August 2008 archive


8/31/2008 - Russia warns it will respond to "aggression" Russia does not want confrontation with the West but will hit back if attacked, Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday, a day before EU leaders meet to draft a response to Moscow's actions in Georgia.  

8/31/2008 - Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent, by declaring indefinite state of war    

8/31/2008 - Iran warns any attack would start 'world war' In recent months, several Israeli politicians have talked of the possibility of a preemptive military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities to avoid any possibility of Tehran acquiring an atomic weapon.  

8/31/2008 - Report: Russia threatens to arm Iran Russia could supply Iran with a top new missile system if the United States pushes NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine....The news has raised alarms in the United States and Israel  

8/31/2008 - Lebanon deminers hang up their detectors as funds dry up The demining teams have been working all-out to clear the more than one million cluster bombs Israel dropped throughout south Lebanon during the last days of its devastating 34-day war with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006...."Many of the bombs were dropped on agricultural lands, which means farmers are staying away from their land,"....."The United Nations has repeatedly requested cluster bomb data from Israel (including maps and the type of ordnance dropped), but in two years plus, we still haven't received the requested data," No kidding?

8/31/2008 - Global energy companies promoting Iran The Anti-Defamation League on Friday criticized the companies for "hindering the effort to isolate Iran." THe ADL = agent of Israel.

8/31/2008 - 'McCain VP choice unknown to US Jews' "Sarah's absolutely pro-Israel," he said, referring to conversations with her and comments she's made about Israel's security and its importance to the United States. He noted that as governor she signed a resolution honoring Israel for its 60th birthday. David Gottstein, who is active with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Alaska, said he had spoken to the governor about arranging a trip to Israel, but scheduling conflicts had kept it from happening to date  

8/31/2008 - Demonstration protests Steiner deal with Iran Pro-Israel groups demonstrated in Siegen, Germany to protest a major business deal between a local firm and Iran.  



8/29/2008 - Iran 'operating 4,000 nuclear centrifuges' Iran is operating about 4,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges and it is installing several thousand more, the state news agency IRNA quoted the deputy foreign minister as saying Friday.  

8/29/2008 - The Biden Betrayal It is difficult to overestimate the critical role Biden played in making the tragedy of the Iraq war possible. More than two months prior to the 2002 war resolution even being introduced, in what was widely interpreted as the first sign that Congress would endorse a U.S. invasion of Iraq, Biden declared on Aug. 4 that the United States was probably going to war. In his powerful position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he orchestrated a propaganda show designed to sell the war to skeptical colleagues and the American public by ensuring that dissenting voices would not get a fair hearing.  

8/29/2008 - Iran warns US over interfering in Caucasus crisis    

8/29/2008 - Report: Iran to install 54,000 centrifuges (Roundup)    

8/29/2008 - US jury acquits ex-Marine over Iraqi killings    

8/29/2008 - Source: Israel ready to stop Iranian nukes The Jerusalem Post said that members of the Israeli government are moving forward with precautionary plans including the purchase of advanced warplanes and receiving permission to use U.S.-controlled Iraqi airspace. Israel is a bellicose nation hell bent on dragging my country into yet another war on their behalf. All support thereof should be halted immediately for the sake of this nation - AMERICA.

8/29/2008 - The Ledeen Move I would think that FDD, while certainly part of the same Likudist network as AEI?s Middle East cadre, marks a major comedown in prestige and power for Ledeen, and I have a hard time believing that he would go there willingly unless he were offered significantly more money than he is able to earn from his AEI perch.  

8/29/2008 - Goodbye by Charley Reese    

8/29/2008 - Ads pushing Iran strike show Denver under missile attack from Boulder The Boulder attack ad shows a map of Denver being hit by flaming missiles, then an image of Israel being hit by the same weapons. It then displays an image of Iran, followed by ominous missile launches, a photograph of a man with a black hood over his face, Iran's president, and a silhouetted traveler with a suitcase. Americans receive more (than their usual) propaganda from a pro-Israel outfit. At what point will Americans finally rise up and send these traitors packing? An attack on Iran is not in America's interest - ask Gates, Mullen , and those in the Pentagon who refuse to go along with it. Those that advocate a policy that endangers America to further a nation other than this one are in fact TRAITORS. And they should be shown the door.

8/29/2008 - Foreign Lobbyists and the Making of US Policy The Georgia lobby and the Israel lobby have much in common, including key supporters and personnel, as well as geopolitical and economic links. Israeli defense companies, which are virtually part of the Israeli state, armed the Georgians, and the IDF trained Georgian troops in preparation for the day they would ? as the mainstream media puts it ?"retake" (i.e., invade and crush) the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. ...... In one of the most successful inversions of reality ever attempted, the Western media has convinced its audience ? and even itself ? that Russia invaded Georgia, instead of Georgia invading South Ossetia.  

8/29/2008 - UNIFIL denies reports of Israeli incursion in south Lebanon The United Nations Interim Force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) Monday denied reports of an Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon.  

8/29/2008 - Obama derides GOP 'tough talk' on Israel Barack Obama said Republican "tough talk" was not protecting Israel.  

8/29/2008 - Israel won't allow Iranian nukes A government committee is preparing a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts to derail Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program fail, the paper reported.  

8/29/2008 - On Mideast, McCain surrogates at convention likely to echo Bush When it comes to Israel and how to deal with Iran, Republicans are happy to tout the Arizona senator's consistency with the Bush presidency and his differences with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), his Democratic rival. With AIPAC stoolie Biden in the Dem corner, and McCain in the Republican corner, Americans cannot win when it comes to electing a president that puts the interests of America first.

8/29/2008 - Iraq's Palestinians still live in fear The doors are even mostly closed to the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel controls the borders, and rarely grants residency to Palestinian exiles.  

8/29/2008 - Iraq's Palestinians still live in fear The doors are even mostly closed to the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel controls the borders, and rarely grants residency to Palestinian exiles.  

8/29/2008 - Iran says can hit Israel with missiles if attacked Iran could hit back at Israel with missiles if the Jewish state attacked it and could also rely on allies in the region to strike, the commander of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday.  

8/29/2008 - McCain hammers Obama on Iran "Terrorism, destroying Israel, those aren't "serious threats"?  

8/29/2008 - AIPAC: We like Biden Biden does have a long record of working with AIPAC and Israel.  

8/29/2008 - IRAQ: Some Palestinian refugees to get special IDs The Iraqi government has launched a registration process for Palestinian refugees who arrived between 1948 and 1967 - and their descendants - to help ensure they benefit from government aid programmes.  

