June 2007 archive
06-30-07 - Iran vows to press on with nuclear work Iran on Saturday dismissed the threat of fresh UN sanctions and announced an impending visit by a senior atomic watchdog official for talks over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
06-30-07 - Iraqi girls clean up their home after a U.S. raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City Looks just like what the IDF does in Palestine. Not a coincidence.
06-30-07 - Foreign air strikes kill 65 Afghan civilians: mayor Anti-Taliban air strikes by US- and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan killed 65 villagers including children, a local official said Saturday, amid growing anger here over civilian deaths.
06-30-07 - Turkey draws up plan to hit Kurd rebels inside Iraq: FM
06-30-07 - US troops on Iraq murder charges Both of the men are accused of premeditated murder and placing weapons beside the bodies of the dead, who were killed in three separate incidents.
06-30-07 - Two arrested over London, Glasgow car bombs Two men rammed a petrol-filled, four-wheel drive vehicle into Glasgow airport in what police called a terrorist attack.
06-30-07 - Homicides soar in some East Coast cities In interviews with The Associated Press, homicide detectives, criminal justice experts and community activists point to a confluence of other possible factors. Among them: a failure to adopt some of the innovative practices that have reduced violence in bigger cities; the availability of powerful guns; and a shift in emphasis toward preventing terrorism instead of ordinary street crime.
06-30-07 - Venezuela's Chavez visits Iran on anti-American tour
06-30-07 - House Republicans want Iraq Study Group revived
06-30-07 - Wolfowitz aims to stay in politics He said he would be joining the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, as a visiting scholar, which would allow him to continue influencing public policy The AEI is a NEOconservative thinktank, one of many.
06-30-07 - The Retreat of the Old Bulls by Patrick J. Buchanan
06-30-07 - Lieberman: Lugar wrong about Iraq surge's failure Mr. Lieberman strongly objected to Mr. Lugar's call to "downsize the U.S. military's role in Iraq,"
06-30-07 - Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had "over-invested" in them. If you don't like the US constitution, you are welcome to leave.
06-30-07 - US turns to new faces, ideas to repair smeared image Overwhelming majorities throughout the Middle East believe American policy in the region favours Israel too much, according to the survey. Even in Israel, 42 percent of those polled say America is too supportive of their own country.
Even the Israelis think our government is too pro-Israel. That ought to tell you something.
06-30-07 - Hastings, Wexler to hold talks in Europe In his meetings with foreign officials, Wexler plans to focus on United States, French and European Union cooperation in the Middle East, specifically as it relates to the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas. "I believe America has an important new partner in President Sarkozy, and I look forward to working with his government to address common threats to the United States, France, Europe and Israel," Wexler said in a statement.
Hamas and Hezbollah are not a threat to the United States. For whom do Hastings and Wexler work?
06-30-07 - Lebanese army stands accused as Palestinians bury their dead "The protesters were more than 10 metres (yards) away from the (army) checkpoint and there was gunfire," said Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish member of the Nahr al-Bared Relief Campaign, a non-governmental organisation.
06-30-07 - Coming September 2007: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover) in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds
06-30-07 - Syrian paper: Blair can't be peace envoy because "hands smeared with innocents' blood"
06-29-07 - US soldiers kill 4 Afghan civilians: rights group
06-29-07 - Bush looks to his father to mend relations with Putin
06-29-07 - British public urged to stay alert after bomb find London's counter-terrorism police chief says a bomb found in a car in central London could have caused significant injuries or deaths if it had exploded.
06-29-07 - US missile shield a waste of money: Clinton Mr Clinton said the defence system, parts of which are to be deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic, had created unnecessary difficulties with Russia, which denounces the plan as an attempt to undermine its defence capabilities.
06-29-07 - House Narrowly Defeats Measure to Defund Vice President?s Office The measure was defeated 209-217, with most Republicans and 24 Democrats siding with Cheney. GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina voted in favor of defunding Cheney?s office.
06-29-07 - Bargaining with Tehran ** The prospect of U.S. military action against Iran is making headlines ? again
06-29-07 - Lebanese troops kill 3 Palestinians Lebanese troops killed three protesters after firing on Palestinian civilians demanding to return to their homes at a besieged refugee camp.
06-29-07 - UNHCR calls for seriously ill Palestinian children in Iraq to be medevaced The Palestinians are being attacked or trashed in other states as well. They are the new Jews.
06-29-07 - UN closes Iraq WMD inspectorate
06-29-07 - Petrol pressure drives oil price
06-29-07 - India, Iran, Pakistan closer on gas pipeline deal
06-29-07 - Fitzgerald eyed perjury early for Libby Midway through his CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was pretty sure of two things: First, he wasn't going to charge White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby with revealing a covert operative. And second, he thought Libby's testimony was a bunch of lies.
06-29-07 - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Welcomes Israeli Homeland Security Groups 6/28/2007 In an effort to continue building the Illinois Department of Homeland Security and the state?s partnership with Israel, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is welcoming a group of Israeli homeland security firms. 'Welcome to Israel! Err, I mean welcome to America!'
06-29-07 - Groups call on U.S. to press Israel on cluster data Thirty-three organizations are calling on the U.S. to obtain site information on Israel?s cluster bomb strikes against Lebanon last summer.
06-29-07 - Bush proclaims some Syrians non grata President Bush banned travel to the United States for Syrian and Lebanese individuals deemed to support terrorism or the undermining of Lebanon's government.
06-29-07 - Senate considers cluster bombs restrictions The bill is likely to be referred to the full Senate sometime next week and includes $2.44 billion appropriated for Israel by the U.S. House of Representatives last week..... A standalone bill with similar restrictions, sponsored last year by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is Jewish, was defeated, reportedly after strong lobbying against by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
06-29-07 - Palestinians back Iran bomb The survey, taken by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, found that 58 percent of the Palestinian public are in favor of Tehran acquiring atomic weapons, making Palestinians the only Middle Eastern population not opposed to an Iranian bomb.
06-29-07 - EMET honors five Arab Americans A Washington pro-Israel think tank honored five Arab-Americans who have spoken out against radical Islam.
Also honored at the June 20 Endowment for Middle East Truth dinner on Capitol Hill were Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), as well as counterterrorism investigative journalist Steven Emerson. Lackeys of the Israel lobby.
06-29-07 - Standing his ground and then some Shouting Hedges down and hurling profanities at audience members who chided him for his support for the Iraq war, the celebrated author reached his crescendo ahead of schedule and stalked off the stage
06-29-07 - US Elites Can't Decide Who Should Rule Palestinians "We are enabling their hatred when we provide support without insisting that the Palestinian people - not just Abbas and Fatah, but the people -convincingly forswear revolution, terrorism, violence, ethnic-cleansing, and the goal of eliminating Israel." 200 + years later, we're telling another people to accept the harsh rule of an occupying power and all the atrocities that it entails. Further, the Palestinians were the ones that were ethnically cleansed from the region to make way for Israel - this Israeli policy still goes on to this day.
06-29-07 - Bantustans for the Palestinians Not surprisingly, neocons and other elements in the far right flank of the pro-Israel community are celebrating what they hope is the end of the two-state solution.
06-29-07 - Siege or no siege, Lebanon's Ziad and Amal wed "The Palestinians are an oppressed people... We have lived all our lives fleeing from one place to another and now it is the turn of the new generation. This is our fate," sighed Ziad's aunt, Khaldieh, 58.
06-29-07 - J'lem: Bolton is too pessimistic on Iran "It is possible that his comments were meant to expedite the process," the official said 'Pipe down, Johnboy! We didn't give you the cue yet!'
06-28-07 - White House asserts executive privilege President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
06-28-07 - U.S.: Iran, NKorea missile threat rising The top U.S. missile defense official warned Thursday that the ballistic threat from Iran and North Korea was rapidly growing and defended Washington's plans to base parts of its anti-missile shield program in Central Europe. But NATO called for more evaluation of the potential danger, saying there was "no assessment of the immediacy of that threat to NATO and Europe."
06-28-07 - Richardson: No preconditions for Iran talks "If we want Iran to improve its behavior, we would do well to stop threatening to attack them,"
06-28-07 - Officials: Soviet-Era Caches, Not Iran, Arming Taliban
06-28-07 - Libby becomes inmate No. 28301-016 For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President Bush. On Wednesday, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became federal inmate No. 28301-016.
06-28-07 - Russia to keep contacts with Hamas - diplomat
06-28-07 - Iran says not favouring Hamas
06-28-07 - New Iran sanctions would cover gasoline Under the Iran Sanctions Enhancement Act of 2007, announced Thursday by Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), sanctions would be placed on any company or individual that supports Iran?s ability to import gasoline after Dec. 31
06-28-07 - Turkish general seeks Iraq raids The head of the Turkish armed forces has repeated his view that a military incursion into northern Iraq would help to defeat Kurdish rebels based there.
06-28-07 - Cheney, master of stealth, readies himself for the final act of 'imperial' vice-presidency Cheney will have his heart pacemaker installed next month and even with mortality knocking on the door, there is every possibility he will engineer yet another foreign policy surprise, possibly against Iran......It is the fresh details of Cheney's secretive and loyal coterie of officials at work that provides the most telling insight into how he pulls the strings of the federal government. Cheney, not Bush, wears the pants.
06-28-07 - Lessons in counterterrorism This week, Zaryk and a dozen other law enforcement officers representing police departments from Maryland to California are here to learn from their Israeli counterparts about methods and techniques for preventing bombings, securing airports and border crossings and performing mass rescue operations. The trip is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based, pro-Israel, Jewish advocacy group that has trained hundreds of law enforcement officials about domestic and international terror.
The Israelization of America continues.
06-28-07 - Israel model for Iraq, says Bush LOL.
06-28-07 - Fresh fighting in north Lebanon Military officials say the clash occurred near the village of Qalamoun, five kilometres south of Tripoli.
06-27-07 - Iran helping to plan attacks in Iraq - US Iran is training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure for change, U.S. officials said on Wednesday Making the case for war.
06-27-07 - White House, Cheney's Office, Subpoenaed The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.
06-27-07 - Iran not keeping its word on stabilizing Iraq: US
06-27-07 - House panel passes Iran restrictions The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill to tighten sanctions against Iran.
06-27-07 - Rep. Tancredo: Let Ron Paul Into Forum "The Republican party is better because he is one of us and he has earned the right to be in all presidential forums and debates."
06-27-07 - Senate Republicans Block Conference on Lobbying Overhaul Legislation Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has blocked appointment of Senate conferees on the stalled lobbying bill, casting doubt on the future of the biggest overhaul of ethics and lobbying legislation in a dozen years.
06-27-07 - Clinton, Richardson fault policy on Iran Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson on Wednesday urged the Bush administration to continue a dialogue with Iran as the U.S. tries to thwart the country's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
06-27-07 - Anti-Lieberman rally contrasts with film ** "Lieberman heard we're coming so he moved to Stamford Friday," quipped Heller, a West Haven native. "The point is we are demonstrating against his calls for an attack on Iran." .....Lieberman acknowledged that "people are getting restless" but said foreign policy should not be made on the basis of public opinion polls. Oh? What should foreign policy be made on then? The security of a foreign nation?
06-27-07 - Lawyers Make Final Plea To Save Libby From Jail
06-27-07 - Tom Lantos, Warmonger ** Americans oppose an attack on Iran 2-to-1. By almost every measure, they want negotiations, rather than confrontation, with Tehran. Yet the House Foreign Affairs Committee recently gave its approval to a bill that, in effect, would fire the first shot at the Iranians, imposing draconian sanctions similar to those enacted against Iraq in the run-up to the invasion and occupation of that country Lantos is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill. I would expect nothing less from him.
06-27-07 - Murdoch expects Dow Jones decision within weeks Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he has no plans to raise his $6 billion bid for media group Dow Jones and expects final approval from the controlling Bancroft family within two to three weeks, "if at all". Murdoch is owner of Fox News (neocon central).
06-27-07 - Russia argues against US missile base plans
06-27-07 - Neoconned Again? by Philip Giraldi ** Many of the advocates of a muscular policy against countries regarded as outside the pale or perceived as a threat to Israel come from the same circle of neoconservatives, "resident scholars," and sound-bite experts who move seamlessly from think-tank to advocacy group to academia and back again.
06-27-07 - Bush to name Muslim nations envoy The role of the envoy will be to bolster relations between the Muslim world and the US. The single greatest move toward that end would be getting the Israelis out of our government(foreign policy).
06-27-07 - Bolton: Stop Iran by force ** The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said the American approach to Iran is doomed to failure and that force is necessary.
I'm afraid Bolton is under the impression that anyone actually gives a rat's about his opinion and his love for a nation other than this one.
06-27-07 - Mubarak sees no Israel-Syria war Hosni Mubarak played down speculation that a war between Israel and Syria could be imminent.
06-27-07 - Congressional letter urges UNIFIL empowerment "We write with serious concern over the continuing illegal transfer of arms to the Hezbollah terrorist organization across the Syrian-Lebanese border," said the letter initiated by Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). Which has ZERO to do with American national interests.
06-27-07 - Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran? ** Long.
06-27-07 - House panel wants information on Americans' killers A key Congressional committee approved a bill requiring regular reviews of Palestinian efforts to catch the killers of three Americans murdered on a diplomatic mission in Gaza. But they do NOTHING about those Americans that ISRAEL has killed.
06-27-07 - Lugar: Arab-Israeli conflict, oil, key in Iraq "Credibility and sustainability of our actions depend on addressing the two elephants in the room of U.S. Middle East policy: the Arab-Israeli conflict and U.S. dependence on Persian Gulf oil," Lugar said. "These are the two problems that our adversaries, especially Iran, least want us to address." Add Lugar to the list of true patriots.
06-27-07 - Giuliani: Retreat from Iraq will create Gaza situation Telling the audience at a Maryland synagogue that Israelis and Americans are now bound in the same war against Islamic militants, Giuliani stressed the need to be "on offense against terrorism" to warm applause.
06-27-07 - Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington." Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
06-27-07 - Likud Leader Looks the Part of Prime Minister on Tour of Washington The discussions this week ostensibly focused on the need to block Iran?s nuclear program by using economic sanctions and divestment. But for Netanyahu, who is soaring in Israeli polls, the talks about divestment from Iran had a distinctly forward-looking bent. "It is important for Israel that whoever leads the United States in the future will be supportive of these actions," Netanyahu said following his meetings in Washington.
