IAEA suggests Iran's new enrichment modest
Iran expects to produce its first batch of higher enriched uranium in a few days but its initial effort is modest, using only a small amount of feedstock and a fraction of its capacities, according to a confidential document shared Wednesday with The Associated Press.

Ahmadinejad Urges Dismantlement of N. Armaments
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday called on the established nuclear states to dismantle their nuclear arms.

Demjanjuk presents German law with an almost impossible problem
The Demjanjuk trial, which resumed Monday, has offered up some awkward moral questions for the German justice system. But compared with other Nazi trials, Demjanjuk represents a completely new legal challenge.

Jerusalem Palestinian families come out against building on their ancestors graves
Members of prominent Palestinian families from Jerusalem have come out today in protest against plans to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery where their ancestors are buried.

Foreign Office releases Binyam Mohamed torture notes
The Foreign Office was forced to publicly admit today that the former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was effectively tortured while he was being held by the CIA in Pakistan.

Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time
Nine years after the defining moment of the 21st century, a stunning set of photographs taken by New York Police helicopters forces us to look afresh at a catastrophe we assumed we knew so well.

Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri warns of Israel 'threat'
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he is concerned about "escalating" threats posed to the Middle East by Israel.

Scotland’s first Islamic ‘terrorist’ walks free
The Government’s terrorism watchdog is to review the controversial legislation that resulted in the acquittal yesterday of “wannabe suicide bomber” Mohammed Atif Siddique.

US may send more troops to northern Afghanistan: official
US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.

'No concrete evidence' against Harkat: Witness
The Canadian government had little concrete evidence when it declared an Ottawa man a national security threat, an intelligence expert suggested Tuesday.

Israeli Army Open Fire on Gazan Farmers and International Observors
Gazan farmers whose land lies in Israeli defined buffer zone accompanied by international observers have been held down in their field by live gunfire.

What Israel gets away with
The following questions elicit the same answer in each instance. No other country in the world conducts itself at home and in world affairs with such impunity as Israel.

Obama administration imposes new sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard affiliates
The Obama administration on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeting one person and four companies for penalties over their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq oil pipeline sabotaged
A pipeline carrying crude oil to a refinery in Baghdad has been sabotaged only days after going back online following years of being the target of attack, the oil minister said on Wednesday.

Yemen says near deal to end war with Shi'ite rebels
Yemen is close to reaching a deal with northern Shi'ite rebels, a government official said on Wednesday, aiming to end a war that has raged on and off since 2004 and drawn in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Ukraine on brink of crisis as Tymoshenko defiant
Ukraine on Wednesday stood on the brink of fresh political turmoil as Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko refused to acknowledge defeat in presidential elections and her rival called on her to resign.

Star exposes risks of 'naked scanners'
BOLLYWOOD star Shah Rukh Khan has highlighted key concerns of invasive full-body scanners set to be rolled out across Australia's airports.

French accuse Tony Blair of ‘Soviet-style’ propaganda in run-up to Iraq war
Tony Blair was accused by the French government of “Soviet-style” black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found.

New 3D scanner at airports not to show body parts
With full body searches becoming the norm at airports amid terror threats, a Canadian engineer has invented a three-dimensional scanner that doesn’t violate passengers’ privacy.

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.

Proposed Senate jobs bill includes health-care provisions
The health-care bill may have stalled in Congress, but the draft of the $80 billion jobs bill that just emerged from the Senate contains a number of health provisions.

Poll: Debra Medina closing on Kay Bailey Hutchison
Tea party-backed candidate Debra Medina is closing on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas’s Republican gubernatorial primary, increasing the odds the race led by Gov. Rick Perry will be thrown into a runoff.

First Lady Links Childhood Obesity to National Security in Launch of ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign
At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.

Michael Savage - Sarah Palin Is Not Electable
Savage has a point for a change.

Captain America Plans to Infiltrate “Racist” Tea Party Movement
Nice going Marvel Comics. Thanks for making patriotic Americans into your newest super villains.

Scan safeguards no match for sex, celebrity
That didn’t take long, did it? But it was bound to happen.

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.

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.

Breast cancer virtually "eradicated" with higher levels of vitamin D
In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually "eradicated" by raising vitamin D levels.

Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five years
A top scientist in Croatia has warned Europe to prepare for an ice age instead of talking about global warming.

Cell Phones are Dangerous, But This May Be Far Worse...
An increasingly alarmed army of international scientists have reached a controversial conclusion. The "electrosmog" that first began developing with the rollout of the electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is responsible for many of the diseases that impair or kill them.

Scientists seek better way to do climate report
Some climate scientists are calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done.

New study: could the sun have warmed the world?
Yet another paper questioning the theory that man is behind the warming of the earth over the past half-century.

U.S. trade deficit widens to $40.2 billion in December
The U.S. trade deficit widened to a seasonally adjusted $40.2 billion in December as imports of crude oil surged, outpacing a large increase in exports, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Ten Year Treasuries Nose Dive At Auction
Ten Year treasury yields hit 3.692% in today's auction, which was well above where the ten-year treasuries were trading going into the auction.

