paul The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power.
05-25-07 - Prosecutors: Up to 3 Years for Libby Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby betrayed the public's trust and deserves to spend 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday.
05-25-07 - US lawmakers propose special Iran rights envoy Two US senators proposed Friday appointing a special State Department envoy to improve human rights and democracy in Iran, citing Tehran's "flagrant disregard" for civil liberties. However, they do not do so for Israel's flagrant disregard for civil liberties, which is well-documented by major human rights organizations the world over.
05-25-07 - Bush to press China and Russia on sanctions President Bush said he would press Russia and China to cooperate in expanding sanctions against Iran.
05-25-07 - Fmr. CIA Officer: Giuliani ?Not Serious,? ?Ignorant? About Terrorism Former CIA counter-terrorism officer Philip Giraldi, in an interview with Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, said Giuliani ?indicated that he was not only not serious about [al Qaeda terrorism], but seem[s] to be ignorant of both the 9/11 [Commission] report and political realities in the Middle East.?
05-25-07 - Bush Attempts, Fails, to Rebut Ron Paul
05-25-07 - Neil Cavuto Uses His "Business" Show to Prime Pump for War on Iran ** Neil Cavuto has used his "business show" over the past week to unabashedly promote the concept of a unilateral strike against Iran either by the United States or Israel.
05-25-07 - Why Congress Caved to Bush by Patrick J. Buchanan ** If and when Bibi comes to power, he will use every stratagem to provoke us into attacking "Hitler." Also drumming for war on Iran are the floundering neocons and the Israeli lobby. Under orders from the lobby, Nancy Pelosi stripped from a House bill a stipulation that Bush must come to Congress for authorization before launching an attack on Iran.
05-25-07 - British probe Murdoch media influence Probe Murdoch's influence in America too, neocon bastid.
05-25-07 - Ron Paul rocks Republican bigwigs Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani reacted energetically to Paul in that South Carolina debate, scoring pro-Bush-brownie points on national TV. But Paul is unbowed; he cites, as supporting evidence, the 9/11 Commission report, and calls upon the expertise of friendly foreign policy experts, including former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, author of the 2004 book, "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror."
05-25-07 - US ready to 'push back' against Russia: official Russia's real crime: it opposes the neocons' 'Manifest Destiny' for the Middle East- the real plan of which is to make it a safer place for Israel and the Halliburtons.
05-25-07 - Seven Insurance Companies Pay Silverstein Properties $2 billion As Settlement For 9/11 Insurance Claims Silverstein Properties, Inc. leased the World Trade Center from the Port Authority in July 2001
05-25-07 - FOX News Guest: We Must Stay in Iraq So Israel Can Bomb Iran ** FOX hosts never tell their viewers that these people have a hidden agenda that affects their attitudes towards the Middle East , i.e. in order for them to go to heaven, they believe that Israel must conquer its ancient biblical lands, now controlled by Muslims. As these end timers see their influence shrinking, they have gotten more and more desperate, creating hyperbolic threats and bending the truth. Why do these morons insist on taking the rest of us with them in their bonkers doomsday BS?
05-25-07 - Hezbollah head warns against raid "The Nahr el-Bared camp and Palestinian civilians are a red line," Sheikh Nasrallah said.
05-25-07 - LEBANON: Yousef Abu Radi, Lebanon "On the way to the hospital I realised that my mother had died" With up to 40,000 civilians living in the camp, questions are being raised as to whether the Lebanese army?s response to the militants has been in contravention of international humanitarian law.
05-25-07 - Prosecutors drop secret trial demand in AIPAC case
05-25-07 - US envoy's foolish words If Israel was a well administered country, US Ambassador Richard Jones would have been invited to the Foreign Ministry in order to explain his odd declarations that spy Jonathan Pollard would never be released from prison. What part of treason do these folks just not comprehend? Were this an individual that had committed such a traitorous act against ISRAEL, I'm sure that they would be singing a very different tune.
05-25-07 - House to consider nuclear bank The legislation, proposed first by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was referred by the committee to the full House on Wednesday. It is aimed at calling Iran's bluff Lantos is Israel's head agent on Capitol Hill.
05-25-07 - House to consider Jerusalem, Ahmadinejad resolutions The committee's chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), sponsored the resolution on Jerusalem, which "commends Israel for its administration of the undivided city of Jerusalem for the past 40 years, during which Israel has respected the rights of all religious groups" and calls on President Bush to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
05-25-07 - Jewish Reps target arms sales to Saudis U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) plan to introduce legislation blocking the sale of missile technology to Saudi Arabia. Remember now, it was only some weeks back that Israel registered its displeasure at the US selling arms to the Saudis - which is no doubt what prompted this move.
05-25-07 - U.S. resupplies Lebanon army, battle for camp looms
05-25-07 - Refugees again in Lebanon, the Khatibs find sleep comes hard
05-25-07 - Qaeda vows "seas of blood" over Lebanon Palestinians A group calling itself al Qaeda's wing in the Levant vowed to carry out bombings in Lebanon and attacks on Christians unless Beirut pulled its army away from Palestinian refugee camps.
05-25-07 - European council warns of racism Foreign migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are the most affected by the rise in intolerance and racism, Smith-Asmussen noted.
05-25-07 - Ros-Lehtinen, Wexler join Fla. Delegation to Israel Said Ros-Lehtinen, "This visit offers us an opportunity to learn more about the economic and security challenges confronting our two great countries in a region vital to our own national interests." Move Washington to Tel Aviv and be done with it.
05-25-07 - US supplies Lebanese Army for fight against Fatah al-Islam
05-24-07 - Iran 'accused of attacks in Iraq to bolster US strategy' ** The Bush administration may be highlighting accusations that the Iranian government is behind attacks in Iraq in order to strengthen its hand in preparing for military strikes on Iran, according to a leading British think-tank. ....In a report sifting the evidence produced by US authorities against Iran, the independent think-tank Basic cast doubt on the strength of the intelligence, saying that proved links between the Tehran regime and militia inside Iraq remained "sketchy". And the "No Shit, Sherlock" award goes to...
05-24-07 - Iran probably 3-8 years off nuclear bomb: IAEA Iran is probably three to eight years away from producing a nuclear bomb if it so chooses, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday.
05-24-07 - UN warns on Iran nuclear schedule "Even if Iran wanted to go for a nuclear weapon, it would not be before the end of this decade or sometime in the middle of the next decade," he said, adding that this estimate echoed the view of US intelligence agency, the CIA. Notice how his assessment, like that of our own intel community, doesn't jive with Israel's.
05-24-07 - Human rights group faults U.S. war on terror "If we focus on the U.S. it's because we believe that the U.S. is a country whose enormous influence and power has to be used constructively, " she said. "When countries like the U.S. are seen to undermine or ignore human rights, it sends a very powerful message to others."
05-24-07 - House approves stricter lobbying limits The House voted on Thursday to make lobbyists disclose when they round up campaign donations for members of Congress and to broaden prohibitions on their accepting gifts, meals and travel from lobbyists.
05-24-07 - Iran to Israel: Don't attack Lebanon Iran's hard-line president warned Israel on Thursday that nations in the region would take action against the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon in the summer...... Ahmadinejad warned Israel that "60 years of invasion and assassination is enough. If you do not cease invasion and massacre, soon the hand of power of the nations of the region will rub you criminals with earth."
05-24-07 - JPost.com special feature: The Road to the White House A sick display of our politicians groveling to and ensuring the safety of - A FOREIGN NATION.
05-24-07 - Fierce gunfire in Lebanese camp The barrage of machine-gun fire and shells at the Nahr al-Bared camp lasted for some 20 minutes before dying down.
05-24-07 - Neo-Cons To Plot Iran Strategy Amid Caribbean Luxury The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a neo-conservative group created two days after the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, is holding what it calls ?a policy workshop? during Congress? Memorial Day recess, no doubt to plot strategy for moving U.S. policy toward Iran in a direction compatible with its confrontational views......Uri Lubrani, the chief Iran advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is also expected to participate.
05-24-07 - 'Stop Dimona' says Blix Israel should comply with the same demand being made of Iran, to cease its nuclear fuel-cycle and stop enriching uranium, Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), told Ynetnews Thursday. OH come now, Israel, be held the same standards it demands of everyone else? Ahahaha, he's joking right?
05-24-07 - Unwelcome guests Palestinians fleeing the fighting in the camp report that the militant group is composed of Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis and Iraqis. The armed jihadis - Sunnis by religion - appeared in the camps a year ago on motorbikes and scooters, and have been there ever since
05-24-07 - Evidence Declassified in Aipac Case
05-24-07 - Abbas denies links with Fatah al-Islam The Palestinian authorities have no links with the shadowy Islamist group locked in a deadly showdown with the Lebanese army, president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday.
05-24-07 - UN to monitor arms movements across Syria-Lebanon border The United Nations said Thursday it would send a team to Lebanon early next week to check on reported arms smuggling across the border with neighboring Syria.
05-24-07 - 'Cursed' Lebanese endure yet another crisis
05-24-07 - ICRC chief says sending convoy to Palestinian camp
05-24-07 - GOP Candidates Criticize ABC News Report on CIA-Iran Plan ** "I was shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action in Iran," Mitt Romney said as he opened a session with reporters in Tulsa, Okla. I was shocked to see Romney and so many others, veritably pledging allegiance to a nation other than this one.
05-24-07 - The PM's latest award - for chutzpah LOCAL Zionist and Jewish community groups have been falling over themselves to line up and pat Prime Minister John Howard on the back in the past few weeks, conferring a swag of awards and honours on the PM for his support of Israel...... The Iraqi tyrant may not have been a threat to the world, as Howard believed, but he was a threat to Israel as a financier of terrorism against the Jewish State
05-23-07 - US armada enters Gulf amid nuclear row **
05-23-07 - U.S. Navy sends carriers near Iran ** The U.S. Navy staged its latest show of military force off the Iranian coastline on Wednesday, sending two aircraft carriers and landing ships packed with 17,000 U.S. Marines and sailors to carry out unannounced exercises in the Persian Gulf.
05-23-07 - Global worries push oil above $70 US naval exercises off the coast of Iran which coincided with a report claiming Iran is continuing its nuclear development plans, prompted concern. You think it's high NOW? Wait until we attack Iran.
05-23-07 - U.S.: Iranian material found in Iraq ** Making the case for war.
05-23-07 - US to push for new Iran sanctions The BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says the US is determined to step up the pressure, convinced that Tehran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons - a charge it denies.
05-23-07 - Two US aircraft carriers reach Gulf waters ** The USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz aircraft carriers and their strike groups entered Gulf waters to support troops in Iraq and conduct training exercises, the US Navy said Wednesday.
05-23-07 - Report: Most foreign fighters from Gulf Fleih did not provide more specific details about the alleged insurgents or which countries they came from. Why is that.
05-23-07 - Iran ?plans attacks on British nuclear plants?** . The call from the Conservative leader came amid reports Tehran was forging ties with al Qaeda in Iraq to prepare for a summer fight against coalition forces, and that it was arming Taliban insurgents fighting British troops in Afghanistan The BS is coming fast and furious.
05-23-07 - Another US scholar 'held in Iran'
05-23-07 - 40 years ago, Israel attacked U.S. ship On June 8 this year, we as a country should share a moment of silence for the murdered men of the USS Liberty and demand total accountability from Israel.
Amen to that.
05-23-07 - Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran ** President Bush has signed a "nonlethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions.
05-23-07 - Lawsuit resumes against Cheney, others The lawsuit accuses Cheney, Rove, Libby and Armitage of revealing Valerie Wilson's secret CIA identity in seeking revenge against Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq.
05-23-07 - "Buying the War," Now it's Iran ** You would think that after after all the official and unofficial lies that came out of the Washington spin machine during the 2002-03 run-up to the war in Iraq, newspapers would be a little more skeptical about similarly unsupported, high-level but anonymous and bellicose allegations about Iran (or anyone else).
05-23-07 - Don't get fooled again ** Iran, we are told, has a secret plan to force the US and Britain to withdraw from Iraq. Not only that, but "Iran has reversed its previous policy in Afghanistan" and is now supporting the Taliban. So when George Bush's famous "surge" - a desperate gambit to prop up a bankrupt policy - fails to usher in the cooperative commonwealth in Iraq, we Guardian readers will know it's really all Tehran's fault.
05-23-07 - US House leaders agree to fund Iraq war without timetables The American people are well represented in Congress, eh? Whatever happened to "No taxation without representation" anyway?
05-23-07 - Bin Laden 'ordered Zarqawi' to attack US Frances Townsend, President George W Bush's homeland security advisor, offered information from recently declassified secret reports to defend the US argument that it is fighting to prevent Iraq from becoming a new "sanctuary" for Al Qaeda.