06-27-07 - Former Ambassadors Call on DNC to Remove Jimmy Carter The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today sent a letter signed by six former U.S. ambassadors to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, asking him to remove former President Jimmy Carter from his position as Honorary Chairman of Democrats Abroad, an arm of the DNC.
06-27-07 - Excluding U.S. from peace process could help Middle East settlement - Zhirinovsky Someone benefits from this continuing conflict. "It mainly benefits the U.S. because it allows them to interfere in the situation. The point is that it is a region with enormous oil and gas deposits," he said.
06-27-07 - Global opinion increasingly wary of major powers: survey Pew said support for the UN was strong in sub-Saharan Africa, but strikingly negative in the Middle East, especially Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories and Israel. Nearly 70 percent of people in the Palestinian Territories, where the UN has long played a role, had a poor view of the institution, and 27 percent saw it favorably.
06-27-07 - 'Safe haven' for trapped refugees in Lebanon battle camp A safe haven has been set up inside a bombed-out refugee camp in Lebanon for civilians trapped by almost 40 days of fighting between the army and Islamist militiamen, a Palestinian camp official said.
06-27-07 - Lebanese PM says Syria sending arms across border Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Syria on Wednesday of sending arms to Palestinian camps in his country and said he would raise the issue with the Arab League.
06-27-07 - Does Tony Blair bring baggage or assets to his new role? some of Olmert's advisers are believed to see a Blair appointment as dangerous. Bush until now has been unquestionably pro-Israel, but he also trusts Blair implicitly. The worry is that Blair could nudge Bush into pressuring Israel into making security concessions to allow greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians......Although nominally answerable to the entire Quartet, Wolfensohn took his orders from Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. That left him subject to the machinations of Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser who is the Bush administration's last word on Israel issues, and who has resisted any concessions to the Palestinians.
06-27-07 - Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto Show 6-26-07 Neil Cavuto desperately tries to make Paul out to be the bad guy here. He failed.
06-27-07 - Jewish ophthalmologist helps Syrians improve their vision "I was worried that there would be a safety issue, and there wasn?t," said the doctor, whose wife, Tilly, accompanied him to the Middle East. "Truthfully, I would be more afraid going to Israel, where there is violence."
06-26-07 - Iran blames Iraq insecurity on US
06-26-07 - Some Senate Republicans join Lugar on Iraq withdrawal Some Senate Republicans are suddenly pushing the White House to begin withdrawing most U.S. troops from Iraq, apparently deciding that they can?t wait for a September report to call for changing course.
06-26-07 - Iran launches English satellite channel Iran's state broadcasting company is launching an English-speaking satellite television channel to counter the West's influence in covering news, the network's Web site said.
06-26-07 - Cheney role as power broker in spotlight again The Post series portrays Cheney as bypassing top officials at the State Department, Justice Department and the National Security Council to gain the upper hand in battles over the handling of terrorism suspects at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other issues.
06-26-07 - Harsh Comments on Iraq Could Cause More GOP Defections From Bush ?Unless we recalibrate our strategy in Iraq to fit our domestic political conditions and the broader needs of U.S. national security, we risk foreign policy failures that could greatly diminish our influence in the region and the world,? said Lugar.
06-26-07 - US Congress moves to attack foreign oil firms linked to Iran The committee's vote means the legislation can move to debate in the full House, where Lantos said it enjoyed support from about 300 of the 435 members
06-26-07 - Iran says new Palestinian government is a "lackey" regime
06-26-07 - Dying children among Palestinians trapped in Iraqi border camps: UN Children in need of urgent medical care were among more than 1,400 Palestinian refugees still stranded on the Iraqi- Syrian border after fleeing Baghdad, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday.
06-26-07 - 'Jews worldwide should fight back' People criticize Israel not for its apartheid-like policies but because of 'anti-Semitism'. For anyone else to mention the power of the Israeli lobby - despite the fact that this overwhelming influence has been duly noted by this community itself- it's anti-Semitism. For British institutions to boycott those of Israel due to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians - you guessed it, anti-Semitism. The anti-Semite cazd has been long played out. The lobby doesn't seem to understand that, to their own detriment. It's only going to get worse.
06-26-07 - Israel moves closer to NATO missions
06-26-07 - Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby Scott Ritter on BookTV.
06-26-07 - Galloway on Israel and lebanon 06/08/2006 A rather comical interview.
06-26-07 - Divide and rule, Israeli style If they are all at each other's throats, how can they be a threat to poor lil Israel? Meanwhile, the settlement-building goes on. The Middle East needs its own William Wallace. Our policies therein do not serve to secure the American national interest. To the contrary - they've made us less secure. Our policies are being driven by a group of neoconservatives that have made their centcom in the office of the vice president. These policies are geared towards the security of a nation other than this one.
06-26-07 - Russian FM says weapons sales to Syria strictly controlled
06-26-07 - Turkey leases Israeli spy plane to combat PKK It will be stationed in Batman and operated by an Israeli squad, defense officials in Ankara said.
06-26-07 - Lebanon needs help to stop arms from Syria: UN In a report which UN chief Ban Ki-moon forwarded to the UN Security Council Tuesday, the team called for the deployment "of international border security experts" to back up a new Lebanese "multi-agency mobile force" that would be tasked with doing a better job of stemming the arms smuggling.
06-26-07 - UN refugee agency urges aid for Palestinians facing Iraq 'hell' "Several refugees begged our team not to forget them and leave them in this hell," said Jennifer Pagonis, a spokeswoman for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
06-26-07 - Iran says U.S. hurting Iran-Iraq ties Iran's supreme leader accused the United States of damaging relations between Iran and Iraq and charged that American and Israeli agents were behind the Iraqi insurgency, state-run Iranian television said Tuesday.
06-26-07 - Hezbollah probing attack on Lebanon peacekeepers The Hezbollah source said members of the movement were helping the Lebanese army seek information on a Mercedes car which was seen driving around the area the day before the booby-trapped Renault car was placed next to the roadside and detonated by remote control when the peacekeepers drove past.
06-26-07 - Does Bloomberg spell doom for Hillary? by Patrick J. Buchanan On Iraq, securing the border and halting the export of American jobs, where does he stand? Anyone know? Does he?
06-26-07 - U.S. praises Siniora's resilience in face of crises
06-25-07 - Iran invites IAEA team to help ease nuclear fears Iran has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to send a team to agree how to resolve long-standing IAEA questions about Tehran's nuclear program, the U.N. watchdog said on Monday.
06-25-07 - Iran supplied missile that hit UK helicopter Browne went further than any British official on Iranian support for the Taliban. He said: ?It is a changing pattern in that the Iranian influence is very important. We have evidence to suggest that they support the Taliban.? Making the case for war.
06-25-07 - Cheney's moves on secrecy stir storm over office's dual role Is Vice President Dick Cheney's office an executive branch agency? Or is it a Washington hybrid that works for both the executive and legislative branches of the US government? That's the underlying issue in a new controversy over Mr. Cheney's lack of cooperation with a government office charged with safeguarding national security information.
06-25-07 - Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday.
06-25-07 - Calling Cheney's Bluff Under federal legislation enacted in 1995, members of the executive branch must work with the Archives to preserve classified documents. The law was backed up, at least in part, by an executive order issued four years ago by President Bush. But Cheney and his staff have refused for five years to file reports that are required as part of the oversight process. Why? Because the vice president -- that's the vice president -- claims he is not exactly a member of the executive branch.
06-25-07 - Hard Realities of Soft Power State Department officials admit that the great bulk of the funds has not left the United States. A handful of Beltway-based think tanks and institutions have announced new ?Iran desks? in the past year. Other institutions have invested the money in Web zines, training sessions, workshops and exchanges
06-25-07 - German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, are requesting the extradition from the United States of 13 suspected CIA agents they say took part in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen.
06-25-07 - Number of Americans who believe Saddam-9/11 tie rises to 41 percent Perhaps most alarmingly, 41% of Americans answered 'Yes' to the question "Do you think Saddam Hussein?s regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001?"
06-25-07 - Ron Paul Interview On FOX News (June 16, 2007)
06-25-07 - Iran says 'zero chance' of US attack ** An Israeli press report said that the Jewish state's army was in training for long distance missions, after agreeing a timetable with the US for sanctions against Iran's nuclear program to work. The Israelis are going to do their darndest (and that goes for their minions, the neocons, also) to get America to strike Iran.
06-25-07 - Looking at Thompson's lobbying past Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.
06-25-07 - First big wave of Iraqi refugees heads for the US
06-25-07 - Syria's alliance with Iran in the balance Syria has expressed readiness to help curb Middle East instability in exchange for peace with Israel but will not easily give up its alliance with Iran as demanded by the Jewish state
06-25-07 - Marines to train at new Israeli combat center In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops ? and someday, U.S. Marines and soldiers ? are preparing for the wide range of urban scenarios they may confront......Moskovich said Baladia City would eventually host Army and Marine Corps units for training before they head to Iraq. Why is it always only us? Not the British, French, Germans, Aussies, etc etc etc. It is always only the US involved in this shit because America is wholly Israeli-occupied territory.
06-25-07 - Spanish defence chief in Lebanon Hezbollah issued a statement describing the incident as very dangerous and said it was aimed at undermining the stability of southern Lebanon, a sentiment echoed by Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as he "strongly denounced" the blast.
06-25-07 - Al-Qaeda seeks unity with Hamas Hamas leaders, who espouse a more moderate brand of Islamist politics, have always shunned al-Qaeda advances.
06-25-07 - Egypt nuclear engineer gets life An engineer at the Egyptian atomic energy agency has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying for Israel.
06-25-07 - UN peacekeepers vow to stay in Lebanon
06-25-07 - Lantos: Include Israel in NATO The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee called for Israel's inclusion in NATO. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
06-25-07 - Ron Paul Gets the ?Colbert Bump?
06-25-07 - Rice: Democracy will come to Middle East Western and Arab reporters questioned Rice sharply Sunday about statements she made nearly a year ago, in which she referred to "the birth pangs of a new Middle East."
06-25-07 - Lebanon points finger at Islamists over UN attack Information Minister Ghazi Aridi pointed the finger at the Islamists for the UN attack, based on confessions extracted from Fatah al-Islam gunmen captured during fierce fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp which is now in its sixth week.
06-25-07 - Israel is determined to dig its own grave the trend to which Israel should perhaps pay the greatest attention is that its main ally, the US, is bogged down in an unwinnable war, waged in large part because Israel's American friends, the Washington neoconservatives, thought that if America smashed Iraq, Israel would no longer have anything to fear from the east.
06-25-07 - Letters from readers : Seek the truth It has been suggested that the attack on the USS Liberty was a deliberate plan to sink the ship and blame it on Egypt, which was under attack by Israel at the time. That the truth behind this 40-year-old tragic event has not yet been discovered is a travesty.
06-25-07 - Gaza could become Al Qaeda refuge: US US policies helped create this mess.
06-24-07 - Wounded GI endures blindness, paralysis "We always have hope. One day at a time - that's the way we live our lives," the elder Briseno said. "We're so lucky to have him. He was a very good son from the very beginning. God gave Jay to us and he's a blessing to us."
06-24-07 - Rice cool to any partial nuclear suspension by Iran "I don't know what partial suspension means," she added. "It doesn't seem to me to be a very wise course."
06-24-07 - NATO admits civilian deaths in Pakistan At the weekend, Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and US-led militaries of using extreme force, which had resulted in the deaths of about 90 civilians in the past 10 days.
06-24-07 - Generals campaign against war "These troops are not expendable commodities to fulfill the pipe-dream vision of a group of people trying to remake the world in our image," Gard said. "It's time for us to get the hell out of there." .....The generals also think the United States should renew efforts to broker a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "the main bone of contention that gets support for al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the terrorists," Johns said. Right on!
06-24-07 - POLITICS-US: Neo-cons Spinning Hearts and Minds Intent on fixing what American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Joshua Muravchik termed Bush's "public diplomacy mess," right-wing hawks have gained control of the weapons in the "war of ideas" -- U.S. government-funded and supported media outlets such as Voice of America (VOA), Al-Hurra, and Radio Farda, which broadcast to the Middle East and aim to offer an alternative view of the news.
While many have been ousted from the Bush admin or other places of prominence, the neocons have decided to take control of the media as a substitute. They've always been given prominent placement and much airtime in our mainstream media - particularly on Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and most recently - PBS.
06-24-07 - GOP Ron Paul Rally On Exclusionary Iowa Debate GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul's voice will be heard at the Iowa debates on June 30, even though the event organizers have excluded him for not being a "serious" or "electable" candidate.
06-24-07 - Iran denies financial assistance to Hamas Iran on Sunday denied rendering any financial assistance to the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas and reiterated once again that its support for the group was merely of a 'spiritual' nature.
06-24-07 - Senior Iran envoy 'regrets' Hamas-Fatah conflict Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Rida Bakery following talks in Damascus on Sunday expressed "regret" over the situation in the Palestinian Territories.
06-24-07 - MEMRI Loss MEMRI, according to Norman G. Finkelstein, employs ?the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis. They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don?t like,? or people Likudniks and neocons want the United States military to mass murder.
06-24-07 - A Congress Voters Can't Buy
06-24-07 - Muslims uniting against Israel: report "I agree with (Mousselmani) that the state of Israel has ... consistently engaged in acts of terror which have brought a great deal of pain to the poor Palestinian population and the Lebanese population."
06-24-07 - Lebanon Islamist clashes spread Two civilians, one soldier, a policeman and at least six Islamist gunmen are said to have been killed in the fight.
06-24-07 - Lebanon blast kills UN soldiers Sunday's explosion took place between the towns of Khiyam and Marjeyoun, near the border with Israel in the area of operation of UN peacekeepers.
06-24-07 - Perle Prefers Military Intervention to Islamic Party Election Sweep in Turkey
06-24-07 - Outsiders pull the strings in Lebanon, say analysts
06-24-07 - Blowback in Lebanon
06-24-07 - Australian cleric backs Hezbollah "If Australia supports Israel, they are defending terrorism because we believe terrorists come from Israel ? not from our people. I support Hezbollah," he said in the interview. "Our opinion is that Hezbollah is not a terrorist group."
06-23-07 - Army sees spike in accidents, suicides
06-23-07 - INTERVIEW-Iranian weapons still flowing into Iraq -US general
06-23-07 - More EU-Iran talks next month: Solana
06-23-07 - EU-Iranian talks 'constructive'
06-23-07 - New Photos Show Secret Pakistan Plutonium Plant; Fear of More Weapons Being Made
06-23-07 - Cheney in Dispute on Oversight of His Office For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office?s handling of classified information, and when the office in charge of overseeing classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president?s office suggested that the oversight office be shut down, according to documents released today by a Democratic congressman.