8/29/2008 - Charley Reese Writes for the Last Time    

8/29/2008 - Obama's Cheney Biden prevented any and all antiwar voices from being given a podium at the Senate hearings.  

8/29/2008 - Hezbollah hands over militant who shot at helicopter (2nd Roundup) The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Friday handed over to Lebanese authorities the militant who opened fire on a Lebanese army helicopter killing a crew member, official sources said.  



8/25/2008 - Iranian leader backs Ahmadinejad The ayatollah praised the president for "standing up" to the West and predicted he would be returned to office for four more years at the 2009 election.  

8/25/2008 - The Evil Empire Revisited by Philip Giraldi why does Washington persist in demanding that an unwanted weapons system that has no purpose but to create fear in Moscow be put into operation? Perhaps Bill Kristol and John Bolton can provide an answer. But the end result will quite likely be Cold War II, huge new defense contracts, and more fear-mongering talking points for the neocons.  

8/25/2008 - Name on government watch list threatens pilot's career In a statement, the U.S. Justice Department said it will not confirm or deny that the couple's names are on a watch list for national security and privacy reasons.  

8/25/2008 - Pentagon's Intelligence Arm Steps Up Lie Detecting Efforts on Employees    

8/25/2008 - Iran votes take center stage in debate over Democratic ticket "Biden has failed to recognize the serious threat that Iran poses to Israel and the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East," the Republican Jewish Coalition said in a statement. "In 1998, Sen. Biden was one of only four senators to vote against the Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act, a bill that punished foreign companies or other entities that sent Iran sensitive missile technology or expertise. Biden was one of the few senators to oppose the bipartisan 2007 Kyl-Lieberman Amendment labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.?  

8/25/2008 - Iran will hit back if Israel attacks: Hezbollah "The first shot fired from the Zionist entity towards Iran will be met by a response of 11,000 rockets in the direction of the Zionist entity. This is what military leaders in the Islamic republic have confirmed," said Mohammed Raad, the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc. His remarks were reported by the National News Agency.  

8/25/2008 - Hezbollah chief threatens to destroy Israel Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Sunday to destroy Israel if it carries out threats to hit Lebanon should the government give greater legitimacy to the Shiite militant group.  

8/25/2008 - Pentagon Finds Religious Bias In Army Probe The inspector general's report suggested that counterintelligence officers at the facility were influenced by a warning from the Defense Investigative Service (now the Defense Security Service) in 1995 that Israeli intelligence officers were trying to exploit nationalistic feelings in American Jews. The report noted that a polygraph test administered to Tenenbaum may have overstepped allowable questions and approaches, and that a request that he apply to upgrade his security clearance was a ruse to investigate his possible espionage.  

8/25/2008 - Australia has its own version of AIPAC, called "AIJAC" guess what their web site is pushing for? That's right, pushing to get Australia involved in fighting another war for Israel, with these headlines: The Israeli lobbies in Canada and Australia are almost as powerful, if not moreso, than their American counter part.

8/25/2008 - Obama: Tighten screws on Iran "My job as president would be to try to make sure that we are tightening the screws diplomatically on Iran, that we've mobilized the world community to go after Iran's program in a serious way, to get sanctions in place so that Iran starts making a difficult calculation," the presumptive Democratic nominee said Monday at a campaign event in Iowa, according to news reports. "We've got to do that before Israel feels like its back is to the wall." Really now? Which country is he looking to lead?

8/25/2008 - Syria-Israel talks focused on border: Moualem    



8/23/2008 - Iran's Ahmadinejad in new verbal attack on Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his verbal attacks on arch-foe Israel on Saturday, accusing it of dragging the world into turmoil and predicting its demise.  

8/23/2008 - Israel's missile shield against Iran: Three Americans in a trailer A commander and two operators monitor missile radars in an armored trailer somewhere in Europe. Inside, they use satellite technology to track the origin and trajectory of long-range missiles. In true American fashion, each shift begins with calisthenics, followed by an intelligence briefing. That is the envisioned routine of the U.S. team that will be responsible for protecting Israel from surface-to-surface missiles launched from Iran or Syria. Unf***ingbelievable.

8/23/2008 - Biden and the Jews: Strong ties and friendly disagreements The loquacious Biden, who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1973, has sparred frequently with the pro-Israel community and with Israelis, particularly on the issue of settlements. But he has a sterling voting record on pro-Israel issues, and has as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helped shepherd through key pro-Israel legislation..... Biden said in an interview with Shalom TV last year, when he launched his own presidential bid. "When I was a young senator, I used to say, 'If I were a Jew I'd be a Zionist.' I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.'"  

8/23/2008 - Obama played it safe, but is Biden good for Israel? Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matthew Brooks explained that "with the selection of Senator Joe Biden the Democrat's ticket has become an even greater gamble for the Jewish community. Throughout his career, Senator Biden has consistently been wrong on Iran and his voting record on Israel has been inconsistent. Like Obama, Biden fundamentally misunderstands the threat posed by an Iran determined to obtain nuclear weapons. Biden has continuously demonstrated poor judgment on Iran. He has voted against significant legislation that would pressure Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons. Biden has failed to recognize the serious threat that Iran poses to Israel and the US and its allies in the Middle East."  

8/23/2008 - Siniora complains to Ban over Israeli threats to attack all of Lebanon The Lebanese government sent a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday protesting Israeli threats to attack all of Lebanon, as media reports on Friday carried accounts of Hizbullah buying Russian weaponry and a Hizbullah official saying the group would soon take "earth-shattering" action against Israel, which will "no longer exist on the map."  



8/22/2008 - US-led forces kill '76 Afghan civilians' US-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, most of them children, the Interior Ministry said.  

8/22/2008 - Iraq Still Demanding Withdrawal Date, Right to Try U.S. troops    

8/22/2008 - US troops 'to quit Iraq by 2011'    

8/22/2008 - US Marines refuse to testify in Iraq prisoner death trial Two US Marines facing murder charges in connection with the deaths of Iraqi prisoners in Fallujah in 2004 were declared in contempt of court Friday after refusing to testify against a former comrade on trial.  

8/22/2008 - And None Dare Call It Treason by Patrick J. Buchanan This is the situation in which the interventionists have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep. Scheunemann's resume as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before 9/11 Last paragraph has a line from George Washington's Farewell Address, one of my personal favorites (named my other blog after it). That's the second time in a week, that a favorite political commentator of mine has cited this speech. Last week, it was Michael Scheuer. Excellent!

