October 2007 archive


10/31/2007 - Charges Iran killing US troops 'sheer lie': Khamenei    

10/31/2007 - Number of uninsured vets nears 2M The increase in veterans lacking insurance coincides with Bush administration policies aimed at limiting the number of veterans eligible for VA coverage, according to the study published online Tuesday in the American Journal of Public Health.  

10/31/2007 - Turkey getting US intelligence on Kurds    

10/31/2007 - Lawmakers refuse funds for Europe missile shield A military funding bill moving through Congress will not contain money to begin building a controversial U.S. missile defense system in Europe, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Wednesday.  

10/31/2007 - Afghan Taliban commander denies Iran links A top Taliban military commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Mansour Dadullah, has denied any links between the Taliban and Iran, according to the transcript of a video interview posted online.  

10/31/2007 - Iraq urges Iran to help defuse crisis with Turkey    

10/31/2007 - US speeding up anti-missile plans: Russia Russia has accused the United States of accelerating attempts to deploy anti-missile defences in central Europe, despite Russia's request for a freeze on the project.  

10/31/2007 - U.S. to face "quagmire" if attacks Iran: commander **    

10/31/2007 - Iranian foreign minister meets Hamas officials in Syrian capital    

10/31/2007 - Israel seeks to buy $1.3 bln of U.S. missiles "Israel's strategic position makes it vital to the United States' interests throughout the Middle East," the agency said. "It is vital to the U.S. national interest to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability." Pure BS. Israel is a liability, an albatross around the neck of the American taxpaying public.

10/31/2007 - 'IDF can destroy Iran's nuclear program' ** "We don't see anyone trying to stop Iran," he added They won't if they can get us to do it for them.

10/31/2007 - Paul Draws Disillusioned Republicans to Presidential Campaign Paul's few campaign appearances draw enthusiastic crowds. In Iowa recently for his first trip there in 11 weeks, Paul, a retired obstetrician, was greeted with a standing ovation from about 600 mostly student supporters at Iowa State University in Ames.  

10/31/2007 - Kucinich Questions Bush?s Mental Health Over Iran    

10/31/2007 - Syria dismisses 'new Hariri plot'    

10/31/2007 - For Neocons, Iran Aim Is Still Regime Change ** Vice President Dick Cheney and his neoconservative allies in the George W. Bush administration only began agitating for the use of military force against Iran once they had finally given up the illusion that regime change in Iran would happen without it. Wasn't Ahmadinejad democratically elected? Remember that whole democracy drive for the Middle East? Neocon 'democracy' defined: elect Israel-friendly regimes or else.

10/31/2007 - The U.S. blacklisted me. Let's talk. After American organizations sued, the government abandoned its initial reason for excluding me but came up with a new one ? that, between 1998 and 2002, I had contributed small amounts of money to a Swiss charity supporting humanitarian work in the Palestinian territories. The government is relying on a "material support" law that didn't exist until 2005 ? long after I made the donations ? and it is holding me accountable for donating to a charity that still operates lawfully in Europe today Another witchhunt likely led on by the Israeli lobby.

10/31/2007 - The Israel lobby: "We have an 'unwritten contract' with the American media"   Don't it feel good to see the Lobby scattering in all directions lately? After five plus years of spreading the word about it, the answer is YES.

10/31/2007 - Karen Hughes leaves, mission not accomplished "Polls show no improvement in the world's view of the U.S. since Hughes took over,''  

10/31/2007 - Hezbollah, PKK and American Hypocrisy What?s that? Washington is asking Turkey to show restraint and not attack Iraq at all? Even after the Kurdish terrorists killed or kidnapped all those Turkish people? Could it be that Turkish lives are worth less than Israeli lives?  



10/30/2007 - Russian FM in surprise Iran trip    

10/30/2007 - Who's Behind the PKK? The Israeli factor is yet another angle to this story: Seymour Hersh also reported that the Israelis have taken out a rather large stake in Kurdistan, not only investing in several major business operations but also involving themselves in the training of Kurdish "commandos." Could some of these commandos possibly be PKK operatives  

10/30/2007 - Russia FM blasts US over Iran sanctions Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticised United States sanctions against Iran as "not helpful" after meeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday.  

10/30/2007 - Iranian general warns of Gulf suicide bombings ** Iranian military and political leaders have vowed never to initiate an attack but have also warned of a crushing response to any strike against its territory.  

10/30/2007 - US downplays talk of Iran attack **   Cat's out of the bag.

10/30/2007 - Bomb Iran, majority of Americans says in new poll **   The neocon propaganda blitz in the mainstream media worked (again).

10/30/2007 - Attacking Iran for Israel? ** The Israelis appear convinced they have extracted a promise from Bush and Cheney that they will help Israel nip Iran?s nuclear program in the bud before they leave office. Ray McGovern = former CIA official.

10/30/2007 - Stalin, Mao And ? Ahmadinejad? The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has consulted on this topic, has written that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "like Hitler ? a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism." For this staggering proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.  

10/30/2007 - Revealed: how Blair rejected Bush's offer to stay    

10/30/2007 - China, Israel disagree on Iran Talks between China and Israel on a nuclear Iran ended in a stalemate.  

10/30/2007 - Middle East expert or Islamophobe? FAU speaker generates protests Critics say Pipes, considered an ally to Israel, has demonized Muslims. "He uses the word 'terrorist' for anyone who disagrees with his position on Israel," Pipes = neocon extraordinaire.

10/30/2007 - Amnesty International Calls for Inquiry into Reports of Looting and Abuses at Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon Amnesty International submitted a letter to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora calling for an urgent investigation into reports of looting, arson and vandalism of homes and property inside Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp since the Lebanese army regained control of the camp in September, and into continuing reports of harassment and abuse of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese army soldiers.  

10/30/2007 - India to contribute 600,000 USD for rehabilitation of Palestinian refugee in Lebanon Indian today announced its decision to contribute 600,000 dollars for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Palestinian refugee camps in Northern Lebanon.  

10/30/2007 - Hariri: 'Evidence of fresh plot'    

10/30/2007 - Seizure of terror suspect funds questioned "The fact that they couldn't get a single conviction suggests that we need to rethink the process by which (Holy Land) was shut down," David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University told the Monitor. "They were able to close it down, freeze its assets ... ultimately on the basis of secret evidence."  

10/30/2007 - McCain to Jewish leaders: Peace in Israel requires U.S. win in Iraq    

10/30/2007 - FM: World must halt Iran nukes regardless of economic interest **   Even if it had the bomb, Iran would never be dumb enough to strike Israel. This matter is entirely about having the upper hand in the area - and Israel seeks to retain that edge, no matter the cost in American blood and treasure, because it sure the hell isn't Israel fighting in Iraq, and it won't be Israel that attacks Iran. Whose war is this?

10/30/2007 - Israel holds war game The exercise originally was to have taken place on the Golan Heights but was relocated for fear of worrying Syria, which has been bracing for a possible war with Israel.  



10/29/2007 - Secret move to upgrade air base for Iran attack plans ** The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources.  

10/29/2007 - US differs with UN nuclear chief on Iran   Naturally.

10/29/2007 - IAEA findings on Iran dismissed    

10/29/2007 - Rumsfeld Charged with Torture in French Court Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.  

10/29/2007 - Bush Budget Plans for Iran Attack ** An item buried in President Bush?s latest request for $190 billion in emergency war funding offers telling evidence that the U.S. could be preparing an attack on Iran.  

10/29/2007 - Senators refuse to rule out Iran attack ** Appearing on CBS News' "Face the Nation," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said, "A military engagement with Iran is a very dangerous thing, and nobody wants to go down that road."  

10/29/2007 - Two VA hospitals forced to turn away patients Two Tampa Bay veterans hospitals turn away critically ill patients for huge chunks of the year because of an overloaded veterans? health care system.  

10/29/2007 - Top UN nuclear official in Iran for talks    

10/29/2007 - Iran Sanctions, Bush Administration Rhetoric Worries Lawmakers    

10/29/2007 - 'Mystery' US base causes confusion among Lebanese according to a report in Beirut newspaper As-Safir published last week, Edelman - who during his visit met with Premier Fouad Seniora, Defence Minister Elias Murr and Lebanese Army Commander General Michel Suleiman - not only discussed the Lebanese Army's training and equipment needs but also put forward a draft agreement that would see US naval, air and land bases set up on Lebanese territory. So's we can continue to fight Israel's enemies in the area.

10/29/2007 - Livni to China: Get tough on Iran    

10/29/2007 - The Fruitcake Trade During his stay in the US, the Kadima minister has also been active in helping to lay the groundwork for the upcoming Annapolis summit as well as addressing the annual convention of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).  

10/29/2007 - The cost of American bellicosity toward Iran Israeli officials have welcomed this American escalation of pressures on Iran, apparently considering it a foreign-policy achievement for Israel, as well as for the formidable array of pro-Israel US pundits who push for a combative policy against Iran.  

10/29/2007 - Israel, IAEA spar "If countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us," ElBaradei told CNN's "Late Edition." "But to bomb first and then ask questions later, I think it undermines the system and it doesn't lead to any solution to any suspicion."  

10/29/2007 - What will happen after Bush? Another context is the continuing erosion of Israel's standing in the United States. This does not manifest itself in public opinion polls and in votes in Congress, but rather in the loss of the "moral horizon," the change that has occurred in the standing of Israel, which used to be regarded as an attractive and just state. A clear expression of this is the recent reception of Jimmy Carter's book and of the book written by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt about the Israeli lobby, which not only expressed criticism of Israel's policy but also questioned its legitimacy. Despite the criticism to which they have been subjected, these books are making waves and their authors are appearing throughout the United States. The "letter of the eight" is another link in this chain. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

10/29/2007 - Essen Jews to boycott Kristallnacht ceremony At issue is a flyer that an employee in the city's office for intercultural projects signed and circulated last year in which she called Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "Adolf Olmert" and used the phrase "Holocaust in Lebanon."  

10/29/2007 - Inside Israel's Military Courts   We have adopted Israel's tactics in many venues, which is where the term 'Palestinian hanging' came from. Their influence is overarching.



10/28/2007 - US backing terrorists: Iran Iran has access to evidence of US support for terrorist groups in the Middle East, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying.  

10/28/2007 - Cheney's Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike **    

10/28/2007 - Buchanan sees attack on Iran ** Former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan believes the Bush administration will attack Iran before the president leaves office in 2009....."A vote for Rudy becomes a virtual vote for permanent war in the Middle East," he said.  

10/28/2007 - Iraq says Iran agrees PKK crisis can be ended peacefully "Both leaders agreed the activities of the PKK were damaging the interests of Iraq, Turkey and Iran but stressed that military action is not the only option to deal with it. The crisis could be solved peacefully."  

10/28/2007 - AG pick: Constitution does not prevent wiretapping of terrorists President Bush's choice for attorney general told senators Friday the Constitution does not prevent the president from wiretapping suspected terrorists without a court order.  

10/28/2007 - Iran steps up preparations for US war **    

10/28/2007 - No evidence Iran building nukes: UN watchdog chief ** UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed El Baradei said he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric.  

10/28/2007 - U.S. Military: Iranian-Made Rockets Hit Base Near Baghdad   Making the case for war.

10/28/2007 - Iraq warns Turkey over incursion    

10/28/2007 - Anti-Iran rhetoric raises UN concerns The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.  

10/28/2007 - German FM: Military not the answer in Iran    

10/28/2007 - Iran: 'Tell us where Arad is and we'll get him' "If you have the address where he is being held ? give it to us so we could go and get him," he said in a challenge to Israeli officials who have long said that Iran is involved in the case.  

10/28/2007 - UK and US play Iraq 'blame game'    

10/28/2007 - Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war    

10/28/2007 - Blair failed to handle Bush on Iraq, claims biographer Mr Powell told Dr Seldon: "In the end Blair would always support the president. I found this very surprising. I never really understood why Blair seemed to be in such harmony with Bush. I thought, well, the Brits haven't been attacked on 9/11. How did he reach the point that he sees Saddam as such a threat? Jack and I would get him all pumped up about an issue. And he'd be ready to say, 'Look here, George'. But as soon as he saw the president he would lose all his steam." Chalk it up to Chimpy Love?...

10/28/2007 - Israel eyes U.S. missile-killer The United States successfully tested a missile-killer that could be integrated into Israel's strategic defense system.  

10/28/2007 - Olmert courts Turkey over airstrike Israel moved to mollify Turkey over its airstrike in Syria last month.  

10/28/2007 - Syria complains about Israel felling cherry trees on the Golan Heights Syria filed a complaint Friday with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon protesting Israel's chopping down of trees in the occupied Golan Heights to harass farmers, the state-run news agency SANA said.  

10/28/2007 - Protecting Israel is San Antonio pastor John Hagee's mission "What I am organizing now coast to coast is to get every pro-Israel church, every pro-Israel pastor, every pro-Israel para-church organization flowing together under one canopy to speak up for Israel in Washington,"  

10/28/2007 - Age of evidence hurt case on terror funds Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the 1995 prosecution of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, agreed that the decade-long lag makes the government's case less compelling.  

10/28/2007 - Syrian "Nukes"? Not So Fast... (Updated)    

10/28/2007 - IAEA chief lashes out over Israeli raid in Syria Neither Israel nor the United States has furnished "any evidence at all" to prove that the Syrian site bombed in early September was a secret nuclear facility, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN.  

10/28/2007 - Refugee rappers voice disgust at Lebanon camps "Battalion 5" might conjure up images of the next big computer game, but in Lebanon it's a group of musicians who express the misery of life in Palestinian refugee camps through rap.  



