July 2007 archive
07-31-07 - Cheney admits wrong about Iraq insurgency US Vice-President Dick Cheney acknowledges he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes".
07-31-07 - Probe into US-Iranians still ongoing: judiciary The case of the US-Iranians detained in Iran on suspicion of harming national security is still in the hands of the investigating judge, two-and-a-half months after their arrest, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
07-31-07 - Lieberman Escalates Attack on Iraq Critics
07-31-07 - Who owns you? George Carlin - 3 Minute Video Foreign interests/lobbies are a major problem too, George.
07-31-07 - Rice: Iran Biggest Threat To U.S. Interests In The Middle East Cuz Israel told me so! Stoolie.
07-31-07 - A green light to oppression In the name of 'fighting extremism', the US is arming two of the Arab world's leading human rights abusers: Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
07-31-07 - US 'aims to help' Mid-East allies Syria's foreign minister said the arms deals were "dangerous", while Mahmoud Zahhar, a senior Hamas figure, said US peace conference plans were a waste of time.
07-31-07 - Peres blasts Iran president "Ahmadinejad is an unbelievable joke," Peres told NPR. "He claims he's religious. My impression is that, in his eyes, the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah. He's worshiping the bomb more than he's worshiping the God in heaven."
07-31-07 - Cheney says he disagrees with Libby's guilty verdict
07-31-07 - US military aid plans aimed against Iran - Russian experts "Arabs do not believe the U.S. can play the role of a fair broker," the expert said. "And the U.S. wants to create the impression that it is sincerely attempting to broker the Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement."
07-31-07 - Israeli PM sees no war with neighbours in coming months Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he does not expect conflict with the Jewish state's neighbours in the coming months, pouring cold water on a recent flurry of speculations of an impending war with Syria.
07-31-07 - Dems, pro-Israel groups want more info on arms sale to Saudis How can the weapons be adjusted to minimize their potential threat to Israel? What do Israeli military leaders think? And does the aid boost to Israel come with a guarantee?
The unanswered questions have led Democrats to threaten to block the deal. Pro-Israel groups are holding back from such threats but are demanding more answers......Insiders say the overall package was in the works for months and that the Bush administration had consulted closely with Israel, also keeping informed the pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC......One pro-Israel strategy was already clear: Make certain the hike in aid to Israel comes through
07-31-07 - Lebanon's Siniora slams hike in U.S. military assistance to Israel Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora criticized a proposed U.S. arms deal Monday that offers a sharp increase in defense aid to Israel, a rare rebuke against Washington by the Western-backed premier.
07-31-07 - Congressional lobby reform aims at disclosure
07-31-07 - Iran imperative spurs US aid move ** When the stated aim of such assistance is, in the words of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, "to counter the negative influences of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran", then it is not hard to see why Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, found nothing to criticise.
07-31-07 - Syria says ready to join in U.S. peace conference Syria is ready to take part in a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian-Israeli peace although Washington is behind instability in the Middle East, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Tuesday.
07-31-07 - Rice, Gates in Egypt to seek Arab front against Iran
07-31-07 - Spanish FM welcomes Syrian support for Lebanon initiative Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Tuesday welcomed Syria's support for efforts by Spain and France to resolve the eight-month-old political crisis in Lebanon.
07-31-07 - Trial date set for ex-AIPAC staffers The trial date set Tuesday by Judge T.S. Ellis was at least the fifth since Steve Rosen, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee's former foreign policy chief, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, were indicted in August 2005
07-30-07 - UN inspectors check key Iran nuclear site
07-30-07 - Analysis: Cheney favors attack on Iran ** a well-informed source tells United Press International that according to senior U.S. intelligence officials, President Bush has definitely decided not to strike any of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons production facilities this year. The sources say the officials stressed the words "this year," meaning in 2007. That, however, does not rule out the possibility of military intervention in 2008, right until January 2009, when Bush's term in the White House comes to an end.
07-30-07 - Iran criticizes U.S., Saudis arms deal
07-30-07 - US arms package will not destabilise Middle East: Rice A multi-billion dollar US arms package for Middle East allies aimed at containing Iran's influence will not destabilise the region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
07-30-07 - Iran says U.S. is too stretched to attack it ** Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has told a German magazine that the United States has too many problems in Iraq to become involved in armed conflict with Iran.
07-30-07 - US envoy accuses Saudis on Iraq The US ambassador at the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, has accused Saudi Arabia of undermining efforts to stabilise Iraq.
07-30-07 - US soldier pleads not guilty to rape, murder of Iraqi girl A US soldier pleaded not guilty to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family, officials said.
07-30-07 - Merkel party warns US arms for Gulf could set off 'powder keg'
07-30-07 - Novak: Bush considering secret military action in Turkey The Bush administration is considering covert military activity by U.S. Special Forces to help Turkish troops quash Kurdish guerilla fighters, who are believed to be using northern Iraq as safe-haven, according to the syndicated columnist.
07-30-07 - Americans Reject Aggressive Foreign Policy 54 per cent of respondents think the U.S. will be safer from terrorism in the long run if it stays out of other countries? affairs in the Middle East, up five points since October. 'They're over HERE because WE'RE over THERE' - Patrick J. Buchanan.
07-30-07 - Israel to grant West Bank entry to Iraqi Palestinians Israel has recently agreed to allow a group of 41 Iraqi refugees of Palestinian origin to enter the West Bank and reunite with relatives there, as a goodwill gesture to the government of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad.
07-30-07 - Heritage: Economic Blowback from Bombing Iran Will be Easily Managed ** Let me guess: it will be a "cakewalk".
07-30-07 - Out of right field, conservatives gush over Clinton
07-30-07 - US credit woes ripple across globe Hey I know - let's attack Iran. Perfect!
07-30-07 - Clinton Woos the Outsourcers that Workers Fear
07-30-07 - Exclusive: ?Possible Attack On The U.S. Within Ninety Days Mr. Aviv knows of that which he speaks. He is a former Israeli Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer and has also served as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress on issues of terrorism and security.
07-30-07 - Rice, Gates trip signals united front The Secretaries of State and Defense set out for the Middle East to make a case for US initiatives.
07-30-07 - Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia Israel is looking into reports that Russia plans to sell 250 advanced long-range Sukhoi-30 fighter jets to Iran in an unprecedented billion-dollar deal.
07-30-07 - Funding added for U.S.-Israel missile system "In light of Iran's open hostility toward the U.S. and Israel, I consider increasing the effectiveness of the Arrow system to be essential to our defense," said Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), who requested the additional funding.
07-30-07 - Golan residents call for talks with Syria The Peace with Syria movement held a conference Monday evening at Kibbutz Gadot with the participation of hundreds of Golan Heights residents.
07-30-07 - Syria calls upon Palestinian parties to return to dialogue
07-30-07 - Iran's Khamenei says U.S. and Israel are main foes Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the United States and Israel were his country's main enemies, just days after U.S.-Iranian talks about Iraq's security.
07-30-07 - Arabs skeptical of U.S. conference idea The Arab League expressed reluctance Monday in backing a U.S.-proposed conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying any talks should cover all Arab-Israeli conflicts, including those involving Syria.
07-30-07 - Christian Group Warns U.S. Against Pressuring Israel on Peace Deal "Would somebody else, another country, coming in to America say, 'You need to give up Florida'? I live in Southern California, 'You need to give up San Diego to Mexico.' That's not going to happen. Why should we do that with Israel?" Stephens asked. Because Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Shebaa Farms, the Golan Heights do not belong to Israel. They are Israel-OCCUPIED territory.
07-29-07 - Third of Iraqis 'need urgent aid' It warned the continuing violence was masking a humanitarian crisis that had grown worse since the invasion in 2003.
07-29-07 - Stage-managed nuclear tour reveals why Iran won't be the first to blink The Independent and five other journalists from Britain, France, Germany and the US - whose governments will decide whether there can be a peaceful solution to the crisis with Iran - were invited to Iran by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a promise of unprecedented access to the country's most senior officials and it's most sensitive nuclear plants
07-29-07 - Report: Four PKK leaders killed in Iraq blast
07-29-07 - U.S. Air Force Prepares for War in Cyberspace "This is a significant development," said Amit Yoran, former White House cybersecurity czar. "Historically cyber warfare remained in the very classified arenas of government." A note on Amit Yoran
07-29-07 - A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News
07-29-07 - Free speech violated, man says "I feel my First Amendment rights were violated," said Ferguson, a 30-year-old Munster resident who said he was peacefully handing out pamphlets outlining Paul's anti-war, anti-tax presidential platform.
07-29-07 - Siege camp militants kill Lebanese soldier
07-29-07 - Arms deal to Arab nations opposed Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and Robert Wexler, D-Fla., said Saturday that they will introduce a joint resolution of disapproval to block the deals when Congress is formally notified. They have seven Democratic co-sponsors. Note to the minions of Israel on Capitol Hill: Israel gave its blessing for this deal. We had to pretty much buy it out of them.
07-29-07 - Bush to Urge Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia, Gulf States The military assistance agreements would provide $30 billion in new U.S. aid to Israel and $13 billion to Egypt over a decade, Goodrich-Hinton said.
07-29-07 - Lebanese troops advance into camp The Lebanese army has said its troops have moved deeper into a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli to try to oust Islamist fighters remaining there.
07-29-07 - Israel says U.S. aid to Saudi military is understandable ** "We understand the need of the United States to support the Arab moderate states and there is a need for a united front between the U.S. and us regarding Iran," Olmert told a weekly Cabinet meeting. The rare agreement reflects shared U.S. and Israeli concern with the potential threat of an Iran with nuclear weapons. Israel doesn't dare complain. It knows that we are arming the Saudis and others for our upcoming attack on Iran.
07-29-07 - Why my landlord is expecting the worst In a truly pitiful remark, the UN Secretary-General stated last month: "I regret to have to report that, despite a number of attempts by UN senior officials to obtain information regarding the firing data of cluster munitions utilised (sic) during last summer's conflict, Israel has yet to provide this critical data." To which my reaction is: why not ask Washington for the information? Surely a UN official could take the Amtrak out of New York and pick up the figures from the Pentagon?
07-29-07 - Armageddon ? Bring It On ** According to the Jewish Blumenthal, the typical CUFI member apparently believes "God" wants Bush to do what Lieberman and the Likudniks are urging him to do ? nuke Tehran ? to trigger an all-out nuke war to bring on Armageddon ? the final climatic battle, waged here on the planet Earth, between God and Satan.
07-28-07 - UN inspectors to visit Iran in August for framework talks A group of UN atomic watchdog inspectors will visit Iran early next month to discuss a framework for future inspections of nuclear sites, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
07-28-07 - Bush calls for new phone, email tapping powers US President George W Bush has called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government's secret communications surveillance of terrorism suspects.
07-28-07 - US ?dirty bomber? is a trial for CIA the long-awaited court appearance of Jose Padilla, a US citizen once known as America?s ?dirty bomber?, has turned out to be missing a crucial ingredient - evidence that he actually did anything wrong.
07-28-07 - U.S. Outfitting B-2's with Monster Bunker Buster Bombs - Iran May Be Target ** Experts have noted that a U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program could be difficult due to the large number of installations - some of which are buried deep underground in hardened bunkers.
07-28-07 - Outsourcing Intelligence: Author R.J. Hillhouse on How Key National Security Projects Are Contracted to Private Firms what I found is, as you said, private corporations have completely penetrated the intelligence apparatus of the United States. It?s impossible -- even in the response to me by the Director of National Intelligence that was published in the Washington Post, they admitted that without private corporations they would be unable to function.
07-28-07 - Hillary's Late Hit by Patrick J. Buchanan As for Ahmadinejad, he is not the supreme leader of Iran, and his nation has not launched a war since the Revolution of 1979. With no atomic weapons, no ICBMs, no air force to challenge ours, no navy, an economy 2 percent of ours and its oil reserves running out, Iran is scarcely an existential threat to the United States.
07-28-07 - Christian Group Warns: Iran Wants to Hit Israel First, U.S. Next ** several Jewish organizations in the United States hold that U.S. officials must do everything in their power to persuade the international community to pressure Iran to stop its nuclear ambitions......"If diplomatic options, economic sanctions could work they could only work if there is a threat of another alternative," said Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League. The Israeli lobby makes sure that Israel's problems become OUR problems.
07-28-07 - Lebanese troops kill 8 Islamic militants
07-28-07 - Bush's Real Agenda in Palestine one must not lose sight of the regional context. The Israeli lobby and its neo- conservative allies in the US administration and in the media are eager for a military showdown with Iran, which would weaken Syria's political standing in any future negotiation with Israel in regards to the occupied Golan Heights, and which would obliterate the military strength of Hizbullah, proven to be the toughest enemy Israel has ever faced in its decades-long conflict with the Arabs.
07-28-07 - Israel likely to devise missiles for India Pakistan's cruise missiles that can hit hundreds of miles inside India prompted New Delhi to accept an Israeli plan to develop a cruise missile interceptor.
07-28-07 - France fears new war in Lebanon The French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, has warned that Lebanon faces the danger of renewed war if there is not a resumption of political dialogue.
07-28-07 - 'We blocked US plans' - Hezbollah "This war aimed to impose a new Middle East, broken up into confessional and ethnic mini-states, serving the interests of the United States and Israel,"
07-28-07 - Resentment stirs in Hizbollah faithful the official did not expect a war soon, saying that it would take both the Israelis and the movement at least two to three years to be ready to fight.
07-27-07 - US angry over Saudi role in Iraq The US administration is deeply frustrated with Saudi Arabia over its role in Iraq, accusing the Saudis of trying to undermine the Baghdad government and failing to stem the flow of volunteers joining the insurgency there, the New York Times reported on Friday.
07-27-07 - Russia's Gorbachev says U.S. is sowing world disorder Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the United States, and current President George W. Bush in particular, on Friday for sowing disorder across the world by seeking to build an empire.
07-27-07 - Dozens of Afghan civilians die in air raids: residents Dozens of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in two foreign air strikes in southern Afghanistan, residents and a local member of parliament said on Friday.
07-27-07 - US plays down talk of tension with Saudis According to the Times, the Saudis view Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, as an agent of Iran and appear to have stepped up efforts to weaken his government, providing funding for Sunni groups.
07-27-07 - Rice, Gates face uphill battle to convince Saudis U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates travel to the Middle East next week seeking Arab support to stabilize Iraq but they may face an uphill battle from Saudi Arabia.
07-27-07 - Arm chair generals help shape surge in Iraq The emergence of AEI as a power player on Iraq belies the notion that neo-conservatives are on the decline in Washington. AEI brags an impressive roster of neo-con thinkers. Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, an Iraq war architect, arrived at AIE this summer, joining such prominent conservatives as John Bolton, David Frum and Michael Ledeen.
07-27-07 - Oil price climbs on rising demand
07-27-07 - Bid to punish Bush aides may fail
07-27-07 - Fred Thompson, Neocon The neoconservatives are not riding high these days. Not so.
07-27-07 - Soldiers die in Lebanese clashes
07-27-07 - Neoconservatism Is Dead It is not, not when the Bush administration is still taking its cues from neocon outfits such as the AEI, as one example.
07-27-07 - Israel urges 'damaging' Iran sanctions Israel is anxious that the international community has "taken its eye off the ball" in the effort to ratchet up economic and diplomatic pressure on the Islamic Republic, while the nuclear program speeds relentlessly ahead, The Jerusalem Post has been told.
07-27-07 - Bush signs ports bill with boycott clause A bill increasing scrutiny over foreign purchases of American ports signed by President Bush includes a provision targeting the Arab boycott of Israel.
