Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31044.htm

The German writer Gunter Grass (The Tin Drum) had already predicted the response to his poem in SdZ. There is no reason to be surprised, but there is every reason to be disgusted. Within Germany both the elite and a layer of the population by their words and actions appear to have accepted the disgraceful Goldhagen thesis whereby all German were guilty for the crimes of the Third Reich. This thesis has now been developed further: all Germans are guilty for eternity for the crimes of the Third Reich.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/pers-a10.shtml

On the eve of international talks, the US and Israel have issued provocative ultimatums to Iran to dismantle key aspects of its nuclear program or face devastating economic sanctions and the prospect of war. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared in an interview with CNN on Sunday that “the threshold for successful negotiations” would be a halt by Iran to uranium enrichment to the 20 percent level and the transfer of all uranium already enriched to this level to “a neighbouring trusted country.”

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31029.htm

Obama demands concessions as crucial talks begin in Istanbul later this week. Iran must immediately close a large nuclear facility built underneath a mountain if it is to take what President Obama has called a "last chance" to resolve its escalating dispute with the West via diplomacy.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jUf26nOALK-KeJBWlApdyUXvkoKA?docId=9a95936e88e1489b8aeb6e27cb66265f

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Monday it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf region amid rising tensions with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. The deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise along with the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group marks one of the few times the Navy has had two aircraft carriers operating in waters near the Persian Gulf, said Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235001.html

They are seeking to increase this military aid for Israel's missile systems and establishing an automatic multi-year program, which I repeat and I quote, 'will not require annual approval.'"

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235140.html

If force is used on Iran, it will certainly incur retaliation, cause an even greater military clash, worsen turmoil in the region, threaten the security of the Strait of Hormuz and other strategic passages, drive up global oil prices and strike a blow at the world economic recovery."

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/04

The International Criminal Court refused on a Tuesday to consider a war crimes tribunal against Israel for its military assault on the Gaza Strip in 2009 or for other possible criminal acts in occupied Palestine. Israel welcomed the news, but human rights groups condemned the announcement, including the legal justifications used by the ICC in its decision.

Link: http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=711

The BRICKS resist and lead the way to a new and better world order

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m87025&hd=&size=1&l=e

Cooperation between academic authorities at the University of California at Davis and influential Zionist organizations could have an adverse impact on Palestine solidarity work there and on college campuses across the country.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/isra-m19.shtml

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel would take action against Iran even if Washington objected. Speaking to the Knesset last Wednesday, Netanyahu said that a key aim of his talks with US President Barack Obama had been to have Israel’s right to launch a military operation against Iran if it sees fit, acknowledged.

Link: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/19/israel-war-crimes-videos-violate-youtube-policy-sorry-that-100321/

A YouTube video showing Israeli forces using IDF military dogs to violently attack peaceful unarmed Palestinian protestors has been pulled from YouTube.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/settlers-taking-over-palestinian-springs-un-report-112612919.html

The report produced by the UN's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said at least 30 springs across the West Bank had been completely taken over by settlers, with Palestinians unable to access them at all.

Link: http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2302&Itemid=256

Last night’s "60 Minutes", featured a Lesley Stahl interview with Meir Dagan, who admitted that bombing Iran now is "the stupidest idea" he'd ever heard.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/10

Second Day of Increased Violence Sees More Israeli Airstrikes. Up to 15 are now dead in what is said to be the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian flare-up in more than three years. Israeli strikes began on Friday when an air raid killed Zohair al-Qaisi, the secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza.

Link: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/03/09/economic-warfare-strangling-sanctions-punishing-iran-for-its-defiance-of-the-united-states/

The economic sanctions imposed upon Iran are having the desired effect of punishing the population through hunger and economic strangulation, making life miserable for the many. The West seeks ‘regime change,’ and we hear a never-ending proliferation of proclamations from Western leaders about respecting democratic rights and freedom for Iranians, in lambasting the Iranian government for its human rights record, portraying it as a state sponsor of terrorism, and, of course, that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons with a stated goal of wanting to ‘wipe Israel off the map.’ The propaganda has been consistent and increasingly desperate,

Link: http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20120310

As with the war on Iraq in 2003, the USA is drifting towards aggression against Iran propelled not by evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons programme, but by the lies and obsessions of a foreign state, Israel, and its American stooges.