10/27/2007 - Edwards raps Clinton, Romney on Iran ** Edwards, a Democratic former senator, said Clinton made a mistake when she voted recently to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization because President Bush could use the designation to launch military attacks  

10/27/2007 - Will Bush really bomb Iran? ** A senior Pentagon source, who remembers the growing drumbeat of war before the invasion of Iraq, believes Bush is preparing for military action before he leaves office in January 2009. ?This is for real now. I think he is signalling he is going to do it,? he said.  

10/27/2007 - Pressure for Turkish military action grows after talks fail The threat of a Turkish military strike on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq grew Saturday after crisis talks with an Iraqi delegation failed to satisfy Ankara.  

10/27/2007 - France, Saudi concerned over Iran's nuclear programme: Minister French Defence Minister Herve Morin said Saturday that Saudi Arabia and France share a common "concern" over Iran's nuclear programme  

10/27/2007 - Israeli FM to China for Iran sanctions talks Israel has previously described Iran as its principal strategic threat, and earlier this month US President George W. Bush warned of a possible World War III if Tehran acquired nuclear weapons.  

10/27/2007 - US Military Ignored Evidence of Iraqi-Made EFPs The command, operating under close White House supervision, chose to deny these facts in making the dramatic accusation that became the main rationale for the present aggressive US stance toward Iran.  

10/27/2007 - Oil Rises to Record Above $91 on Supply Drop, Iran Sanctions    

10/27/2007 - Perestroika: James Fallows Says "Mainly... Jewish" Faction Pushes for Iran Showdown    



10/26/2007 - Iran defiant at new US sanctions    

10/26/2007 - Iran says it's safe from US attack ** Iran's leadership boasts it is safe from U.S. military action, saying Washington knows an attack would find no world support and send oil prices skyrocketing. That confidence is buoying the government in its standoff with the West, despite new sanctions.  

10/26/2007 - US denies being on warpath with Iran **   LOL.

10/26/2007 - Putin warns of 'missile crisis' Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the situation surrounding proposed US missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe has similarities to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.  

10/26/2007 - A Coalition of the Willing on Iran? to the extent that the latest U.S. moves are used to pressure third-country governments, banks and corporations doing business with Iran, they will be perceived as Washington using its muscle in the international financial system to impose its own Iran policy on others. And resentment may not be the only consequence.  

10/26/2007 - Iran courting Arab countries to blunt U.S. hostility The Turkish foreign minister is due in Tehran on Saturday? another coup for Iran as the Bush administration seeks to dissuade Turkey from sending troops into northern Iraq to battle Kurdish militants. In August, Iran began firing artillery into Iraq to counteract what it said were Kurdish rebel groups that had launched attacks in Iran  

10/26/2007 - Rice downplays differences with Russia over Iran sanctions    

10/26/2007 - Iran reformists warn of isolation over nuclear policy Iran's top reformist party on Friday criticised the foreign policy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying it was bringing the risk of tougher international confrontation over Tehran's nuclear standoff.  

10/26/2007 - UN's Ban "very worried" on Iran's nuclear progress U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried about Iran's nuclear program but hopes a stand-off with the international community can be resolved through dialogue, he said in comments published in Italy on Friday.  

10/26/2007 - Australia, others, to follow U.S. Iran sanctions: Downer Many nations will follow the United States in slapping sanctions on Iran if it fails to suspend its nuclear enrichment program soon, Australia, a strong U.S. ally, said.  

10/26/2007 - US sanctions will have no affect on Iran: Jalili    

10/26/2007 - We must bomb Iran, says US Republican guru ** The tough message at a time of crisis between the United States and Iraq was delivered by Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of neoconservatism, who has also imparted his stark advice personally to a receptive President George W. Bush.  

10/26/2007 - Phantoms Over Syria by Philip Giraldi The pieces have a common thread: they rely entirely on information provided by Israeli sources without independent corroboration. And the ongoing play they are getting in the international media, without much critical commentary and without direct attribution to Israel, mark them as classic disinformation.  

10/26/2007 - Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000    

10/26/2007 - Interventionism? Isolationism? Actually, Both by Rep. Ron Paul    

10/26/2007 - Palestinians wed in ruins of Lebanon siege camp Surrounded by ruins, a young Palestinian couple on Friday celebrated their wedding in the refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon, devastated by more than three months of fighting between the army and Islamists.  

10/26/2007 - Spain to extradite Syrian arms dealer suspect to U.S.    

10/26/2007 - Terrorism policy questioned in NYC hearing on scholar's exclusion Ramadan is a Swiss citizen and a visiting fellow at Oxford University in England. He has said he opposes the U.S. invasion of Iraq and U.S policies in Israel and the Palestinian territories, though he opposes terrorism and Islamic extremism and promotes peaceful solutions.  

10/26/2007 - Prosecutors Should Stop Wasting Money on This Witch Hunts In essence, this was an Israeli trial tried on American soil in which guilt by association was used as a substitute for actual evidence.  

10/26/2007 - Experts split as prosecutors consider retrial in Holy Land case Experts are split over whether the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case should be retried, and some say the government must establish stronger links between terrorists and U.S.-based charities before future court victories can be expected....the lone Holy Land juror to speak publicly, has lambasted the government's case as shallow and politically driven.  

10/26/2007 - PresCon, Meridor hail IRGC ban The foreign policy umbrella body for U.S. Jewish groups and the Israeli ambassador to Washington praised the Bush administration for sanctioning an arm of Iran's military.  

10/26/2007 - Survivors protest at Israel's stance on Armenian genocide This week she joined more than 100 other, rather younger, demonstrators ?about 10 per cent of a once much larger Jerusalem Armenian community dating back to Roman times ? outside the Foreign Ministry. They were protesting against what they believe is the Israeli government's use of its considerable lobbying influence on Capitol Hill to try to thwart the bill which would mean US recognition of the genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians, including Mrs Kevorkian's parents, died.  

10/26/2007 - My Weekend with the Survivors of the USS Liberty    



10/25/2007 - US imposes new sanctions on Iran ** The US declared the Revolutionary Guards a "proliferator of weapons of mass destruction", a reference to ballistic missiles they are allegedly developing, while their elite overseas operations arm, the Quds Force, was singled out as a "supporter of terrorism". The opening shot has just been fired, folks.

10/25/2007 - Putin warns against more Iran sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin warned strongly Thursday against imposing new international sanctions on Iran, in words that appeared to be a response to newly announced U.S. measures to punish Tehran.  

10/25/2007 - Edwards raps Clinton, Romney on Iran Republican candidate Mitt Romney said he would consider a military blockade or "bombardment of some kind" to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.  

10/25/2007 - Bush heads for a dreadful miscalculation over Iran    

10/25/2007 - Olmert: No peace deal at Annapolis   Strange that this comes on the day that the US government does this.

10/25/2007 - How Did We Get Here?    

10/25/2007 - Members Take up Issue of Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syrian Golan    

10/25/2007 - Report: Israel to get F-35s early Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has persuaded the Pentagon to supply the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a supersonic stealth jet that is still under construction, to Israel ahead of schedule.  

10/25/2007 - Syria 'air strike site removed' The images, though, were far from conclusive.  

10/25/2007 - Canada presses U.S. to take Arar off no-flight list    

10/25/2007 - Lebanese troops fire on Israeli planes Lebanese troops today fired on Israeli warplanes flying low over southern Lebanon, security officials in the country said.  

10/25/2007 - Syrian official: Mideast peace conference won't tackle major issues in region Syrian Minister of Expatriates Buthaina Sha'aban asserted on Wednesday that a peace conference sponsored by the U.S. administration would not tackle the essential issues in the Arab-Israeli conflicts, the official SANA news agency reported.  

10/25/2007 - House aims to curb Iran's sway in West ?Argentines are still waiting for justice, and warrants are out for the arrests of several Iranians and members of Hezbollah.?  

10/25/2007 - Israel to halt large Golan manoeuvres: reports    

10/25/2007 - Influence for Israel Indeed, the fact that their book has encountered such outrageous abuse surely vindicates one of their central arguments: that pro-Israel lobby groups are so one-eyed that they toss accusations of anti-Semitism around like balloons at a birthday party. The point cannot be made too strongly: this is not an anti-Semitic book. It's a work of scholarly analysis, and it deserves to be taken seriously. An unusually unbiased piece in the Telegraph (UK).

10/25/2007 - Medved Takes On Israel's Foes Radio talk show host and Philadelphia native Michael Medved spoke to hundreds at Bala Cynwyd Middle School Tuesday evening to debunk what he considers calumnies against Israel. Pro-Israelis seem to have embarked on a full out frontal propaganda assault on America. This is probably due to the recent release of the Mearsheimer and Walt book among other things. They cannot seem to grasp the notion that true patriots will win out in the end. The Israel narrative is a house of cards based on myths. Debunk one, and the whole thing comes into question. Unfortunately for us white hats, pro-Israelis have our media sewn up lock, stock and barrel. No matter. Soldier on.

10/25/2007 - More Evidence That Critics of Israel Are Gaining in the U.S.    

10/25/2007 - Israel reissuing gas masks ** Israel plans to reissue gas masks to its citizens. 3 guesses why.

10/25/2007 - US to speed up stealth fighter delivery to Israel "We asked that for every two jets manufactured for the US, one be manufactured for Israel," a senior defense official said, adding that acquisition of the aircraft would greatly increase Israel's deterrence as Iran races toward nuclear power.  



10/24/2007 - Iraq, Afghan wars could cost US 2.4 trillion: report    

10/24/2007 - Bomb Iran? U.S. Requests Bunker-Buster Bombs ** Tucked inside the White House's $196 billion emergency funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is an item that has some people wondering whether the administration is preparing for military action against Iran. Think gas prices are high now, folks?

10/24/2007 - 'New, constructive ideas' in Iran nuclear talks: negotiator Iran's former nuclear pointman Ali Larijani said Wednesday that "new and constructive ideas" had emerged during talks in Rome on the crisis surrounding Tehran's contested nuclear programme.  

10/24/2007 - Bush offers to bomb Kurds THE Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq.  

10/24/2007 - Iran "perhaps single greatest" security risk to US: Rice   Who says Rice doesn't parrot neocon BS?

10/24/2007 - Hans Blix questions U.S. fears over Iran    

10/24/2007 - U.S. will cut off Iran's 'malignant' actions Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the Bush administration appeared to be taking a "slow, deliberative course" on Iran and should designate the entire Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group."Why not put the whole corps on the list?" Ros-Lehtinen asked. Ros-Lehtinen - one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.

10/24/2007 - Meridor: We must be ready to preempt threats "This will take a united United States on this matter, that they would not have the illusion today that come January '09, they [Teheran] have it their own way," he said, referring to the inauguration of President George W. Bush's successor, who could potentially change US policy on Iran. Why is ISRAEL'S problem now OUR problem, by their own admission? Their lobby (which includes the neocons) here in the States makes sure that this is the case, that's why.

10/24/2007 - Media pundits ask: Should the US bomb Iran now? **    

10/24/2007 - Oil prices head back toward highs Oil prices headed back toward record highs after an unexpected fall in US stockpiles of crude sparked supply fears ahead of the winter months.  

10/24/2007 - AEI?s Muravchik: 'I Don't Mind If We Bomb Iran Next Month Or The Month After' ** Muravchik added, "I don't mind if we bomb next month or the month after. I think we have to do it sometime in a short time frame." Matthews then suggested that the real reason Muravchik is pushing for war so soon is not because of national security imperatives, but because Bush is the most likely president to follow through We are being neoCONed again. These folks are the single greatest threat to the American national interest in terms of blood and treasure.

10/24/2007 - Cheney Lays the Foundation for War ** Is Cheney threatening war against Iran? Yes, that?s exactly what he is doing. As Greg Djerejian reminds us, in the lead-up to the war against Iraq, Cheney gave a number of speeches making clear the intention to resort to arms against Saddam Hussein. And he used exactly the same language, including specifically the key phrase "serious consequences."  

10/24/2007 - Report: Iran acquiring fighter jets that are based on Israeli technology Iran has signed a deal with China to purchase 24 J-10 fighter jets between 2008 and 2010, Russian news agency Novosti reported. The jets were developed based on the technology of Israel's Lavi fighter jet, whose technology was sold to China against the wishes of the US. Israel gets a taste of its own medicine.

10/24/2007 - Turkish raids along Iraqi border Turkish fighter jets have bombed several Kurdish PKK rebel positions on the border with Iraq, according to the semi-official Anatolia news agency.  

10/24/2007 - Giuliani appears to be front-runner among top GOP Jewish donors "There's not one thing wrong with Rudy Giuliani's position on Israel, but in John McCain's history you can see that support," he said. "I think we're not picking the lesser of evils. I think we're picking the greater of greats."  

10/24/2007 - Israeli premier praises enhanced France-Israel relationship Olmert said "we are reassured of our security" and "something had changed in relations" between France and Israel.  

10/24/2007 - Holy Land trial notes reveal jury in turmoil "Attacks on each other happen often," she wrote. "Opinions, not facts, are discussed. Some are closed to deliberations, which shuts off conversations that are meaningful." On Monday, four days after handing in a verdict that was then sealed until the presiding judge came back to town, some jurors shocked courtroom observers by then telling the judge that they no longer agreed with what the panel had decided. Must have been a few pro-Israelis on the jury, from the sounds of it.

10/24/2007 - CAIR: Giuliani Advisor Supports Terror Group In 2001, Pipes claimed the "presence" and "enfranchisement" of American Muslims present "true dangers to American Jews." He recently renewed a call to "raze" Palestinian villages from which anti-Israeli attacks are launched.  



