Israel trying to ‘blackmail’ US into war with Iran

Reacting to Raw Story exclusive, Horton tells Fox that Americans 'oughtta be really upset'

By declaring they'd wage a war against Iran by themselves, the nation of Israel is effectively "blackmailing" the United States into combat operations, according to a radio host who appeared on Fox Business Monday night.

Scott Horton, the Los Angeles radio host behind Antiwar.com, told Fox Business host Judge Napolitano that revelations contained within the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables revealed Israel's aggressive strategy for regime change in Iran. More

Norman Finkelstein: “Israel could nuke Lebanon.”
Nasrallah is “smart, competent and incorruptible”, exactly the sort of person the West doesn’t like.

China blocks access to WikiLeaks

China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations.

"China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. side will handle the relevant issues," Hong Lei, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at a Beijing news conference on Tuesday. "As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that."

Access to the WikiLeak's Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response. More

Did Wikileaks Do Us A Favor?
While Wikileaks criminal, Julian Assange, obviously didn’t get enough attention from his parents as a child, he may have, in his treachery, done the United States a favor.

After reviewing some of the ‘bombshells’ Assange illegally obtained and published in order to fill his gaping need for recognition, I actually come away from the disclosures feeling somewhat comforted that the our State Department has an awfully good grip on what is happening in virtually every corner of the world.

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

Taiwanese animator creates WikiLeaks ‘Cablegate’ video

For example, on the orders of Hillary Clinton, US diplomats were told to spy on UN officials and even collect their biometric data. In the animation, Uncle Sam is seen collecting feces from the UN building. More?

Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileaks director

In a shockingly flippant comment to a Canadian television news anchor Evan Solomon of the CBC News Network on live TV, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today called for the assassination of Wikileaks director Julian Assange .

It is believed to be the first ever televised "fatwa" since the edict by the Iranian leadership of the late Ayatollah Khomeini against British writer Salman Rushdie in February 1989. Amazingly, although news anchor Solomon afforded Flanagan the opportunity to retract his statement, Flanagan balked at doing so and instead reiterated that U.S. President should put out a "contract" on Assange or use "a drone" and that he would not be unhappy if Assange "disappeared."

Flanagan who is a trusted member of PM Harper's inner circle of Tory strategists joins Sarah Palin in calling for the death of the Wikileaks director as retribution for the website's release of confidential diplomatic and intelligence "chatter" this week.



"WikiLeaks is the first global Samizdat movement. The truth will surface even in the face of total annihilation." -- Julian Assange

Review of Inside Job

Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. It's an old saying that has proven to be true throughout the course of human history. Inside Job is a film needs to be seen by everybody; I mean absolutely everyone. This film should be shown in schools and played from the mountain tops. If there were any justice, this film would inspire every last American to demand the sweeping change and reform that so many politicians have promised but failed to deliver, as you'll find out in stunning detail from this film. When I see a movie I like, I recommend that you go see it. I'm not merely recommending that you see Inside Job, I am demanding that you watch it and take it to heart. Go to Red River Theatres right now and see this movie. More

Charles Ferguson on his documentary 'Inside Job'

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The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics

I am tremendously concernced [sic] about the puerile eruptions of Julian Assange. . . . If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in "freedom" stands as a human disaster. Assange is a criminal. He's the one who should be in jail.

Do you have that principle down? If "a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail" because of the WikiLeaks disclosure -- even a "single one" -- then the entire WikiLeaks enterprise is proven to be a "disaster" and "Assange is a criminal" who "should be in jail." That's quite a rigorous moral standard. So let's apply it elsewhere:

What about the most destructive "anarchic exercise in 'freedom'" the planet has known for at least a generation: the "human disaster" known as the attack on Iraq, which Klein supported? More

Amazon tells Lieberman that it took down the WikiLeaks website

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman released a statement Wednesday saying that Amazon.com told him that it had terminated its relationship with a WikiLeaks website that hosted secret US diplomatic cables.

Talking Points Memo obtained a copy of the full statement:

Australia starts "whole of government" investigation into Julian Assange
The US has apologised in advanced to a lot of countries ahead of the release of these documents, saying, well, we're sorry in advance of what's going to be in these documents. Has Australia had any apology from the United States ahead of the release of these documents?