06-23-07 - Neocons aren?t running the show: White House?s attitude adjusted But unfortunately, the neocons still have favor with the Vice President. You need to subscribe to and read (online, if necessary) the Deep Background column (by former CIA Philip Giraldi) of the past several issues of The American Conservative to understand where we are going (Iran) next.
06-23-07 - PTSD expert says Navy trying to silence him
06-23-07 - Syria closes Lebanon border post because of camp siege The closure decided by the interior ministry will stay in place "until calm has returned to northern Lebanon", it said late Wednesday. It was designed "to protect Syrian and Lebanese citizens".
06-23-07 - Report: Rice quashed Pollard release proposal "Pollard's release is out of the question," Maariv quoted her as telling Ayalon. "Danny, I'd advise you not to pursue this any further. Pollard betrayed his country and that issue is taboo in Washington."
06-23-07 - Serving America's 'Muslim army'
06-23-07 - Troops die in Lebanon camp clash Four Lebanese soldiers have been killed in fighting with Islamist militants in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon
06-23-07 - Freedom suffers in backlash to Bush agenda Summer 2005 was a high point in the Bush administration?s ?freedom agenda?, as stirrings of democracy appeared across the Arab world. Three examples were held up as models: Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
06-23-07 - IAF, USAF greatly upgrade cooperation ** The Israel Air Force has significantly upgraded the level of its cooperation with the United States Air Force and now receives regular updates on American procurement decisions, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
06-23-07 - USA Today and the USS Liberty While AP did have a story on the Liberty on June 8th, the report, oddly, was filed from Israel and was sent out only internationally; US editors never saw it. Where the US media did produce stories, almost all (like the above AP story) gave the Israeli invention --that "investigations" showed it was accidental. Glad someone else picked up on this.
06-22-07 - Iran denies minister's comments on 'uranium stockpile' Iran on Friday denied local media reports that the interior minister announced the Islamic republic had ramped up its nuclear capacity and built up a significant stockpile of enriched uranium.
06-22-07 - IAEA and Iran agree to draw up action plan Larijani also spoke of "good progress," but they reported no breakthrough in the core dispute -- Iran's defiance of U.N. demands to stop uranium enrichment.
06-22-07 - Have We Forgotten 2003 Already? by Rep. Ron Paul ** This resolution is an exercise in propaganda that serves one purpose: to move us closer to initiating a war against Iran.
06-22-07 - Afghan air strike kills 25 civilians, 20 Taliban
06-22-07 - Commander: U.S. did not know children were at raid site
06-22-07 - Time Is Running Out For U.S. In Iraq According to the latest (June 1-3) Gallup polling data, 71% of the U.S. public believes the campaign in Iraq is going "badly or very badly," a record high, and a majority now support a timetable for withdrawal.
06-22-07 - Iran has 'no preconditions' for US talks
06-22-07 - Report: IAF preparing for Iran strike **
06-22-07 - Justice Dept. opts out of whistle-blower suits Justice Department has opted out of at least 10 whistle-blower lawsuits alleging fraud and corruption in government reconstruction and security contracts in Iraq, and has spent years investigating additional fraud cases but has yet to try to recover any money.
06-22-07 - MiG Sales to Syria Denied Russia is not planning to supply fighter jets to Syria, the head of the state-run arms exporter said, denying a Kommersant article about such sales.
06-22-07 - Obama promises strict White House ethics rules
06-22-07 - Invite Ron Paul to Iowa on June 30th
06-22-07 - Whistleblower: Halliburton cooking its books
06-22-07 - Jewish groups back travel insurance law "We urge you to act to protect travelers to lawful foreign destinations from unfair and discriminatory insurance practices," said the letter, signed by, among others, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and representatives of the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams.
06-22-07 - Lebanese army rings refugee camp
06-22-07 - Jewish settlers fear Golan withdrawal A major water basin lies under the Golan Heights providing Israel with about a third of its water supplies. No kidding?!
06-22-07 - GOP writes AIPAC to explain 'no' vote The Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is sending a letter to AIPAC explaining why the party voted against a foreign aid funding bill that includes $2.4 billion for Israel.
06-22-07 - Wexler queries EU failure to ban Hezbollah A top Jewish congressman held hearings on the European Union's refusal to place Hezbollah on its terrorist list.
06-22-07 - Footlik gets Jewish backing in House bid Signatories include Mort Zuckerman and Shoshana Cardin, both former chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Alan Solomont, a backer of the Israel Policy Fund now leading fund-raising for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination; Steve Grossman, a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and now a lead-fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), also seeking the presidency; and Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and writer.
06-22-07 - Clashes at Lebanon siege camp ease as clerics meet militants Lebanese troops used artillery, tanks and machine guns against Islamists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp on Friday despite the government saying the offensive had ended.
06-22-07 - Israeli attack was deliberate The order to abandon ship was given and life rafts were put over the side. The torpedo boats then closed and machine gunned all the rafts, sinking them.
06-22-07 - USS LIBERTY - 'A lie told well is immortal' "If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of."
06-22-07 - Anti-Pelosi measure defeated A measure that would have kept the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from using State Department funds to visit Syria was overwhelmingly defeated.
06-21-07 - Four Decades of Twisting Facts About Israel?s Attack on the USS Liberty By James Ennes as preparations were being made to abandon ship, they machinegunned the ship?s empty life rafts which had been lowered into the water awaiting survivors?a clear violation of Geneva conventions.
06-21-07 - US terror charges against Iran are 'lies': top official Iran rejected as "lies" Thursday US allegations that it is arming Shiite extremists in Iraq, and alleged that some NATO powers are supplying weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
06-21-07 - Iran threatens 'longer stride' for nuclear drive
06-21-07 - Iraqi orphans moved to better facilities
06-21-07 - Iran says talks, not sanctions, only way in atom row Iran's chief nuclear negotiator told major powers on Thursday that talks, not more sanctions, offered the only way forward for resolving an escalating standoff over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
06-21-07 - Bush, Senate head for showdown on domestic spying The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the subpoenas in a 13-3 vote following 18 months of futile efforts to obtain documents related to Bush's contested justification for warrantless surveillance begun after the September 11 attacks.
06-21-07 - US-IRAN: New Arms Claim Reveals Cheney-Military Rift ** The use of the phrase ?irrefutable evidence? suggested that the Burns statement was scripted by the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. The same phrase had been used by Cheney himself on Sep. 20, 2002, in referring to the administration?s accusation that Saddam Hussein had a programme to enrich uranium as the basis for a nuclear weapon......Given the very small scale of the arms in question, Cheney?s interest in the issue appears to have much less to do with Afghanistan than his aim of ensuring that President Bush goes along with the neoconservative desire to attack Iran before the end of his term.
06-21-07 - Iran 'unable to take Australians' Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.
06-21-07 - Waxman decries Cheney security exemption
06-21-07 - Is WP's Cohen Dumbest Columnist? Cohen accuses special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald of violating longstanding Justice Department guidelines on when to bring a case; he denounces the trial ? over Libby?s lying about his role in unmasking covert CIA officer Valerie Plame ? as ?a mountain out of a molehill?; he asserts that there was no ?underlying crime?; he even pokes fun at Americans who thought the invasion of Iraq might have been a bad idea. Sounds to me to be a part of the Israel lobby that includes neocons such as Libby. The WP, like so many other rags, gives ample airtime to neocons, and has allowed Fitzgerald to be viciously attacked therein, in the not so recent past. It's why I no longer link to it. The WP is on the wrong side of justice.
06-21-07 - Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don?t Apply to Him
06-21-07 - Brazil to resettle Palestinian refugees who fled Iraq About 100 Palestinians who fled Iraq more than three years ago and lived in squalid conditions at a refugee camp will be resettled in Brazil, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
06-21-07 - Nihilism and Neoconservatism With the presidential primaries of both parties effectively rigged against the possibility of a credible antiwar candidate arising to wrest the nomination from the pro-war front-runners, and the War Party's propaganda machine revving up its motors for another go, this time at Iran, we are in for a very explosive next couple of years. The reason is because the political system lacks any effective safety valves: there is no way for ordinary people to have any real impact, and therefore the special interests ? and the War Party is just a collection of very special ideological and corporate interests ? have taken over.
06-21-07 - Lebanon army 'wins camp battle'
06-21-07 - Who runs American Foreign Policy?
06-21-07 - ZOA lobbies to isolate Iran, Abbas More than 300 ZOA activists from 20 states had almost 200 meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, and leading lawmakers -- including Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a long shot contender for the Republican presidential candidacy -- addressed the group. The lead item for the ZOA delegates was strengthening sanctions against Iran, the signature issue for many pro-Israel groups now that Israel assesses the Islamic Republic may be less than two years away from a nuclear weapon.
06-21-07 - Netanyahu pushes Iran isolation Netanyahu met Thursday with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a leading candidate for her party's presidential candidacy, and Fred Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who is set to announce his bid for the Republican candidacy, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney.
06-21-07 - Lebanon: Rights group calls for probe into Palestinian abuse claims "It would be unfair to say all Palestinians who leave the camp are being beaten up, but there are enough cases to cause us to be very alarmed," said Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, as he gathered testimony in Badawi camp.
06-21-07 - The End of Dissent? With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Washington to ramp up the Lobby's ferocious campaign to get the US to attack Iran ? or at least credibly threaten to ? the pro-Israel forces on Capitol Hill were out in full force, herding their congressional supporters into a massive display of obedience with a whopping 411-2 vote in the House.
06-21-07 - Family: Ex-professor to remain imprisoned for refusing to testify Nahla al-Arian said her husband will not bow to pressure to testify, and showed his resolve with a two-month hunger strike earlier this year.
06-21-07 - Slain activist's legacy fulfilled as refugees from Iraq reach Ottawa Two Palestinian families fleeing war-torn Iraq via a Syrian refugee camp are finding refuge in eastern Ontario, fulfilling one of the last requests from a humanitarian worker taken hostage and slain in the Middle East more than a year ago
06-21-07 - US does not want Syria involved in Mideast peace: VP Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara charged on Thursday that the United States and Israel do not want Syria or the Palestinians involved in any Middle East peace settlement.
06-21-07 - Jewish spectrum of issues on display in meeting with Democratic senators Howard Kohr, executive director of the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who spoke about the threat that Iran and its nuclear program posed to the region;
06-20-07 - Help Sought for Hurt Soldiers' Families
06-20-07 - Report: Veteran Homelessness on the Rise
06-20-07 - Iran poses no missile threat, Russia tells US ** Russia on Wednesday bluntly told the United States it saw no threat from Iran's ballistic missiles and was perplexed how Washington could use this to justify a planned US defence system in Europe....... The Islamic republic insists it would never be the first to attack although it has warned it would hit back with force if the United States launched an military strike against Iran. Well, if a country was planning on attacking Iran, and having the backing of the EU for said attack, then yes, there may be a potential missile threat, mmm?
06-20-07 - Kidnappers of British contractors in Iraq were backed by Iran: US General The kidnappers who snatched five British contractors last month were funded, trained and armed by Iran, the US commander in Iraq said in an interview published late Wednesday. Iran backing Al Qaeda, Iran behind the grassy knoll, Iran arming the Taliban, Iran arming Sunnis in Iraq, Iran arming shiites in Iraq. The bull feces is getting ever thicker.
06-20-07 - More Bad Intelligence on Iran and Iraq
06-20-07 - Iran nuclear chief to meet ElBaradei on Friday
06-20-07 - Bin Laden may have arranged family's US exit: FBI docs
06-20-07 - Netanyahu departs for U.S. in bid to increase pressure on Iran Opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday will embark for the U.S. on a visit aimed at increasing financial sanctions against Iran to get it to drop its nuclear program.
06-20-07 - Bush to send top diplomat to Israel for military aid talks "I am strongly committed to Israel's security and viability as a Jewish state, and to the maintenance of its qualitative military edge," Bush said in a statement after White House talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "During our meeting today, I told prime minister Olmert that I am committed to reaching a new 10-year agreement that will give Israel the increased assistance it requires to meet the new threats and challenges it faces," he said
06-20-07 - Split Looming On Israel Pressure "Iran has been the No. 1 issue, but it was pushed down to No. 2 or 3 by the Gaza issue," said Foxman. "That has a significant cost for Israel.".....Instead of negotiating and pumping money into Fatah coffers, she said Washington and Jerusalem should work with Jordan to "rescue the Palestinian people, and to find ways of bringing about quiet on the West Bank until we figure what we are going to do long term."......Klein admitted that the deck is stacked against Jewish opponents of aid for Abbas forces ? in large measure because the major pro-Israel groups can?t be seen as opposing policy of the Israeli government.
Geez, I thought the Israel lobby wasn't acting on behalf of a foreign nation, lest they have to register as such? Really now. And who knew that the US Israel lobby gets to decide "what we are going to do long term"? Another very interesting article that details who pulls the strings with regard to US foreign policy in the Middle East. Note the source.
06-20-07 - Sarkozy will invite Hezbollah to France
06-20-07 - As FBI fights terrorism, other prosecutions drop The drop in prosecutions has also caught Congress's attention. At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs in May, Sen. Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware said that since 9/11, the number of violent-crime investigations by the FBI has dropped 60 percent ? even though cities across the country are seeing an increase in murders and other violent crime, after a decade of steady declines. THe FBI is too busy chasing Israel's enemies (and that includes emigrants from the Palestinian territories) in the US who fall under the umbrella of the 'war on terror' to take care of OUR criminals.
06-20-07 - Palestinian mediators bring hope of ceasefire to Lebanon
06-20-07 - Houses urges charges against Ahmadinejad ** "I am unequivocal in my support for the security and survival of Israel, and I do have serious concerns with the remarks made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran," said Kucinich, a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. "But I object to resolutions that lay the groundwork for an offensive, unprovoked war." ...Kucinich and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, were the only votes against.
06-20-07 - Olmert, Bush discuss Pollard "The Pollard issue came up," was all the Israeli prime minister would tell JTA after his meeting Tuesday with Bush.
06-20-07 - ADRA Observes World Refugee Day According to the UNHCR, in 2006 there were more than 14 million refugees, including those Palestinian refugees registered and assisted by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA).
06-20-07 - Lebanese army pounds Islamists after seizing key posts An AFP photographer said the Palestinian Red Crescent delivered a truckload of medicine and supplies to the southern sector on Wednesday.
