World-News

By Daniel McAdams

News organizations and websites that have uncritically reported the atrocity stories from these ''human rights'' groups have helped set the stage for military action against Syria, and have been in fact part of the psychological preparation of the battlefield.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30501.htm



US Congress Pulsates With War Fever

By Eric Margolis

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30503.htm



Who is Threatening Whom? 45 US Bases Surround Iran

Map

Each star is a US base. But just to be clear, Iran is the one that is threatening US.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30504.htm



Iran: War Drums Beating

The idea of an Islamic bomb exerts a peculiar fascination on American political culture and shines a searchlight on how the gross dysfunctionality of American politics emerges synergistically from the individual dysfunctions of its component parts.

http://huff.to/wqueQS



MKO funds US politicians'?

''One of the most under-reported political stories of the last year is the devoted advocacy of numerous prominent American political figures on behalf of an Iranian group long formally designated as a Terrorist organization under US law,'' Glenn Greenwald wrote on salon.com on Friday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/226175.html


From Information Clearing House



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By Russ Winter

Iran has the capability of not only closing the Strait for some time, but creating a world of hurt for the U.S. Navy s 5th Fleet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30482.htm



The Grand Ayatollah of Nuclear Menace

By William Blum

Is USrael actually fearful of an attack from a nuclear-armed Iran?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30481.htm



Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and North Africa 20 Years Ago
http://bit.ly/snXgnu



Moscow warns against Israel s stance on Iran

Israel s hard-line approach to speculation that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear weapon could have ''catastrophic consequences'', a senior Russian foreign ministry official warned Thursday.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=50531



Another Foiled False Flag

By Stephen Lendman

Pretexts are needed for militarism, imperial wars, and homeland repression. If and when people learn they were duped, it s too late to matter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31281.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Iranian False Flag?
http://lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi203.html

24 Signs That We Are Getting Dangerously Close to a Major War in the Middle East
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/dangerously-close-to-mideast-war.html

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Saudi Arabia Says Will Buy Nuclear Weapon if Iran Tests A-Bomb
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/10-4

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When False Flags Don t Fly
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/when-false-flags-dont-fly.html



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Diplomats stationed in Israel request gas masks, prepare contingency plans in case of missile attacks; envoys fear that thousands of dual-citizenship Israelis will seek evacuation.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4186799,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Israel vs. Iran: The Truth Slips Out
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/09-1



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Mike Lofgren, Truthout: ''Washington s political class is apparently counting on the short memory of the electorate: it is barely a month and a half since we withdrew the last combat forces from Iraq, and already we have incessant agitation over Iran. America s Iraq adventure took seven years, cost 4,500 US military deaths and sent a trillion dollars down the drain. And that one was going to be a cakewalk, remember?''

http://www.truth-out.org/iran-war-drums-beating/1328560738

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Who Wants War With Iran?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan215.html

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Israelis Should be Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran

By Gideon Levy

Some of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30465.htm



Obama Declares ''Threat'' From Iran a National Emergency

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23uQr7TIMo&feature=player_embedded



Will Iran Be Attacked?

By Paul Craig Roberts

There seems to be an infinite supply of foreign leaders who prefer Washington s money and favor to loyalty to their own countries' interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30477.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Obama can stop Israel from attacking Iran

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/06/12

Israel s highest officials tell American journalists their air force may attack Iran s nuclear facilities this spring, although Israeli and American intelligence agencies say the Islamic republic has no plan to build a bomb. The officials might be bluffing, but the threats pose a problem for the Obama administration. In recent weeks there has been much in-person contact between the governments...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1202b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing new, stricter sanctions on Iran and its central bank, saying a broader asset freeze was necessary because Iranian banks were concealing transactions.

http://bit.ly/wkQ8gb



'Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response'

European diplomat based in Islamabad says Israeli strike would force Pakistan to support Iranian retaliation, while EU official says 'political and economic consequences of attack would be catastrophic for Europe'.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4185684,00.htm



Israel can clear Mideast of nukes, it just won t

If Israel accepts an invitation to the conference in Helsinki, it will have an opportunity to move ahead on a deal: comprehensive nuclear disarmament in exchange for comprehensive peace, says researchers' position paper.

http://bit.ly/wZh7pl


From Information Clearing House

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Obama Should Go to Iran
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff377.html



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Are Obama and Netanyahu trying to push Iran toward a nuke?

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/03/12

Opponents of war with Iran got a boost the other day from an unlikely source. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper told a Senate committee, 'We do not know ... if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.' This would be news to most Americans, who for several years have been subjected to a steady drumbeat of alarming reports about Iran s alleged nuclear-weapons program and its imminent acquisition of the bomb...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1202a.asp



Wrong ideas are sinking America

LewRockwell.com
by Michael S. Rozeff

02/04/12

Consistent failure of their wars does not sway America s leaders, who are now prepared to start an aggressive war on Iran. The very concept of such a war is wrong. The policy of domination of Iran that goes back well over 50 years is wrong. It should be replaced, but this is not obvious to America s leaders because they have been taught otherwise and have taken power while firmly believing the opposite...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff376.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sea Mammals of War: Next Stop Iran?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/06-4

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U.S. Wrongly Demonizes Iran

By Karl Lindemann

As with any country that is attempting to develop its nuclear technology, Iran should be monitored. But the current U.S. policies are completely unwarranted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30448.htm



Yet Another War for Israel

By William A. Cook

Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC s policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30452.htm



House Intel Chair: Israel Attack on Iran Would Harm U.S. National Security

''If Israel does a unilateral strike, this could be a real problem for the national security interests of the United States,'' Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said today

http://abcn.ws/w3ELmR



Netanyahu v Obama

By Alan Hart

What, really, worries Netanyahu most: the prospect (not real) of Iran posing an existential threat to Israel or the prospect (real) of a second-term Obama?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30829.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Friedensbewegung macht mobil gegen Kriegsdrohungen
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814279ms303



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By Andrew Murray

As the US and UK gear up for another senseless war in the Middle East, one thing is certain, it will end in disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30438.htm



The Growing Iranian Military Behemoth?

By Glenn Greenwald

American political officials and commentators feel free to insist, with a straight face, that Iran is an aggressor nation posing a serious threat to the U.S.: such a serious threat, in fact, that war may be necessary to stop it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30441.htm



Lawmakers, ''Experts'' Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America

By Charles Davis

Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Thursday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30439.htm



An attack on Tehran would be madness

So don t rule it out: After invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, we plan to clap as Israel bombs Iran.

http://ind.pn/wLVHTQ



Collect intelligence at mosques

The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.

http://bit.ly/yra7Bv



A War Anniversary that U.S. Wishes to Forget

By Emil Guillermo

Feb. 4 marks the anniversary of a war America won, but doesn t care to crow about. When the memory only produces shame and regret, you can understand why.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30445.htm



Documents expose NYPD 'mosque crawlers'

New documents expose breadth of controversial New York surveillance programme targeting Muslims across state lines.

http://aje.me/wBMLSh


From Information Clearing House

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NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Target Shiite Mosques

Video

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy NOW!: ''New revelations have emerged about the New York City Police Department's secret program to spy on Muslim communities. The Associated Press has just uncovered a confidential NYPD plan from 2006 to engage in targeted surveillance of Shiite mosques following increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran; the latest revelation on its secret intelligence operations focused on Muslim neighborhoods.''

http://www.truth-out.org/nypd-muslim-spy-scandal-grows-newly-revealed-plan-target-shiite-mosques/1328544457

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ACLU Call For Investigation into NYPD Profiling of Muslims and Ethnic Groups
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/02/22-7



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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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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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