World-News

By Reuters

Russian Foreign Ministry warns new sanctions could harm bilateral relations between the two powers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32166.htm



Killing Iran s Children

Are the Sanctions ''Worth It?''

By Dave Lindorff

Iranians suffering from cancer, MS, kidney disease or other diseases. many of them children, are reportedly being prevented from getting needed medicines because of US sanctions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32167.htm



Inventing an Iranian Threat

By Stephen Lendman

Washington and Israel target the Islamic Republic relentlessly. Longstanding war plans await implementation. Media scoundrels and right-wing think tanks support it. They are paid to endorse ravaging one country after another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32291.htm



Plot to Provoke War with Iran Thwarted by Navy Analyst

By Juan Cole

The Neocons have glommed onto Mitt Romney and will come to power if he does, and they still desperately want a war on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32285.htm

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Israel s Iran threats: Blackmail by suicide?

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

08/22/12

Israel, along with its American partisans, is trying to get what it wants by threatening to commit suicide. Israel, nearly everyone agrees, would have to crazy to attack Iran. And Israel, nearly everyone also agrees, isn t crazy. There s a kind of Catch 22 involved here, which is why the chance that Israel will bomb Iran s nuclear facilities is as close to absolute zero as things can get in politics. The Catch 22: only a crazy prime minister would order Israel to bomb Iran, and Netanyahu isn t crazy. So Netanyahu must have something else in mind. After all, bombing Iran would be a catastrophe for Israel...

http://tinyurl.com/8gnf5fn



Baiting the bear

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

08/23/12

I confess that I cannot quite understand the campaign by the neoconservatives and also a number of leading Democrats to vilify Russia and confront it at every opportunity. The Cold War has been over for more than 20 years, but some appear to want to revive it...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/08/22/baiting-the-bear/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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