A top US Air Force general has described the biggest conventional warhead – the 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb – as “great” for a military strike on Iran. Such glib comment about a massive killing device…
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The 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…
On March 6, the BBC reported Obama saying Washington won’t intervene in Syria unilaterally. At the same time, he stopped short of ruling out joint Western aggression. In his first 2012 news conference, he said: “The notion that the way to solve every one of these problems is to deploy our military, that hasn’t been true in the past, and it won’t be true now.” “We’ve got to think through what we do through the lens of what’s going to be effective – but also through what’s critical for US security interests.” Since taking office, Obama launched more belligerence than all his predecessors. He’s not shy about initiating more. As a result, his comments ring hollow, especially given his record as a serial liar. Believe nothing he says.
The west wasted trillions in needless conflict with the USSR. Now we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran ‘With the end of the cold war … the west’s craving for a necessary enemy has…
Tehran: A handout picture released by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s official website shows him (R) listening to an expert during a tour of Tehran’s research reactor centre on February 15, 2012. (AFP Photo/Ho) Israel says…
” I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And as I’ve made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when…
Europe will need to pile up its toxic debt (AFP Photo / STR) A relief package for all of Europe would mean vacuuming up all of its toxic debt into one big pile and letting…
US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (L) and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey prepare to testify at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7, 2012 on…
British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey According to Aviation Week, Syria’s “newly improved, long-range surveillance and intelligence-gathering facilities” represent an obstacle to an Israeli attack on Iran. Focussing on the cooperation between Syria…
“These diaries are dedicated to the people of Iraq and to all others who have suffered the crippling effect of sanctions.” (Nuha al-Radi, 1941-2004.) With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle…