The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Saturday, May 13, 2006

News for 05-12-06

05-12-06 - UN finds highly-enriched uranium traces in Iran: diplomats "They have found particles of HEU (highly enriched uranium) but it is not clear if this is contamination from centrifuges that had been previously found (from imported material) or something new," said one diplomat close to the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), referring to the inspectors.


05-12-06 - US rejects call for talks with Iran


05-12-06 - Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.


05-12-06 - Groups to Bush: Drop Iran-Israel Linkage Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American Jewish Committee in Washington last week ? his most recent address before a Jewish audience ? President Bush talked about America's commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and about his administration's commitment to Israeli security, but he did not link the two, as he has several times in recent months.

But there's no Israeli lobby here that can successfully dictate to the President of the United States the contents of his speech. It's all just one big conspiracy theory. Read the bit about Iran.


05-12-06 - US urges Syria to stop pretending Lebanon is an independent nation US Ambassador John Bolton urged Syria to stop pretending that Lebanon is now an independent country and instead to establish diplomatic ties with Beirut and demarcate their common border.


05-12-06 - Iran leader blasts US "propaganda war"


05-12-06 - US must address Iran security concerns: IAEA "Iran is surrounded by countries that have nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear weapons, Pakistan has nuclear weapons, Israel has nuclear weapons, Iraq has used chemical weapons against them. There is a sense of insecurity," he said.


05-12-06 - Annan presses US to start direct talks with Iran


05-12-06 - Iran Leader Taps Into Anti-West Sentiment among many Muslims, he's fast becoming a model of defiance.


05-12-06 - US lambasted on secret detainees The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has criticised the US for refusing to let it visit secret detainees held in the "war on terror".


05-12-06 - Left and right question NSA spying program The newly disclosed practice, however, does include the telephone records of ordinary Americans. Congress, which has so far acquiesced in skirting FISA, should now force the administration to explain this data-mining. If Congress decides it is worthwhile, it must establish a legal framework for it.



05-12-06 - Spying on Americans and John Bolton


05-12-06 - 'Comrade Wolf' and the mullahs by Patrick J. Buchanan There is no reason to believe Iran wants war with us. If she did want war with America, she could have had it any time in the last 27 years


05-12-06 - More Palestinian refugees from Iraq allowed into Syria, UN agency reports


05-12-06 - House To Pass Legislation To Close PLO Missions in New York and Washington The House of Representatives will pass legislation ordering the closure of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's missions in New York and Washington next week, Congressional sources say. More legislation for Israel by our AIPAC-beholden Congress. Whose interests are being represented here? Ours? Hardly. Moves like this actually damage America's standing in a region where we are already disliked, to say the least. Karen Hughes should resign. For, it's actions such as this that render her job utterly impossible.


05-12-06 - The start of a mini-cold war with Russia


05-12-06 - Administration cites state secrets in bid to derail spy lawsuit As lawmakers demand answers about warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans, the Bush administration says its secretive program's constitutionality cannot be challenged.


05-12-06 - A Revisit to 2003 Suggests That the Dollar Sell-Off May Not Be Over Iran has recently claimed that it has ?joined the club of nuclear countries? and has threatened to attack Israel. Should this conflict ignite, the dollar could suffer not only because of the imminent risk, but also because another war would only exacerbate the rise in oil prices and the already burgeoning budget deficit. US consumers will not be able to stomach $5 gallon gasoline, which may be a reality if there is not a peaceful solution to the Iran crisis soon.



05-12-06 - American Dominatrix : We're scaring the world ? and they hate us for it


05-12-06 - Syria rejects Hamas plot confessions in Jordan


05-12-06 - On immigration, Jews seek out interfaith, interethnic partnerships ?If we want to be active partners with these organizations, we can?t look at issues of paramount importance to these communities and say we don?t see it as a Jewish issue, so we?re going to sit it out,? said Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. ?We?ve got to nurture our common agendas ? then we can get them to engage in our other issues, like Israel.? Supporting illegals so they'll support Israel. How nice.


05-12-06 - Syrian FM Says UN May Hinder Lebanon Ties


05-12-06 - Lawmaker cites AIPAC case critiques Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the opinion articles, by Nat Hentoff of the Washington Times and David Wise of the Los Angeles Times, to underscore his criticism of what he said was the Bush administration?s effort to censor journalists BS. This is the puppeteering by the Israeli lobby at work here, nothing more.

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