US to step up attacks on Pakistan as it forces Taliban to talk
The United States is planning to escalate aerial bombing raids on Pakistan’s tribal areas in tandem with efforts to force moderate elements of the Taliban to the negotiating table, the Telegraph has learned. Dean Nelson & Ben Farmer | Telegraph.co.uk Officials in contact with the State Department said on Sunday that a new offensive would [...]
US places Iran center stage of shield row
The US has reportedly offered to shelve its missile defense shield in Europe if Russia withdraws its support for Iran’s nuclear program. PressTV.ir Russian daily Kommersant cited White House sources as saying on Monday that President Barack Obama has made a proposal to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev asking to change position on Iran in [...]
John Bolton at CPAC: The Benefits of Nuking Chicago
Jonathan Stein | MotherJones.com Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed [...]
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran
Reuters/Yahoo.uk Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran’s alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, a British newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting a former CIA agent and intelligence experts. An intelligence source in the Middle East told Reuters last year Israel planned to target Iranian nuclear [...]
Iran Is Helping Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says
Henry Meyer | Bloomberg.com Iran is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and Iraq. “There is a willingness to provide some degree of assistance to make the life of those who are trying to help the Afghan people difficult,” Petraeus [...]
US intel confirms Iran not developing nukes
PressTV.ir The new chief of US intelligence has confirmed the findings of a 2007 intelligence report that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Dennis Blair told the Senate Intelligence Committee that his organization has assessed that Tehran does not have nuclear weapons design and weaponization work. A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), issued in November 2007 by [...]
Obama: Reopen the 9/11 Investigation — Part 2 – The Huffington Post
Melissa Rossi | HuffingtonPost.com So many dastardly acts were committed during the Bush administration (many of them by the Bush administration) that it’s hard to nail down the worst. Senator Patrick Leahy recently suggested formation of a “Truth Commission” to investigate the interrogation, torture, and shredding of civil liberties that occurred as part of the Bush [...]
The Audacity of Mendacity
Obama’s real foreign policy agenda Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com While the great debate over the “stimulus” spending bill was the focus of President Obama’s Monday sermon, some of the questions asked at a subsequent press conference dealt with foreign policy, including a pointed one by CNN’s Ed Henry, and it was a double zinger: “Thank you, Mr. [...]
Geithner’s First Order of Business: Impose Sanctions on Iran
Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com Now that Timothy Geithner has put his tax problems behind him and he will head up the Treasury, it is time to get down to business. Job One for Geithner and the Obamatrons is Iran. One might ask what the Treasury has to do with Iran. It’s all about money and leaning [...]
Iran brings down Israeli spy network
PressTV.ir “The security and intelligence division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) recently identified a network that was spying on the country’s military organizations,” Fars news agency quoted the chief IRGC commander, Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Jafari, as saying on Monday. ”The network’s link with Mossad was established after extensive intelligence and tracking operations. Members of [...]
Iran in the Crosshairs
by Jeremy R. Hammond / September 20th, 2008 The IAEA’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program was circulated to the Board of Governors this week. It has not been released to the general public, but it is widely being hailed as a damning condemnation of Iran by the mainstream media. The Washington Post headline read, [...]
Bush: Iranians Are ‘Assholes’
While serving as CentCom commander between March 2007 and March 2008, Adm. William Fallon consistently pressed the Bush administration for more engagement with Iran and criticized the calls for another war. “This constant drumbeat of conflict is what strikes me which is not helpful and not useful,” Fallon told al Jazeera last year. In his [...]
Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as ‘cold war’ escalates
Russia is deploying the threat to sell a “game changing” air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new “cold war” with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. By Philip Sherwell in New York and William Lowther in Washington Last Updated: 11:29AM BST 31 Aug 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [...]
Dutch Newspaper: U.S. Attack On Iran Imminent
Infowars August 29, 2008 A view of Tehran with Alborz mountains on the back Holland’s largest newspaper, Telegraaf, reports that a decision has been made by the United States to attack Iran in the next few weeks. Targets include both nuclear facilities and military installations, according to the newspaper. UAVs will be used in the [...]
To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of [...]
Obama says a nuclear Iran ‘grave threat’
AFP.com US presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat” and that the world must prevent it from obtaining the atomic bomb. “A nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. “A nuclear Iran would [...]
Ray McGovern’s False Flag Warning – June 24, 2008
Ray McGovern’s statement on the Alex Jones show (6/24) never got the attention it deserved. For those who never caught the show or listened to the MP3, here is what McGovern said; “I’d be more interested in exploring how this thing could get underway. Now, the Iranians are no dopes. They’re not gonna be provoked into doing [...]
McCain: Kill Iranians with Cigarettes
RawStory.com Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be “a way of killing ‘em.” McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report [...]