05-23-07 - Kazakh opposition accuses U.S. of double standards Kazakhstan's opposition accused the United States on Wednesday of backing what they see as the authoritarian regime of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and valuing oil more than democracy.
05-23-07 - 'Nowhere to put us' We'd never heard of Fatah al-Islam. Who are these guys who are terrorising the whole country?
05-23-07 - Lebanese minister warns militants Lebanon's defence minister has said Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp must surrender or face further military action.
05-23-07 - Iraq Withdrawal Akin to Defeat, Say Americans It will put Israel in danger 40% 25% 35%
05-23-07 - U.N. asks for access to refugee camp U.N. relief officials appealed Wednesday for safe access to the Palestinian refugee camp at the center of a standoff between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army and urged the government to exercise restraint in civilian areas.
05-23-07 - Lebanon rapped over shelling Palestinians' camp "Amnesty International is particularly concerned about the army's use of artillery and other heavy weapons, including tank fire, against heavily populated areas,"
05-23-07 - Google is watching you Google, the world's biggest search engine, is setting out to create the most comprehensive database of personal information ever assembled, one with the ability to tell people how to run their lives.
05-23-07 - Palestinians say they are victims again in Lebanon,
05-23-07 - Amnesty blasts Mideast human rights violations Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report that Iraq continued its descent into civil war in 2006 and that both Israel and Hezbollah committed war crimes during their 34-day conflict.
05-23-07 - PLO will not object to Lebanese army entering camp
05-23-07 - NY Sun uses 'anti-semitic' slur against Ron Paul
05-22-07 - UN inspectors in Iran ahead of IAEA report on Iranian program Non-proliferation expert Gary Samore said "obviously the bottom line is that they haven't accepted a suspension of enrichment. That's all the Security Council needs to take further sanctions."
05-22-07 - Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq ** Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say. "US officials say". Still looking for a pretext for war. The BS campaign is really taking off now. Never forget - the 'bomb Iran' campaign has been in the works for almost 2 YEARS.
05-22-07 - Congress Must Do Its Duty by Rep. Ron Paul
05-22-07 - Cameron: Don't rule out attacking Iran **
05-22-07 - U.S. Urges Complaint Against IAEA Chief The United States wants its allies to join in a formal protest against the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for suggesting that Iran be allowed to keep some elements of its uranium enrichment program, diplomats said Tuesday.
05-22-07 - Fmr. Chief of CIA Osama Unit: Why They Attack Us Of the eighteen presidential candidates now in the field from both parties, only Mr. Paul has had the courage to square with the average American voter. We are indeed hated and being warred against because we are "over there," and not for what we are and how we live. Anyone that tells you that we were attacked because 'we're free' is either grossly misinformed or a liar.
05-22-07 - Specter Stumps For Diplomacy According to his report in the Quarterly, Iran seeks nothing more than to be a world power, and its leaders think that status and respect can be reached by becoming a nuclear power. Speculation surrounding Iran's plans with nuclear weapons has been centered on the U.S., and Specter said a defusing action would be simply to talk it out.
05-22-07 - Iran links detained US scholar to 'regime overthrow bid'
05-22-07 - Pricey gasoline costs U.S. consumers extra $20 bln The added expense is taking money away from consumers to spend on other goods and services. It's BS of the highest order.
05-22-07 - Bush could double force by Christmas ** The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday.
05-22-07 - Two civilians killed as UN delivers aid to Lebanon camp
05-22-07 - Halliburton chairman defends move to Dubai "If you look at a map of oil and gas reserves, the focus of our business, the focus of the industry clearly is moving to that part of the world ... to the eastern hemisphere in particular and the Middle East specifically," Now that they snookered the US government into providing for them (Iraq contracts) and securing the area, might as well make it official and move over there, right boys?
05-22-07 - The Ron Paul Effect The American Conservative magazine, which Buchanan co-founded with Taki Theodoracopulos and Scott McConnell, was launched to give voice to those on the Right who reject the neoconservative "liberationism" of the Bush administration as a "Jacobin" invention, as Claes Ryn, a prominent conservative professor, so trenchantly put it.
05-22-07 - Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."
05-22-07 - U.S. envoy: Unlikely convicted spy Pollard will ever be released The United States ambassador to Israel said Monday it is unlikely that convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard will ever be released, adding that the fact that he has not been executed should be seen as an act of clemency by Washington
05-22-07 - Dichter: Peace possible without war ?At that stage, the first Friday, I felt that most of our pressure, the majority of operations, should have focused on the place from which the threat originated, and not on attacking real estate in Beirut.?
05-22-07 - U.S. ambassador apologizes for remarks on convicted spy Pollard What the hell for? He was right; Pollard is lucky he wasn't executed, traitorous bastard that he is.
05-22-07 - Carter retreats from remarks on Bush After his most recent trip to the Middle East, where he monitored Palestinian elections, Carter said, "I came back from the Middle East and went directly to the Oval Office. I had a long and extensive conversation with President Bush about the absence of any peace talks and to give him a description of what was happening in Palestine in my opinion." He added: "I was very pleased when President Bush told me the top foreign policy priority for the administration in the remaining months would be peace in the Middle East."
05-22-07 - Major Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Mostly Mainstream They seem to do well, despite some of the post-9/11 BS. Says a lot about my country and my fellow Americans.
05-22-07 - How terrorism finds root in the West Islamist radicalism and its stepchild, terrorism, are problems associated with a younger generation of immigrants. Because why? They are disaffected, perhaps discriminated against in Europe(much moreso than they are here in America)?
05-22-07 - Lebanon turmoil will not deter UN vote on Hariri court -- US The United States said Tuesday that the fighting in Lebanon would not prevent a UN Security Council vote on setting up an international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
05-22-07 - Washington may provide military aid to Lebanese PM
05-22-07 - Truce in Lebanon battle sparks mass exodus from camp "Thousands of refugees -- men, women and children -- started fleeing on foot or by car from Nahr al-Bared camp from early evening to take shelter in the nearby Beddawi camp," said Hajj Rifaat, a camp official of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah faction.
05-22-07 - Stop world cluster bombs, urge six Nobel Prize winners Israel most recently used the bombs less than a year ago.
05-22-07 - U.S.: No heat on Israel to shun Syria An Israeli government official, speaking on condition of anonymity according to civil service rules, said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not seek American approval for talks with Syria, and the U.S. has never tried to block such contacts. Sounds like somebody was trying to use the current admin as an excuse to avoid peace talks with Syria. That's twice the US has denied pressuring Israel about this matter.
05-22-07 - US warns Syria over moves to block Hariri trial
05-22-07 - Wisdom of the presidents
05-21-07 - Iran: Arabs should back nuclear program Iran urged Arab countries on Sunday to support its nuclear program but received a cool reception at the World Economic Forum, particularly from U.S. allies worried about Iran's growing regional influence.
05-21-07 - Azeris caught in US-Iran tussle according to some, the US has tried to tap into those ethnic tensions as a possible pressure point for promoting regime change within Iran
05-21-07 - Kyrgyzstan will close U.S. base if used against Iran - senior MP ** Recent media reports hinted at the possibility of the U.S. using the base in the Central Asian state to deliver air strikes against Iran.
05-21-07 - U.S. Embassy in Iraq to be biggest ever The $592 million embassy occupies a chunk of prime real estate two-thirds the size of Washington's National Mall, with desk space for about 1,000 people behind high, blast-resistant walls. The compound is a symbol both of how much the United States has invested in Iraq and how the circumstances of its involvement are changing......The 21-building complex on the Tigris River was envisioned three years ago partly as a headquarters for the democratic expansion in the Middle East that President Bush identified as the organizing principle for foreign policy in his second term
05-21-07 - U.S. House seeks tighter U.S.-Israeli ballistic missile defenses ** The United States House of Representatives has adopted a measure aimed at weaving closer U.S. and Israeli defenses against ballistic missiles of the type that could be fired by Iran. Part of a $504 billion defense spending bill passed Thursday, the measure would redirect $205 million in Defense Department funds toward projects already underway in Israel. The humble American taxpayer is a servant to the state of Israel. Billions of our taxpayer dollars, both directly and indirectly go toward the security of a foreign nation - in contravention of our OWN interests.
05-21-07 - Who?s Afraid of Jimmy Carter? George Bush
05-21-07 - Coalition of Jewish Leaders Petition With Over 1000 Signatures Urging An End To The Iraq War JAW is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending the Iraq War and preventing one with Iran.
05-21-07 - GE in $11.6bn Saudi plastics sale The irony: with the advent of the 'oil boom', the Middle Eastern countries buy up our businesses, after having soaked us at the pump.
05-21-07 - Pentagon considers staying in Iraq for 'decades'
05-21-07 - Swiss told to stay out of Iran nuclear crisis The former American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has called the so:called "Swiss plan" to end the Iranian nuclear standoff "farcical".
Why is this buffoon still speaking on behalf of America? He has no right nor clout to do so. If there were any justice, this moron would be deported poste haste to his true homeland - Israel.
05-21-07 - Fighting rages in Lebanese camp At least nine civilians died during clashes at the Nahr al-Bared camp, home to some 40,000 Palestinian refugees
05-21-07 - Cheney alone as foreign -policy heavy In Cairo last Sunday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Cheney against any military confrontation with Iran because it would have "grave repercussions on the region," his spokesman Suleiman Awaad said. Mubarak also told Cheney solving the Palestinian conflict was the key to resolving the rest of the region's crises, Awaad said.
05-21-07 - IDF: Iran will have bomb only in 2010 OUR intel says 2015.
05-21-07 - UN draft on court prompts praise, anger Hizbullah labeled the UN resolution "foreign interference in Lebanon's affairs" and called on Russia for help
05-21-07 - Lebanon refugee camps breeding ground for extremism Lebanon's camps also have the region's "highest percentage of Palestine refugees who are living in abject poverty."
05-21-07 - Syria deny Lebanon militants link Syria's UN Ambassador said that militants fighting Lebanese troops had been jailed in Damascus a few years ago for links to al-Qaeda, and would be rearrested if they returned.
05-21-07 - Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream absolute levels of support for Islamic extremism among Muslim Americans are quite low, especially when compared with Muslims around the world.
05-21-07 - US Ambassador Jones: 'Be Happy We Didn't Execute Pollard' Speaking at a conference at Bar Ilan University on Israeli-American relations, Jones said, "Pollard took money and sold out his country... The fact that he wasn't executed shows that he was treated mercifully." Right on.
05-21-07 - Robert Fisk: A front-row seat for this Lebanese tragedy We are back at another of those tragic Lebanese stage shows: the siege of Palestinians.
05-21-07 - Mixed reaction to compromise immigration reform The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the package, saying it provides an opportunity to advance the vital cause of keeping our nation both welcoming and secure by seeking to address the problems that have led many to circumvent U.S. immigration law. Huh? These illegal immigrants are BREAKING THE LAW. You don't reward them for doing so. The arm of Israel (the ADL) has no qualms about ISRAEL'S supremacist "law of return" that is for JEWS only (despite UN resolution 194). Hypocrisy.
05-21-07 - Large blast hits Lebanese capital The explosion happened in a car park near the Russian Cultural Centre, in a Muslim area of the city.
05-21-07 - Clinton leads in fund raising, but Jews are backing all Dems Major Jewish donors also are backing former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and the "second tier" of candidates, including Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, because of their loyalty to Israel and Jewish issues over the years........Clinton has spent her six years in the U.S. Senate reaching out to Jewish groups on nearly every domestic and foreign issue that the community embraces. She was a leader in getting homeland security funds to Jewish institutions and has taken the lead in demanding changes in Palestinian textbooks that would reflect the reality of Israel's existence.
05-21-07 - GOP hopeful's slur recalled "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government," Ron Paul wrote in a 1992 newsletter to constituents and quoted in a 1996 article in the Houston Chronicle. Paul also said Zionists stifle criticism, the Chronicle reported.
"slur"? LOL. Paul is SPOT ON. Read the last paragraph. The Israel shills have now ramped up their campaign to SLUR Paul in light of the recent successful performances he has given at the debates.
05-21-07 - House OKs closer U.S.-Israel missile defense Another amendment, initiated by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), requires the Pentagon to integrate the Israeli and U.S. ballistic missile defense systems to better protect Israel against possible attacks by Iran. Thus does the clusterf$ck get ever tighter.
05-21-07 - Army offers Lebanon cease-fire The Lebanese army says is ready for a cease-fire with Islamist militants in the north of the country if they agree to halt their attacks.
05-21-07 - Palestinian refugee groups call for peace in Lebanon Leaders from the various Palestinian factions in Lebanon, excluding Fatah al-Islam held a joint press conference just hours ago condemning the group's actions and distancing themselves from it.