07-27-07 - US to fund defense systems for Israel The new system would be used in addition to Israel's existing sophisticated 'Arrow' system, a project the US continues to fund.
On Thursday the House Appropriations Committee voted to give Israel an additional $70 million in defense aid beyond the $80 million requested by the administration.
Are our men in Iraq being given the best equipment there is? Why are we continuing to fund Israel defense projects when their economy is booming and ours continues to tank? Outrageous.
07-27-07 - Senate approves increased funding for non-profits A significant portion of $50 million allocated for 2005 and 2006 went to Jewish institutions. In the past, federal funds have been used by non-profits for security enhancements, such as concrete barriers.
07-27-07 - Miliband says UK needs U.S. alliance to secure goals Miliband denied suggestions by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, reported by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Thursday, that London had expanded links with the Palestinian Islamist group.
07-27-07 - U.S. plans big arms sale to Saudi Arabia: report ** the proposal for advanced weapons for Saudi Arabia has stoked concern in Israel and among its U.S. backers, the Times said......Senior officials, including State Department and Pentagon officials who outlined the deals' terms, told the Times they thought the Bush administration had resolved those concerns, partly by offering Israel more than $30 billion in military aid over the next 10 years, which would be a significant increase over recent levels.....The Times said officials described the plan as intended to bolster Gulf countries' militaries in a bid to contain Iran's growing strength in the region, as well as to demonstrate Washington's commitment to its Arab allies.
07-27-07 - U.S. to expand aid in Mideast The comprehensive regional aid-and-weapons package is meant to compensate Israel for the sale of U.S. weapons to countries Israel considers potential enemies. But those sales are nonetheless certain to draw opposition from pro-Israeli organizations and human rights organizations.
07-27-07 - Obama would talk up Israel with Iran "If I sit down with a leader of Iran, I will send them a strong message that Israel is our friend and that we will assist in their security and that we don?t find nuclear weapons acceptable," Obama said in a conference call Thursday.
07-26-07 - Iranian minister says sanctions are ineffective
07-26-07 - US Treasury's Levey says Iran sanctions bearing fruit The US Treasury's mounting financial sanctions against Iranian companies tied to alleged nuclear activities, proliferation and terror funding are bearing fruit, the Treasury's top anti-terrorism official, Stuart Levey, said Thursday.
07-26-07 - U.S. says Iran training Green Zone bombers Making the case for war.
07-26-07 - Report: Security Issues Plague DHS Facilities Well now that's comforting.
07-26-07 - TSA: Terrorists May Be Conducting Preattack Security Probes In a new intelligence bulletin obtained by NBC News, the Transportation Security Administration is warning law-enforcement and airport officials that terrorists "may be" conducting "preattack security probes" at U.S. airports.
07-26-07 - Bush Line Distorts Iran?s Real Interest in Iraq Symptomatic of the toughening attitude in Congress toward Iran was the 97-0 vote in the Senate last week for a resolution drafted by its leading proponent of war against Iran, Sen. Joe Lieberman, stating that ?the murder of members of the United States Armed Forces by a foreign government or its agents is an intolerable act of hostility against the United States.?
07-26-07 - Adviser Sees Rudy As Tough On Saudis Podhoretz is a proponent of immediate military strikes against Iran to eliminate or set back that country?s nuclear program, and he said Giuliani felt the same way. ?He has already said that the military option has to remain active,? said Podhoretz.
07-26-07 - Congress on collision course with Bush over wiretapping inquiry "We ask that you immediately appoint an independent special counsel from outside the Department of Justice to determine whether Attorney General Gonzales may have misled Congress or perjured himself in testimony before Congress," a group of four senators wrote in a letter to the solicitor general, the administration's top lawyer.
07-26-07 - U.S. Kills Plans to Build Embassy in Hezbollah Area of Beirut U.S. officials say the proposed embassy site is just a few hundred yards from the scene of fierce fighting last summer between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
07-26-07 - Iraq refugee summit offers help
07-26-07 - LA evangelical leader: Iran confrontation 'inevitable' he said he was "very gratified" when President George W. Bush was elected, given his unwavering commitment to Israel's interests and in his antiterror policies
07-26-07 - Lebanon: Refugees again "How long must the Palestinian people endure tragedy? How many times do we have to be displaced?" The speaker is Abu Hisham, sitting in Beddawi camp surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
07-26-07 - Syria threatened to fight in Lebanon war-Hezbollah
07-26-07 - Gag lifted on arrest of Israeli allegedly recruited by Hezbollah The Shin Bet security service on Tuesday lifted a gag order on the June arrest of a woman who allegedly admitted during questioning that she had been recruited by the Hezbollah.
07-26-07 - Panel to probe alleged IDF war crimes in Second Lebanon War Gal-On said serious accusations made by human rights organizations, who reported that the IDF committed war crimes and harmed the civilian population of Lebanon, strengthened her conviction that these claims must be probed.
07-26-07 - Lebanese army 'tightens noose' on Islamists in camp Two soldiers were killed late Thursday by a shell fired by Islamists inside the camp, bringing the troop toll to 122. This figure included a soldier whose body was was recovered earlier from the camp. Two soldiers were also wounded.
07-26-07 - U.S. candidates see Iran nuclear threat All were asked by the Israel Project to discuss their views and endorse a petition signed on-line by more than 75,000 people telling the United Nations Security Council "Iran must be stopped now -- before it develops a nuclear bomb." Jump for your masters. Bark like a dog.
07-26-07 - Delay: US and Israel must enjoy second coming That evangelical support for Israel is largely based on "End Times" theology is largely irrelevant to the Israeli politicians who share the goal of expanding settlements into the West Bank and a military strike on Iran, but it is anything but irrelevant to the rank-and-file members and even one former House Majority Leader.
07-25-07 - Iran 'ready for more Iraq talks' Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran would consider meeting the US at deputy foreign minister level, if the US suggested it.
07-25-07 - Iran says it will never stop nuclear activities "Iran will never abandon its peaceful (nuclear) work. Our nuclear work is legal and why should we stop it?"
07-25-07 - US envoy blasts Iran after Iraq talks At a second meeting with his Iranian counterpart in two months, the US ambassador blasted Tehran on Tuesday for arming and training Shiite militias but agreed to set up a security subcommittee with Iran and Iraq to carry forward work on stabilizing the country.
07-25-07 - Syria intervenes to cancel Iraq rebels meetings Syria's secular government, which has been reinforcing links with Iran, took steps last year to improve ties with Iraq. Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi is expected to visit Damascus next month.
07-25-07 - House Passes Lee Bill to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq
07-25-07 - Bipartisan Committee Denounces Illegal Spying Program Today a bipartisan coalition of political leaders, policy experts, and legal scholars condemned the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program as illegal, and called on Congress to complete its investigation of the program before considering any changes to the law governing electronic surveillance.
07-25-07 - CIA misled Britain over rendition plan The CIA misled British intelligence chiefs over the arrest and treatment of terrorist suspects who were the subjects of rendition to Guantanamo Bay, an Intelligence and Security Committee report to the Prime Minister warned.
07-25-07 - Iran fist-in-glove with Iraqi rebels: America builds its case **
07-25-07 - Iran nuke plant delayed The completion of Iran?s first atomic power plant will be delayed by more than a year, to the fall of 2008, a Russian nuclear subcontractor said.
07-25-07 - World Bank urged to stop Iran funds A dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter urging the new World Bank president to stop funding for Iran.
07-25-07 - US missile defence system set for UK
07-25-07 - U.S. soldiers cheer on young boys celebrating outside their combat outpost in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad
07-25-07 - Ron Paul teams up with Dem candidate to end war As the host mentioned, the Texas Congressman has co-sponsored a bill with another presidential contender, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, that would repeal President Bush's authority to use force in Iraq within the next sixth months. Besides Kucinich, 18 other Democrats have signed on.
07-25-07 - Bush In Free Fall At what point will President Bush finally grasp the enormous disaster that the neoconservatives, from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, have visited upon his presidency? Evidently never.
07-25-07 - House Panel Cites Bush Aides for Contempt of Congress The House Judiciary Committee voted contempt of Congress citations Wednesday against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and President Bush?s former legal counselor, Harriet Miers.
07-25-07 - National Intelligence Estimate lacks supporting evidence, possibly politicized, intelligence officials say "As regards to the Hezbollah 'threat,'" the official added, "they just threw that in. "Nobody in CIA talks to Hezbollah, and they're living off their assessments from back in the 80s, which they really never got right anyway." Whose War?.
07-25-07 - Scott Horton Interviews Philip Giraldi: MP3 Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them. Philip Giraldi = one of the good guys. I strongly encourage you to listen to this interview.
07-25-07 - Obama, Clinton feud on talks with Assad and other despots The Obama-Clinton contretemps comes as the pro-Israel lobby has made isolating Iran its signature issue and after Republicans attacked U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in April for meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
07-25-07 - Hezbollah leader suggests Israel may be behind attacks on U.N. peacekeepers "It will be very embarrassing for the Israelis, especially if they are thinking in the next war to launch a large-scale land invasion (of south Lebanon), to have UNIFIL troops there," Nasrallah said.
07-25-07 - America puts Israel's enemies on trial
07-25-07 - Lebanese army steps up shelling of Islamists
07-25-07 - U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon A French peacekeeper working on a U.N. demining team was killed Wednesday when an unexploded shell from last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah blew up as he was trying to clear it, a U.N. official said.
07-25-07 - Re-Targeting Syria, the "Ho Chi Minh Trail of Terrorists?" former Bush speech-writer and Christian rightist Michael Gerson complains that the administration?s military reaction to alleged subversion in Iraq by Iran and Syria has been "muted" but concedes that attacking Iran could be problematic. "Syria, however, is what one former administration official calls ?lower-hanging fruit,?"
07-25-07 - Few Muslims 'back suicide bombs' However, 70% of Palestinians interviewed said they believed such attacks were sometimes justifiable. ......The survey also suggests that as countries and families grow richer, optimism increases, as well as support for ruling governments.
07-24-07 - Auditors Can't Find Veterans Affairs Computer Equipment Worth $6.4 Million More than a quarter of the computer equipment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington could not be found by investigators, government auditors reported Tuesday.
07-24-07 - US military drafts plan to keep troops in Iraq until mid-2009
07-24-07 - US, Iran, Iraq to set up security committee The United States, Iran and Iraq have agreed to set up a security sub-committee to continue talks on how to restore stability in Iraq.
07-24-07 - Iran nuclear negotiators heading to Russia for talks: diplomat Iranian negotiators Javad Vaeidi and Mohammad Saeedi were "flying from Vienna to Russia to persuade the Russians to finish building the Bushehr nuclear (power) reactor," said a diplomat who asked not to be named due to the confidential nature of the information.
07-24-07 - IAEA to revisit Iran atom site in transparency push Iran agreed on Tuesday to let inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog revisit its heavy-water reactor site early next week in a U.N. push for more transparency in Iran's disputed nuclear program.
07-24-07 - Iran's growing presence in Iraq
07-24-07 - $100 Oil Price May Be Months Away, Say CIBC, Goldman ** Oil prices could triple in three months to more than $200 a barrel, given the right circumstances, according to Matthew Simmons, chairman of Simmons & Co., a Houston investment bank. We can guess what they are prepping us for and why. Iran is next.
07-24-07 - Will Bush Invade Pakistan?
07-24-07 - Bush Aide: Military Could Go Into Pakistan
07-24-07 - Saudi Arabia backs out of Arab peace initiative Saudi king gets cold feet over suspicions of Iran and fears of terror attacks sponsored by al-Qaeda, Israeli official says
07-24-07 - Oil prices slide on Iran remarks Oil prices fell by more than $1 a barrel on Tuesday amid suggestions from Iran that it may be prepared to increase supply to the market
07-24-07 - Alarm at US right to highly personal data Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.
07-24-07 - Halliburton Income More Than Doubles
07-24-07 - Patrick Fitzgerald Hits Air-Waves In Chicago - Photos Some rare candid photos of the Special Prosecutor. Unfortunately the contents of his briefs have not been revealed. Get your mind out of the gutter! I meant with respect to the next case!
07-24-07 - From Jan. 2007: Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave ** In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so far, despite generally being allowed to travel to Israel and emigrate abroad, Iranian Jews have stayed put. This goes along with the recent story of pro-Israeli/Israeli(?) officials offering Iranian Jews cold hard cash to lure them out of Iran and into Israel. The question: why? What's the rush? Impending attack?
07-24-07 - Murdoch, Son Differ Sharply Over Israel The elder "Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process and James said that he was ?talking f? nonsense.'
07-24-07 - Hunter: 'Postage stamp' Israel should not give up 'one inch' of territory On May 20, Hunter, a California Republican, voiced his position during a meeting with Christian Zionists in Alexandria, Va
07-24-07 - Commentary: Intelligent intelligence CSIS' Transnational Threats Project, which this writer directs, recruited 15 experts on Islamist extremism in Europe from the Middle East (including Israel), North Africa, Europe, the United States and Canada, and networked them 24/7 with a state-of-the-art, electronic collaborative software tool. They were known as TIN members -- for Trusted Information Network.
07-24-07 - US Treasury moves against Hezbollah 'support network'
07-24-07 - New army deaths at Lebanon camp
07-24-07 - Nasrallah: We squashed Greater Israel plan Speaking to al-Jazeera, Nasrallah said his organization had weapons capable of reaching every corner of Israel.
07-24-07 - Anger mounts as more soldiers fall in Lebanon battle camp "There is not a single house where there is no soldier," explained 42-year-old Zeina Sufain, who lost her 19-year-old son Firas on May 22. "There is no work here. Even for those who go to school," she said.
07-24-07 - U.N. Council asked to address Syrian arms smuggling The United States, Britain and France want U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to pursue ways to stop weapons flowing into Lebanon over the Syrian border, according to a draft U.N. statement on Tuesday.
07-24-07 - Hezbollah says prisoner-swap talks with Israel still underway The head of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah said on Tuesday that UN-mediated talks with Israel over an exchange of prisoners were continuing, but he would not provide details.
07-24-07 - David Wurmser Leaving White House Employment David Wurmser, one of the Vice President's most dedicated neoconservative spear-carriers, is leaving the administration to start a risk assessment consulting firm.
07-23-07 - Veterans sue U.S. over "shameful failures" in care "Because of those failures, hundreds of thousands of men and women who have suffered grievous injuries fighting in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being abandoned,"
07-23-07 - Brown refuses to rule out military action against Iran ** Thus will Britain again be dragged into the mess with us.
07-23-07 - Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War The nation is heading toward a constitutional showdown over the Iraq war. Congress is moving closer to passing a bill to limit or end the war, but President Bush insists Congress doesn?t have the power to do it.
07-23-07 - Baghdad brings US and Iran together in bid to end violence Iranian and American officials meet in Baghdad today to discuss Iraqi security but wide differences are expected to prevent the real dialogue which may be essential to end the war in Iraq.
07-23-07 - Iran and IAEA to hold talks Iran will hold talks with the UN atomic watchdog Tuesday in Vienna over its nuclear programme, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday.
