Chuck Spinney: US versus Iran on Uranium-Lack of Integrity

Spinning Iran’s centrifuges By Yousaf Butt, Asia Times, Aug 16, 2011 Yousaf Butt is a nuclear physicist and is currently serving as a scientific consultant to the Federation of American Scientists on global security issues. Previously, he was a fellow on the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the US National Academy of …

Marcus Aurelius: Israel Plots to Cripple Iranian Cyber

(1) Wish the Israelis every success, but their chances are likely decreased thanks to leaks; (2) Wonder if GEN Alexander of USCYBERCOM will seek to re-negotiate his deal IOT report directly to POTUS? Israeli Military Reportedly Plotting to Cripple Iran in Cyberspace Published August 07, 2011 EXTRACT: “Israel has two principal targets in Iran’s cyberspace,” …

Chuck Spinney: Demonizing Iran, Bankrupting America

Making an Enemy of Iran By Patrick Seale Agence Global, 2 August 2011 It is now widely accepted – and lamented — that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel’s friends in the U.S. — …

Joint US-Russia Assessment Nuclear Terrorism

“First Joint U.S.-Russia Assessment of Nuclear Terror Threat” Study Warns of Multiple Dangers, Calls for Urgent Action June 6, 2011 Belfer Center Programs or Projects: The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Phi Beta Iota: This is a good initiative, something we should have been doing for decades.  However, it does not go far enough.  …

Crazy, Maybe True: US/Israel Role in Japan Disaster — State Eco-Terrorism, Nuclear or HAARP Trigger, Supplementary “Camera Bombs” from Israeli Security Company — Germany Being Blackmailed Also?

Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an interregnum, between “rule by secrecy” and lies from power as the norm, and a very ugly baby Web 4.0 in which bottom-up truth struggles to emerge.  We will have a great deal of baby poop to deal with, but over time, public intelligence in the public interest …