Tag: Iran

Thousands of our kids are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan carrying the enormous weight of the emotional baggage picked up during their experience of war. This is nothing new, we brought back the same cargo from Vietnam, Korea and WW2. All wars provide their participants with a dismal tide of dark memories, the material of a lifetime of tortured nightmares.

ISRAEL'S WAR WITH ITSELF By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor It is easy to spot a liar if you are willing to take an honest look. ...

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach via Global Research The appearance on August 5 of an interview with former Iraqi diplomat Dr. Tariq Aziz in the Guardian was...

By Tim King -- Salem-News.Com (SALEM, Ore.) – NBC Reporter Andrea Mitchell’s interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke ...

- Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping...

With pundits in most capitals already predicting failure for the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace talks to begin on Thursday, it seems...

Should Saudi King Abdullah invite Netanyahu to Riyadh? By Alan Hart The suggestion that he should was made by Thomas L. Friedman in his column for...

TODAY'S SUICIDE BOMBING IN QUETTA, PAKISTAN LEAVES A TRAIL TO TEL AVIV   By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Quetta, Baluchistan, September 3, 2003 (VT)  Today, 43 Pakistanis were...

By Medea Benjamin (opednews.com) With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a...

  Health Data Shunned by Mainstream Media This research on health findings in Iraq is truly astonishing and points to Cancers being seen in Iraq.  It...

Iran does not have the tools to do so. Iran cannot get them or even make the tools required. Iran cannot even buy the tools. Try calling up Japan Steel and ordering a few tons of Marange Speciality Steel and see what happens.

Neocons need to get their lies straight. Bolton’s former boss, George W. Bush, endorsed the Russian reactor deal with Iran in 2007

Russia's nuclear agency said Friday that it will load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week, defying U.S. calls to hold off the start of the launch.

Heavy War Chatter Coming to America By Tommy Tucci Philadelphia, PA, August 2010……  For the fearful and the Naive Global Citizenry Heavy War Chatter Coming to...

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.

Crazy instead of empire looks likely. Today, there is a new US President, more Iranian centrifuges, and a different Israeli Prime Minister - and Bibi Netanyahu seems closer to a Curtis LeMay, John Bolton or Frank Gaffney than he does to the more containment-oriented Eisenhowers and George Kennans who in their day forged a global equilibrium out of superpower rivalry and hatred.

RUSSIA TV VIDEO ACCUSES U.S. OF TREATY VIOLATIONS, "DOUBLE STANDARD" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In an interview yesterday in Russia, defense analyst Vladimir Kozin...

- Neocons are supporting an Israeli attack on Iran in the hope that the U.S. would be drawn into the ensuing conflict.  "If the Israelis...

By Nil Nikandrov - in http://en.fondsk.ru/  The Colombian government voiced a new round of allegations that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is secretly supporting the FARC...

- Labour has accused Prime Minister David Cameron of committing a gaffe by mistakenly claiming Iran has a nuclear weapon; Cameron is being played...

ISRAEL TO USE IRANIAN AND PAKISTANI DUPES IN DIRTY NUKE PLOY    ... by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   This week, the last piece fell into place. ...

- The idea of waging a U.S. war of destruction against Iran is obvious lunacy, which is why U.S. military leaders have strongly resisted...

I had never heard of "Boston Brakes" until two days ago. I had been on the Kevin Barrett radio show yesterday, discussing, among other things, the endless ways to gain control of an aircraft and plow it into a building, something I had been briefed on by my Air Force buddies.

How can you go into your neighbor’s home and kill his family, then call him the aggressor? And now they’re talking about invading Iran! It’s all about racism and greed. Think about it-- as bad as the Germans and Russians treated the Jews over the years, you’d think the Jews would have been given part of one of those countries. If they’d done that, European Jews wouldn’t have even had to leave home. But White folks don’t play that - no matter how much they hate each other.

OUR UNREPORTED "COLD WAR" WITH ISRAEL  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor 9/11 was like Pearl Harbor to America, uniting many, awakening bitter skepticism in a few. ...

For the last decade, America has been shuffling its entire military, including hundreds of thousands of private contractors, in and out of the Middle East on little more than a "snipe hunt." Time for a reality check. Iraq never attacked the US. Reports say Al Qaeda may have fewer than 30 men in Afghanistan.

THE HUNT FOR THE MISSING NUKES AND THOSE THAT COVERED IT UP   By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor     There are nuclear weapons out there, maybe in...

A sitting with Mashallah Shakri: The Ambassador of Iran  By Raja G Mujtaba Correspondent/Editor VT and Opinion-Maker  On Monday, I was given the time to be...

Turkey is the Key By Israel Shamir Bombs go off in Turkey, a great spree of terrorist bombings and attacks. Practically every day Turkish soldiers and...

CAN ANYONE PROVE KARZAI IS BETTER THAN THE TALIBAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Do we actually call what we are doing in Afghanistan a...

IS DISSOLUTION, DISMEMBERMENT AND DELEGITIMACY INEVITABLE FOR AMERICA? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor To millions of Americans, the "end times" seem to be on us.  The...

ANALYZING STAGED WORLD CONFLICT   By Gordon Duff    "If those papers have to be produced over the nukes that later got lost in Oman, and on the...

Certainty of violence. That's the future in the region. The question is how deadly. Is Iran's aid ship to Gaza this coming week the moment of...

LONDON TIMES STORY OUTLINING NUKE ATTACK ON IRAN CITED AS ISRAELI DECEPTION TO MANIPULATE U.S. STOCK MARKET By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The London Times reported...

Via CounterPunch Extending Hands or Clenching Fists? By ESAM AL-AMIN On April 12, 2010, President Barack Obama hosted a forty-seven nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. He...

Israel has become a "strategic liability" for the U.S., suggests Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cordesman adds the attack on the Turkish ship to a series of "major strategic blunders," by Israel. [Cordesman and CSIS are impeccably "hyper-centrist," so this is a good sign - JFP.

Press TV reports today that two Iranian aid ships carrying humanitarian relief and medical supplies for the people of Gaza have departed from Iran. The nation’s Red Crescent announced Monday the cargo includes food, medicine and appliances and will be accompanied by a group of Iranian doctors and relief workers.

Nine high-profile experts, including former weapons inspector David Kay and former Under Secretary of State Tom Pickering, said world powers should seriously consider the Iran nuclear fuel swap, Reuters reports. "We urge the so-called Vienna Group (Russia, France, the United States, and the IAEA) to seriously pursue this proposal as an opening for further diplomatic engagement with Iran on outstanding issues of concern," the experts said.

For a national population to stay even, women must average 2.1 to 2.3 births apiece.

THE ART OF KEEPING AMERICA AT RISK FOR FUN AND PROFIT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER, Senior Editor This week, newspapers around the world received reports...

Brazil says the US and other Western powers prodded Brazil to try to revive the U.N. fuel swap deal proposed last October. "We were encouraged directly or indirectly ... to implement the October proposal...and that's what we did," said Foreign Minister Amorim. In a letter to Brazilian President Lula two weeks ago, President Obama said an Iranian uranium shipment abroad would generate confidence. "From our point of view, a decision by Iran to send 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium abroad, would generate confidence and reduce regional tensions by cutting Iran's stockpile," Obama said.

The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, of Oakville, Ontario, and U.S. Colonel John McHugh, 46, of W. Caldwell, New Jersey. It also claimed the lives of Lieutenant Colonels Paul Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, Wis., and Thomas Belkofer, 44, of Perrysburg, Ohio. Other fatalities were Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., and Specialist Joshua Tomlinson, 24, of Dubberly, La.