World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/11-9

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US naval strike group arrives in Arabian Sea as tensions rise with Iran

Fox News

01/11/12

A new aircraft carrier strike group has entered the Arabian Sea and another is on its way, a Pentagon official said in a news briefing Wednesday, a shuffling of the U.S. fleet amid rising tensions with Iran. Officials said there is no connection between the fleet movements and threats from Iran, however, the arrival of the USS Carl Vinson comes on the heals of Iranian military exercises in the Persian Gulf and threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil transit route...

http://fxn.ws/xefB30


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How quickly we forget that the evidence against Iraq was a hoax
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/iran-a-war-based-on-hunches.html

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Fools and Fanatics and Bull Feather Merchants

By Jeff Huber

Deconstructing the flock of war hawkers who comprise the Pentarchy s propaganda pantheon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30225.htm



US aircraft carrier sets course for Gulf

US' ''Abraham Lincoln'' aircraft carrier with a group of combat ships has set a course for the Persian Gulf, an official with the US' 7th fleet based at the Japanese port of Yokosuka said Wednesday.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/11/63690602.html



Russia warns EU over Iran oil sanctions

''If the EU follows the Americans and imposes an embargo on purchases of Iranian oil...then the Europeans will suffer first and foremost, and not the US, it has plenty of its own reserves,'' Secretary of Russia s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220652.html


From Information Clearing House



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''My responsibility is to encourage the right degree of planning [for if Iran tries to build a nuclear bomb], to understand the risks associated with any kind of military option. in some cases to position assets, to provide those options in a timely fashion,'' General Martin Dempsey said on Face the Nation today. ''And all those activities are going on,'' he added.

http://bit.ly/zdZz0N



Beijing rejects sanctions on Iranian oil

''The normal trade relations and energy cooperation between China and Iran have nothing to do with the nuclear issue,'' Cui said. ''We should not mix issues of different natures, and China s legitimate concerns and demands should be respected.''

http://wapo.st/xex4du



China slams US military adventurism

China says the accusations leveled against the country in the new United States defense strategy are ''groundless'' and aim to counter the Asian country's growing power.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220142.html



After Iran, Venezuela?

By Mike Whitney

As soon as Obama is finished ''liberating'' Tehran, it ll be on to Venezuela. You can bet on it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30209.htm



'Iran war to deteriorate world economy'

A senior Chinese diplomat says, ''Everyone knows that 40 percent of the oil shipped daily to every part of the world goes through the Strait of Hormuz, so once war starts in this region not only will the relevant nations be affected and attacked, it would also ... bring disaster to a world economy deep in crisis," Chen Xiaodong warned on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220299.html



'US builds hospitals in Georgia, readies for war with Iran'

A big war between the US and Iran is beginning in the Persian Gulf. $5 billion was allocated for the construction of these 20-bed military hospitals," Javelidze said in an interview with Georgian paper Kviris Kronika (News of the Week), as cited by Newsgeorgia website.

http://rt.com/politics/us-georgia-iran-war-441/



War Plan Iran

By Finian Cunningham

''Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.'' http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30214.htm



Iran says Fordo uranium enrichment site runs under IAEA watch

Iran s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said all of the country s nuclear activities, including those at Fordo enrichment site, are under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-01/10/c_131352662.htm



Obama Ready to Use Military Force to Stop Nuclear Iran, Ex-Adviser Says

The administration considers the risks of permitting a nuclear-armed Iran to be greater than the risks of military action, said Ross, who last month rejoined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research group.

http://bloom.bg/znASfV



Iran Interest Rates Raised To 20% To Fight Hyperinflation

As a result of a financial embargo enacted on by the US on New Year s Day, Iran's economy had promptly entered freefall mode and is now experiencing hyperinflation as the currency implodes.

http://bit.ly/AoK08H



Thousands Of US Troops To Arrive In Israel This Week

Accompanied by a US aircraft carrier, 9,000 US troops including airmen, missile interceptor teams, marines, technicians and intelligence officers are scheduled to land in Israel in the coming weeks. Many will stay up to the end of the year as part of the US-Israeli Army deployment in readiness for a military engagement with Iran, aiming at a synchronized military front against Iran.

http://www.imemc.org/article/62803


From Information Clearing House

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NYT Responds on Iran Alarmism
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/01/10-5



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What s Really Going on in The Straits of Hormuz.