8/22/2008 - Diplomatic effort on Iran nukes jeopardized by U.S.-Russia crisis The crisis between the United States and Russia has led to the suspension of diplomatic efforts to draft a new resolution imposing harsher sanctions on Iran.  

8/22/2008 - Russia eyes new Syria arms deal Moscow has announced it is ready to sell new weapons to Syria, triggering alarm from Israel.  

8/22/2008 - U.S. won't sell refueling jets to Israel, fearing strike on Iran It emerged on Wednesday that the United States has refused to sell Jerusalem new refueling planes, fearing such a transaction could be interpreted as support for an Israeli attack on Iran.  

8/22/2008 - Israel Project launches TV ads Two ads, one focusing on Israel's role in creating energy independence from Middle East oil and the other on Iran's backing for terrorists and its suspected nuclear weapons program, will air 1,300 times on cable news networks over the next two weeks. Be warned America, the Israeli Lobby is coming to a TV set near you.

8/22/2008 - US 'very concerned' over planned Russian weapons sale to Syria Israel, a key US ally, is particularly concerned Russia could deliver anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Syria that could end up in the hands of Lebanon's Syrian-backed Hezbollah militia whose political rhetoric centres on the destruction of the Jewish state Geez, I wonder why?

8/22/2008 - Buchanan accuses 'McCain's neocon warmonger' of treason   Go get 'em, Paddy.

8/22/2008 - Chill falls on Israeli-Russian relations Israel, which maintains friendly ties with Georgia and has sold weapons to the Eurasian country -- as have several Western nations -- fears Moscow will exact a price for this support by boosting its ties with Syria.  

8/22/2008 - Cash crisis hits Lebanon cluster bomb clearance Many of the 44 teams clearing cluster munitions scattered by Israel in south Lebanon during its 2006 war with Hezbollah will have to stop work this month for lack of funds, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. And how much has Israel paid up to clean up the millions of cluster bomblets it fired into Lebanon three days before a ceasefire that they knew was forthcoming? And if nothing, why?

8/22/2008 - Group of Jews oppose Iran attack More than 150 Jews around the world have signed a statement calling on Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.  

8/22/2008 - 'We won't place missiles in Syria' Russia has no intention of placing the advanced Iskander missile system in Syria, acting Ambassador Anatoly Yurkov told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.  

8/22/2008 - Under Moscow's wing Events in Georgia have had some surprising repercussions in the Middle East, leaving Syria looking perkier than usual  

8/22/2008 - Russia seeks to restore its prestige in the Holy Land    

8/22/2008 - Georgia-Russia conflict requires Israel to balance competing interests Early on, Russia singled out Israel for criticism for providing military support to Georgia, and this week a Russian army deputy chief of staff, Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, rebuked Israel for arming and training the Georgian forces.  



8/21/2008 - Is war in air in the Gulf? Leading the joint naval task force is the nuclear-powered carrier the USS Theodore Roosevelt and its Carrier Strike Group 2. In addition to the 80-plus warplanes the Roosevelt normally transports, it is carrying an additional load of Rafale fighter jets from the French carrier Charles de Gaulle, currently in dry dock. ......The deployment of the multinational naval task force is the largest show of military power from the United States and allied countries to assemble around the strategic waters of the Persian Gulf since the first and second Gulf wars.  

8/21/2008 - US labels Russia an international outlaw    

8/21/2008 - Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11    

8/21/2008 - Conyers Asks Intelligence Officials to Discuss Bogus Iraq/Al-Qaeda Letter Giraldi added that ?Tenet is for once telling the truth when he states that he would not have undermined himself by preparing such a document while at the same time insisting publicly that there was no connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda.  

8/21/2008 - Georgia is Central to the Global War on Terror, Isn?t It? by Philip Giraldi    

8/21/2008 - McCain Selects Doug Feith as Grand Poobah by Philip Giraldi    

8/21/2008 - Lebanon dismisses Israeli warnings over Hezbollah Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salukh dismissed as "ravings" on Thursday Israeli threats to target the country's civilian infrastructure if the government gives greater legitimacy to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.  

8/21/2008 - McCain's 'Judeo-Christian values' reference puzzles    

8/21/2008 - Israel warns Russia over weapons sale to Syria Russia promised to consider the sale of "defensive" weapons to Syria during a visit to the country by President Bashar Assad. But in response to the visit, Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, said: "It is in nobody's interest to destabilise the region."  

8/21/2008 - Syria seeks weapons deal with Russia amid 'Cold War' ripples    

8/21/2008 - Israel warns Israelis abroad of Hezbollah kidnap plans    

8/21/2008 - Who Is Ready To Smear Philip Giraldi?   You had to know that Giraldi would come under heavy fire from the Israeli Lobby at some point. I'm surprised it took so long.

8/21/2008 - Pro-Israel blog Power Line Picks up the Giraldi Smear and Runs With It   So did this Israeli 'news' website. Go figure.



8/20/2008 - How Foreign Policy Affects Gas Prices by Ron Paul Recently I and other members of Congress spoke out against H Con Res 362 and exposed this seemingly innocuous bill for what it really is ? a call for a blockade and a build up to war with Iran. Thankfully it has not come to the floor for a vote as I had fully expected it would. But to even propose legislation like this, and get an alarming 261 cosponsors, makes the oil markets jittery and encourages more capital flight from the dollar.  

8/20/2008 - Iranian missile with dummy satellite failed: US defense official    

8/20/2008 - Russia Threatens Military Response if U.S., Poland Follow Through With Missile Defense Deal    

8/20/2008 - Feb. 2007: US Generals ?Will Quit? If Bush Orders Iran Attack    

8/20/2008 - Israel, Turkey, U.S to conduct joint naval exercise    

8/20/2008 - Big Three Block Iran Attack the Bush administration is hoisted with its own petard. Whatever the more hawkish denizens of Washington want to do to Iran, they are not going to get the international support necessary for their desired action.  

8/20/2008 - Political transitions in Israel, U.S. leave Iran question unanswered In June, U.S. National Intelligence director Mike McConnell and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mike Mullen visited Israel and came out strongly against any Israeli attack. Both argued that Iran was still a long way from producing a nuclear weapon and that any Israeli attack would undermine U.S. interests. Israel and consequently its agents in America want to continue to make their problems OUR problems - to the detriment of AMERICA.