05-21-07 - Fischer among top World Bank president candidates Following Paul Wolfowitz's resignation, Bank of Israel sources say high possibility governor to be offered, accept offer to succeed him
05-20-07 - 2 US Republican senators allege they have 'evidence' Iran sent weapons, trained militants in Iraq Larijani said the two senators' allegations were part of U.S. President George W. Bush's propaganda campaign against Iran that included labeling the country part of the "axis of evil."
05-20-07 - Nuclear issue off limits in US-Iraq talks: Iran Iran said on Sunday its nuclear standoff with the West will be strictly off the agenda when Iranian officials hold rare talks this month with US diplomats in Baghdad over Iraq.
05-20-07 - Iraqi VP blasts US-Iran talks Iraq's Sunni vice president spoke out Sunday against the upcoming U.S.- Iran talks on the situation in his country, saying the dialogue was "damaging to Iraq's sovereignty."
05-20-07 - Bush White House fires back at Jimmy Carter The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him "increasingly irrelevant" a day after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
05-20-07 - Tenet, Nukes, and Stinking Smut
05-20-07 - Anti-War Group Banned From Parade A video posted on the popular Web site YouTube shows the Loyalty Day parade spokeswoman telling the Veterans for Peace group that their bus can't join in the festivities.
05-20-07 - The Neocon Reaction to Ron Paul
05-20-07 - US-Iran fallout affects the South Caucasus Analysts say military conflict with Iran would be devastating for the region and many here fear that its effects could spill over into Iran's neighbors in the South Caucasus, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
05-20-07 - Dollar buying ever less of world's goods The change in the dollar's value also comes with ramifications for US consumers. It's now more expensive for Americans to travel abroad. Italian leather, Belgian chocolates, and English cheddar will cost more. In addition, many Americans may find they have a new boss ? one who is based overseas or relocating to the States.
05-20-07 - Rumsfeld to return as non-profit grant giver Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will shun the defense sector and create a non-profit foundation that works on issues dealing with the United States and foreign policy, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times.
05-20-07 - Assessments Made in 2003 Foretold Situation in Iraq Two intelligence assessments from January 2003 predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq could lead to internal violence and provide a boost to Islamic extremists and terrorists in the region, according to congressional sources and former intelligence officials familiar with the prewar studies.
05-20-07 - End to Lebanon crisis for pres elections: Hezbollah
05-20-07 - Czech Battle To Convince Hostile Public Over US Missile Shield ** Together with 10 interceptor missiles deployed in neighbouring Poland, the radar, which Washington says is aimed at protecting against a possible Iranian attack, has created rifts within NATO, roused Russian anger and split public opinion in the Czech Republic and Poland.
05-20-07 - Obama Lines Up Behind Neo-Conservative Campaign Against Iran Acutely aware of public disenchantment with Iraq and opposition to an attack on Iran and convinced that the UN Security Council will never be willing to impose serious sanctions of its own, neo-conservatives, in apparent co-ordination with the right-wing "Israel Lobby," have been trying for much of the past year to rally support for tougher unilateral economic sanctions, including divestment, against Iran.
05-20-07 - Scores dead as Lebanese army battles Islamists in bloodiest day since civil war So here are a few facts. A group of armed men tried to rob a Tripoli bank on Saturday and got cornered in an apartment block. Others holed up in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp north of the city
05-20-07 - Explosion in Beirut kills one: report "There was an explosive device either under a car or next to a car," another security source said, adding it took place in the car park of a popular mall in a Christian district in east Beirut.
05-20-07 - British Jews meet U.K. foreign secretary Representatives from the Board of Deputies of British Jews met with the country's foreign secretary. The delegation at last week's meeting broached concerns with Margaret Beckett about the threat posed by Iran to the West, as well as to Israel, and its destabilizing influence throughout the Middle East.
05-20-07 - 37 killed as Lebanese troops battle militants An army spokesman said 15 soldiers, including two officers, were killed in violent clashes at Tripoli and around the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, a Fatah al-Islam stronghold
05-19-07 - Carter blasts Bush on his global impact "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."
05-19-07 - Carter condemns Blair's support for Bush "And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," Carter told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
05-19-07 - Iran says US should quit Iraq to curb 'terror' Iran said on Saturday the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq because their presence is causing "terrorist" activity in the war-torn country.
05-19-07 - US raids made 2,000 Afghans homeless: Red Cross
05-19-07 - Iran nuclear chief likely to meet Solana in Spain Iran's nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is likely to meet EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Spain for talks on resolving the standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme.
05-19-07 - Foreign Minister: Iran has no history of violence Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Saturday reiterated Iran's position on pursuing uranium enrichment, despite UN and US warnings, insisting 'Iran has no history of violence.'
05-19-07 - Iran spent millions to restore Iraqi Shiite sites Iran has spent more than 64 million dollars to restore Shiite holy sites in neighbouring Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
05-19-07 - Minister: Iran will not attack Israel Mottaki rejected the Saudi peace initiative as doomed to fail and called, instead, for a "democratic free and fair referendum" where what he called original Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians would vote and choose their own government, the Jerusalem Post reported.
05-19-07 - The Wolfowitz Touch ? or How to Lose US Credibility
05-19-07 - 10 Years On: Where Are the PNAC Signatories A word on Gaffney and Perle: the former is directing anti-Muslim videos for PBS. The latter is being given much airtime by PBS in order to deflect blame for the Iraq debacle.
05-19-07 - The Season of Hope The U.S. Senate just voted against withdrawing the troops from Iraq, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of Americans at this point
05-18-07 - World should adapt to Iran atom advances: ElBaradei
05-18-07 - Iran tells US to stop 'meddling' in scholar detention The US military has said another two Iranians are also being held in Iraq but have provided no details
05-18-07 - But who was right ? Rudy or Ron? by Patrick J. Buchanan Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S. troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel's persecution of the Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahedeen were declaring war on us. ........We do not excuse ? but we must understand. Tell 'em, Pat!
05-18-07 - Haaretz: Poll: 71% of Israelis want U.S. to strike Iran if talks fail ** Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran's nuclear program, according to a new poll. A similar article also appears on Newsmax: Israeli Poll: U.S. Should Strike Iran
05-18-07 - Military strike on Iran would be catastrophic: Pakistan PM ** Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that a military strike on Iran over its nuclear activities would be "catastrophic" and hoped US-Iranian talks this month would reduce tensions.
05-18-07 - Iraqis finding a haven in Sweden
05-18-07 - US legislators want to get even tougher on Syria The new bill, the Syria Accountability and Liberation Act, calls for sanctions on individuals and states that transfer goods and technology that can aid Syria's efforts to develop unconventional weapons I bet we can all guess who is behind that one.
05-18-07 - Iraqi refugee tide strains Syrian open-door policy
05-18-07 - Rudy simply ignores facts Paul did not back down, and for good reason. Unlike Giuliani, the Texan has actually read the record.
05-18-07 - Iran is safe ... for now ** Despite the bluster, there is no serious prospect of an American or Israeli military attack on Iran this year.
05-18-07 - Thank You, Ron Paul Paul thus becomes the first person in mainstream politics--he's been in Congress many years--to acknowledge that U.S. foreign policy has had bad consequences not only for people in the Middle East but for Americans at home as well.
05-18-07 - YouTube: The American Cause
05-18-07 - Forum leaders differ on Mideast future During one politically charged panel, Saeb Erekat, a top aide to the Palestinian president, chided Iranian hard-liner Mohammed J.A. Larijani, telling him Iran should stop its anti-Israeli rhetoric and instead help create a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
05-18-07 - Blair tipped to be World Bank president as disgraced Wolfowitz resigns
05-18-07 - Iran not seeking Israel destruction: Larijani Iran's national security chief Ali Larijani on Friday denied Tehran was promoting the policy of wiping Israel "off the map," blaming a deliberate distortion by the Western media.
05-18-07 - House rejects funding caveat on Iran ** The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which favors a robust posture against any possible Iranian nuclear threat, strongly opposed the amendments. Two Jewish members close to AIPAC, Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), had kept similar language from appearing in the bill?s original text. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House speaker, allowed the amendments to go forward to placate anti-war Democrats.
05-18-07 - Neoconservatives Gather To Applaud Scooter Libby And Ponder Next Targets For Regime Change The Christian Science Monitor writes that ?Commentary advocates passionate support for Israel, and regime change in at least half a dozen countries deemed hostile to US and Israeli security and interests.? Along those lines, in the most current issue of the magazine, Norman Podhoretz argues "The Case for Bombing Iran."
05-18-07 - Open Letter to Saul Anuzis on Ron Paul Debate Ban
05-18-07 - Conservatives Push Joint Israeli-U.S. BMDS The Democratic-controlled House passed its version of the fiscal 2008 defense authorization legislation May 17, including a last-minute provision pushed by conservative Republicans to further integrate the U.S. ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) with Israel. Thus does the America-Israel clusterf*#k deepen, thanks to its agents on Capitol Hill.
05-18-07 - New law to require referendum before future Israeli withdrawals The law was supported by a concerted effort on the part of a lobby for the Golan Heights communities, who maintain that a potential Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights will be much less likely to occur if it will require the approval of a national referendum.
05-18-07 - Poll finds policy, values hurt U.S. in Muslim world "There have been specific complaints that the U.S. favors Israel over the Palestinians and the Arab world as whole ... and exploits the Middle East for its oil,"
05-17-07 - Ron Paul RNC Participation Petition Sign the petition, and pass it on.
05-17-07 - Top US officials nearly resigned over spy program Top US Justice Department officials threatened to resign three years ago over a domestic eavesdropping program until President George W. Bush intervened to defuse the revolt, according to a former deputy attorney general.
05-17-07 - Senators want CIA to release 9/11 report A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
05-17-07 - Bush threatens new sanctions against Iran Last week US Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to the Middle East seeking support for curbing Iran's regional influence, and for Arab backing for a possible third UN resolution.
05-17-07 - Iran installing 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz: official Iran is installing 3,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, a senior Iranian official told the semi-official news agency Mehr Thursday.
05-17-07 - Legislators reject bills about Iran ** The House rejected two measures yesterday that would have required President George W. Bush to seek congressional approval before attacking Iran.
05-17-07 - Texas Congressman Ron Paul Hopes to Garner Support for Presidential Bid with Internet, Debates
05-17-07 - Former US ambassador in on-air spat with 'superior' BBC man The BBC man defended himself, saying he was impartial but just asking questions as a devil's advocate and adding: "Maybe they don't do it like that in the United States." Spot on.
05-17-07 - GAO says Homeland Security is breaking privacy laws In its report, the Government Accountability Office said the department is not in full compliance with privacy laws that require agencies to tell the public how the government uses their personal information.
05-17-07 - In Tense Times, Israeli Arms Biz Booms Earlier this month Northrop Grumman (NOC) announced that it was teaming up with IAI to build and launch small reconnaissance satellites based on the Israeli company's technology.
05-17-07 - 'Israel-US relations vital for security' The vast majority of Israelis believe that the relationship with the US is crucial to Israel's survival, and trust the US to come to its aid in time of need, according to a poll released by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday.
05-17-07 - Giuliani's Attack on Ron Paul Falls Flat In a post-debate interview, Giuliani clarified his point by reciting the official U.S. canard that was issued immediately after the 9/11 attacks - that the terrorists hate us for our "freedom and values." Giuliani suggested that it was because of our "freedom of religion" and "freedom for women." Giuliani knows better than to make these claims. That makes him a liar. The 911 Commission did NOT find that we were attacked because of our freedoms.
05-17-07 - Obama to Haaretz: More pressure on Iran urgently needed "Iran continues to be a major threat," he told me Wednesday morning, "both the U.S. and to some of our allies."........In some of these initiatives AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, is also playing a role.
05-16-07 - DeFazio Amendment Against Attacking Iran on House Floor Today ** An amendment blocking military action against Iran without Congressional authorization is expected to be voted on in the House today (Wednesday) as part of the debate on the defense authorization bill. The amendment is being introduced by Reps. DeFazio, Paul, Hinchey, and Lee.
05-16-07 - US continues to press for sanctions over Iran nuclear program** Officially, France, Great Britain and Germany are on record as rejecting military action against Tehran, and Russia and China are even more emphatic in opposing force -- an option which Washington does not rule out.
05-16-07 - Ron Paul gets turn in spotlight at U.S. Republican debate Paul initiated the exchange with Giuliani, the mayor of New York on Sept. 11, by implying U.S. policies in the Middle East had contributed to the attacks in New York and Washington. That's my guy right there :)
05-16-07 - No Congress, No Peace ** There's already been some congressional push-back on the administration's murky claims that Iran is behind attacks on American troops in Iraq. That is a start, but ongoing, aggressive oversight of how the White House is using intelligence about Iran is critical.