Euro zone in intense talks on Greek rescue
Euro zone countries held intensive talks on Wednesday on a possible rescue for debt-laden Greece as civil servants in Athens staged the first big strike against government austerity plans.

How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
The problems facing Greece are just the beginning. The countries belonging to Europe's common currency zone are drifting further and further apart, and national bankruptcies are a distinct possibility. Brussels is faced with a number of choices, none of them good.

King Says BOE Keeps Options Open
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said Wednesday that it is far too soon to rule out further purchases of government bonds using freshly created money, and signaled that the central bank won't tighten policy for at least the next year.

Bernanke says Federal Reserve will scale back stimulus policies . . . eventually
The Fed chairman's exit strategy is outlined in written testimony for a snowstorm-delayed House hearing. The central bank will take actions including an interest-rate hike, but the timeline is hazy.

Gary Shilling: Higher Government Pay Will “Likely Lead to a Tax Revolt”
14.8 million Americans are currently out of work and looking for a job, according to a report released today by the Bureaus of Labor Statistics. Even if you do have a job, wages have not increased substantially over the last ten years, with one exception: government workers.

One in five US mortgages "underwater" in Q4 -Zillow
One of every five U.S. home owners owed more on their mortgage than their home was worth in the fourth quarter, a trend that poses a serious threat to the U.S. housing market's recovery, real estate website Zillow.com said on Wednesday.

The Dumping Begins: Chinese Reserve Managers Notified That Any Non-USG Guaranteed Securities Must Be Divested
It appears that this time China’s posturing is for real.

No Longer Too Big To Fail? Credit Rating Agency Thinks So
The giant credit rating agency Standard & Poor's issued a stark warning Tuesday to creditors of Citigroup and Bank of America, two firms that up until now had been considered "Too Big To Fail". The message: We're not so sure the U.S. government will bail them out again next time.

Job openings plunged by one-quarter last year
Finding a job got much tougher last year, as the number of available openings fell by nearly one quarter.

The CDS Puppetmaster Behind It All
David Fiderer's below piece, originally published on the Huffington Post, continues probing the topic of Goldman and AIG. For all intents and purposes the debate has been pretty much exhausted and if there was a functioning legal system

Fed's Dudley: Financial reform needs global scope
A revamp of the financial system needs to be global in nature to prevent a repeat of the worst financial crisis in some 70 years, a top Federal Reserve policy maker said on Monday.

Debt-laden Greece crippled by strike
Thousands of Greek civil servants went on strike Wednesday against wage cuts, paralyzing flights and disrupting rail traffic as Athens grappled to fight a debt crisis that has shaken Europe.

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.

$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.

Gary Franchi: Tea Parties Co-opted (Video)
In Reality Report 31 Gary Franchi declares the Tea Party movement officially co-opted and provides remedial instructions on how to take it back.

Commission Chairman: 9/11 Commission Was Set Up to Fail (Video)
This is a very brief clip from a question and answer session Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton gave at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on 9/11/2006. As representatives of the family members, and family members themselves called for a new investigation right across the hall.

Unlawful war on Iran is treason; it levies war against the US, our military, and our Constitution
By Carl Herman
Causing unlawful war upon the US is an attack upon our nation, consistent with US Constitution Article III Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Yemen, the new Waziristan
By Pepe Escobar
Like an ever-profitable horror B-movie franchise, the al-Qaeda myth simply refuses to die.

Bombs Away: Conservatives Embrace War
By Doug Bandow
The disastrous experience of Iraq should teach us many lessons, the most important of which is that war always should be a last resort. That standard is no where close to being met in Iran.

Tea Party movement takes aim at Ron Paul
There is more than a little irony in the fact that congressman Ron Paul is facing three primary challengers this year, all of them linked in some way to the Tea Party movement.

Sarah Palin's Bad Tea
At the first ever National Tea Party Convention last weekend, Sarah Palin's keynote speech outlined a path back to the same old big government, pro-war Bush Republicanism.

Ron Paul “I Wouldn’t Be Surprised If The FED Is Involved In The Greece Bailout” (Video)

Raising the bar for Nullification
By Michael Boldin
The final goal? It’s a long way off – a federal government that follows the strict limits of the constitution, whether it wants to or not.

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.”

Our Secret Government
By Rev. Richard Skaff
Lawlessness in government has become the rule of the land.

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.

Australian govt websites face censorship protest
A shadowy group of cyber-activists blocked key Australian government websites on Wednesday to protest against controversial plans to filter the Internet.

'War on Terror' to last as long as Cold War
The ''War on Terror'' is likely to last as long as the Cold War, a senior Government security official has warned.

How Labour threw open doors to mass migration in secret plot to make a multicultural UK
Labour threw open the doors to mass migration in a deliberate policy to change the social make-up of the UK, secret papers suggest.

Airport Security Officials Caught in Most Obvious Lie Ever
We almost missed this story over the weekend, but we’re glad we caught it now. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan made headlines over the weekend when he caught airport employees at Heathrow passing around printouts of his naked body, as revealed by full-body security scans.

When screening makes you scream
Already frustrated by post-Christmas airport security, Andrea Pilati thought she had seen it all. And then airport security personnel told her to stick her hands down her pants.

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.