07-23-07 - Ahead of Talks Between US and Iran, The Economist Warns Against Conflict ** After the false intelligence that led America into Iraq, and the mayhem that followed, it may seem extraordinary to contemplate attacking yet another and much bigger Muslim country
07-23-07 - JORDAN-SYRIA: Deputy UNHCR head wraps up two-country tour Johnstone praised government policy towards the estimated 1.5 million refugees, but expressed concern for the 1,400 Palestinians stranded in makeshift desert camps on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
07-23-07 - In Lebanon, the UN and Hizbullah make unlikely bedfellows
07-23-07 - Israeli president calls on world to unite against Iran Israeli President Shimon Peres called on the world in an interview Tuesday to form a united front against Iran that would force the Islamic republic to end its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
07-23-07 - Hague likely to host Lebanon court on Hariri death The United Nations has asked the Netherlands to host a special court to try the suspected killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday
07-23-07 - Hezbollah says didn't confirm Israeli captives alive
07-23-07 - 11 Lebanese soldiers wounded in clashes with Islamists
07-22-07 - MPs criticise map used in Iran crisis A British map of the northern Gulf where Iran seized 15 naval personnel in March was not as accurate as it should have been and Britain was fortunate Iran did not contest it, a review into the crisis said on Sunday.
07-22-07 - More Iran sanctions not before September: diplomats
07-22-07 - Iran smuggling missiles to Iraq: US The US military says its troops have found Chinese-made missiles it believes were smuggled into Iraq by groups in Iran to arm insurgents fighting American-led forces.
07-22-07 - DeFazio Asks, But He?s Denied Access ?I just can?t believe they?re going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack,?
07-22-07 - Senate Tells Bush Not to Pardon Libby In the heat of a partisan spat, Democrats forced a vote on a nonbinding measure to instruct President Bush not to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But there's no record of the 47-49 vote in the daily record of congressional proceedings ? or anywhere else.
07-22-07 - Bush's Next War of Aggression unlike an invasion of Iran, an invasion of Pakistan ? resulting in Musharraf being killed or deposed ? could easily result in nukes being used, not all of them ours.
07-22-07 - USS Liberty survivor assails former Navy lawyer's view Cristol seeks to discredit our eyewitness accounts by maligning our motives and falsely claiming Arab financing and influence.....The false accounts of our opponents illustrate once again why we survivors have sought for 40 years to have a full, complete, open investigation where we can testify under oath.
07-22-07 - Iran: No secret arms deal with Syria Iran's foreign ministry spokesman on Sunday dismissed as a "media game" recent reports of a secret arms deal with Syria allegedly made in return for an agreement that Damascus would not hold peace talks with Israel
07-22-07 - Three Lebanese soldiers killed by die-hard camp militants Three Lebanese soldiers were killed Sunday in sporadic gunfire between the army and Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp.
07-22-07 - Israel: Hezbollah hiding arms among civilians Hezbollah is hiding rockets in southern Lebanon among civilians to avoid detection by Israel and U.N. troops, the Israeli army said.
07-21-07 - British banks fight US over Iran embargo A mounting US crackdown on foreign companies and banks doing business with Iran is provoking serious opposition in the UK and Europe, where diplomats are warning that the action could lead to a new trade war.
07-21-07 - Pakistan objects to US strikes PAKISTAN said it could not accept "indiscriminate action" on its territory by US forces without first being informed that there was an al-Qaeda or terrorist target there.
07-21-07 - Watchdog group: Government awards contracts despite firms? misconduct
07-21-07 - Bush puts CIA prisons under Geneva Conventions Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller of West Virginia said intelligence officials should tell the panel how Bush's order "will translate into actual conduct by the CIA" and the Justice Department must provide a legal analysis.
07-21-07 - This Is How Empires End by Patrick J. Buchanan Any who have visited this last outpost of Christendom in the Holy Land before Gen. Allenby marched into Jerusalem in 1917 cannot ? on reading of the massive U.S. embassy rising in Baghdad ? but think of Acre.
07-21-07 - Iran attack could be 2nd Holocaust, Gingrich warns Former US House speaker, who is considering running for presidency on Republican ticket, warns that if Iran acquires nukes, Israel and US would be under severe threat; 'Firing one or more bombs at Israel could be a second Holocaust for the Jewish people,' Gingrich says Message to Newt: America and Israel = 2 separate countries.
07-21-07 - Israel's Olmert rejects Syria conditions for talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Syria was setting an "impossible threshold" for peace talks by demanding Israel commit to withdraw fully from the occupied Golan Heights before negotiations resume.
07-21-07 - 'NYT': Ron Paul for President -- Of the 'Wackos'?
07-20-07 - US Marine escapes jail for Iraqi civilian murder plot Awad, a 52-year-old father of 11, was taken from his home in a late-night raid by eight US servicemen and killed before the Marines involved covered up the incident to make it look as if Awad was an insurgent planting a bomb.
07-20-07 - 'Iranian-linked militant' among dozens captured in Iraq raids The US military said on Friday its forces had captured an alleged Iranian-linked militant who transported deadly bombs into Iraq from Iran......"The captured terrorist is suspected of facilitating the transport of weapons and personnel from Iran into Iraq," a statement said.....The military said the detainee, who was captured in the town of Kharnabat near the restive city of Baquba northeast of Baghdad, has connections with "senior leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force." How many of the foreign militants in Iraq are from the House of Saud, mewonders? Probably many many more than there are of those from Iran. Hey, I know - let's attack Iran!
07-20-07 - Russia says has not "slammed the door" on arms pact
07-20-07 - Turkish PM threatens to invade northern Iraq
07-20-07 - Ahmadinejad says Iran fully supports Palestinian resistance
07-20-07 - AP misrepresented newly released NIE judgment on Al Qaeda's use of "contacts and capabilities" in Iraq
07-20-07 - FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats "It's quite possible the FBI knows about vulnerabilities that have not been disclosed to the rest of the world," says Thompson. "If they had discovered one, they would not have disclosed it, and that would be a great way to get stuff on people's computer. Then I guess they can bug whoever they want."
07-20-07 - 4 die as Iran's Revolutionary Guard clashes with bandits Members of the elite Revolutionary Guard have clashed with "foreign-guided" bandits in southeastern Iran, killing four of them and suffering several casualties, state-run television reported yesterday
07-20-07 - Russia 'has seen no proof' in Litvinenko case Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he has seen no proof from Britain to support claims that former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi poisoned dissident Alexander Litvinenko.
07-20-07 - Giuliani names Podhoretz, Kramer as advisers Rudy Giuliani named top Jewish neo-conservatives as foreign policy advisers.
07-20-07 - Fitzgerald Deserves Top U.S. Law Post, Comey Says (Update3) Patrick Fitzgerald won the convictions of four Osama bin Laden associates in May 2001. In March, he got Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby. Last week, he nailed Conrad Black.....''I wouldn't want him as an attorney general if I were a Republican because his prosecutorial mentality may go a bit too far,'' Fitzgerald evidently will go after corrupt politicians (among others) of both parties. Being a Republican (which this webmistress happens to be, proudly so) has got nothing to do with it. Now the neocons, on the other hand, should be quivering in their astronaut diapers - another matter entirely. Now put down your shiny new scooter, Fitz, and get back to work.
07-20-07 - Idiots on the March by Charley Reese ** Idiots in Israel, along with those American idiots in the punditocracy who can't see where they are going because their vision is blocked by Israeli backsides, are trying to pressure our idiots in the White House to commit an act of insanity. In a nutshell, yes.
07-20-07 - US Affairs: Bush Doctrine revisited On Tuesday, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams held a conference call with Jewish officials and reassured them that there was nothing in the speech that meant policy toward Israel would be changing or that Israel would find itself under extra pressure to make concessions
07-20-07 - Perilous times for Iraq Palestinians "We're just waiting for death," said Ziad Nassir, a 35-year-old barber who has lived in Iraq for 16 years. "The only question is how we'll die."
07-20-07 - GOP hopefuls blast Bush on Mideast Two likely Republican presidential candidates told a Christian audience that Bush administration policies endangered Israel
07-20-07 - Texas governor plans divestment from Iran Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to divest the state's pension funds from Iran after meeting with Israeli officials.
07-20-07 - Strong backing in House for U.N. panel slam A U.S. House of Representatives resolution slamming the U.N. Human Rights Council for targeting Israel has dozens of co-sponsors. Not a matter for the US Congress.
07-20-07 - Petition to stop the Iranian nuclear threat sent to world leaders Thursday?s conference was sponsored by The Israel Project and featured U.S. Representatives Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) Jon Porter (R-Nev.), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and TIP Founder and President Jennifer Laszlo.
07-20-07 - U.S. Islamic charities feel post 9/11 heat Islamic activists say charities that donate to Palestinian causes have been singled out. "Any charity that decides to provide aid to Palestine is either shut down or intensely scrutinized," "Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror." - Patrick J. Buchanan.
07-20-07 - INTERVIEW - No swift return for Palestinians to battered camp Many of the 32,000 Palestinian refugees who have fled fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants will need temporary homes while their devastated camp is rebuilt, a U.N. official said on Friday.
07-20-07 - Ahmadinejad warns: Enemies will be 'burned' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced his support for Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah during an official state visit to Syria, warning 'enemies of the region' to abandon hostile plans or risk being 'burned'.
07-20-07 - Israel slams Iran-Syria alliance Any withdrawal from the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981, would see the Jewish state "find itself without peace and without the Golan," Eitan said. Not theirs to keep in the first place.
07-20-07 - Abrams reassures Jewish leaders Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser who is often the last word on Israel-related issues, spoke Thursday in a conference call with the Jewish leaders, a number of participants said.
07-19-07 - Iran shows new scholars' footage
07-19-07 - Another Step Toward War with Iran ** Iranian influence in Iraq is now becoming the accepted reason among American political elites as to why US forces are failing. The Lieberman amendment also claims that Iran is providing a safe-haven for al Qaeda fighters, even though the group is allegedly blowing up Iraqi Shias daily.
07-19-07 - No Evidence of Iran?s role in violence and instability in Iraq ? confirms British Foreign Minister
07-19-07 - Gates shows hurt over war deaths The moment came as he described writing notes to the families of soldiers who had died in the conflict, calling them "our country's sons and daughters".
07-19-07 - Plame lawsuit dismissed in CIA leak case
07-19-07 - Vets' Disability Pay Is Widely Disparate
07-19-07 - RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again.
07-19-07 - Ahmadinejad mocks Israel, praises Lebanon during Syria visit Iran's President Mamoud Ahmadinejad mocked Israel and called for Lebanese unity during meetings in Damascus Thursday with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
07-19-07 - Can't Find Osama? Attack Iran Instead by Philip Giraldi ** The neoconservative architects of the Pentagon assault on Iraq that has turned that country into a failed state and a magnet for terrorism have left for greener pastures, but not a one has admitted to error or been publicly admonished. Several, including Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Council's Elliot Abrams, are still in positions of power, advocating a new war as part of a larger conflict that will go on indefinitely, everywhere. Former CIA official Philip Giraldi breaks it down for you.
07-19-07 - A Wake-up Call ** As even diehard Republican Patrick J. Buchanan observed on July 17, with three US aircraft carrier battle groups in congested waters off Iran, another Tonkin Gulf incident could easily be engineered to set us at war with Iran. If Bush?s intentions were merely to bomb a nuclear reactor, he would not need three carrier strike forces. Lately, the administration has switched to blaming Iran for the war in Iraq. The US Senate has already lined up behind the latest lie with a 97-0 vote to condemn Iran.
07-19-07 - Jordanian FM: Peace with Palestinians before Syria
07-19-07 - AIPAC panel lobbies on Iran About 100 members of AIPAC's executive committee meeting in Washington this week pushed bills that would tighten existing sanctions, as well as enable state and local governments to divest from Iran.
07-19-07 - Google's neocon publicist Valleywag points out that Google's spokesman, Australian Rob Shilkin, penned several pieces four years ago praising the Iraq war. From personal experience via my Neocon Watch newsgroup at Google, I can tell you that someone at Google does not take too kindly to anti-Neocon sentiment.
07-19-07 - Saudis at foreign battles embarrass homeland Lebanese officials say dozens of Saudis are among militants of the Fatah al-Islam militant group which has been battling the army for two months in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
07-19-07 - Spy Towers on the US Border Boeing has enlisted the aid of Elbit Systems, Israel's major defense contractor, to construct high-tech surveillance along the border of the U.S. and Mexico. So far, the high-tech fiasco is not working and Arizona residents are organizing a lawsuit to halt government spying on U.S. citizens. Just what we need.
07-19-07 - Lebanese army shells militants cornered in camp
07-19-07 - Israel's envoy to U.S.: Free world is under attack by Iran Hegee also had harsh words for former president Jimmy Carter, whose recent book comparing Israel?s policies in the West Bank with Apartheid has stirred bitter controversy in the United States and abroad. "Israel has an enemy in America called Jimmy Carter," he said, calling on the former president to "disclose how much money the Carter Center receives from anti-Israel sources in the Middle East."
07-19-07 - Christian Zionists: Ahmadinejad is new Hitler Christians United for Israel call on US to attack Iran immediately, move US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as sign of support
07-18-07 - Marine guilty of plotting to murder Iraqi civilian A US Marine was on Wednesday found guilty of kidnapping and conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian killed during a late-night raid outside Baghdad last year.
07-18-07 - UN welcomes 'positive' Iran moves The head of the UN's atomic energy agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has welcomed Iran's decision to allow inspections of its heavy water reactor at Arak.
07-18-07 - US draws new Iraq-Al Qaeda link The US military on Wednesday added new grist to the Bush administration's claims that the Al Qaeda that American forces are battling in Iraq is an extension of the group that was behind the 9/11 attacks.
07-18-07 - Hagel Says There is Only a Political Solution to the Iraq Problem Hagel=one of the good guys.
07-18-07 - Republicans block Senate's Iraq withdrawal plan Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a personal appearance on Capitol Hill as the vote approached, shuttling between meetings with law-makers, in an apparent bid to bolster the Republican vote. So much for the Iraq Study Group's recommendations.
07-18-07 - 'Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me:' Fitzgerald goes on air Patrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago-based U.S. attorney, will make an appearance on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the Chicago-based Saturday comical hour on National Public Radio. While Fitzgerald plays tiddly winks on NPR, the neocons have gotten away with one of the biggest deceptions this country has ever seen (Iraq). And they're doing it again - only this time, Iran is the target. Too bad Fitz can't bring them to justice (before it's too late).
07-18-07 - How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war In 2003, Mr Blair phoned the owner of The Times and The Sun on 11 and 13 March, and on 19 March, the day before Britain and the United States invaded Iraq. The war was strongly supported by Murdoch-owned newspapers around the world.
07-18-07 - New life for Iraq Study Group's plan?
07-18-07 - Cheney's office implies it has executive privilege of its own Weeks after claiming that it was not a part of the executive branch, the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be readying an independent assertion of executive privilege.
07-18-07 - Rep. condemned for Hitler comparison Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) called on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to reprimand Ellison.
07-18-07 - US troop levels in Iraq unsustainable after mid-2008: Powell Powell, a retired four-star general who was President George W. Bush's top diplomat from 2001 to 2005, and was the military's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff during 1989-1993, also called on Washington to find a way to talk with the powerful Palestinian group Hamas, despite its alleged terror links. Bring back Powell. The neocons may have duped him into giving that speech, but Powell's credibility remains intact, at least to me it does.
07-18-07 - Militants say ready to talk to end Lebanon fighting The Islamist militant group battling Lebanese troops at a Palestinian refugee camp said on Wednesday it was willing to resume talks to end the fighting, a move that came after it lost ground in a two-month-old battle.
07-18-07 - Judge dismisses all charges in Chinca's Market case In dismissing multiple counts of attempted receiving stolen property Tuesday, the judge said testimony in the case suggested the real focus of the investigation was not about cigarettes, but the store owner's "connection to his Palestinian homeland, his practice of the Muslim religion, and relationship with other Middle Eastern shopkeepers in Butte County. Thus does the FBI continue to do the bidding of the Israeli lobby.