10/23/2007 - Iran nuclear envoy vows no change Iran's new nuclear negotiator has said his country will continue nuclear discussions "with strength".  

10/23/2007 - U.S. says Iraq air strike kills 11, mostly civilians The U.S. military said it killed 11 people in a helicopter attack on a group of men seen planting a roadside bomb north of Baghdad on Tuesday, but police and residents said the dead were farmers, women and children.  

10/23/2007 - Biden Says Bush Could Use Iranian Measure to Wage War (Update1) ** Democrat Joe Biden, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said President George W. Bush could use a measure calling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group as a justification for war.  

10/23/2007 - Bush says Iranian missiles could reach US, all Europe by 2015    

10/23/2007 - Bin Laden calls on Muslims to battle US in Iraq Osama bin Laden has called for intensified fighting against US-led forces in Iraq and made a plea to Muslims in the region to join the battle, in an audio recording posted on the internet.  

10/23/2007 - Fewer think US adequately thwarting terror ** Sixty-five percent said they preferred economic or diplomatic moves against Iran, compared to 19 percent who favored military action or threats. Looks like Cheney and the neocons (Israel lobby) have their work cut out for them.

10/23/2007 - EU's Solana, Iran's new nuclear pointman have 'constructive' talks Larijani, whose presence at the talks intrigued observers after his sudden resignation at the weekend, told a press briefing: "I thanked Mr Solana for these constructive talks which were clear and transparent."  

10/23/2007 - US may delay missile defense system The United States might delay activating its proposed missile defense sites in Europe until it has "definitive proof" of a missile threat from Iran, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.  

10/23/2007 - Britain backs Israel's call for tougher sanctions on Iran "We are absolutely clear that we are ready and will push for further sanctions against Iran," said Brown after holding talks with his Israeli counterpart in his Downing Street offices.  

10/23/2007 - Israel, in policy shift on Iran, is lobbying countries directly In Israel, Bush?s remarks highlighting Iranian threats to destroy the Jewish state sparked heated debate. Many lamented that the U.S. president made it seem as if Israel is the only reason for Iran?s nuclear drive ? perpetuating a false perception Israelis say is not in their national interest.....Likud Knesset member Yuval Steinitz, after meeting this month with U.S. Congress members, senators and senior officials including Vice President Dick Cheney, told JTA the United States may soon present Iran with a military ultimatum Israel is nation behind this bs, and she's taking us along with her (again).

10/23/2007 - Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report   "Cui bono - Who benefits? - is a question that must ever be asked about Middle Eastern terror." - Patrick J. Buchanan. Who has benefited the most from 9/11? OBL? Neocons? Israel? ....

10/23/2007 - U.S. talking even tougher on Iran, but also pushing Palestinian state ** Israel and the pro-Israel lobby has long counted on Elliott Abrams, President Bush's deputy national security adviser and peace process skeptic who usually has the last word on such issues. Yet it is Abrams and his boss, Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, who are in Israel this week, precisely to make clear that Bush wants action ahead of Annapolis......Despite such pressures, Israel is getting relief on what it sees as the more pressing issue: Iran. In the Oct. 17 press conference, Bush made it clear how far he had traveled toward Israeli thinking. For the first time, Bush described nuclear know-how -- not just the acquisition of weapons -- as a red line.....Israel says the moment will come when the Iranians know how to build a bomb, which might be as early as next year. Until Bush's comments, the Americans had set Iran's capacity to build a bomb -- within three to ten years -- as the deadline for possible military action. Registration is free. Note the source (horse's mouth). All of this bs about I-P peace is a ruse. Notice how the closer we get to this conference, the more bellicose and fervent the rhetoric of Bush and Cheney about the need to strike Iran.

10/23/2007 - PM Erdoğan to press Olmert to give up supporting Iraqi Kurds Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will bring the issue of Israeli experts' training of military forces in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq to the agenda in his talks with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Olmert, scheduled to take place today in the British capital.  

10/23/2007 - The GOP Purge They care about one issue and one issue only: war and more war, as far as the eye can see. When they've run the GOP into the ground and reduced it to a mostly regional party, they'll abandon the dried-up husk and emigrate back to where they came from ? the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party, where they can join Joe Lieberman, Joshua Muravchik, and Hillary Clinton's neoconservative fan club in ginning up a war with Iran.  

10/23/2007 - Tortured by Uncle Sam by Philip Giraldi That attorney general-designate Michael Mukasey, who is almost certain to be confirmed by Congress, claims not to know whether water-boarding amounts to torture or not is outrageous. That the president of the United States has not been challenged by the public and press when he explains that "we do not torture" ? while he refuses to make public secret memos contradicting his words ? marks a sad day for those who revere our liberties.  

10/23/2007 - Israel reassures Turkey over Kurds    

10/23/2007 - Investigative Scholar Says 'Radical Islam' Was Dreamed Up in Israel in the '90s as the 'Glue' to U.S.-Israeli Alliance "There was a feeling in Israel that because of the end of the Cold War, relations with the U.S. were cooling and we needed some new glue for the alliance... And the new glue... was radical Islam. And Iran was radical Islam."  

10/23/2007 - Neocons Surge Against Antiwar Movement Pro-Israel and Christian Right groups are attempting to raise $200 million for a campaign calling for war with Iran.  

10/23/2007 - Mistrial in Muslim charity funding trial deals blow to US ‘war on terror’ Juror William Neal, 33, said the trial fell apart because of a lack of evidence......."I didn't see the defendants giving money to Hamas. They were giving money to the Palestinian people."  

10/23/2007 - Lebanon's Jumblatt calls on U.S. to impose sanctions on Syria, accuses Hezbollah of political assassinations A senior Lebanese pro-government leader called on the United States on Sunday to impose sanctions against Syria, warning that Lebanon would not enjoy stability and independence as long as Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime was in power.  

10/23/2007 - Israeli general: Hezbollah strike is legit Israel reserves the right to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah, a top Israeli general said.  

10/23/2007 - Syria to issue ID cards to Golan residents The move aims to "ease the suffering" of the Druze people living on the Golan, caused by "harassment and Israeli human rights violations,"  

10/23/2007 - Holy Land principals face retrial    

10/23/2007 - Mistrial declared in Muslim charity case The prosecution's key witness was a lawyer for the Israeli domestic security agency Shin Bet who testified under a false name. How many failed terror trials does this make now during which the prosecutor's have relied on the testimony of Israeli secret agents, meownders?

10/23/2007 - Incident instilled fear in citizens The USS Liberty incident is just one of a myriad of "operations" throughout U.S. history perpetrated by our government. Mm. I don't know if I agree with that assessment, though I've heard it before.

10/23/2007 - Paulsen urged to push Iran resolution Making their pleas were U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the foreign affairs committee, and member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)  

10/23/2007 - Photos said to show Israeli target in Syria - paper    

10/23/2007 - Washington may rethink terror cases after mistrial: experts   How much more taxpayer money will be thrown down the toilet based on dubious claims by secret government agents and witchhunts likely egged on by the Israeli lobby, mewonders?

10/23/2007 - A Former Florida Professor, Al-Arian, Again Rebuffed Over Contempt Citation    

10/23/2007 - WJC to Austria: Toughen Iran sanctions Austria must toughen sanctions against Iran, the World Jewish Congress head told Austria's chancellor.  



10/22/2007 - SAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners ** BRITISH special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?s Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed......Liam Fox, the Conservative defence spokesman, said: "Increasingly Iran poses a direct threat to our armed forces and our wider interests . . . they are playing a very dangerous game." And so it begins...

10/22/2007 - Iran's new nuclear negotiator to meet EU's Solana    

10/22/2007 - On the Eve of Destruction by Scott Ritter ** . In 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Hadley (then the deputy national security adviser) instituted what has been referred to as the ?Hadley Rules,? a corollary of which is that no move will be made which alters the ideological positioning of Iran as a mortal enemy of the United States. From an article in yesterday's news batch, you'll notice that Bolton too was in on that action.

10/22/2007 - Iran bomb would take '3-8 years' to build "I cannot judge their intentions, but supposing that Iran does intend to acquire a nuclear bomb, it would need between another three and eight years to succeed," Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told France's Le Monde newspaper.  

10/22/2007 - CBS confirms 2006 Raw Story scoop: Plame's job was to keep nukes from Iran    

10/22/2007 - U.N. watchdog: Iran not immediate threat Ehud Olmert slammed the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for downplaying the Iranian nuclear threat. Oh dear.

10/22/2007 - WWIII ? Bring It On    

10/22/2007 - Bush asks for $46 billion more for wars The State Department is requesting $550 million to combat drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America, $375 million for the West Bank and Gaza and $239 million for diplomatic costs in Iraq.  

10/22/2007 - Iran tops agenda as Olmert visits Europe Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert begins a European tour on Monday to meet the new leaders of France and Britain for the first time and to push his campaign against Iran's nuclear drive.  

10/22/2007 - Mistrial in US Hamas funding case The jury forewoman admitted surprise at the action of the three jurors. "When we voted, there was no issue in the vote. No-one spoke up any different. I really don't understand where it is coming from."  

10/22/2007 - GOP lawmakers want Syria attack info "If this event proves that Syria acquired nuclear expertise or material from North Korea, Iran, or other rogue states, it would constitute a grave threat to international security for which Syria and any other involved parties must be held accountable," said the op-ed appearing last week in the Wall Street Journal and signed by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.)  

10/22/2007 - Evangelicals up payments to Iranian olim U.S. evangelical Christians are offering Iranian Jews $10,000 per person to immigrate to Israel. They know that the US is going to bomb Iran soon.

10/22/2007 - Giuliani cites Israel to evangelicals Rudy Giuliani cited his love for Israel and the Jewish roots of Christianity in appealing to evangelical Christians. Be wary of such a passionate attachment (<--truer words never spoken).

10/22/2007 - David Miliband in effort to heal UK-US relations There has been disquiet within the White House, particularly among aides to Vice President Dick Cheney, about the rapid withdrawal of British forces in southern Iraq.  

10/22/2007 - Hezbollah hands over letter from missing Israeli airman Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has given Israel a photograph and poignant letter written by an airman missing for more than 20 years, as part of a rare prisoner swap, a newspaper said on Monday.  



10/21/2007 - Cheney: Iran faces 'serious consequences' over nuclear drive Cheney also accused Syria of using "bribery and intimidation" to undermine Lebanon's upcoming presidential election and said the vote should go ahead "free of any foreign interference."  

10/21/2007 - Iraq boy treated for defect with US help    

10/21/2007 - Cheney calls Iran an obstacle to peace Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday described Iran as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East and said the world could not stand by and allow it to develop a nuclear weapon.  

10/21/2007 - Bolton Book Cites Effort to Halt Powell's Iran Initiative Bolton, then undersecretary of state, says that he worked hard to thwart Powell's plans -- only to discover, to his dismay, that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, would pursue the same approach in President Bush's second term.  

10/21/2007 - Turkey shells north Iraq border: Kurdish official    

10/21/2007 - Rice puts brakes on Turkish raids into Iraq Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has asked his Government to hold off on launching cross-border raids on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.  

10/21/2007 - US raid kills 10, including children, Iraqi medics say    

10/21/2007 - Iran's new hardline nuclear envoy causes jitters in West Iran sought to reassure the West yesterday that Tehran's policy over negotiations with Western powers attempting to curb its nuclear programme would not change after the replacement of Ali Larijani with a reputedly hardline deputy foreign minister, Saeed Jalili.  

10/21/2007 - Syria denies Assad backing for Turkish action in Iraq    

10/21/2007 - Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Restore the Constitution    

10/21/2007 - Israeli PM arrives in France for Sarkozy talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Paris Sunday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Middle East peace process and Iran's controversial nuclear drive.  

10/21/2007 - Hezbollah arms smuggling still going on: Israel    

10/21/2007 - Hizbullah: US could turn Lebanon into another Iraq Hizbullah on Friday denounced a senior Pentagon official's call for a US "strategic partnership" with Lebanon's army, saying American attempts to boost military ties were a ploy for domination and could turn the country into another Iraq.  

10/21/2007 - Citizen stuns congresswoman: "Why should we divide Iraq for israel?"    



10/20/2007 - Iran's nuclear negotiator resigns Mr Larijani has favoured further negotiations with the West over Iran's uranium enrichment programme, as opposed to the president's more hard-line approach, our correspondent says.  

10/20/2007 - Iran to fire '11,000 rockets in minute' if attacked ** Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic  

10/20/2007 - Iran minister says U.S. in no position to attack ** The United States is in no position to attack Iran because it is bogged down in the conflict in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.  

10/20/2007 - Talabani chides Syria over Kurds Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has criticised Syria for its support for a possible Turkish intervention against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.  

10/20/2007 - US will not be able to use Afghanistan to attack: Iran FM ** "The people of Afghanistan will never allow America to use Afghanistan against any other country. This our belief, this is our trust,"  

10/20/2007 - ABC News: Ron Paul: Dark Horse Or Real Contender?    

10/20/2007 - Russia successfully launches an intercontinental ballistic missile Russia on Thursday carried out a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.  

10/20/2007 - After Putin, PM set to discuss Iran with Sarkozy, Brown The Israeli assumption is that from now until the Annapolis conference, the international pressure on the Jewish state will only intensify. The majority of the pressure will come from the US but European states will also exert some pressure.  

