http://www.infowars.com/brookings-horrific-provocation-and-tehran-sponso...

Brookings: ‘Horrific Provocation’ and ‘Tehran-Sponsored 9/11′ Needed to Trigger Iran Invasion

Jurriaan Maessen
Infowars.com
February 5, 2012

In a 2009 policy paper, published by the influential Brookings Institute, the authors propose almost anything to guarantee dominance of Persia, including such measures as bribery, lying, cheating and mass murdering in the shape of an all-out military assault on Iran. The paper ‘Which path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran’ is just one of many recent and not so recent examples of an unwavering resolve by the Anglo-American establishment to engage Iran militarily and acquire its natural resources at the same time.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28852

The Crisis of Education in America: "How to Become a Serf"
A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved

by John Kozy

Global Research, January 24, 2012

How to Become a Serf

Man is a pathetic creature; a brute trying to be god but traveling in the wrong direction.

http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/01/23/the-deaths-of-jfk-rfk%E2%80%94and-the-s...

The Deaths of JFK, RFK—and the Silence of the Lambs
By Russ Baker on Jan 23, 2012

Which is the real president? And which is the real story?

As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy approaches, there is a growing flurry of material about—or even from—the Kennedy clan. This includes “insider” accounts and what are described as exciting, must-read and must-watch revelations.

Yet, for some reason, little of it is truly revelatory, or if it is, it seems, almost by design, very, very small potatoes indeed.

Take for example a new documentary by Bobby Kennedy’s daughter, for HBO. What’s the big revelation? That Bobby feared…are you ready… that someone would throw acid in the face of his children. Who? The mafia. And when was this a threat? In the 1950s. When RFK was a Senate investigator, years before he and his brother ever got near the White House. And years before his brother and then he himself were killed under still-unresolved circumstances.

http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/602-a-new-911-inve...

A New 9/11 Investigation - Coming to a Theater Near You? Hollywood Stars Seek to Make Feature Film Focused on WTC Demolitions
Written by Howard Cohen
Friday, 20 January 2012 15:11

“A Violation of Trust” (formerly titled “Confession of a 9/11 Conspirator”) is a feature film project that is willing to do what the world’s governments and legal bodies are unwilling to do – open a real investigation of 9/11 for the entire world to see. It dramatizes the first day of “The President’s New Investigation of 9/11”, with actors performing from a tightly-written, factually-accurate script that pits the 9/11 Commission Report and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reports against the work of 9/11 researcher Dr. David Ray Griffin and the scientific research highlighted by leading 9/11 truth organizations, including Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Go to original for diagrams and links:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20120120134709791

Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from New York on September 11, 2001?

by Andre Rousseau
January 20, 2011
911truth.org

INTRODUCTION

When major shocks occur at the Earth's surface or at depth, waves of different types, magnitudes and speeds may move out from the source location. Such waves can be detected by seismometers located at recording stations, and the data from the recordings can be analyzed to learn many details of the source events. Seismic signals were recorded at stations in New York and four neighboring states on September 11, 2001 during the period when the North and South Towers (WTC1 and WTC2, respectively) were struck by airliners and collapsed, as well as during the collapse of Building 7 of the WTC, which had not been hit by a plane.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30269.htm

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175490/tomgram:_pepe_escobar,_sinking_th...

The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
Following the Money in the Iran Crisis

By Pepe Escobar

January 17, 2012 "Tom Dispatch" - - Let's start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that's what concerns us. And our red line to Iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us.”

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/374-bush-administration/947...

Spain Proceeding With Bush Torture Case

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald

16 January 12

The Obama administration may want to look forward but but other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.

Spanish judge on Friday re-launched an investigation into the alleged torture of detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, one day after a British authorities launched a probe into CIA renditions to Libya.

The twin developments demonstrated that while the Obama administration has stuck to its promise not to investigate whether Bush administration officials acted illegally by authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques, other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.

MLK: A Call to Conscience

The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.’s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel.

Watch here: MLK: A Call to Conscience on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.

http://www.911grassroots.org/

911Grassroots

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER
by James Hufferd, Ph.D.
Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization

Most of the recent big, commonly noticeable and objectionable changes in our controllable circumstances in America – including many downright atrocities – have happened since September 11, 2001. And a goodly number of them have developed as a direct consequence. Although that day still seems, in many ways, very recent, it appears to have marked not only a beginning of our current and accumulating woes, but also the end of a long age of relative bliss, freedom, and a degree of personal opportunity that we haven’t experienced since.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/9264-a...

Noam Chomsky: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement is ‘part of a global program of world militarization’
by Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers | December 16, 2011, 1:18 pm

[Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and translated by Hakim.]

Hakim: We are speaking from the highlands of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, and we wanted to start off by thanking you sincerely for the guidance and wisdom that you have consistently given through your teaching and speeches in many places. We want to start off with a question from Faiz.

Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"

Uploaded by MOXNEWSd0tC0M on Jan 2, 2012

January 01, 2012 C-SPAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7zotYU21qcU#!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30139.htm

How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act

By Naomi Wolf

January 02, 2012 - "Naomi Wolf" --- December 12th, 2011 -- I never thought I would have to write this: but—incredibly—Congress has now passed the National Defense Appropriations Act, with Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens. The amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process. The language of this bill can be read to assure Americans that they can challenge their detention — but most people do not realize what this means: at Guantanamo and in other military prisons, one’s lawyer’s calls are monitored, witnesses for one’s defense are not allowed to testify, and one can be forced into nudity and isolation. Incredibly, ninety-three Senators voted to support this bill and now most of Congress: a roster of names that will live in infamy in the history of our nation, and never be expunged from the dark column of the history books.

http://www.wellstonetheykilledhim.com/indexnewyear.html

Wellstone: They Killed Him
The film examines the killers' means, motive and opportunity. High on the motive list is that Senator Paul Wellstone -- one of 23 senators who voted against the Iraq war -- was "sticking his nose into 9/11." Wellstone intimates say he was asking questions about 9/11....and thus was publicly executed as a warning.

Wellstone: They Killed Him - preview

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30120.htm

http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=0...

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/266-32/9181-focus-how-many-u...

How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again.

By Dan Froomkin

December 30, 2011 "Information Clearing House" - Reports about the end of the war in Iraq routinely describe the toll on the U.S. military the way the Pentagon does: 4,487 dead, and 32,226 wounded.

The death count is accurate. But the wounded figure wildly understates the number of American service members who have come back from Iraq less than whole.

Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
Thursday 29 December 2011
by: Gareth Porter, Truthout | Report

Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about "finding of fact" by a District judge in Manhattan Friday that Iran assisted al Qaeda in the planning of the 9/11 attacks is a tapestry of recycled fabrications and distortions of fact from a bizarre cast of characters.

Article is here: http://www.truth-out.org/crackpot-anti-islam-activists-serial-fabricator...

Original article with LIVE links:
http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/26/justifying-war-with-iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm

Justifying War with Iran

By Russ Baker

December 27, 2011 "WhoWhatWhy" -- A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities.

Here are the recent examples on Iran:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=33vhq0puC7g

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/RestOfAsia/Iran-rejects-NY-judg...
Rest of Asia
Iran rejects NY judge's ruling on Sept 11 attacks
Associated Press
Tehran, December 25, 2011
First Published: 23:09 IST(25/12/2011)

Iran has rejected a New York judge's finding that Tehran is liable in the September 11 attacks along with the Taliban and al Qaeda. According to state TV, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman referred to last week's judgement as "clumsy scenario-making" by the US. The spokesman,
Ramin Mehmanparast, repeated Iran's insistence that al Qaeda has no presence in the country.

On Thursday, Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed a default judgement finding Iran, the Taliban and al Qaeda liable in the 2001 attacks. The ruling came in a $100 billion lawsuit brought by family members of victims.

The findings also said Iran provides al Qaeda members a safe haven.

http://www.blackopradio.com/pod/black558a.mp3

Show #558
Original airdate: Dec 22, 2011
Guest: William Pepper, George Bailey, Sherwood Ross
Topics: Sirhan Sirhan, JFK Research, President Obama

Part One - William Pepper (33:13) Real Media or MP3 download

Filed a Reply Brief on Nov 21, 2011, first time allowed to deal with the question of actual innocence
In 1969 there was a substitution of a bullet in evidence, the defense council was himself under indictment
Noguchi was not asked to identify the bullet, the judge and jury heard all this phony evidence
We have asked the court on the basis of this fraud to set aside the verdict and the sentence
The Brief deals with an extensive analysis of the Pruszynski tape, a recording of the sounds of the bullets fired
Thirteen bullets fired, Sirhan's gun held eight, RFK was shot from behind at powder burn range, Sirhan was in front
The Brief goes over hypno-programming, with declarations by Dr. Daniel Brown and Professor Alan Scheflin
The Brief at williampepper.com, the strongest statement ever made in this case
It's a political case, we can expect, the state will do everything to justify keeping Sirhan in prison

http://operationterror.com/

James McCullough, from the mysterious “Council,” gives a special assignment to CIA agent Aaron Delgado to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and pin the blame on Muslim Terrorists. Delgado and fellow agents, Phillip Singer and Chase Jordan, work with a group of unsuspecting engineers to develop unmanned jets that will hit their assigned targets.

The Army and the FBI begin to uncover the plot, forcing Delgado to intervene. The CIA agents are also forced to deal with an increasingly suspicious George Poole, the lead engineer working on the drones, who becomes skeptical on how the remote controlled planes will be used. A battle between good and evil ensues as the plot to attack America becomes a hard-hitting reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29961.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/12/newburgh-four-fbi-entrapment...