05-16-07 - Wolfowitz refuses to quit Bank, wants name cleared World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz refused on Wednesday to bow to heavy European pressure to resign as he sought to clear his name in negotiations with the bank's board over a possible exit strategy.
05-16-07 - All signs point to Cheney trip failing its objectives** US Vice President Dick Cheney ended a Middle East tour on Monday amid signs that he had failed in forging an Arab alliance in supptort of a possible US strike against Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, according to Jordanian politicians and academics.
05-16-07 - Jordan's territory won't be used to launch attacks against Iran: Abdullah ** During an interview with daily newspaper Alarab Alyawm, Abdullah said that the whole region will "be placed at risk" in case of war.
05-16-07 - Iran plays down importance of US talks
05-16-07 - 'Appropriate' force used in civilian death incident: US "The enemy is operating in high concentrations of civilians. They're doing it premeditatively. They are putting civilians as human shields," Same BS the Israelis propound. Probably not a coincidence.
05-16-07 - War-torn Iraq 'facing collapse' Iraq faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation, British foreign policy think tank Chatham House has warned.
05-16-07 - World Bank set to finalise departure of defiant Wolfowitz . The turning point came on Tuesday, when the board's opposition hardened with publication of a damning internal report. This found him in breach of Bank ethics when he arranged a promotion and handsome pay-rise for his girlfriend Shaha Riza, and accused Mr Wolfowitz of "disregarding" and "denigrating" the institution he was supposed to lead.
Oh good gawd. Where will Bush put him next is the question of the day.
05-16-07 - Panel Told of a Sickbed Face-Off
05-16-07 - BEFORE TANCREDO OR RON PAUL CAN GET ELECTED They have to get nominated by delegates at the Republican National Convention which will take place in St. Paul, Minnesota. September 1-4, 2008.
05-16-07 - 'Iran could be year from nuke' ** Ambassador Dore Gold: Tehran not far from obtaining enough fissionable material to produce nuclear bomb BS alert.
05-16-07 - Let World Bank deal with Wolfowitz, Canada says
05-16-07 - Pastor John Hagee's D.C. Meeting Worries Jews ** Pastor John Hagee says Armageddon will soon strike the nation of Israel, so he's enlisting Christians to help protect Israel against an attack from Iran.
05-16-07 - Rudy Giuliani v. Ron Paul, and Reality The 9-11 Commission based its assessments on testimony from experts on terrorism and the Middle East. Asked about the motivations of the terrorists, FBI Special Agent James Fitzgerald told the commission: "I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States." Anyone that tells you that we were attacked because 'we're free' is either grossly uninformed or a liar. As Buchanan often says: "They're over here, because we're over there" - and that can be taken both literally (Iraq, Saudi) and figuratively (I$rael). Exhibit A. PDF format: Exhibit B.
05-16-07 - 'Bush may strike Iran near end of term' ** The neocons, AIPAC and rest of their delightful friends in the pro-Israel community are doing their best to make sure that Bush does just that.
05-16-07 - US urges Lebanon to choose independent president The title is contradictory. It exemplifies the very definition of democracy according to the book of neocons: elect an Israel-friendly regime, or else.
05-15-07 - CENTCOM Commander?s Veto Sank Bush?s Threatening Gulf Buildup ** Admiral William Fallon, then President George W. Bush?s nominee to head the Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in February to an administration plan to increase the number of carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf from two to three and vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking.
05-15-07 - Poll Finds Clear Majority Of Americans Oppose War With Iran ** In light of this, watch out for the propaganda - via mainstream media - to be ramped up.
05-15-07 - How Ali Beat The Odds
05-15-07 - Perle Turns on Bush in Harsh Terms ** "We have already seen a change in policy towards Iran," he said. "It is now firmly back in the hands of the Department of State." Meaning what? That Perle and associates want war on Iran, and the State Department is opposed to it.
05-15-07 - EU complains about civilian deaths in US Afghan operations
05-15-07 - The Wacky World of Norman Podhoretz ** the economic ruin of the U.S. and much of the rest of the world is a small price to pay for the security of Israel, which is "existentially" threatened, as one Israeli politician put it, by Iran's nuclear program. Neocons want us to attack Iran and, with the help of their friends in the WH, Congress and the media, they will get it.
05-15-07 - We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb ** John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to "get more serious" about Iran and recognise that its diplomatic attempts to halt Iran's enrichment programme had failed.
05-15-07 - Iranians want to talk to U.S. Congress A group of Iranian lawmakers wants to create a "friendship committee" that would open contacts with the U.S. Congress - an unprecedented attempt to build ties at a time when Iran's hard-line leadership also appears willing to talk with the country's No. 1 enemy.
05-15-07 - Iran making progress in enriching uranium: diplomats Iran has made progress in enriching uranium despite UN sanctions against this strategic work, UN nuclear inspectors have learned, diplomats told AFP Tuesday.
05-15-07 - Iran says ready for full diplomatic ties with Egypt
05-15-07 - Another Step Toward Realism in Iran Policy
05-15-07 - Cheney: World Bank Should Keep Wolfowitz The vice president went on to praise Wolfowitz, who was the No. 2 official at the Pentagon and an architect of the U.S.-led Iraq war, before he took the bank's helm in June 2005.
05-15-07 - Bank Files May Undercut Wolfowitz, Critics Say One said the documents were "devastating" to Mr. Wolfowitz?s case.
05-15-07 - 100,000 to 300,000 barrels of oil a day unaccounted for in Iraq Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq's declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft U.S. government report.
05-15-07 - Angry Wolfowitz in four-letter tirade An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night.
05-15-07 - Jeremy Bowen diary: Beware Mr Blair The received wisdom in Arab countries is that the British have a long history of selling them out, starting with the Balfour Declaration 90 years ago that promised to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
05-15-07 - Talks with Syria could lead to war, says Mossad chief Dagan believes that the current diplomatic stalemate between Israel and Syria is maintaining stability. In the world of Israel - up is down, left is right, black is white. Same goes for America's coverage of that nation.
05-15-07 - Iran's former President Khatami blames West for nuclear standoff When asked whether he agreed with Ahmadinejad's calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, he said: "Personally I don't think any people or nation should be wiped out. But I do believe sometimes facts, what has happened in history, has to be taken into account." He added that "the establishment of peace requires justice. The displaced Palestinian people should be allowed to return to their land."
05-15-07 - Document details 'US' plan to sink Hamas The plan envisages delivering "a strong blow to Hamas by supplying the Palestinian people with their immediate economic needs through the presidency and Fatah". At the same time, the international boycott of Hamas would stay in place and Hamas-affiliated programs would be starved of funds. .....while this Fatah official could not say for certain who in the White House would author such a program, the document reflects the long-held views of White House Middle East adviser Elliott Abrams - known as the major impetus behind the rearming of Abbas' security force.
Elliott Abrams - neocon. Do not be fooled into thinking otherwise - neocons are still in positions of power in the Bush admin.
05-15-07 - Israeli top guns train, eyes on Iran ** Israel's three F-16I fighter-bomber squadrons have been training for what officials call "possible strategic scenarios" -- code for a confrontation with arch-foe Iran.
05-15-07 - US envoy to hold talks in Lebanon US Middle East envoy David Welch arrived in Beirut on Tuesday on the first such visit by a US official since Israel's war on Hezbollah last year, government sources said
05-15-07 - Lebanese president warns U.N. over Hariri court Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned the United Nations on Tuesday that setting up a tribunal for suspects in the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri could cause instability in Lebanon.
05-14-07 - Ahmadinejad warns US against military action ** President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the United States on Monday that Tehran would retaliate severely to any possible attack over its controversial nuclear programme.
05-14-07 - Rice denies new 'Cold War' as she arrives in Moscow Tensions are so high that plans to discuss a "strategic partnership" at a European Union-Russian summit on Friday have been put on hold, and new EU states have called for the meeting to be cancelled altogether
05-14-07 - Pipelines answer to Hormuz threat: IEA** Gulf producers are weighing oil pipeline options to avoid the strategic Strait of Hormuz waterway, should there be any escalation of tension between the West and Iran, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.
05-14-07 - Cheney sees Arab support on Iraq-2 ** "A separate proposition is the fact the international community, including the United States, is deeply concerned about Iran's pursuit of enrichment technology for building nuclear weapons," the vice president said.
"The Iranians are, in fact, in violation now of two unanimously approved United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for them to stop what they're doing,"
05-14-07 - US denies about-face on Iran The contacts will be "about Iraq and only Iraq," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.
05-14-07 - Lobbying Reform Losing Steam in House
05-14-07 - INTERVIEW-Plight of Iraq's Palestinian refugees worsens-UN A baby has died from fever and a man from asthma at the desolate al-Waleed camp in the desert. A 13-year-old needs a back operation to avoid paralysis and a two-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has no specialist care, said Michelle Alfaro, Iraq protection officer for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
05-14-07 - Bush, Cheney see Iraq as '51st state': Max Cleland
05-14-07 - Bin Laden alive, says Afghan warlord Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still alive but keeping a low profile, notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a video released on Arab television overnight AEST
05-14-07 - Shoe on the other foot as Africa chides Wolfowitz
05-14-07 - Bush met with Dobson and conservative Christian leaders to rally support for Iran policy ** Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings convened by Christian right leaders in Washington to discuss the supposedly existential threat to the United States from a nuclear Iran. The Christian Right have taken their cue from their counterparts in AIPAC.
05-14-07 - Hagel hints at a 2008 run with New York's Bloomberg Why Bloomberg?? I don't get it.
05-14-07 - Lebanon PM seeks UN-backed court over Hariri murder Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has written to the United Nations (UN) asking the Security Council to impose an international court to try suspects in the 2005 murder of former premier, Rafik Hariri.
05-14-07 - Israel joins nuclear terror initiative Israel will become a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, the U.S. State Department said. Hypocrisy.
05-14-07 - Israel stages nationwide war drill **
05-14-07 - Khalilzad: U.S. must transform Mideast Speaking before Khalilzad, Rabbi David Zwiebel, Agudah?s executive vice president for government and public affairs, said Bush was one of Israel's greatest friends ever in the White House and deserves "everlasting credit" for his leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
05-14-07 - Position paper: Israel must own up to Nakba responsibility The paper castigates tribalism in Arab society, which it says facilitated Israel's "divide and rule" strategy, which "strengthened the discourse based on tribal, parochial zealotry." The divide and conquer policy has been extended to Iraq, Lebanon, and there are attempts toward that end being made in Iran as well.
05-14-07 - Jordan asks Cheney to act on Mideast peace
05-14-07 - Harper's sorry stance on human rights The rights of the Lebanese didn't count for anything as Harper stated that Israel's brutal assault on a defenseless Lebanese population was "a measured response." Measured by what standard? Certainly not by the standards set out by the Geneva Convention.
05-13-07 - US general warns against torture If the US wants to win in Iraq it must keep the "moral high ground", he said.
05-13-07 - US ?home-grown? terrorists multiply The US is seeing a growth in the number of ?home-grown? terrorist plots that have no connection with overseas groups such as al-Qaeda, says Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kind of sends the theory of 'fighting them over there rather than on US soil' right down the crapper, doesn't it?
05-13-07 - CBS fires consultant Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad; 'We went to war with a fatally flawed strategy' Retired Army Major Gen. John Batiste has been asked to leave his position as a consultant to CBS News over a new advertisement criticizing the Iraq war. The ad was produced by the group VoteVets
05-13-07 - Iran admits detaining US academic Ms Esfandiari, one of Washington's best known Iran experts, was visiting Tehran to see her 93-year-old mother.
05-13-07 - U.S., Iran talks to focus on Iraqi security
05-13-07 - Iran president on tour of Persian Gulf states, seeks security pact Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Sunday for Abu Dhabi for a three-day state visit, the first ever by an Iranian president to the United Arab Emirates.
05-13-07 - Cheney to wrap up Middle East tour in Jordan ** Cheney's visit comes as Washington has repeatedly accused Tehran of sending fighters and equipment into Iraq, where they have been targeting US and Iraqi security forces, and stepped up pressure on the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme.
05-13-07 - Britain's PM-to-be Brown hints at steady foreign policy ** Responding to a question posed by Meacher about whether he would support the United States if it were to attack its foe Iran, Brown said it was not about committing to a position beforehand.
