World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/29-0

How the Media Got the Iran/IAEA Access Story Wrong
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/29-12

Netanyahu Coming to Washington to Demand Obama Commit to Military Action
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/01-5

Upping the Ante in Iran Propaganda
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/01-13

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Obama Officials Talking Tougher About Iran as Netanyahu Visit Approaches

Bloomberg

02/29/12

Obama administration officials are escalating warnings that the U.S. could join Israel in attacking Iran if the Islamic republic doesn t dispel [manufactured] concerns that its nuclear-research program is aimed at producing weapons. Four days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz told reporters that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have prepared military options to strike Iranian nuclear sites in the event of a conflict...

http://bloom.bg/wRbQgc



Iran: Scapegoat for a bankrupt empire

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Tim Kelly

03/01/12

So, given that Iran poses no real threat to the United States and is not even a regional threat because it is dependent on exporting its oil, why are so many American politicians baying for war against the Islamic Republic? To get an answer, we should recall what H. L. Mencken said: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1203a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Will Bibi Break Obama?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan221.html

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Another Bogus Argument for War with Iran

By Stephen M. Walt

If Americans fall for this sort of contorted historical analysis, we will have only ourselves to blame.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30690.htm



Manipulating Public Perceptions: US Panel Passes Bill on Iran-Latin America Links

By AFP

The bill referred to an alleged plot by Iran to recruit Mexican drug cartel killers to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30691.htm



Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on the Middle East, Proliferation

Why Israel Couldn t Take Out Iran s Nuclear Program

By Nancy Shoenberger

The Israelis could not mount, without going to desperate ends, a 100-plane strike, which is going to be necessary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30698.htm



The Inhumanity of Iran Threat Rhetoric

By Nima Shirazi

Iranians, over the past three decades, have been so dehumanized by Western politicians and media that talk of economic ''strangulation'' and ''crippling'' sanctions are not only routine but, at this point, mundane.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30700.htm



Ex-Netanyahu aide slams debate on attacking Iran

Uzi Arad said Saturday that the Israeli military dominates the debate about options vis-a-vis Iran. He told Israel TV s Channel 2 this means not all alternatives to an attack are being considered.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_20095192


From Information Clearing House

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What Are Iran s Intentions?

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: ''One of Israel s leading strategic analysts, Zeev Maoz, in 'Defending the Holy Land,' his comprehensive analysis of Israeli security and foreign policy, concludes that 'the balance sheet of Israel s nuclear policy is decidedly negative', harmful to the state's security. He urges instead that Israel should seek a regional agreement to ban weapons of mass destruction: a WMD-free zone, called for by a 1974 UN General Assembly resolution.''

http://www.truth-out.org/what-are-irans-intentions/1330707877



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