8/20/2008 - Who started Cold War II? by Patrick J. Buchanan The swift and decisive action of Putin's army in running the Georgian forces out of South Ossetia in 24 hours after Saakashvili began his barrage and invasion suggests Putin knew exactly what Saakashvili was up to and dropped the hammer on him.  

8/20/2008 - Iran says talks with IAEA "positive" Iran described talks with a top U.N. inspector over its nuclear program -- which the West fears is a cover to build atomic bombs -- as "positive," the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.  

8/20/2008 - Israel, Russia hold talks on Georgia, Middle East Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed Middle East peace moves with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, in advance of an expected visit by Syria's leader to Moscow, an Israeli official said.  

8/20/2008 - Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran CUFI's unequivocal "support for Israel" means the United States should stand against Zion's "enemies" ? Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and any serious Arab-Israeli peace agreement. This parallels policies advocated by prominent neoconservatives who have served in George W. Bush's administration, including Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, Douglas Feith, and Elliott Abrams.  

8/20/2008 - Ex-Mossad chief: Ahmadinejad is Israel's greatest gift "Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Halevy told the Arab language television network Al-Hurra on Tuesday. "We couldn't carry out a better operation at the Mossad than to put a guy like Ahmadinejad in power in Iran."  

8/20/2008 - Top Russian general: Israel armed, trained Georgia forces Israel supplied Georgian military forces with elite training and arms, a top Russian general was quoted as saying on Tuesday, as Russia and Georgian forces exchanged prisoners of war in a goodwill gesture.  

8/20/2008 - Olmert: Israel will unleash all its force if Hezbollah siezes Lebanon    

8/20/2008 - Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage By the time Fulbright's public Senate hearings ended in 1963, it had been established that the Jewish Agency laundered over $5 million (around $35 million today) into U.S. public relations and lobbying initiatives over a two-year period. The true scope of the campaign was never revealed, in spite of diligent attempts at law enforcement.  

8/20/2008 - Lieberman advocates stronger Georgia defense   He more than likely does so because of Israel's ties to Georgia. Lieberman is after all one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.



8/18/2008 - Nuclear envoy begins Iran talks "Iran still has a long way to go as far as satellites are concerned and it deliberately exaggerates its air and space successes in order to dissuade Israel or the United States from attacking its nuclear sites," the head of Israel's space agency, Yitzhak Ben Israel, told public radio.  

8/18/2008 - AP's Iran-Trained Hit Squads Story: Iraq News Nadir? In covering the story of Iran's role in Iraq, far too many reporters have passed on blatant propaganda without the slightest effort to point out its inconsistency with documented facts, much less to try to uncover the truth. But a story by Pamela Hess of Associated Press distributed Aug. 15 sets a new standard for abetting official disinformation. The Associated Press AGAIN.

8/18/2008 - US/IRAN: Nothing Behind U.S. Allegations?    

8/18/2008 - "I WAS MURDERED!! CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Forty one years ago, on June 8, 1967, my shipmates were murdered in cold blood by the Government of Israel in a sneak attack upon our ship in international waters. Our ship was attacked by jet aircraft using rockets and napalm to strafe our ship and burn us alive with their deadly napalm.  

8/18/2008 - Israel Factor: Panel doesn't worry about Obama on Israel-Palestine    

8/18/2008 - Robert Fisk's World: A region boiling with tales of kings, gangs and war Yet still the Middle East debates whether Israel or the US will bomb Iran. Personally, I don't believe this will happen ? but then again, that's what I told my friend Seymour Hersh before the Iraqi catastrophe, when he said we would invade and I said we wouldn't. Currently, he thinks an Iran attack is still on the cards. So, apparently, does the Emir of Qatar. He's generously handed the Americans yet more desert for their massive air base outside Doha, land that stretches away on the further side of the military installation. He's asked for the return of the side of the base closest to the capital. The reason? Well, if America bombs Iran, the Islamic republic's missiles are likely to come hissing towards US forces in Qatar. The Emir wants them exploding as far from Doha as possible.  



8/17/2008 - Iran rocket launch 'troubling': US    

8/17/2008 - Iran launches satellite carrier Iran says it has successfully launched a rocket capable of carrying its first domestically built satellite.  

8/17/2008 - Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine While pushing to take on Saddam Hussein, Mr. McCain also made arguments and statements that he may no longer wish to recall. He lauded the war planners he would later criticize, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. (Mr. McCain even volunteered that he would have given the same job to Mr. Cheney.) He urged support for the later-discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi?s opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, and echoed some of its suspect accusations in the national media. And he advanced misleading assertions not only about Mr. Hussein?s supposed weapons programs but also about his possible ties to international terrorists, Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks.  

8/17/2008 - U.S., Israel seal deal for missile radar defense system The United States and Israel have agreed on the deployment of high-powered, early-warning missile radars in the Negev desert, to be manned by U.S. military personnel. ......Under the terms of the agreement, U.S. military staff will be permanently based in Israel for the first time. US military now officially literally being tasked with defending Israel. Iraq, our billions in taxpayer dollars, etc aren't enough.

8/17/2008 - Source: Secret IDF material went unguarded in Georgia Tomer said he and his friends had at first received guidelines for the handling of covert material, listing what they could and couldn't tell Georgian soldiers about IDF activities. But in actuality, he said, the Georgians were told top secret information......He added that the Georgian officers told their soldiers they would be going to help NATO forces in Iraq, while the real objective was Ossetia and Abkhazia.  

8/17/2008 - Germany's Schroeder says Georgia sparked fighting Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder blamed Tbilisi on Saturday for sparking hostilities with Moscow and suggested its breakaway regions could not remain part of Georgia following the violent clashes of the past week.  

