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The most dangerous nuclear facility in the middle east

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By Juan Cole
 
(source:Informed Comment)

There is no good evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It has
offered to allow regular International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of
the newly announced facility near Qom, which would effectively prevent it
from being used for weapons production.

There is a secret nuclear facility in the Middle East, however, producing
plutonium and not just enriched uranium, which has the capacity to make 10
nuclear warheads a year.

It is Israel’s ongoing nuclear weapon production that drives the nuclear
arms race in the Middle East. Saddam wanted a bomb because Israel had one.
The Iranians were then worried both about an Iraqi and an Israeli bomb.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others are annoyed at their geostrategic
helplessness in the face of Israeli nukes.

Israel’s nuclear arsenal is the region’s Original Sin.

Juan Cole is a professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history
at the University of Michigan and the author of Napoleon’s Egypt and, most
recently, Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2009).

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Another war in the works

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America Is Led And Informed By Liars

By Paul Craig Roberts

(source:Information Clearing House)

Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the “mainstream media” about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed.

The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government.

Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.

As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush’s playbook and fabricated one.

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War criminals who are professors at tel aviv university

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By: Michael Hoffman

(source: Rise 4 Truth –  Invictus) 

Asa Kasher: Academic Ethics, Censorship, and Assassination – Philosopher of pragmatics and ethics, Kasher is an Israel Prize winner (2000) and the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair In Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice at Tel Aviv University (TAU).

Kasher combines his work at TAU with instruction at the National Security College and has written the ethical codes for scores of state sectors, including the Police, the National Bank, and for Knesset Members. Notably, he is the author of the military’s ethical code: The Spirit of the IDF: Values and Basic Norms (1994). Kasher has developed the rationale and justification for military doctrines including the use of anti-personnel munitions, assassinations, and torture.

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When leaders fail

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By Sayed Dhansay, South Africa

(source: the people’s voice.org)

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It has been just over three months since Israel unilaterally declared an end to operation Cast Lead and withdrew its forces from the Gaza Strip following its 22 day onslaught there. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), a total of 1,434 people were killed in the operation, approximately 960 of them civilians. Of these, nearly 300 victims were children. This, in addition to the 5000 plus who were injured, and the growing number of deaths due to the ongoing siege.

Other reports have indicated that over 20,000 buildings have been partially or completely destroyed, leaving an estimated one sixth of Gaza ruined and entire neighbourhoods obliterated. The already overburdened and crumbling infrastructure of Gaza is now on the brink of total collapse, exacerbated by the refusal of Israeli and Egyptian authorities to allow construction materials into the besieged territory. –Shocking as these few figures may be, of much greater concern is the manner in which our political leaders responded to this catastrophe as it unfolded.

Israel’s operation Cast Lead was a defining moment in recent history, bringing to light many truths about the condition of the society in which we live. The most obvious of these was the complete and utter failure of so-called world leaders and modern political diplomacy at a time when it was needed most.

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