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Latest Articles: WORLD WAR III
Moscow to Block Any Bid for Force Against Iran - Lavrov
Post Date: 2012-10-23 18:00:12 by Brian S
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Russia will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution that could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. “As the Libyan experience has shown, sadly, a military scenario is possible,” he said in an interview with the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta when asked whether Israel or the United States could start military operations in Iran. Russia will therefore exercise an extremely cautious approach at the UN Security Council. “We won’t allow any more such disingenuous interpretations. We will see to it that no resolution is open to interpretation like the one on Libya,” he said. The West, led by the ...
Buchanan: Negotiations — Or War With Iran?
Post Date: 2012-10-23 16:58:50 by Brian S
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“It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven’t had such discussions,” said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program. Sen. Lindsey Graham dissented Sunday: “I think the time for talking is over. … We talk, they enrich. It needs to stop. We need to have red lines coordinated with Israel and end this before it gets out of hand.” Clearly, Graham believes an ultimatum, followed by an attack if Iran denies us “access to their nuclear program,” is the way to “end this.” What kind of attack? According to David ...
Rise of The Obamney Zombie: The End of The Era of American Leadership?
Post Date: 2012-10-23 09:44:41 by Hondo68
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Obama and Romney are salesmen of a lost empire, upholders of bankrupt myths, zombies of an American apocalypse, and faces of a dying civilization. "That era of American dominance is drawing to a close as the country's relative power declines, along with its ability to manage global economics and security. This does not mean the United States will go the way of Great Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. As Harvard's Stephen Walt wrote in this magazine last year, it is more accurate to say the "American Era" is nearing its end. For now, and for some time to come, the United States will remain primus inter pares--the strongest of the major world ...
Putin Flexes Muscle In Big Test Of Russia's Nuclear Arsenal
Post Date: 2012-10-21 13:17:27 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin took a leading role in the latest tests of Russia's strategic nuclear arsenal, the most comprehensive since the 1991 Soviet collapse, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The exercises, held mostly on Friday, featured prominently in news reports on state television which seemed aimed to show Russians and the world that Putin is the hands-on chief of a resurgent power. Tests involving command systems and all three components of the nuclear "triad" - land and sea-launched long-range nuclear missiles and strategic bombers - were conducted "under the personal leadership of Vladimir Putin", the Kremlin said. An RS-12M Topol ...
Lindsey Graham On Iran: ‘The Time For Talking Is Over’
Post Date: 2012-10-21 13:12:29 by Brian S
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama’s administration for agreeing to discussions with Iran about the county’s nuclear program because ‘the time for talking is over.” The New York Times reported on Sunday that Obama administration officials had said the White House had agreed in principle to one-on-one meetings with Iran, a result of efforts to pressure Tehran that began soon after Obama took office. “The Iranians are trying to take advantage of our election cycle to continue to talk,” Graham told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday. “As we talk with the Iranians, whether it’s bilaterally or unilaterally, the vice ...
Final Presidential Debate Is Key For Campaigns & Boca Raton (FL)
Post Date: 2012-10-17 19:20:37 by Hondo68
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Lynn University in Boca Raton hosts the final presidential debate on Oct. 22, 2012. (Source: CBS4) BOCA RATON (CBSMiami) — Monday’s third and final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton could play a pivotal role in the outcome of the race for the White House but the debate is also playing a pivotal role for the town of Boca Raton. Boca Raton is a largely wealthy town where the sun winks down through palms on oceanfront mansions, and period lamps line streets strewn with high-end shops. Singers Natalie Cole and Dion both live in Boca, along with tennis legend Chrissy Evert. So what kind of important political history does Boca have? Not much until now. “This is ...