05-13-07 - US balancing act in dealing with Iran ** Aaron David Miller, a former US State Department adviser on Mideast issues to both Republican and Democratic administrations, said the diplomatic dance between Washington and Tehran is a difficult and high-stakes one, especially for Saudi Arabia. "The Saudis understand that if we end up with a crisis with Iran, either because the Israelis or the Americans use military force, that they're going to be extremely vulnerable to Iranian retaliation - particularly if the Israelis use Iraqi, Saudi or Jordanian air space, which they would have to,"
05-13-07 - Bill Kristol: 'Stupid, dishonorable' Republicans wavering on Iraq What would Kristol know of Republicans? He's a neocon.
05-13-07 - MEDIA BLACKOUT BOOSTS PAUL CAMPAIGN America deserves to be rescued from big-state liberals and neocons. It seems that the under-funded and overtly shunned Dr. Paul is now well on his way to accomplish his goal, thanks to the very blackout that was intended to block him out of the minds of Americans.
05-13-07 - Bipartisan bill bans warrantless wiretapping of US citizens
05-13-07 - Tenet v. Perle II
05-13-07 - The Moral Obligation to Lose The War It is my deepest belief that the only good that may come from this disgraceful time in our history, will be the honest acknowledgement of how and why the country was mislead, followed by punishment for those responsible Same here. Further, if you don't punish these people for what they did, then what's to stop them from doing it again (which they are doing at present)?
05-13-07 - Tenet?s Greatest Sins
05-13-07 - U.N. complains of brushes with Israeli military The incidents, which took place near Lebanon's waters with Israel, were allegedly in violation of rules of engagement
05-13-07 - Gov't Decides on PR As Anti-Terrorist Weapon "Iran is building a ?Hamastan? in Gaza. What a coincidence? Why just the other day, one of their shills at the UPI, as one example, propounded that very thing.
05-13-07 - Zarelli plans conference on U.S.-Israeli relations Republican state Sen. Joe Zarelli of Ridgefield found something more controversial than sex education. Mideast politics......Zarelli, who visited Israel in early January, said he has two goals for the conference: Promote ties with Israel and "enlighten" attendees about the countries' mutual security interests
05-13-07 - It is not only God that will be Blair's judge over Iraq Blair failed to understand that America's really special relationship is with Israel, not Britain. Every time that George Bush had to choose between Blair and Ariel Sharon, he chose the latter. Blair's special relationship with Bush was a one-way street: Blair made all the concessions and got nothing tangible in return......Iraq was a non-issue; it did not pose a threat to any of its neighbours, and certainly not to America or Britain. The real issue was Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories and America's support for Israel in its savage colonial war against the Palestinian people.
05-12-07 - Outsourcing the War This war contracting system has intimately linked corporate profits to an escalation of war and conflict. These companies have no incentive to decrease their footprint in the war zone and every incentive to increase it.
05-12-07 - Iran says it will hold talks with US over Iraq "With the aim of easing the pain of the Iraqi people, supporting the Iraqi Government and strengthening security in Iraq, Iran will talk with the American side in Baghdad," Mohammad Ali Hosseini said.
05-12-07 - Retired generals, Iraq veterans launch anti-war ads
05-12-07 - Govs worry about depleted National Guard
05-12-07 - Bahrain preparing for a U.S.-Iran war **
05-12-07 - UN watchdog denies Iran blocked nuke visit
05-12-07 - Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Says Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq?s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report.
05-12-07 - Cheney arrives on unannounced Saudi Arabia visit ** Cheney wants action on Iran. When he gets off his ass, that's how you know something is up.
05-12-07 - Ron Paul's Goldwater Moment
05-12-07 - The Madness of the War Profiteering in Iraq In my research, I was also shocked to discover the role of contractors in the tragedy of Abu Ghraib. Its images are seared into the minds of people throughout the world, yet few realize the role of CACI and its interrogators.
05-12-07 - Russians Reject U.S. Missile Defence Plan
05-12-07 - Scooter Libby Heads Toward Sentencing, Could Get 18 To 36 Months Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Cheney who was convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury, and lying to the FBI in March--will be a step closer to learning his fate next week, when the presentencing report for his case is due to be completed.
05-12-07 - Bush orders contingency plans for attack on U.S.**
05-12-07 - World Bank concludes Wolfowitz broke ethics rules: Washington Post
05-12-07 - AIPAC to pay Weissman's legal fees Ellis accepted the defense's claim that the government had pressured AIPAC, something the pro-Israel lobby has always denied; Ellis blasted the pressure as "obnoxious." This pressure actually spared AIPAC from coming under government fire, which was BS in my opinion. Let them roast as well. They do not represent America and they should be forced to register as a foreign agent.
05-12-07 - Non-aligned critique U.S. on Israel nuclear capacity Non-aligned nations said the U.S. relationship with Israel undermines American arguments against nuclear proliferation.
05-12-07 - Debaters debate stifling debate Debaters arguing that the pro-Israel lobby stifles debate won a debate at the Oxford Union. The debate took place in BRITAIN - where debate about Israel is much more open, AND coincidentally, Britain's Israel lobby is not nearly as powerful as America's. When I speak of the powerful Israel lobby, I speak of the one in AMERICA. Not sure how this was ever meant to involve that of Britain. Tis America's Israel lobby that guides our foreign policy to the detriment of all. Having this debate IN ANOTHER COUNTRY defeats the purpose.
05-12-07 - ADL faults Putin on 'Third Reich' allusion Kremlin spokesmen would not clarify Putin's remarks, but Russian analysts said he was referring in part to Bush administration foreign policy. Israel's policies more closely demonstrate those of the Third Reich; lebensraumism, ghettoization, property seizure, supremacy, etc.
05-12-07 - Judge: Government pressured AIPAC
05-12-07 - Rattling the Cage: Bush and his good intentions ** I WANT to give Bush his due. There may have been other presidents who cared as deeply about Israel as he does - I'd put Bill Clinton, at least, in that category - but I don't think any president ever took sides with Israel against the rest of the world like Bush has done......And I only hope that this mutual reinforcement number that Bush and Israel have been playing stops short of a US attack on Iran. A lot of Israelis, maybe most, want Bush to do the job, and I imagine Bush is once again calculating the collateral benefit to Israel. As always, he has our best interests at heart. This notion that America is ordering Israel not to negotiate with Syria is utterly ridiculous. Not only was it denied by our officials(paragraph 3), but the case is almost always the other way around; Israel dictating to us its wants (and getting them).
05-12-07 - IDF probes 'incidents' with UN observers off Lebanon coast On Friday, a German spokesman confirmed a report from the Rheinische Post daily which stated several Israel Air Force fighter jets made an approach towards the German frigate Niedersachsen off the Lebanese coast on Wednesday. The paper added that on April 30 the Niedersachsen had signaled it was "ready for combat" on board when an Israeli speedboat approached the vessel traveling at around 30 knots without initially identifying itself.
05-12-07 - Olmert's not a partner ** Mofaz will have a lot to talk about when he finally arrives in Washington, possibly at the end of the month: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria........Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said this week that Cheney's visit is meant to help the Bush administration understand "how useful several of Washington's closest allies are prepared to be," especially regarding the developing struggle with Iran.
05-11-07 - ANALYSIS-Cheney, Saudi king to assess Iraq policy and Iran** Cheney said Iran, which he described as a major concern to Sunni Arab states, would top his talks with Arab leaders.
05-11-07 - Iran denies blocking UN inspectors on test visit
05-11-07 - Cheney warns Iran sea lanes must be open ** Vice President Dick Cheney issued a warning to Iran while aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf on Friday, saying the United States would join allies to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons "and dominating the region."
05-11-07 - Radical Iraqi cleric said to be in Iran They have not provided photos or other proof, generally citing the sensitivity of intelligence-gathering in Iraq.
05-11-07 - NPT conference closes with dispute of Iran's nuclear work
05-11-07 - Internet Calls Subject To Phone Tapping Companies that provide Internet phone service have just six days to meet a deadline from the Justice Department. By next Monday, they'll have to make their systems easier to tap. That's right -- make it easier to secretly listen in on your phone calls, or face daily fines of $10,000 dollars.
05-11-07 - Kuwait says stocks up on food in case of war in Gulf ** Iran's neighbour Kuwait said on Wednesday it had prepared emergency food stocks in case a war breaks out in the Gulf amid tension between Washington and Tehran over Tehran's nuclear programme.
05-11-07 - Neo-Cons Driving Iran Divestment Campaign The initiative, which is modeled after the anti-apartheid divestment campaign against South Africa of the 1980s, is also backed by major pro-Israel and Jewish groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, and local Jewish Community Relations Councils whose membership is worried that Israel will be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran.
05-11-07 - Iran 'seeking conflict by proxy in Afghanistan': Britain
05-11-07 - Arrests often overblown, experts say
05-11-07 - Bush allegedly assures Saudis no war exit on his watch
05-11-07 - Iranian cleric threatens Tel Aviv ** An Iranian cleric said his country would fire "tens of thousands" of missiles at Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program.
05-11-07 - This perfect storm will finally destroy the neocon project While Lord Black has never worked for the Bush administration, he was aligned with the neocon elite through the National Interest, the journal he used to publish, and he brought some of its members, such as Richard Perle, on to the board of his companies
05-11-07 - Brown may loosen U.K. ties to Bush Brown has close relations with Paul D. Wolfowitz, the embattled World Bank president and a leading architect of the Iraq war.
05-11-07 - U.S. warns that "world is watching" Wolfowitz saga Exactly. The world IS watching - watching the Bush administration defend another neocon and his corrupt actions.
05-11-07 - Beyond the blame game Vice President Cheney and the neoconservative supporters of the invasion, however, continue to claim there was a link between the Iraqi dictator and the Islamic fundamentalists, who in fact were natural antagonists rather than allies. Polls
05-11-07 - U.N. envoy faults Israel Israel, de Soto said, "selected targets with a careless use of its military might and prosecuted the war in a way that disproportionately harmed Lebanese civilians. It went way too far in this war." ....."The wall creates a cognitive barrier of denial and a release from the need to display empathy to people who live on the other side of it," de Soto said in the interview, which appeared Friday. "If I could, I would take groups of Israeli citizens and show them how the checkpoints destroy the economy and the fabric of Palestinian life, and how the fence divides mother and child, a farmer and his land."
05-11-07 - U.S. Jews Must Protect Wolfowitz US Jews must protect Wolfowitz because the allegations against him are baseless and Germany?s motives in pushing these allegations are suspect......Second, US Jews should make Germany pay for hounding Wolfowitz and helping advance Ahmadiejad?s agenda Another deluded neocon-supporter for you.
05-11-07 - Israel?s Bombing of Civilians Extended War, Olmert Told Panel In Qana, the Israelis said, they were responding to rocket fire. Qana has symbolic importance because Israeli shells killed many civilians there 10 years before in a similar incident. The new deaths created a furor, and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of Lebanon asked Ms. Rice to cancel her trip to Beirut. The war went on for almost two more weeks.
05-11-07 - Analysis: Iran, Hamas remain wary partners ** The head of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, said at a briefing for diplomats and foreign correspondents that Iran is the source for most of Hamas' knowledge about mines, explosives and anti-tank missiles.
Making the case for war, one Israel shill in the MSM at a time.
05-11-07 - USS Liberty vets to mark attack The veterans and their supporters in the anti-Israel community claim the attack, during the 1967 Six-Day War, was deliberate and that Israel never faced consequences because of a U.S. government cover-up. "and their supporters in the anti-Israel community". Oh I see. So, supporting US veterans that were viciously attacked by a FOREIGN nation are automatically branded 'anti-Israel', that it? Try AMERICAN. What American would take the word of said foreign nation over the word of our military (WHO WERE THERE)?
05-11-07 - Arabs don?t want to wipe Israel off map, Siniora says
05-10-07 - Boy, 10, guilty of beating homeless Army veteran Prosecutors say the boy, another 10-year-old and Jeremy Woods, 17, ganged up on John D'Amico, 58, as he and a friend walked through a Daytona Beach neighborhood on March 27. The older man was beaten and stoned with a concrete block.
05-10-07 - Cheney addresses troops in Iraq
05-10-07 - US accuses Tehran of harrassing three Iranian-American women
05-10-07 - Syrian action over Iraq, terror key to better US ties: Rice Addressing members of Congress after she held an unprecedented meeting with her Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem last week, Rice said any improvement to US-Syria relations hinged on progress on those fronts.
05-10-07 - US holds Iranians as bargaining chips
05-10-07 - Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun? George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game, which began more than three years ago when his fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tommy Franks told Bob Woodward that Douglas Feith, the Pentagon?s intelligence bozo, was the ?stupidest guy on the face of the earth? (that?s the expurgated version).
05-10-07 - Six nations discuss Iran Earlier, the U.S. representative at the meeting, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, had said the United States would give Iran until the June 6-8 summit of major industrial nations to comply, otherwise sanctions could be increased at that time.
