Are You Ready For War With Demonized Iran?
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina, or any other country, get from the US media? How many Americans and American journalists even know who is in political office in other countries besides England, France, and Germany? Who can name the political leaders of Switzerland, Holland, Brazil, Japan, or even China? Yet, many know of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. The reason is obvious. He is daily demonized in the US media.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22844.htm
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The “Bomb Iran” Contingent’s Newfound Concern for The Iranian People
By Glenn Greenwald
Much of the same faction now claiming such concern for the welfare of The Iranian People are the same people who have long been advocating a military attack on Iran and the dropping of large numbers of bombs on their country — actions which would result in the slaughter of many of those very same Iranian People.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22847.htm
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Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It
By FLYNT LEVERETT AND HILLARY MANN LEVERETT
The shock of the “Iran experts” over Friday’s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22846.htm
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Rafsanjani’s Gambit Backfires
By M K Bhadrakumar
Who is Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmedinejad’s main opponent in the election? He is an enigma wrapped in mystery. He impressed the Iranian youth and the urban middle class as a reformer and a modernist. Yet, as Iran’s prime minister during 1981-89, Mousavi was an unvarnished hardliner.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22849.htm
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The Larger Context of the 2009 Iranian Elections
By Reza Fiyouzat
The presidential elections of June 12 were held within a theocratic system. In this system, in order to run for a political office, candidates must swear allegiance to the theocratic setup. From its inception, therefore, the theocracy has divided the entire population into two major political groups.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22845.htm
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The CIA’s Iranian Plan?
Video
Is the CIA involved in Iran’s recent election unrest.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22839.htm
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Effects of ill-advised CIA plot in Iran still haunts U.S.
By John M. Crisp
I suspect that the average American has never heard of Mohammad Mossadegh and Operation Ajax.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15755.htm
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Hamas Calls for Palestinian State in 1967 Borders
By Middle East Online
The head of the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza said on Tuesday the movement supported the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22840.htm
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Carter Says Palestinians Treated ‘Like Animals’
By Joseph Krauss
“My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people,” Carter said as he toured the impoverished territory.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22842.htm
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Israel’s Angels in America
Why American Jews Should Resist the US’s Blind Support of Israel
By Merle Lefkoff
The Israeli myth of Zionist settlement in a dry and dusty land empty of people and agriculture is collapsing under the weight of young Israeli historians detailing a different story, one based on facts and data unearthed in recently-released Israeli archives.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22841.htm
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Torture, The Painful Truth
By Ben Ehrenreich
It may be a blow to our self-image, but torture has been part of the American way for decades.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22848.htm
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Iran and Russia Nip at US Global Dominance
By Fred Weir
At conference in Siberia, leaders of Russia, China, India, and Iran float idea of new ‘supranational’ currency. China offers $10 billion to neighbors.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22843.htm
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http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23IranElection
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Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter :
Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/06/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabilize-iran-via-twitter/
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More photos coming from Tehran :
- Warning -
http://snipurl.com/k962y
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The American vs. Iranian way of life:
A cartoon
http://twitpic.com/7hsb4
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Iran may possess nuclear bomb by 2014: Israeli intelligence official:
Meir Dagan, chief of Mossad (Israeli intelligence agency), made the remarks while speaking before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset (parliament).
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/16/content_11553136.htm
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Iraq Unveils Results of Prison Abuse Probe:
Iraq’s interior minister said Tuesday more than 40 police officers face charges after an investigation into prison abuse found inmates incarcerated without warrants and others with their rights violated.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526722,00.html
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Haneya: Hamas accepts two-state solution:
Islamic Hamas movement accepts a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel, its deposed premier Ismail Haneya said Tuesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/16/content_11553057.htm
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Hamas calls for Palestinian state in 1967 borders:
The head of the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza said on Tuesday the movement supported the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day war.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=32790
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Carter: Grief and despair for Gaza:
Following a tour of the area to see the effects of Israel’s offensive, Carter said: “My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people in January.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961613038571684.html
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Obama: North Korea can not be a nuclear power:
US President Barack Obama has said North Korea’s track record of proliferation makes it unacceptable for Pyongyang to be a nuclear power.
http://snipurl.com/k96b6
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Obama labels nuclear-armed NKorea ‘grave threat’: –
Declaring North Korea a “grave threat” to the world, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the U.S. and its allies will aggressively enforce fresh international penalties against the nuclear-armed nation and stop rewarding its leaders for repeated provocations.
http://snipurl.com/k96c9
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U.S. Recommits to Keeping S. Korea Under its Nuke Umbrella:
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged anew on June 16 to defend South Korea by keeping the country under its nuclear umbrella as North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats heighten.