06-20-07 - After Iraq, Palestinian refugees find peace amid Indian squalor "Our parents were uprooted from Palestine in 1948 and settled in Baghdad thinking we would have a better future there,"
06-20-07 - Palestinian refugees determined to rebuild Nahr al-Bared lives As ever in such a conflict, it is the civilians who suffer most. Of the camp's estimated 31,000 inhabitants before the conflict erupted on May 20, only about 2,000 have stayed put. Their fate remains unknown. Western (that includes Israel) policies have made millions of people in the Middle East refugees.
06-20-07 - Jews meet top Senate Dems Groups in the meeting included the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eurasia, Agudath Israel of America, National Jewish Democratic Council, American Jewish Congress, Americans for Peace Now, B'nai B'rith International, Chabad-Lubavitch, Orthodox Union, Union of Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the Anti-Defamation League, United Jewish Communities and Hillel.
06-19-07 - Iran says Russia may not let U.S. use Azeri radar
06-19-07 - Iran says won't rule out using oil as a weapon Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, an Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday.
06-19-07 - Outside View: Iran arming the Taliban? Had a reporter not asked about the charges, literally in the last three minutes of the briefing, the truth might never have come out at all...... Iran was a major supplier of the Northern Alliance, which drove the Taliban from power. The Iranians have provided massive numbers of weapons and massive amounts of supplies to various Northern Alliance groups. As a result, the country is flooded with Iranian materiel. A very interesting article.
06-19-07 - US finds neglected Iraqi orphans The children were discovered last week by a US military advisory team that was out on patrol with Iraqi soldiers.
The emaciated boys, some near death, were left naked and covered in their own excrement on concrete floors, images broadcast by CBS News showed......Lt Duperre said the soldiers found three members of staff cooking for themselves when they entered the orphanage. Inside was a kitchen full of food and a storeroom stocked with piles of brand-new clothing. The soldiers believed it was being sold to local markets instead of giving it to the disabled children.
06-19-07 - Republican Thompson highlights serious Iran threat ** Military action must always remain an option and world powers must agree on the nature of what Thompson called the "very, very serious threat" from Tehran.
06-19-07 - Video: Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later
06-19-07 - Navy mistakes are blamed for capture of hostages by Iran The capture of British sailors and marines by Iran in the Gulf was the result of a series of mistakes by the Navy, and the decision to let the freed hostages sell their story to the press was a "collective failure of judgement" by the Ministry of Defence, two official inquiries have concluded.
06-19-07 - U.S., Russia: Iraq had no WMDs
06-19-07 - Olmert to ask Bush to neutralize Hamas Olmert met with members of AIPAC and National Security Council advisor Steve Hadley shortly after his arrival in Washington.
06-19-07 - Bush says all options on table on Iran ** At the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush was asked if military action remained an option for dealing with Iran.
06-19-07 - Olmert plays down prospects for Syria talks "I don't think that if someone wants to speak directly, he needs the involvement of America in order to allow these negotiations to take place," Olmert told reporters at the start of a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush. Why does Israel keep using the US as an excuse not to initiate peace negotiations with Syria?
06-19-07 - Russian fighter planes sale to Syria alarms Israel
06-19-07 - MEMRI is ?propaganda machine,? expert says
06-18-07 - COUNTY HONORS SIX DAY WAR NAVY VETERAN FRANCIS BROWN, KILLED IN SERVICE ABOARD THE USS LIBERTY It was for Brown?s aggressiveness, composure under fire, and courageous actions in the tense waters off the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the early afternoon hours of June 8, 1967, an engagement which at the time was the second deadliest event impacting a United States warship since the end of World War II, that he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. It is strange that nowhere in the article does it mention just who attacked the USS Liberty.
06-18-07 - Seven children killed after air strike on school in Afghanistan Massive battles were reported to have killed more than 100 people in southern Afghanistan in the past three days, as officials revealed that seven children had died when their religious school was bombed by the United States-led coalition.
06-18-07 - Iran open to new Iraq talks with U.S.
06-18-07 - Iraq deployment could last a decade: US
06-18-07 - Bush and Rumsfeld 'knew about Abu Ghraib'
06-18-07 - The General?s Report
06-18-07 - Iran says U.N. ignores Israeli threats to Tehran Iran accused the U.N. Security Council of ignoring Israeli threats to attack the Islamic Republic and called on the body, in a letter made public on Monday, to demand that the Jewish state desist.
06-18-07 - Failing With Fatah The $86 million plan, masterminded by Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame, didn't work out as planned. Hamas easily routed Fatah in Gaza last week. It was both a diplomatic and military failure for the United States.
06-18-07 - Iraq conflict pushes global refugee total near 10 million: UN
06-18-07 - Three soldiers killed as Lebanese army battles militants
06-18-07 - Olmert Seeking New Palestinian Policy With Bush In preparation for tomorrow's White House talks with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Olmert, 61, meets today with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to develop a joint strategy aimed at strengthening Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. They orchestrated this coup in Palestine to bring about and 'make peace' with the Palestinians in order to win a US strike on Iran before Bush/Cheney leave office. My guess.
06-18-07 - Iran calls on comprehensive solution Palestinian crisis
06-18-07 - Olmert, Giuliani meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Rudy Giuliani, a Republican candidate for the presidency.
06-18-07 - Lebanese forces battle militants The Lebanese army has resumed shelling a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a day after it said important militant positions had been destroyed.
06-18-07 - Lebanese army says it prevented additional attack on Israel According to Lebanese army, its forces discovered rocket set to be launched at Israel and prevented it from being fired. Meanwhile, IDF, defense officials contemplate response to strike
06-17-07 - Gulf Arabs won't be base for attack on Iran: Saudi **
06-17-07 - Backlash feared to US funding in Iran The survival of Iran?s fragile pro-democracy movement is being threatened by the US administration?s continuing attempts to fund the country?s civil society, leading activists have warned.
06-17-07 - Lieberman defends comments on Iran **
06-17-07 - Britain feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan: ex-diplomat Britain joined the United States' invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke" Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.
06-17-07 - Some doubt U.S. claims Iran arming Taliban "True, some intelligence states that (the) Iranians may have supplied (the) Taliban with low-level, (and a) small amount of training. On the other hand, the Taliban openly train, recruit, rest, and raise funds in Pakistan ... and the media seems to be essentially oblivious to that."
06-17-07 - Kirk: Force World Bank to cut off Iran "I will offer legislation requiring the Secretary of Treasury to reduce the U.S. contribution to the bank in any year by the same amount as the Bank's disbursements to Iran in the previous year," Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said in a June 14 speech to the American Enterprise Institute. Kirk - neocon stoolie.
06-17-07 - What do liberal hawks actually want to do regarding Iran? Baer did not take the opportunity to argue against my position. "Israel is again staring down a possible existential threat," he wrote, "and the United States is once more facing a serious challenge to its interests in the region." So the threat is to Israel, as well as to unspecified American interests in the region that face a "serious challenge."
06-17-07 - Study looks at diplomats' well-being A large percentage of U.S. diplomats who have returned from hazardous overseas postings report experiencing serious mental and emotional problems, according to preliminary results of a survey by the State Department.
06-17-07 - Russia suspects Britain of espionage The Russian intelligence service announced on Friday that it had opened a criminal investigation into British espionage in Russia based on statements and undisclosed evidence provided by a businessman who is accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB officer and Kremlin critic.
06-17-07 - CAIR reports bias rise
06-17-07 - Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel The Lebanese group Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the attack. No-one has yet claimed responsibility for it.
06-17-07 - The US role in Mideast travails For a growing number of analysts, if the past year has brought any clarity, it is that US policy has largely backfired and added to the region's downward spiral of violence and economic troubles. Divide and conquer.
06-17-07 - Nancy Pelosi or Why War With Iran May Be Inevitable ** Hagee is probably the least known yet most dangerous man in America. He wields enormous political clout, using his powerful connections to encourage nuclear conflict with Iran, all for the ultimate goal of hastening End Times
06-17-07 - Bush stresses Iran to Jewish leaders ** Bush emphasized the importance of containing Iran's nuclear ambitions through sanctions, participants said. Bush is to meet with Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, and Iran will top their agenda. Israel wants to set an end of year deadline for Iran to retreat from its enrichment of uranium. The White House meeting followed discussions with congressional leaders. Conference representatives met with House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the House Republican leadership.
06-17-07 - Israel shells south Lebanon after rocket attack Israeli troops fired five shells at south Lebanon where the army was searching for the guerrillas who fired rockets earlier Sunday on northern Israel, security forces said
06-17-07 - Israel says Palestinian group fired rockets from Lebanon A Palestinian organisation in Lebanon fired the rockets which slammed into northern Israel on Sunday without causing casualties, Israeli radios quoted defence officials as saying.
06-17-07 - Palestinians long for battered camp "Over there we were living with our dignity intact. But is this a life?"
06-17-07 - MySpace Censoring Ron Paul Supporters *WATCH IN FULL SCREEN*
06-17-07 - Attack was 'intentional' A recent letter defending Israel's deliberate and unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty is full of distortions of recorded events and misrepresentation of facts
06-17-07 - 1967 Attack Still Haunts USS Liberty Survivors NPR gives the Israeli side of the story a little too much airtime.
06-17-07 - Ron Paul On Tucker Carlson (06/06/07)
06-17-07 - Bush Met With Jewish Leaders: Session Was Unannounced The conversation touched largely on foreign policy issues, including the situation with Iran and Syria, the fight against Islamic extremists and -- especially -- the situation in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas's seizure of power this past week has further complicated Bush's faltering efforts to help settle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
06-17-07 - AIPAC Buys Fred Thompson
06-16-07 - Mail sent to Walter Reed never delivered The Army said Friday that it has opened an investigation into the recent discovery of 4,500 letters and parcels - some dating to May 2006 - at Walter Reed that were never delivered to soldiers
06-16-07 - Afghan minister dismisses U.S. claims Afghanistan's defense minister on Thursday dismissed claims by a top U.S. State Department official that there was "irrefutable evidence" that the Iranian government was providing arms to Taliban rebels. Won't be long before the attack-Iran crowd will be floundering in a pool of their own (bull) feces - they can't seem to get it to stick each time they hurl some.
06-16-07 - Capitol Hill probes White House role in firings
06-16-07 - NATO image problem: civilian deaths
06-16-07 - Private US security companies involved in Iraqi hostilities
06-16-07 - U.S. hometowns strained as police go off to war Communities across America have been especially hard-hit by the deployment of some 24,000 police officers since September 11, 2001. Police officers make up 5.1 percent of the National Guard and military reserve -- one of the top civilian occupations, according to Defense Department data.
06-16-07 - More on That Meeting in Prague? Last week?s speech in Prague?and the participants before whom it was given?is yet one more indication that, while the realists in the administration have made great headway on a number of foreign-policy fronts over the past year and a half, the neo-conservatives and other hawks in the White House and Cheney?s office are a long way from defeated when it comes to the Middle East.
06-16-07 - Scooter's Fate: I Say Torture Him
06-16-07 - Lying Us Into War, Again ** The drumbeat for war against Iran has begun again, led by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, and the usual pro-Israel crowd. Lieberman seems to be under the impression that the U.S. can bomb Iran and not get into a full-fledged war.
06-16-07 - Bill Moyers: Begging his pardon We have yet another remarkable revelation of the mindset of Washington's ruling clique of neoconservative elites-the people who took us to war from the safety of their Beltway bunkers
06-16-07 - Iran voices its readiness to help resolve Palestinian differences
06-16-07 - 'Hizbullah not rearming in S. Lebanon' Dismissing claims that Hizbullah has returned to its former strength in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL commander Maj.-Gen. Claudio Graziano told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the guerrilla group was practically non-existent south of the Litani River and that if the peacekeeping mission continued, the threat of war would be completely removed within three years.
06-16-07 - US, Israel reach smart bomb deal Barring the implementation of these restrictions, Israeli officials have expressed interest in acquiring the F-22 stealth bomber - a plane that can avoid radar detection and is the world's most advanced fighter jet. The US has not yet agreed to sell this plane to any foreign country. Looks like they may have done just that.
06-16-07 - Syria condemns killing of Lebanese lawmaker "Syria strongly denounces this crime and condemns the campaign of lies by some Lebanese used to accuse Syria after any killing and before an investigation even starts," a statement by the Foreign Ministry said.
06-16-07 - 40 years Later, Veterans of the USS Liberty Refuse to Give Up the Ship
06-16-07 - Lebanese army pounds Islamist positions as toll rises
06-16-07 - Ron Paul Internet Success May Reflect Deeper Trend, Study Results Suggest
06-15-07 - US administration debates new Iran strategy ** Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said the debate has pitted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her deputies against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in the office of Vice President Richard Cheney. Cheney's aides are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, the report said.....Only a few weeks ago, one of CheneyÂ?s top aides, David Wurmser, told conservative research groups and consulting firms in Washington that Cheney believed that RiceÂ?s diplomatic strategy was failing, and that by next spring Bush might have to decide whether to take military action, according to The Times.
Wurmser - another neocon.
06-15-07 - Pace says he refused to quit voluntarily In his first public comments on the Bush administration's surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace disclosed that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out.
06-15-07 - Joints Chief Choice Worried About Iran ** The Navy must stay in the Persian Gulf to reassure allies and maintain its ability to act quickly in a crisis, he said.
06-15-07 - NGOs unveils scathing report on impact of US-led war in Iraq A coalition of non-governmental groups on Wednesday took the UN Security Council to task for its "shocking silence" on alleged violations of international law by US-led forces in Iraq and urged an early end to their mandate.
06-15-07 - US military prepared for 'worst' with China: official
06-15-07 - America's undisclosed vice president Dick Cheney has been keeping secrets. Among other things, he can now hide the names of his visitors.
06-15-07 - How to Sell a War The Bush claque of neocon hawks viewed the Iraq war as a product and, just like a new pair of Nikes, it required a roll-out campaign to soften up the consumers. Same people behind same BS - this time, Iran.
06-15-07 - Far From War, a Town With a Well-Used Welcome Mat About 9,000 Iraqis made it to Sweden in 2006 ? almost half of the 22,000 who sought asylum in the entire industrialized world. This year, when the United States has promised to take in 7,000 Iraqis, around 20,000 are expected to seek asylum in Sweden.
06-15-07 - On the escalator to war with Iran by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What is going on? The most logical explanation is that the White House is providing advance justification for air strikes on camps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that are allegedly providing training for and transferring weapons to Afghan and Iraqi insurgents. And if the United States conducts those strikes, Iranians will unite around Ahmadinejad, and Tehran will order retaliatory strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq and perhaps across the Middle East. President Bush will then have his casus belli to take out Natanz and all the other Iranian nuclear facilities, as the Israelis and the neocons have been demanding that he do.