05-10-07 - Surging oil prices widen US trade gap as China deficit narrows
05-10-07 - Former Powell aide says Bush, Cheney guilty of 'high crimes' Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, said on the public radio program On Point Thursday that "Bill Clinton's peccadilloes ... pale in significance" when compared to the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of Bush and Cheney.
05-10-07 - Bush changes plan for emergency shadow government President Bush yesterday issued a national security directive that would, in the event of a catastrophic attack on the federal government, assign the responsibility of running a shadow government to the White House, not the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Washington post report
05-10-07 - The Rising Antiwar Tide Rep. Ron Paul, who has always opposed the Iraq war, stands out in the crowd of Republican aspirants to the Oval Office, a giant among the GOP's wannabe-presidential pygmies ? and his campaign has more support than the "mainstream" media seems willing to acknowledge. ABC News had to cave after excluding Paul from their presidential poll, which the libertarian Republican promptly won. John McLaughlin and Pat Buchanan have both practically endorsed him. ....Hagel's dramatic dissent from Republican orthodoxy on the war has enraged the neocons, especially Dick Cheney, their patron and protector My guys, right there :)
05-10-07 - Endgame emerges as Wolfowitz fights to stay on at World Bank
05-10-07 - Group says Syria kills 4 militants on Iraq border An Islamist group claiming links to al Qaeda said on Thursday that Syrian security forces have killed four of its members while they were trying to cross into neighbouring Iraq, and vowed revenge.
05-10-07 - Assad rejects working with Hariri court if sovereignty harmed
05-10-07 - Al Qaeda tactics expand in Gaza Gazan security officials say they know that Johnston is being held by the Dogmoush clan, which is demanding a large tract of land in Gaza ? a piece of one of the evacuated settlements that Israel left to the Palestinian Authority in August 2005. According to this analysis, the clan leaders want to extort promises for land from the Palestinian Authority, meanwhile biding time by cloaking the issue in global jihadist themes.
Israel wants Al Qaeda in Gaza that way they can make the final push to conflate their 'war on terror' with ours; the basic goal of which is to foist their enemies on us (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestinians, etc).
05-10-07 - A rare trip through Hizbullah's secret tunnel network Israel had seriously underestimated its foe and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other top officials are fighting for their political survival as a result.
05-10-07 - UN: Assad is not preparing for war While Syria is repairing its military positions along the border with Israel, its army has not beefed up its forces on the Golan Heights, Austrian Maj.-Gen. Wolfgang Jilke, commander of the UN force deployed along the border, has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview
05-10-07 - Living with Iran's terror label Iran is at the top of the US State Department's list of states which it says sponsors of world terrorism. Fariba Sahraie from BBCPersian.com spoke to Iranians living in North America and found mistrust of Iran is as strong in Canada as the US.
05-10-07 - NSC denies Rice-Abrams rift ** The Forward article described a briefing last week that Abrams delivered to Jewish leaders under the auspices of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the only Jewish Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. At that briefing and in other forums, Abrams reportedly said Rice's recent push to accelerate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was "just process" and that President Bush would apply an "emergency brake" against any pressure on Israel.
It's 'just process' to get the Arabs on board for war with Iran. My guess.
05-10-07 - Bush nominates RJC leader as envoy Siegel, a regional president for the Jewish National Fund, is a major Bush fund-raiser
05-10-07 - Give the Arab Peace Initiative a Chance The report made no mention of the sheer damage inflicted. Lebanon?s airports, bridges and power plants were systematically ravaged. Villages were destroyed, and more than an eighth of its population displaced. The bombardment caused an estimated $7 billion in damage and economic losses while leaving behind 1.2 million cluster bomblets that continue to kill and maim innocent people. Most important, the war took the lives of more than 1,200 Lebanese citizens, the vast majority of them civilians.
05-10-07 - U.S. official: Peace effort aimed at lessening Arab, EU pressure ** U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams on Thursday told a group of Jewish Republicans that the efforts the United States is now investing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is aimed at lessening the pressure from ?Arabs and the Europeans, who weren?t happy with the United States? in its past approach. Why the sudden interest in pleasing those 2 groups NOW? The coming war on Iran.
05-10-07 - Rice: Syria real problem in Middle East the US is unimpressed with Syria's peace overtures, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, adding that "in terms of the Middle East, the Syrians are a real problem" for leaders who wish to pursue peace.
05-10-07 - US official: America appeasing Arabs, EU Abrams also told the meeting that he would guard against the bureaucrats at the State Department taking over American Middle East policy, as well as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice falling into the "Clintonian mode" of needing to point to achievements to secure her legacy as her term concludes, according to someone at the discussion.
05-10-07 - Iran delegate confronts Jewish speaker from US An Iranian delegate stunned the audience at an international inter-faith dialogue here yesterday when he angrily interrupted an American panelist who said Tehran wanted to eliminate all the Jews in Israel.
05-10-07 - Livni advances Israeli-Arab talks ** The Israeli foreign minister met her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, as well as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo on Thursday as part of recent attempts at rapprochement between Jerusalem and the Arab League. Coincidentally, Cheney was just in the region trying to lobby these same folks. Methinks that the real agenda here is the upcoming war on Iran. If it's not, then why doesn't Livni meet with her PALESTINIAN counterparts? That is who Israel is trying to negotiate peace with, no?
05-10-07 - House appropriators: Sack Al-Hurra chief The letter was led by Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), who has criticized Register for allowing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other terrorist leaders to speak at length on the channel.
05-09-07 - Bush won't give up military option on Iran: Rice ** "The American president will not abandon the military option and I believe that we do not want him to do so," Rice said in an interview with Al Arabiya television, part of which was broadcast on Tuesday.
05-09-07 - U.S.: Iran helping some Sunni insurgents But Lynch, whose command covers the southern rim of Baghdad and mostly Shiite areas to the south, said it was unclear whether the Iranians were supplying the weapons directly or whether the Sunnis were buying them on the black market. SHIITE Iran is helping Iraqi SUNNIs? C'mon.
05-09-07 - US warns about danger of Iran withdrawing from nuclear treaty
05-09-07 - Iran frees ex-nuclear official on bail
05-09-07 - The Scum Also Rises Wolfowitz's embarrassment at the World Bank is a minor inconvenience compared with the opprobrium he should be receiving after each day's dose of disaster news from Iraq disproves the cakewalk of a regime change that he had so assuredly promised. Agreed.
05-09-07 - US-Iran academic detained in Iran
05-09-07 - Cheney in Baghdad for key talks Meanwhile, the Pentagon has told 35,000 US troops they may be required in Iraq this autumn.
05-09-07 - Marine admits urinating on dead Iraqi at Haditha Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz, who has immunity from prosecution after murder charges against him were dismissed, also said he watched his squad leader shoot down five Iraqi civilians who were trying to surrender.
05-09-07 - US helicopter kills 5 bystanders: US military
05-09-07 - Bush maintains Syria sanctions
05-09-07 - Direct talks with Iran could benefit U.S.
05-09-07 - Two guilty of trying to leak details of Blair's talks with Bush At the centre of the trial was a four-page Downing Street document which recorded discussions about Iraq between Mr Blair and Mr Bush, held in the Oval Office in April 2004 in the run-up to the handover of power to the Iraqi government.
05-09-07 - CIA-backed raid 'killed Afghan villagers' Military specialists with the CIA were among a US force accused of killing more than 50 civilians during the hunt for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.
05-09-07 - 700 lobby for Israel The activists are touting four legislative initiatives: U.S. funding for Israel; isolating Iran; bringing genocide charges against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and U.S.-Israel energy cooperation.
05-09-07 - NSC Chairman: Syrian call for peace talks with Israel 'authentic'
05-09-07 - Palestinians see foreign hand in Lebanon camp killings "A non-Lebanese intelligence service was behind the crime which cost the lives of two Fatah members in Ain el-Helweh," the group's Lebanon chief, Sultan Abul Aynain, told a news conference in the Rashidiyeh camp further south.
05-09-07 - Farah keynotes 'Night to Honor Israel' WND founder and Editor Joseph Farah will deliver the keynote address at "A Night to Honor Israel," sponsored by the Jerusalem Connection and Christians United for Israel, Sunday, May 20, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria.
05-09-07 - Analysis: Israeli security officials oppose Dayton ?The Americans went for the Dayton Plan, but they failed to succeed in Iraq so why should they succeed here. The first terror attack that will occur after the removal of checkpoints, will place them in a difficult position,?
05-09-07 - Major ZOA Lecture: MK Gen. Effie Eitam Warned -- "Israel Will Take Action If Diplomacy/Sanctions Fail" To Stop Iran Getting Nuclear Bomb ** ?I pray that this country [the USA] which has so many times led a world coalition against evil, will wake up and not accept a nuclear Iran for its long-term existence. Recently, I spoke to the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). I was invited to give my views, the invitation came from U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. I was told at the NSC, ?We believe we missed some important views by failing to discover the views of right-wing Israelis.
05-08-07 - G8 to back further measures against Iran: diplomats The Group of Eight industrialized powers plan to back "further measures" against Iran if it does not comply with U.N. demands to suspend its nuclear enrichment program, G8 diplomats said on Tuesday.
05-08-07 - Iran accepts compromise, unblocking atom treaty talks
05-08-07 - Iran offers U.S. cooperation on Iraq exit: paper
05-08-07 - US attack 'kills Iraqi children'
05-08-07 - US 'ashamed' of Afghan civilian deaths The apology comes amid growing anger in Afghanistan over civilian deaths in coalition military operations.
05-08-07 - Ex-Analyst Tells a Tale of Twisted Iraq Intelligence Pillar contends Cheney's staff actually "supplanted the regular National Security Council staff in terms of driving policy on these key points of interest, above all, the Iraq war."
05-08-07 - Study suggests cancer risk from depleted uranium
05-08-07 - Iraqi minister says US may release Iranians
05-08-07 - Cheney seeks Mid-East Iraq help He may also seek support for continuing Western-led diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme.
05-08-07 - Marine found live children among Haditha dead
05-08-07 - Saudi report: Terror cell had Syria base
05-08-07 - UAE arrests 12 Iranian divers: Iranian firm
05-08-07 - Exodus from Iraq historic, U.N. says U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has described the uprooting of 4 million Iraqis as "the most significant displacement in the Middle East" since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
05-08-07 - Six Questions for Laura Rozen on Iran Who are the major players in the regime change camp?
There are a few civilians who were brought into the Pentagon during the first term to essentially pursue a regime change option. Some are still there working for a small six-person Iran office whose de facto head is Abram Shulsky, who formerly led the controversial Office of Special Plans......Outside of the administration, Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen at the American Enterprise Institute champion the idea of an Iranian opposition movement rising up to overthrow the regime with American support
05-08-07 - Saved by the bomb ** A year before 9/11, Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis "Scooter" Libby signed a statement for the Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative thinktank. They rather hoped for "some catastrophic and catalysing event like a new Pearl Harbor" to kickstart their dream of a world run by US military might. A nuclear war would do the trick in spades
05-08-07 - The Failure of the 'Mainstream'
05-08-07 - AIPAC on Trial FBI gave Franklin enough rope to hang himself, and then moved in, showing up at his door and confronting him with his treachery. A search of his home and office turned up a veritable lending library of classified documents dating back years, all of which had doubtless been made available to the Israelis
05-08-07 - Immigration Issues, Global Anti-Semitism And Israel Top Agenda of ADL National Meeting in Washington, DC Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discussed the need to balance the interests of protecting the homeland and the imperative of providing a path for legal immigration. Secretary Chertoff also discussed his department's partnership with ADL's Advanced Training School, which provides specialized training and expertise to agency personnel on extremism, hate groups, terrorism and civil liberties.
05-08-07 - Judge lauded for rebuke in AIPAC case The American Jewish Committee praised the judge in the case against two former AIPAC staffers for rebuking the government
05-07-07 - De-Authorize the War Now, No Residual Troops By Gov. Bill Richardson
05-07-07 - Report: Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran ** The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.
05-07-07 - Iran's Ahmadinejad to visit UAE, Oman Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit the United Arab Emirates and Oman starting this weekend for talks expected to cover Iraq and Iran's nuclear programme, officials and press reports said Monday.
05-07-07 - Iran nuclear talks "very difficult": EU's Solana
05-07-07 - Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for war
05-07-07 - Spread of disease tied to US combat deployments Leishmaniasis has long hounded the US military in its past deployments to the Middle East.
05-07-07 - WMD document 'must be released' The government must release a draft of a 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the Information Commissioner has ruled.
