By setting a six-month deadline, Obama has given an incentive to Israel, AIPAC, the neocons and even al-Qaida, which wants Shia Iran bombed back to the stone age, to provoke collisions with Iran, until December, then demand that Obama keep his word, suspend talks, impose severe sanctions and start us on the escalator to war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22696.htm
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Cheney: Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism
By Ray McGovern
Oozing out of the sleazy speech he gave Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute was an inadvertent truth regarding the Israeli albatross hanging around the neck of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22693.htm
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Iran: They May Not Want The Bomb
And other unexpected truths.
By Fareed Zakaria
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What’s the evidence?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22699.htm
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Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War
Bush, God, Iraq and Gog
By Clive Hamilton
In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22698.htm
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America’s Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia
Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
By Andrew Hughes
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the “Great Black Hope” in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22700.htm
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Stop Calling Them ‘Terrorists’!
By Kelley Vlahos
Democrats folded like two-dollar beach chairs over the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility on Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22694.htm
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Yet Another Bogus ‘Terror’ Plot
By Robert Dreyfuss
By the now, it’s maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it’s revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne’er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22695.htm
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Along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the US has deployed some of the most sophisticated killing machines ever created.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20095\23\story_23-5-2009_pg7_14
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Military chief: Iran wants nuclear weapons:
President Barack Obama’s top military adviser says Iran’s objective is to obtain nuclear weapons – and that threatens the region.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_mullen_iran
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Obama orders Gates to update plan for Iran strike:
American defense secretary tells NBC television president has instructed him to refresh plans for military action against Tehran prepared during Bush era.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3720065,00.html
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Iran’s Missile Test: A Message to Obama and Netanyahu:
It appears to have been a ballistic message, to Iranian voters as well as to the U.S. and its Mideast allies, that Iran isn’t about to be intimidated into backing off its nuclear development, and that it has the means to retaliate against any military strikes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090522/wl_time/08599190038700
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Report: Iran starts mass production of anti-cruise cannon:
Iran on Sunday started mass production of a 40mm anti-cruise cannon named Fath with a range of 12 km and firing speed of 300 bullets per minute, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
http://snipurl.com/iowp5
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‘Israel won’t yield to U.S. demands, won’t halt settlement construction’:
We won’t let them threaten us,” Ya’alon added.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087541.html
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Israel furious over Russia FM’s meeting with Hamas leader:
Senior officials in the Foreign Ministry were furious on Sunday over the news that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Damascus.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087758.html
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Buying votes:
Biden links US aid to outcome of Lebanon election:
Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that future U.S. aid to Lebanon depends on the outcome of upcoming elections, a warning aimed at Iranian-backed Hezbollah as it tries to oust the pro-Western faction that dominates government.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_biden
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Barack Obama pledges to keep U.S. ‘dominance’:
Barack Obama told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that of all of his duties as president, there is no higher honor than serving as their commander-in-chief, and in that role, he promised to maintain American military superiority.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22869.html
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Spain’s Judges Cross Borders In Rights Cases:
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Fear of prosecution caused Cheney to speak out:
Cheney’s daughter accused President Obama of having a “September 10 mentality” and said she’d been thanked by a family member of a 9/11 victim following her father’s address.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/22/cheney-prosecution-fear/
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U.S. Relies More on Aid of Allies in “Terror” Cases:
The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to current and former American government officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/world/24intel.html?_r=1&hp
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The CIA’s History of Bamboozling The Congress :
There is a long and substantiated record of CIA deceit and dissembling to the congressional intelligence committees. Here are some highlights of that record.
http://pubrecord.org/commentary/916-the-cias-history-of-bamboozling-the-congress.html
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Governor plans to completely eliminate welfare for families:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to completely eliminate the state’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.
http://snipurl.com/iox4o
