Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and Iran sanctions

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Lt. Commander Arthur McCollum’s secret memorandum to FDR on how to provoke a war with Japan. His ‘recommendations for action’ would guarantee Japan’s retaliation, forcing the U.S. into war with Japan, Germany and Italy. The provocations would entail military posturing and an embargo, choking Japan’s supply of raw materials and oil along with freezing their assets. We are commemorating this anniversary by dusting off this game plan and changing the...

Israeli TV report: U.S. won’t allow Israeli attack on Iran

As you may know, the danger to U.S. forces in Iraq should the U.S. and/or Israel bomb Iran is a subject covered many times on Antiwar Radio with experts ranging from Patrick Cockburn to William S. Lind, Scott Ritter, Wayne White, Philip Giraldi and others for the last few years. Well, it looks like this most serious danger was in fact the deal breaker for this White House - or for Robert Gates?. Either way, I'll take it. JERUSALEM, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The United States will not permit Israel to...

Antiwar.com Action Alert

Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week Quick LinksH. Con. Res. 362S. Res. 580NewsletterTake ActionDonateIntroduced less than a month ago, Resolution 362, also known as the Iran War Resolution, could be passed by the House as early as next week. The bill is the chief legislative priority of AIPAC. On its Web site, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ’Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program’ and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill. In the Senate, a sister resolution, Resolution...

Debunking The Iran War Resolution

by August Wagele This week Congress will vote on a resolution (Senate RES. 580, House RES. 362) ramping up the pressure on Iran, bringing us one step closer to attacking them and sending the American economy plummeting into the abyss. These grave threats against Iran are the culmination of 29 years of the American War Party’s resentment at the revolution of 1979 when religious Shi’ites overthrew the brutal American puppet, the Shah Reza Pahlavi. The White House is continually asserting that...

Covert Ops

U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran - report Here's the new Seymor Hersh piece for the New Yorker: [A] lesson was learned in the [speedboat] incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’ he said. Update: Israel: They'll nuke us within a year!...

CBS: Israel Pushing for Iran Strikes

Link. U.S. officials say it comes just as the Israelis are mounting a full court press to get the Bush administration to strike Iran's nuclear complex. CBS consultant Michael Oren says Israel doesn't want to wait for a new administration. "The Israelis have been assured by the Bush administration that the Bush administration will not allow Iran to nuclearize," Oren said. "Israelis are uncertain about what would be the policies of the next administration vis-à-vis Iran." Israel's message is...