8/17/2008 - Lebanese army opens fire after bomb thrown in Tripoli    



8/16/2008 - Turkey, Iran sign co-op agreements on fight against terrorism    

8/16/2008 - Russia could strike Poland over U.S. shield: report    

8/16/2008 - GCC chides Iran over facilities on UAE-claimed island    

8/16/2008 - Turkish president says more time needed for gas deal with Iran    

8/16/2008 - Your contribution will ensure a voice for peace    

8/16/2008 - Michael Ledeen Leaves AEI Ledeen is not alone in being scarcer at the influential think tank of late. Former Reagan administration Pentagon official Richard Perle is often in France and rarely makes public appearances at AEI any more; but there's no talk of Perle leaving AEI, although his role there is largely "emeritus" the associate described. Ledeen is now the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a small Washington think tank headed by former Republican National Committee spokesman Cliff May  

8/16/2008 - Petraeus' visit focuses on military assistance However, the stopover last week came just a day after the Lebanese government agreed on a new manifesto, claiming "the right of Lebanon, its people, its army and its resistance to liberate its land in the Shebaa Farms, Kfarshuba Hill and Ghajar," areas currently under Israeli control  

8/16/2008 - Sixty Minutes Becomes Israeli-Occupied Television As Philip Giraldi points out in his article "America?s Israeli-Occupied Media,"(1) the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get the U.S. military to attack Iran or at least give a ?green light? for a massive Israeli bombing strike. In pursuit of this reckless and ill-conceived plan Tel Aviv has a willing co-conspirator in the mainstream American media, who will present the Israeli world-view without criticism or qualification. The recent CBS broadcast (2) of the Sixty Minutes segment "The Israeli Air Force" (3) provides a rather startling example of how the American news media will permit the Israelis to present their point of view to the exclusion of any competing narrative. The report, which is presented by correspondent Bob Simon, first aired on April 27 and was rebroadcast on August 10. Looks like CBS' Sixty Minutes is whoring for Israel. Attacking Iran is not in America's interest - in fact such an attack would run counter to our interests in the region, according to Admiral Mullen. So for whose interests does CBS work?



8/15/2008 - Lavrov cancels trip to Warsaw over US missile deal    

8/15/2008 - US eyes diplomatic solution to Iran nuclear programme: US envoy    

8/15/2008 - Iranian president optimistic over power, gas deals with Turkey    

8/15/2008 - Iran training Iraqi hit squads: US military The intelligence, if it proves out, raises the prospect of a deadly new security challenge at a time when the US military is hoping to make further cuts in its forces.  

8/15/2008 - Iran rejects Western charges of bank illegalities Iran rejected on Friday Western allegations that its central bank and other financial institutions were trying to skirt U.N. sanctions by covering their tracks, and threatened to seek compensation  

8/15/2008 - Mainers Unite to Prevent War With Iran: Concern is heightened by Administration voices insisting that Congress has delegated its declaration of war powers to the White House in its blanket approval of combating terrorism, and the action of House Majority Leader Pelosi, who has blocked legislation that would require Congressional approval for an attack on Iran.  

8/15/2008 - How anti-Iran policy contributed to war in the Caucasus    

8/15/2008 - Blowback From Bear-Baiting by Patrick J. Buchanan Russia's response was "disproportionate" and "brutal," wailed Bush. True. But did we not authorize Israel to bomb Lebanon for 35 days in response to a border skirmish where several Israel soldiers were killed and two captured? Was that not many times more "disproportionate"?  

8/15/2008 - UNIFIL commander: Israel at fault An Israeli diplomat reprimanded the UNIFIL commander for saying Israel and not Hezbollah was violating the U.N.-mandated ceasefire in south Lebanon.  

8/15/2008 - Lieberman reassures Muslims on security Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, joined ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.) in responding to a letter from four Arab and Muslim advocacy groups raising concerns about a May report by the committee entitled "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat."  

8/15/2008 - Appeals court to hear arguments in AIPAC case Oral arguments in the U.S. government's leak case against two former AIPAC staffers have been set for October.  



8/14/2008 - Iran open to dialogue on nuclear stand-off    

8/14/2008 - Iran, Turkey fail to reach deal on new pipeline    

8/14/2008 - Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country.  

8/14/2008 - UAE protests to Iran over facilities on disputed island The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it has protested to Iran about the setting up of two facilities on one of three disputed Gulf islands and demanded they be dismantled.  

8/14/2008 - 6 US sailors charged with detainee abuse in Iraq The U.S. Navy says six sailors have been charged with abusing detainees at U.S. detention center in Iraq and they will face court-martials.  

8/14/2008 - US court rules Saudis not liable for Sept 11 attacks The court in its ruling said the "Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976" granted the Saudi defendants immunity from prosecution on US soil.  

8/14/2008 - Iran president holds Turkey talks    

8/14/2008 - US warns Turkey over energy deal with Iran    

8/14/2008 - The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other by Michael Scheuer AIPAC makes no pretense of doing things meant to benefit America; rather, its members take pride in seeking a goal that runs directly counter to the economic welfare and physical security of almost all other U.S citizens by seeking to keep them involved in a religious war in which no U.S. national interest is at stake. A reminder that Scheuer is former CIA - head of the Bin Laden unit. A big thank you to him for having the courage to continue to speak out.

8/14/2008 - Sanctions hurting Iran economic activity, says IMF    

8/14/2008 - Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don't Match Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the strands did not match the lead suspect in the case, according to sources briefed on the probe.  

8/14/2008 - Israel's U.S. envoy: Barak harming diplomatic mission Meridor said Barak's decision limited the leverage of Israeli diplomats permanently placed in Washington because it made them seem detached from the leadership in Israel. "Your behavior seriously damaged that ability [to negotiate], and that of Israel to affect processes in the U.S. capital," Meridor wrote.  

8/14/2008 - Rice welcomes Syria's move on ties with Lebanon    

8/14/2008 - Lebanon bomb inquiry seen to focus on Islamists    

8/14/2008 - Lebanon attack is message for army: analysts "I see this within a spate of attacks against the army that could be reprisal attacks for the army's crushing of Fatah al-Islam last year," OR it could have been done by a group that seeks to sour warming relations by the two nations - Syria and Lebanon.

8/14/2008 - Israel planning to kill Hezbollah leaders: Nasrallah In his address the Hezbollah chief also hailed the visit to Syria, which backs his movement, by Lebanon's President Michel Sleiman, calling it "a new stage" in relations between Beirut and Damascus.  

8/14/2008 - Israel vague about reported U.S. rejection of Israeli request for Iran strike    

8/14/2008 - Georgia president denies Israel halted military aid due to war    

8/14/2008 - Lebanon-Syria to demarcate border However, Syria said the work on borders would not cover one of the most contentious areas, the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, until Israel withdrew.  

8/14/2008 - Israel fears war could hurt Iran effort    

8/14/2008 - McCain: US must reevaluate relations with Russia    

8/14/2008 - Israelis shoot Golan infiltrator Israeli troops shot an armed Syrian who crossed into the Golan Heights.  

8/14/2008 - U.S. court to rehear case of Canadian sent to Syria A U.S. court will take the unusual step of rehearing a lawsuit it earlier rejected from a Canadian who claims the U.S. government sent him illegally to Syria where he was tortured for a year, lawyers said on Thursday.  



8/13/2008 - After combat, citizen soldiers turning to alcohol National Guard and Reserve combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to develop drinking problems than active-duty soldiers, a new military study suggests. The authors speculate that inadequate preparation for the stress of combat and reduced access to support services at home may be to blame.  