06-15-07 - Why we must break with the American crazies ** While Mr Brown and the British media are still fretting about who said what to whom about WMD intelligence, the talk in American policy circles is about an article, The Case for Bombing Iran, published two weeks ago in Commentary and The Wall Street Journal and cited approvingly to anyone who cares to listen by officials close to Dick Cheney. Its author, Norman Podhoretz, is an intellectual mentor to the people who took America into Iraq......It is significant that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, travelled to Washington at about the same time as the article was published to plead with congressmen ?not to tie President Bush?s hands over Iran?. Why do you think Israel just launched that spy satellite (when we already have some that provide adequate intel, I'm guessing)? Paragraphs 2 and 4.
06-15-07 - Israel satellite sends images from space Israel launched the Ofek-7 satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the information gathered would be shared with the United States. Israel's images will no doubt contribute to the case for war (to be fought by the US - AGAIN).
06-15-07 - Supply fears push up oil prices Instability in Gaza has raised concerns over wider conflict in the Middle East, which supplies a quarter of world oil. The Israel-driven policies in the Middle East are really costing the American people - in more ways than one.
06-15-07 - Israeli, American air forces in joint exercises ** The weeklong exercises began Sunday in the southern Negev desert. Dozens of aircraft simulated bombing targets on the ground and dog fights.
06-15-07 - Israeli company wins Marine contract An Israeli armor protection manufacturing company won an international bid to supply the U.S. Marine Corps.
06-15-07 - GOP maverick pitches candidacy In a meeting with the editorial board of The Kansas City Star, Paul advocated many of the positions that have made him a heretic within the Republican Party. He blasted the war in Iraq, chided the government for its saber-rattling against Iran and criticized entitlement programs that both parties have supported. Paul scolded the government for interfering in Palestinian affairs and in relations between Israel and Syria
That's my guy, right there :)
06-15-07 - Booby trap kills 6 soldiers at Lebanon camp Six Lebanese soldiers were killed on Friday by an explosion in a building booby trapped by Islamist militants at a Palestinian camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
06-15-07 - Thirty-One Groups Call for Israel to Release Cluster Bomb Data A coalition of 31 groups including the Council for the National Interest presented a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice this week calling for U.S. government intercession with Israel to obtain detailed site information on Israel's cluster bomb strikes in Lebanon in the summer 2006 war.
06-15-07 - Presidents conference meets with Bush Representatives from virtually all the umbrella group?s 50 member organizations met with Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and other top officials Thursday. The hour-long meeting included discussion of immigration, energy policy, the Iranian threat and deterioration in the Palestinian territories, according to participants.
06-14-07 - School honors graduate killed at sea Smith and 33 other U.S. seamen were killed when Israeli forces attacked the Liberty in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with torpedoes and rocket fire during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab nations. Israel claimed the attack was a mistake ? Israeli forces mistook the U.S. vessel for an Arab ship. The U.S. Navy has not made official comments on the incident, and no investigation was ever mandated by Congress.
06-14-07 - Flag symbolizes freedom That large rip on my right side is also bothering. That's where one of the rockets from Israeli jets ripped through me as I flew from the stern of the USS Liberty on a clear and sunny day. The attack was called a mistake; yet it is no mistake to say that planes coming to our aid from a nearby carrier were twice recalled. I, and those brave sailors, still await a congressional investigation.
06-14-07 - Homeless Vets Struggle Long After War's End
06-14-07 - UN nuclear chief says Iran should stop expanding enrichment UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Thursday on Iran to declare a moratorium on expanding uranium enrichment in order to defuse the crisis over fears Tehran seeks atomic weapons.
06-14-07 - FBI audit finds widespread abuse in data collection
06-14-07 - US Treasury chief urges allies to help cut off Iran's banks The US war on terror is increasingly focusing on Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a source of "funding and training (for) other terrorist groups," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday.
06-14-07 - Lieberman asked to resign from his own party ** The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to resign from the U.S. Senate following his remarks made Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding military action against Iran.
06-14-07 - Libby judge harassed after sentencing A federal judge showed no sign that he would delay I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison term in the CIA leak case Thursday - even as he reported getting threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing the former White House aide.
06-14-07 - Libby must begin perjury prison sentence: judge
06-14-07 - Olmert has little progress to show ahead of his meeting with Bush The Bush administration has made it clear to Israeli officials that it needs progress on the Palestinian front if it is to progress in its efforts to isolate Iran. Bingo. Whole thing is a charade to get Europe/Arabs on board for Iran.
06-14-07 - Gunfire resumes after quiet night at Lebanon siege camp
06-14-07 - Anti-Syrians bury slain Lebanese MP, blame Damascus Divide and conquer all.
06-14-07 - IPA Leadership Mission to Washington Among Republican leaders, Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) praised the OU for its work in Washington as a moral compass to policymakers; Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) urged the OU to continue to work in partnership with her in support of the recognition of Jerusalem's unification, confronting Iran and denying a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority any U.S. support; Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) spoke of his deep commitment to Israel Read entire thing.
06-14-07 - Laboratory for a Fortressed World Israel now sends $1.2 billion in "defense" products to the United States--up dramatically from $270 million in 1999. In 2006 Israel exported $3.4 billion in defense products--well over a billion more than it received in US military aid. That makes Israel the fourth-largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain. Much of this growth has been in the so-called "homeland security" sector. Before 9/11 homeland security barely existed as an industry. By the end of this year, Israeli exports in the sector will reach $1.2 billion--an increase of 20 percent Cui bono - who benefits?
06-14-07 - It's All About Israel ** The United States should apply the same standards to Israel as it does to Iran. If the Iranians must disarm, then so must the Israelis. If nukes in the hands of the mullahs are threatening, then they are no less so when wielded by ultra-nationalistic Zionists of the Likudnik persuasion.
06-13-07 - Iran to decide fate of 4 Americans soon
06-13-07 - US warns oil firms against trading with Iran
06-13-07 - Clark slams Lieberman on Iran ** Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for threatening military force against Iran
06-13-07 - US concern at 'Iran Afghan arms' US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said "substantial" quantities of Iranian weapons are finding their way into Afghanistan. All of this comes AFTER Cheney has taken particular interest in finding proof of that very thing.
06-13-07 - Accusations Pave Way for Assault on Iran by Philip Giraldi ** Sam Brownback specifically insisted that "we have to stand with our allies like Israel," revealing that he considers Israel's security paramount..... Cheney is reportedly very interested in obtaining definitive evidence confirming that Iran is arming the Taliban against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and it appears that he has been sending his staffers to get the goods by attending the weekly Afghanistan Interagency Operating Group
06-13-07 - Bush links Syria to Lebanese MP's assassination "There has been a clear pattern of assassinations and attempted assassinations in Lebanon since October 2004," Mr Bush said in a statement. Making the case for war against (Iran and) Syria?
06-13-07 - Israel threatening to attack us, says Iran ambassador to UN ** The protest came in response to statements made by Mofaz during a visit to Washington last week, heading an Israeli delegation that held strategic discussions with the US dealing mostly with the Iranian nuclear threat.
06-13-07 - FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control' A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.
06-13-07 - Brown pledge on intelligence use Gordon Brown has said lessons must be learned on use of intelligence in the run-up to war, but ruled out holding an inquiry while troops remain in Iraq.
06-13-07 - Former Jewish liaison announces run Footlik lived for a time in Israel, working for peace groups. He moved to northern Virginia upon his return to the United States in 2004, and now works as a consultant representing Israeli high-tech companies in the security sector.
06-13-07 - Car bomb kills anti-Syrian MP, 9 others in Beirut A powerful car bomb killed anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker Walid Eido and nine other people on Wednesday in an attack his allies blamed on Damascus.
06-13-07 - Outing Israeli Crimes: June 1967 Arthur Forrest's book and Bamford's meticulous documentation are consistent with other witnesses to Israel's use of napalm against civilians in 1967
06-13-07 - Two more soldiers die in fighting at Lebanon camp
06-13-07 - ?President? Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale This is the joker who bought the Ahmad Chalabi line that invading Iraq would result in a pro-West and pro-Israel democracy with Chalabi (who later failed to get 1 percent of the vote) playing Iraq?s George Washington
06-13-07 - Cold calculation teaches lessons Not the first letter by the evident Israel-apologist, but the second one down.
06-13-07 - FBI in public appeal to Muslims, Arab-Americans
06-12-07 - Telegrams cast doubt on Liberty report In each of 25 telegrams seen by Navy Times, the Navy was calling the attack an accident well before its court of inquiry ever convened. The telegrams are dated as early as June 9 some four days before the official board heard from a single Liberty witness and June 13, two days before the board finished its report.
06-12-07 - PDF file from the VFW : In Awesome Heroism In Defense of the USS Liberty Suffice it to say
that crewmen have no doubt the attack
was deliberate. Unfortunately, the heroism
of the crew is far too often lost
amidst this controversy. Israel intended to sink that ship. It was due to the sheer heroic efforts of those on board that that ship stayed afloat. The survivors and the families of the victims that did not make it have been denied justice for 40 years now. Why not print out this piece by the VFW and show it to your friends and family (who likely have never heard of this ship and its fate)? It's time that all of America knows of this tragedy and properly honors all those aboard that fateful day.
06-12-07 - Talk of attacking Iran escalates tensions ** Statements by US and Israeli officials in recent days on the possibility of attacking Iran have been met with increased posturing on both sides, warnings of retaliation from Tehran, and worries by the head of the international nuclear watchdog of a "brewing confrontation." Israel and its minions in the US - the neocons - are behind it.
06-12-07 - Iran warns US on detainees but ready for Iraq talks Iran on Tuesday warned that the United States would be made to "regret" its detention of five Iranian officials in Iraq but said it was still ready to consider continuing talks with its arch foe.
06-12-07 - Iran cranking up uranium enrichment capability: diplomats "The concern is that they will have a sensitive number of centrifuges without having resolved the question marks surrounding the history of Iran's programme," a diplomat close to the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The operative words being "a diplomat close to the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.".
06-12-07 - US diplomat says Iran arms Taliban Making the case for war.
06-12-07 - Cheney?s Iran-Arms-to-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed ** Steve Clemons reported on his blog The Washington Note May 24 that an aide to Cheney has told gatherings at right-wing think tanks that Cheney is afraid Bush will not make the ?right decision? on Iran and believes he must constrain the president?s choices.
06-12-07 - Brown's bane will be getting dragged into an American attack on Iran ** The military clues are harder to detect. Veteran analyst Dan Plesch of the School of Oriental and African Studies wonders why the US is strengthening airbases in Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Iraq, forming a ring around Iran: "You don't need air power to fight the insurgency, do you?" It has to be preparation for an attack on you-know-who
06-12-07 - US warns firms trading with Iran The US is threatening to get much tougher with international energy companies that do business with Iran.
06-12-07 - Fitzgerald wants Libby jailed now, while Secretary Rice hints at pardon
06-12-07 - FBI Data Mining Program Raises Eyebrows in Congress
06-12-07 - Libby?s Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web they added there was ?the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed, even mocked, by bloggers.? LOL. It's a blog eat blog world. Get used to it.
06-12-07 - The Neocon Threat to World Peace and American Freedom ** The neoconservatives have put the elements of their plan in place. They have powerful naval forces on station off Iran's coast. They have convinced President Bush that only by attacking Iran can he prevail in Iraq.
06-12-07 - Olmert will urge Bush to prevent smuggling of weapons to Hizbullah Israel will demand that Bush work toward the deployment of an international peace-keeping force along the Lebanon-Syria border to prevent the smuggling......Lacking the power to amend the decision, Israel will ask the United States to use its influence on Siniora to have him deploy peace-keeping forces along the border as one of the conditions of renewing the UNIFIL forces mandate in August Israel makes their problem our problem - ALL OF THEM.
06-12-07 - UN warning on Lebanon arms flows The UN Security Council has expressed "deep concern" at new evidence that illegal arms are being smuggled into Lebanon from neighbouring Syria. Well whaddya know. I wonder who was just recently prodding the US to do something about these 'arms'.
06-12-07 - From milk to meat, US food prices spike upward First gas, now food. How much more can the hardworking American people take?
06-12-07 - Syria ready to renew peace talks with Israel without "conditions"
06-12-07 - Syria denies UN claims of arms flow into Lebanon the Syrian foreign ministry spokesman, whose name was not given, said "Roed Larsen is making as his own information that Israel is spreading about arms trafficking", adding that "his claims made to the UN Security council (on Monday) are aimed at damaging Syrian-Lebanese relations."
06-12-07 - Lebanese commandos blow up Islamist chief's house Lebanese commandos have blown up the home of the Islamist militia chief in a besieged refugee camp where fighting flared again on Tuesday in the fourth week of a deadly standoff.
06-12-07 - US damaging Israel's qualitative edge, warn officials In the unstable political atmosphere that characterizes much of the Arab Middle East, successive American administrations have vowed to help maintain Israel's qualitative military edge over its enemies. The current backtracking on that promise has elicited threats from Jerusalem to call into action the pro-Israel lobby on Capitol Hill in order to scuttle the Saudi arms deal.
Now, note the source. Israel is threatening to call it's pro-Israel lobby in America to change the behavior of our government. For others to suggest that there is a lobby, and that indeed it has the power to do so, is deemed the furtherance of an 'anti-Semitic canard'. Time and again, Israel and its US lobby openly discuss this overwhelming influence on our government.
06-11-07 - General: Iran aids Karzai, maybe Taliban There also has been speculation Taliban fighters are adopting tactics used by insurgents in Iraq, and McNeill said he wouldn't rule out that they are coordinating their efforts. But he stressed he didn't have any information to state conclusively that is happening.
06-11-07 - Kuwait says US cannot use bases for any Iran strike **
06-11-07 - UN nuclear chief says Iran crisis 'must be defused'
06-11-07 - U.S. may soon free 5 Iranians
06-11-07 - Indonesia blocks UN statement on Iran A Foreign Affairs Ministry official said the Security Council was silent on what it called Israel's almost daily attacks on unarmed Palestinians, reported English daily The Jakarta Post.
06-11-07 - The High Cost of Subservience to Israel For the first time in history, forces of the U.S. Navy were denied the right to defend a Navy ship under attack. Johnson said, "I don't care if the ship sinks, I am not going to embarrass an ally." Those were his exact words, heard by Navy personnel listening to radio relays. The ally Johnson refused to embarrass was Israel. To him, saving Israel from embarrassment was more important than saving the lives of the Liberty crew.
