Shredding the Anti-Iran Propaganda
Facts about Iran

Iran's Nuclear Facilities: The Facts
A short video documenting Iranian nuclear power plant's and Israel's nuclear weapons facility, looking at the propaganda in the run up to war. Please watch, share and learn something.

Flashback - Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to war against Iran - Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran's President Ahmadinejad .

Most Afghan police recruits fail drug testing
When British trainers administered random drugs tests to 25 Afghan police recruits at a base in southern Helmand province, most of them failed.

AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria
UPDATE: The Associated Press has pulled the original article by George Jahn and it is being replaced by a more benign article called “Iran to stop enrichment if given nuclear fuel” by Nasser Karimi. (2/9/2010)

China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.

Moscow says U.S. missile shield aimed at Russia
Russia's top general said on Tuesday that plans for a U.S. missile shield are directed against his country.

Israel urges "crippling" sanctions now against Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for immediate and crippling sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, on the day it began making higher-grade nuclear fuel.

Officer: U.S. missionaries had tried to take other Haitian kids
The American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at taking dozens of other children, a Haitian police officer said.

Israel and the US preparing for Iran Part 1 - The Military Perspective
This year saw an Israeli-US joint exercise “Juniper Cobra 10″ take place off the coast of Israel which involved the IDF and the US Navy 6th Fleet. The purpose of the exercise was to participate in countering simulated attacks by ballistic, medium-range and short-range missiles and rockets by Iran on Israel.

Iran asks UN atomic body to oversee fuel production
Iran on Monday informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an official letter that from Tuesday, it will begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel.

The New York Times' coverage of Israel-Palestine was Biased Before Bureau Chief's Son Joined the IDF
This week the editors of The New York Times's sprang to the defense of Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner following weeks of controversy over his son's service in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Tony Blair dismisses Iraq Inquiry as part of Britain's 'obsession with conspiracy theories'
Tony Blair today launched an extraordinary attack on the Iraq Inquiry - as the chairman warned that he and others could be recalled over 'gaps' in their evidence.

Palin Pushes For War On Iran
Self-confessed bulldog with lipstick and conservative hero Sarah Palin has started her 2012 campaign on a combative note. War with Iran and soon. This comes in the wake of Tehran yet again getting up the West’s noses with regard to their uranium enrichment programme.
(If you loved George W. Bush, you'll love Sara Palin)

Unions vow strike as Greece finalizes deficit plan
Greek unions pledged on Monday to fight austerity measures with a public sector strike this week, the first test of the government's commitment to cut deficits and a ballooning public debt which has shaken the euro.

New sanctions on Iran are only path left: Gates
Iran has rejected Western overtures and the international community has no choice but to move toward imposing new sanctions over its nuclear program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.

Secret Societies Splashed Across Headlines
Here are some of the more notable instances of clandestine quasi-political groups sneaking into current headlines

Iran’s Nuclear Move Prompts New Calls for Sanctions
Officials from the United States, France and Russia called Monday for stronger measures against Tehran after Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency that it would begin enriching its stockpile of uranium for a medical reactor in Tehran as early as Tuesday.

Iran Arrests 7 Linked to US-Funded Radio
Iranian state media say Iran has arrested seven people linked to U.S.-funded Radio Farda and has accused some of working for U.S. spy agencies.

China’s hawks demand cold war on the US
More than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”.

Exploitation of Haitian children increases
Haiti's earthquake has increased the risk of some orphanages being used as providers of child servants and sex slaves, authorities said.

Now MPs at centre of the expenses scandal get £48,000 golden handshakes
Scores of MPs caught up in the Parliamentary expenses scandal will walk away from the Commons with a £30million payday – courtesy of the taxpayer.

S. 3002 Must Be Overhauled or Scrapped
Introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on February 4th as the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010,” S. 3002 is designed, according to the bill preamble, to “more effectively regulate dietary supplements that may pose safety risks unknown to consumers.”

David Price: “The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses”
n the latest edition of CounterPunch magazine, the anthropologist David Price reveals the US intelligence community has established academic outposts at twenty-two US universities over the past four years.

Madison WI. Bus driver highest paid city employee
Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay.

McCain’s Daughter: Tea Party Movement is Racist
According to Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, the Tea Party is chock full of racists.

75% Are Angry At Government’s Current Policies
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 75% of likely voters now say they are at least somewhat angry at the government’s current policies, up four points from late November and up nine points since September.

