The second time this week, the London Times has run articles submitted by Israeli intelligence, irresponsible, inaccurate and intended to bring chaos. The first article claimed that US sources had verified Saudi Arabia’s intention to allow Israeli planes to use their territory for an attack on Iran. The government of Saudi Arabia issued a strong denial [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, India, ISI, Israel, London Times, Misinformation, NATO, Pakistan, Propaganda, Rupert Murdoch, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Yellow Journalism
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The case has been reported in Italy, but transcripts of wiretaps, in court documents obtained by ProPublica, offer a rare inside look at Iran’s aggressive global campaign to buy prohibited deadly goods. Using layers of front companies and smuggling pipelines run by Iran’s increasingly powerful security forces, Iranian buyers prowl black markets in search of [...]
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Also tagged Africa, Arms Trafficking, Asia, Black Market, Colombia, Drug Trafficking, Europe, Human Trafficking, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, Mexico, Turkey
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Only one month before that populist moment on Capitol Hill, (Dick) Armey was employed as a lobbyist by leading international “consulting firm” DLA Piper. In that capacity, from 2005 to 2009, Armey promoted the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, otherwise known as Mujahedeen-e-Khalq MEK, which the State Department has branded a terrorist group. Armey lobbied his former [...]
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Also tagged Akbar Nikooie, CarMax, Dick Armey, DLA Piper, FreedomWorks, Iraq, Lobbyists, MEK, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, Saddam Hussein, Saied Ghaemi, State Department, TARP, Tea Party, Tom Tancredo
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Pain and death suffered by people become less important as time moves on, and that is significant when we come to think about the Iraq war, launched seven years ago this month. Already there is competition for the ear of future historians and there is an attempt under way to fix the record of the actual [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Iran’s police chief on Saturday accused the Voice of America and the BBC of being the arms of U.S. and British intelligence agencies, and warned of severe repercussions for journalists and activists caught having contacts with them, state media reported. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, whose police forces have played a key role in the government [...]
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Also tagged BBC, CIA, Espionage, Freedom of Press, Intelligence, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Journalism, Media, MI6, Propaganda, Voice of America
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The American public has not been informed by the US news media about highly newsworthy statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday February 12. He said the era of nuclear weapons is over, suggesting Iran has no plans to build “inhumane” A-bombs. Ahmadinejad called for a world free of nuclear arms in an interview [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
More censorship, this time from Iran. WTH is it with authoritarians anyway… can’t handle the idea of people having open access to information and thinking for themselves, or what? Only a government or organization insecure of the validity of its own ideology uses oppressive censorship to hide information from its own citizens. And no, I’m [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Exposing this entirely legal labyrinth of ownership took years of interagency pick-and-ax work. In the end it demonstrated how nefarious activity — even as high profile as this — can go on for years, right under authorities’ noses. It’s also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to [...]
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Also tagged Alavi Foundation, Bank Melli, Banking, Business, Cayman Islands, Corporatism, Corruption, Delaware, Drug Trafficking, Financial Secrecy, Financial Sector, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, IMF, Law, Money Laundering, Offshore Banking, Panama, Semion Mogilevich, Shell Companies, Shell Corporations, Sinaloa, Switzerland, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, Terrorism Funding, Transparency, Victor Bout
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Washington has rejected Iran’s allegations of U.S. involvement in Tuesday’s bombing that killed professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi near his home in the Iranian capital as absurd. Iranian officials and state media described the slain man as a nuclear scientist, but a spokesman said he did not work for the Atomic Energy Organization at the center of [...]
As 2010 begins in turmoil, 10 questions to ask about U.S. military presence in distant lands. Let’s peer into the future, and consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010. Here are 10 questions, the answers to which might offer reasonable hints as to just how much [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Budget, CIA, DOD, Economics, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Israel, Pakistan, Palestian Authority, Pentagon, Taliban, War, Yemen
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion — $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan — for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Aynak. Over the next 25 years, it plans to extract about [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Africa, China, Copper Mining, Disaster Capitalism, Economy, Iraq, Natural Gas, Oil, Pakistan, Shock Doctrine
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based organization that promotes press freedom and monitors the safety of journalists, said the number of journalists leaving Iran was the largest since the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The wave of departures reflects the journalists’ anxiety over the retribution many of them have faced for reporting on the government’s [...]
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