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January 23, 2012
Assassinate Obama! Call For Mossad To Act

In an article in his newspaper, the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler called for the Mossad assassination of President Obama for so far refusing to go to war with Iran.

The article, headlined "What Would You Do?", has raised a massive backlash, and a Secret Service investigation for Mr Adler.

Adler Op-ed

The article gave three options for Israel in its efforts to deal with Iran's alleged nuclear weapons. The first was to launch a pre-emptive attack on Hamas and Hezbollah. The second was to directly attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The third was to:

January 10, 2012
The End Game

President Obama may have forgotten to mention that the American troops due to leave Iraq at the end of 2011 would need to be deployed almost immediately elsewhere.

US troops exited Iraq to reappear a month later in Israel. Senior US military sources say that many would be staying up to the end of this year as part of the US-IDF deployment in readiness for a military engagement with Iran. 

January 4, 2012
The United States Is the New British Empire!

In an article for the National Review, John Yoo, erstwhile legal advisor to the Dubya regime and author of the so-called torture memos which justified Cheney's torture operations, provided a new justification for war with Iran - that the United States is the new British Empire.

Obama has failed to "build the legal case for attacking Iran", according to Yoo, instead depending on the United Nations. This is a staggering statement, very much in line with the type of neo-con rhetoric seen just prior to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is pointless, he argues, to expect assistance from the United Nations, since:

January 15, 2009
The Third Rail

It is now two weeks into the Israeli war on the people of Gaza.

1000 Palestinian men, women and children, and no doubt some leaders of the militant group Hamas are dead, as compared with a handful of Israelis, some broken fences and flower pots in Israel.

While I do not normally like to comment or be drawn into the debate about the "Palestinian issue," the brazen, wanton, criminal atrocities that are being committed in this sick business are simply too heinous to be ignored.

August 25, 2008
Encirclement Of Russia Continues

Already feeling pressured by the recent deal between NATO and Poland for new missile "defenses", General Anatoli Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of Russia's general staff, stated on Saturday that the imminent presence of US, Spanish, German, and Polish ships in the Black Sea "does not contribute to the settlement of the [Georgian] situation."

It's unsurprising that Russia would be concerned, as Russian Information Agency Novosti (RIA Novosti) website reported, also on Saturday, that an unnamed Russian security source has charged that the Georgian attack on South Ossetia was planned more than a year ago.

The Georgian operation was coordinated with NATO's plans to strengthen its naval presence in the Black Sea, RIA Novosti's source says, and

August 22, 2008
Behind The War In Georgia

Mikhail Saakashvili is quite possibly insane.

To get an impression of his mind, it's worthwhile drawing attention to some of his recent statements:

We are the fighting ground for a new world war.
- May 2008

it's time to move from words to action because this is not going to go away. This nation is fighting for it's survival, but we are also fighting for world peace and we are also fighting for a future World Order.
- 10th August 2008.