8/13/2008 - Nine pro-Iranian group suspects arrested in Baghdad: US military    

8/13/2008 - Cheney, Rove, Libby Win Plame Suit Dismissal Appeal    

8/13/2008 - Ahmadinejad in new Israel tirade before Turkey trip "Our position is clear on this issue. A referendum should take place in Palestine. If they withdraw from invaded lands it would be a good step,"  

8/13/2008 - US against strike on Iran: Israeli defence minister    

8/13/2008 - Lebanon bus stop bomb kills 18 A bomb killed at least 18 people, including nine soldiers, as they boarded a bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli today, security sources said.  

8/13/2008 - Sticks, carrots and nukes   What a sad day to see the Guardian UK publishing a piece by a pro-Israel thinktank the WINEP chastizing folks for not taking Israel's view on Iran ('attack, attack'). The Guardian is fast falling under the auspices of the Israeli lobby. It began when CAMERA started going after them, and is now culminating with airtime being given to AIPACers. Shame.

8/13/2008 - Israel denies weapons-Iran link "Because the election is coming up and things are going to change, this is the time to contemplate" whether or not military action is merited, said Tom Neumann, the director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Bush is likely to back Israeli efforts to defend itself, he said  

8/13/2008 - Iran MPs round on Ahmadinejad aide over pro-Israeli remarks    

8/13/2008 - Will American Insouciance Destroy the World? With Bush 2nd, the neocons took over. Their agenda, American world hegemony, includes Israeli hegemony in the Middle East  

8/13/2008 - Israeli Arms Sales to Georgia Israel's immediate concern is that Russia will proceed with the sale of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, which would help it defend its nuclear installations from aerial attack  

8/13/2008 - Report: Fearing Israeli strike, Syria taking preventative steps Syrian sources told the daily that Damascus has taken several preventive measures against a possible Israeli strike. The sources added that the IDF drill in the north is increasing tensions in the region and is not in line with recent peace initiatives.  

8/13/2008 - Lebanon chief mends ties in Syria    

8/13/2008 - McCain holds pro-Israel fundraiser U.S. Sen. John McCain held a fundraiser in New Jersey organized by a pro-Israel political action committee.  



8/12/2008 - Resistance pays off, says Iran's Khamenei    

8/12/2008 - US blacklists five Iranian entities citing nuclear, missile ties The US Treasury said Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on five Iranian entities for alleged ties to the country's nuclear and missile programs.  

8/12/2008 - Contractors reap 85 bln dlrs from Iraq war: US report    

8/12/2008 - 'Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?' by Scott Ritter    

8/12/2008 - America's Israeli-Occupied Media by Philip Giraldi There should be little doubt that the Israeli government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest to convince the United States to attack Iran so that Israel will not have to do it, and they are hell-bent on bringing that about. Unfortunately, their efforts are being aided and abetted by a U.S. mainstream media that is unwilling to ask any hard questions or challenge the assumptions of the Israeli government. A big thank you to Mr. Philip Giraldi for his continued reporting on this issue, and related matters.

8/12/2008 - Biggest drop in U.S. oil demand in 26 years    

8/12/2008 - Neocons Now Love International Law It?s touching how American neoconservatives who have no regard for international law when they want to invade some troublesome country have developed a sudden reverence for national sovereignty.  

8/12/2008 - U.S. rebuffs Israeli request for arms geared toward Iran strike The Americans viewed the request, which was transmitted (and rejected) at the highest level, as a sign that Israel is in the advanced stages of preparations to attack Iran. They therefore warned Israel against attacking, saying such a strike would undermine American interests. They also demanded that Israel give them prior notice if it nevertheless decided to strike Iran.....Senior Israeli officials had originally hoped that U.S. President George Bush would order an American strike on Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office, as America's military is far better equipped to conduct such a strike successfully than is Israel's.....U.S. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen both visited here in June and, according to the Washington Post, told senior Israeli defense officials that Iran is still far from obtaining nuclear weapons, and that an attack on Iran would undermine American interests. Therefore, they said, the U.S. would not allow Israeli planes to overfly Iraq en route to Iran. Are you paying attention yet, America?

8/12/2008 - Oil price falls on lower demand    

8/12/2008 - Russian: U.S. should follow Israel on Georgia    

8/12/2008 - Israel stages war games on occupied Golan Israel launched large-scale military exercises on Tuesday on the occupied Golan Heights along the Syrian border on Tuesday in the presence of senior political and military officials.  



8/11/2008 - Jordan's king in first Iraq visit    

8/11/2008 - Georgian exit leaves vacuum near Iranian border    

8/11/2008 - Iran says to pursue nuclear talks with EU    

8/11/2008 - Iran rebels execute two policemen, capture three Guards: report An Iranian Sunni rebel group claimed on Monday to have kidnapped three Revolutionary Guard officers and executed two policemen captured in June after talks with Tehran failed to secure their release, Al-Arabiya news channel reported.  

8/11/2008 - Michael Savage rebroadcasts NewsMax extremist Ken Timmerman's warning on Iran    

8/11/2008 - 'Oil, Israel and Iran' Among Factors that Led to Georgia War Channel 2's expert on the Muslim world, Ehud Ya'ari, told viewers of the central evening newscast that Russia and neighboring countries were vying for control of a strategic oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. This relatively new pipeline passes through Azerbaijan and Georgia to Turkey and is the only pipeline between Asia and Europe that does not pass through Russia or Iran. Israel is expecting to receive oil and gas through the pipeline......The Georgian move against South Ossetia was motivated by political considerations having to do with Israel and Iran, according to Nfc. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to assert control over the breakaway region in order to force Israel to reconsider its decision to cut back its support for Georgia's military. Really now.

8/11/2008 - US stocks rise as oil prices fall Crude was down $US1.77 to $US113.43 a barrel, the lowest in more than three months.  

8/11/2008 - Georgian invasion of South Ossetia sets the stage for a wider war    

8/11/2008 - Klein: Neocons think 'it's raining Nazis' in Georgia    

8/11/2008 - Diplomatic ties to top agenda of Lebanon-Syria summit    

8/11/2008 - Israeli Has $1 Billion Invested in Georgia The Jewish state and private investors have provided military assistance and advisors to Georgia, where pipelines pump oil destined for Israel. A new pipeline is being built to bypass Russian territory.  