07-18-07 - Syrian envoy to UN: Israel fabricating evidence against us Bashar Ja'afari told Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Syria protests the fact that the UN "adopted the fabricated claims that it received by Israeli intelligence sources." Why not? The US does.
07-18-07 - McCain supports war in speech to evangelical supporters John McCain told Christian evangelical supporters of Israel that withdrawing troops from Iraq now would be "one of the most catastrophic and consequential disasters for this nation." .....McCain said backing the Democratic-sponsored measure and withdrawing would be to "declare defeat and allow al-Qaida to obtain victory." Staying and stabilizing Iraq could help ensure the safety of Israel and the Middle East, he said, winning loud applause. As to the first part of the excerpt: which nation? Clearly he has Israel confused with the one he was elected to represent: America.
07-18-07 - ?Not One Inch? Still Alive And Well The group also heard emotional calls to action on Iran; Hagee has openly called for pre-emptive war to end that country?s nuclear program.
07-18-07 - Our soldiers pay the price In 1948 America cast the deciding vote in the U.N. permanent Security Council to partition the nation of Palestine to create a homeland for the Jews spread around the world. We will be paying for that mistake forever, for being staunch supporters of Israel.
07-18-07 - U.N. envoy says arms smuggling threatens Lebanon peace Syria's ambassador Bashar Ja'afari denied Syria was funnelling weapons over the border. He accused Israel of violating the resolution through overflights which he said provided intelligence on the alleged smuggling.
07-18-07 - 5 dead in fighting in Lebanon Four Lebanese soldiers were killed as Lebanese troops battled militants Wednesday inside a northern Palestinian refugee camp, a senior military official said. A teenager was later killed by a militant rocket.
07-18-07 - US skeptical about French fence-mending trip to Syria The United States expressed skepticism Wednesday over France's decision to send a top diplomat for talks with Syria, Washington's arch enemy.
07-18-07 - This flurry of Middle East activity is the product of a very real threat: Iran ** As the Guardian reported this week, the notion of military action to prevent a nuclear Iran is under serious consideration in the White House - with Bush apparently leaning towards Dick Cheney's view that it may be necessary to use force before they leave office in January 2009. The flock of US presidential candidates are all at pains not to rule out military action and so, strikingly, was David Miliband in his first interview as foreign secretary.
07-18-07 - Sun editor wants Black columns The editor of the New York Sun invited media mogul Conrad Black, now a convicted felon, to write for the newspaper from prison. One Israel-supporter(neocon, same thing) washes the back of another. How charming.
07-17-07 - Tonkin Gulf II and the Guns of August? by Patrick J. Buchanan ** As Congress prepares for its August recess, the probability of U.S. air strikes on Iran rises with each week. A third carrier, the USS Enterprise, and its battle group is joining the Nimitz and Stennis in the largest concentration of U.S. naval power ever off the coast of Iran. And Tonkin Gulf II may have already occurred.
07-17-07 - Help lags for homeless female veterans
07-17-07 - US 'appalled' as Iran shows US-Iranians on TV The United States said Tuesday it was "appalled" at the treatment of four US-Iranians detained in Tehran after Iranian television aired footage of two academics ahead of their alleged "confessions."
07-17-07 - Most GOP Military Donations for President Went to Ron Paul Ron Paul - a hero on Capitol Hill. Gotta love him.
07-17-07 - Russia ridicules expulsion of diplomats and promises a 'targeted' retaliation
07-17-07 - US wants fresh Iran talks on Iraq "We think that given the situation in Iraq and given Iran's continued behaviour that is leading to further instability in Iraq, that it would be appropriate to have another face-to-face meeting... ," Mr McCormack told reporters. Iran now behind sectarian violence.
07-17-07 - U.S. says Iran knows its weapons reaching Taliban Making the case for war.
07-17-07 - US Senate locked in Iraq battle Senators are due to vote on three major amendments to a defence funding bill, one of which would require withdrawal of US troops by the end of April 2008.
07-17-07 - Googlers applaud GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul
07-17-07 - Turkish PM defends gas deal with Iran Erdogan was speaking a day after Washington criticised the agreement signed last week after talks between Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler and Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh.
07-17-07 - Haniya rejected Iran's involvement in Gaza attacks On Monday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied PA President Mahmoud Abbas?s allegations that Iran, Syria, and Qatar had a hand in the recent Gaza Strip attacks.
07-17-07 - Notes From a Beach Blanket The AIPAC spy scandal: now this is one case that seems to have been dropped into a bottomless pit, but no, it has merely been delayed by the Scooter Libby-esque tactics of the defense team.
07-17-07 - Did the UN Cave to Israel?
07-17-07 - Bishara attends Lebanon 'victory' parley Azmi Bishara, a former Knesset member who resigned and fled Israel this year after it emerged that he could be prosecuted for illicit communications with Hezbollah, attended an anniversary conference in Beirut this week marking a year since the war between the Lebanese militia and Israel.
07-17-07 - Pro-Israel Christians to push Iran sanctions Speakers at the group's second national conference include the group's founder, Pastor John Hagee, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, a probable candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
07-17-07 - Lebanese soldier killed as commandos close in on Islamists A Lebanese soldier was killed on Tuesday in clashes with Islamist fighters as the army closed in on the extremists' positions in a bombed-out refugee camp, a military spokesman said.
07-17-07 - Bush, Ban to discuss Darfur, pressure on Iran
07-17-07 - Italian minister says isolating Hamas may help al Qaeda The West's policy of isolating Hamas could backfire and push the militant Palestinian group into the arms of al Qaeda, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said.
07-17-07 - Lebanese army makes new gains in Palestinian camp Lebanese troops seized more territory inside a Palestinian refugee camp in pitched battles on Tuesday against al Qaeda-inspired militants, security sources said.
07-17-07 - Assad: Golan guarantee before talks Bashar Assad conditioned new peace talks with Israel on a guaranteed return of the Golan Heights to Syria.
07-16-07 - Iran to air statements by detained US-Iranians Iran will on Wednesday broadcast apparent confessions by two US-Iranian academics detained since May on charges of harming national security in cases that have raised tensions with Washington.
07-16-07 - Why US sees Al Qaeda as a growing threat Washington's intelligence and security agencies say they've watched with increasing frustration in recent months as Al Qaeda's central leadership has reestablished core functions in Pakistan's tribal areas Pakistan HAS NUKES. NOW. Hey I know - let's attack Iran. Brilliant!
07-16-07 - General Pace: Another Troop Buildup Possible
07-16-07 - Britain expels Russian diplomats as row over Litvinenko murder grows
07-16-07 - Iran TV shows detained Americans
07-16-07 - Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran ** The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned......"The red line is not in Iran. The red line is in Israel. If Israel is adamant it will attack, the US will have to take decisive action," Mr Cronin said. "The choices are: tell Israel no, let Israel do the job, or do the job yourself."
07-16-07 - On Heels Of Senate?s Iran Vote, Brownback Declared I?m Ready To Strike Iran ** On Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-0 to pass a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to censure Iran ?for what it said was complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.? The resolution required the Bush administration to regularly report to Congress on Iran?s role in Iraq.
07-16-07 - U.N. chief offers to help start Israel-Syria talks Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered on Monday to facilitate any future peace talks between Israel and Syria, which the United States has shunned.
07-16-07 - Report: Israel not ready for missile strikes ** The report also critcized a recent decision by the military to collect gas masks issued to Israelis during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as it would slow the public's response to any unconventional missile offensive by countries such as Iran or Syria. Based on related issues being reported dealing with war preparations in the past few weeks, Israel is quite clearly preparing for some sort of attack.
07-16-07 - Iran battles US, Israel... in computer game Iran on Monday launched a computer game with a strong political message that mixes the standoff over its nuclear programme, the mystery of missing diplomats in Lebanon and its hatred of Israel.
07-16-07 - In coordinated moves, U.S. and Israel launch peace push ** In a meeting Monday in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to accelerate peace talks.
Several hours later, in a clearly coordinated move, President Bush issued a major policy statement in Washington, calling for a regional peace conference to help the parties "move forward on a successful path toward a Palestinian state.".....It has been a long time since the key players have shown such determination to move ahead. I will reiterate my strong belief that these moves made by Israel and thusly the US are part of the Attack Iran campaign.
07-16-07 - Most Christians support Israel AND Palestine, oppose Iran war: NCC leaders As Pastor John Hagee prepares for his annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) gathering this week in Washington, D.C., two leaders of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) are reminding observers that most Christians do not share CUFI's stated goals......Pastor Hagee's efforts are the latest in a century old apocalyptic movement that began in earnest in the 19th century. Sometimes called Christian Zionism because of its uncritical support for the State of Israel, it is based on a literal reading of Biblical apocalyptic texts.
07-16-07 - Bomb hits Lebanon UN peacekeepers A UN spokeswoman said no casualties were reported and the organisation was investigating the attack.
07-16-07 - Four more Lebanese soldiers die in battle for camp Lebanese troops pushed deeper into a Palestinian refugee camp on Monday, seeking to finish an eight-week confrontation with al Qaeda-inspired militants during which at least 225 people have been killed.
07-16-07 - Bush launches peace bid with Middle East talks This comes on the same day a report at the Guardian articulates that Cheney is pushing for action on Iran. Not a coincidence. The efforts toward Middle East peace are part of an attempt to get Arabs and Europe on board for action on Iran (very similar to the runup to the Iraq war).
07-16-07 - Jury selection starts in Hamas case Lawyers began quizzing potential jurors Monday in the trial of leaders of a Muslim charity accused of funneling millions of dollars to the militant group Hamas.
07-16-07 - France warns Israel over possible attempt to kidnap Hizbullah members According to the report, the warning was issued after French intelligence received information saying Mossad was planning to attack Hizbullah and Amal (Lebanese Resistance Detachments) representatives at the conference
07-16-07 - 'IDF preparing for all-out war' When conflict breaks out with Syria, he said, Israel will face a challenge, because the Syrians "will be willing to take military and civilian hits but will strive to harm the Israeli home front in order to gain future achievements in a political process and to further split Israeli society.
07-15-07 - Most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis: report Most foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, despite attempts by US officials to portray Syria and Iran as the main culprits of violence, a US newspaper reported Sunday.
07-15-07 - Hadley Says Bush Won't Budge on Reassessing Iraq Plan (Update1)
07-15-07 - U.S. is building database on Iraqis
07-15-07 - Don't Delay: US Out of Iraq Now by Rep. Ron Paul ** We have no guarantee the new strategy demanded by this legislation would not actually expand our military activities to Iran and Syria and beyond. I urge my colleagues to reject this legislation and put forth an effective strategy to end the war in Iraq and to bring our troops home.
07-15-07 - Bush to offer new support for Palestinians: Hadley President George W. Bush is expected to outline Monday new US support for the beleaguered Palestinian government, a senior White House official said Sunday.
07-15-07 - The Politico?s Brazen Lies About Ron Paul Neocons, the Israeli lobby, fear Paul's rising stardom because Paul dares to put America's interests first. All of the other candidates have made the customary kowtow to AIPAC, and threaten Iran with military action in obeisance to the lobby.
07-15-07 - More NeoCrazy Media Sycophancy Russia and China, as well as France and the United Kingdom, will "provide immediate assistance" to Iran if it "is a victim of an act, or an object of a threat of, aggression in which nuclear weapons are used."
07-15-07 - Lebanon army advances into camp, 100th soldier dies Lebanese troops advanced for the first time on Sunday into a Palestinian refugee camp as they battled al Qaeda-inspired militants, and two soldiers were killed raising the military death toll to 100.
07-15-07 - Islamists fire rockets as Lebanese army pounds hideouts Islamist fighters on Sunday fired rockets from their holdout in a battered refugee camp in Lebanon where the army has been battling to crush them for eight weeks, police said.
07-15-07 - Kristol Gazing: The Media Pundit From the Right, Who Is Always Wrong
07-15-07 - Kidnapped Israeli troops 'alive' France's foreign minister says he has heard that two Israeli soldiers seized in a Hezbollah raid over the Lebanese border last year are still alive.
07-15-07 - Inside Track: Rudy?s New Foreign Policy Posse by Philip Giraldi ** Podhoretz has recently called on the United States to bomb Iran and he describes the current situation?pitting Washington against what he describes as "the Islamofascist threat"?as World War IV.
07-15-07 - Report: Iran has 600 targets for missile strike in Israel if attacked ** Iran's warning refers to talk in Israel and the United States of a possible military strike to prevent the Islamic republic from attaining nuclear capability. Various channels delivered the Iranian message, which also warns against an attack on Syria.
07-15-07 - USA TODAY prints falsehood, Refuses to run retraction W
e think USA TODAY owes it to these dead young servicemen,
to their sisters and mothers, and to the American public, to report this
incident accurately. The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty has profound
geopolitical significance. Readers need full, unfiltered information.
07-14-07 - Soldier Gets Self Shot in Leg to Avoid Returning to Iraq A soldier who recently returned from Iraq has admitted he paid someone $500 to shoot him in the leg so he could avoid returning for another tour.
07-14-07 - S Korean ship 'sinks off Iran' Seyed Masih Momeni said the ship had been carrying iron to Iran from China.
07-14-07 - Air Force quietly building Iraq presence
07-14-07 - Russia pulls out of arms-control treaty Putin has in the past threatened to freeze his country's compliance with the treaty, accusing the United States and its NATO partners of undermining regional stability with U.S. plans for a missile defense system in former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe.
07-14-07 - US troops tell magazine about 'brutal side' of Iraq war only the Los Angeles Times daily had written about The Nation's issue, which on Saturday continued to go unreported by the country's main television stations and newspapers.
07-14-07 - Taliban leader promises bigger terrorist attacks
07-14-07 - US troops find Iranian rockets aimed at Iraq base
07-14-07 - Republicans press Bush over Iraq
07-14-07 - Neocon Bill Kristol expects Bush to attack Pakistan
07-14-07 - Is War With Iran Inevitable? ** hunker down, get ready for the coming storm ? prepare yourself for gas prices that will make it impossible to drive without taking out a bank loan ? and, most importantly, stay online. Because the first news of the Big War will be headlined right here on Antiwar.com ? along with a thorough debunking of the alleged "incident" that sparks it.
07-14-07 - France hosts Lebanon crisis talks Among the participants are also representatives from the opposition Shia group Hezbollah. Hezbollah sent its team despite complaints from French Jewish groups who have branded the group a terrorist organisation.
07-14-07 - A history with Iran There is also the continued blind support America has given to Israel in every step of their outrageous and self-destructive oppression of the Palestinian people. We have been bombing, interfering with and disrespecting the nations of the Middle East for 50 years.
07-13-07 - US seizes 'Iranian-backed police militant'
07-13-07 - UN hails Iran nuclear agreement Tehran will allow inspectors into Arak heavy water plant and agree safeguards at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog said.
07-13-07 - White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat
07-13-07 - Bush Set To Block Assets of Iranian Quds Force The designation of the IRGC and Quds Force would mark the first time the finance related executive order process, reserved usually for foreign terrorist organizations, would be used against a branch of a foreign military.
07-13-07 - U.S. Soldier Tell Of Rape and Suicide of 15 Year Old Iraqi Girl What this son of a bitch talks about should be investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Disturbing.
