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Chuck Spinney: Israel Still Angling for Attacks on Syria and Iran

The author is one of the best journalists in the Middle East. Israel Still Angling for Attacks on Syria and Iran Jonathan Cook Counterpunch:, 2013-09-18 Nazareth. President Barack Obama may have drawn his seemingly regretted “red line” around Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was neither he nor the international community that turned the spotlight on …

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Marcus Aurelius: Iranian Outreach to Latin American Youth

(1) Anybody else think this sounds like Sovs’ Patrice Lumumba University of another decade?; (2) totally unsurprising; to use WWII terminology, development of an Iranian “fifth column” in Latin America, an organization that has the capability to fulfill roles similar to the “underground” and “auxiliary” in a doctrinal US-sponsored insurgency; (3) might also be unsurprising to find Iran …

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Chuck Spinney: White House Blows Iran — Again….

The Washington Jerkocracy Strikes Again by Rami G. Khouri Agence-Global, 07 Aug 2013 Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. You can follow him @ramikhouri.   BEIRUT — I would love …

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Berto Jongman: US Attacking Iran and China — While Living in a Glass House

Silent War On the hidden battlefields of history’s first known cyber-war, the casualties are piling up. In the U.S., many banks have been hit, and the telecommunications industry seriously damaged, likely in retaliation for several major attacks on Iran. Washington and Tehran are ramping up their cyber-arsenals, built on a black-market digital arms bazaar, enmeshing …

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4th Media: DPRK’s (North Korean) Nuclear “Electro Magnetic Pulse” [EMP] Bomb Could Be An Equalizer

I strongly agree with [former US CIA Director] R. James Woolsey and [a former CIA analyst and Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an Advisory Board to Congress] Dr. Peter Vincent Pry that the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat to the U.S. demands our strongest attention (“How North Korea Could Cripple the …

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Chuck Spinney: Wanna Bomb Iran?: No Worries — Think Fukushima X 10 — Good-Bye Dubai, End of Gulf States — With Compelling Graphics

It is a brutal fact that no country benefited more from war during in the 2oth Century than the United States. World War I enriched and invigorated the US economy, and the self destruction of the 19th Century European state system left the US as the world’s mightiest industrial power.  World War II ended the …

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SmartPlanet: Russia Will Build and Operate Nuclear Reactors for Emerging Countries….

Russia to emerging countries: We’ll build, operate your nuclear reactors Do you run a developing country where you’d like to build and operate nuclear reactors, but you just don’t have the expertise or the money? Then you could turn to Russia for an all-in-one 60-year bargain. State nuclear power company Rosatom “is offering a special …

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