10/20/2007 - Laura Bush leaves for cancer, diplomatic mission in Mideast The United States' image in the region has suffered badly in recent years due to the US-led invasion of Iraq, the conduct of the US "war on terror," Washington's support for Israel and the troubled peace process for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  

10/20/2007 - After seven months, man has freedom but not answers Growing up in Rafa, Gaza, Abuhajjaj was kidnapped and tortured more than once, according to Justice Department records. He threw rocks at Israelis during demonstrations against Israeli occupation in 1987, records said. He was shot in the leg walking home from school at age 19  

10/20/2007 - The Syrian ?Nuke? Hoax    



10/19/2007 - Military Resistance Forced Shift on Iran Strike ** The Joint Chiefs were soon joined in opposition to a strike on Iran by Admiral William Fallon, who was nominated to become CENTCOM commander in January. Mann says Pentagon contacts have also told her that Fallon made his opposition to war against Iran clear to the White House. The time to speak up is NOW.

10/19/2007 - We can attack Iran, says US commander **    

10/19/2007 - No evidence Iran arming Taliban: Afghan foreign minister Spanta's comments came after the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeill, said Thursday a convoy of explosives intercepted last month had arrived from Iran and probably with the knowledge of the Iranian military.  

10/19/2007 - 70 punished in accidental B-52 flight The Air Force said Friday it has punished 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber following an investigation that found widespread disregard for the rules on handling such munitions.  

10/19/2007 - Army to Keep Extending Troops' Service The U.S. Army will continue to rely on an unpopular program that forces some soldiers to stay on beyond their retirement or re-enlistment dates, despite repeated pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reduce and eventually eliminate the practice.  

10/19/2007 - US could change missile shield plan if Iranian threat subsides Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said US officials had explained Washington's stance to Russia in talks at NATO headquarters to help allay any fears that the missile shield would be a threat to Russia.  

10/19/2007 - Iran backing terror, says Blair UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused Iran of backing terrorism and warned the world faces a situation akin to "rising fascism in the 1920s".  

10/19/2007 - Two marines to face Haditha trial Prosecutors allege that the marines shot unarmed people in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack that killed one of their comrades.  

10/19/2007 - Kurds 'will fight Turkish raids' The president of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq has said his people will defend themselves if Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels based in the region.  

10/19/2007 - Israel cannot be destroyed, says former Mossad chief "We cannot say that the Iranian threat is an existential threat on the State of Israel. I believe that the State of Israel cannot be eliminated. It cannot be destroyed because of things you know and because of things you can imagine."  

10/19/2007 - Gates in the Lion?s Den Again, his placement of a two-state solution ahead of containing Iran is, in my view, quite remarkable, even gutsy considering the extremist views of the host organization. Hehe. It was gutsy.

10/19/2007 - The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know ** When Mann and Leverett went public with the inside story behind the impending disaster with Iran, the White House dismissed them. Then it imposed prior restraint on them, an extraordinary episode of government censorship. Finally, it threatened them. Now they are afraid of the White House, and watching what they say. But still, they feel they have to speak out.......On Monday, Leverett went straight to Rice's office for an explanation. She told him that Ariel Sharon had called early elections in Israel and asked Bush to shelve any Palestinian plan. This time Leverett couldn't hide his exasperation. "You told the whole world you were going to put this out before Christmas," he said. "Because one Israeli politician told you it's going to make things politically difficult for him, you don't put it out? Do you realize how hard that makes things for all our Arab partners?".....In Time magazine, former CIA officer and author Robert Baer quoted a highly placed White House official: "IEDs are a casus belli for this administration. There will be an attack on Iran."....."We're tired," Mann says. "Nobody listens." I'm listening! Thank you for having the courage to speak out. This is a long article, but well worth the read. It deals with the Palestine issue, and shows the influence that Cheney and the neocons have had over both that issue and the issue of Iran and Syria (two more targets on Israel's wishlist). Note Ariel Sharon's power over our president - George Bush.

10/19/2007 - Rice to return to Middle East in two weeks The U.S. official, who spoke on condition that he was not identified, said White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley planned to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories next week to prepare for a U.S.-hosted peace conference to be held later this year. Hadley = neocon.

10/19/2007 - After Comments, U.S. Terror Chief Resigns Citing Health Reasons hree days after Americans saw the Bush administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his resignation, citing health reasons.  

10/19/2007 - Who restarted the Cold War? by Patrick J. Buchanan Who restarted the Cold War? Bush and the braying hegemonists he brought with him to power. Great empires and tiny minds go ill together.  

10/19/2007 - Oil prices fall from record highs US light sweet crude fell 87 cents to $88.60 after an earlier $90.07 record.  

10/19/2007 - Angry parents want refugees out of Lebanon schools Patience is wearing very thin among Lebanese whose children are unable to attend schools now being used to accommodate Palestinians after deadly clashes in a refugee camp in the north.  

10/19/2007 - U.N. presses Israel on Shebaa The United Nations is pressing Israel to reopen negotiations with Lebanon over the disputed Shebaa Farms area.  

10/19/2007 - Fox News: What Would You Ask the GOP Presidential Candidates?   My question to all of them with the exception of Ron Paul: at what point did you think you would start representing the AMERICAN national interest? Thanks.

10/19/2007 - Israel "mole" took photos of Syrian target: report Israel urged the United States to destroy the complex, but Washington hesitated because no fissionable material was found that would prove the site was nuclear, ABC said.  

10/19/2007 - Those who oppose AIPAC and CUFI are caught in the realm of nightmares    

10/19/2007 - US intelligence does not show Syrian nuclear weapons program, officials say Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US intelligence community, who see the Vice President?s hand as allegedly being behind the disinformation.  

10/19/2007 - Syria ready to open ties with friendly Lebanon In a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, a copy of which was carried by the official SANA news agency on Friday, Syria accused Washington and militia leaders from the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war of blocking the establishment of "balanced" relations between the two countries.  



10/18/2007 - Iran denounces Bush "World War III" warning Bush's remarks indicated "hegemonic and ambitious objectives of the U.S. neo-conservatives," which would jeopardize international security, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini was quoted as saying.  

10/18/2007 - Officers in on B-52 flight may be fired The Air Force is planning to fire at least five officers for an incident in which nuclear-armed missiles were mistakenly loaded on a B-52 bomber and flown across the U.S. ? the worst known violation of nuclear security rules in decades. Sounds like these men are being made scapegoats. Who gave the order? Had to have been higher up than that.

10/18/2007 - Putin attacks US foreign policy, announces new nuclear weapon    

10/18/2007 - Oil prices climb above $89 level Oil prices rose above $89 a barrel in New York for the first time after the dollar reached a new low against the euro and amid ongoing supply concerns.  

10/18/2007 - PBS Frontline October 23 : Showdown with Iran ** FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES MOUNTING TENSION FOR THE U.S. IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASKS: IS IRAN NEXT? And PBS is still giving prominent airtime to neocons, I see.

10/18/2007 - U.S. works with other countries on third UN resolution on Iran The United States is working with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as Germany on a third resolution to punish Iran for its defiance over its nuclear program, the State Department said Thursday.  

10/18/2007 - Constitutional scholar: 9/11 'highly convenient' in allowing Bush to expand power Turley was responding to allegations aired last week by a former Qwest CEO that the National Security Agency approached telecoms as early as February 2001 about establishing secret mechanisms to spy on Americans.  

10/18/2007 - Bush, Barak hold unplanned meeting Israeli officials have welcomed Bush's recent warning that an Iran with the knowledge to build a nuclear weapon could precipitate World War III.  

10/18/2007 - US Senator Coleman: 'If action is going to be taken, it's not going to be Israel alone' ** If military action is undertaken against Iran, Israel won't be doing it alone, US Senator Norm Coleman told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. No Senator. Like Iraq, it will be the US alone, on Israel's behalf.

10/18/2007 - US lawmakers apologize in torture case Members of Congress apologized Thursday to a Canadian engineer seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he says he was tortured.  

10/18/2007 - 'Security Council too slow on sanctions' The UN Security Council is taking too long to impose additional sanctions on Iran, top US State Department official Nicholas Burns told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday night.  

10/18/2007 - Clinton bucks the trend and rakes in cash from the US weapons industry    

10/18/2007 - Fox News asks Ron Paul why he gets most military support while calling for Iraq withdrawal    

10/18/2007 - Commentary: Not since Stalin ** The bomb-Iran-now lobby received a new assist this week from one of its most vocal armchair strategists. Michael Ledeen's new book, "The Iranian Time Bomb," says the United States is faced with two terrible alternatives: either accommodate a nuclear Iran determined to create a global caliphate modeled "on the bloodthirsty regime in Tehran, or bomb Iran and deal with all the unpredictable consequences that entails." Ledeen = neocon.

10/18/2007 - Interpreter error causes furor said that Israel "violates the airspace of sovereign states and carries out military aggression against them, like what happened on the 6th of September 2007 against my country." The translator quoted the diplomat as saying that Israel had "taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria."  

10/18/2007 - Armenians push forward with fight despite ADL's reversal on 'genocide' Along with several other major Jewish groups, the ADL also opposes the resolution because of its potential repercussions for Turkish relations with Israel and the security of the Turkish Jewish community. Israel comes first over denunciation of genocide.

10/18/2007 - Dowd: A Giuliani presidency would join Israel and U.S. at the hip   Too late. That happened years ago.

10/18/2007 - Olmert: Only sanctions on Iran will prevent deterioration    

10/18/2007 - Last Palestinian refugees from Iraq head to Brazil    

10/18/2007 - Peres: Pollard was almost released He noted that Washington was being "surprisingly stubborn" on the Pollard issue, adding that nevertheless, Israel was doing everything possible in order to bring about his release.  

10/18/2007 - Jury reaches verdict in Holy Land trial After 19 days of deliberations, the jury in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial returned a verdict Thursday afternoon. But it will be Monday before the defendants find out their fate.  

10/18/2007 - Barak: We don't oppose Saudi sale Ehud Barak assured Congress members that Israel does not oppose a pending U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia.  

10/18/2007 - Barriers to peace Perhaps the most malicious comments made by Horowitz, however, were those directed at Muslims. He persistently connected the religion of over 1.5 billion people to fascism, lumping together a diverse array of ethnic and political groups by using terms such as "Islamic Nazis," "barbarians" and "Islamo-fascism."  



10/17/2007 - Powell says Iran nuke row can be solved Former Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed hope Wednesday for a peaceful and diplomatic resolution to Iran's nuclear row.  

10/17/2007 - Will We Fall For War Vs. Iran? **    

10/17/2007 - Palestinians: Parley likely to be postponed His comments came as senior P.A. officials said it was almost certain the conference in Annapolis, Md., would be postponed because Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have failed to achieve progress on any of the fundamental issues such as Jerusalem, the borders and refugees. This whole thing is being rushed together and pushed through in order to pave the way for a US strike on Iran. It's a ruse.

10/17/2007 - Syria gives backing to possible Turkish incursion into Iraq Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday said he would support a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, as the parliament in Ankara met to vote for military action.  

10/17/2007 - Dissent from the Front Lines    

10/17/2007 - PBS Frontline: Cheney's Law   Can watch the video online.

10/17/2007 - US will continue to work with Russia on Iran nuclear threat: Bush ** "We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel," Bush said at a White House press conference after Russia cautioned against military action against Tehran's suspect atomic program. "So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," said Bush.  

10/17/2007 - Oil prices pull back from highs    

10/17/2007 - House lauds Israel on U.N. breakthrough The U.S. House of Representatives saluted Israel for its being named to chair its first United Nations committee.  

10/17/2007 - JINSA Bestows 2007 Distinguished Service Award Upon Defense Secretary Gates Gates is this year?s recipient of the institute?s Jackson award, named after late U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, a staunch Cold Warrior and stalwart supporter of America?s friendship with Israel.  

10/17/2007 - Syria's UN delegate never referred to nuclear site: UN spokesman A UN report wrongly suggesting that a Syrian delegate had said a nuclear site in his country was hit in an Israeli air strike last month was due to an "interpretation error", a UN spokesman said Wednesday.  

10/17/2007 - Palestinians return to ruined Lebanese camp    

10/17/2007 - Olmert, Putin to discuss Iran The Israeli prime minister is scheduled to make a one-day visit to Moscow on Thursday at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself freshly returned from a summit with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

10/17/2007 - Ex-Mayor ?Emotional Winner' at Jewish Forum Mr. Giuliani was similarly unequivocal when it came to Iran, saying a president "can't hesitate" to use military power if it is in the country's best interests Which country would that be, Rudy?

10/17/2007 - Visiting American mayors look to partner with Israeli high-tech industry Visiting mayors from the United States said Thursday they're interested in joint projects with Israeli concerns, following a tour of leading biotechnology companies.  

10/17/2007 - Jews Become Targets of Turkey's Anger at U.S. Vote on Armenia Turkey, which has close ties with Israel, has long relied on lobbying from Jewish groups in Washington to aid in fending off proposals like the one endorsed by a House of Representatives panel Oct. 10.  



10/16/2007 - Video: Ron Paul Best OF   Five Stars. All Americans should watch this and remember what this country was supposed to be about.

10/16/2007 - Russia backs Iran nuclear rights Russia's President Vladimir Putin has offered qualified support for Iran's nuclear programme on a visit to Tehran.  

10/16/2007 - Putin blames 'worn-out' equipment for delay in Iran's nuclear reactor President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blamed technical problems and worn-out equipment for the delays in completing Iran's first nuclear power plant, being built with Russian help.  

10/16/2007 - Iraq fears action 'may escalate'    

10/16/2007 - Putin invites Ahmadinejad to Moscow    

10/16/2007 - Oil reaches new records above $87 Oil prices have hit record levels above $87 a barrel amid tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and output concerns.  