07-13-07 - A Different 'Gut Feeling': Israel Attacking Iran ** It always pays to be suspicious when a U.S. official ramps up fear, but Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" remark about an Al Qaeda attack on the U.S. this summer sparks a different suspicion ? and a similar sinking feeling: Israel is about to launch a unilateral strike on Iran. The August 2005 issue of the American Conservative featured this Deep Background column by former CIA official Philip Giraldi: "In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney?s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing?that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack?but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections." Cheney and the neocons have been looking for another 911-style attack to use as a pretext for an attack on Iran. Looks like they may just get one (like they did for the attack on Iraq). Israel's minions in the US, including Joe Lieberman, are already openly calling for an attack on Iran. Same with Bolton. Latest updates of this topic can be found here, compiled by yours truly.
07-13-07 - Ellison cites Reichstag burning in attacking Bush policies "It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said July 8, addressing a group of Minnesota atheists. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."
07-13-07 - Turkey: US arms end up in Kurdish hands Nabi Sensoy said that the United States is not doing enough to influence Kurdish politicians in key positions in the Iraqi government to crack down on the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, which has been fighting for an independent Kurdistan within Turkey for decades.
07-13-07 - Signing Statements Erode Constitutional Balance by Rep. Ron Paul these statements grant the president power not given by the Constitution, allowing him to usurp powers of the judicial branch. Finally, the idea of agencies refusing to enforce the law as enacted sets precedent for the type of run away administrative actions our constitution was expressly enacted in order to avoid.
07-13-07 - U.S., China clash on exports to Iran The United States and China disagree over whether some Chinese exports to Iran violate sanctions.
07-13-07 - Former Media Mogul Conrad Black Convicted of Mail Fraud, Obstruction of Justice Black is evidently a neocon-sympathizer.
07-13-07 - Israeli PM in secret visit to Jordan: reports According to the Maariv newspaper, the meeting on Wednesday concerned the possible resumption of negotiations between Israel and Syria, which have been suspended since 2000.
07-13-07 - IPF wants more carrots for Iran The bill, proposed by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the Jewish chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, would further restrict presidential waivers on sanctions and would extend sanctions to countries and companies that deal with Iran's nuclear sector.
07-13-07 - Senators urge Rice on Hezbollah Ten U.S. senators urged Condoleezza Rice to work with the United Nations and Lebanon to end arms smuggling according to the terms that ended last summer's Israel-Hezbollah war. Not a matter for the US Congress.
07-13-07 - Iranian general's wife says Israel kidnapped him Israel is responsible for the disappearance of former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asgari, who has been missing since February, his wife Ziba Ahmadi said in an interview to Iranian news agency Mehr.
07-13-07 - Refugee crisis threatens Lebanon
07-13-07 - Dallas court agrees to protect Israeli officer's identity In May, Judge A. Joe Fish, a federal judge in Dallas, allowed measures that would conceal the identity of a member of the Shin Beth, Israel's security service, in the trial against five men alleged to have funneled funds raised by the Holy Land Foundation to Hamas
07-13-07 - Robert Fisk: TE Lawrence had it right about Iraq Has the US General David Petraeus read this? Has Bush? Have any of the tired American columnists whose anti-Arab bias is wobbling close to racism, bothered to study this wisdom? I remember how Daniel Pipes - one of the great illusionists of modern American journalism - announced in the summer of 2003 that what the Iraqis needed was (no smirking here, please), a "democratically minded strongman"......But wait, Pipes is at it again. The director of the "Middle East Forum" has been writing in Canada's National Post about "Palestine". His piece is filled with the usual bile. The neocons and thus the Bush administration have 'misunderestimated' those 'backward Arabs'. So too has Israel. They simply will not bend to someone else's will.
07-13-07 - Ackerman marks Goldwasser-Regev anniversary Not a matter for the US Congress.
07-13-07 - Red Crescent provides aid to Palestinians in Syrian
07-13-07 - Death toll climbs as camp battle heats up in north Lebanon Evacuation operations have been stalled since Wednesday when relief workers tried in vain to rescue the fighters' families -- about 45 children and 20 women -- who failed to turn up at an agreed meeting point just inside the camp.
07-13-07 - Conrad Black convicted on three charges A jury convicted the former owner of the Jerusalem Post of obstruction of justice and fraud.
07-12-07 - Bush denies al-Qaeda has renewed US President George W Bush has denied that al-Qaeda is as strong as it was at the time of the 9/11 attacks.
07-12-07 - US House votes for troop pullout
07-12-07 - Bush again links Iraq violence to 9/11 It was the second time in two weeks that Bush has made the link in an apparent attempt to transform lingering fear of another U.S. terrorist attack into backing for the current buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq.
07-12-07 - Iranian forces, Kurdish guerrillas clash Iranian artillery shelled near Iraqi Kurd villages Thursday as Iranian troops clashed with Kurdish guerrillas making an incursion across the border, officials in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan said.
07-12-07 - German firms smuggled nuclear material to Iran: prosecutor German prosecutors on Thursday said they are investigating some 50 companies suspected of smuggling technology to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant via Russia.
07-12-07 - US Commerce Dept. blacklists Iranian energy, industrial groups
07-12-07 - Homeland Security chief warns of 'increased risk? "I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in an unusually blunt and frank assessment of America's terror threat level. The homeland isn't really secure if all of our troops are overseas fighting a nation that had nothing to do with 911. Ironic, ain't it?
07-12-07 - UN positive on Iran nuclear talks The UN nuclear agency says talks with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme have been constructive and will continue in the coming weeks.
07-12-07 - US May Cut Navy Presence in Persian Gulf
07-12-07 - Bush refuses to explain Libby order President Bush refused to explain to Congress on Wednesday why he commuted the prison sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
07-12-07 - Libby Ordered to Begin Serving Supervised Release Libby, freed by Bush from his 2 1/2-year prison sentence in the CIA leak case, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to report to the probation office in Washington by the end of the day tomorrow......Walton also wrote that if Libby violates any of the required conditions of his release, which ''this court has no reason to believe will occur,'' he could be ordered to spend the term in prison.
07-12-07 - Americans Still Peeved at Libby Commutation Few adults in the United States believe U.S. president George W. Bush acted properly in the case of Lewis Libby, according to a two recent public opinion polls. In a survey by Gallup released by USA Today, only 13 per cent of respondents think Bush was right to commute the former vice-presidential aide?s prison sentence.
07-12-07 - U.S. Senate panel moves to cut off funding for Cheney in flap with Dems over executive order
07-12-07 - Britain raises pressure in Litvinenko row
07-12-07 - Disregard Subpoenas, Justice Dept. Says In a broadly worded legal opinion, the Justice Department has concluded that President Bush?s former top lawyer, and possibly other senior White House officials, can ignore subpoenas from Congress to testify about the firings of U.S. attorneys.
07-12-07 - Dem calls for Special Prosecutor to investigate Gonzales' lies to Congress Tuesday's Washington Post reports that Gonzales was given at least a half-dozen reports detailing FBI abuses of power in the three months before testifying to Congress where he sought to renew the Patriot Act. In front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on April 27, 2005, he claimed he knew of no wrongdoing or abuse of power, and that the Patriot Act was free of problems, despite the reports of numerous violations of the law and FBI protocol.
07-12-07 - Lebanon army shells refugee camp
07-12-07 - 4 Lebanese soldiers killed near camp
07-12-07 - Israel's Livni rules out resuming talks with Syria Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rules out resuming talks with Syria and believes Damascus poses a problem which must be tackled by the region, she said in a French magazine published on Thursday.
07-12-07 - Giuliani, the Likud Candidate?
07-12-07 - Worsening turmoil in Lebanon likely to hurt Hariri murder probe: UN
07-12-07 - SHOCK AND HORROR IN AUGUST / IRAN ATTACK ** and Bush will give Israel the OK to attack Iran and when Iran retaliates ~ we will attack Iran.
07-12-07 - Oil prices touch $77 per barrel Global oil prices have briefly touched above $77 a barrel, an 11-month high, lifted by supply concerns in the US and large buys by speculators.
07-12-07 - Syria may be flexible on key Israeli demand: UN Syria has signaled to the U.N.'s Middle East envoy a willingness to change its relationship with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas if progress were made towards a peace deal with Israel.
07-12-07 - Amnesty seeks UN probe on Lebanon Amnesty also urged Israel to turn over maps of areas in southern Lebanon which it targeted with cluster bombs.
07-12-07 - New envoy to U.K.: Jews must do more to put Iran on the agenda The Israeli ambassador-elect to Britain, Ron Prosor, said Tuesday that the Jews around the world and the global community should do more to focus attention on Iran and its nuclear aspirations.
07-12-07 - Hariri panel 'has found suspects' In his latest report, Serge Brammertz said he now knew the names of people who bought the van used in the 2005 assassination in Beirut.
07-12-07 - Wolfowitz: Return to Sender? From her position as an AEI fellow, Kirkpatrick promoted the policies pushed by the Project for the New American Century, described by RightWeb as "a letterhead group" based in the same office building as AEI and headed by several neoconservative notables, including Irving Kristol's son William. Both before and after the 9/11 attacks, PNAC played an aggressive role encouraging the Bush administration to invade Iraq.
07-12-07 - Lebanon war was a success, says Olmert "We had great achievements in this war," Israel killed roughly 1000 civilians, and destroyed mostly civilian infrastructure. THey then fired off a million cluster bomblets 3 days before a ceasefire was to be implemented (which they knew about). People are still being killed to this day by those bomblets. Israel has refused to provide UN officials with detailed maps of the areas it targeted with those bomblets. My guess is because they then would be caught redhanded targeting civilians.
07-12-07 - Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.
07-12-07 - U.N. probe IDs some links to Hariri slay Brammertz also said investigators had determined that the suicide bomber was not Ahmed Abu Adass, a Palestinian living in Lebanon who appeared on a videotape claiming that he would carry out the attack that killed Hariri. He didn't say how they reached that conclusion. He said it was possible that Abu Adass "was forced or duped" into recording the video and then killed or that he "willingly recorded the video together with individuals belonging to a wider extremist group" involved in the assassination.
Odd.
07-12-07 - Jews slam Kucinich on Iran Jewish leaders slammed Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich for denying that Iran's president seeks to destroy Israel.
07-12-07 - Southern Lebanon's slow recovery
07-11-07 - Government report: Al Qaeda strongest since September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new U.S. government analysis concludes, according to a senior government official who has seen it. As we sink deeper into the clusterf#k that is the war on Iraq, Al Qaeda has gathered strength. Invading Iraq didn't make us any more safe. In fact, it's just the opposite.
07-11-07 - Republicans block US troop rest plan US Senate Republicans have blocked a proposal to give American troops in Iraq more rest from battle, as Democrats renewed their attempts to change President George W Bush's Iraq policy.
07-11-07 - Turkey not ruling out military response to Kurdish rebels: ambassador
07-11-07 - Boehner Calls Iraq Defectors in GOP 'Wimps'
07-11-07 - By freeing Libby, Bush protects himself
07-11-07 - West will fail, says ex-CIA operative AS PESSIMISM grows in the US about Iraq, the American commander there has warned that the war will take many years to win and a former top CIA officer has told a Sydney conference that defeat is inevitable in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
07-11-07 - Palestinian civilians flee Lebanon refugee camp The last remaining Palestinian civilians in a militant-held refugee camp in north Lebanon fled today in anticipation of a final assault by the Lebanese army.
07-11-07 - 'US hasn't yet grasped Iran threat' ** Ilan Berman, speaking at the Conservative Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, said that the US hasn't made that choice because it "hasn't yet grasped the fundamental threat to American interests" posed by Iran. That also leads to some divergence between America and Israel in their sense of urgency and "how much time is left" for dealing with Iran, he said. Heritage Foundation - another neocon 'thinktank'. The problem with this assessment: the American national interest isn't threatened by Iran. Israel's is. Consequently, Israel wants US to take out Iran (like we took out Saddam, their previous primary threat).
07-11-07 - Brown downplays Iraq terror link Gordon Brown has said Britain would be under threat from al-Qaeda terrorists "irrespective" of the war in Iraq.
07-11-07 - Lieberman: US will back Israeli strike on Iran ** Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
07-11-07 - Oil prices fall back from highs
07-11-07 - UN commander in Golan 'worried by Israel's actions' According to him, the Syrians have not stationed any special forces in the area next to the border that would be capable of launching a surprise attacking against Israel. "On the Syrian side I do not notice any unusual preparations," he says. "On the Israeli side, however, we see intensive activity? Israel's right to defend itself is self-understood, but its current activities do not contribute to the efforts to diminish the tensions in the region? The actions on Israel's side are not very helpful when it comes to calming the Syrians down."
07-11-07 - Analysis: Rumors of Syria-Israel war Dennis Ross, a former senior U.S. Middle East peace negotiator, was quoted by an Israeli newspaper as saying he thinks "there is a risk of war" between Syria and Israel in the summer. Ross told YnetNews, Yedioth Ahronoth's Internet edition, that "no one has made any decisions, but the Syrians are positioning themselves for war." According to the Austrian UN official, Israel is exaggerating the Syrian threat, and is itself engaging in belligerent behavior. This is reminiscent of the atmosphere in the runup to the Six Day War. So the question then becomes: why does Israel want to attack Syria? This is what they seem to be leading up to. Well, it may be because they didn't really win last year's war with Hezbollah. And being as though this would be a war with another STATE, and thus not a more difficult guerilla war, they may actually succeed in beating up on Syria - a nation whose military isn't the biggest threat in the world. It would be equivalent to shooting fish in a barrel in order to a) make yourself feel better, and b)attempt to instill fear in those pesky uppity Arabs who may suddenly feel heartened by Hezb's successes of last year. In other words, Israel may want to pick out some small weak Arab country to slap around a bit in order to make an example out of them.
07-11-07 - Fear and fragile peace: a long-suffering people prepare for a new war Israeli bombing raids had deliberately targeted bridges and roads, and in a departing act, dropped 4m cluster bombs on orange orchards and farms in the final hours of the war. Some 120,000 have since been recovered, according to the mine-clearing taskforce operated by the UN and Lebanese authorities.
07-11-07 - A son waits to join Hizbullah to avenge shattered family On July 23 last year, an Israeli tank missile burst through the roof of a hired white van, killing three of the family's members and inflicting lifelong injuries on the dozen survivors.
07-11-07 - Soldier shot dead at Lebanon camp A Lebanese soldier has died in fighting with Islamist militants under siege for weeks at a refugee camp in Lebanon.
07-11-07 - Christians petition against Iran The pro-Israel group says the United Nations must take stronger measures to confront Iran?s nuclear program and its president?s incitement to genocide against Israel. Those being the Christian Zionists. The REAL Christians - ie, the ones that do work that is the most Christ-like - are over in Hebron helping protect the Palestinians from Israeli soldier and settler violence.
07-11-07 - Sarkozy petitioned on Hezbollah Nearly 100 U.S. congressman urged France?s president to add Hezbollah to the European Union?s list of terrorist groups.
07-11-07 - Senior Men to learn more of U.S. Middle East ?problem? Dr. Gerteiny explains how anti-Western Islämism is reactive to a U.S. Middle East policy inordinately influenced by the Evangelical and Jewish Zionist lobbies.
07-11-07 - Palestinian cleared of US terror charges sentenced to jail Salah was found guilty of obstruction of justice for lying under oath when he was sued, along with Hamas and others, by the parents of a US student killed in an attack in Israel for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Convicted of same crime Libby was. No sentence commutation from Bush for this man?
07-11-07 - Lebanese PM urges unity on war anniversary
07-11-07 - Amnesty faults Israel, Lebanon on war Amnesty said more than 1,000 civilians were killed in the 34-day war. Since then, 24 more people have been killed in south Lebanon by explosions of cluster munitions fired by Israel during the war, the group said in a statement.
