Iran
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Video: US Iran Policy Can't Abide an Independent Middle East State
Hillary Mann-Leverett and Flynt Leverett: American policy based on hegemony in the Middle East – a major regional player not within the US system of supported states is a target Continue reading
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Military Escalation? Sapping Assad’s Strength. Israel “Stirs the Pot” in Syria By Jonathon Cook
In recent weeks…Israel has moved from relative inaction to a deepening involvement in Syrian affairs. It launched two air strikes on Syrian positions last month, and at the same time fomented claims that Damascus had used chemical weapons, in what looked suspiciously like an attempt to corner Washington into direct intervention. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 June 2013
16 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterReport: “Detainee Abu Hamdiyya Died Of Advanced Stage Of Carcinoma”IMEMC – Sunday [June 16] Head of the Palestinian Forensics Center, Dr. Saber Al-‘Aloul, stated that the final findings of the forensic report regarding the cause of death of detainee Maisara Abu Hamdiyya, revealed that he suffered from… Continue reading
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ICH 16 June 2013: NSA Copies All Internet Data, Creates Dossiers on Every User
16 June 2013 — Information Clearing House US Sarin Gas Claims Pat Buchanan: This Has Tonkin Gulf Written All Over It 1 Minute Video “We are getting ourselves into a conflict, Iran, Russia, Hezbollah on one side and us, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on the other side. It is Insane!” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35300.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 June 2013
15 June 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News PA official: Settlers burn 300 olive trees near Nablus6/15/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of settlers set fire to over 300 olive trees on Saturday in a Nablus village, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activities, told Ma’an that settlers… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 June 2013
13 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterZahalka: “Government, Police, Responsible For Escalating Settler Violence”IMEMC – [Wednesday June 13] Arab Member of Israeli Knesset (MK) Jamal Zahalka of the National Democratic Assembly sent an urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonovich, demanding him to act on stopping the escalating “Price… Continue reading
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US-backed “rebels” carry out sectarian massacre in Syria By Bill Van Auken
At least 60 people, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in a massacre of Shia Muslims by US-backed “rebels” in eastern Syria Tuesday. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 June 2013
12 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center165 “Price Tag” Attacks Carried Out This YearIMEMC – The Israeli Police revealed Wednesday [June 12 2013] that Israeli settlers carried out 165 Price Tag attacks against the Palestinians and their property, in the West Bank, and in the 1948 territories since the beginning of this year.… Continue reading
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America’s Economic War on the People of Iran: Obama Signs Executive Order Targeting Iran’s Currency and Auto Industry By Timothy Alexander Guzman
The Obama administration’s new sanctions not only targets Iran’s government, it targets the Iranian people. It affects their everyday lives and their basic living essentials that include food and medicine. Targeting Iran’s currency adds pressure to food prices such as chicken, meat and cooking oil that already have increased to more than 60 percent in… Continue reading
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U.S. Successful With Cyber Defense Protection Racket
Based on such scaremongering the U.S. will now – generously – sell software, hardware and training to Gulf monarchies to protect from Iranian “threats” that likely do not exist at all. Those countries will have to pay hundreds of millions dollars for those “services” to “defend” against “threats” that mysteriously came up from unknown sources… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 June 2013: Iran / Gold / Afghanistan-Pakistan / India-Nukes / Brics / Finland / Russia
8 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Hydropolitics Propel Balkanization 08.06.2013 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN Wherever there are reports of melting glaciers and a future of diminished water resources, there is an increasing Balkanization of nation-states. Those who manipulate world events for maximum profit understand that it is much easier to control water resources if… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #117 By William Blum: What our presidents tell our young people
4 June, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report What our presidents tell our young people In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 June 2013: Bedouin forced to live beside garbage dump contract unknown diseases
3 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Illegally Confiscates 370 Dunams Near NablusIMEMC – Monday June 3 2013, the Israeli government announced Monday it decision to illegally confiscate 370 Dunams (91.42 Acres) of Palestinian lands, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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ICH 3 June 2013: 1 in 6 Going Hungry in U.S: New Report
3 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Who Benefits If The Killing In Syria Goes On? By Patrick Cockburn This is a cynical but probably correct explanation for why the US, Britain, France and the Sunni monarchies do not want the war to end. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35163.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 June 2013: Data shows that Palestinians now own just 8 per cent of historic Palestine
2 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy To Demolish Two Homes In SilwanIMEMC – Sunday June 2 2013, Israeli soldiers and workers of the Jerusalem City Council, invaded Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and delivered warrants against two homes. … Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 31 May 2013: ’Superland’ and the normalization of segregation in Israel
31 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Seriously Injured In BethlehemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources has reported that a Palestinian child was seriously injured by Israeli army fire, late on Friday evening, at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 30 May 2013: Israel To Build 1000 Units For Settlers In East Jerusalem
30 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center29 Palestinians Kidnapped In JerusalemIMEMC – Thursday at dawn, May 30 2012, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the As-Sa’diyya neighborhood, in the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem, and the nearby towns of Al-Ezariyya and Abu Dis, broke into and searched Palestinian homes, and kidnapped 29 residents,… Continue reading
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Israel is Fighting a Regional War in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The entry of Israeli troops and the Mossad security service into Syria with repeated Israeli air strikes via illegal use of Lebanese airspace on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel has also admitted that “intense intelligence activity” is being maintained in Syria by Israeli… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 May 2013
29 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterExtremist Settlers Burnt Olive Trees, Farmlands, Near QalqiliaIMEMC – A group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, on Wednesday evening, several Palestinian olive trees and farmlands planted with wheat, in an area located between the villages of Far’ata and Jeet, east of the northern West Bank of… Continue reading
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