06-11-07 - AIPAC 'Spy' Trial Delayed Again "Anyone who cares about national security should be concerned about this," said Justin Raimondo, investigative journalist and co-founder of the libertarian Antiwar.com, who sees Rosen, Weissman and Franklin, the last now doing a 12-year sentence for disseminating classified information ? as part of a broader effort on behalf of pro-Israel forces in Washington to push the U.S. toward a confrontation with Iran. According to reports, the national defense information pilfered by Franklin and shared by Rosen and Weissman mostly concerned U.S. policy with Iran.
06-11-07 - Israel launches advanced spy satellite ** Israel successfully launched an advanced spy satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a sophisticated new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on archenemy Iran and other regional adversaries. Israeli space officials said the Ofek-7 satellite can pick up even small objects from space, and that information will be shared with the United States............Though the U.S. has its own spy satellites, Ben-Israel said it was in the interest of both Israel and the U.S. to exchange intelligence. "There is no country in the world, not us and not the Americans, that is able to obtain everything alone," he told Army Radio......"If you have something that they don't have and if they have something that you don't have, you make an exchange."
with the emphasis on : "that information will be shared with the United States.". To build the case for war, no doubt. Something tells me that our intel will be fed (more) BS as a result of this satellite.
06-11-07 - Lebanon camp battles kill relief workers, soldiers Four Lebanese soldiers and two relief workers were killed in fierce fighting on Monday between the Lebanese army and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp
06-11-07 - UN chief vows to help Lebanon set up Hariri court UN chief Ban Ki-moon will help Lebanon set up "in a timely manner" the international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, his press office said Monday.
06-11-07 - Arab American Leaders Meet With Secretary of State Rice, Call for Easing of Plight of Palestinian, Iraqi Refugees
06-11-07 - Liberty incident recalled
06-11-07 - Lial: Bush to blame if there's war with Syria US President George W. Bush is to blame if Israel goes to war with Syria, former Foreign Ministry director-general Dr. Alon Lial charged on Sunday.
06-10-07 - Iran 'to retaliate if attacked from US bases in Gulf' ** "We rule out the possibility that our neighbours... will allow the United States to use their territory in attacking Iran," Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel told reporters during an official visit to Kuwait. "But if this actually happens, we will be forced to defend ourselves... We will target those bases or points" used to attack Iran, he said.
06-10-07 - Show Russia more respect There is no Iranian missile or nuclear threat to Europe. There is no possibility of such a threat for a decade. The problems of missile development, nuclear warhead development, miniaturization of warheads, engineering those warheads to "fit" a given missile, testing, and industrialization of this whole process all ensure that any Iranian nuclear missile threat to Europe will be nothing more than material for plots for cheap novels for a long time.
06-10-07 - Iran Says It Is Holding 4th Dual Citizen
06-10-07 - POLITICS: For U.S. Base, Bush Finds Czech Enthusiasm, Polish Reserve U.S. President George W. Bush this week discussed a U.S. missile base in Eastern Europe with Polish and Czech officials, but the results were merely words, and the two European countries showed some naivety as international players.
06-10-07 - Lieberman: U.S. should weigh Iran attack ** Only if the US can send Lieberman, his kids and all the rest of these bellicose neocons straight to the front lines. Bet they'd change their tune right quick.
06-10-07 - Colin Powell says Guantanamo should be closed Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terrorism suspects should be immediately closed and its inmates moved to the United States.
06-10-07 - Israel, offering Golan, awaits Syria proposals Israel has told Syria it is willing to trade land for peace and is waiting to hear whether President Bashar al-Assad would cut ties with Iran and hostile guerrilla groups in return, Israeli officials said on Friday. Extortion. That land belongs to Syria in the first place.
06-10-07 - A Neo-Conservative International Targets Iran the conference constituted a kind of "Neo-Conservative International" designed to rally support for "dissidents," primarily from the Islamic world, and give them hope that "regime change" in their countries is possible much as it was in the former Soviet bloc almost 20 years ago.
06-10-07 - Security Council Refuses to Condemn Iran
06-10-07 - Time to Ignore the Middle East? it is more likely that Washington will eventually pull back from its dominant role in the Middle East not through a responsible rethinking of U.S. engagement, but through a series of mounting costs and disasters that eventually lead to a "destructive disengagement" from the region that will look like ? and to a great extent will be ? a U.S. defeat and retreat. This is exactly what seems to be happening now.
06-10-07 - Another 'Brainwashed' Romney?
06-10-07 - 'Military plan against Iran is ready' ** A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior officers in the US armed forces had thrown their support behind Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop Iran. Predictions within the US military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities. .......According to a high-ranking American military officer, the US Navy and Air Force would play the primary roles in any military action taken against Iran. Of course. You don't really think Israel is going to do it, do you (even though they are behind this push to war too)? Folks, we'll be going to war with Iran before Bush goes out of office.
06-10-07 - Israel, U.S. in air drill ** The joint drill, which began Sunday in Israel and was expected to last a week, drew attention in the Arab world given the expectation that Israel or the United States could bomb Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
06-10-07 - Israelis oppose full Golan withdrawal Most Israelis would oppose handing over the Golan Heights in a peace deal with Syria, a survey found.
06-10-07 - Report: Hezbollah digs in anew Citing Israeli intelligence sources, the Sunday Times reported Sunday that Hezbollah, whose front-line outposts were destroyed during the war with Israel last year, has returned and dug bunkers "under the noses" of a boosted U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
06-10-07 - Gunfights in Lebanon siege camp after 15 killed
06-10-07 - Sheriff returns from training in Israel And what exactly are our law enforcement going to learn from Israel? How to shoot rockthrowing kids? How to level civilian housing sometimes with people inside, and for not having an ISRAELI permit to build on PALESTINIAN land? The last thing we need are lessons from Israel on how to provide security for this country.
06-10-07 - Hajbeh celebrates freedom after 4 years of immigration detention
06-10-07 - Lebanese man killed by leftover cluster bomb in southern village
06-10-07 - High cost of militancy for Lebanon?s poor
06-09-07 - Was it fog of war, or an act of war, in '67 attack? Crew members said they later counted 821 large holes in the Liberty. "Their whole intent was to sink that ship because we were a perceived threat to their war plans," Gallo said.
06-09-07 - 40 Years Later...Still No Justice For The USS Liberty Member of that independent committee and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer made the following statement: "Congress has never investigate the recall by the White House of U.S. Navy aircraft sent to rescue the Liberty while the ship was still under attack. The White House cancellation of the Navy's attempt to rescue the Liberty is the most disgraceful thing I have witnessed in my entire military career."
06-09-07 - Influential ex-Iran president shrugs off G8 threat Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday shrugged off the Group of Eight powers threat to take new measures against Tehran if it continues to ignore UN demands to halt uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.
06-09-07 - US missile shield threatens resolution of Iran stand-off: Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that US missile defence shield could worsen the Iranian nuclear stand-off and urged Washington to freeze work on the plans with the Czech Republic and Poland.
06-09-07 - No proof yet Iran?s nuclear program has military dimension-Lavrov Nobody has been able to prove to this day Iran?s nuclear program has a military dimension, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
06-09-07 - Was General Pace Fired Because He Balked at Iran ** I?ve been writing for over a year now that the Joint Chiefs have been blocking the White House?s efforts to expand the war to Iran. No matter what you might think of Gen. Pete Pace, this really is TERRIFYING news, unless you crave a wider war in the Persian Gulf and South Asia.
06-09-07 - Military option on table concerning Iran ** Military action is one of the options in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, Israel's deputy prime minister said Saturday, after discussing the issue with senior U.S. officials.
06-09-07 - Former GOP official admits Abramoff link
06-09-07 - Judge smacks ?luminaries? defending Libby. A dozen mostly libertarian and conservative legal scholars, including rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, submitted an amicus brief to Scooter Libby trial Judge Reggie Walton ?arguing that that there are serious constitutional questions about the legal authority? of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
06-09-07 - Four decades later, an Israeli attack on a U.S. ship in the heat of battle won't go away Bias toward Israel is made quite evident in this piece by the Associated Press.
06-09-07 - Report: Syria doubts Israel wants peace
06-09-07 - Israel will pay the price for war in Iraq, former CIA official says ** ?It will be much more difficult to convince the American people of the wisdom of another military adventure in the Middle East after Iraq. Yes, a lot of American politicians are now saying ?we will not let Iran have nuclear weapons?, but it is very hard for me to believe that this Congress would authorize a military operation against Iran in the near future barring a clear provocation by the Iranians.? It's not hard for me to believe, given the power Israel and its lobby have over our Congress.
06-09-07 - Pope tells Bush he backs regional Mideast solution Pope Benedict told U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday the Vatican would like a "regional and negotiated" solution conflicts in the Middle East, including the war in Iraq.
06-09-07 - Prosecutors: Salah is a terrorist Following a six-month trial in Chicago, Salah was cleared Feb. 1 of federal racketeering charges alleging that he served as a high-ranking operative of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. He was convicted of a lesser charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying about his Hamas ties in a 2000 lawsuit. He's scheduled to be sentenced on that count next week.
Let's see how much time he gets in relation to what Libby got for the same crime.
06-09-07 - Five Lebanese soldiers killed in refugee camps Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in the latest bout of heavy fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said
06-09-07 - Red Crescent team to tour Palestinian refugees camps A Red Crescent Authority (RCA) delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will fly Sunday to Jordan as part of a whirlwind tour which also takes them to Syria and Lebanon to inspect humanitarian conditions at Palestinian refugees camps there.
06-09-07 - Israeli-Syrian ?war? may be cover for peace
06-08-07 - Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited As the Liberty listed in the choppy seas, its deck aflame, crew members dropped life rafts into the water and prepared to scuttle the ship. Given the number of wounded, this was going to be a dangerous operation. But it soon proved impossible, as the Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire. No body was going to get out alive that way.
06-08-07 - Former midshipmen honored in 1967 Israeli attack on spy ship Two years ago , the veterans association filed a war crimes report with the secretary of the Army against Israel for shooting the ship's life boats. The U.S. military declined to investigate further.
06-08-07 - Remembering the USS Liberty: Four Decades Later One Liberty veteran, who asked me not to use his name in my story, told me he was below deck on the day of the mass killings by the Israelis. He said: ?When it was announced [on the intercom] to ?stand ready to receive a torpedo,? I chalked myself off. My whole life quickly passed before me. I thought for sure I was going to die. When the torpedo did hit, I thought it was going to sink the ship, it listed so badly.? He added, after pausing, ?I loved that ship!?
06-08-07 - Scars feel fresh, after 40 years As Weaver was treated below deck, a ferocious battle ensued for more than two hours. Israeli jets made more than eight strafing runs at the ship, shooting guns and dropping napalm on the Liberty. Israeli torpedo boats headed toward the ship and launched an attack, hitting the Liberty with a torpedo on its port side. The Israeli boats also strafed lifeboats deployed in the water with machine gun fire. The assault remains the only successful torpedo attack on an American ship since World War II.
06-08-07 - Honoring those of 'Liberty' "The attack was deliberate, and we could prove it if we ever had our chance," Gallo said. And that's precisely why Israel and its lobby in America will see to it that they won't get one.
06-08-07 - Liberty survivors mark 40 years today Ironically, Liberty became the most decorated ship and crew in Navy history. Its skipper, Cmdr. William McGonagle, received the Medal of Honor even though his citation lengthily describes his heroism and wounding without once mentioning that the attack was by Israelis.
06-08-07 - Why did Israel attack USS Liberty?
06-08-07 - Time for the truth about the Liberty By Ward Boston Jr. I am certain the Israeli pilots and commanders who had ordered the attack knew the ship was American. I saw the bullet-riddled American flag that had been raised by the crew after their first flag had been shot down completely. I heard testimony that made it clear the Israelis intended there be no survivors. Not only did they attack with napalm, gunfire and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned at close range three life rafts that had been launched in an attempt to save the most seriously wounded.
06-08-07 - US freezes assets of four Iranian companies linked to WMDs The United States froze the assets Friday of four Iranian companies, alleging they are involved in Iran's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
06-08-07 - Detainees admit guilt, says Iran
06-08-07 - For US military veterans, a free-speech dispute Although veterans have donned parts of their uniforms while protesting other wars, it is extremely rare, perhaps unprecedented, to be punished for doing so.
06-08-07 - New White House plan: Keep US troops in Iraq permanently.
06-08-07 - Marine says he erased photos of Haditha victims A staff sergeant testified Thursday that he was ordered to destroy grisly pictures of women and children killed by Marines so that the images would not be part of a statement being prepared for an investigative officer and a magazine reporter.
06-08-07 - Perry: U.S. eyed Iran attack after bombing
06-08-07 - GOP Lawmakers Demand Probe of ABC News Story
06-08-07 - Putin turns tables on Bush with new missile plan
06-08-07 - Navy works to keep lines open to Iran Even as Iran and the U.S. face off bitterly, Navy commanders in the Persian Gulf are working quietly to keep communications open with Iran's military, hoping the contact will avert an accidental stumble into armed confrontation.
06-08-07 - US accused over 'ghost detainees' Human rights groups have asked the US to reveal the whereabouts of 39 people who have allegedly been held in secret CIA-run prisons.
06-08-07 - U.S. starts wrapping up war games off Iran's coast The U.S. show of strength began last month with a dramatic daytime crossing of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a major channel for oil shipments from the Gulf, raising pressure on the Islamic Republic and pushing up world oil prices.
06-08-07 - Coverup theory alive at USS Liberty reunion The USA Today covers the story, but they might as well be the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
06-08-07 - Defense Secretary replaces Joint Chiefs Chairman Pace
06-08-07 - Countdown to War on Iran ** It's coming. It's been in the works now for 2 years. Be prepared to pay much more at the pump.
06-08-07 - If You Think Bush Is Evil Now, Wait Until He Nukes Iran ** Even the neoconservative warmongers, who deceived Americans with the promise of a "cakewalk war" that would be over in six weeks, believe that the war is lost. But they have not given up. They have a last desperate plan: Bomb Iran.
