Five officials have the history, contacts and access to secret negotiations that make them prime candidates for spying for Israel… Wendy Sherman fits all the criteria… By James Petras Introduction The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (3/25/15) headlined: ‘Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks with the US”. The article goes on to detail the way in […]
At a time when President Obama is under political pressure from congressional Republicans over negotiations to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, a startling paradox has emerged: *Mr. Obama is becoming increasingly dependent on Iranian fighters as he tries to contain the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria without committing American ground troops. By […]
The day of the speech, Capitol Hill was all but taken over by pro-Israel activists. Members of Netanyahu’s delegation mixed with Jewish leaders and with donors to pro-Israel groups who were invited to hear his talk as honored guests. Busloads of American Israel Public Affairs Committee members, fresh off their annual policy conference, also spilled […]
NY Times – In the address on Tuesday to the United States Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, we witnessed a new peak in the long-running hype over Iran’s nuclear energy program. Yet all his predictions about how close Iran was to acquiring a nuclear bomb have proved baseless. Despite that, alarmist rhetoric […]
Indo-Asian News Service, Saeed Naqv – West Asia becomes more mysterious by the minute. Who is fighting whom on whose behalf? The lines were always blurred. Now they are more so. Iraq’s army has just shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons to the ISIS in Al Anbar province. How do we […]
1. Iran does not have a nuclear bomb and is signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 2. Iran has not launched an aggressive war since 1775 3. Modern Iran has not occupied the territory of its neighbors. 4. All the people ruled over by Iran can vote in national elections and even Iranian Jews have […]
JTA (Reuters) As the United States and other powers negotiate down to the wire on a nuclear deal with Iran, one voice has been unusually quiet – the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Israel deeply distrusts the attempt to reach a deal at talks in Vienna that would lift harsh international sanctions on Iran in […]
By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Washington’s unwillingness to use diplomacy to resolve international conflicts has proven remarkably consistent over the past 13 years. Even chalking it up to ineptitude would let the Bush and Obama administrations off the hook for what are apparently more systemic failures. I am referring to an inability to […]
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By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com – I am going to explain why Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s meticulously documented account tells the tale of how the government […]
By Richard Silverstein. Tikun Olam, 2/26/14 – Today, I spoke to the Seattle Metropolitan Democratic Club with Dick Blakney about U.S. policy toward Iran. My talk dealt with the latest developments in the Israel Lobby’s attempt to sabotage the administration’s diplomatic initiative to resolve the nuclear impasse. I also took the advantage to speak in broader historical […]