8/11/2008 - No threat from Iran Darwish also refrains from explaining why we should believe that a regime which has done everything to preserve itself over the past three decades should suddenly commit collective suicide by attacking Israel. All in all, it's quite a story.  

8/11/2008 - Jordan queen wraps up YouTube plan on stereotypes    

8/11/2008 - Iran VP says Iranians are 'friends' of Israelis    

8/11/2008 - We're no friends of Israelis: Iran parliament speaker Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a deputy of Ahmadinejad, has insisted that Iran is "friends with the Israeli people."  



8/10/2008 - Iraq Demands ?Very Clear? US Troop Timeline The United States must provide a ?very clear timeline? to withdraw its troops from Iraq as part of an agreement allowing them to stay beyond this year, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Sunday.  

8/10/2008 - Sen. Joe Lieberman: Iran's Activities 'An Act of War' Sen. Joseph Lieberman termed Iran's training of Iraqi insurgents "an act of war" in a Florida appearance Wednesday evening on behalf of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.  

8/10/2008 - An Israeli Strike on Iran, a Plan That Just Doesn't Fly   The authors of this article in the WP debunk the myths that Israel has put forth as a means to justify an attack on Iran.

8/10/2008 - Syria rules out new UN nuclear visit to bombed site    



8/9/2008 - Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.  

8/9/2008 - '2 US aircraft carriers headed for Gulf' The ship movements coincide with the latest downturn in relations between Washington and Teheran.  

8/9/2008 - Neocons Stay on Message by Philip Giraldi Opening the New York Times and reading Brooks and Kristol is like being neoconned again twice a week. One wonders how pundits who have been wrong so many times continue to have a distinguished platform to present their nonsense.  

8/9/2008 - How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq    

8/9/2008 - Success of Attack on Iran's Nuclear Program Doubtful A military attack on Iran's major nuclear facilities by the United States or Israel would likely result only in a delay ? and not a particularly significant one at that ? in Tehran's ability to produce the fuel necessary to build a nuclear weapon, according to a report [.pdf] released Friday by an influential think tank on nuclear proliferation issues.  

8/9/2008 - Bush classifies $200 million cybersecurity program, redacts questions about contractors According to CNET's Stephanie Condon, the Administration won't even related how the program's "mission relates to Internet surveillance."  

8/9/2008 - Conservative Confusion on Iran by Philip Giraldi When a Sunday morning talk show has a "conservative" on a panel to provide "balance," he is more often than not a neoconservative. This access to the media as the purported standard-bearers of conservatism has proven useful, as it enables the neocons to continue to have a major voice on policy in spite of being wrong on every major issue.  



8/8/2008 - Iran says latest atomic talks with IAEA "constructive": report    

8/8/2008 - New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right On Dec. 14, 2003, the Sunday Telegraph hyped the phony Habbush memo as a front-page exclusive over the byline of Con Coughlin, the paper's foreign editor and chief Mideast correspondent, who has earned a reputation for promoting neoconservative claptrap. As I explained in a Salon blog post on Dec. 18, the story's sudden appearance in London was the harbinger of a disinformation campaign that quickly blew back to the United States -- where it was cited by William Safire on the New York Times Op-Ed page. Ignoring the bizarre Niger yellowcake reference, which practically screamed bullshit, Safire seized on Coughlin's story as proof of his own cherished theory about Saddam's sponsorship of 9/11. The Brits evidently have a neocon problem of their own.

8/8/2008 - Russia Asks That Iran Be Given More Time Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin, said the six nations should continue negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. He dismissed assertions by the United States, Britain and France that Tehran had missed a deadline this week to respond to the offer, which would make a push for U.N. sanctions inevitable.  

8/8/2008 - Suskind Revisited by Philip Giraldi My source also notes that Dick Cheney, who was behind the forgery, hated and mistrusted the Agency and would not have used it for such a sensitive assignment. Instead, he went to Doug Feith?s Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job.  

8/8/2008 - Why the Pentagon Thinks Attacking Iran is a Bad Idea    

8/8/2008 - Egyptian FM warns against military solution to Iranian nuclear issue    

8/8/2008 - Anthrax case against bio-weapons expert 'staggering for lack of evidence'    

8/8/2008 - EU expands Iran nuclear sanctions    

8/8/2008 - Military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities may not be effective "Following an attack, Iran could quickly rebuild its centrifuge program in small, easily hidden facilities focused on making weapons grade uranium for nuclear weapons," principal author David Albright, ISIS president and a former UN weapons inspector, was quoted as saying. Albright gets something right?

8/8/2008 - UN nuclear agency back in Iran    

8/8/2008 - Oil 'could hit $200 within years' A serious oil supply crisis is looming, which could push prices above $200 a barrel, a think tank has warned.  

8/8/2008 - Iranian diplomat warns of harsh response to any strike "If Israel were to do something stupid ? it will face a shocking response the likes of which it has never encountered before,' Bashtestani told the Nazareth-based 'al-Sinara' newspaper.  

8/8/2008 - Israel: Lebanon is responsible for Hezbollah's actions This decision on Wednesday by the security cabinet represents a change in Israeli policy, after always firmly separating Hezbollah and the Lebanese government.  

8/8/2008 - Israel protests to Ankara over Ahmadinejad Israel formally complained to Turkey about the coming visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

8/8/2008 - Iceland, Sweden to take in Iraq's Palestinian refugees    

8/8/2008 - US to help Israel develop Arrow-3 Head of US Missile Defense Agency to recommend to Congress that America finance development of modern version of anti-ballistic missile system As if we American taxpayers don't give ENOUGH to Israel - a most unworthy nation - as it is. While you're struggling to pay your food and gas bills, Israel - a nation whose economy is booming - is being given $1.5-2 million per Arrow missile.

8/8/2008 - Up in smoke Many Israeli politicians are acquainted in one degree or another with the 70-year-old Silverstein Now that's interesting, and yet, not surprising.

8/8/2008 - Al-Arian trial postponed as judge questions case The trial of a former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist was postponed Friday after a judge raised new doubts about whether prosecutors have been overzealous. The Lobby's going to be PISSED! How dare anyone ask questions?!