Top Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Dan Senor Doesn’t Dispute Validity Of Iran Attack Warnings
Post Date: 2012-10-17 18:20:12 by Brian S
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The Romney campaign’s lead foreign policy adviser Dan Senor in an interview that aired on NPR this morning did not dispute the validity of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s warnings about a military attack on Iran. During the interview, Senor, as he has previously, criticized the Obama administration for publicly discussing the potential consequences of an attack on Iran. Pointing to a recent speech Panetta gave delivering those warnings, Senor claimed that such discussion by the administration leads Iran and U.S. allies to think that “we are absolutely not serious, that the credibility of the threat [of military action against Iran] is not there.” But when pressed about ...
Codename 'Murky Water': Iran's Secret Plan to Contaminate the Strait of Hormuz
Post Date: 2012-10-15 16:55:04 by Brian S
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If there is a man who brings together all the fears of the West, it is General Mohammed Ali Jafari, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. OAS_RICH('Middle2'); Hardened by torture in the prisons of the former Shah, Jafari was among the students who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. He later fought in the Iran-Iraq War, and in 2007 Jafari, who has a degree in architecture, assumed command of the Revolutionary Guards, also known as the Pasdaran. The group, founded by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei to defend the Islamic regime, has since developed into a state within the state. Today the Pasdaran control several companies and are ...
Syria Has Shut Down Its Airspace To All Turkish Aircraft (hajj detour for Hillary's Muslim Brotherhood)
Post Date: 2012-10-14 13:01:29 by Hondo68
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AFPAt least 181 people died In violence in Syria yesterday, says a watchdog Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus last week. The reprisal, just weeks before the annual hajj when thousands of Turkish pilgrims head to the Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia on a route that would normally take them through Syrian airspace, came despite a flurry of diplomacy on Saturday intended to calm soaring tensions between the neighbours. Syria accuses Turkey of channeling arms from Gulf Arab states to rebels fighting its troops, who have been under ...
Syria Plane Carried Radar Parts, Not Weapons - Russia
Post Date: 2012-10-12 11:52:10 by Brian S
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Russia says the Syria-bound plane intercepted by Turkey amid reports it was carrying cargo which could aid government war efforts was transporting a legal shipment of radar equipment. "There were no weapons on the plane," said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. His comments followed heated exchanges between Turkey and Syria over the exact nature of the items confiscated. Turkey's PM earlier said Russian-made defence equipment was found on board - a claim Syria dismissed as a lie. Damascus has challenged the Turks to put the confiscated items on public view, something Ankara has declined to do so far. On the border tensions continued, with Turkey reportedly scrambling fighter ...
Russia Says It Will Not Renew Arms Agreement With U.S.
Post Date: 2012-10-11 11:43:29 by Brian S
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will not renew a decades-old agreement with Washington on dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The death of the 1991 agreement, which had been renewed twice, is the latest in a series of hitches in relations between the United States and Russia and casts doubt on the future of the much-vaunted "reset" in relations between the Cold War-era foes. "The basis of the program is an agreement of 1991 which, by virtue of the time when it was conceived, the way it was worked out and prepared, does not meet very high standards. The agreement doesn't ...
Pat Buchanan Warns ‘The Neocons Are Pushing’ Romney Toward The ‘Freedom Agenda’
Post Date: 2012-10-10 16:59:58 by Brian S
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On Monday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney offered his foreign policy vision in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute. But that speech, according to conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, was a little too close to the “neocon” agenda for comfort. In an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show on Tuesday, Buchanan, the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?,” said Romney ought to distance himself from former President George W. Bush’s hawkish record on foreign policy, which came to define neoconservative ideology. “I’m afraid some of the neocons are pushing [Romney] back toward this same agenda, the ...
Ex-Powell Aide On Romney's Foreign Policy Team: "These People Make Me Sick"
Post Date: 2012-10-10 16:09:17 by Brian S
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Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, skewered Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team on Monday, saying their policies make his stomach turn. Wilkerson took particular aim at John Bolton, former President George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations—and now an adviser to Romney. “The man scares me to death,” Wilkerson, a retired U.S. Army colonel told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz. “He would defeat all the enemies in America and the world—and believe me they’re plentiful—and he’d do it with everyone else’s blood. John is like Dick Cheney, never served a day in his life and wouldn't serve a day ...
