World-News

One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea's recent missile tests, deepening U.S. concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/20/korea.north.usa.reut/index.html


From Information Clearing House

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Doug Bandow

07/17/06

Peace is boring. How else to explain the search by some conservatives for a new enemy? After the Cold War the foreign policy establishment could have gratefully accepted peace, stopped meddling around the globe, and demobilized America's outsize military. Instead, it found other enemies. Doing so wasn't easy. Saddam Hussein's Iraq proved to be easy prey. Now Iran is getting the most attention...

http://www.mises.org/story/2252


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/12/try_patience_with_iran.php

The United States, should it attack Iran, will have created for itself a dilemma. We will have begun an endless struggle with much of the Muslim world, one in which we can inflict punishment without ever reaching any kind of political solution.

http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2006/07/our-last-chance.html


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration is poised to press the UN Security Council to begin the process of imposing punitive action against Iran, after signals over the weekend that Tehran will not provide the straightforward acceptance or rejection today of a US-backed proposal designed to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071106C.shtml

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=9255


Informant: Kev Hall