Link: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Sen-CarlLevinNavalBlockadeofIranShouldbeConsidered/2012/03/09/id/432075

An international naval blockade of Iranian oil exports should be considered before any resort to air strikes against the country's disputed nuclear program, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Friday.

Link: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-iran-nuclear-israel-usa-idUKBRE8270IQ20120308

Israel has asked the United States for advanced "bunker-buster" bombs and refueling planes that could improve its ability to attack Iran's underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9132138/US-offers-to-supply-Israel-with-military-means-to-destroy-Irans-nuclear-plants.html

The United States has offered to supply Israel with the military means of destroying Iran's nuclear facilities, but only if it agrees to delay an attack until next year, an Israeli newspaper has claimed. Under the terms of the deal, Israel would be provided with "the latest bunker busting bombs developed by the US army" and air-to-air refuelling planes, the Maariv newspaper quoted diplomatic sources and Western intelligence officials as saying.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/world/154433/occupy_aipac_confronts_bibi_netanyahu%27s_insane_push_for_war_with_iran/

Activists gathered in Washington, DC to try to "disrupt business as usual." Palestinian flags flew high while Arabic music blared and young Palestinian women wearing kaffiyeh scarves danced in a circle. Mock settlements were lined up in front of a group of activists, while the anti-war group CodePink gathered on the steps of the Washington Convention Center holding signs that spelled out “No US Tax $ For Israel.”

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9121433/Israel-delivers-ultimatum-to-Barack-Obama-on-Irans-nuclear-plans.html

At Monday's meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama the Israeli prime minister will deliver a stark warning, reports Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/229369.html

It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.”Republican congressional hopeful Arthur Jones. A US Republican congressional hopeful has emphasized that “Holocaust never happened” and that such an event amounts to “the blackest lie in history.” The claim of killing millions of Jews and other people by Nazis during the World War II “is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Hoffington Post reported.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/rights/154353/10_ways_aipac_undermines_democracy_at_home_and_in_the_middle_east/

AIPAC has tremendous clout but its influence has been disastrous for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. democracy. Here are ten reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous.

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29433

We’ve also pointed out that top American and Israeli experts say that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear bomb, and that – even if Iran ever does decide to build one – it would pose no real threat to the U.S. or Israel.Pat Buchanan echoes both facts, saying about Syria, “If its good for Al Qaeda, can it be good for us?”, noting Israel has 300 nukes, so Iran possessing a couple of nuclear bombs would pose no threat.

Link: http://www.redress.cc/americas/jruebner20120222

Josh Ruebner argues that while the Obama administration is making budget cuts that are impoverishing and threatening the health and wellbeing of Americans, it is simultaneously increasing the US taxpayers’ subsidy to the Israeli war machine, helping it retain and colonize illegally-occupied Palestinian territories and commit grievous violations of Palestinian human rights – all contrary to US foreign policy objectives.

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29417

The growing Syrian Civil War appears to be doing what eight and a half years of US military operation could not: it is making Iraq’s Sunni provinces quiet again. Iraqi officials say violence is dropping significantly, particularly in the Nineveh Provincial capital of Mosul, as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) fighters are pouring into Syria.

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/16/libya-torture-amnesty.html

When Amnesty International investigators visited detention facilities, inmates told of rape by guards and beatings for hours with whips, cables, metal chains, wooden sticks and electric shocks with live wires, Common reported. Militia members didn't bother stopping one beating even when Amnesty's team arrived, saying inmates who had been ordered released would not be. At least 12 detainees have died since September after torture, Amnesty said in a report released Wednesday evening. "Their bodies were covered in bruises, wounds and cuts and some had had nails pulled off," the group said. "There's torture, extrajudicial executions, rape of both men and women," Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said on Jan. 27.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-must-be-stopped-says-israel-6939011.html

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Iran is destabilising the world and its aggression must be stopped.In parliament Mr Netanyahu reiterated Israel's claims Iran was behind explosions that targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.He said, "If this aggression isn't halted, ultimately it will spread to many other countries." Israel has accused Iran of waging a campaign of terror The arrest of two Iranians "again leaves not too much room to assume who was behind it".

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29307

Israel is claiming that the explosive devices in Thailand are the same “sticky bombs” used in the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi, and is proof that an Iranian terror network is conducting an assassination campaign against its diplomats. Israeli echo assertions by Washington and Tel Aviv that Iran is a sponsor of terrorism. last year, the US claimed a Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador. The alleged plot has been scoffed at for outlandish circumstances involving an Iranian used car salesman in cahoots with a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the murder at a restaurant.