Bush doesn't like it
"It's going to be very hard to keep the trust of foreign leaders," the nation's 43rd president said of the documents on issues ranging from Iran to Honduras to Turkey. "If you have a conversation with a foreign leader and it ends up in a newspaper, you don't like it. I didn't like it."



Wikileaks Has Committed No Crime

But in the United States, generally publishing classified information is not a crime. The sort of information that a news organization can be prosecuted for publishing is limited to: nuclear secrets (Atomic Energy Act), the identities of covert agents (Intelligence Identities Protection Act), and certain forms of communications intelligence (Section 798 of the Espionage Act).

Perhaps lamenting that the U.S. does not have an Official Secrets Act like the United Kingdom, right wing columnists have consistently misinterpreted these Acts, or have cited other provisions of our espionage laws which almost surely do not apply to Wikileaks.

Prosecuting WikiLeaks: It's Not Going To Be Easy
Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters this week that there's a real basis to believe crimes have been committed with WikiLeaks's unauthorized release of secret diplomatic cables.

"To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, and who has put at risk the assets and the people that I have described, they will be held responsible," Holder said. "They will be held accountable."

US rejects talks with North Korea

Why talk when you can bomb into submission

The White House dismisses China's call for multiparty talks with North Korea as a 'PR activity'

The US has snubbed Chinese proposals to ease the Korean confrontation through emergency multiparty talks including the North, with a White House spokesman dismissing the suggestion as a "PR activity".

Beijing had called for the talks by the six parties involved in the stalled North Korean aid-for-denuclearisation discussions after a Northern artillery barrage killed four people, including two civilians, on a Southern island of Yeonpyeong. Tensions on the peninsula are at their highest for years, with joint military drills by the US and the South under way in the Yellow Sea today. More

Korean conflict is US Bully provocations

US weighed atomic option on N Korea

Pakistan backs US drone attacks on tribal areas: Leaks

In a meeting Prime Minister Gilani on August 21, 2008 told US ambassador Anne W. Patterson that he don't care if they (drones) do it as long as they get the right people. The meeting was also attended by Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

The US ambassador to Pakistan met with (now president) Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and General Ashfaq Kayani. They discuss immunity for former president Pervez Musharraf; the upcoming election and US drone attacks on the tribal areas. Although publicly the officials oppose the attacks, the meetings show they back them in private.

In a message sent on Saturday, 23 August 2008 on the subject 'IMMUNITY FOR MUSHARRAF LIKELY AFTER ZARDARI'S ELECTION AS PRESIDENT' the diplomat wrote; 'Malik suggested we hold off alleged Predator attacks until after the Bajaur operation. The PM brushed aside Rehman's remarks and said "I don't care if they do it as long as they get the right people. We'll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it."

http://www.geo.tv/12-1-2010/75186.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Flashback WIKILEAKS: THE PAKISTAN CONNECTION

7 Facts about Building 7

1) If fire caused Building 7 to collapse, it would be the first ever fire-induced collapse of a steel-frame high-rise.

2) Building 7’s collapse was not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report.

3) According to a Zogby poll in 2006, 43% of Americans did not know about Building 7.

4) It took the federal government seven years to conduct an investigation and issue a report for Building 7.

5) 1,340+ architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation that would include a full inquiry into the possible use of explosives for the collapse of Building 7.

6) Numerous witnesses say the possibility of demolishing Building 7 was widely discussed by emergency personnel at the scene and advocated by the building’s owner.

7) Building 7 housed several intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the NYC Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center, more commonly known as “Giuliani’s Bunker”. More

U.S cameraman has proof 9/11 was a lie

Saudi Arabia Says Not Clear If Leaked U.S. Cables Are Authentic

I am not sure the Whisky-Soaked Saudi Rulers are authentic. (They should join the queue to go back to Khazaria before it's too late)

Saudi Arabia said it’s not clear whether diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.org, some of which show the Arab country urging its U.S. ally to attack Iran, are genuine.