07-11-07 - Shebaa Farms report does not determine sovereignty: Ban That contradicted a senior Israeli official who said on Wednesday that a UN cartographer has determined for the first time that the Shebaa Farms, long the centre of a territorial dispute, belong to Lebanon.
07-11-07 - A year after war, Israelis resilient The irony - a year later as Lebanon still lays in ruins thanks to Israel's largescale destruction of the nation - Israel's economy is 'booming' and Israelis are 'resilient'. Neither Hezbollah nor Lebanon were ever a threat to Israel's existence. Israel gets away scotfree after destroying another Arab nation. Not one Israeli shekel went to Lebanon's reconstruction. Same goes for that of the Palestinians. ANother stark difference between America and Israel.
07-11-07 - Beijing backs Syrian Golan claim
07-10-07 - Reservist fighting his fifth war call-up
07-10-07 - Iran conservatives worried over Ahmadinejad policies: reformist
07-10-07 - UN nuclear envoy due in Iran
07-10-07 - Data on Americans mined for terror risk Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said in a report to Congress on the agency's data-mining practices.
07-10-07 - Battle heats up over fired US attorneys President Bush, citing executive privilege, has refused to provide testimony and documents requested by the Democrat-led Congress. Congressional leaders are threatening contempt citations in response. Both sides seem willing to fight over what they deem to be their constitutional prerogatives.
07-10-07 - Iran three years away from nuclear bomb: Israel media ** Public radio said that a special unit headed by a senior officer had been set up to coordinate all information gathered by Israeli intelligence services with the aim of deciding on potential targets in Iran. It did not elaborate. Israel = Chicken Little.
07-10-07 - Bush finds no way out of Iraq as approval ratings plunge
07-10-07 - Dollar plunges to fresh lows The Iraq clusterf#k, among other things, is costing us dearly.
07-10-07 - Embattled Bush seeks to shore up Iraq support Separately, the US announced it was sending the aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise to the Gulf to replace the USS Nimitz. The US Navy said in a statement that deployment of the carrier provided "navy power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behaviour of some countries, as well as support our soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan".
07-10-07 - After GOP vote against Israel funds, pro-Israel Dems warily watch ranks "Republicans have turned around and said 'Israel? Um, not so much,' " one Democrat said. "If some in our caucus think this isn't the third rail, there are Democrats who can say 'not so much.' " Horror of all horrors.
07-10-07 - The myth of Entebbe and the history of Israeli false-flag operations Cui bono ? Who benefits? ? is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror. - Patrick J. Buchanan
07-10-07 - Et Tu, Cal It?s also worth noting that Thomas, like his hard-line neo-conservative and Christian Right allies, has been an ardent promoter of the notion that the West faces in ?Islamofascism? a threat equal to or greater than World War II and the Cold War. Cal Thomas = Israel-firster. America's interests come second to folks like him - and there are many like him in our media, and in government. Solution: wheel out giant catapult, and launch them over to Israel. Problem solved.
07-10-07 - ?Freedom? Scholar Michael Ledeen?s African Friend
07-10-07 - Militants stir in Lebanese outposts "The minute the Lebanese government gives us our rights to live an honest and honorable life in this country, we will hand over our weapons to the Lebanese Army,"
07-10-07 - "Whatever AIPAC Wants, AIPAC Gets" If we took ten Democratic apostates and compared them to ten Democrats who stood by the voters, pro-Israeli PAC contributions were "ten times" greater for the turncoats than those who stayed with their constituencies ($322,000 versus $34,000 on average).
07-10-07 - 'Time running out for Iran strike' ** On Monday, The Washington Post revealed new satellite photos of Iran's enrichment facility at Natanz which showed the digging of a tunnel that analysts said could be used to hide and protect key nuclear components. Notice that 'thinktanks' satellite photos have immediately been siezed upon as fodder for the Attack Iran campaign.
07-10-07 - NATO sees Israel tackling Iran alone ** Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited NATO headquarters in Brussels two weeks ago, came away with the impression that Western powers are unwilling to resort to pre-emptive military strikes to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Yediot Achronot reported Tuesday. Israel is trying like hell to get us to do it. Cheney and the neocons are already onboard.
07-10-07 - LEBANON: Refugees get Saudi funding, demand shelters next to camp
Saudi Arabia has donated $12m to the UN Palestinian relief organisation, UNRWA, which has been distributing the cheques at Beddawi state school, just outside Beddawi refugee camp
07-10-07 - Iranian Jews identity not exchangeable for money, statement Iranian Jewish community on Tuesday refuted Israeli offer for the Jews to go to the occupied Palestinian territories in return for money
07-10-07 - Germany revokes refugee status of Iraqis
07-10-07 - Hezbollah rejects French terrorism charge ahead of talks
07-10-07 - Support for Hezbollah still high in south Lebanon
07-10-07 - Koch on Libby: 'The politics of hatred Ed Koch, staunch Israel-supporter, defends neocon Libby. Big surprise there.
07-10-07 - Growing trend to delegitimize Israel worries Jewish leaders Avinoam Bar-Yosef, JPPPI's director general, said that anti-Israel attacks in the U.S. constitute a "long-term threat" to Israel's standing, American Jewish organizations and the pro-Israel lobby....."In the U.S., the problem is still under the radar. But as a planning institute, we believe that it is necessary to formulate policy on this issue now." The growing trend is to CRITICIZE Israel. To the Israel-defenders, it always comes back to 'anti-Semitism', rather than the heart of the matter - Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
07-10-07 - Buchanan feuds with Foxman "Indeed, if one believes, as devout Catholics do, that Christ and his Church hold the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, it would be anti-Semitic not to pray for the conversation of the Jews," Buchanan wrote. "Even Abe."
07-09-07 - The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness Many of these veterans returned home deeply disturbed by the disparity between the reality of the war and the way it is portrayed by the US government and American media. The way that they are treating Iraqi families which is described on page 2 is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families. These similarities, and others, are probably not a coincidence. Be prepared for the orgy of abuse described in the article.
07-09-07 - Iranian police raid pro-democracy group Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday's anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country's main pro-democracy student group, student leaders said.
07-09-07 - Iran arrests 20 on spying allegations
07-09-07 - Iranian president seeks more U.S. talks Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran is ready to hold more talks with the United States over stabilizing Iraq, the state-run news agency reported.
07-09-07 - IAEA chief says Iran slowing work on uranium enrichment Iran has scaled back its uranium enrichment program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday, suggesting the move on the part of Tehran could signal willingness to resolve the international standoff over its nuclear defiance.
07-09-07 - US Iraq chief warns of long war The head of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has told the BBC that fighting the insurgency is a "long term endeavour" which could take decades.
07-09-07 - '140,000' Turkish soldiers line Iraq border
07-09-07 - Bush denies Congress access to key aides President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from former White House aides Sara Taylor and Harriet Miers.
07-09-07 - Only 133 Iraqi refugees allowed in US so far this year
07-09-07 - Powell tried to talk Bush out of war THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today?s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.
07-09-07 - Al Qaeda threatens to 'annihilate' Iran Psyops of some intelligence agency to get some cross border action and thus the pretext to strike Iran?
07-09-07 - Satellite pics indicate tunneling near Iran nuke site: think tank Since when do we rely on 'thinktanks' to provide us with intelligence? A mite suspect.
07-09-07 - Israel luring Iranians with cash ** Israel is using cash incentives to encourage Jewish immigration from Iran.
An expatriate group of Iranian Jewish donors is behind a $1 million fund offering $10,000 to each Jew willing to leave the Islamic Republic for the Jewish state, according to media reports. WHY? Know something we don't?
07-09-07 - Prescribing World Terrorism The increasing deaths of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ongoing agonies of Palestine, have enraged the Muslim world against the West. To investigate the motive does not justify the motive, but it must be investigated nonetheless. That's the way criminal investigations work. Terrorists and would be terrorists should not be appeased. But certainly, if our taxpayer dollars are supporting another kind of terrorism - then it should be stopped irrespective of any terrorism against us as a cause of our support.
07-09-07 - Conyers: Libby Might Have Talked House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. spoke of ?the general impression? that Bush commuted I. Lewis ?Scooter? Libby Jr.?s 2 1/2 -year sentence last week in the CIA leak case to keep Libby quiet.
07-09-07 - POLITICS-US: Neo-Cons Try to Rally, Bully Republicans After his speech, Lugar became a focus of neo-conservative wrath, with Kristol describing his address as a "case study in pseudo-thoughtfulness, full of cheek-puffing and chin-pulling" and Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) accusing him of "sound(ing) more like an investor rebalancing his portfolio, selling Iraq and buying Israel-Palestine, than a man thinking about strategy in war."
07-09-07 - One year on: Lebanon political paralysis Martin Asser has returned to Lebanon, a year after covering the war between Hezbollah and Israel for the BBC News website. His series of articles are examining how the country has fared since that conflict.
07-09-07 - Heavy fighting at Lebanese camp
07-09-07 - ABC host tells Paul, Gravel they have no chance to win Stephanopoulos then asked Paul, "What's success for you in this campaign?" but cut off the start of Paul's response, "Well, to win ..." with an interjected "That's not going to happen!"
07-09-07 - Sarkozy vows to use all power at disposal to free captive IDF troops
07-09-07 - Israel pumping Syrian water to Kinneret ? experts For years Israel has been pumping water from springs in the Golan Heights to the shrinking Sea of Galilee, depriving Syria of major water resources, experts said Sunday. They steal water from Palestinians too.
07-09-07 - 'New rules for new wars' The Herzliya conference will be followed by a meeting in Washington DC in October, in which experts in international law and national security are expected to list recommendations for reforming international law on warfare. Actually, HRW found this claim by Israel that Hezbollah was using human shields bogus. In fact, last fall Israel was again caught on film (AP) doing that very thing.
07-09-07 - AJC Delegation in Lisbon Discusses Mideast Policy with New Leadership of the European Union "Our meetings with Portuguese officials - on the common threats posed by Iran's nuclear program and its support for terrorism, on Israel's quest for peace and the grave challenge posed by Palestinian leadership struggles, and on the urgency of confronting Islamist radicalism - were open and constructive," It's a big conspiracy theory that the Israel lobby tries to control world politics.
07-09-07 - Israel's Olmert invites Syria's Assad for direct talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a television interview on Monday invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for direct talks "wherever he wants."
07-09-07 - Israel, Italy reiterate call to prevent Iranian nuclear bomb
07-09-07 - Lebanon war shredded US clout in Mideast "But what the war did was reinforce a growing perception in the region that the US will stand by Israel no matter what." Nothing new.
07-09-07 - 10 Saudi Islamists killed in Lebanon unrest
07-09-07 - Miliband to be tough on Iran and close to US He also refused to rule out military actions against Iran, in an apparent hardening of opinion.
07-08-07 - Troubled Soldier Gets Demoted, Not Treated rather than give him treatment for his illness, the Marine Corps lowered his rank to private from staff sergeant, threw him in the brig multiple times (most recently for being five minutes late for a hearing), and began court-martial proceedings that can lead to a dishonorable discharge ? which would have denied the medical benefits Miranda needs to get his life right again.
07-08-07 - 'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them By William E. Odom No U.S. forces have ever been compelled to stay in sustained combat conditions for as long as the Army units have in Iraq. In World War II, soldiers were considered combat-exhausted after about 180 days in the line. They were withdrawn for rest periods. Moreover, for weeks at a time, large sectors of the front were quiet, giving them time for both physical and psychological rehabilitation.
07-08-07 - Iran calls for Iraq detainees' release Iran on Sunday urged Iraq to facilitate the release of five Iranians held by US forces after its first consular visit of the men suspected by Washington of helping illegal armed groups in Iraq.
07-08-07 - Iraq al-Qaida group threatens Iran The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shiites in Iraq within two months, according to an audiotape released Sunday.
07-08-07 - War Costs Soar by a Third; Total Could Top $1.4 Trillion Send the bill to Halliburton and the neocons.
07-08-07 - Iraq's Sadr back in Iran - U.S. military sources Well that settles it. Attack Iran!
07-08-07 - Report: Iran general gives nuclear info ** Asghari has since revealed new and relevant information about Iran's nuclear progress, saying that in addition to reactors and uranium enrichment facility centrifuges being built in the country, Iran has also developed the technology to enrich uranium with lasers......If true, Asghari's information would lend credence to Western concerns regarding the increasing danger of Iran's nuclear program. Note the source.
07-08-07 - Senators want Libby prosecutor to testify "Why were they pursuing the matter long after there was no underlying crime on the outing of the CIA agent? Why were they pursuing it after we knew who the leaker was?" Are they suggesting that Fitzgerald should have IGNORED Libby's violation of the law? Is Fitgerald now being made the scapegoat (since Libby was let off the hook)? BS.
07-08-07 - Cheney fatigue settles over some in GOP Cheney's relentless advocacy of the Iraq war, his push to expand presidential authority and his hard-line rhetoric toward North Korea and Iran are raising concerns even among former loyalists now worried about the GOP's chances in 2008.
07-08-07 - Armitage: Cheney Cabal Scapegoat
07-08-07 - Poll: Few Confident of Border Security Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the U.S., the poll found. Border safety, border shmafety! Who needs to worry about AMERICA'S borders when little Israel's security (which has hundreds of nukes) is being threatened in the Middle East? Our troops should stay there. Really. Taxpayers should pipe down, maybe read the latest copy of FrontPage Mag or the Weekly Standard - bound to be a fresh new anti-Muzzie/Jihadi story in there to frighten you uppity (taxpaying) sheep back into submission.
07-08-07 - Why do terrorists attack Britain time and again? "The U.S. has a historical advantage; America is still the land of opportunity to the whole world. The people moving there believe the American dream of social mobility," he said. "In Europe, we've historically treated our immigrants as hired help, and waited for them to finish the work they arrived for and go home."
07-08-07 - The Road Home President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used demagoguery and fear to quell Americans? demands for an end to this war. They say withdrawing will create bloodshed and chaos and encourage terrorists. Actually, all of that has already happened ? the result of this unnecessary invasion and the incompetent management of this war. The supreme irony here is that the New York Times was so quick to propound the neocons' BS, helping them make the case in the runup to the Iraq war. And evidently they haven't learned their lesson because they are doing it again - this time, it's Iran.
07-08-07 - Will the US bomb Iran? Will Israel? ** In other words, Israeli fears aside, the U.S. does not face an existential threat and it must consider its own interests. This Israeli got it correct. The United States is NOT ISRAEL. The United States must start acting in its own best interests - for a change. We can not nor should not continue to fight Israel's battles. If you can't learn to get along with your neighbors inside of sixty years, then there's not much we can do about it. Try halting the illegal land confiscations and occupation. Rocket science.
07-08-07 - Israel Expresses Concern over America's Policy on Iran ** The adviser, who requested to remain anonymous, said he noticed, that "Israel is preoccupied about Washington?s potential reaction vis-à-vis Iran, in the event that Security Council sanctions fail to be respected. Israelis are not sure that the United States will support a combat operation against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program
07-08-07 - Displaced Lebanon camp children given school kits The Rota team has provided school stationery and bags to 645 pupils.
One of the recipients, 15-year-old Fatima Mahmoud al-Ahmed, expressed her gratitude.
07-08-07 - Britain threatens more sanctions on Iran Miliband also addressed the current situation in the Middle East, saying that the international community must not relax its demand that Hamas recognize Israel.
07-08-07 - Italian PM in Israel for talks on Iran Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi began a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday for talks focusing on Iran's nuclear ambitions and efforts to revive the Middle East peace process.