By David Malone

The stand off is as much with China and its allies as it is specifically with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30190.htm



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By Scott Peterson

Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or, worse, acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30177.htm



The Manipulation of Fear

By Noam Chomsky

The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30175.htm



US faces challenges from 'rising Asian powers': Panetta

The United States now faces new array of security challenges from across the globe, including the rise of new powers in Asia; behaviour of countries like Iran and North Korea and proliferation of lethal weapons, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday.

http://bit.ly/xQlBeq



No proof of nuclear bomb development by Iran: Patrushev

''All this talk about Iranians being almost a week away from creating a nuclear bomb, we have been hearing it for many years now. The presence of a military aspect in Tehran s nuclear program has never been proved by anyone,'' Patrushev said in an interview with Interfax.

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=300758



Israel is pushing U.S. toward Iran war, Russian official says

Russia fears Israel will push the United States into a military conflict with Iran which could retaliate by blocking oil shipments from the Gulf, a confidant of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

http://bit.ly/yy7fGh



Real danger of US military strike on Iran: Russia

Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned that military escalation is likely in Iran, with ''real danger'' of a US strike, in an interview published Thursday.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1176281/1/.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Fear Factor
http://lewrockwell.com/galland/galland41.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-3

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Promoting War on Iran

By Stephen Lendman
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30171.htm



The US-Iran Economic War

By Pepe Escobar

Here s a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30172.htm

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Occupying Fears About Iran

Winslow Myers, Consortium News: ''Too many of us still refuse to see the practical relevance of such values either to international or personal politics?. We assume thousands of nuclear warheads in the control of a democratically elected leader are qualitatively different from the same weapons in the hands of a dictator ? 'Our' nuclear weapons are justified by our need for security, while 'theirs' indicate an unacceptable aggressiveness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/occupying-fears-about-iran/1325948517

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'Iran is being economically and financially strangled'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10811/



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Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag: Zwölf Aktionsschwerpunkte der Friedensbewegung für 2012.

'Zur Jahreswende veröffentlichte der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag sein friedenspolitisches Aktionsprogramm für das NEUE JAHR. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der Krieg in Afghanistan, die Warnung vor neuen Kriegen und die Kritik an NATO und Bundeswehr?' Presseerklärung vom 30. Dezember 2011 http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung/aktionsprogramm2012-baf.html

Das 12-Punkte-Programm der Friedensbewegung (pdf) http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung/Aktionsprogramm2012.pdf


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Januar 2012



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Santorum says President Barack Obama hasn t done enough to prevent the Iranian government from building a nuclear weapon and has risked turning the U.S. into a 'paper tiger.'

http://bit.ly/sIcjP4


From Information Clearing House

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The New York Times is Lying About Iran s Nuclear Program
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-8

Occupy Our Fear of Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-2



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By Peter Symonds

Having provoked Tehran with legislation for what amounts to an oil embargo, the US is threatening Iran with military action if it retaliates by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30134.htm



Obama Signs Iran Banking Sanctions

By Reuters

The bill, aims to reduce Tehran s oil revenues Senior U.S. officials said Washington was engaging with its foreign partners to ensure the sanctions can work without harming global energy markets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30124.htm



Muslim Haters Tie Iran to 9/11

By Gareth Porter

In the world of the right-wing Islam-hating extremists and others pushing for confrontation with Iran, reality is no obstacle to spinning tales of secret Iranian assistance to al-Qaeda.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30123.htm

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Closing Hormuz
http://lewrockwell.com/block/block193.html

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US-Israel vs Iran: War Games Prelude to War?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/05-3



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Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray, Consortium News: 'A torrent of war propaganda against Iran is flooding the American political scene as U.S. neocons...see an opening for another war in the Middle East?. President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf.'

http://www.truth-out.org/urging-obama-stop-rush-iran-war/1325349237



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President Obama is preparing to sign legislation that, if fully enforced, could impose harsh penalties on all customers for Iranian oil, with the explicit aim of severely impeding Iran s ability to sell it.

http://bit.ly/txvRJt


From Information Clearing House



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