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`Time to Attack Iran`?

A Council on Foreign Relations article lacks transparency and impartiality...

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - he council on foreign relations, one of the think tanks seen as a major contributor to the forecasting of the White House foreign policies, has lately published an opinion piece that says “Time to attack Iran”.

In the piece the council downplays the fears of many skeptics who envision the perilous consequences of an attack on Iran tantamount to a WWIII scenario, and therefore refuse to subscribe to a preemptive strike of its nuclear facilities.

The warmongers want another war, and its close

It appears that pro war forces have now realized they cannot produce any smoking nuclear gun, for there is none.

(Jamestown, RI) - The same forces that dragged us into a war with Iraq resulting in over one million deaths are now hard at work desperately trying to immerse the US in yet another catastrophic war.

This time the target is Iran, and tragically they are having great success, for we are getting ever closer to the impending war.

US Spies could be Tracking you on Twitter & Facebook

Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland Security, says privacy group, List of keywords flags ‘danger’ signal, DHS may attempt to identify users from their accounts - Keywords include ‘virus’, ‘drill’ and ‘illegal immigrant’

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for ‘sensitive’ words – and tracking people who use them.

Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS’s ‘watch’ list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group.

Mainstream Media keeps al-Qaeda Myth Alive

“Who’s going to object to referring to the Sunni insurgency in post-war Iraq as yet another attack by al-Qaeda?”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - While surfing the morning news, Most people would indifferently glance at this headline “Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts” but would fail to grasp the real story behind it.

But then, how could they not when the story is presented to them with such a deceiving title to begin with.

Carnage in Baghdad: New fear, new game

To Washington, the loss of political leverage in Iraq is tantamount to the loss of future leadership in the Middle East region.

(TEHRAN) - There is a new fear emerging in Iraq that the country will plunge even more into turmoil and political disequilibrium as the US troops cased in their colors and left behind a country which they helped lay bare to waste and dereliction.

This feeling of angst deepened when a string of 16 bomb explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital on Thursday, the worst in four months, leaving 72 people dead and 217 others fatally wounded.

Catering to Caustic Comments

There's nothing related to America’s national security that would justify indiscriminate bombing of any country because they might someday develop an atomic bomb.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - I've written frequently about unacceptable political behavior-- wars, occupations, deception, hate--the negative things that make the news every day, and some things that never see the light of the media.

Sensitive Documents in Haditha Massacre Found in Baghdad Junkyard

Who need Wikileaks when this is the modus operandi of our own armed forces?

(SALEM) - Sensitive documents detailing the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines at Haditha, Iraq, that happened just over six years ago, were recently discovered in a trailer parked in a Baghdad junkyard, by a New York Times reporter.

Reams of documents were being burned by an Iraqi as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp. In its recent departure from Iraq, U.S. forces apparently failed to destroy some of the most sensitive documents imaginable.

Say Good Bye to the America You Knew, Obama Signed the Defense Bill

It is slightly mellowed, but the rights of Americans have been radically compromised by the new defense bill.

(SALEM) - Critical attention has been focused on the National Defense Authorization Act; a controversial provision allowing for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens.

Obama alluded to being willing to veto the bill, but instead he did the worst possible thing, signing it into law, and as a result we no longer have our civil rights or the ability to challenge our government without fear of this reprisal.

James Morris Discusses Planned U.S. - Israeli War Games

Playing war games with war criminals... a step in the wrong direction for U.S. troops.

(SALEM) - In the video below, Political Analyst and Correspondent James Morris in Los Angeles, talks to Press TV about scheduled U.S.-Israeli war games that will take place in 2012.

The 'war games' are obviously a move designed to raise tension with Iran and prove to the world that the U.S. not only participates in terrible war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan; but that it specifically and openly condones Israel's rampant war crimes, where accountability for crimes is less than zero.

US: Congressional Candidate Turns Himself In for Indefinite Military Detention

The right of people to defend themselves and their land, by any means necessary, against a foreign aggressor, is THE most fundamental human right.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law.

Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me.