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren heckled at US college
Eleven people were arrested as Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was repeatedly interrupted while trying to deliver an address at the University of California, Irvine, on Monday night.

Major Cities To Break Seasonal Snow Records
AccuWeather.com is now projecting with our latest Blizzard Forecast that Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Wilmington (DE), Baltimore, Atlantic City and others will break their records for snowiest season in recorded history, after tomorrow's storm.

Local Soldier Allegedly Uses Torture Technique On 4 Year Old Daughter As Punishment For Not Reciting Her 'ABC's', Charged With Assault
A local soldier is facing assault charges for punishing his four year old daughter when she failed to recite her 'ABC's.'

Rep. Mike Pence: Israel should dictate U.S. policy
Pence is literally saying, Israeli officials should tell us what they want us to do, and we'll support it. That's an insane premise, and if you replace "Israel" with any other country, no U.S. politician would accept it.

Washington Push For Mileage Tax on Cars
Within a few years, a driver who pulls up to the gas pump may pay two bills with a single swipe of the credit card: one for the gas and the other for each mile driven since the last fill-up.

Study shows how Medicare rewards MDs for overuse
Medicare's move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.
If the Democratic Party has a stronghold on Wall Street, it is JPMorgan Chase.

New federal climate change agency forming
The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.

Obama Hits Lowest Approval Mark
Independent voters see Pres. Obama in a negative light by a nearly 2-1 margin, according to a new Marist College survey, while almost half of voters say he has failed to meet their expectations.

Saturn’s moon Enceladus could contain life in its icy oceans
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is hiding a large body of water under its surface, new research has confirmed. What is more it could even have the right conditions to host life.

IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!
The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson.

Bishop Hill: Gonzo science and the Hockey Stick
In 2001 the IPCC published its Third Assessment report prominently featuring a graph that became "the logo of global warming". Previous historical reconstructions didn't show our modern warm climate as particularly anomalous. This was very different, and was hailed as a "call to action". Yet Michael Mann's studies were deeply flawed.

Africagate: top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility
A leading British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.

New errors in IPCC climate change report
The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.

The Transfer of Risk from Wall Street to Main Street – How the Bailouts Shifted 3 Gigantic Risks from Wall Street in Housing, Banks, and Jobs to Average
There is a false security in our current economy. The belief that the current banking industry is now healthy simply because the government supports it is misguided in valuing the real risk inherent in back stopping Wall Street.

Fed's Bullard: Housing should be key in reform
The Obama administration and U.S. lawmakers are missing an opportunity to revamp the U.S. housing finance system, which should be central to regulatory reform, a top Federal Reserve official said in an interview on Monday.

Fed to Bare Tightening Plan
Bernanke Prepares Future Strategy for Curbing Credit; Policy Shift Remains Months Off

China Becomes Oil ETF’s No. 4 Holder, Buys SPDR Gold
China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, invested for the first time in the U.S. Oil Fund, an exchange-traded crude-futures fund, joining Morgan Stanley & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group among the top holders.

Unemployment taxes slam businesses
Employers are getting hit with a massive tax hike at a time when they can least afford it.

‘The moment of truth has arrived’
Social Security will run deficits 27 years earlier than projected. Now if the government does anything, it will do it hastily, meaning it only will make matters worse.

No Exit in Sight for U.S. As Fannie, Freddie Flail
When Charles E. Haldeman Jr. became Freddie Mac's chief executive officer in August, the ailing housing-finance giant had already consumed $51 billion of government money to stay afloat. It's likely to need even more.

How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
How should we characterize the economic period we have now entered?

The Indymac Slap in our Face
You won't believe the sweetheart deal that the Indymac boys were given by the FDIC.

Trillion-Dollar Tab Awaits Debtors
Rating agencies warn that companies may struggle to cover an avalanche of debts coming due over the next few years.

$8 Billion Bet Against the Euro
Traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8 billion against the euro, amassing the biggest short position in the euro ever, reports FT.

Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters
While rising government debt is a growing concern in Europe and the United States, Asia’s economies remain remarkably resilient, even buoyant, underscoring how economic might is shifting from West to East.

China's debt bomb
'He who pays the piper calls the tune": That old saying captures perfectly America's growing dependence on our No. 1 creditor in the world, Communist China.

Scariest Chart EVER: Loss Severity, Subprime First-Lien
This chart shows the loss severity for subprime first-lien mortgage loans in the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut).

Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad: Iran faces almost the same dilemma as 1953
There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah.

Canadian Prime Minister Delivers Global Governance Plan
By Dr. Charles McVety
During the January 2010 World Economic Summit in Davos Switzerland Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the current Chairman of the G-20, presented the upcoming agenda for the G-20 and G-8 meetings to be held in Ontario in June. Many were shocked to hear this Conservative leader declare that “we also know markets need governance. For the new global economy, the G-20 is what we have.”

Colbert: ‘Sarah Palin is a f**king retard’ (Video)
Colbert uses Sarah Palin's defense of Rush Limbaugh against her.

The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe
By Patrick J. Buchanan
They are called the PIGS—Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union.

Wars sending U.S. into ruin
By Eric Margolis
Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford

More Spending Is Always the Answer
By Ron Paul
Last week, the House approved another increase in the national debt ceiling. This means the government can borrow $1.9 trillion more to stay afloat and avoid default.

What NOAA Isn’t Saying About Snow and Ice
As reported on WUWT, NOAA is warning of “earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons.” But what NOAA isn’t saying is that snow is falling earlier and heavier in the Northern Hemisphere.

U.S. Losing AAA Is Way to Rein in Pelosi, Reid: David Reilly
When it comes to America’s AAA debt rating, we have to ask whether we would be better off without it.

My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast.

Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark
There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.

Martin Luther King's plan for peace compared with Bush, Obama hypocrisy for endless wars
By Carl Herman
The only trial on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King found the US government guilty of his murder. Corporate media did not headline this news, and history textbooks excise this essential understanding of Dr. King’s life; providing an excellent case study of what the US Senate Church Committee disclosed as an active US propaganda program to disinform the American public.

A New Generation of North American Citizens
By Dana Gabriel
National sovereignty remains one of the last obstacles to the full implementation of a North American Union and global government.

The Dark Brotherhood of the Takers
By J. Speer-Williams
The first step in changing our government begins by changing ourselves; which may begin by fully realizing most republican and democratic mouth-pieces are united in the dark Brotherhood of the Takers.

Postcards from the Empire: The United Police States of America
By Cindy Sheehan
I don’t want this column to be seen as bashing the US. However, there is much to validly criticize about the current model in the US and much to dissent from, also.

NRO's 9/11 'mock' plane crash set for 9:32am, drill included a smoke generator!
If it couldn't get any more coincidental than US spy agencies planning to have a mock plane crash into a govt building on -- of all days -- 9/11, their mock plane crash was to happen at 9:32am*, just 5min before the official time that the Pentagon would be hit (9:37am).

Felony Snowball Tossing Charges Lodged
Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday’s blizzard.

King declares martial law when it snows
Southerners have often been accused of losing our minds when it snows. Well, we’ve got a tale you’re not going to believe. But its true.

Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay-by-the-Mile to Drive on U.S. Roadways
According to an independent British newspaper editor, in the not-so-distant future, English drivers will be charged based upon the number of miles they drive, as is being done step-by-step in America.

What NOAA Isn’t Saying About Snow and Ice
As reported on WUWT, NOAA is warning of “earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons.” But what NOAA isn’t saying is that snow is falling earlier and heavier in the Northern Hemisphere.

Former Philly cop indicted for murder
A murder warrant was issued Monday against a former Philadelphia police officer accused of fatally shooting a neighbor during an off-duty altercation in November.

You Can Get A DUI Without Driving Your Car
It seems like it could be a storyline out Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie, Minority Report: a Minnesota man was convicted of a DUI offense in a car that wasn't moving. What's even more surprising: the car wouldn't start at all.

BlackBerry has spyware risk too, researcher says
We've heard a lot about security issues with the iPhone, but the BlackBerry isn't immune to threats from malicious apps.

National Guard Patrolling Pittsburgh, Neighborhoods
In the aftermath of the weekend's storm, hundreds of National Guard members have been helping Pittsburgh's emergency personnel respond to residents' needs; and beginning tonight, they're also going to be patrolling some city streets.
(A clear violation of Posse Comitatus.)

Australia to introduce body scanners after failed US attack
Australia will introduce full body scans for airline passengers as it strengthens aviation security in response to a failed attempt to bring down a US-bound plane, the government said on Tuesday.

Canada: Stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies: pharmacy regulators
Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada's pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.

Alcohol Restrictions, Curfew Lifted In King
Authorities lifted curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.