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[BlackListed News] Israel Submarines Headed for Persian Gulf: Israel has allegedly deployed a permanent submarine presence in the Persian Gulf to keep an eye on Iran, according to media reports published Sunday. The three German-built submarines are reportedly equipped with nuclear cruise .

[Planet-Iran.com] Web of Shell Companies Veils Trade by Iran's Ships | Planet-Iran.com: Formed mostly after the United States blacklisted Irisl and all of its ships in 2008, as confederates of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs, the corporations often have English names like System Wise and Great Method, which seem to mock American resolve.

[Views On Top News] U.N. council to hit defiant Iran with new sanctions: arms embargo against Tehran and blacklist three entities controlled by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and 15 belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The resolution would also set up a cargo .

[News From Antiwar.com] Israeli Warships Seize the 'Rachel Corrie' -- News from Antiwar.com: When one side is machine gunning down peaceful people involved in an act of non-violent resistance, using frankly bizarre excuses like saying that it might embarrass Israel or that any building supplies are the equivalent of weapons of mass destruction, well, when you see the machine guns firing … at some point, people of conscience will demand that they stop.

[My Catbird Seat] An Exclusive on: Israel's Dr. Strangelove - Uzi Arad | My Catbird Seat: One thing  for sure.  The NYTimes and WashPost and American TV networks are not doing their jobs, there are derelect in not investigating this key person and reporting this seriously important story.   When Netanyahu cancelled his visit to the US last Monday he quietly sent Arad to the White House to coordinate everything on his behalf.  Arad is known to have spent many hours in the White House coordinating with Obama’s top National Security man, General Jim Jones, and key Israeli Lobby operatives including the notorious Dennis Ross who works in tandem with Rahm Emanuel.  Arad’s efforts resulted in the US not condemning the Israelis as nearly everyone else in the world has done, in Obama contacting the Turkish Prime Minister on behalf of Israel, and in the blocking of strong U.N. statements and actions.

[Blog for Peace and Freedom] UN Security Council tightens sanctions on Iran - Blog for Peace ...: The American media continues to stoke up public opinion against Iran. The Washington Post published an analysis of the Security Council resolution on its web site, headlined, “Obama’s efforts on Iran sanctions fall short of expectations,” quoting former Bush administration officials denouncing the decreased support on the Security Council, and pointing out that previous Bush-sponsored resolutions on Iran passed by 15-0 or 14-0 votes.

[FrumForum] Losing the Nuclear Race with Iran | FrumForum: is that the interests of Israel out rank those of the US……..basically there’s nothing we shouldn’t be prepared to do to protect them and no act of Israel’s that we should condemn……this is a ridiculously blinkered and deeply unpatriotic view……the US is a nation of over 300 million with a vast economy that represents about 22 of world GDP and rests on an extremely complex network of relationships with friends, rivals and enemies around the world and what is most important for our national interest is maintaining a proper equilibrium in these relationships……..disturb it and all kinds of diasters ensue as happened during the Bush presidency……the US has a vested interest in middle east peace not least because it’s the world’s major source of energy…….whether Israel is an asset or a liability in that process is a highly debatable proposition……..thus we are going to try to square the circle of protecting an ally to who we are bound by ties of emotion rather than interest but that does not extend to a repeat of the suicidal statecraft we saw practised during the Bush years………there’s very little that can be done to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons (ultimately Obama is as powerless as Bush was in this respect and I even detect from the tenor of Frum’s article that he and his neocon friends accept it’s inevitable ) and the US is certainly not going to start a third major war in the ME or allow Israel to start one to prevent it………..if it’s inevitable the US and Israel need to be thinking about what impact this has on the balance of power in the middle east and what practical steps are required to ensure Israel’s long term security.

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » Iran: Sitting on the semi-comfortable chair of the unit, in the middle of the Persian Gulf, I am staring at the monitor in front of me, checking the drilling parameters. I don’t believe how I can stay calm in such day, “The Bloody Sunday” of Iran.

[Reports | Truthdig] Joe Conason: Israel From 10000 Feet - Truthdig: Throw into this hash a bunch of poorly treated Persians(Ah, who could forget the Shah?), increasingly right wing, neo-con governments in both Isreal and the US, and an anti-globalization and social justice movement and you have the formula for very risky, paranoid, and volatile policy decisions and spasmodic reactions to perceived crises. Israel will continue to up the ante knowing that the US will do nothing(remember ‘67?)while Iran knows that it can get away with a lot more since it too knows that America can’t afford to do anything and Israel’s dminished stock of international good will precludes its pulling any more dumb stunts as it has in the past few years.

[Roman Catholic Imperialist] Fruits Of The Muslim Religion: Dubai Is Hell On Earth: In the mid-18th century, a small village was built here, in the lower Persian Gulf, where people would dive for pearls off the coast. It soon began to accumulate a cosmopolitan population washing up from Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and other Arab countries, all hoping to make their fortune.

[Roger L. Simon] Roger L. Simon » Did Markos Moulitsas sleep through “Lawrence of ...: Markos did far better when the talk came around to Andre Gallaraga’s perfect game. Like Keith Olbermann, he’d probably be better off and cause himself far less embarrassment by just staying away from television and hoping major league baseball will give him a guest blog, like they did with Keith (who’s only partially insane over there, as opposed to his MSNBC program).

[BlackListed News] Yemen - Behind The Al-Qaeda Scenarios A Geopolitical Oil Choke ...: Notably, Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran who advised President Obama on the policy leading to the Afghan troop surge, wrote in his blog of the alleged ties of the Detroit bomber to Yemen, "The attempt to destroy Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day underscores the growing ambition of al Qaeda's Yemen franchise, which has grown from a largely Yemeni agenda to become a player in the global Islamic jihad in the last yearThe weak Yemeni government of President Ali Abdallah Salih, which has never fully controlled the country and now faces a host of growing problems, will need significant American support to defeat AQAP."

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » Bush's Policy of No Dialogue with Syria ...: He believes that by working with Syria on joint policing of the long Syria-Iraq border, lives of his soldiers will be saved. Petraeus's people are convinced that dialogue will help stop foreign fighters from penetrating into Iraq; cooperation will reduce the number of suicide bombers and US dead. 

[FP Passport] Iran: What now? | FP Passport: I am amused about the attempts to conflate Ahmadinejad with the nuclear issue (despite the fact that Iranian presidents don't control the program) all the crocodile tears over democracy in Iran whcih disregards that the same Iranian people also totally support their nuclear program. And no, despite the attempt to link the nucler program to "crazy" Ahmadinejad, Iran's nuclear program pre-dates the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and would be pursued regardless of what government was in power in iran, because it makes economic and strategic sense for the nation and people of Iran.

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