The kingdom didn’t “ have any role in producing them, nor is it aware of their authenticity,” Osama Nugali, the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said yesterday in an interview. “The kingdom’s policies and positions have always been clear.”

Saudi Arabia and other Arab governments sided with Israel in urging the U.S. to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb More

WikiLeaks blows cover off Israel's covert Gulf states ties
Israel's covert relations with the United Arab Emirates were yet another issue exposed by the recent leak of 250,000 diplomatic cables by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks on Sunday.

"We Have Not Seen Anything Yet"

"We Have Not Seen Anything Yet": Guardian Editor Says Most Startling WikiLeaks Cables Still To Be Released

"In the coming days, we are going to see some quite startling disclosures about Russia, the nature of the Russian state, and about bribery and corruption in other countries, particularly in Central Asia," says Investigations Executive Editor David Leigh at the Guardian, one of the three newspapers given advanced access to the secret U.S. embassy cables by the whistleblower website, WikiLeaks. "We will see a wrath of disclosures about pretty terrible things going on around the world." Leigh reviews the major WikiLeaks revelations so far, explains how the 250,000 files were downloaded and given to the newspaper on a thumb drive, and confirms the Guardian gave the files to the New York Times. Additional cables will be disclosed throughout the week



WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred For Democracy On The Part Of Our Political Leadership" Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman

Police Badges of 29 NYPD Officers Who Died from 9/11-related Diseases Come to Nation’s Capital as Senate Prepares to Consider 9/11 Health Bill

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer, together with U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Peter King, Anthony Weiner, and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly today stood with labor leaders and 9/11 survivors, family members and advocates to unveil a special exhibition of police badges belonging to members of the New York City Police Department who assisted in rescue efforts at Ground Zero and later died from 9/11-related illnesses.

The first exhibition of its kind, the 29 badges are intended to attract Republican support for the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which will likely be brought up for debate in the Senate this month. In partnership with the NYPD, Senator Gillibrand brought the shields to Washington, DC to highlight the human toll of 9/11-related illnesses More

Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange

Interpol has issued a wanted notice for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, heightening the Australian's status as a virtual refugee. The "Red Notice", circulated to the International Criminal Police Organisation's 188 members, concerns the warrant issued by police in Sweden in connection with a sex crime investigation in Sweden, and instructs anyone with any information to "contact local or national police".

It is not an international arrest warrant – Interpol do not have such authority – but it makes the world an even smaller place for Assange, whose list of enemies began with Kenya's former president Daniel arap Moi, executives at Swiss and Icelandic banks, Scientologists, British National Party members and, not least, Sarah Palin. More

US to shut down WikiLeaks; probe on Assange begins
Following the outrage created by release of 2.5 lakh diplomatic wires, United States want to shut down the whitsle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

US media reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has started investigation on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Obama Administration Seeks To Criminalize WikiLeaks

Australian Government Joins Persecution Of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

GORDON DUFF: “WIKI-MURDERS” IN IRAN, SIGNAL “FALSE FLAG” TERROR

An attack on American forces in the Persian Gulf is being planned. Wikileaks is an integral part of the operation. Step one was the current “diplomatic” Wikileak. Step two, the brazen “Mossad style”murders in Iran.

Wikileaks couldn’t be more involved if they built the bombs or fired the missiles themselves.

When America is attacked, either in the Persian Gulf or at home, Wikileaks will be a part of it. The operation is staged for the Persian Gulf where American warships are “sitting ducks” for a sneak attack like the USS Liberty “incident.” More

WikiLeaks claims are 'psychological warfare' says Ahmadinejad
Iranian president claims that the leaks are part of a campaign of psychological warfare against his country

Clinton uses WikiLeaks to threaten Iran

Duke Of York & 9-11 - Some Things Just Leak Out

The ghost of “9-11" passed, like a chilling breath, through the meeting, as Britain’s special trade minister, Andrew, the Duke of York, coddled the Brits in the audience. He also shocked those foreign press and dignitaries, whose thoughts might have strayed, appropriately, to the connection between the BAE’s Al-Yamama and the Saudi kingdom, as being adducible to the truly witting from the keynoted theme of his colorfully flavored remarks to the audience. Otherwise, his unfavorable view of the Guardian on this account was also a notably related enhancement of this peculiarly notable occasion.