07-08-07 - Israeli army back to basics after Lebanon bruising "Taking on the Palestinians has been a low-intensity war. This is not an enemy that has anything like our arms or support systems," No kidding? So then why is Israel always portrayed as the victim, the David (as opposed to the Goliath) in the US media?
07-08-07 - Sheehan Plans Run Against Pelosi Unless Bush Impeachment Sought
07-07-07 - Airstrikes kill scores of Afghan civilians: officials NATO and U.S. airstrikes have killed scores of Afghan civilians this week, residents and officials said on Saturday, deaths likely to deepen discontent with foreign forces and the Western-backed Afghan government.
07-07-07 - Iranians visit captives in Iraq Iranian officials have for the first time been allowed to visit five prisoners held by US forces in Iraq.
07-07-07 - Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US Deadly germs may be more likely to be spread due to a biodefence lab accident than a biological attack by terrorists.
07-07-07 - Two more Republican senators join critics of Iraq policy while expressing sharp disagreement with the strategy of "surging" the number of US troops in Iraq, Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire stopped short of backing legislation that would force the White House to begin a drawdown of US troops in Iraq.
07-07-07 - U.S. Marines face new probe over eight Iraq deaths Up to 10 U.S. Marines are under investigation for the deaths of eight Iraqi prisoners during the November 2004 battle for Fallujah, marking the third war crimes probe of Marines at California's Camp Pendleton, a government spokesman said on Thursday
07-07-07 - Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran A senior US official said the information had produced different assessments. ?The most conservative, cautious intelligence assessment is that [the Iranian authorities] are turning a blind eye. But there are a lot of doubts about that,? he said.
Making the case for war. The gauntlet of cow flop is being laid down, one steaming puckerfull at a time.
07-07-07 - French official suggested Bush was behind September 11 A senior French politician, now a minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, suggested last year that U.S. President George W. Bush might have been behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a website.
07-07-07 - Librarians Describe Life Under An FBI Gag Order
07-07-07 - Russians charge Litvinenko-linked man with spying Russian authorities have charged a former tax inspector with spying for Britain.
07-07-07 - Nigeria fears push oil over $76
07-07-07 - Congressman wants to censure Bush over Libby commutation Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., plans to introduce a resolution that would censure President Bush over his decision to commute the prison sentence faced by former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the congressman said Thursday.
07-07-07 - How Scooter Skated by Patrick J. Buchanan why did Bush rush to spare him even one day behind bars? Three explanations come to mind. The first is that Bush capitulated to intense pressure from the neoconservative commentariat led by the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard.
To these folks, Scooter is no felon. Scooter is a hero. In the neocon network, Scooter was the pivot man in the veep's office moving the cherry-picked intel on Saddam's WMD, Saddam's nukes, and Saddam's ties to 9/11 and al-Qaeda to a collaborationist press as determined as he was to smash Iraq and Iran, secure Israel, and control the Middle East.
07-07-07 - Jailed conscientious objector hits out against Libby clemency
07-07-07 - 'Syria removing Golan army checkpoints' The London based Al-Hayat reported Saturday that Israel was "concerned" that Syria's decision to remove military checkpoints on the road to Kuneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights could be a preparation for war.
07-07-07 - In pictures: Lebanon's leftover munitions The captions of these photos strangely do not relay just exactly who dropped those bombs and when(three days before the ceasefire was to take effect, which Israel knew about).
07-07-07 - UN lambasts donor countries over Iraq refugee inaction
07-07-07 - Lebanon army urges Islamists to end seven-week conflict The Lebanese army called on Fatah al-Islam extremists in a besieged refugee camp on Saturday to surrender and bring an end to fighting that has raged for nearly seven weeks.
07-07-07 - Ross: Risk of war
07-06-07 - Sen. Lieberman: Confront 'Proxy War' by Iran ** Sen. Joe Lieberman repeated his call for the United States to consider a military strike against Iran, saying Tehran is waging a "proxy war" by stoking anti-coalition violence in Iraq.
07-06-07 - Saudi Arabia downplays Iran military threat
07-06-07 - Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand Paul's cash on hand puts him in third place in the Republican field in that important metric, although he is well behind leader Rudy Giuliani, who has $18 million in the bank, and Mitt Romney, with $12 million.
07-06-07 - Much of US Favors Bush/Cheney Impeachment: Poll Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday.
07-06-07 - Iran expects no new sanctions for now Iran expects the United Nations to hold off on new sanctions while Tehran pursues new talks with the UN atomic agency about its disputed nuclear work, a senior Iranian official said Friday.
07-06-07 - Errant Afghan Civilian Deaths Surge U.S. and NATO troops killed more noncombatants in the last six months than did Taliban insurgents, several tallies indicate.
07-06-07 - US Appeals Court Throws Out Ruling Against Eavesdropping The ruling allowed President George W. Bush?s administration to continue its controversial program of wartime spying on communications between US and foreign locations in suspected terror cases without first seeking a warrant.
07-06-07 - Rice warns of 'increasingly dangerous' Iran "So this is a very dangerous state with very dangerous policies and we need the help and support and intensify efforts of the international community to deal with Iran," she said. When all is said and done, Rice is a member of the Bush administration and thus an active participant in making the case for war.
07-06-07 - Search for bomb in car driven by Iranian national in West Palm Beach comes up empty Federal agents received a recent tip that Ghelichkani was obtaining a Florida driver's license while claiming he was an American citizen.
07-06-07 - The Honor of Ron Paul He may have become at last what he has always deserved to be: the most respected member of the U.S. Congress. He is also the only Republican candidate for president who is truly what all the others pretend to be, namely, a conservative. His career shows that a patriotic, pacific conservatism isn?t a paradox.
07-06-07 - Cheney on the Defensive Dick Cheney has been a destructive force on the checks and balances of American government for more than six years. He has subverted long-standing processes, procedures, protocols and laws to lead us into the tragedy in Iraq, and is now seeking to do the same with Iran.
07-06-07 - Novak: I'd print Valerie Plame Wilson's name again
07-06-07 - Syria, Jordan left in lurch on Iraq refugees - U.N. Syria and Jordan have received around 2 million refugees so far -- many burned and maimed -- with 2,000 new refugees alone pouring into Syria each day, said Ron Redmond, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Western (that includes Israel) policies have made millions of people in the Middle East refugees.
07-06-07 - Libby and Vanunu
07-06-07 - Second strike ** If the US or Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities, can Iran strike back at Israel with weapons of mass destruction? This is obviously a vital question to answer before deciding whether to use the "military option.".....The Sunday Times has reported that the IAF is training to drop bunker-busting "mini-nukes" on Iran's installations because they are so heavily fortified.....If Iran retaliates with WMD against Israel, it is knowingly putting its own survival in grave, immediate danger because of America's far superior WMD arsenal, which includes nuclear weapons 'If Iran retaliates with WMD against Israel, it is knowingly putting its own survival in grave, immediate danger because of America's far superior WMD arsenal, which includes nuclear weapons' HUH? Notice the knee-jerk assumption that America will fight Israel's enemies for it.
07-06-07 - In pictures Palestinian refugees who fled fighting in north Lebanon camp
07-06-07 - Young Democrats want AIPAC to target GOP A Democratic Jewish group said it was "disappointed" that AIPAC had not yet rebuked Republicans for voting against a foreign aid bill that included funding for Israel.
07-06-07 - Lebanese defend 'abused' Palestinians from siege camp Lebanese rights activists on Friday rose to the defence of Palestinians from a besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon at the centre of alleged "racism" and cases of abuse at the hands of the army.
07-06-07 - Hezbollah to send ex-minister to Paris dialogue Hezbollah will send a former cabinet member to participate in all-party talks in France aimed at breaking Lebanon's political deadlock, the Shiite opposition group said on Friday.
07-06-07 - Security and Defense: 'Iran is the driving force behind global terror' Iran will fast replace Al Qaeda as being the greatest boogeyman of all. Problem is, Iran has never attacked us. No matter. Neither did Iraq. Note the source.
07-05-07 - A memorial turns July 4 pilgrimage Thousands flock to a small town in Tennessee to pay tribute to a fallen soldier.
07-05-07 - Australia 'has Iraq oil interest' Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq
07-05-07 - Another senior Republican breaks with Bush on Iraq A day after Mr Bush appealed to Americans to be more patient with the unpopular war, six-term New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who is up for re-election next year, urged a new course.
07-05-07 - Libby and His "Conservative" Supporters
07-05-07 - Crime and Non-Punishment Libby lied: he "threw sand in the faces" of investigators, as Fitzgerald put it, and consequently, their view of the conspiracy to "out" CIA covert agent Valerie Plame was obscured. George W. Bush, you'll recall, vowed to fire anyone who failed to cooperate. Now he's rewarded Libby for his lies.
07-05-07 - Bush commuted Libby sentence without consulting Justice Department, Fitzgerald "He also did not ask the chief prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, for his input, as routinely happens in cases routed through the Justice Department's pardon attorney."
07-05-07 - Cheney may have been consulted in Scooter Libby deliberations, White House admits
07-05-07 - OLBERMANN: BUSH AND CHENEY SHOULD RESIGN Wow. Olbermann hits a homer, nay a grand slam.
07-05-07 - Lithuania worried by Russian missile threat Russia hinted on Wednesday it may station missiles in its most westerly region bordering EU members Poland and Lithuania, if the United States does not cooperate over plans for a European missile shield.
07-05-07 - Take the Revolutionary Road ?The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.?
07-05-07 - Shakira stays away as Lebanon summer festivals called off Shakira, the Colombian superstar with Lebanese roots, was to have performed in the capital as part of the Beiteddine events.
07-05-07 - Spain intercepts arms shipment from Israel to Nicaragua The Spanish customs service found 1,085 guns and pistols on a ship making its way from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine inspection of the ship while it was docking in Algeciras in southern Spain.
07-05-07 - Syrian media: Israeli attack on Syria is expected this summer
07-05-07 - Pandering Won't Be Enough - The endless presidential campaign should lead to sharp questions on Iranian nukes ** It is easy for all of them to wave the flag of devotion for Israel. And it is just as easy for candidates of either party to criticize the conduct of the war in Iraq. But the crucial question facing the eventual winner in November 2008 is what they are going to do about Iran......Will any of them have the mettle to face up to the challenge and to act to forestall catastrophe? Or will they weakly sit back and wait for futile diplomacy to defuse a crisis that will already be out of control?
Note the source and the fact that they poopoo the 'futile diplomacy' we are engaged in with regard to Iran. Just exactly what is this individual expecting us to do, attack Iran?
07-05-07 - Libby Case May Aid Hamas Suspect Mohammed Salah, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago next week on one count of obstruction of justice.
07-05-07 - FEATURE - Detained Palestinians complain of Lebanon army abuse Dozens of Palestinians detained while leaving a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have complained of abuse by the Lebanese army, ranging from beatings to some cases of sexual abuse, human and civil rights activists say. The Palestinians are the new Jews.
07-05-07 - Lebanese army boxes in Islamist diehards Lebanese troops on Thursday tried to tighten the net around Islamist militants holed up in a battered camp, where trapped refugees have been forced to scavenge for food and water......Virginia de la Guardia of the International Committee of the Red Cross said relief teams were still being denied authorisation to ferry in relief to the camp.
07-04-07 - Tom Paine's 4th of July Advice for Congress Our ragtag army beat the best military force in the world. In today's world, our men would've been called 'terrorists', 'insurgents' - and I'm sure they would be alleged to 'hide among the civilian population'. But when freedom is your cause - particularly freedom from a hostile foreign military presence on your soil - it can be a very powerful force to be reckoned with. So the British discovered some 200 years back. Happy Fourth, Limeys! Oh I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Yankee Doodle do or die..
07-04-07 - Ratings for Bush, Congress sink lower Maybe because Americans are finally realizing that Congress and the office of the president do not represent their interests. In other words: there is taxation without representation. Wait, where have I heard that phrase before, mewonders?
07-04-07 - Private Contractors Outnumber US Troops in Iraq The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government?s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns. Say, I wonder how many neocons are in the private contractor business?...
07-04-07 - A gauge of Iran's hand in Iraq The new US charges, however, come amid others in recent months that many experts consider exaggerated, including an Iranian role in making armor-piercing roadside bombs. "There's been a clear attempt by the Americans over the past year to eliminate Hizbullah through war, diplomacy, and political means. It's very clear to me this is another attempt," says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut.
07-04-07 - Russia hints is ready to move missiles to EU border Russia hinted on Wednesday it may station missiles in its most westerly region bordering EU members Poland and Lithuania, if the United States does not cooperate over plans for a European missile shield.
07-04-07 - Crude Above $71 Oil prices rebounded Monday from early declines to settle above $71 for the first time in 10 months as traders focused on a refinery outage in Kansas and new accusations about Iran's role in Lebanon and Iraq.
07-04-07 - The High Cost of Libby?s Silence With the prison sentence gone, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald loses his leverage over Libby. I thought I read somewhere that Fitzgerald was well known for flipping the little guy to get the big guy. The big guy in this case would be Cheney.
07-04-07 - House Balks at Bush Order for New Powers The House measure ?stops this president or any president from seizing the power to rewrite almost every law that Congress passes, laws that protect public health, the environment, safety, civil rights, privacy and on and on,? said Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., its sponsor.
07-04-07 - Police link suspects held over failed attacks
07-04-07 - Independence Day for Libby Which neocon 'thinktank' will he reappear at next, the Hudson Institute, the AEI, the Brookings Institute, WINEP, etc?
07-04-07 - Consider the Source: 'NYT' Reporter Targets Iran As if he hadn?t done enough damage already, helping to promote the American invasion of Iraq with deeply flawed articles in The New York Times, Michael R. Gordon is now writing scare stories that offer ammunition for the growing chorus of neo-cons calling for a U.S. strike against Iran ? his most recent effort appearing just this morning.
07-04-07 - Beyond Recklessness In the midst of this unmanageable chaos, Vice President Cheney, Bush's former UN ambassador John Bolton, and the rest of the War Party are demanding that the U.S. attack Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah.
07-04-07 - Blue Streak: Message Sent by Bush's Commutation of Libby's Prison Sentence In Cleveland, the widely respected leader of the Muslim mosque, active for years in interfaith cooperation, was convicted of a single count of making a false statement on his immigration papers, sentenced to prison and then deported. The Appeals Court affirmed, in United States v. Damrah, and last time I checked, the cleric who had rabbis testifying in his defense was being held in a Palestinian prison. The same tactic is being used against other Muslims across the country who have never provided aid to terrorists, never supported terrorist organizations and have even less reason than Mr. Libby, a lawyer with the best counsel money can buy, to know that the way to avoid prosecution is by simply not answering a question.
Hard to believe that this appears on Fox.
07-04-07 - New al-Qaida calls for jihad Al-Qaida's No. 2 has issued a new video calling on Muslims to unite in jihad, or holy war, and support the Islamist movement in Iraq, a U.S.-based intelligence monitoring group said Wednesday......He cautioned the Saudis against backing the "Zionist Crusade led by America" in the Middle East.
07-04-07 - Palestinians in Lebanon siege camp running out of supplies
07-04-07 - Three Islamists killed as Lebanon army repulses attack Three Islamist fighters were killed as the Lebanese army repulsed an attack inside a Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon, security sources said on Wednesday.
07-04-07 - Israel army stages Golan war games The Israeli army on Wednesday concluded week-long war games in the Golan Heights amid heightened tensions with Syria which claims the occupied territory as part of any future peace agreement.