10/16/2007 - Unfit for command by Patrick J. Buchanan The United States needs to sit down with our Kurdish friends and explain that in return for U.S. protection, they are to rein in the PKK and PEJAK before they drag us into a wider war.  

10/16/2007 - Clinton would use violence against Tehran    

10/16/2007 - Pelosi Rejects Any House Vote On Iranian Revolutionary Guard ** The measure, sponsored by Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Kyl (R-Ariz.), passed the Senate last month. And Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and other critics have said the vote gives the Bush administration a rational for military action in Iran.  

10/16/2007 - California divesting from Iran    

10/16/2007 - Where Have All the Neocons Gone? If you believe that American citizens who are Muslim should be sent to internment camps, then you?ll love that Giuliani?s advisors are advocating the same thing. Want to invade, or at least bomb, Iran? Well then, Giuliani?s your guy. Believe that aid should be cut to countries that don?t back U.S. policies? Giuliani?s right with you on that one, too.  

10/16/2007 - Gates Says All Options On Table For Iran ** Among a string of U.S. objectives in the Middle East, Gates listed an Iran that does not build nuclear weapons or ?hold Israel hostage with the threat of attack.?  

10/16/2007 - David Horowitz Slanders Antiwar Activists, Ron Paul    

10/16/2007 - GOP candidates tell Jewish group Israel's security must be ensured    

10/16/2007 - U.S. too often follows Israel's lead in diplomatic situations By Paul Findley The pro-Israel lobby is not one organization orchestrating U.S. Middle East policy from a backroom in Washington. Nor is it entirely Jewish. It consists of scores of groups -- large and small -- that work at various levels. The largest, most professional, and most effective is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.  

10/16/2007 - Sneh: Iran could destroy Zionist dream A nuclear Iran could destroy the Zionist dream by deterring immigration to Israel, Labor MK Ephraim Sneh said Sunday.  

10/16/2007 - GOP candidates make their case at Republican Jewish conference    

10/16/2007 - Candidates need to step up    

10/16/2007 - Lebanon Must End Discrimination Against Its Palestinian Refugees, Charges Amnesty International in New Report The Lebanese government must take concrete steps to end all forms of discrimination against Palestinian refugees, Amnesty International said in a new report launched at a press conference in Beirut today.  

10/16/2007 - Progress in talks on captured Israeli soldiers: Hezbollah    

10/16/2007 - Two Palestinians hurt in grenade blast at Lebanon school    

10/16/2007 - U.S., Israel to study layered missile defences The United States and Israel agreed to work on a layered missile defence system to intercept ballistic missiles from Iran and Syria and smaller arms like those lobbed from Gaza and Lebanon, officials said on Tuesday.  



10/15/2007 - Putin set for historic Iran trip While he has visited Gulf Arab states, his journey to Tehran marks the first visit to Iran by a Kremlin leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.  

10/15/2007 - No Legitimate Justification for War with Iran: By Scott Ritter ** there is simply nothing transpiring in Iran today that constitutes categorization as an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, and as such nothing about the Iranian situation can be interpreted as providing justification for any accelerated military action that seeks to circumvent due process. However, the reality is that the United States continues to plan to initiate and sustain a military strike against Iran.  

10/15/2007 - Iranian threat "overly exaggerated" - Margelov Military methods are unacceptable in tackling the Iranian problem, Mikhail Margelov, the head of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, has said.  

10/15/2007 - Pentagon, FBI misusing secret info requests: ACLU The Pentagon has misled Congress and the US public by conniving with the FBI to obtain hundreds of financial, telephone and Internet records without court approval, civil-rights campaigners said Sunday.  

10/15/2007 - WMD Chaser, Scott Ritter, Spreads Anti-War Advice ** Ritter also warned that preventing war with Iran should be liberals? top priority because that war would be far more dangerous than the war in Iraq.The Bush administration is heating up the rhetoric against Iran and making false claims that the country is trying to develop nuclear weapons, Ritter said. "The American public is being imprinted to accept at face value" that Iran poses a threat.  

10/15/2007 - U.S. Builds Air Base in Iraq for the Long Haul The U.S. military base in Balad, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, is rapidly becoming one of the largest American military installations on foreign soil.  

10/15/2007 - Oil hits $86 on Turkey tensions    

10/15/2007 - Report: Syrian president to visit Turkey on Tuesday    

10/15/2007 - Ron Paul Stings Hillary Clinton on Iraq War, Warns of Draft Sounding like a candidate that can win his party's nomination, Paul said, "She voted for the war now she says she can?t get the troops out until 2013 and she won't rule out a military first strike against Iran."  

10/15/2007 - US 'wants Palestinian state now' Condoleezza Rice said reaching a two-state solution was a priority for her and US President George Bush. Has to do with garnering Arab support for forthcoming action on Iran, methinks.

10/15/2007 - 'Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control' ** Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney...I regard the Israelis as opponents of a war with Iran which would involve them Excellent. Keep it up! As to the last statement in the excerpt: of course Israel won't fight that war: that's why she's getting US to do it for them (again).

10/15/2007 - What 'Safe' Cluster Bombs Do In Lebanon Lebanon has a devastating cluster bomb problem. Hit hard during the final days of last summer?s conflict with Israel, hundreds of thousands of unexploded munitions are strewn throughout the south?s rural towns and fertile fields and valleys. Although there have been 255 civilian and de-mining casualties to date, official requests for Israel?s cluster bomb strike data have gone unanswered. ?The reality of the situation is we simply don?t know how many there are, and we will never know until the Israelis tell us how many they fired,? says Chris Clark  

10/15/2007 - Columbia Professor Calls Bollinger White Supremacist In a flare-up of old tensions between the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and the school's administration, a leading Iranian scholar at the university is labeling its president, Lee Bollinger, a white supremacist whose harsh rebuke of President Ahmadinejad of Iran reeked of "mind-numbing racism."  

10/15/2007 - Why are the Israelis lying about striking a "nuclear facility" in Syria? ** It also, I believe, prefigures, on a much smaller scale, the sequence of events likely to trigger war with Iran: an Israeli strike, Iranian retaliation via Hezbollah, followed by American intervention, which would be practically inevitable. Former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi has a similar article in the current (October 22) issue of The American Conservative. Israel wants to include Syria on the hitlist in any possible attack on Iran by the US, IMO. And she's looking for a pretext, any old one will do. This was a dry run. As we inch closer to a(nother) Israel-Palestinian 'peace agreement', we inch closer to WWIII.

10/15/2007 - Separation of families "priority humanitarian issue" - ICRC official Following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, sections of the Golan were captured by Israel. While most of the villages were depopulated, four Druze villages and one Alawi village remained inhabited. 'Depopulated' doublespeak for ETHNIC CLEANSING.

10/15/2007 - 'Mideast peace is high on our agenda'   An exercise in Israel asskissing by the US presidential candidates. Disgraceful. Only one nation in the world gets this kind of kowtow fest - Israel.

10/15/2007 - Lebanon detains group for trying to bomb UN troops The Lebanese army says it has detained members of a "terrorist network" who had tried to bomb UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon.  

10/15/2007 - Merkel assails Iran over Israel Germany should never accept Iran's threats against Israel, Angela Merkel said.  

10/15/2007 - Clinton: Pullout from Iraq will facilitate peace between Israel, Palestinians    

10/15/2007 - GOP candidates set to make pitches to Bush's Jewish loyalists Not invited were long-shots U.S. Reps. Duncan Hunter of California, Tom Tancredo of Colorado and Ron Paul of Texas. Paul was rejected because of his consistent voting record against U.S. assistance to Israel and his criticism of the pro-Israel lobby. Ron Paul - one of the brave few that dares to put America first.

10/15/2007 - On U.S. tour as defense minister, Barak's focus on security over peace In Washington this week for talks with Bush administration officials and congressional leaders, Barak is trying to promote joint U.S.-Israel missile defense projects and exchange views on the threats posed by Iran's nuclear program.  

10/15/2007 - Egypt playing negative role as peace parley approaches Ironically, some Israelis believe the chances of an accommodation with Syria are now greater in the wake of the reported Israeli airstrike against a nascent Syrian nuclear facility in September. Top Israel Defense Force generals believe there is now a real chance for a dialogue with Syria and Israel should explore it. In farewell interviews, the outgoing deputy chief of staff, Maj.-Gen Moshe Kaplinsky , argued that detaching Syria from the Iranian-led "axis of evil" was a vital Israeli and American interest.  

10/15/2007 - Hopes of prisoner exchanges after Israeli civilian's body returned home The body of an Israeli civilian was swapped last night for those of two Hizbollah militants and a live Lebanese prisoner in a move that Israel indicated could presage further prisoner exchanges.  

10/15/2007 - Small gathering protests group's Muslim Family Day at Six Flags Brenda Jernigan of Duncanville said she isn't positive the Muslim group holding Sunday's event is tied to terrorism. But she's positive her conservative Christian values are under attack. Morons.

10/15/2007 - U.N. watchdog asks Syria about "undeclared" atom plant The U.N. nuclear watchdog did not know about any undeclared atomic plant in Syria and has asked Damascus about information that such a site was targeted by an Israeli air strike, a spokeswoman said on Monday.  



10/14/2007 - Iran darkens 2008 White House race ** The specter of a hypothetical US military strike on Iran is emerging as a dominant foreign policy theme in a 2008 White House race already haunted by the war in Iraq.  

10/14/2007 - Turkey shells Iraq border areas amid incursion talk    

10/14/2007 - Congress must approve U.S. attack vs Iran: Pelosi Pelosi said Bush had not requested any congressional authority to take military action in Iran, despite growing U.S. concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions and its support for militant groups in Lebanon and Gaza. Neither of those things, even if true, threaten the AMERICAN national security. And they certainly aren't enough over which to start a war. Preposterous.

10/14/2007 - Russian leader's 1st trip to Iran viewed as test of Kremlin intentions Any show of support for Iran, such as a pledge by Putin to quickly complete the power plant, could embolden Iran and further cloud Russia's relations with the West.  

10/14/2007 - More Neo-Cons for Giuliani    

10/14/2007 - Putin told of 'assassination bid' Russian President Vladimir Putin has been warned of a plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, Kremlin officials have said.  

10/14/2007 - Israeli Jamming Mystery Deepens The interference began shortly after the 6 September Israeli air raid on Syria, which, according to US and UK press reports  

10/14/2007 - Israeli air strike was aimed at Syrian reactor, report says According to yesterday's report, Israel presented satellite evidence of the Syrian reactor to Washington earlier this year, triggering differing views within the administration over whether to back an air strike.  

10/14/2007 - Barak heads to U.S. to promote Israel rocket defence Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak heads to the United States this week to promote joint anti-missile projects that Israel considers a prerequisite for any future handover of the West Bank to the Palestinians.  

10/14/2007 - Report: Iran holds Israeli hostages Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied the report. Israeli officials did not provide further details.  



10/13/2007 - Top North Korean official to visit Syria amid nuclear fears A top North Korean official is to visit Syria, the country's official media said on Saturday, amid fears the two countries are collaborating on a secret nuclear programme.  

10/13/2007 - "Seven countries in five years" ** While the Bush White House promotes the possibility of armed conflict with Iran, a tantalizing passage in Wesley Clark's new memoir suggests that another war is part of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated "regime change" by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states. Critics of the war have often voiced suspicions of such imperial schemes, but this is the first time that a high-ranking former military officer has claimed to know that such plans existed. ..... '...We're going to take out seven countries in five years.' And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran."  

10/13/2007 - Merkel to discuss new Iran sanctions with Putin    

10/13/2007 - Iran leader urges summit boycott He said the aim of the meeting was to bolster Israel's position at the expense of the Palestinians...."This US-proposed move is in fact an initiative of the United States of America's regime to save the Zionist regime," he said.  

10/13/2007 - We rush to war in Iran at our own peril by Bob Barr **    

10/13/2007 - Israeli strike was on Syrian nuke reactor: New York Times    



10/12/2007 - Lavrov warns Rice against 'unilateral' Iran strategy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attacked Friday what he called the United States' "unilateral" approach to the Iranian nuclear crisis, during talks here with US counterpart Condoleezza Rice.  

10/12/2007 - Ex-general: Iraq a 'nightmare' for US "There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight," Sanchez told a group of journalists covering military affairs. And the people who deliberately misled America into fighting this war have gotten off scot-free.

10/12/2007 - Rudy: Romney Made 'Big Mistake' at Debate ** Responding to a hypothetical question about whether he would seek congressional action prior to involving the U.S. militarily with Iran, Romney said at the debate Tuesday: ?You sit down with your attorneys and tell you want you have to do, but obviously the president of the United States has to do what's in the best interest of the United States to protect us against a potential threat." Look at these pathetic SOBs, outdoing themselves with the talk of attacking Iran, in order to please their AIPAC overloads. Repulsive.

10/12/2007 - US welcomes global money-laundering task force action on Iran    

10/12/2007 - Inquiry after US air strikes kill 15 women and children The American military promised a thorough investigation into the events surrounding the raid in a Sunni area northwest of Baghdad  

10/12/2007 - Respect Iran sanctions, US warns    

10/12/2007 - US rejects Russian appeals to halt missile scheme Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the American plans to build a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic are based on the false assumption that there is a nuclear threat from Iran.  

10/12/2007 - US threatens Turkey over energy support to Iran The United States has suggested that Turkey could come under sanctions for its energy cooperation with Iran.  

10/12/2007 - US accused of making insect spy robots official protestations of innocence have failed to kill speculation of government involvement after a handful of sightings of the objects at political events in New York and Washington.  

