US-Israel Rift Undermining Some Long-Standing Taboos
Many American neoconservatives have their political beliefs shaped by allegiance to Israel
March 15, 2010 | Posted in Headlines, Israel/Palestine, New World Order, News, World News | Read More »
Many American neoconservatives have their political beliefs shaped by allegiance to Israel
Let’s just say that the other 95 percent of the world is filled with disobedient ingrates who can only be stopped by stuffing the Pentagon’s maw with money we don’t have
“Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist.
It will simulate the firing of long-range missiles from Israel’s foes Iran, Syria and Lebanon, and towards the end will include a “live” missile interception, the Yediot Aharonot daily said.
f16i~Press TV
With the media brimming with talk of a US go-ahead for an Israeli war on Iran, the Obama administration moves to deny that it has given Israel the “green light” for any such strike.
~Press TV
Nearly a day after the detention of former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney by Israeli forces, Washington has yet to make a reaction.
Israeli Navy detained former US congresswoman and Nobel Prize laureate Cynthia McKinney and twenty other human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel’s territorial waters on Tuesday as they were heading [...]
By Howard Schneider~Washington Post
The storm of protests over the disputed election in Iran may have raised the prospect of a weakened regime, but it has done little to curb Israeli concerns about Iran’s nuclear program or its support for militant groups in the region.
Israeli officials and academics agree with the Obama administration that [...]
~The Daily Star
The Israeli Army stepped up its presence along the border with Lebanon deploying armored tanks and setting up fortifications as it intensified airspace violations in the area, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported Thursday. In “unusual military activity,” the Israeli Army deployed Merkava tanks and soldier carriers, among other armored vehicles, along the [...]
~Press TV
A tribal leader who earlier defected from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and revealed the militants group’s ties with the US and Israel has been shot dead.
The assassination of Qari Zainuddin comes days after he revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the violence-wracked country.
Zainuddin, a 26-year-old rising tribesman who had [...]
By Glenn Greenwald~Salon
I‘m going to leave the debate about whether Iran’s election was “stolen” and the domestic implications within Iran to people who actually know what they’re talking about (which is a very small subset of the class purporting to possess such knowledge). But there is one point I want to make about the vocal and dramatic [...]
~AFP
Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday denounced the deprivations facing Palestinians in Gaza as unique in history, asserting that they are being treated “like animals.”
“Tragically, the international community too often ignores the cries for help and the citizens of Palestine are treated more like animals than like human beings,” he said as he toured [...]
The Role of the US Military-Industrial Complex
By Alexander Frolov~Strategic Culture Foundation
In his last presidential address, US President D. Eisenhower warned his countrymen against the unchecked growth of influence of the political, ideological, economic, financial, and industrial militarily oriented machine which had emerged in the US by that time. To describe it, he coined the term [...]
By Daniel Tencer~Raw Story
Dick Cheney’s attitude towards the Obama administration’s national security policies suggests the former vice president secretly wishes the US was attacked, says Leon Panetta, the U.S. director of central intelligence.
In an interview published in the latest issue of the New Yorker, the head of the CIA expresses frustration at Cheney’s speech last [...]
By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay~Global Research
“We do not want a PAX Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and [...]
By Tim Reid~Times Online
Hillary Clinton refused yesterday to rule out a pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran. It was the first time that a senior member of the Obama Administration had openly discussed such a possibility.
The US Secretary Of State, speaking a few days before elections in Iran that will determine the fate of President [...]
By Daniel Nasaw~London Guardian
Undercover inspectors manage to buy high-grade gear including nuclear triggers and evade export bans.
The US is a virtual supermarket for terrorists and foreign governments seeking high-end military technology, including components that can be used to build nuclear weapons and equip militants fighting US and British troops, the American government has found.
Over [...]
By Jorn Madslien~BBC News
Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) – up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri.
In contrast with civilian aerospace and airlines, the defence industry remains healthy.
“The global financial crisis has yet to have an impact on major arms companies’ revenues, profits [...]