05-07-07 - US warns of heavier casualties in Iraq
05-07-07 - Iranians find tenous refuge in Syria
05-07-07 - The case for strikes against Iran ** It would be lawful because the US and/or Israel would be acting in appropriate self-defense. Both countries could act on behalf of the international community and could do so lawfully without wider approval Can you believe that this is the Christian Science Monitor AGAIN giving front page treatment for this? This is the THIRD TIME. Unf%#kingreal.
05-07-07 - 'The Net' shoves Ron Paul right down ABC's throat! It didn't take long ! Pretty soon the net erupted and they were swamped with calls and emails demanding that Ron Paul be included.
05-07-07 - Congress Considers Broadening Justice Department Inquiry
05-07-07 - World Bank panel: Wolfowitz broke rules A special panel has found that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz broke bank rules in arranging a pay package and promotion for his girlfriend, a person familiar with the report said Monday.
05-07-07 - U.S. refiners set for big profits as pump prices soar Americans are being soaked.
05-07-07 - Russia, U.S., to talk missile shields
05-07-07 - Israelis from Iraq remember Babylon "We never thought of who was Jewish and who was Arab, until 1947. It all suddenly changed. The people that you knew as good people turned into bad people for you and you became bad for them. It was very sad." Jews and Arabs lived in peace in the region. That is until the advent of Zionism and Israel's ensuing expulsion of the Palestinians.
05-07-07 - UNIFIL denies reports of weapons smuggling in South Milos Strugar, spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), denied on Friday reports that Hizbullah is smuggling weapons into the South. "The German naval forces are doing their job as good as it can be [done] and have not detected any arms smuggling into the South,"
05-07-07 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Russia but skip Israel for now Rice hopes to take the edge off Russian anger over U.S. plans for a missile defense in Europe while seeking Russia's continued cooperation with a U.N. Security Council campaign to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.
05-07-07 - Delegation learns airport security in Israel A delegation representing several major U.S. airports is in Israel to learn about security practices Thus does the Israelization of America continue.
05-07-07 - Sarkozy's opportunity If France championed draconian sanctions against Iran, it could almost single-handedly lead Europe in avoiding both the need for Western military action against Teheran, and the threat of living under a growing nuclear and terrorist shadow. I knew that France's Iran policy was ultimately behind the pro-Israeli influence of this election.
05-07-07 - Questions for Candidate Obama the Senator seems to want to be a "hawk" when it comes to Iran, describing that country as a threat to Israel and the USA. Here again I remain perplexed. Iran does not have the military capability to hit the USA.
05-07-07 - U.S. might force setting up Lebanon tribunal: Rice
05-06-07 - US combat troops' attitudes to Iraqis hardening: survey The study by an army mental health advisory team has found continuing problems with morale and that acute mental health issues are more prevalent among troops with lengthening tours or those on their second and third deployment to Iraq
05-06-07 - U.S. Navy replaces Persian Gulf carriers ** The USS Nimitz and the ships in its strike group were expected within two days to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, said Navy Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl of the Bahrain-based U.S. 5th Fleet. The San Diego, Calif.-based Nimitz will join aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, now on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
05-06-07 - US-Iran diplomatic dance ends with ice cream chat
05-06-07 - Iran FM attacks US policy in Iraq Mr Mottaki also called for the immediate release of five Iranians detained in northern Iraq by US troops in January
05-06-07 - Iran's nuclear negotiator 'spied'
05-06-07 - Tenet's Failures
05-06-07 - Cheney Mideast trip to build on Iraq conference ** "He's really more going to focus on regional security, with Iraq being the centerpiece, and focus on the challenges posed by Iran," said US National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe. Cheney is looking to get support for action on Iran. This is why the recent 'timeline' was drawn up which detailed some measures to be taken by both Israel and the Palestinians. Cheney will soon be seen whispering in (SA)King Abdullah's ear: "Can we attack Iran now, can we huh, huh? Will you help us? Did we do enough for I-P peace???!!" Same sh#t, different year, and different ME country to attack. Bush and co. sit on their ass for YEARS on Israel-Palestinian peace. The ONLY time they DO something is when the neocons want Arab support for another attack on a Middle Eastern nation. Or so it would seem.
05-06-07 - And Then There Was Woolsey?
05-06-07 - 'Realists' Gain Bush's Ear, to Cheney's Chagrin Cheney, the leader of the administration's hawks, had publicly condemned Pelosi's visit to Damascus as "bad behavior," while some of his neoconservative allies outside the administration even called for her prosecution under a 200-year-old law that makes it a crime for individual citizens to communicate with hostile foreign governments to influence their behavior
05-06-07 - Gulf projects bonanza for international banks Over $1 trillion of projects planned by Gulf governments flush with cash from the oil boom promise to be a bonanza for international banks, bankers said at an Arab business conference yesterday Oil boom? You mean, the soaking of the American people (gas@$3/gallon)?
05-06-07 - Average-gasoline prices hit all-time high: survey We're being soaked.
05-06-07 - US-Israel disharmony This is not necessarily the last chord: If Israel doesn't immediately take vigorous and smart moves towards both the Administration and Congress alike, we shouldn't be surprised if the US agrees to board the Saudi wagon and accept the "Saudi Peace Initiative" as a basis for an agreement with the Palestinians. The horror.
05-06-07 - Foreign Ministry conducting project to prepare to renew talks with Syria
05-06-07 - Nasrallah: Talks on captured troops progress Nasrallah told Alalam that if published, the information would reveal that the Bush administration made the decision to launch the war against the ?Lebanese resistance? and Hizbullah as part of its plan to rebuild the Middle East in accordance with Israeli and American interests.?
05-06-07 - PROFILE: Nicolas Sarkozy, France's neo-conservative president Like the American neo-conservatives, Sarkozy is also a strong supporter of Israel, which is contrary to previous French policy, including that of Chirac, who was often critical of Jerusalem and often supported Palestinian interests.
05-06-07 - Israeli FM to visit Egypt for peace plan talks: report A senior Israeli diplomatic source told AFP earlier that "Livni is planning to go on an official Cairo visit on Thursday for talks on several bilateral issues, including the Saudi peace initiative." Coincides with Cheney's visit to the region.
05-06-07 - Israel draws battle lines around nuclear monopoly "Say that tomorrow Iran gets nuclear weapons, and issues the following ultimatum on Israel: Withdraw from the (Palestinian) West Bank or we will fire conventional missiles at you. Do we get into that sort of fight?" said one senior Israeli official with knowledge of nuclear affairs. "The potential for extortion and major regional instability is mind-boggling,"
Thus do we arrive at the real heart of the matter with respect to Iran's nuclear program: Israel fears not for its very existence, but rather, Israel fears that it will no longer be able to keep hold of unlawfully occupied and colonized Arab territories. Israel fears that it no longer will be able to call the shots, and thus will no longer be allowed to be the neighborhood bully. God forbid that they have to comply with the law (get out of occupied land). The horror. All of this talk about it being 1938 all over again, with the rise of a new Hitler is Orwellian-speak. It's Orwellian when the accuser is itself practicing some of Hitler's policies and similar views of supremacy.
05-06-07 - Israeli rerouted to Iran Medvediev said the crew refused to allow him to wait aboard the plane, so he was forced to disembark with the other passengers. To his surprise, Iranian officials treated him well despite knowing his nationality That's not going to be useful for the 'Attack Iran!' crowd.
05-06-07 - DFAT asks families to pay for Lebanon evacuation The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has sent letters to thousands of Lebanese Australians asking them to help pay part of the cost of evacuating them from Lebanon last year.
05-05-07 - Iran says UN resolutions will not halt nuclear work
05-05-07 - Rice-Muallem talks prove US stuck in Iraq: Syria
05-05-07 - UK and US must admit defeat and leave Iraq, says British general
05-05-07 - Hezbollah says ready for new showdown with Israel "We have new (military) plans. We have completed ... our ground work in preparing our men, as well as our land, so that we would be ready if the Israeli (government) thought one day" of launching another attack, Sheikh Naim Qassim said in excerpts of the interview aired on Saturday.
05-05-07 - Former CIA Chief Tenet accused of lying in memoirs about Pollard and Israel In his book, "The Missing Peace," Ross writes that at the Wye summit, Clinton asked him if freeing Pollard would be important to Israel. "Yes," Ross writes he replied, "because he is considered a soldier for Israel, and there is an ethos in Israel that you never leave a soldier behind in the field." Why don't all of these 'soldiers for Israel' return home (Ross included)? They are a grave threat to the national security of America.
05-04-07 - Ahmadinejad says Iran's nuclear 'rights' non-negotiable
05-04-07 - Cheney Iraq role reviewed in Britain Hoon said the British side had not comprehended Cheney's influence.
05-04-07 - Iran maintains hard line at UN nuclear conference Soltanieh then said that the United States, the leader in accusing Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons, was behind the emphasis on compliance.
05-04-07 - U.S. target Iranian-made weapons in Iraq U.S.-led forces raided Baghdad's main Shiite district on Friday and detained 16 alleged militants on suspicion of smuggling a powerful weapon from Iran into Iraq that can pierce armored vehicles, the military said. Here we go.
05-04-07 - Iran accuses US of terrorism in Iraq
05-04-07 - US forces arrest more Iraqis 'smuggling bombs from Iran' Friday's US military news release had near identical phrasing to two previous statements on Sadr City raids on Thursday and on April 27, and fits an emerging US policy of attempting to tie violence in Iraq to Iranian sponsors. Thus will the drums of war beat ever louder.
05-04-07 - Iran: No news yet on missing ex-FBI man
05-04-07 - GAO to look at soldiers' brain injuries The investigative arm of Congress said Friday it will send a team to Fort Carson to examine mental health care for Iraq war veterans after complaints that some soldiers with brain damage have been misdiagnosed.
05-04-07 - Lawmaker works to put hold on VA bonuses The chairman of a House panel wants to stop hefty bonus payments to senior Veterans Affairs officials until they reduce a severe backlog of veterans waiting for disability benefits.
05-04-07 - One in three US combat troops would condone torture: survey
05-04-07 - US talking secretly to terrorists in Iraq: Larijani Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani says the US is engaged in secret talks with terrorists in Iraq and the US ambassador to the country held negotiations with terrorist groups a couple of months ago.
05-04-07 - Reporter: Fall 2007 could see an 'uptick' in US-Iran tensions ** "If by September the 'surge' is deemed to be ineffective, the Bush Administration may seek to blame Iran for its continuing difficulties," Laura Rozen, a top correspondent for the American Prospect and the Washington Monthly, told Harpers' Ken Silverstein.
05-04-07 - Germany proposes IAEA-run uranium enrichment to break Iran nuclear impasse Germany has proposed building a uranium enrichment facility run by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure peaceful use of nuclear energy.
05-04-07 - Hearing shows Israel at crux of U.S. missile defense plan ** The May 3 session also dropped a bombshell: A senior congressman claimed that an Iranian crew was behind the missile attack on an Israeli Navy ship off Lebanon's coast last summer that killed four Israeli seamen.
05-04-07 - Tenet v Perle
05-04-07 - World Bank staff air concern at Wolfowitz controversy More than 700 World Bank staff have signed a letter expressing concern and calling for a resolution of a crisis involving bank President Paul Wolfowitz as a decision over his leadership looms.
05-04-07 - Few Britons Think Iraq War Was Right
05-04-07 - A Question for George Tenet
05-04-07 - Judge in trial of former AIPAC staffers rips prosecution for delays The judge warned that there could be consequences for the prosecution if it did not do as he told them.
05-04-07 - One Day You're Gonna Wake Up I'm ashamed to admit how many Americans are content to sit in a state of complacency and apathy on their collective asses watching the likes of American Idol. For the better part of four years, I've been trying trying to 'ride 'em in'. Not happening.
05-04-07 - Weapons of Mass Deception
05-04-07 - GOP contenders: Nuke threat justifies strike ** "If there is a threat to the existence of the State of Israel, which is by the way I think a potential threat to the existence of the United States, then you have to come to the aid of Israel," Tancredo said. These folks have forgotten which country they were elected to serve. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about defending Israel. Moreover, it's ridiculous to suggest that our existence is threatened because Israel's is. Preposterous.
05-04-07 - Israel's Cluster Bombs There was some interesting interplay during floor debate over the "human shields" issue. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, supported the measure, but also brought up Israel's use of cluster munitions during the war. To make his point, Mr. Kucinich displayed a fragment of a cluster bomb retrieved from Lebanon. "I wanted to just show Congress this, because what we are talking about, using people as human shields, it's important also for the Israeli government to take responsibilities for their actions as well. I say this as someone who speaks in defense of Israel and the defense of Israel's right to survive."
Way to go, Kucinich.
05-04-07 - CNI FOUNDATION TO COMMEMORATE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY WHEN: Friday, June 8, 2007 @ 4:00 pm *
WHERE: United States Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
05-04-07 - Rice begs to differ with Pelosi Condoleezza Rice said her meeting with a top Syrian official differed from that of top Democrats because she limited discussion to Iraq and no photographers were present.
Ya, so? What does she want some sort of doggie treat from Cheney or something? Condi, remove your nose from Dick's crack - it doesn't become you.
05-03-07 - Iran can target missile at US, Europe in less than eight years: US ** Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official said Thursday. Making the case for war.
05-03-07 - UN nuclear conference fails to make headway over Iranian objections
05-03-07 - IEA chief says Iran should be allowed nuclear power There is no reason why Iran should not have nuclear energy, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.
05-03-07 - Potential terror jurors cite 9/11 doubts Some people say they don't necessarily believe the U.S. government's statements about Sept. 11, with many of those people citing the faulty intelligence and misinformation about weapons of mass destruction that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the toppling of President Saddam Hussein.
05-03-07 - White House attacks CIA chief's Iraq account
05-03-07 - Historic meeting with Rice ends Syria's diplomatic isolation For their part, US officials insisted the talks dealt exclusively with the vexed issue of transit and sanctuary for foreign fighters and insurgents, and not with Syria's involvement in Lebanon and its suspected hand in the 2005 murder of the former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. Not by coincidence, US commanders claim that Damascus is indeed doing more to stop the flow of fighters into Iraq. "There has been some movement by the Syrians over the last month," Maj-Gen William Caldwell, the chief US military spokesman in Baghdad, said hours before Ms Rice and Mr Moualem met.
05-03-07 - White House seeks expanded domestic-spying powers
05-03-07 - Fewer fighters entering Iraq from Syria: US military Syria appears to have taken measures to stem the flow of foreign extremist fighters crossing its border into Iraq, the US military's chief spokesman in Baghdad said on Thursday.
05-03-07 - Palestinians refugees despair after year marooned between Iraq and Syria As Al-Tanf heads towards its one year anniversary in June, life in the tented camps is fraught with anguish and daily struggles. In the last few days a pregnant woman attempted and failed to commit suicide, while at the end of April a fire swept across the Al-Tanf camp leaving 28 refugees injured. Several deaths and miscarriages have been reported, and having endured the cold and floods of winter the refugees are now living under dust storms and the heat of the approaching summer...... As the situation worsens, there is no immediate prospect of a solution. The only proposal thus far, an offer by the Palestinian Authority to take in the refugees, was rejected by Israel.
05-03-07 - Mubarak, Abe vow cooperating efforts to end Iran's nuclear crisis The two leaders also dealt with the Middle East issue and other regional topics to focus on how to break the stalled Mideast peace process and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, as well as the situation in Iraq, according to Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awad.
05-03-07 - In Defense of George Tenet In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, a mighty battle of bureaucratic wills took place within the U.S. government. On one side were the CIA and a good deal of the national security bureaucracy, including the State Department's intelligence bureau, urging caution. On the other side were the sub rosa, ad hoc neocon-run operations, such as the Office of Special Plans, WHIG, and other improvisations that constituted, in effect, what Bob Woodward ? citing Colin Powell ? described as "a separate government." The neocons (and all of their cohorts and that includes in the media) need to be brought to justice for duping the American people into going to war based on dubious intelligence.
05-03-07 - Former World Bank Officials Detail Discord Over Wolfowitz
05-03-07 - House oversight panel may look past Rice, Tenet in inquiry into uranium
05-03-07 - Envoys 'warned of Iraq invasion nightmare' To the best of his memory, the assessments offered by Britain's representatives in the Muslim world were unanimous. "Every ambassador in a Middle East post accurately predicted what a nightmare invading Iraq would be," he said.
05-03-07 - Cheney to Middle East ** The U.S. vice president will discuss "key issues of mutual interest" with leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, the White House said in a statement. Cheney leaves May 8.
05-03-07 - Pro-Israel Group Slams Rice Meeting With Syrian FM "We think this is a serious mistake," Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said of the U.S.-Syria meeting.
05-03-07 - 'Sim Shalom' at national prayer day The U.S. Army Chorus sang "Sim Shalom," the final prayer of the Amidah, at the National Day of Prayer at the White House. Who was it that was just calling for separation of church and state, mewonders (3rd paragraph)? Where is the protest over this move?
05-03-07 - Pressure on Iran over Argentina blasts Observers in Argentina and the United States point to direct pressure from Bush administration officials for the re-opening of the case and for naming the highest levels of the Iranian Government as being directly responsible for the bombing.
05-03-07 - Israel not seeking confrontation with Syria, ambassador says
05-03-07 - Olmert undone by the militia he said he could destroy
05-02-07 - Japan, Egypt to press Iran on nuclear crisis
05-02-07 - US stresses stark choices for Iran in nuclear stand-off
05-02-07 - 'Further action' threatened if Iran continues nuclear enrichment The United Nations Security Council will need to take "further action" if Iran fails to meet demands to suspend its nuclear programme, a British Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday following six-nation talks in London.
05-02-07 - US hopes for breakthrough talks with Iran
05-02-07 - U.S. says it wants direct talks with Iran
05-02-07 - Iran nuclear official 'detained'
05-02-07 - Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January.
05-02-07 - George Tenet on '60 Minutes' Calls Outing of Plame 'Big Time Wrong'
05-02-07 - "We cannot stay as an occupying force in the Middle East" Sen. Chuck Hagel talks about his presidential ambitions and why he sided with Democrats on Iraq.
05-02-07 - 'They sold out the world for an F-16 sale' Onetime CIA analyst alleges Cheney, Libby lied to Congress about Pakistani nukes
05-02-07 - Senators Question Halliburton Executive About Dealings in Iran A Halliburton executive, facing withering criticism from Democratic lawmakers during a Senate hearing on Monday about the company?s business dealings in Iran, insisted that the firm had not broken any laws.
05-02-07 - Foreign policy challenge: see world as it really is the three leading Republican candidates for president in 2008 - Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney - cling to some version of the neoconservative vision.
05-02-07 - A High Price to Pay for Ignorance by Philip Giraldi ** Multiple carrier groups in the Persian Gulf can only mean that another preemptive war, this time against Iran, is either about to take place or is being viewed as a serious option......The leading Iranian émigré group is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which pretends to have a network of independent sources within Iran but actually is largely dependent on information from Israeli intelligence. The "critical analysis" of events in Iran that reaches policy-makers in Washington frequently comes from it and other lobbying and advocacy groups such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), all of which share an "Iran agenda" that calls for regime change. AIPAC is known to be the source of a position paper on Iran that most congressmen rely on to shape their own views. Israel's advocates, including peripatetic politicians such as ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, make frequent visits to the United States, where they have good access to the media and potential supporters, to reinforce the case that Iran must be dealt with forcefully.
05-02-07 - Hoon admits fatal errors in planning for postwar Iraq Describing the task of dealing with the US administration as a "multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle," Mr Hoon accepted that Britain had greatly underestimated the influence of the neo-con vice-president Mr Cheney and had lacked a comparable figure able to engage him regularly over the war
05-02-07 - UN Agency and Syria Agree on $2 Million Deal to Give Refugees Medical Aid
05-02-07 - Syrians bolstered by 'good American' Pelosi More than burnishing the regime's image in Syria, Mrs. Pelosi is seen as the well-dressed woman who stood up to President Bush, possibly the most unpopular figure in the Arab world after former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
05-02-07 - Oliver Stone Makes TV Ad Critical of Iraq War "I feel that my patriotism has been used and exploited," says former US Army Infantry Sergeant Bruhns. "I am very proud of my military service, but I'm very disappointed in the civilian leadership and administration for sending us needlessly into combat."
05-02-07 - Sarkozy: Israel has right to protect itself The official argued that Israel's West Bank barrier, even when it cuts through Palestinian territory, falls under the jurisdiction of security. "When there is peace, the route will be reworked," he said. "For now, it is in disputed territory If he wins, count on France to support US-led action against Iran - which may be the real reason why the pro-Israeli crowd is paying so much attention to this election.
05-02-07 - Closing The Halliburton Loophole This week Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation intended to close a loophole in existing Iran sanctions that has allowed some American companies ? including Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney?s former employer ? to continue doing business with Iran?s oil sector despite U.S. and international sanctions.
.....His measure is backed by AIPAC ? which is putting its legislative might behind the Iran Counter Proliferation Act.....Jewish organizations across the country are scrambling to get in their applications, now that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released long-delayed funds appropriated by Congress .....Nathan Diament, Washington representative for the Orthodox Union, also praised the DHS action, adding that the new guidelines ?track our preference for threat-based assessments.? There have been concerns that the department has distributed some homeland security money without respect to the level of threat facing institutions applying for grants; that will change under the new guidelines, Diament said. A rare moment of conflict between neocon-supporter(Cheney) and Israel-defenders. Cheney and the neocons have a mutually beneficial relationship. Both sides profit from the wars in the region, and the policy is geared towards making it a safer place for Israel (even though the Iraq war has failed to do so, but that was the primary reason for it).
05-02-07 - Rice loses another aide as top Arab-American diplomat resigns Powell was notably instrumental in creating public-private partnerships to help fund relief efforts, notably in Lebanon following the July-August 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah
05-02-07 - Hezbollah chief 'respects' Israel for war report
05-02-07 - Middle East peace unlikely, Israel's UN rep. says Gillerman discussed the perceived threat Iran poses to Israel and the tension between different types of leadership roles in the Muslim community
05-01-07 - Bush vetoes Iraq withdrawal bill
05-01-07 - Price Tag for War in Iraq on Track to Top $500 Billion
05-01-07 - Iranian envoy holds talks in Iraq After meeting Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Mr Larijani denied Iran was stoking violence in Iraq. Instead he blamed Iraq's troubles on American "misbehaviour and misconduct".
05-01-07 - Iran rules out Rice 'dialogue' at Iraq conference
05-01-07 - Iran fights discussion of nuclear compliance at UN conference Iran on Tuesday blasted nuclear weapons powers for failing to honor promises to disarm and insisted that a conference here on non-proliferation drop a call for compliance that could target Tehran.
05-01-07 - Afghans angry at 'cruel attack'
05-01-07 - The Pentagon's chronic neglect of Iraq vets
05-01-07 - Rice backs off Iraq 'imminent threat' claim, then redefines term
05-01-07 - Rice Falsely Claims U.N. Inspectors Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD
05-01-07 - Iran gives $1 billion in credit to Iraq
05-01-07 - Terror attacks increase, says US The number of people killed around the world in terror attacks rose by 40% last year to more than 20,000, the US State Department has said.
05-01-07 - One lie leads to another
05-01-07 - Ex-CIA Analyst Accuses Tenet of Hypocrisy For Not Speaking Out Earlier on White House Push For War I think people like Dick Durbin have to change their whole mindset and realize that they are not a subservient branch of government. You know, I?m a Virginian, and I think George Mason and James Madison and Tom Jefferson of rolling over in their grave. Here?s Durbin saying, ?I knew that the war was going to be fought on false pretenses, but I was sworn to secrecy.? Well, he was sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. And that?s what he ought to have done Amen.
05-01-07 - World Bank ethics chief disputes Wolfowitz claims "Contrary to what the staff rules allowed for, Mr. Wolfowitz's proposal explicitly insisted on the possibility of maintaining professional contacts with Ms. Riza," said Melkert, who has been at the U.N. Development Program since March 2006.
05-01-07 - Riyadh is in no mood to accept American scrutiny Any move by the US Justice Department to pursue the bribery investigation into BAE Systems could aggravate frayed relations between America and Saudi Arabia.
05-01-07 - Ex-CIA Chief: I Prevented Pollard Deal in 1998 Best thing he ever did.
05-01-07 - Reagan diaries reveal president's private musings Reagan believed Begin "took wrong option" and noted that "Begin informed us after the fact" but that "we are not turning on Israel -- that would be an invitation for the Arabs to attack. It's time to raise H--l."
On February 6, 1982, he noted that "trouble brewing in the Middle East" ahead of the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and that, "Right now Israel has lost a lot of world sympathy." He said one particularly devastating bombing and artillery attack on western Beirut in August 1982 had led King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to call the White House "begging me to do something." "I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did -- I was angry -- I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symbol of war was becoming a picture of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off."
05-01-07 - Hezbollah: War report proves our victory Hezbollah said the Winograd Commission report into last summer's war proved that the terrorist group had won
05-01-07 - UNHCR gives Syria US$2.06 million to boost health care facilities and skills The donation is in addition to 11 ambulances that UNHCR is delivering to the Ministry of Health, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
05-01-07 - Syria blames US, Israel for refugee influx Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Shara yesterday blamed the ?violent policies? of the US and Israel for the plight of millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.
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