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8497
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DPRK threatens to launch pre-emptive strike against U.S.:
“Under the present situation where the Korean People’s Army (KPA) is technically at war with the U.S. imperialists, and as the Armistice Agreement has lost its legal binding force, the KPA will promptly exercise the right to a pre-emptive strike to beat back the enemies’ slightest provocation,” Pak said.
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n184491
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US allowed Pak to acquire N-tech, kept Cong in dark: Whistleblower:
“Barlow is now destitute and living in a trailer,” she said as she went on to give other examples of the fate of the whistleblowers in the US government.
http://snipurl.com/k96el
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US Congress Takes Up $106 Billion War Funding Bill:
A $106 billion bill to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was headed for a close vote Tuesday in the House of Representatives. Complicating the outcome is that the legislation includes money for poor countries, aid to Pakistan, pandemic flu preparation and government rebates to people who trade in gas-guzzling cars.
http://snipurl.com/k96fm
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Peru PM to quit over land disputes:
The Peruvian prime minister has said he plans to resign in the coming weeks following the deaths of dozens of people in clashes between indigenous groups and police over controversial land laws
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/200961618223869749.html
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Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program :
The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39868prs20090615.html
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CIA Mistaken on ‘High-Value’ Detainee, Document Shows:
An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization’s hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.
http://snipurl.com/k96hr
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Italy to take Guantanamo detainees:
Italy has agreed to accept three detainees held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, as Washington continues to search for nations to take some of the inmates who have been cleared for release.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/20096162100629932.html
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Dollar poses dilemma for Bric countries:
China, Russia and, to a lesser extent, Brazil have expressed a desire to see the dollar one day replaced as the world’s main trading currency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8101154.stm
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U.S. credit card defaults rise to record in May: -
U.S. credit card defaults rose to record highs in May, with a steep deterioration of Bank of America Corp’s (BAC.N) lending portfolio, in another sign that consumers remain under severe stress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090615/bs_nm/us_creditcards
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A Civil War – Obama’s Gift to Pakistan
By Ali Khan.
For all practical purposes, the Pashtuns are now subsumed under the title of the Taliban. The caricature is simple and compelling: It highlights the Taliban as the paramount enemy without ever mentioning the Pashtun resistance to the eight-year old occupation of Afghanistan.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22854.htm
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Shame
The ‘Anti-War’ Democrats Who Sold Out
By Jeremy Scahill
In a historic vote, only 30 of 256 Democrats stood against $100 billion for more war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22853.htm
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Elections
The “Coup” in Iran?
By Daniel Larison
The readiness with which almost everyone in the West seems to be accepting the “coup” explanation is rather worrisome. It is similar to the lockstep consensus on the “Iraqi threat” six years ago that made war all but inevitable, and it is similar to our political class’ certainty last year that Georgia was merely an innocent victim of “Russian aggression,” which has been found again and again to be false.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22851.htm
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Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US media serves as a propaganda device, not as a purveyor of truth. Election fraud is certainly a possibility–it happens even in America–and signs of fraud have appeared.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22856.htm
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Americas Third World War
By John Stockwell – Video and Text
John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980′s.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm
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War on Democracy
The School of Americas
Clip From A Documentary Film By John Pilger
“The weaker they are the greater the threat. People who can free themselves against all the odds are sure to inspire others”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22850.htm
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The Century of the Self
Must Watch Video
How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm
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126 Attacks in One Week in Afghanistan: MoI :
The insurgency has increased by 40 percent in Afghanistan over the past week with the Taliban carrying out 126 attacks across the country
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3197&Itemid=48
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US Congress Approves Bill Financing Afghan War :
The US Congress approved $80 billion bill to fund the US-led war in Afghanistan and Iraq on Tuesday
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3208&Itemid=48
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Germany plans to send extra 300 servicemen to Afghanistan:
Germany announced plans on Wednesday to send up to another 300 military personnel to Afghanistan in planes fitted with radar for detecting aircraft.
http://snipurl.com/kbl3o
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Iranian bloggers upload clash video:
This amateur video posted on Wednesday (June 17) purports to show members of the Basij militia firing at a crowd of demonstrators from the roof of their building on Monday .
