This story isn’t old news and remains key to understanding any possible military strike against Iran: Former UK diplomat Carne Ross claimed that the [British] Government ”intentionally and substantially” exaggerated its assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in public documents. ”Most of the unanswered questions derived from discrepancies in Iraq’s accounting for its…
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Neo-cons re-group under a new name
Neo-conservatism isn’t dead and buried. It’s forming groups with the name of The Emergency Committee for Israel. And urging war with Iran.
Civilised nations don’t stone people to death
The mindset at the heart of Iran is one of deep concern. There’s no doubt about the brutality of the leading mullahs: Iran’s hard-line government holds fast to the belief that relenting under international pressure is a great blunder because, ultimately, it just invites more pressure. But, apparently, there are exceptions to the rule. In…
Tehran’s mullahs need to learn to enjoy skin and hair
Why are so many male leaders in Iran afraid of female flesh?
This is how to cut your hair and be a good Muslim
Absurd: Iran has unveiled haircuts that according to officials are in line with Iranian and Islamic principles. The new haircut models approved by Iran’s Culture Ministry are aimed at preventing haircuts deemed “Western” among Iranian youth. Barbers and men with haircuts considered “Western” and fashionable have been warned in recent years.
We invade and occupy Iraq and now it’s a petrol station for us all
What we gave Iraq. One: The former chief executive of a British chemical company faces the prospect of extradition to the US after the firm admitted million-dollar bribes to officials to sell toxic fuel additives to Iraq. Paul Jennings, until last year chief executive of the Octel chemical works near Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, and his…
The Green Movement doesn’t need help from the Zionist lobby
Beware hardline Zionists backing an Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin.
Israeli hack talks of Iranian armageddon
What’s the role of the corporate media? To provide a space for Zionist propagandists to spread lies about the “threats” in the region: In an interview in his office Tuesday, Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned that Iran might unleash a wave of terrorist violence in the Middle East in retaliation for the tough…
Can somebody tell them that slamming Islam isn’t great for Zionist spin
Remember Latma, the Zionist outfit in Israel run by the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick? You know the ones. Hating Arabs and Palestinians in particular. Doing wonders for Israeli PR. They’re back with another tasteful affair:
Chomsky on the invisible Iranian nuclear ghost
Noam Chomsky on a nation that threatens something other than Israel: Such harrowing pronouncements aside, what exactly is the Iranian threat? An authoritative answer is provided in the April 2010 study of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Military Balance 2010. The brutal clerical regime is doubtless a threat to its own people, though it…