The Mujahedin-e Khalq, better known as MEK, was driven out of Iran, and eventually armed and given a military base by Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Saddam then used the group to carry out terrorist acts inside Iran. The U.S. military and the CIA have in the past recruited MEK agents to enter Iran and report […]
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Israeli and American Differences on Attacking Iran
March 10, 2012What divides President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu on attacking Iran is a question of timing. Obama’s “red line” is the point at which Iran “possesses” a nuclear weapon, which would not arrive for a couple of years even if Iran actually intends to make one. (American and Israeli intelligence services concur […]
Israel offered weapons to delay attacking Iran
March 9, 2012The United States offered Israel advanced weaponry in return for it committing not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities this year, Israeli daily Maariv reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed Western diplomats and intelligence sources, the report said that during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week, the US administration offered to supply Israel with […]
Noam Chomsky on the Iranian Nuclear Threat
February 25, 2012In the States, the “threat of Iran” is generally taken to be the primary threat to world order. [--Whereas in Europe, polls show that Israel is regarded as the leading threat to peace.] Before the massive propaganda campaigns of the past few years, a majority of the population agreed with most of the world that, […]
The US position on Palestine and Israel
February 22, 2012The US position on Palestine and Israel, as explained by Noam Chomsky: [To Washington’s way of thinking] it is understandable that Palestinian rights should be marginalized in U.S. policy and discourse. Palestinians have no wealth or power. They offer virtually nothing to U.S. policy concerns; in fact, they have negative value, as a nuisance that […]
Khader Adnan a Palestinian Gandhi?
February 21, 2012For years prominent corporate media pundits have told us that the world — and the media — would embrace a dramatic, non-violent Palestinian resistance movement. If only such a movement — perhaps led by a Gandhi-like figure — were to finally emerge, we are told, the media coverage will come, and sympathy from across the […]
Jewish push for America to go to war with Iran
February 19, 2012An opinion written by an Orthodox priest, Brother Nathanael Kapner, who in his own words was “raised in an upper middle class B’nai B’rith intensive synagogue”]: What possible threat does Iran pose to Europe and America, I ask you? Not one shred of evidence has yet to be discovered with regard to Iran’s “weapons of […]
Israel and Iran going to war
February 8, 2012From a commentary by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy: If one is to believe the threats that are ramping up at warp speed, Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities before spring. If the assessments are accurate, hundreds or even thousands of Israelis will die in the retaliatory missile attacks that are sure to come. One can […]
Popular Syrian support for President Bashar Assad
February 2, 2012Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. In the last two months Syria has seen a number of terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacked Syrian servicemen and military facilities, law enforcement agencies institutions, blasts on oil pipelines, […]
US War with Iran has begun
January 13, 2012Without much media attention, thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel, and Iranian officials believe that this is the latest and most blatant warning that the US will soon be attacking Tehran. Following are excerpts of an interview with Jim Rickards, who negotiated the release of US hostages from Iran in 1981. Rickards’ […]