http://snipurl.com/kblas
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Young Iranians use video to tell story :
With traditional forms of communication blocked, Iranians are using technology to keep the world informed about events.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8102676.stm
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US sees both Iran rivals as hostile:
“It’s important to understand that although there is amazing ferment taking place in Iran, the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised,” Obama told CNBC news.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/2009616235841279404.html
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US confirms it asked Twitter to stay open to help Iran protesters:
The Obama administration, while insisting it is not meddling in Iran, yesterday confirmed it had asked Twitter to remain open to help anti-government protesters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/17/obama-iran-twitter
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Iran accuses US of meddling after disputed vote:
Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of “intolerable” meddling in its internal affairs, alleging for the first time that Washington has fueled a bitter postelection dispute. Opposition supporters marched in Tehran’s streets for a third straight day to protest the outcome of the balloting.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAN_ELECTION?SITE=AP
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Don’t Assume Ahmadinejad Really Lost: Former CIA Officer:
The truth is, Ahmadinejad may be the President the Iranians want, and we may have to live with an Iran to Iranians’ liking and not to ours.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090616/wl_time/08599190495300
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Deepak Chopra: Feeling better about Iran:
If you have been tempted to buy into the portrayal of Iran as a reckless, terrifying country, please take the following quiz. Each item requires a Yes or No answer:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/06/15/chopra061509.DTL
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U.S. could yield on settlement freeze, says government source:
The Americans will apparently not demand a full freeze on construction, but will agree that projects now underway can be completed, Israeli officials say.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093219.html
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Carter wants Hamas off US terror list:
Former US President Jimmy Carter has advised the Obama administration against keeping the Hamas resistance movement on its list of terror organizations.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=98331§ionid=351020202
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Israeli court rules to free Hamas parliament speaker: -
An Israeli military court decided Wednesday to release the speaker of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council, who has been held in an Israeli jail for 34 months.
http://snipurl.com/kbliu
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N Korea empties foreign accounts: report:
North Korea is rushing to withdraw money from its overseas bank accounts after the United Nations imposed financial and other sanctions for its latest nuclear test, a report said on Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/kblk1
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North Korea Vows ‘Thousand-Fold’ Military Retaliation If Provoked :
In a commentary carried in a government-run newspaper, the communist regime vows a “one thousand-fold retaliation” and a “merciless military strike” if the U.S. and its allies “infringe upon” North Korea’s sovereignty “even a bit.”
http://www.kake.com/national/headlines/48250217.html
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E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress:
A former N.S.A. analyst who, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html?_r=1
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CIA Fights Full Release Of Detainee Report:
The CIA is urging the suppression of passages describing in graphic detail how the agency handled its detainees, arguing that the material could damage ongoing counterterrorism operations by laying bare sensitive intelligence procedures and methods.
http://snipurl.com/kblm6
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UK: Jobless rate soars to 13-year high :
A job is now being lost every 30 seconds : McDonald’s receiving 2,200 applications a day: Directors and CEOs claiming the dole up 200%
http://snipurl.com/kbln3
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British Airways asks 40,000 staff to work for nothing:
The astonishing plea comes as BA faces what Mr Walsh says is a ‘fight for survival’.
http://snipurl.com/kblo9
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China sells US bonds to ‘show concern’ :
A decision by China to reduce its US Treasury holdings suggests concern about the US attitude towards its economic woes, Chinese economists were quoted as saying in state media Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/kblp2
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Russia’s Medvedev: Supranational currency will be created:
“We are likely to witness the creation of a supranational reserve currency … which will be used for international settlements,” Medvedev told a new conference. “Although volumes will be limited.
http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSLG42629320090616
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Medvedev calls for new reserve currencies:
Medvedev has made the proposal before. It reflects both the Kremlin’s push for greater international clout and a concern shared by other countries that soaring U.S. budget deficits could spur inflation and weaken the dollar.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_summit_talks_7
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Obama Proposes More Powerful Fed:
President Obama today proposed broad new powers for the Federal Reserve and the creation of new national regulator to ensure against another financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reports.
http://snipurl.com/kblrg
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IMF warns on recovery as jobs disappear:
Dampening hopes for an early exit from the recession still gripping the global economy, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warned yesterday that “the large part of the worst is not yet behind us”.
http://snipurl.com/kblsi
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Projection: It’ll be years before jobs return to much of U.S.:
Most of the country – 286 of 325 metro areas covered in the IHS analysis_ aren’t likely to regain their pre-recession employment levels until at least 2012.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/69823.html
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Mortgage applications fall again:
The Mortgage Bankers Association says mortgage applications, which include new and refinanced loans, declined nearly 16 percent in the week ended June 12.
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/06/15/daily32.html
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FedEx posts bigger loss with a gloomy outlook:
FedEx, the nation’s second largest package shipper, lost more money in the last quarter, as consumers and businesses downsized shipments and the company took over $1 billion in one-time charges.
http://snipurl.com/kblvm
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Obama has been lying on a pretty impressive scale. You just have to get past his grandiloquent rhetoric – usually empty of substance – to get a handle on it. I offer a short, incomplete list, which I’m sure others could easily enlarge.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22855.htm
