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ABC's Iran Propaganda

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FAIR - Feb. 02 (News Analysis) - The January 31 ABC World News broadcast featured a blatantly propagandistic report on the supposed threat from Iran.

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6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Les Leopold - Feb. 01 (News Analysis) - Capitalism is coming apart at the seams and the middle-class is paying the price.

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Sanctions take toll on ordinary Iranians - CNN.com

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Moni Basu - Jan. 23 (News Report) - The lives of ordinary Iranians have been deeply touched in recent weeks by the Western sanctions.

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Stop the Madness

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Rebuttal - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - This isn't the first time that hawks have raised the alarm about Iran's nuclear program, claiming that the sky is falling. Breathless, hypothetical timelines to an Iranian bomb have continued almost unabated since the time of the shah.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Neocons Dream Up Scary Iran Scenarios

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Paul R. Pillar - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - As American neocons continue to walk the United States toward another war in the Middle East, this time with Iran, they have been laboring to come up with rationales, including alarmist scenarios of what a nuclear-armed Iran might do geopolitically, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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What's Happening in the Persian Gulf Explained

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein, Hamed Aleaziz - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - The basics: Iran and the United States appear to be heading for a showdown in the Persian Gulf. Amid already-high tensions over Iran's advancing nuclear program, the US has imposed harsh new economic sanctions on the regime in Tehran and begun to move se

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Rick Santorum: I Would Bomb Iran

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 01 (News Report) - Republican Rick Santorum says that if he's elected president, he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities unless they were opened for international arms inspectors....

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Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern, Elizabeth Murray - Dec. 31 (News Analysis) - President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf. If we were still on active duty at the CIA, this is what we would tell him:

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U.S. Navy: Hormuz disruption won't be tolerated

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The U.S. Navy said any attempts to block the Strait of Hormuz would "not be tolerated," after Iranian officials threatened to choke off the key oil supply route. Iran's navy chief warned Wednesday that his country can easily close the strategic strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a sixth of the world's oil flows.

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At War Blog: What Iraqis Think of the American Withdrawal: Mosul and Basra

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Stephen Farrell, Baghdad Bureau - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - At opposite ends of the country, Basra and Mosul are Iraq's second- and third-largest cities, but with two very distinct populations.

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Ron Paul: 9/11 Prompted "Glee" in Bush Administration

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Brian Montopoli - Dec. 10 (News Report) - epublican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq. "Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq," the Texas Republican told a group of mostly young backers in Iowa. He went on to suggest officials are now setting the stage for an invasion of Iran.

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Prepping Americans for an Iran War

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By William Blum - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - There’s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D — Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model.. But the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste.

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U.S. Senate Passes Iran Oil Sanctions as EU Blacklist Grows

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:51:00 -0800

Business Week - Dec. 02 - (Updates with oil settlement prices in 11th paragraph.) Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate took aim at the Iranian central bank in an effort to choke off oil exports, while the European Union stopped short of targeting crude as it tightened sanctions

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EU adds more sanctions against Iran

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:54:00 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 01 - Europe stepped up economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran today, in a move Foreign Secretary William Hague said was not prompted by the attack on the UK embassy in Tehran. At talks with fellow EU foreign ministers Mr Hague welcomed what he describ

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Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - Nov. 30 (News) - An explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan on Monday, resonating in several parts of the city, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. It is not clear what caused the blast, which has not been officially confirmed by the authorities. A large uranium conversion plant, located some five kilometers from the center of Isfahan, processes uranium chemically to adapt it to the enrichment process with centrifuges carried out in other sites like Natanz.

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Fact checking the South Carolina debate

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 14 (Fact Check) - The GOP candidates met for a debate Saturday night sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, with a specific focus on foreign policy and national security. In foreign policy, there is often no right or wrong answer; the results of a policy are often ambiguous and its effectiveness is usually only determined by history. Still, there were a number of statements made by the candidates that were factually challenged, exaggerated or lacking context. Read full article ...

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Obama rebukes 2012 rivals (Politico)

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown,Jennifer Epstein - Nov. 14 - Politico - Obama dipped briefly into the Republican presidential nominating contest Sunday.

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Fact-check: South Carolina Debate

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley - Nov. 13 (Fact Check) - We found several exaggerations and misstatements in the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Romney issued a hollow threat to take China’s currency manipulation to a world body that doesn’t actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation’s economic output than it really does. … More >>

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Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead - The Guardian

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 08 - Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead The Guardian The UN's nuclear watchdog will publish new details on Wednesday on alleged Iranian work on an advanced design for a nuclear warhead developed with the help of a former Soviet scientist, according to nuclear experts. The report by the International ... Iran ready and able to build a nuclear bomb, UN watchdog warns the world Telegraph.co.uk Iran is on the threshold of gaining nuclear capability Economic Times Ahmadinejad warns against attack on Iran in lead up to nuclear report National Post eTaiwan News ABC News all 2,533 news ...

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US Is Planning Buildup in Gulf After Iraq Exit - New York Times

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:54:19 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 29 - New York TimesUS Is Planning Buildup in Gulf After Iraq ExitNew York TimesThe Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait ...and more »

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Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Oct. 13 (News Analysis) - Before Ignatius’s article, I had seen no one allude to the fact that much about this crime-stopper tale had come from the CIA. In public, the FBI had taken the lead role, presumably because the key informant inside a Mexican drug cartel worked for U.S. law enforcement via the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Alleged Iran plot may have violated U.N. treaty

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jeremy Pelofsky - Oct. 13 (News Analysis) - An alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States may have violated a U.N. treaty protecting diplomats and could escalate the crisis to an international court.

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Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - Oct. 03 (News) - In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

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