10/12/2007 - Giuliani names 3 more Jews as advisers Ruth Wedgwood, Michael Rubin and David Frum were among seven additional advisers named Thursday by the former New York mayor's campaign for the Republican presidential candidacy. David Frum = neocon supremo. No End to War, ala Frum and Perle. If Rudy gets elected, you can bet we will continue to further the neocon agenda (which is almost always Israel-first!).

10/12/2007 - Candidates court Jewish support Set to announce the appointment of former Rep. David Bonior as campaign manager in a few days, Edwards' strategists began to realize that the Michigan Democrat's strong support for Palestinians while he was in Congress could hurt Edwards among American Jews. .....The new test is how tough the candidates will be in combating the nuclear threat that Iran poses to Israel, and whether Israel should be allowed to take pre-emptive action.  

10/12/2007 - From 2004: No End to War By Patrick J. Buchanan   One of Buchanan's finest masterpieces, hands down.

10/12/2007 - Families of dead Lebanese troops block refugee return Some 400 men, women and children burned tyres and placed stones at the northern entrance of Nahr al-Bared camp forcing a bus filled with refugees to turn back.  



10/11/2007 - Rice says Iran 'lying' about nukes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday accused Iran of "lying" about the aim of its nuclear program, saying there's no doubt Tehran wants the capability to produce nuclear weapons and has deceived the U.N.'s atomic watchdog about its intentions. Mmm k.

10/11/2007 - EU to leave door open to further Iran sanctions European Union foreign ministers will warn Iran next week that it faces tougher sanctions unless it halts nuclear activities the West suspects are aimed at making atomic bombs, diplomats said on Thursday.  

10/11/2007 - EU's Solana set for fresh talks with Iran's Larijani The EU's Javier Solana intends to meet Ali Larijani to try to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and other activities that can produce fuel for nuclear weapons.  

10/11/2007 - Iraq strike 'kills 15 civilians' The US military says 19 suspected insurgents and 15 women and children have been killed in an operation north of Baghdad.  

10/11/2007 - Blackwater faces war crimes inquiry after killings in Iraq    

10/11/2007 - Who has Putin's ear? Jewish meeting sparks intrigue Kantor, who was elected EJC president in June, denied any connection to Putin during his election campaign, amid cries from the opposition that he might be soft on Russia about Iran's nuclear program.  

10/11/2007 - Paul campaign fueled by Web cash and savvy Paul's campaign spokesman Jesse Benton said his Internet popularity demonstrates that his message is resonating. Paul is the only GOP candidate who wants to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. "These national polls are still about name recognition, and that's an obstacle we have to overcome," Benton said.  

10/11/2007 - The dingbat wing of the neoconservative movement (or do I repeat myself?) is at the core of Team Giuliani This last is the keynote of Rudy's run for the White House, and it is reflected not only in his public pronouncements ? he doesn't rule out nuking Iran ? but in his team of foreign policy advisers, who represent, more than any other campaign, the core leaders of the neoconservative hardliners who whooped it up for war with Iraq.  

10/11/2007 - Former President Jimmy Carter Rips Dick Cheney As a 'Disaster' In an interview that aired Wednesday on BBC, Carter ripped Vice President Dick Cheney as "a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military." Carter went on to say Cheney has been "a disaster for our country. I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush."  

10/11/2007 - Israeli cluster bomb kills British deminer in Lebanon A British member of a demining team was killed on Thursday by a cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year's war in Lebanon, officials said.  

10/11/2007 - Lebanon PM asks UN, Arab League to stop arms from Syria    

10/11/2007 - Camp in Lebanon fosters peace and tolerance in a region marked by conflict    

10/11/2007 - Palestinians try to rebuild lives in devastated Lebanon camp    

10/11/2007 - Assad slams Lebanese parties who follow Israel Syrian President Bashar al-Assad slammed Lebanese who he said had chosen to side with Israel and submit themselves to foreigners instead of taking the Arab path and that of resistance.  

10/11/2007 - Israel worried by Turk-Armenian debate Israel's government expressed concern Thursday over the U.S. congressional debate on the mass killings of ethnic Armenians in Turkey 90 years ago, but tried to deflect pressure from Turkey to take its side in the dispute.  

10/11/2007 - Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians    

10/11/2007 - All's quiet on Israel's northeastern front, for now Maj. Gen. Wolfgang Jilke , the 59-year-old Austrian officer who oversees the 1,300-strong United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the area, and his observers could see nothing to substantiate the Israeli press reports of a Syrian military buildup. "From our point of view, this is just misleading information," said Jilke, who's one of the few people in the world who can drive the 135 miles between Damascus and Jerusalem . Israel, mislead? Nooooo, say it ain't soo....

10/11/2007 - Lebanon reaps deadly Israeli bombs one year after war Two civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were killed by cluster bombs only last week.  

10/11/2007 - Clinton Steps Away From Pro-Israel Lobby on Measure to Rein in President Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has built a reputation for strictly adhering to the pro-Israel line, but she now appears, for the first time, to be supporting legislation that is opposed by pro-Israel lobbyists.Clinton announced last week that she would co-sponsor an amendment, proposed by Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, that would require the president to seek congressional approval before taking military action against Iran. Maybe AIPAC is backing off of this one due to the overwhelming attention they are receiving with regard to their undue influence over Capitol Hill, among other places.

10/11/2007 - Journalists tour Syria bomb site Syria took journalists on a tour of the site Israel allegedly bombed last month, calling it an agricultural research center.  

10/11/2007 - Desolation Awaits Returning Palestinian Refugees    

10/11/2007 - Pro-Israel Oppressors Cherished at Columbia University The stark contrast between Columbia's treatments of the Shah and of Ahmadinejad is not an isolated case. It fits into the established pattern of Columbia's behavior toward Israel.  



10/10/2007 - Putin plays down Iran bomb fears "We do not have data that says Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons," Mr Putin said at a joint news conference with Mr Sarkozy.  

10/10/2007 - Russia defies Western pressure over Iran Russia defied Western pressure to toughen its stance over Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, days before President Vladimir Putin has talks in Tehran and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Moscow.  

10/10/2007 - Iraq's displaced people nightmare The scale of the overall displacement is unprecedented in the modern history of the Middle East.  

10/10/2007 - How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack ** .... a new appeal signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright and many other leaders of the American peace movement: "ATTENTION: Joint Chiefs of Staff and all U.S. Military Personnel: Do not attack Iran." The initiative responds to the growing calls for an attack on Iran from the likes of Norman Podhoretz and John Bolton, and the reports of growing war momentum in Washington by reporters like Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker and Joe Klein of Time......Asked in an online discussion September 27 whether the Bush Administration will launch a war against Iran, Washington Post intelligence reporter Dana Priest replied, "Frankly, I think the military would revolt and there would be no pilots to fly those missions." REVOLT NOW. Thanks.

10/10/2007 - New US embassy complex in Baghdad riddled with problems Three months after the State Department confidently told Congress that the world's biggest US embassy would be completed on schedule in September 2007, officials are now saying that it would be delayed indefinitely, with one report saying by more than a year.  

10/10/2007 - Turkey plans military action against Kurds in Iraq Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that his Government is drawing up plans to authorise a military incursion into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels there  

10/10/2007 - The man who stands between US and new war ** Pentagon sources say Mr Gates is waging a subtle campaign to undermine the Cheney camp by encouraging the army's senior officers to speak frankly about the overstretch of forces, and the difficulty of fighting another war. I urge all relevant people in the administration and out to speak out now before - as one popular political commentator with whom this webmistress corresponds believes - it's too late.

10/10/2007 - War Whisperers Canvassing the campaigns, it is hard to find a conservative of any other stripe advising the top tiers, indicating that like Wolfowitz?s continued celebrity, neoconservativism is far from being upstaged.  

10/10/2007 - Israel's Strike On Syrian Facilities Was a Dry Run - Philip Giraldi **    

10/10/2007 - Neocons Acquire Another Front Group by Philip Giraldi The neocon domination of the editorial pages of most major newspapers and magazines continues, and even the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a board controlled by five Republican appointees chaired by Cheryl Feldman Halpern, who, prior to her appointment in 2005, complained that public television and radio exhibited an anti-Israel bias. The neocons, much more than traditional conservatives and liberals, continue to be adept at networking and getting their message across, even if that message has frequently been mugged by reality. If you turn on a television and are invited to learn the views of an "expert" on foreign policy, that expert is likely to be a neocon. Philip Giraldi - a former CIA counterterrorism official - one of the good guys.

10/10/2007 - 'US support for Israel spurred 9/11' Bin Laden's concern had been reflected in his public statements throughout the 1990's - "well before 9-11." Citing the 9-11 Commission report, Mearsheimer and Walt argued that Bin Laden wanted to make sure the attackers struck Congress because it is "the most important source of support for Israel in the United States," adding that Bin Laden twice tried to move up the dates of the attacks because of events involving Israel...... Mearsheimer said there was "no question" that the "neo-conservatives were the main driving force behind the war, but they where supported by the main constituents in the [Israel] lobby, such as AIPAC."  

10/10/2007 - Report: Washington split on Syria WMDs Israel presented the Bush administration with intelligence meant to justify its Sept. 6 airstrike against a suspected nuclear facility in northern Syria, but some in Washington remain unconvinced, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Well shiver me timbers, we've still got some good guys in there, hallelujah!

10/10/2007 - Bomb, Bomb Iran ** Hillary?s hawkish Iran vote was an ill-advised move, especially given her private view that Cheney is untrustworthy and given Sy Hersh?s New Yorker report claiming that Cheney had pushed to devise a plan to attack the Revolutionary Guard facilities in Iran.  

10/10/2007 - Russia, Mideast focus of Rice trip    

10/10/2007 - Families return to Lebanon camp "I'm so happy about going back, even if it's to just one inch of what's left of my home. It's as symbolic as returning to Palestine," Um Akram Awdeh, 60, told the Reuters news agency, as he waited in a bus to enter the camp.  

10/10/2007 - Far Right Israelis Get Boost From Senator Elon, who supports the transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza, and considers the Palestinian Authority a ?danger to the region,? represents the far right of Israeli politics. By endorsing him, Brownback seems to be placing himself to the right of other Republican candidates on Israel policy.  

10/10/2007 - Horowitz's Latest Hate Campaign Heads for Campus   Hyping up the threat of 'Islamofascism' to America is the MO of the Israeli lobby and in particular, the neocons. I give you Patrick Buchanan's retort to this 'theat', paragraph 10 in particular.

10/10/2007 - Bipartisan Heavies Call for Engagement    

10/10/2007 - Palestinian refugees turn down Sudanese asylum offer "They think Sudan is too risky and that after a few months there may be a war there. They want to go somewhere safe where they can work and live in peace,"  

10/10/2007 - Geopolitical Diary: A New Shield for Israel Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday that Israel will soon be able to intercept 90 percent of the missiles launched at it, from Iran's Shahab-3 missiles to Palestinian Qassam rockets.  



10/9/2007 - IAEA in Tehran for talks over Iran's atomic work A team led by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's second-in-command held talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Tuesday to try to clear up questions about the country's disputed atomic program.  

10/9/2007 - France, Russia move closer on Iran Sarkozy has hardened France's stance on Iran in recent months, shifting closer to the United States in his insistence on tough U.N. Security Council sanctions and even his mention of the possibility of war. While the United States and European nations are pressing for greater sanctions, Russia and China have resisted.  

10/9/2007 - Nuke transportation story has explosive implications This is about how six nuclear advanced cruise missiles got out of their bunkers and onto a combat aircraft without notice of the wing commander, squadron commander, munitions maintenance squadron (MMS), the B-52H's crew chief and command pilot and onto another Air Force base tarmac without notice of that air base's chain of command -- for 10 hours.  

10/9/2007 - Navy veteran questions why six nuclear missiles were flown on combat aircraft to staging area for Middle East Stormer doesn't buy reports that the missiles were simply lost.  

10/9/2007 - Findings of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty due to continuing pressure by the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, this attack remains the only serious naval incident that has never been thoroughly investigated by Congress; to this day, no surviving crewmember has been permitted to officially and publicly testify about the attack; .....That a danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel's interests when they conflict with American interests; this policy, evidenced by the failure to defend USS Liberty and the subsequent official cover-up of the Israeli attack, endangers the safety of Americans and the security of the United States  

10/9/2007 - Surge Protectors The three principals of Freedom's Watch have all expressed Israel-centered views. Matt Brooks himself cited Israel's interests two years back when attacking the antiwar movement  

10/9/2007 - War on Iran cannot be ruled out: Albright ** Albright, who was born Marie Korbelova in Prague in 1937, defends the idea of a missile defence system in Central Europe despite resistance from Moscow.  

10/9/2007 - Fineman: Intel Community To Release ?Three Iran Reports? To ?Slow Down? Bush?s Warmongering ** On the Chris Matthews Show today, NBC?s Howard Fineman revealed that the intelligence community will release ?three different reports? in upcoming weeks to ?slow down? the administration?s current drumbeat for war with Iran:  

10/9/2007 - U.S. warns against Turkish action in Iraq    

10/9/2007 - Al-Qaeda pursuing weapons of mass destruction: US Other organizations that pose a potential threat to the United States include the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, the strategy report said. "Hezbollah may increasingly consider attacking the homeland if it perceives the United States as posing a direct threat to the group or Iran, its principal sponsor," it said Somehow Israel's enemies become OUR enemies. Whose war?

10/9/2007 - Refugee groups blast lack of US help for Iraqis Current US efforts to help resettle Iraqi refugees are slow, poorly funded and ignore Syria which hosts the largest number of displaced people, refugee and human rights advocates said on Tuesday.  

