Party time in Iran?

has anyone checked the balloons lately? "Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan "A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran." and then Gates trots out his they're killing us in Iraq crock. Not to be outdone, Mullen drops this load... No attacks are imminent and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen has warned Iran...

Did the Israelis Leak New Spy Info to Thwart War?

Over at the American Conservative magazine's blog, Antiwar.com columnist and former CIA officer Philip Giraldi reports that Israeli sources have indicated to him that the recent leak to the FBI about the new-old Israeli spy case came from inside the Israeli government toward the end of thwarting Ehud Olmert, Dick Cheney and the War Party's plans to expand the Middle Eastern slaughter to Iran — and that there are more spies to be revealed... Israeli sources are reporting that the FBI...

Brzezinski: Antiwar poseur

Larry Chin, of Online Journal, flaunts the hollow facade of the neoliberal elite cadre and their complete dependency on the millisecond flashes of long-term memory of their audience. Neoliberal elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the leading architects of the "war on terrorism’ across the Middle East and the Eurasian subcontinent (and whose book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives laid the groundwork for 9/11) has adopted a politically expedient...

The Show: Gareth Porter, David Case

First hour, renowned historian Gareth Porter on warring Shi'ite factions. Dr. Porter is the author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam. Tomorrow, 12:15PM Eastern. At 1:15PM Eastern, David Case will be discussing his recent Mother Jones article, The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem. Case, a freelance journalist, has written for Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. He was formerly the executive director of TomPaine.com. More...

The American false argument and Iran’s demise

The question of whether Iran is pursuing a nuclear program is a false argument. It is being perpetuated by the neo-conservatives around the White House who have wanted to attack Iran for decades. This should not be the question that we are so eagerly debating; there are two questions that must be addressed before this one. The first question has to be: ‘Does the United States have the legal or moral right to determine if Iran, or any other country, has permission to pursue civilian nuclear...