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Shamus Cooke, Veracity Voice: ''In an effort to undermine Iran by overthrowing its strategic ally, Syria, western nations are using their Middle East client states to conduct a multi-pronged attack against Syria through the media, the Arab League, the United Nations and now through military proxy forces.''

http://www.truth-out.org/proxy-war-syria-threatens-catastrophe-middle-east/1328367173

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The Syrian crucible

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

In the Western media, the Syrian narrative is all about how helpless protesters are being massacred by government forces, but the reality is quite different, as this report by the Arab League monitoring mission makes clear. Of course we didn t hear much about this report when it was released: anything that goes against the Official Narrative is summarily dropped into the Memory Hole and never seen again...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/05/the-syrian-crucible/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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According to the report, 43 percent of households in America, some 127.5 million people, are liquid-asset poor. If one of these households experiences a sudden loss of income, caused, for example, by a layoff or a medical emergency, it will fall below the poverty line within three months.

http://huff.to/zL8qL2


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By Dennis Kucinich

The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that doesn t exist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30437.htm



Is Iran is the Root of all Evil?

By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30430.htm



How Hollywood Spreads Propaganda

By Danny Schechter

Iran seems to many observers to be next in line for the Iraqi freedom treatment, the latest in a long line of ''enemy'' nations menaced by overt and covert military threats by the United States and its allies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30432.htm



US Preparing Something Against Iran

By Gennady Yevstafyev
Retired Lieutenant-General of Russia s Foreign Intelligence.

Iran is a key, it is a lynchpin of the security situation in the Gulf as far as anti-American forces are concerned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30431.htm



US push to arm Israel

A policy group in the US has called for providing Israel with 200 additional bunker-buster bombs and aerial refuelling tankers to increase the credibility of a military strike aimed at thwarting Iran s nuclear program.

http://bit.ly/Ar7qH8



U.S. anxiety grows over possible Israeli plans on Iran

European and U.S. diplomats say Obama administration worried about Israeli leaders' provocative public comments on Iran s nuclear program.

http://bit.ly/wp73nq



Shin Bet chief: Iran trying to hit Israeli targets in response to attacks on nuclear scientists

Yoram Cohen tells audience at a closed forum in Tel Aviv that Iran s Revolutionary Guards are working tirelessly to attack Israeli targets abroad in order to deter Israel.

http://bit.ly/yMGCV8



Less than One-Fifth of All Americans Favor Military or Covert Action Against Iran

A new United Technologies/National Journal ''Congressional Connection Poll,'' finds that only 13% Americans think the U.S. should ''take covert action against Iran such as sabotage and assassination of scientists working on their nuclear program''.

http://bit.ly/yzAwMz



China intensifies criticism of sanctions on Iran

''In the near term, the sudden spike in tensions between the United States and Iran is now posing the greatest uncertainty. This factor is disrupting global energy markets and has cast a shadow over the global economic recovery.''

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL4E8D28YC20120203


From Information Clearing House



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Derzeit wird von der zuständigen Stelle überprüft, ob die Verleihung des Preises durch das norwegische Komitee an Personen wie Barack Obama, Al Gore oder Liu Xiaobo dem Willen von Nobel entspricht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151351



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US-Verteidigungsminister Panetta geht offenbar aus, dass ein israelischer Angriff auf die iranischen Nuklearanlagen bevorsteht, Iran droht mit Gegenschlägen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151355



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Ein Hauch Bonapartismus in Berlin?
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151356

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel droht Deutschlands Schicksal zu werden
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151349



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http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1095.html

Graveyard of Empires
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis279.html

The ''war on terror'' is eradicating ordinary morality
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff376.html

The Government s Secret Real-Life Death Ray
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/jesse-ventura-haarp.html



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