The Duke may certainly not have wished to bring the “9-11" matter directly into that discussion, but, whether intended or not, he did imply just that effect in more ways than one. What the Duke did, on this account, was to bring two distinct aspects of Britain’s role to an ironically juxtaposed, common point, that in more or less the same ironical fashion employed by Johannes Kepler in the world’s original discovery of the general principle of universal gravitation.

On the one aspect, the BAE connection through Al-Yamama to the Saudi Kingdom of such as Prince Turki, was called to mind. On the second count, the relationship of the British Al-Yamama connection to the Saudi Kingdom’s part in the proposed early military attacks on Iran was brought to the attention of the sentient audience attending and of the broader circulation of these remarks to the world’s press, by aid of attention to the “Wiki-leaks.” As if to be certain that such connections might not be overlooked, the Prince’s presentation was made the more eye-catching by the Prince’s picking a fight with a prominent member of the British press, the Guardian. It will prove rather difficult, to conceal the point of the matter under a diversionary heap of references to a mass of “Wiki-leaks,” especially to the matter of the British hand in the reported Saudi backing for warfare against Iran.

There are two general categories of major press-leaked scandals. One type is mostly a few headlines, with slim substance in the body of the texts; another, is one in which the attempt is made to conceal a major scandal by means of a diversionary attempt at a change of the subject to a more superficial matter of substance, as has been done in much of the handling of the “Wiki-leaks” flap.

What I have just written above, so far, were sufficient for the cognoscenti; but, what the British have to fear from the Duke’s remarks, lies not in the content of the words themselves, but in the peculiar ripeness of the hyper-inflationary potential of an oncoming general, global economic breakdown-crisis centered on the British system’s presently crumbling imperial monetarist Inter Alpha Group launched as a replacement for the fixed-exchange-rate system in 1971. Worry about matches captures the mind’s attention best when the neighborhood has been set afire.

The only financial means available for attempting to conceal the authorship of the execution of the U.S.A.’s “9-11" events, has been located in a certain gap between the price of Saudi petroleum at the exits from its port of origin, and the price of the same petroleum as a product nominally priced for resale in the European spot market. The only visible means for securing a relevant amount of difference between the two prices needed for funding an operation known as “9-11,” points the finger of qualified suspicion in the direction of the Al-Yamama channel. This is of particular significance in light of what was put on the record as the role of certain pilots, who had received financial assistance through the charity of official Saudi channels toward a certain two nationals who had turned up as pilots in the “9-11" operation.

Then, add to that already lurking connection, the Wiki leak respecting the commitment of Saudi elements to the projected warfare plans against Iran.

Kepler, wherever he may be today, might nod in recognition of the principled aspects of the matter in our present time.

When Nations and Editors Think Small

What any truly qualified British intelligence figure would have to admit, at least to himself, or herself, would be, that much of the British empire’s strategic success is owed to the credulity of the nations it sets into warfare against one another, all to the net advantage of British imperial interests. So, the Venetian potencies averted much of the threat posed by the Fifteenth Century Florentine renaissance, by plunging all of Europe into a permanent state of warfare, between the 1492 expulsions of Jews from Spain and the end of that monstrous warfare by the action of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

So, the British empire of Lord Shelburne’s East India Company triumphed by organizing the continental European warfare of 1756-63. So, the British empire of that same Lord Shelburne, created the British Foreign Office in 1782 as the vehicle crafted to orchestrate a reign of warfare on the continent of Europe, a warfare which extended from the initial diplomatic set-ups by Shelburne in 1782, past the shared triumph of the British Foreign Office and Prince Metternich in 1815, and beyond.