06-08-07 - Ron Paul Questions Debate Format (2) Congressman Ron Paul?s (R-Tex) s strong showing at the most recent GOP debate in New Hampshire led to another national media booking - with Tucker Carlson of MSNBC. The interview seems to have been spontaneously scheduled and may have come about because Ron Paul is again the clear winner in the MSNBC poll on the most recent presidential debate - just as he was after the first debate. The interview may be seen here
06-08-07 - Is Iran a Terror Threat in the U.S.? ** Building the case for war: Iran behind grassy knoll? Iran behind 911? The BS gets more and more thick by the day. The question that must be asked: why is this all coming out NOW - conveniently when the neocons and their minion in the WH, Dick Cheney, want to attack Iran? It is NOT a coincidence.
06-08-07 - Top Israeli negotiator: Give Iran until December to back down ** Mofaz and Meridor each stressed, however, that all options should remain available. Meridor was pleased that virtually every major presidential candidate, Republican and Democrat, agreed. "I hope they listen to the debates in America," Meridor said of Iran's rulers, "because they will hear a message."
06-08-07 - GOP Ron Paul - Five Million Dollar Man? observers close to the campaign are revealing ? with some astonishment ? that donations to the campaign in recent weeks have pushed the total up to perhaps $4 or $5 million.
06-08-07 - Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees
06-08-07 - Children Still Caught in Crossfire at Refugee Camp in Lebanon
06-08-07 - Olmert calls for peace with Syria as rumours grow of secret talks
06-08-07 - How would you grapple with Iran's nuclear drive? Our candidates must answer to Israel in order to succeed in any US presidential election. Fact.
06-08-07 - UN condemns Ahmadinejad comments UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he was "shocked and dismayed" at recent comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel.
06-08-07 - Bomb kills one in Lebanese town A bomb has hit a Christian industrial area to the north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing one person and injuring several others, police say.
06-08-07 - Heavy shelling of Lebanese camp Troops backed by helicopters have resumed heavy shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
06-08-07 - Many thanks Just a quick note to thank The Sun and Mr. Shapiro for taking note of the fact that prominent U.S. citizens use slanderous statements to attempt to silence any of their fellow citizens who dare question the worth to America of the current U.S.-Israel relationship Scheuer's response to that article in the NY Sun.
06-08-07 - Lebanese Islamists seek surrender of camp militants Lebanese Islamists sought the surrender of Al Qaeda-inspired militants locked in deadly battles with troops at a Palestinian refugee camp, but the group said it would not give itself up.
06-08-07 - Syrians 'hate' Israel, not Jews "Israel is one thing, and Jews are something else,? Mahmoud Sharif, an English-speaking tour guide, told JTA in Aleppo. "We respect the Jewish religion and consider it one of God's religions, but we don't accept Israel."
06-08-07 - Lebanon army pounds Islamists as PM fingers Syria Lebanese tanks and artillery again pounded Islamists holed up inside a refugee camp on Friday, as Prime Minister Fuad Siniora accused neighbouring Syria of links to the militants.
06-08-07 - Syria ceded part of Golan to Israel in peace talks: Netanyahu Wow.
06-08-07 - CNAC Distances Itself From Ex-CIA Official Over Israel Remark The taxpayer-funded Center for Naval Analyses is distancing itself from remarks made by a former CIA official, Michael Scheuer, in which Mr. Scheuer criticized "the U.S. citizen Israel-firsters who dominate the American governing elite." Scheuer is 100 % correct and should be commended for having the courage to speak the truth when so many others are cowed into silence.
06-08-07 - On spy hill, old enemies could be looking at a new peace
06-08-07 - Iran series depicts Holocaust truths "According to historical documents through the period of the birth of fascism in Europe and the Nazi policy of destroying lives of Jewish people, Iranian people have played an important role in saving the lives of hundreds of Jews from this Nazi hell," Fathi told Daily Variety.
06-08-07 - Israeli "sources" Express Concern Over Expected Bush Speech On Mideast Israeli sources in Washington and American Jewish leaders are concerned that President Bush may criticize Israel in the speech in order to placate the Arab world and prove that the US Administration maintains a balanced policy The horror.
06-06-07 - Men should be honored June 8 is the 40th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel during the Six-Day War. Here's the Google News search results for USS Liberty, on this, the eve of the 40-year anniversary of the attack. Nothing new in the mainstream media, save for an editorial - a testament to the power Israel and its lobby have over our country.
06-06-07 - Iran Adding Attack Boats in Persian Gulf, U.S. Says **
06-06-07 - Republican candidates warn Iran against nuclear ambitions
06-06-07 - Could an al-Qaeda Attack Trigger War With Iran? ** Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.
06-06-07 - Cheney blocked official's promotion Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department official involved in a bedside standoff over President Bush's eavesdropping program, a Senate committee learned Wednesday.
06-06-07 - Israel wants nuclear deadline for Iran Israel will propose to the United States an end-of-year deadline for Iran to show it is backing down from its nuclear ambitions.
06-06-07 - Senator charges improper political interference in Justice Department Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm."
06-06-07 - The Price of Delaying the Inevitable by Rep. Ron Paul
06-06-07 - Libby Lawyers Move to Delay Prison Term
06-06-07 - US may collapse as a superpower: analyst
06-06-07 - Israeli losing patience for Iran talks ** "I believe diplomatic efforts should bear results until the end of 2007," Mofaz added without elaboration.
06-06-07 - GOP hopefuls won't rule out nukes in Iran Later in the debate broadcast on CNN, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the single anti-war candidate, chided his colleagues.
06-06-07 - Appropriators nix new Al-Hurrah funding Congressional appropriators turned down a request for more funds for a government funded Arabic broadcaster, citing anti-Israel rhetoric among other reasons.
06-06-07 - Camp in Lebanon slowly crumbles around them
06-06-07 - US, Israel: Time not ripe for talks with Syria
06-06-07 - Fred Thompson coming to Israel Of the dozen or so candidates contesting the nomination, Thompson is among the most supportive of Israel. Stay there.
06-06-07 - In south Lebanon, resistance from cradle to grave
06-06-07 - Israel not seeking war with Syria
06-06-07 - Envoy: Iran nearing nuclear capability Iran has not yet crossed the threshold of being able to make nuclear weapons but may be only two years away, Israeli ambassador Sallai M. Meridor said Wednesday.
06-06-07 - Militants threaten to expand Lebanon camp war Al Qaeda-inspired militants in north Lebanon threatened on Wednesday to take their fight to other parts of the country and beyond if the Lebanese army did not stop attacking a Palestinian refugee camp.
06-06-07 - Small bomb defused in south Lebanon
06-06-07 - Republicans discuss tactical nukes against Iran ** Two minutes following Gilmore it was Senator McCain mentioning Israel by way of explaining why the US should not abandon Iraq. Five minutes later, it was Senator Brownback reminding the viewers that Israel was the country threatened by Iran...
06-05-07 - Judge orders jail time for Libby in CIA leak case US District Judge Reggie Walton sentenced Libby to 2-1/2 years in jail, plus a fine of $250,000.
06-05-07 - Karzai calls Iran a 'very close friend' President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan gave Iran his full embrace yesterday, saying it has been his country's "very close friend," even as US officials meeting with him here repeated their accusation that Iranian-made weapons were flowing to Taliban fighters Someone might want to give Cheney one of them there astronaut diapers before he hears this news.
06-05-07 - Murtha: Iraq War incites homegrown terror groups
06-05-07 - Legal Opinion: Pressure grows on America to end illegal detentions Days after US judges threw out charges against Guantanamo inmates, CIA agents are on trial for kidnapping. Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, reviews a bad week in 'the war on terror'
06-05-07 - Who Lost Russia? by Patrick J. Buchanan Harry Truman is often blamed for having started the Cold War. He didn't. Stalin did. But Clinton, George W., and the neocons have a strong claim to having started the second. A first order of business of the next president should be to repair the damage this crowd has done ? and to get out of Russia's face.
06-05-07 - Bush's detention facilities Houston-based KBR, formerly the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency. Halliburton, no sh@t? These detention facilities will be used in case of 'mass migration'? Ahahahaha. Doubtful. Read on: "Zuieback confirmed that the KBR contract for detention facilities could apply to national emergencies, including natural disasters......Last week, WND reported President Bush had signed May 9 a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive (NSPD-51 and NSPD-20) that granted extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight." Disturbing given the behavior of the current administration.
06-05-07 - Gordon Brown plans new anti-terror laws Last week Blair launched an attack on against opponents of the government's approach to anti-terrorism, saying that they imperiled Britain's safety by putting civil liberties ahead of Britain's security. Monkey see monkey do.
06-05-07 - Sharansky leads Jews pleading leniency for Libby -- without success Some of the notable names pleading for leniency included Henry Kissinger and Leonard Garment, the Nixon administration's secretary of state and special counsel, respectively; Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and John Bolton, all former senior officials of the Bush administration and architects of the Iraq war; James Woolsey, a fomer CIA chief; and Stuart Stevens, a Republican political strategist with close ties to the pro-Israel community.
06-05-07 - Dick Cheney's Dead Wrongs
06-05-07 - U.S. shows signs of emulating controversial Israeli anti-terrorism policy Not a coincidence either.'See, the US does it too. Now you can't complain when we do it.'
06-05-07 - Militants planned 9/11-style Lebanon attack
06-05-07 - Some Lebanon gunmen 'surrender' A commander of the Palestinian Fatah party in Lebanon says seven militants who were fighting the Lebanese army have now surrendered to his group.
06-05-07 - House eyes terror's ties to Latin America "Iran is a growing threat in its own neighborhood and in our neighborhood," Klein said. "Now they are trying to convince countries in Latin America to go along with [their nuclear] program."
......The resolution includes a quote from Venezuela's chief rabbi stating that the relationship between the Jewish community and the government is at its "worst in 40 years." The resolution, introduced May 23, by Monday had garnered another 32 co-sponsors.
06-05-07 - Israel to US: Limit Saudi missile deal Meanwhile, defense officials on Tuesday told the Post disagreements had emerged between Israel and the US over the installation of Israeli technology in the Joint Strike Fighter, also known as the F-35, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin.
06-05-07 - Syria denies connection with Fatah al-Islam fighting with Lebanese army "Fatah al-Islam militants are wanted in Syria and a number of this organization's members are detained in the Syrian prisons,"
06-05-07 - Israel security cabinet to discuss Syria
06-05-07 - Italy calls on Syria to stop 'terrorist' infiltrations
06-05-07 - Syria draws distinction between Hariri murder trial and probe
06-05-07 - Lebanese army shells camp for 5th day Fatah Islam has nothing to do with the Palestinians, Abbas said in a speech in the West Bank marking 40 years of Israeli occupation. He accused the militants of "abusing the camps" to carry out attacks on the Lebanese army and "endangering the lives of Palestinians."
06-05-07 - Refugee Resentment Simmers as Fighting Escalates
06-05-07 - Syrian lawmaker talks of war "The Syrian street wants to restore the Golan," Habash said. But he noted recent peace overtures by Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus and said that if there is a new conflict, it would be Israel's doing
06-04-07 - Iran ready to resist on nuclear standoff, Khamenei warns West Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Monday that Iran is prepared "to pay a price" and "resist" to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.
06-04-07 - U.S. says can't link Tehran to Afghan arms flow On his second visit to Afghanistan since taking over the Pentagon in December, Gates met Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who also said there was no evidence Iran supplied the Taliban.
06-04-07 - Neocon drum beat ** "The Case for Bombing Iran," was the headline over Podhoretz's long piece in the June issue of Commentary, the magazine he edited for 35 years (until 1995) and where he serves as editor at large. "I hope and pray that President Bush will do it," Podhoretz wrote. His son-in-law Elliott Abrams is deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush. His son John is editorial page editor of the New York Post. ......The neocon concludes by reminding Bush of his pledge not to leave office before making sure Iran does not become a nuclear weapons power. Saving Israel from nuclear destruction would then become the president's historical legacy -- writ large. "As an American and as a Jew," concludes Podhoretz, "I pray with all my heart that he will (bomb)."
06-04-07 - The nuclear stand-off in Europe between US and Russia
06-04-07 - CIA running black propaganda operation against Iran, Syria and Lebanon, officials say
06-04-07 - European Voters Say No Thanks to US Missile Plan
06-04-07 - 1967 Middle East War
06-04-07 - Palestinians want hardliners out of Lebanon camp
06-04-07 - Israeli officials to US for talks on Iran, Syria ** An Israeli delegation will hold discussions in Washington this week focusing on Iran and Syria, including talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an official said on Monday.
06-04-07 - '50% chance Iran sanctions will succeed' Mofaz's comments came a day before he was to leave for Washington to head up Israel's delegation at crucial US-Israeli strategic talks on Thursday that will center on the Iranian nuclear threat.
06-04-07 - Israel minister to discuss Syria peace ideas in U.S.
06-04-07 - 2 Lebanese soldiers killed in fighting
06-04-07 - Bush discusses Lebanon with Hariri
06-04-07 - Syria says return of Golan 'inalienable right'
06-04-07 - Fighting between Islamists and Lebanese spreads south Terrified residents from the Taamir area - a no man's land between Ain al-Hilweh and the southern city of Sidon where the camp is located - described how they were forced to flee the previous night as machine gun fire and mortar shells tore through the dusty main street leading into the camp.
06-04-07 - Bomb hits east Beirut business center, 10 injured A powerful bomb blast severely destroyed an empty passenger bus in a mainly Christian suburb in east Beirut on Monday evening, wounding 10 passers-by.
06-04-07 - OSCE advisers are mostly Jewish The delegation, which was named last Friday by the State Department, is headed by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
06-04-07 - Olmert hosts Lieberman The two also discussed U.S. policy toward Iraq and the West's capabilities for dealing with the Iranian threat.
06-04-07 - Palestinian youth in northern Lebanon head back to school two weeks into refugee camp crisis As fighting continues in Nahr El Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in north Lebanon, eight school buses are bringing some normalcy into the disrupted lives of youth affected by the conflict.
06-04-07 - U.S. considers additional aid to Lebanon
06-04-07 - Germany frees 500,000 euros for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
06-03-07 - 'USS Liberty' veterans demand investigation danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel's interests when they conflict with American interests; this policy, evidenced by the failure to defend USS Liberty and the subsequent official cover-up of the Israeli attack, endangers the safety of Americans and the security of the United States.
I want every blogger in the free world to post this story on their blog. Maybe if we can make enough noise we can force the bastards in the mainstream media to cover the 40 year anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. To date only 2 smaller sources have. It's a start.
06-03-07 - USS Liberty memorial this Friday @ 4 pm in Washington DC WHERE: United States Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. It is up to us ordinary American citizens to make sure that these men and the families of the victims get their day in court. It is the least we can do to help resolve a travesty of justice that has been going on for forty years.
