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Ray McGovern : US, Israel Challenged on Iran
The times may be a-changin’ — at least a bit — with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East
Read More »Iran sanctions snarl global nuclear talks
By Julian Borger (source: The Guardian) The brisk rejection of a last minute compromise on Iran proposed by Brazil and Turkey has snarled broader UN talks on disarmament and non-proliferation US Secretary of State
Read More »US answer to Iran nuclear swap: Overnight deal on sanctions
By Ahmet Davutoglu – Turkish Foreign Minister “What they wanted us to do was give the confidence to Iran to do the swap. We have done our duty,” said Davutoglu, calling the deal an
Read More »Gordon Duff: Can 1% Stop The Global Criminal Syndicate?
CAN A REAL GLOBALISM BASED ON TRUTH AND HONOR SAVE THE WORLD? I was asked during an interview on Al Jazeera the question that every Muslim lives with every day, “How can a small
Read More »“There is no ground left for more sanctions or pressure on Iran”
by Robert Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy (source: Huffington Post) If I were in Washington this morning, I would run down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Congress with a big
Read More »Scott Horton Interviews Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, discusses the antiwar movement’s many mistakes that have rendered it ineffective, the slow-motion fascist coup d’etat in the US, the dangers of
Read More »Philip Giraldi : Many Voices Singing One Song
Several weeks ago at the redoubtable Charles Schumer of New York announced the Yahweh himself had anointed him Israel’s defender in the US Senate. In a radio interview Schumer explained “You know, my name ….
Read More »America Held Hostage : Year 62
By Sina Alavi “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson We are approaching another ominous anniversary in American
Read More »GRANT SMITH : Diversion of US nuclear material to Israel
Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., about the newly declassified 1978 GAO report released by IRmep on 5/10/2010. They cover the diversion
Read More »The Debate that never Happened: Blankfort vs. JVP’s Plitnick on the Israel Lobby
Jeffrey Blankfort | If Americans Knew Early in 2005, after publication of my critical article about Noam Chomsky’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict published in Left Curve, I was asked by Khalil Bendib, a
Read More »Wanted Posters Issued for Alleged Israeli War Criminals
Tim King Salem-News.com A group in Israel is exposing members of its government charged with war crimes. (JERUSALEM / SALEM) – By now many already know that a series of wanted posters have been
Read More »Elena Kagan and the Supreme Court: A Barnyard Smell in Chicago, Harvard and Washington
The issue of the composition of the US Supreme Court is increasingly crucial for all Americans, who are horrified by Israel’s devastation of Gaza, its threats to launch a nuclear attack on Iran and
Read More »GRANT SMITH : Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is underway at UN Headquarters in New York. A working paper calls for a nuclear-free Middle East. It would require member
Read More »CHAS Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection
Mondoweiss The other day Stephen Maher published a piece on Electronic Intifada saying that American thirst for hegemony in the region, and not the Israel lobby, is the prime motivator of US policy in
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PHILIP GIRALDI : Shaping the Story on Iran
Debbie May 21, 2010 1There have been recent reports that Iran has enabled the travel of al-Qaeda leaders to Afghanistan and Pakistan where they will be able to confront and kill American soldiers. If you think you have
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