Link: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=2743

Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? Some researchers are pointing out that Iran is one of only three countries left in the world whose central bank is not under Rothschild control.The Rothschilds influence the world’s major news agencies. By repetition, the masses are duped into believing horror stories about evil villains. The Rothschilds control the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the IMF, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements. They own most of the gold in the world as well as the London Gold Exchange, which sets the price of gold . the family owns over half the wealth of the planet—estimated to be $231 trillion

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21683

Syria has been targeted by al Qaeda in the past, and is currently under attack by Islamists from the CIA/Mossad-trained Islamists were used to murder Gaddafi and privatize the Libyan central bank for the Rothschild Cartel. Now these creations of Western intelligence – Israel, Turkey, the GCC and NATO – are being used to attack the Assad government in Syria and to capture Syria’s central bank for the Zionist Illuminati banking cartel.And the road to attacking Iran runs straight through Damascus.

Link: /http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2010/08/amerika-a-modern-day-east-germany/

Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States. An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet. The government has directed this huge intelligence apparatus onto the people

Link: http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2012/02/distrusting-government-characterized-as-mental-illness-by-apa/http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2012/02/distrusting-government-characterized-as-mental-illness-by-apa/

Authorities are trying to officially designate noncomformity and free thinking as a mental illness.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21676

They are transformed into Iranian aircraft supplied with colours and ensigns like that, as if they would be Iranian aircraft. A spectacular, well recorded attack against the american ships when Iranian ensign are visible on the planes would be enough for the public opinion to require immediate counterattack by NATO.TV . reporters would be allowed to pass at a close range then they can see Iranian ensign on the planes - this would be the final, perfect propaganda of war against Iran.

Link: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=2730

Recounting the Shabra and Shatilla massacres in Lebanon, where between 2,000 and 10,000 innocent “old men, women and children” were murdered “in two nights of violence” by a Christian militia group, Pfarrer said that “during the massacre the Israelis fired flares over the camps so that the Christian militias could see what they were doing.” This event, he explained, “had a galvanizing effect on Arab opinion... “The Israeli/Palestinian problem is the mainspring for the clockwork of the trouble in the Middle East,” he continued, “and it’s in the best interests of America to help solve this problem.”

Link: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/29445-russia-israel-s-stance-on-iran-could-be-catastrophic

Israel's hard-line approach to speculation that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear weapon could have "catastrophic consequences", a senior Russian foreign ministry official warned Thursday."The inventions" concerning the possible development of nuclear arms by Iran "are increasing the tension and could encourage moves towards a military solution with catastrophic consequences," Mikhail Ulyanov told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday. Speculation has risen in recent weeks, driven in part by comments made by officials in the Jewish state, about the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/news/2012/02/09/lemgthe-zionist-entityl-emg-judge-orders

The Israel military court has extended administrative detention for two months in addition to three months already detained for civil rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, a lecturer at An-Najah National University and the Cultural Coordinator for the Tanweer Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment Forum, currently detained in Ofer Prison near Ramallah. - This arbitrary administrative detention is legally incompatible with the most basic international standards of human rights, because it is without any specific charge against the prisoner,

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29196

Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin held a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels and, as quoted by Novosti, maintained that: “Russian intelligence had obtained information indicating that the Georgian military infrastructure could be used for logistical support of U.S. troops if they launched an attack on Iran.‘This is another reason why Washington values Saakashvili’s regime so highly,’ Rogozin said, adding that the United States had already started ‘active military preparations on Georgia’s territory’ for an invasion of Iran.‘Georgia’s president is ready to make his nation a virtual hostage of a risky military gamble,’ he said.”

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/iran-f08.shtml

The danger of a US/Israeli attack on Iran was made clear in comments by US President Barack Obama to NBC News on Sunday. Obama not only repeated the mantra that “all options are on the table,” but added that the US was working with Israel “in lockstep as we proceed to try to solve this

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29123

The officialUS/UK/French/Israeli line is that the “Arab Spring” has finally reached Syria. There are the legal authorities of Syria, and there are armed terrorist throngs taking advantage of genuine social grievances and unleashing violence throughout the country, which in turn triggers police repression.In Syria, such groups are in all likelihood profusely armed, trained, financed and abetted by foreign players.Russia and China are not ready to tolerate a re-run of Iraq and Libya.