Moscow Warns over Use of Force Against Iran
Post Date: 2012-10-10 13:01:52 by Brian S
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday that the use of force against Tehran would spell the end of the negotiating process on Iran’s nuclear program. “Time and again we hear threats that if there is no progress on Iran’s nuclear program only one option will remain - the use of force. We hope that will never happen,” he said. “This is a straight path to undermining the efforts to resolve all outstanding issues.” The most important thing today is to focus on the work of the “five plus one” group, the minister said, adding there was hope for “a way out of the impasse.” Iran's envoy to Moscow Seyyed Mahmoud-Reza ...
Lavrov Says Russia's Ties With NATO Marred By Missile Defense, Other Disputes
Post Date: 2012-10-10 12:59:56 by Brian S
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MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister says a dispute over the U.S.-led missile defense plans and other frictions have strained Moscow's ties with NATO. Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow is continuing to seek guarantees that the planned shield wouldn't pose a threat to Russia's nuclear forces. He said the failure to negotiate a settlement was rooted in Washington's refusal to accept any limitations on the missile shield. The U.S. says the missile defense plan is aimed at fending off an Iranian missile threat, but Moscow has rejected the claim, saying the system may eventually grow powerful enough to threaten Russia's nuclear deterrent. Lavrov said Russia was ...
The Obamney Twins Compete To See Who Can Help The Muslim Brotherhood The Most
Post Date: 2012-10-09 16:59:53 by Brian S
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I've been covering politics since 1975. In all that time I have never seen as clueless a group of people as all of those Americans who still haven't figured out the problem with so-called "neo" conservatism. Lately they've been yammering on about the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Mideast. We've heard that quite a bit in the many criticisms of Barack Obama's foreign policy. Most of those criticisms are well deserved - but only because Obama is following the lead of former neocon-in-chief George W. Bush. Both of what one conservative writer termed "the Obamney Twins" still don't get it. One last time: The central idea of the neocons is ...
U.S. and Israel Planning Joint Attack On Iran (Two hour war - World Peace)
Post Date: 2012-10-09 15:47:12 by Hondo68
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The Jerusalem Post reports today that the United States and Israel are planning a joint military operation to take out Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities. The report appeared in Foreign Policy following a speech by presidential candidate Mitt Romney on foreign policy, including Obama’s stance on Iran. “Iran today has never been closer to a nuclear weapons capability,” Romney said in a foreign policy address delivered at the Virginia Military Institute. “And it has never acted less deterred by America.” CFR member and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, David Rothkopf, reported that the White House and Israeli officials ...
Iraq Sends Crucial Fuel Oil To Syria Triggering Concern In Washington
Post Date: 2012-10-09 12:41:42 by Brian S
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Iraq is quietly shipping vital supplies of fuel oil to Syria in a deal that has triggered concern in Washington and exposes Damascus’s difficulties keeping its economy afloat in the face of a growing civil war and economic sanctions. Nouri al-Maliki’s Baghdad government agreed in June to supply 720,000 tons of fuel oil to Syria in monthly shipments as part of a one-year, renewable supply contract, according to commercial documents seen by the Financial Times. In June and July, Baghdad’s oil ministry delivered two shipments of fuel oil, which is used for power generation, worth US$14m in total, to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Syria paid in cash, the documents ...
What’s the Real Reason Israel Dialed Back the Push for War on Iran?
Post Date: 2012-10-09 12:21:43 by Brian S
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As noted in the news section today, Israeli intelligence is now hyping IAEA findings from back in August that say Iran has on several recent occasions used the 20 percent enriched uranium – the highest it has and the portion of the program which most riled hawks in the West – to manufacture fuel rods for peaceful medical research in possible cancer treatment. Anonymous Israeli officials are telling select members of the press that this information has resulted in an easing of Israel’s timetable for attacking Iran, but this explanation seems disingenuous. The Israeli officials claim that their own intelligence has recently proved compatible with the IAEA’s findings in ...