So, the British empire, finding its imperial power in geopolitical jeopardy through the European continental extensions of what had been accomplished by the U.S.A.’s trans-continental railway system, arranged the termination of the services of Chancellor Bismarck, and crafted sundry consequent contributions to a permanent state of geopolitical disorder throughout the world, a policy of what British weapons trafficker Alexander Helphand (“Parvus”) employed as his famous recipe: “permanent warfare, permanent revolution,” a theme which has continued as the implicitly continued state of conflict, permanently, throughout more or less all of the planet. Such was the state of geopolitical conflict since the assassination of France’s President Carnot and the launching of the British alliance with Japan for the wars against China, Korea, and Russia of the first two decades following the ouster of Bismarck, and for the continuous states of general warfare or preparations for such geopolitical conflicts up through the present date, as in Southwest Asia since two wars against Iraq, and the permanent state of warfare in Afghanistan since the relevant tenure of the notorious Anglophile Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Beyond Brzezinski

Now, the British geopolitical interest has led much of the governing political forces of Europe, and beyond, into what is frankly identified as the intention for the “End of the Westphalian System.”

From the beginning of this period of geopolitical conflict which had begun with Bismarck’s post-1876 adoption of Henry C. Carey’s reports to Europe on the principle of “The American System of political economy,” the possibility of establishing a “post-Westphalian system” of empire had depended on breaking the United States through inducing internal corruption within the U.S.A. London’s organization of what become the Confederacy, expressed this intention. Since January 2001, we had now reached, under the recently elected U.S. President George W. Bush, Jr., and, presently, the mentally disturbed President Barack Obama, the point at which the great British gamble of creating a “post-Westphalian system” has obviously appeared to some in London, to be a likely venture.

What the British empire had actually gained in this fashion, was the presently immediate prospect of a very near, pathetic disintegration of the world’s present trans-Atlantic system, a breakdown which the leading Asian nations, by themselves, could not endure in physical terms.

To bring about the present prospect of a global victory for a global British Empire, Shelburne’s distant dream of a new Roman empire under British reign, is now impossible. The horror of the Fourteenth-century New Dark Age, is the relevant precedent for an attempted establishment of empire, now. The ironically suitable remark would be the useful pun, that today’s Venetians have been “blinder than ever.”

So, the Delphic promise of a great empire’s fall, is on the verge of the present moment, unless we prudently change from our presently foolish ways.

This should provide Prince Andrew with the opportunity to consider improving upon his recent speech, and upon the opinions it had been assigned to express.

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/16678

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain's 9/11 Commission
All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain's Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both ...

Qatar okays use of airbase for U.S. attack on Iran

Gulf state agreed partially to fund base's upkeep, as long as U.S. supports Qatar's continued resource mining.

Qatar agreed to allow the United States to use a base on Qatari soil to bomb Iran, according to a report in the newspaper Al-Arabiya based on secret diplomatic cables published by the website WikiLeaks.

Qatar also agreed to pay 60 percent of the upkeep costs for the Al-Udeid airbase, which has already been used by the U.S. military to launch air sorties over Iraq.

Although Qatar backed the elimination of the Iranian offensive capability by military means, Qatar reportedly agreed to support a strike only in return for U.S. guarantees that operations at the South Pars natural gas field, owned jointly by Qatar and Iran, would not be threatened.

Another WikiLeaks document quoted Mossad Chief Meir Dagan characterizing Qatar as "problematic" and its leader as "annoying everyone". According to Dagan, Qatar is trying to cozy up to everyone – Syria, Iran and Hamas – in an attempt to beef up its security.

"I think that you should remove your bases from [Qatar]," Dagan told American diplomats, according to the WikiLeaks document, "[The Qataris] owe their security to the presence of the Americans]."


http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-cables-qatar-okays-use-of-airbase-for-u-s-attack-on-iran-1.328081

Wikileaks exposes Zionist Treachery

Hasbara Explained

9/11 Family Group: Judge Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera Are Right to Question Building 7 Collapse

Today, the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group of family members of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, issued the following statement:

We who lost our loved ones on September 11, 2001 vigorously applaud Judge Andrew Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera for the courage they have shown in publicly questioning the official claim that the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 was due to fire.

In the week since Judge Napolitano aired his views on Building 7, many voices in the media have singled him out for attack while conveniently ignoring the sequence of events that led to his revelation and the overwhelming evidence that validates his concerns. More