07-04-07 - Jordanian suspects 'gifted students' who fell in love Both are of Palestinian descent, their families hailing from the West Bank City of Hebron......"I saw him in the summer of 2006 on a visit to Jordan. He seemed really influenced by Islamist ideologies in Britain, even physically he looked different with a long beard, looking like an Islamist extremist," The irony.
07-04-07 - S Korean soldiers set to leave for Lebanon About 60 South Korean combat soldiers will leave for Lebanon later Wednesday to prepare for the deployment of a peacekeeping force, defence officials said.
07-04-07 - Investigate army shooting of Palestinian demonstrators The Lebanese government should launch an impartial investigation into a violent attack last week on Palestinian demonstrators by army forces and Lebanese civilians that left two Palestinians dead and at least 28 injured, Human Rights Watch said today
07-03-07 - Recapturing the Spirit of Independence by Congressman Ron Paul We hold these truths to be self evident.. that all men are created equal..that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights... that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Words to live by.
07-03-07 - China urges more talks on Iran, not sanctions China's U.N. ambassador said on Tuesday that diplomacy on Iran's nuclear program should run its course before any consideration of additional Security Council sanctions to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
07-03-07 - White House rejects Libby outrage Mr Bush insists he made the right decision and has refused to rule out an eventual full pardon for Libby, a day after commuting the sentence handed down after a trial bound up in the drive to war with Iraq.
07-03-07 - Former US soldier facing death for Iraq murders, rape
07-03-07 - America needs a new Independence - Independence from Israel
07-03-07 - US probes Iraq 'civilian deaths' The US military says it is investigating the alleged killing of 10 civilians in air strikes on insurgents in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya.
07-03-07 - Iran admits sanctions hurting oil industry Hamaneh's admission contrasted with comments by hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday in which he insisted that Iran was unfazed by the prospect of further sanctions.
07-03-07 - U.S. casts doubt on Afghan civilian casualty counts A U.S. general expressed doubt on Tuesday about reports U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan had killed more than 230 civilians this year, saying it was hard to get a good count as combat took place in remote areas.
07-03-07 - Russia's nuclear plant may not meet Iranian timeframe Russia indicated Tuesday that a nuclear reactor plant it is constructing in Iran could not be completed in two months as expected by Tehran, citing "technical and economic questions."
07-03-07 - F-14s shredded to keep parts from Iran The United States is destroying F-14 jets to keep their parts from being sold to Iran.
07-03-07 - McDermott to Cheney: "Resign or face impeachment"
07-03-07 - Russia outlines alternative to US missile defence system
07-03-07 - An Appropriate Travesty
07-03-07 - Editorials Hit Libby's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "President Bush's commutation of a pal's prison sentence counts as a most shocking act of disrespect for the U.S. justice system. It's the latest sign of the huge repairs to American concepts of the rule of law that await the next president."
07-03-07 - Uproar after Bush spares Libby from jail "Even Paris Hilton had to go jail," complained one senior Democrat, as a wave of criticism engulfed Mr Bush over his surprise move to spare Libby. Paris Hilton doesn't have the backing of the Israeli lobby.
07-03-07 - Brown to overhaul UK constitution "It is my hope that by working together for change in a spirit that takes us beyond parties and beyond partisanship we can agree a new British constitutional settlement that entrusts more power to parliament and to the British people," We need some of the same here in America.
07-03-07 - Muslim leader appeals to 'Islamic duty' of followers to prevent attacks "It is our Islamic duty not only to utterly and totally condemn such evil actions, but to provide all the necessary support to prevent such atrocities from taking place."
07-03-07 - Only 20% of Americans Want Pardon for Libby
07-03-07 - Quote of the Week "It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals." - Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, expressing his displeasure at the commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence by President Bush Here here.
07-03-07 - Technicality may wipe out Libby?s probation Without serving time, supervised release may be moot Oh what utter BS.
07-03-07 - U.S. Senate bill would restrict Israel's use of military aid to buy cluster bombs the U.S. has opened an investigation into whether Israel breached its agreement with the U.S. over the circumstances under which it is permitted to use the weapon. Information presented to the U.S. by the Foreign Ministry indicates that Israel did indeed violate the agreement. According to the United Nations demining unit, 30 civilians have been killed and 180 wounded by unexploded bomblets since the cease-fire went into effect.
07-03-07 - Caught Red-Handed: Media Backtracks on Iran's 'Threat'
07-03-07 - The London Bombing Speaking of National Review, one of the above links goes to a piece by Michael Ledeen, whose disappointment that the bombers-who-couldn?t-blow-themselves-up are probably not from Al Qaeda is palpable
07-03-07 - Pentagon wants smaller long-term presence in Iraq: report The United States has a "long-term commitment to the region," which includes a resolution to "stand by our allies and our partners in the region as a stabilizing force and presence," Translation: the Israelis don't want us to pull our troops out of Iraq. They fear that the violence would then be directed at them. To begin with, our 2003 invasion of Iraq was orchestrated by Israel's agents - the neocons - with the help of the Israeli security apparatus.
07-03-07 - Eyeing Jordanian involvement, U.S. now rethinking the two-state solution In a few weeks the Hudson Institute, a neo-conservative think tank, will host a delegation of former senior Jordanian and Palestinian officials for an exchange on the relations between the PA and the Hashemite Kingdom. Last year, another right-wing think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, hosted a similar dialogue, in which Jordan's former prime minister, Abdul Salam al-Majali, assessed that the idea of establishing a 'federation or a confederation' with Jordan was likely to be supported by 'a large number' of Palestinians.' Neocons have their conniving little hands in everything.
07-03-07 - Syria presses Israel over ailing prisoner Syria sought UN help on Tuesday to secure the release by Israel of a prisoner from the occupied Golan Heights who has been held since 1985 despite reports of a heart attack last month.
07-03-07 - Lebanese family wiped out in UN truck crash
07-03-07 - Soldiers on move inside Lebanon siege camp The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation inside the camp, to which it has been denied access for almost two weeks because of the fighting.
07-03-07 - Jewish U.S. soldier buried More than 1,000 mourners attended the funeral of a Jewish soldier from South Florida who was killed in Iraq
07-03-07 - JINSA warns Blair And for Mr. Blair - if you plan to make your legacy by establishing a Palestinian state at the expense of Israel, your legacy will be to have expanded the territory from which the radicals operate JINSA- yet another neoconservative 'thinktank' - equates Israel's 'war on terror' with those of America and Britain.
07-03-07 - Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite That Dick Cheney's top aide, one of the most well-connected neoconservatives on the planet, is protected from the consequences of his felonies ought to be anything but surprising. .......I documented precisely this neocon corruption several weeks ago by noting that neocons believe that no other neocon should ever be punished or otherwise held accountable for anything they do -- see e.g., Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Conrad Black, AIPAC officials charged with espionage, Elliot Abrams, etc. etc. Neocons are all part of the same machine - the Israeli lobby.
07-03-07 - Civil Strife in Palestine Bush's speech, Jerusalem Post reporter David Horowitz told National Public Radio, could have been written by the Likud government in Israel.
07-03-07 - Brazil offers resettlement for Palestinian refugees from Iraq, UN agency says The agency is ?grateful for a generous offer by the Government of Brazil? to help roughly 22 Palestinian families settle in Sao Paulo state and 18 families in the Rio Grande do Sul, spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis told a press briefing in Geneva.
07-03-07 - The End of the GOP What Lugar is telling his Republican compadres is what they know very well already: it's time to rid themselves of the neoconservative millstone before it drags them all down to defeat ? and destroys the GOP, reducing it to a Southern regional party.
07-03-07 - Syria says ready for unconditional talks with Israel "There is a difference between conditions and requirements for peace. These are stipulated by the UN Security Council resolutions" which call for the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab territories, said the minister.
07-03-07 - Stalling of immigration bill slammed While these groups wish to see America reward illegal immigrants who have broken our laws, they seem to support Israel's refusal to implement UN resolution 194 which spells out that the (lawful owners of the land) Palestinians have a right to return to their homes inside Israel. In fact, Israel's 'law of return' (immigration policy) is based solely on one's religion. These groups hold Israel to a different standard than America when they demand that America open up its borders and then grant amnesty to those who have broken our laws. They do not do the same with regard to Israel.
07-02-07 - A Declaration of Independence from Israel U.S. foreign policy, especially under the current Bush administration, has become little more than an extension of Israeli foreign policy. And if that doesn't change very soon - it will likely spell our demise, not from terrorism but from the exceedingly costly wars fought on Israel's behalf in the Middle East (as one example).
07-02-07 - Bush steps in to commute Libby's prison term BS of the highest order.
07-02-07 - US links Iran to attack in Iraq The US military in Iraq has accused Iran of orchestrating an attack that killed five US soldiers and of using Lebanese militants to train insurgents. Making the case for war.
07-02-07 - Bush and Congress locked in power dispute "We've seen a push by Vice President Cheney to reverse everything that happened in the 1970s and fully restore the powers of the presidency. Now, Congress is responding to what he has done,"
07-02-07 - Bush?s Missile Defense Radar Plan Riles Czechs ?We?re trapped between warring giants,? said Josef Skuhra, 57, a village maintenance worker.
07-02-07 - Iraq invasion strengthened the militants Car bombs have almost as long a history as the car. What has changed since the invasion of Iraq is that bombers targeting civilian targets in the West now have a popular base and access to expertise in the Sunni community of Iraq.
07-02-07 - Warmth but little progress at US-Russian summit Mr Putin repeated his proposal that a Russian facility in Azerbaijan be used, close to the border with Iran - the threat the US system is supposed to cope with.
07-02-07 - Taliban 'using civilians as human shields' Same BS the IDF employs. Not a coincidence.
07-02-07 - Tenet's Blind Eye WHIG launched that very day its "public relations campaign," featuring radio and TV appearances involving Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and others, all citing the Gordon-Miller article and all warning about the danger of Saddam's "smoking gun coming in the shape of a mushroom-shaped cloud." When will those that participated in the pretense for war be brought to justice? Do we not owe it to the families of those soldiers killed in Iraq?
07-02-07 - Iran launches English TV channel Press TV, based in Tehran but with 26 correspondents around the world, says it aims to break a "stranglehold" it says the West has over world media.
07-02-07 - Lieberman: Iran has declared war on the US ** Some neoconservatives believe that Lieberman's hard line stance on Iran will ultimately make US military action against that country easier for the White House to sell.
07-02-07 - IRAQ: UNHCR calls for evacuation of seriously ill Palestinian children The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called for an immediate evacuation of at least a dozen seriously ill Palestinians, mostly children who are stuck in Baghdad and in a makeshift camp on the Iraq-Syria border. The agency said the children could die if they are not evacuated.
07-02-07 - Japan to provide $700,000 in aid to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon The aid will be disbursed through the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to provide the refugees with shelter and other basic necessities, the ministry said.
07-02-07 - Venezuela deepens ties with Iran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, have launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant in Iran.
07-02-07 - How Leahy tried, and failed, to downgrade aid to Israel Today, when the National Jewish Democratic Council convenes some reporters in a conference call with Jewish legislators, they had better be prepared to answer questions not just about the Republican decision to oppose aid to Israel, but also about their own Democratic head of subcommittee, who tried to downgrade the aid in an unprecedented way......Leahy, truth must be told, was not going to hurt Israel financially. It would have gotten the aid one way or the other......Bottom line: Israel has many friends in this subcommittee.....Those friends, some alarmed by outside observers (AIPAC never sleeps), told Leahy they didn't like what they were seeing.....Democrats might say: Leahy is just one Senator. We, as a party, didn't try to harm Israel in any way, and some of our members were instrumental in blocking Leahy. Note the source.
07-02-07 - Israeli-style airport checks urged Security experts have called for Israeli-style vehicle checkpoints at British airports in response to Saturday's attempted suicide bombing at Glasgow airport that brought chaos to terminals yesterday.
07-02-07 - Ahmadinejad snubs Oliver Stone Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was surprisingly camera-shy when his extrovert persona drew the attention of Hollywood, turning down a request by Oliver Stone, the director of JFK, Nixon and Platoon, to make a documentary film about him.
07-02-07 - Solana suggests Iran behind Gaza and Lebanon attacks
07-02-07 - Palestinians seek to end Lebanon camp siege
07-02-07 - Sneh: We must do more to isolate Iran Israel and the US, he said, do not have any joint plan to tackle the Iranian threat. "Some projects take longer than others?we don't have the necessary resources to meet this threat properly. A country under this kind of threat has to get its priorities straight," he added
07-02-07 - U.S. Losing War on Terror, Say Americans That's because we're not fighting the war on terror. If we were, we'd get the Israelis out of our government. Iraq had nothing to do with 911, neither does Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, or Syria. But judging from the rhetoric coming from our legislators and media, you wouldn't know that. As we approach Independence Day, pay heed to George Washington's parting words.
07-02-07 - ?Sanctions Are Preferable to War?
07-01-07 - Iran reviews nuclear "time out" idea: official Iran is reviewing a "time out" proposal to stop its uranium enrichment expansion in return for a halt to further U.N. sanctions, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
07-01-07 - Iran 'baring its teeth' in Afghanistan, officials say The government is in a difficult position: it is unwilling to sour relations with another neighbour or become involved in the heated US-Iran dispute, but it is also afraid Afghanistan will again become a battleground for more powerful nations.
07-01-07 - Iran to join Latin American trade deal Iran plans to join a Latin American initiative designed to counter U.S.-led efforts for free trade in the region, the Web site of the Iranian president's office reported Sunday as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited the country.
07-01-07 - Doctor arrested over British attacks: reports
07-01-07 - Ron Paul draws nearly 600 after presidential forum he spoke to more than 600 supporters less than 100 feet away from a forum that saw six of his fellow GOP candidates address more than 800 at the forum.
07-01-07 - Bush seeks Putin's help to block Iran's nuclear plans
07-01-07 - Syria slams latest US pressure as 'error'
07-01-07 - US consumers pay highest energy bills in decades Energy is now sucking money out of Americans' bank accounts at a record level ? hitting $612 billion at an annual rate in the month of April, the last month of data It need not. Wind and solar power are a largely untapped renewable energy resource that Americans aren't making use of.
07-01-07 - Moyers on Murdoch Instead of checking the excesses of private and public power, these 21st century barons of the First Amendment revel in them; the public be damned. Murdoch - owner of Fox News (among others) - is staunchly pro-Israel and his news programs on that channel reflect that.
07-01-07 - Concern mounts for Palestinians in Lebanon siege camp Relief workers appealed to the Lebanese army on Sunday for access to hundreds of refugees inside a besieged Palestinian camp, six weeks into a battle between soldiers and Islamists.
07-01-07 - Iran unhappy about Blair's Middle East envoy job Iran criticized on Sunday Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy but welcomed his successor as British prime minister, Gordon Brown.
07-01-07 - Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying
07-01-07 - These conspiracy 'rumors' true Before we deride wild-eyed theories by Middle Easterners, we ought to take a good look at the sheepishness with which the American media and people have followed the outlandish theories of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
07-01-07 - Essays attempt to explain Syria's role as a hot spot To this author, might equals right in the Middle East. Time and again Rubin reminds readers that Israel won most major armed conflicts against the Arabs (in 1948, 1967 and 1973), and because of that, resistance is futile. Having a progressive and technologically advanced society such as Israel's, Rubin insists, is the only way for Arab countries to move forward. Yet he fails to mention that this very society also is a violent occupying force restricting the freedom of movement of millions of Palestinians and depriving them of rights as basic as access to health care.
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