Iraq Signs $4.2 Billion Arms Deal With Russia, Eyes Rare Agreement On Syria
Post Date: 2012-10-09 11:09:39 by Brian S
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By AFP MOSCOW Iraq has signed contracts in recent months to buy more than $4.2 billion worth of weapons from Russia, according to a document issued on Tuesday at a meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The contracts were signed during visits to Russia by Iraq’s acting defense chief in April, July and August, the document showed. It gave no details about the deals. Media reports speculated that the signing of the arms deal would make Russia Iraq’s biggest supplier after the United States. Russia also eyes a rare agreement over Syria during Maliki's visit. But that contract and talks about new energy tie-ups were ...
NATO Has Plans To Defend Turkey If Needed As U.N. Calls For Unilateral Truce In Syria
Post Date: 2012-10-09 10:54:04 by Brian S
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By Al Arabiya with Agencies The head of NATO said on Tuesday the military alliance had plans in place to defend Turkey against attack if needed, as the United Nations chief urged the Syrian regime to declare an immediate truce. “We have all necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey if necessary,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters before a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers in Brussels, according to Reuters. Following Syrian gunfire and shelling, NATO ambassadors threw their support behind Turkey in an emergency meeting last week. Turkish forces have retaliated against the bombardment from northern Syria, where President Bashar ...
Romney: US Should Be More Assertive On World Stage
Post Date: 2012-10-08 12:46:58 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is proposing the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria, put conditions on aid to Egypt and tighten sanctions on Iran as he looks to use a planned foreign policy address to paint President Barack Obama as a weak leader who has limited America's influence on global affairs. Declaring that "it's time to change course in the Middle East" and accusing Obama of "passivity," Romney plans to call Monday for the U.S. to work with other countries to arm rebels in Syria with weapons that can defeat the "tanks, helicopters and fighter jets" that make up President Bashar Assad's army. Romney ...
On Eve Of Protest, Jordan's King Abdullah Dissolves Parliament
Post Date: 2012-10-04 17:33:32 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- On the eve of a protest expected in Amman Friday, Jordan's king has dissolved the country's parliament and called for early elections close to the new year. This isn't the first time King Abdullah II has responded pre-emptively to a possible Arab Spring-inspired demonstration in the country. But it could foreshadow the seriousness of the rally, which is likely to echo the push for democratic reforms that have swept North Africa and the Middle East. Popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya ousted longtime leaders from power. In nearly two years, King Abdullah has fired four prime ministers. In February 2011, shortly before Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...
Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama (FARS-Iran)
Post Date: 2012-09-30 21:55:22 by Hondo68
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Iran's Fars News Agency posted a story based on The Onion, unaware it is a satirical fake news website. STORY HIGHLIGHTSIran's semi-official Fars News Agency falls for an Onion storyFars even steals the story, portraying it as its ownSatirical paper jokes that poll finds rural white Americans prefer AhmadinejadOnce Fars discovered the farce, it removed the story from its English-language website (CNN) -- Add Iran's news agency to the long list of those hoodwinked by the satire of The Onion. Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency published a story Friday claiming that a Gallup poll found that rural white Americans prefer Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over President ...
Second Zionist 9/11 In The Making For War On Iran: Analyst
Post Date: 2012-09-27 18:26:25 by Brian S
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“Covering up 9/11 is bad enough. But when Zionist front organizations like WINEP openly call for another 9/11-style mass murder of Americans to launch a war against Iran, it is time for the American people to put these organizations out of business,” Kevin Barrett wrote in an article on the Press TV website. Last Friday, Patrick Clawson, WINEP’s Director for Research, suggested that the US should work covertly and through means of force to provoke Iran to take the first shot against the US or Israel. Otherwise, he said, starting a war with Iran will be really hard to accomplish. “I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough,” said Clawson, “And ...
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