8/8/2008 - The Father of Lies by Philip Giraldi compared to the Israelis, the American neocons are neophytes when it comes to reshaping the past. Israel has long funded major archaeological projects intended to emphasize the Jewish presence in Palestine while minimizing or even denying the presence of others in the region, an attempt to demonstrate that Jews have a historical legitimacy that Arab inhabitants lack......In spite of views about Arabs and Muslims that most would consider extremist, Morris has been provided a bully pulpit by The New York Times to urge the United States to attack Iran before Israel is forced to stage a preemptive nuclear attack that would turn the country with its eighty million inhabitants into a "nuclear wasteland." .....the purpose in writing the piece is clearly to frighten the rest of the world into doing the dirty work so that Israel will not have to act. Obviously, the only country that can carry out the mission in a thorough fashion using non-nuclear weapons is the United States That's former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi breaking down Benny's BS for you.

8/8/2008 - Jewish Media Group, SITE, is the first to release another Islamic threat video    



8/7/2008 - US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,134    

8/7/2008 - White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs' MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book.  

8/7/2008 - US: UN must increase sanctions on Iran the founder and head of the global intelligence company Stratfor, George Friedman, told weekly magazine Barron's that the chance of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran is slim because the risks to the world economy far outweigh possible benefits.  

8/7/2008 - Iran tests 'new weapon' for use at sea Iran announced Monday that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked.  

8/7/2008 - Author Claims White House Knew Iraq Had No WMD Suskind says he spoke on the record with U.S. intelligence officials who stated that Bush was informed unequivocally in January 2003 that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. Nonetheless, his book relates, Bush decided to invade Iraq three months later - with the forged letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam bolstering the U.S. rationale to go into war.  

8/7/2008 - The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?    

8/7/2008 - Iran blames U.S. for failures in Iraq A senior Iranian diplomat on Wednesday rejected U.S. charges that Iran was trying to undermine stability in Iraq and accused the United States of trying to blame Tehran for its own failures there.  

8/7/2008 - Doubts About Anthrax Story Survivors of the 2001 anthrax attacks and relatives of those killed by the deadly powder said yesterday that they want a full accounting from the FBI of its investigation to date, and they are not yet convinced that Bruce Ivins, the government scientist who killed himself last week, was responsible.  

8/7/2008 - Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune?s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that "There's going to be an i-9/11 event" which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.  

8/7/2008 - When I say AP is the most criminally dangerous?   The Associated Press most often acts as the Israeli Foreign Ministry. And most of our mainstream and local newspapers and websites carry the news from this wire.

8/7/2008 - Rice on possible IDF Iran strike: U.S. has no veto over Israeli military ops "We don't say yes or no to Israeli military operations. Israel is a sovereign country," Rice said in an interview with Yahoo! News.  

8/7/2008 - Did Dick Cheney Give Bush Plausible Deniability? Asked about it last night on Keith Olberman?s ?Countdown? on MSNBC, John Dean, White House counsel in the Nixon presidency, said Cheney has been so successful at this that it will prevent impeachment proceedings against Bush.  

8/7/2008 - Israel warns Russia: We'll neutralize S-300 if sold to Iran If Russia goes through with the sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Israel will use an electronic warfare device now under development to neutralize it and as a result present Russia as vulnerable to air infiltrations, a top defense official has told The Jerusalem Post.  

8/7/2008 - US commander in Lebanon for talks    

8/7/2008 - A War of Self-Destruction An attack on Iran, which Israeli and Bush administration officials appear set to carry out if Iranian uranium enrichment is not halted, would ignite a regional war in the Middle East and lead to economic collapse and political upheaval in the United States.?  

8/7/2008 - Ivins believed Jews were God's chosen Ivins killed himself as the U.S. Justice Department prepared to arrest him. Ivins' beliefs are significant because the 2001 attacker in notes appeared to be a radical Islamist, writing "Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great."  

8/7/2008 - Was Bruce Ivins the anthrax killer?    

8/7/2008 - Commentary: Holocaust II? An Israeli attack against Iran will automatically unleash the fury of the theocracy against U.S. targets in the Gulf, mining and sinking tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most vital oil route, with volleys of missiles. This would automatically involve the United States, which is why some Israeli hawks don't worry about the red light flashing in Washington.  

8/7/2008 - Mullen warns against USS Liberty redux In an Aug. 2 interview with the USS Liberty radio show, former army intelligence officer and CIA analyst Ray McGovern claimed Israel is planning a scenario similar to that of the 67 Liberty incident. "It is obviously something bigger. The name of the game is to 'decapitate the Iranian nuclear program' whether it is aimed at a weapon or not," said McGovern.  

8/7/2008 - Syrian leader gets top billing in Middle East by doing nothing The US will have to restore full relations with Syria. It will have to continue talks with Iran. It will have to thank Iran for its "help" in Iraq ? most of the Iraqi government, after all, was nurtured in the Islamic Republic during the Iran-Iraq war in which the US took Saddam's side. It will have to accept Iran is not making a nuclear bomb. And it will have to prevent Israel staging a bombing spectacular on Iran which will destroy every hope of US mediation. It will also have to produce a just Middle East peace. McCain or Obama, please note.  

8/7/2008 - Knesset to hold special recess session on Assad's visit to Tehran    

8/7/2008 - 'When You Have To Leave America To Be Free' despite the lack of a single conviction, Al-Arian remains in prison -- where supporters say he has often been held in solitary confinement and denied access to his family and legal counsel -- for refusing to testify in a trial against a northern Virginia Islamic think tank.  

8/7/2008 - Iran root of all evil - Israeli MP    

8/7/2008 - Israelis still prefer McCain McCain has gotten mostly positive Israeli coverage for his hard-line on Iran, said Barak, the pollster.  

8/7/2008 - Rumours Surround Syria 'Hit' "To the best of my knowledge we didn't do it," one Israeli source told Sky News. Oh. Ok then. Ahhh...



8/3/2008 - Israel seeks Hercules planes in deal worth up to $1.9 billion    



8/1/2008 - India-US deal 'legitimizes' Israel arsenal "There is serious concern that the United States has taken this step with the intention to create a precedent and pave the way for Israel to continue its clandestine weapons activities,"  

8/1/2008 - Iran Heads Toward Nuclear 'Breakthrough,' Israel Says Mofaz is heading the Israeli team taking part in a strategic dialogue with the U.S. this week in Washington, a forum in which the sides meet every few months to discuss regional threats.  

8/1/2008 - Time to end CUFI?s free ride Groups like CUFI are not, in the end, as important as the interlocking web of think tanks, neoconservative agitprop mills, and AIPAC alligned political action committees, but they play an indispensable role in enabling the former, helping the neocons present themselves as representing a much broader slice of American opinion than they do. Would that CMEP?s shot at John Hagee?s group foreshadows a more forceful and comprehensive criticism of Christian Zionism from America?s mainstream Christian churches.  




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