06-03-07 - Questions remain over 1967 attack on U.S. intelligence ship 'Liberty' For 40 years, survivors and families of those lost aboard the USS Liberty have been waiting for their chance to sit at a congressional witness table.
06-03-07 - Iran invincible in nuclear stand-off: Ahmadinejad President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted Iran would not back down in the stand-off over its nuclear program, saying that the Islamic republic was "invincible" against Western powers.
06-03-07 - Iranian missile threat to Europe 'joke of the year' Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani says a claim by the United States that Iran poses a ballistic missile threat to Europe is laughable.
"It's the joke of the year," he said. "These days, the Americans tell a lot of jokes.
06-03-07 - Putin: Russian missiles will be aimed at US bases Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in an interview that US plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons at sites in Europe.
06-03-07 - Iran says detained US-Iranians have confessed
06-03-07 - Heckuva Job, Homeland Security by Philip Giraldi
06-03-07 - 4 charged in plot to blow up NYC airport Authorities said the men were motivated by hatred toward the United States and Israel.
06-03-07 - Iran arming Taliban against West, says Blair See this from yesterday's news. Read the entire thing. Looks like Britain is going along with the Bush admin and its neocon agenda for Iran.
06-03-07 - ABC Leaks Plans to Extend ?Surge,? Then Pulls the Story
06-03-07 - Answering Prayers ** an answer to Podhoretz?s prayers.
06-03-07 - When the Prince of Darkness Visits
06-03-07 - Spy probe sours UK ties, says Russia
06-03-07 - Ron Paul?s Reading List for the Farsighted
06-03-07 - Lebanese accuse civilians of helping camp militants A senior Lebanese defence ministry source last night accused Palestinian civilians of helping Fatah al-Islam militants holed up in the Naher al-Bared refugee camp, and said it would take longer than anticipated to win the battle. Itching for another Sabra and Shatila?
06-03-07 - USS Liberty facts
06-03-07 - USS LIBERTY Survivors need your help
06-03-07 - Bush extends Jerusalem waiver The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Tuesday on a non-binding resolution congratulating Israel on 40 years of reunifying the city and urging the president to make good on the 1995 law. The Senate is considering a similar resolution. Bush has consistently waived the law, as did his predecessor, Bill Clinton.
06-03-07 - Ahmadinejad says clock ticking to Israel's 'destruction' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that a countdown has begun that will end with the "destruction" of Israel by the people of Lebanon and Palestine.
06-03-07 - Fighting at second Lebanon camp "We were able, with the help of the Palestinian organisations and with the help of larger Islamic groups in the camp, to subdue their activity and contain any action from getting even larger," he said.
06-02-07 - Stay out of US-Iranians' case, Iran tells US
06-02-07 - Iran nuclear uncertainty proves need for sanctions: Gates
06-02-07 - Iraqi children found dead after US attack The US military says three Iraqi children have died when an American tank opened fire on suspected insurgent bombers in the western city of Fallujah.
06-02-07 - A New Peril from the East? the Center for Security Policy charges that Beijing's goal is "to displace this country as the world's leading economic power and to defeat us militarily, if necessary." Clinton H. Whitehurst, Jr., of the Strom Thurmond Institute, says "conflict is likely."
06-02-07 - Hey Joe: What U.S. Troops Really Told Sen. Lieberman on His Iraq Visit
06-02-07 - The Lady and the Veep ** news-week has learned that the veep's team seems eager to build a case that Iran is targeting Americans not just in Iraq but along the border of its other neighbor, Afghanistan.
In the last few weeks, Cheney's staff have unexpectedly become more active participants in an interagency group that steers policy on Afghanistan, according to an official familiar with the internal deliberations. During weekly meetings of the committee, known as the Afghanistan Interagency Operating Group, Cheney staffers have been intensely interested in a single issue: recent intelligence reports alleging that Iran is supplying weapons to Afghanistan's resurgent Islamist militia, the Taliban, according to two administration officials who asked for anonymity when discussing internal meetings......British officials who asked for anonymity because of the nature of their work emphasize that they lack hard evidence linking the shipments to the Revolutionary Guards, and that the weapons could just as easily have been bought on the black market in Iran. But according to one official familiar with the intelligence on Iranian interference in Iraq, Cheney earlier this year began exhibiting particular interest in any evidence detailing Tehran's aid to anti-American insurgents there
Cheney is looking to build a case for war.
06-02-07 - Military court hears US Marines shot Iraqi civilians as revenge A military court in California has heard that United States Marines in Iraq, seeking revenge for the killing of a colleague, shot dead a number of unarmed Iraqi civilians at close range.
06-02-07 - Missile shield ups chance of atomic conflict: Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Europe increased the chances of a nuclear conflict.
06-02-07 - Iran publicly hangs child rapists We need to start doing that HERE.
06-02-07 - Rep. Paul and the Founders versus Our Interventionist Elite by Michael Scheuer Quite correctly, Rep. Paul deep-sixed ? hopefully forever ? the idea that our Islamist enemies are attacking us because of our freedoms, liberties, elections, freedom of speech, and gender equality
06-02-07 - Making Iran our friend abandoning regime change in Iran is the surest way to ensure the regime's collapse. This is because, contrary to widespread perception, Iran is already a democracy. It's just not a very successful one.
06-02-07 - Libby learns sentencing outcome Tuesday "In short, Mr. Libby lied about nearly everything that mattered," Fitzgerald said in court documents. Neocon, lie? That's like saying bears sh@t in the woods. Unheard of!
06-02-07 - Ex-spy Plame vows to battle CIA over free speech
06-02-07 - Israel 3rd from bottom on Global Peace Index They're dragging us down with them (via wars in the region prompted by neocon BS). The US can't prop that nation up forever.
06-02-07 - Lebanese President, Hezbollah slam international tribunal as illegal
06-02-07 - Lebanon PM gives fighters warning Fouad Siniora described Fatah al-Islam as a "terrorist gang" and called on its fighters in the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli to surrender or be crushed.
06-02-07 - 'Israel doesn't want to bail Assad out' According to the officials, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continues to believe the Syrian regime is not genuinely interested in peace, but rather in a peace process that would improve its international standing.
First they try to say that the US is blocking them from making peace with Syria, now they're saying, 'Well, they don't really want peace anyway'. Excuses, excuses.
06-02-07 - Ministers to be briefed on arming of Syrian forces The security cabinet will hear intelligence updates on the arming of Syrian forces in a briefing this week. Intelligence sources said they did not believe Syria was preparing for war, despite the fact it is rearming.
06-02-07 - 'The Times Are Different' With 19 months left in her term as secretary of State, Rice has no major deal to her credit. What can she accomplish now? Rice could accomplish much if she told Israel and its lobby in the US to go f itself, guaranteed. The whole world would stand up and applaud - to boot. America's image would be restored almost to what it once was.
06-02-07 - From Jan 2003: Israel unleashes its death squads Israel has in the past sent hit squads to kill opponents in hostile countries such as Lebanon, and snatch squads have been used extensively throughout the world. Lebanon?
06-02-07 - 'Hamas visit undercut Turkish efforts to delegitimize PKK' Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, claimed on Friday that Turkey caused radical Islamic organization Hamas to gain international legitimacy by inviting its leaders to Ankara in February 2006.
06-02-07 - Deadly battle rages around Lebanon siege camp Troops were heavily pounding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the army has been besieging fringe militant group Fatah al-Islam for a fortnight, an AFP correspondent said.
06-02-07 - Obama: Bush neglected Israeli-Palestinian conflict In an attempt to attract Jewish voters, the senator from Illinois continues to use every opportunity to pledge allegiance to the State of Israel. Note the source.
06-02-07 - Bush to revive democracy agenda at Sharansky event National Security Adviser Steve Hadley said Friday that Bush remained committed to the freedom agenda and wanted to use the Prague event to renew his call for others to join him. Bush's (got it from neocons/Israelis such as Sharansky)'democracy' defined: bomb the hell out of a country, and install America/Israel-friendly regime. All of this talk about bringing 'freedom' to Middle Eastern peoples is utter hypocrisy when we continue to allow Israel to deprive Palestinians thereof.
06-01-07 - Rice: US not preparing for war with Iran ** The U.S. is not preparing for war against Iran and Vice President Dick Cheney supports that policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, taking a swipe at a U.N. official who says he's worried about "crazies" who want to start bombing. That and 50 cents will get you ... nothing really these days.
06-01-07 - Betraying the Sailors of the USS Liberty What would be the charge against McNamara? He denied aid to American troops when they were under deadly attack and as a result 20 some men died and many more were injured. I'm no lawyer, but I've been told that the applicable crime is treason. But the order came down from Johnson himself. You can read more information about the attack on the official USS Liberty website run by the survivors at http://www.ussliberty.org. There is also a History Channel DVD on the attack available to purchase here. The British did a documentary called "Dead in the Water", a clip of which is available to watch from the lower right corner of this page. So many Americans have never even heard of the USS Liberty. That would be because somebody does not want you to know. The survivors filed a War Crimes Report with the Secretary of the Army TWO YEARS ago. No action has been taken yet by our government, to my knowledge. That's all the proof anyone needs of the power that Israel has over our government.
06-01-07 - IAEA chief warns of "crazies" seeking Iran war** He said one could not "bomb knowledge". Asked who the "new crazies" were he replied: "Those who have extreme views and say the only solution is to impose your will by force."
06-01-07 - Iran promises to discuss nuke activities Iran has pledged to end years of stonewalling and provide answers on past suspicious activities to the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency probing its atomic program, an official said Friday, in a move seen as an attempt to avoid new U.N. sanctions.
06-01-07 - Bush demands Iran free dual nationals
06-01-07 - Iran says new Iraq talks dependent on change in US policy Iran will only hold fresh talks with the United States on stabilising Iraq if Washington changes its policies there, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Friday.
06-01-07 - Iraq war can't be won: former British army commander
06-01-07 - Rice voices doubts about EU-Iran talks
06-01-07 - US may collapse as a superpower: analyst ** About 10 minutes after the inauguration of the next President in January 2009, the evacuation starts. However, there is the possibility that the United States before Mr Bush leaves will attack Iran. And if that happens, I think we have a very different outcome. Former National Security Adviser in the United States, Zbigniew Brzezinski is on record as saying if the United States attacks Iran, it will lose its place in the world. And I think he's right.
06-01-07 - US Paid Nearly $31 Million in Condolence Payments to Iraqis, Afghanis
06-01-07 - Drawings of new U.S. Embassy in Iraq released on Web A U.S. architectural firm posted drawings of the new U.S. Embassy being built in Baghdad on its Web site, prompting complaints from U.S. officials on Friday that their release could endanger U.S. personnel.
06-01-07 - The Bush Administration?s Dilemma Regarding a Possible Libby Pardon I suspect Patrick Fitzgerald will be watching with great interest any pardon action. After all, he was working in the U.S. Attorney?s Office for the Southern District of New York when that office ignored the refusal of the Bush Department of Justice, under Attorney General Ashcroft, to investigate former President Bill Clinton?s pardon of financier Marc Rich.
06-01-07 - The GOP would be wise to listen to Ron Paul's message In the debate, he said, "The conservative wing of the Republican Party always advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy." The real problem is: bellicose neocons and their AIPAC cohorts make sure both parties are in line for any military intervention Israel needs.
06-01-07 - PRESS CONFERENCE ON MIDYEAR UPDATE OF WORLD ECONOMIC SITUATION, PROSPECTS United States debt, which had now deepened to well over $3 trillion, might turn out to be unsustainable in the rest of 2007 or next, putting further downward pressure on the United States dollar, he said. Since its peak in 2002, the dollar had depreciated vis-à-vis the major currencies by some 35 per cent and by 25 per cent against a broader range of other currencies.
06-01-07 - Gov. Charlie Crist gets Israeli military, security assessment Crist was greeted by visiting Floridians. "He's doing a great job," said Ellen Miller, 75, who was there with her husband, Ralph, 78, from Palm Beach Gardens. For whom?
06-01-07 - US can't get its propaganda straight Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program. That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces. It's reminiscent of a recent US trial coming up here in America, whereby an alleged terrorist purportedly went on anti-Jewish tirades but the defense lawyers could find no such thing in the transcripts of the phone call intercepts in which they allegedly took place.
06-01-07 - Syria will not cooperate with UN's Lebanon court UN Resolution 1757, adopted on Wednesday by the Security Council, "has no bearing on Syria, and we have informed the Security Council that we will not cooperate with this tribunal," Muallem told a news conference in Damascus with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
06-01-07 - Arabiya TV says Lebanese troops assault cameraman Lebanese soldiers assaulted a Palestinian cameraman working for Al Arabiya television as he was filming clashes between the army and al Qaeda-inspired militants on Friday, the Dubai-based channel said.
06-01-07 - Three Lebanese troops killed as army tightens siege Three Lebanese soldiers were killed Friday as the army tightened a noose around Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate.
06-01-07 - Rice names OSCE delegation Condoleezza Rice named the U.S. delegation to next week's follow-up conference on European anti-Semitism And what of European xenophobia, no delegation for THAT?
06-01-07 - Beyond friendship For Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, going to Israel is about building friendships with a vital U.S. ally, an essential stepping stone for any ambitious American politician......To Wexler, an 11-year veteran of Capitol Hill, one of the larger meanings of Crist's trip to Israel is obvious. It should disgust you that our politicians have to kowtow to a foreign nation in order to be a serious candidate for high office here.
06-01-07 - Israel, Syria breach disengagement deal Israel and Syria both violate the agreement to separate forces on the Golan, but the infringements are minor, according to the United Nations.
06-01-07 - Palestinians worried battles spread to other camps "Palestinian forces have all decided that the battles will not be transferred to Ain al-Hilweh and to tighten security in the camps," said Muneer al-Maqdah, a Fatah military commander.
06-01-07 - US strongly backs Lebanon assault on militants A Palestinian official in Lebanon, Abbas Zikki, said the situation for some 5,000 civilians still in the camp which normally houses some 31,000 people had become "desperate," with corpses "rotting in the streets."
06-01-07 - Lebanon army storms militant posts at camp, 18 die More than 25,000 of Nahr al-Bared's 40,000 Palestinians have fled to the smaller Beddawi camp nearby. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on all parties to spare civilians and to refrain from attacking civilian infrastructure.
06-01-07 - About a dozen U.S. lawmakers in Israel Hastings, a past president of the OSCE parliamentary assembly and a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, also met with top Israeli intelligence officials Keep all but Hagel there. Let Tel Aviv start paying their salaries. A note on Hastings.
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