Aijaz Ahmad: Why is corporate media marginalizing a former President?

Former US President Jimmy Carter has again come under fire in the US mainstream media, since publicly saying that Israel has 150 or more nuclear weapons in its arsenal.

Details about Israel’s nuclear weapons programme started emerging in 1986.

International nuclear experts now believe that Israel maintains a [...]

This “witness statement” is a good read:

The FO’s case to the information tribunal
The Guardian, Thursday February 21 2008

I, Neil Wigan, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1A 2AH, the United Kingdom, make this statement in support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Appellant in these proceedings.

Personal Background

1. I am currently the head [...]

Image by: Benjamin Heine

By Andrew Silverai

Top police officer warns that nuclear attack is inevitable

A NUCLEAR attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned. Ian Dickinson, who leads the police response to chemical, biological and nuclear threats in Scotland, has painted [...]

You should not miss this interview with Noam Chomsky. This is the best description to the situation when it comes to Israel, US Policy, Media and war on Iran.

Transcript:

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR: The vote over the Kyle-Lieberman amendment, the Senate resolution to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, essentially was followed up on [...]

Iran would need 3-8 yrs to produce bomb - IAEA chief

‘I want to get people away from the idea that Iran will be a threat from tomorrow,’ says Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency

And Israeli Maj. General: a. A-Bomb can’t destroy Israel b. Iran 3-5 years from having one

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Isaac Ben-Israel [...]

Some 72 percent of Israelis support the use of nuclear weapons in specific circumstances…

About half of the Israeli respondents who back using nuclear weapons said they saw it as a possible way of preventing war; the other half said they supported using nuclear arms during a war.

The poll also showed that 75 percent of Israelis [...]

PIEGEL: The US government has described Iran’s new willingness to cooperate as a transparent attempt to distract from its true intentions and from its continued development of the capabilities to produce a nuclear weapon. Is the IAEA too gullible?

ElBaradei: I am familiar with these accusations. They are completely untrue. It’s not possible to manipulate us. [...]

Is she running for ISRAEL’S Presidency??

FYI:

1959 - The US gives Iran a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor which became operational in 1967

Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 and ratified it in 1970

Israel, a nuclear state, has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. By NOT declaring nuclear capabilities, Israel doesn’t have to let inspectors [...]

New envoy to U.K.: Jews must do more to put Iran on the agenda
By Sara Miller, Haaretz Correspondent

The Israeli ambassador-elect to Britain, Ron Prosor, said Tuesday that the Jews around the world and the global community should do more to focus attention on Iran and its nuclear aspirations.

Because Israel DON’T have nuclear weapons!!!

Because if Iran [...]

Fully 71 percent of Israelis believe that the United States should launch a military attack on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran’s nuclear program, according to a new poll.

The survey, commissioned by Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center and the Anti-Defamation League, found that 59 percent of Israelis still believe the war in Iraq was justified, while 36 percent take the opposite view.