10/9/2007 - Lebanon's Hariri urges strong UN words on killings    

10/9/2007 - Barak plans U.S. trip The itinerary has not yet been finalized, but Barak is expected to meet with Bush administration officials for discussions on Israeli-U.S. arms deals and strategic cooperation.  

10/9/2007 - UNHCR deeply concerned about fire in Iraq refugee camp The UN refugee agency UNHCR expressed deep concern on Tuesday after 25 Palestinians were injured when a big fire swept through a refugee camp in Iraq at the weekend.  

10/9/2007 - Certification sought on 'smart' weapons U.S. Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Christopher Carney (D-Pa.) wrote the letter, which has the backing of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.  

10/9/2007 - In pictures: Palestinians await camp return    



10/8/2007 - 'War on terror' has been a 'disaster': British think tank The Oxford Research Group (ORG) said in a report that Western strategy since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States had failed to extinguish the threat from Islamist extremism and even fuelled it.  

10/8/2007 - Blast fuels fears Iran is involved   Making the case for war.

10/8/2007 - Iran to re-open its border with Iraq Iran will re-opens its border with Iraq on Sunday after a two-week closure to protest at the detention of an Iranian by US troops, the semi-official news agency Fars reported.  

10/8/2007 - Giuliani raps Clinton on Iraq, Iran Giuliani said he has made it clear that he would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power and would not rule out military action to stop that from happening.  

10/8/2007 - Hundreds of Iraqi refugees in Syria protest against US Senate Hundreds of Iraqi refugees staged a sit-in in Damascus on Saturday to protest against a recent nonbinding US Senate resolution that encourages splitting Iraq along ethnic and religious lines.  

10/8/2007 - US steps up accusations against Iran ** Statements like those by General Petraeus could be part of an attempt to turn US public opinion in favour of military action against Iran - in particular, air strikes against revolutionary guard bases.  

10/8/2007 - 6 years later, US expands Afghan base Originally envisioned as a temporary home for invading U.S. forces, the sprawling American base at Bagram, a former Soviet outpost in the shadow of the towering Hindu Kush mountains, is growing in size by nearly a third.  

10/8/2007 - GOP candidate calls for troop withdrawal Rep. Ron Paul believes political leaders are pumping up the threat of terrorism to accomplish political goals. Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman, told Monitor reporters and editors that concerns about the country's security have been overblown to justify needless foreign invasions and domestic surveillance programs....."As long as we occupy Muslims' countries, our danger is always growing," he said. "So, I think we're in a much more dangerous time now than we were before 9/11 because instead of wising up, what we've done is more of the wrong thing."  

10/8/2007 - The Big Lie: 'Iran Is a Threat' by Scott Ritter ** On every point, the case made against Iran collapses upon closer scrutiny. ....Most if not all the claims made by the United States concerning Iranian military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been backed up with anything stronger than rhetoric, and more often than not are subsequently contradicted by other military and governmental officials, citing a lack of specific evidence. Iran as a nation represents absolutely no threat to the national security of the United States, or of its major allies in the region, including Israel......The fact of the matter is that the ?Iranian Threat? is derived solely from the rhetoric of those who appear to seek confrontation between the United States and Iran, and largely divorced from fact-based reality.  

10/8/2007 - The Ron Paul Breakthrough   Ron Paul - one of the good guys.

10/8/2007 - Fire ravages border camp for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees A raging fire swept through the Al-Tanf refugee camp on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Iraqi border on 6 October injuring 25 Palestinian-Iraqi refugees and burning down 53 tents in the isolated camp, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on 7 October.  

10/8/2007 - Clinton's Iran Vote Prompts A Harsh Back-and-Forth ** Rolph asked Clinton to explain her Senate vote Wednesday for a resolution urging the Bush administration to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. Rolph interpreted that measure as giving Bush authority to use military action against the Iranians.  

10/8/2007 - 13 Turkish soldiers killed near Iraq border Kurdish fighters from the separatist group PKK have killed 13 Turkish soldiers in an attack near the border with Iraq, one of the heaviest losses suffered by the Turkish military in conflicts with the group.  

10/8/2007 - 'Jewish, Armenian groups defaming us' Babacan said Ankara expected the US administration, the Iraqi government and the administration in northern Iraq to take action against the PKK operating from northern Iraq.  

10/8/2007 - Rep. Ron Paul: I advocate the same foreign policy the Founding Fathers would A Paul administration would see Americans engaged overseas like never before, in business and cultural activities. But a Paul administration would never attempt to export democracy or other values at the barrel of a gun, as we have seen over and over again that this is a counterproductive approach that actually leads the United States to be resented and more isolated in the world.  

10/8/2007 - Neocons Converge Around Giuliani Campaign Podhoretz is in favor of bombing Iran because of the country's unwillingness to suspend its uranium-enrichment program. He also believes America is engaged in a "world war" with "Islamofascism" and that Giuliani is the only man who can win it......what's left of the neocon movement does seem to be converging around the Giuliani campaign, to some degree, because he embraces their common themes Clue: The Israel Factor, a site that ranks candidates based on their support of Israel, has Giuliani ranked at number 1. The author of this piece goes on to suggest that neocons are in line with Giuliani's pro-Israeli views, as are most American voters. Hogwash. The name of this game is which candidate can kowtow the lowest to the Israeli Lobby.

10/8/2007 - Israeli president brands Iran 'centre of global terror' "Iran is the greatest terrorist centre in the world today," he said, adding that "it is openly building an arsenal of long-range missiles and, secretely, nuclear weapons.  

10/8/2007 - WJC officials meet Pope Benedict Lauder and Schneider were scheduled to meet later Monday with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. They were expected to call on Italy to take a firm stance against the intentions of Iran to develop nuclear capabilities.  

10/8/2007 - Turkey says not to let airspace be used against Syria    



10/7/2007 - Report: Britain to back U.S. air strikes on Iran ** British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed to support U.S. air strikes against Iran if the Islamic country orchestrates large-scale attacks by militants against British or American forces in Iraq, a British newspaper said on Sunday.  

10/7/2007 - Petraeus steps up accusations against Iran The U.S. military commander in Iraq stepped up accusations over the weekend that Iran was inciting violence there and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force. Making the case for war.

10/7/2007 - Iran rejects nuclear program talks    

10/7/2007 - Brown aide plays down US talk of Iran threat ** Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States over Iran are under increasing strain after Gordon Brown's special security adviser warned that American claims about Tehran's military capability should be taken 'with a pinch of salt'.......More recently Freedom's Watch took out ads describing Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as 'a terrorist'. According to the New York Times, anonymous benefactors told the paper that the group plans to sponsor a private forum of experts on Islam to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the US.......But it is the link with Cheney that is the strongest, leading to the widespread view that the organisation is in effect his own creature  

10/7/2007 - US accuses Iran's envoy to Iraq The top US military commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, has accused Iran's ambassador of belonging to an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards......Gen Petraeus said he had no doubt Iran was behind attacks that had led to the deaths of US soldiers. Making the case for war.

10/7/2007 - The fallout from an attack on Iran would be devastating ** Just as in the runup to the invasion of Iraq, the Washington air is thick with unsubstantiated claims about weapons of mass destruction; demonisation of the country's president has reached bizarre proportions; intelligence leaks about links with al-Qaida and attacks on US and British targets are now routine; demands for war from the administration's neoconservative outriders are becoming increasingly strident; the pronouncements of George Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, are turning ever more belligerent - and administration sources claim that the British government is privately ready to play ball......despite the populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ugly remarks about the Holocaust, it is the nuclear states America and Israel that now threaten and have the capacity to attack Iran, not the other way round.  

10/7/2007 - Making the Same Mistake Twice ** Certainly all of the negative comments about Iran that are coming from Israel, its lobby and its foot-kissers in Congress, and from the White House and the Pentagon, look remarkably like a buildup for a new war.  

10/7/2007 - Shield Law Perils . . . Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a "shield law" for journalists that would radically alter the way national security investigations are conducted. Unlike state shield laws, a federal shield law poses unique obstacles to the protection of national security. We must know whether the proposed law squarely addresses a real problem before taking such a significant step. After having allowed a journalist to lambaste him a few months back over the Libby trial, the Washington Post prints an op ed by Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Question: What, no photo op with this piece, Paddy? ....

10/7/2007 - Israel fears Syrian proxy strike Syria could use proxies to retaliate for Israel's air strike on its territory last month. So, if Syria doesn't directly attack Israel, then some other attack will be blamed on them - likely making the case to include Syrian targets during the forthcoming US attack on Iran.

10/7/2007 - Israel fighter jets breach Lebanese airspace Israeli fighter jets breached Lebanese airspace on Friday and flew over southern Lebanese areas and the Bekaa Valley, the official National News Agency(NNA)reported.  

10/7/2007 - Turkey says not to let airspace be used against Syria Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Sunday in Damascus that his country would not let Israel use its airspace to launch attack against Syria as tension remains high after an air raid by the Jewish state into deep Syria last month.  

10/7/2007 - Archbishop of Canterbury speaks of 'harrowing plight' of Iraqi Christians In another encounter, the Archbishop met with Palestinian refugees at the Dibayeh camp outside Beirut. Most had lived there, or in other camps, all their adult lives, some since 1948. Others had been born and raised their own children in the camp. Despite the best efforts of some of aid agencies, support for the camps was drying up. The Archbishop will raise the question of better coordination of aid to the camps with aid agencies.  

10/7/2007 - Turkish FM talks up Syrian role in Assad meeting Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Damascus had an important role to play in settling conflict across the Middle East following talks on Sunday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  

10/7/2007 - Mystery Achievement All that blather about how the Israelis hit a "nuclear site" or a site with "nuclear materials" in Syria the other week was really just a lot of hooey,  

10/7/2007 - Turkish FM visits Israel Turkey's foreign minister visited Israel to diffuse regional tension over last month's air strike against Syria.  



10/6/2007 - Iran to re-open its border with Iraq Iran will re-opens its border with Iraq on Sunday after a two-week closure to protest at the detention of an Iranian by US troops, the semi-official news agency Fars reported.  

10/6/2007 - Dubai police chief warns against Western attack on Iran ** Tamim, who was speaking at a forum on Friday night, was arguing for closer Gulf Arab ties with Iran and advocating that it join the Gulf Cooperation Council, whose six member states are close US allies.  

10/6/2007 - Iran says French call for EU sanctions illegal Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday France's call for EU sanctions against Tehran outside of the U.N. framework was illegal and the Islamic Republic would not back away from its nuclear ambitions.  

10/6/2007 - US hawk David Wurmser 'plotted Iran war' ** Preceding him through the exit doors were figures such as Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Doug Feith, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Robert Joseph and J.D.Crouch. This string of departures, Mr Wurmser concedes, is partly because there is "some degree of frustration" with the direction of President George W. Bush's foreign policy as career diplomats under Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, have reasserted themselves. Do we dare hope that the America-firsters, if any, in this administration will prevail before the neocons start WWIII by attacking Iran?...

10/6/2007 - Iran says oilfields 'too attractive' for France to quit    

10/6/2007 - Report: Syria to Iraq Homicide Bomb Trail   Fox News, neocon shill supremo, is making the case for war.

10/6/2007 - ATT blocking content of USS Liberty webpage?   ATT is evidently blocking this website about the USS Liberty. Here is the Jan. 2007 version of the page from the Internet Archiver.

10/6/2007 - Unmasking AIPAC    

10/6/2007 - So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby? by Ray McGovern I was intrigued by the fact that Mearsheimer and Walt made no mention of what I believe to be, if not the most telling, then perhaps the most sensational proof of the power the Lobby knows it can exert over our government and Congress. In sum, in June 1967, after deliberately using fighter-bombers and torpedo boats to attack the USS Liberty for over two hours in an attempt to sink it and kill its entire crew, and then getting the U.S. government, the Navy, and the Congress to cover up what happened, the Israeli government learned that it could ? literally ? get away with murder. My sentiments exactly. Ray McGovern is former CIA.

10/6/2007 - The High Cost of U.S. Subservience to Israel by Paul Findley America?s support of Israel?s brutality was the main motivation for 9/11. That tragedy would not have happened if any U.S. president in the last 40 years had refused to finance Israel?s humiliation and destruction of Palestine. Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst and now a consultant to CBS News, recently told a congressional committee that ?our unqualified support of Israel? was the main reason for 9/11. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, President George W. Bush?s first special envoy to the Middle East, has stated that the United States invaded Iraq for Israel and oil. Paul Findley was a Republican Congressman for 22 years.



10/5/2007 - Iran defiant over nuclear issue    

10/5/2007 - US 'must break Iran and Syria regimes' ** In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the first since he left government, he argued that the United States had to be prepared to attack both Syria and Iran to prevent the spread of Islamic fundamentalism and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East that could result in a much wider war. Unf'kingbelievable. Especially seeing as how Ba'athist Syria is nowhere near under the rule of Islamic fundamentalists. To the contrary: they quash that type of behavior and fast (as did Saddam, believe it or not). These two countries do not pose a threat to the US. They do however pose a threat to ISRAEL. Wurmser is a tried and true NEOCON, whose primary allegiance is clearly to said nation, not the US.

10/5/2007 - Iraq official says "big fat no" to attack on Iran ** "The whole area will be in flames, and Iraq will be the battlefield for all this, and we will pay heavily," Rubaie said at an event in Washington hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.  

10/5/2007 - Iran blames 'U.S.-backed terrorists' for cleric's murder    

10/5/2007 - U.S. sanctions drive Iranian businesses and exports to Syria From car-manufacturing plants and a proposed $2 billion industrial zone for Iranian businesses to plans to overhaul urban transportation systems, Iranian companies are charging into Syria, looking to cash in on a recent privatization push.  

