World-News

By John M. Crisp

Now that Iran looms on our horizon, here's a story that every American should know.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15755.htm



It Could Happen Here

By Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto

Daniel Ellsberg ’s warning that another 9-11 event “or a major war in the Middle East involving a U.S. attack on Iran …will be an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree,” involving massive detention of both Middle Easterners and critics of the policy, the latter deemed terrorist sympathizers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15754.htm



9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out

David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips, Kevin Ryan, Ray McGovern

Video

Editors and contributors to the book, "9/11 and American Empire" assess the Bush administration's responsibility for the attacks on 9/11, arguing that key administration officials either purposefully ignored the threats leading up to the attacks or were complicit in the planning them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15752.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ellsberg

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5333/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg

AntiWar.Com
by Doug Bandow

11/24/06

Iraq is a wreck and Afghanistan is deteriorating, but that doesn't foreclose war with Iran. To the contrary, there is no evidence that the president realizes how much destruction he has wrought. Give him enough time, he seems to believe, and pro-American democracies will bloom across the Mideast. So why not make it a trifecta? Attack Iran, destroy its nuclear facilities, smash the mullahocracy, and establish a liberal society. It's all a fantasy, of course, but no more fantastic than administration policy in Iraq. Assessing the intentions of Washington would be difficult no matter who was president. This administration is even tougher, since policymakers seem fixated on fantasy rather than reality...

http://www.antiwar.com/bandow/?articleid=10052


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

So warm, gracious and welcoming were the people of Iran, in just two days I felt safer walking the streets of Tehran, a city of 16 million, than I did in Albany. Where was this "axis of evil"?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15711.htm

Analysts
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1122-07.htm

Political analysts in Washington agree that President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year. Iran insists that these nuclear facilities are for peaceful uses, but Washington insists they are really intended to make weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112206K.shtml

In a new article for the New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports Vice President Dick Cheney told a White House meeting one month before the mid-term elections that a Democratic victory would have little effect on the administration’s decision to go to war.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/1518247



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hersh

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5308/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hersh

The White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006S.shtml