10/5/2007 - Iran rules out talks on 'nuclear rights'    

10/5/2007 - U.N. presses Syria to allow in more Iraqi refugees    

10/5/2007 - Byrd: Senate?s ?Saber-Rattling? Is ?Sleep-Walking? America To War With Iran ** It is deeply troubling to see the U.S. Senate joining the chest-pounding and saber-rattling of the Bush administration. I am no apologist for the Iranian regime, anymore than I was for Saddam Hussein, but I fear that we may become entangled in another bloody quagmire. We have been down this path before. We have seen all too clearly where it leads.  

10/5/2007 - Marine may escape Haditha charge An investigating officer has said no murder charges should be brought against a US marine accused of leading a massacre of Iraqi civilians.  

10/5/2007 - US raid kills women, children: Iraqi police Iraqi police say women and children are among 25 Iraqis killed and 40 wounded in a US air strike on a village near the central city of Baquba.  

10/5/2007 - Inside Track: The Myth of the All-Powerful Ahmadinejad by Philip Giraldi Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is the Francis Walsingham Fellow for the American Conservative Defense Alliance. Philip Giraldi = one of the good guys.

10/5/2007 - Iran accuses Israel of Palestinian "genocide"    

10/5/2007 - The Price of Promiscuous Intervention The U.S. is stretched militarily neither because it faces unusual and unusually dangerous threats nor because it possesses a minuscule military ill-prepared to defend the nation. Washington is running down its forces, most obviously Army and Marine Corps active and reserve troops, because the U.S. is trying to create political democracy and force social reconciliation through a military occupation. That's not what America's military forces are trained for. That's not what America's national interest requires.  

10/5/2007 - Iran's president calls wants Israel's Jews moved to Canada, Alaska or Europe Ahmadinejad said a "free referendum" was the solution to the Palestinian issue, saying Jews, Muslims and Christians as well as five million Palestinian refugees should take part in a vote to determine their own fate.  

10/5/2007 - Bush denies plans to attack Iran ** Bush pledged to support Palestinian security forces and help President Mahmoud Abbas financially so that ordinary people's lives would be improved.  

10/5/2007 - Anglican leader condemns Syria, Iran war talk    

10/5/2007 - Who Wants To Bomb Iran? Democrats, Not Republicans, Says Seymour Hersh ** When I asked Hersh who wants to bomb Iran, he said, "Ironically there is a lot of pressure coming from Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Edwards have all said we cannot have a nuclear-armed Iran. Clearly the pressure from Democrats is a reflection of - we might as well say it - Israeli and Jewish input." He added the obvious: "a lot of money comes to the Democratic campaigns" from Jewish contributors.  

10/5/2007 - Report: Israel 'blinded' Syrian radar According to the article, a Kuwaiti newspaper recently reported that "Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory. Iran reportedly has asked the same question, since it is buying the same systems and might have paid for the Syrian acquisitions."  

10/5/2007 - Lebanon charges 20 with terrorism Prosecutor-general Saeed Mirza's office said he had charged 16 Palestinians and four Russians, although only three of the accused are in Lebanese custody.  

10/5/2007 - Feds Seek Life Sentence For Contempt in Hamas Case Federal prosecutors are urging that a Palestinian Arab activist spend the rest of his life in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Hamas links in America.Earlier this year, a jury in Chicago convicted Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, of contempt of court and obstruction of justice. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby was pardoned by Bush for his obstruction of justice conviction.

10/5/2007 - Ahmadinejad is not another Hitler    

10/5/2007 - Hezbollah chief accuses Israel of Lebanon killings "Israel is the one that does not want a consensus president and a government of national unity in Lebanon. Israel, backed by America, wants a president who would disarm the resistance," he said.  



10/4/2007 - We won't follow US into Iran says Downer ** Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has ruled out Australian involvement in any United States-led military action in Iran.  

10/4/2007 - Iran-Syria sign billion dollar gas deal Fellow US foes Iran and Syria have signed an agreement for Tehran to export a billion dollars worth of gas every year to its chief regional ally, Iranian state television reported on Thursday.  

10/4/2007 - Iran says clears hurdles to nuclear industry President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran had overcome difficulties en route to a nuclear energy industry and no one could stop it, a day after France called for wider European sanctions to rein in Tehran.  

10/4/2007 - 1.4 billion dollars in possible US arms sales to Mideast announced    

10/4/2007 - USS Liberty Memorial Web Site   It was recently revamped.

10/4/2007 - Lauder, Kantor press Merkel on Teheran The heads of the World Jewish and European Jewish congresses stressed the need to focus on rising anti-Semitism in Europe and Iran's nuclear program in meetings with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Monday.  

10/4/2007 - Israel allows news on bombing, but mystery remains The strike had the potential to sabotage next month's planned Bush administration Middle East peace conference. But the United States has made it clear that it still plans to invite Syria, even though that country is still officially at war with Israel.  

10/4/2007 - Australian bishops warn against joining U.S. in pre-emptive strike "Obligations to an ally cannot include an obligation to engage in war that is not justified," the bishops said......."Australia as a global citizen should do everything possible to support the United Nations and other agents of mediation to bring about a just peace in the Holy Land," the bishops said.  

10/4/2007 - Syria says Mideast problems result from Israeli occupation    

10/4/2007 - Palestinians clash in Lebanese refugee camp    

10/4/2007 - Bush warns Syria not to meddle in Lebanon election   Pot, this is the kettle calling...



10/3/2007 - Iran summons French envoy over nuclear remarks Iran on Wednesday summoned a top French diplomat in Tehran over remarks by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on the Islamic republic's nuclear drive, state media reported.  

10/3/2007 - Clinton backs bill on Congress OK for Iran war ** U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) signed on to legislation requiring authorization for a war against Iran.  

10/3/2007 - Iran says US too tied up to fight ** Washington's military commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan would hamstring an attempt to wage war on Iran, the Iranian foreign minister has said.  

10/3/2007 - Paul's fundraising shock He's locked in low single digits in most polls, but Texas Rep. Ron Paul raised more than $5 million for his presidential bid in the third quarter, roughly equal to or just short of several of his higher -profile rivals. Ron Paul is a true candidate of the people - he simply refuses to bow down to special interests and lobbies. He gets my vote any day.

10/3/2007 - Experts say prosecuting Ahmadinejad a tough task Federal Labor is talking tough on foreign affairs today, vowing that a Labor government would bring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before the international courts on charges of incitement to genocide.  

10/3/2007 - Iran Could Strike U.S. by 2015, U.S. Officials Say   Fox News is once again making the case for war.

10/3/2007 - Questions raised over US terror exercise The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever later this month when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.  

10/3/2007 - Are U.S. and Iran headed for war? **    

10/3/2007 - France urges EU to move ahead on Iran sanctions    

10/3/2007 - Spy Satellite Program on Hold Homeland Security officials say they are delaying a program to expand domestic satellite surveillance while they answer lawmakers? questions regarding the program?s impact on civil liberties and privacy.  

10/3/2007 - Freedom?s Watch Bears Watching    

10/3/2007 - Thompson: Iraq had WMDs before U.S. invaded Thompson later said he was referring Saddam?s attack on Kurdish northern Iraq with banned weapons in the 1980s. Well if he had mustard gas back then, why didn't we disarm him at that time, genius? Because mustard gas isn't a threat to the United States of America.

10/3/2007 - Regional nuclear war could trigger mass starvation A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cause one billion people to starve to death around the world, and hundreds of millions more to die from disease and conflicts over food  

10/3/2007 - Bush warns of nuclear-armed Iran "In Iran, we're dealing with a country where the leader has said that he wants to destroy Israel," Bush said. "My belief is that the United States will defend our ally Israel. This is a leader who has made very provocative statements. And, we have made it clear, however, that in spite of that, we are willing to sit down with him, so long as he suspends his program." Whose war?

10/3/2007 - Syria urges international community to condemn Israeli aggression   If Syria had done that to Israel there would be hell to pay.

10/3/2007 - Rice to travel to Russia, Middle East They will meet on October 12 in the wake of stalled negotiations on America's planned missile defense system in central Europe, Russia's foreign affairs ministry had reported earlier.  

10/3/2007 - Sen. Gravel Say AIPAC Is Pushing Confrontation With Iran **    

10/3/2007 - Livni: UN established to prevent a Holocaust   Yeh, well oddly the UN hasn't stopped Israel's Holocaust against the Palestinians.

10/3/2007 - Terror victims can sue state sponsors The legislation was drafted in response to unsuccessful attempts by the United States to hold the government of Iran accountable for the murder of 241 men in the bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. It must be reconciled with similar legislation enacted by the House of Representatives and signed by the president.  

10/3/2007 - Congressmen push Hezbollah resolution A resolution demanding that Hezbollah meet its cease-fire commitments was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.  

10/3/2007 - Jury struggling in terror-financing trial of Muslim charity    



10/2/2007 - Paging Sen. Biden By Patrick J. Buchanan ** The War Party is said to be readying a rollout of a big propaganda campaign for war on Iran like the one that stampeded us into the war in Iraq. President Bush got the ball rolling at the American Legion Convention.....Bush's shifting rationale for war on Iran is consistent with what The New Yorker's Sy Hersh reports. The case for war and the initial target list have been changed -- from Iran's nuclear program to Iran's Quds Force.  

10/2/2007 - US to reward Iran for ending Iraq arms supply    

10/2/2007 - US garners support for strike on Iran ** AUSTRALIA, Britain and Israel have reportedly "expressed interest" in a US campaign to launch surgical bombing raids on Iran targeting Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities.  

10/2/2007 - Beating the Drums for the Next War **    

10/2/2007 - Iran college asks Bush to speak An Iranian university has invited US leader George W Bush to speak following his Iranian counterpart's hostile reception at a US college last week.  

10/2/2007 - U.S. SEEKS 'BLOCK' ON IRAN: RICE    

10/2/2007 - US dismisses Iranian invitation to Bush The White House scoffed Tuesday at an Iranian university's invitation to US President George W. Bush to address its campus, saying he was "not taking it too seriously."  

10/2/2007 - New revelations in attack on American spy ship "The ground control station stated that the target was American and for the aircraft to confirm it," Forslund recalled. "The aircraft did confirm the identity of the target as American, by the American flag. "The ground control station ordered the aircraft to attack and sink the target and ensure they left no survivors."....Forslund, Gotcher and Block are not alone in claiming to have read transcripts of the attack that they said left no doubt the Israelis knew they were attempting to sink a U.S. Navy ship. Read the bit about the difference between what OUR intel officers overheard going on and what the Jerusalem Post transcript of 2004 said. Somebody is lying through their teeth, my money's on the attackers.

10/2/2007 - Lieberman's children Israel bound? The wife of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said at least one of their children plans to immigrate to Israel.  

10/2/2007 - Israel admits air strike on Syria    



10/1/2007 - Security Council plans more Iran sanctions The major world powers are planning new sanctions against Iran while negotiating an end to the nuclear impasse.  

10/1/2007 - JORDAN: Some Iraqi refugees resort to begging    

10/1/2007 - Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group ** Mr. Sembler, who is on the board of directors of the American Enterprise Institute, said the impetus for Freedom?s Watch ?came out of A.E.I.? last winter These aren't conservatives. These are NEOconservatives.

10/1/2007 - Livni to tell UN: Iran nuclear issue will not resolve itself In her address to the United Nations on Monday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is expected to lambaste international inaction on Iran's nuclear program, charging that some countries are acting as if they expect the problem to solve itself. Whose war is it?

10/1/2007 - Syrian vice president disputes everything reported so far on Israeli raid    

10/1/2007 - Syria wants Golan Heights on Middle East agenda    

10/1/2007 - Wanted Islamist captured in Lebanon: Palestinians    

10/1/2007 - The Lobby on Trial one has to wonder, why is the veil of silence being drawn over this extraordinary affair? After all, the story involves what Time magazine called "among the most politically charged espionage cases in years" ? surely a newsworthy topic. Why no follow-up?  

10/1/2007 - The Esteemed Ms. Livni Points Out the Way It is likely that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Giuliani will emerge as the favorite candidates of voters looking for pro-Israel credentials. When the chips are down, they are the most likely to side with Israel, even when Washington insiders counsel otherwise.  

10/1/2007 - Livni caps trip by blasting delay in new Iran sanctions Iran's nuclear program topped the agenda of Israel and Jewish organizations in their yearly rounds of meetings with visiting world leaders.  

10/1/2007 - AIPAC members repudiate Moran AIPAC members met with a Democratic congressman who blamed the lobbying group for the Iraq war.  

10/1/2007 - Livni: U.N.'s moral authority in doubt Tzipi Livni said Monday that the Iranian president, who regularly questions whether the Holocaust happened and inveighs against the Jewish state, should not have been allowed to deliver his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week.  

10/1/2007 - Assad sets conference conditions Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his government will not attend a Middle East peace conference unless Syria's concerns are addressed.  

10/1/2007 - Israeli airstrike hit military site, Syria confirms    

10/1/2007 - Arab Detroit Workshop Seeks to Dispel Arab American Stereotypes The tragic events in Lebanon last year, the Palestinian diaspora and the Iraq war have contributed to a misunderstood image of the rich heritage and culture of Arab Americans. The workshop will examine the diversity and culture of the Arab American community, explore the image of the Arab American in the media and the effects of prejudice and discrimination, and look at some of the most significant scientific contributions from the Arab and Islamic world to western civilization.  




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