Newburgh Four: Poor, Black, and Jailed Under FBI 'Entrapment' Tactics

In June, four men were jailed for 25 years over a US terror plot. The FBI painted them as dedicated fanatics, but were they lured by the promise of cash from a fake informant?

By Paul Harris in New York

December 12, 2011 "The Guardian" - - Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York.

Hussain was flash, drove expensive cars and treated people to gifts of cash and food. He also had radical opinions that stood out in a mosque that welcomed Shia and Sunni followers and had good relations with local Jewish and Christian communities.

"This guy said women should not be heard, not be seen. I thought that was strange," Muhammad told the Guardian as he sat in his office inside Newburgh's mosque." Muhammad, who is a black American convert, had no idea how strange things would get.

Hussain would make Newburgh's Muslim community famous when earlier this year four other black Newburgh Muslims were jailed for 25 years for a 2009 plot to fire a Stinger missile at US military planes. They also planted car bombs, packed with lethal ball bearings, outside Jewish targets in the wealthy New York suburb of Riverdale.

Prosecutors painted them as America-hating terrorists bent on slaughter. All four followed the instructions of Hussain, who meticulously organised the scheme: from getting the missile and bombs, to reconnaissance missions, to teaching the tenets of radical Islam.

The "Newburgh Four" now languish in jail. Hussain does not. For Hussain was a fake. In fact, Hussain worked for the FBI as an informant trawling mosques in hope of picking up radicals.

Yet far from being active militants, the four men he attracted were impoverished individuals struggling with Newburgh's grim epidemic of crack, drug crime and poverty. One had mental issues so severe his apartment contained bottles of his own urine. He also believed Florida was a foreign country.

Hussain offered the men huge financial inducements to carry out the plot – including $250,000 to one man – and free holidays and expensive cars.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/obama-asked-iran-us-drone-back-1930357...

Obama: We asked Iran to give us our drone back
By Laura Rozen | The Envoy

"But Obama's comments on the seized drone will likely upstage the designated subject of the conference--and are all but certain to become instant fodder for late-night comedy and GOP primary campaign barbs."

Iran released a video of downed U.S. stealth drone on December 8, 2011. (Yahoo News still …
President Obama has a message for Iran: He would like America's downed spy drone back.

Obama revealed the request for the return of the drone--which fell to earth in Iran recently, and had been captured in video footage circulated by the Iranian government--during a Monday White House news conference. The president shared the podium with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as both leaders discussed the future of American-Iraqi relations after the withdrawal of remaining U.S. forces from Iraq this month.

But Obama's comments on the seized drone will likely upstage the designated subject of the conference--and are all but certain to become instant fodder for late-night comedy and GOP primary campaign barbs.

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20111205043307998

http://www.anoblelie.com/

'A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995' Available December, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2011
ANobleLie.com

New Film, A NOBLE LIE: Oklahoma City 1995, asks questions about the Oklahoma City Bombing

Produced in Oklahoma, this newly-released documentary by FREE MIND FILMS and Director James Lane takes a fresh and in-depth look at the circumstances surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

But instead of accepting at face value the Federal Government's deeply-flawed investigation, A NOBLE LIE features groundbreaking information and eyewitness testimonies that refute the official story.

The April 19, 1995 bombing that destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building involved far more revealing evidence than the FBI maintains. A NOBLE LIE presents interviews with police officers, first responders, victims, journalists and investigators whose evidence demonstrates that not all the perpetrators were brought to justice.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/26/justice/california-sirhan-rfk/index.html

Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan seeks prison release
By Michael Martinez, CNN
November 27, 2011

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is now serving a life sentence for killing RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was vying for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination
Defense lawyers say recently discovered evidence shows a second gunman
Sirhan was hypno-programmed as a diversion for real assassin, his attorneys say

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, should be freed from prison or granted a new trial based on "formidable evidence" asserting his innocence and "horrendous violations" of his rights, defense attorneys said in federal court papers filed this week.

In a U.S. District Court brief, Sirhan's lawyers also say that an expert analysis of recently uncovered evidence shows two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan's revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/8633-and-we-have-gotten-u...

And, We Have Gotten Used to It

By Dan Rather, Reader Supported News
28 November 11
Reader Supported News | Perspective

On November 22, Dan Rather received the Committee to Protect Journalists' Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for 2011 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. What follows is the speech he gave upon accepting the prestigious award. -- JPS/RSN

One of Bud Benjamin's dreams was to expand the CBS Evening News to a full hour. And Bud wasn't thinking of filling it with helicopter shots, celebrity gossip and punditry. He imagined an entire hour brimming with investigative reporting, exposés and dispatches from around the world.

It was a different time in journalism. A time when professional duty was patriotic, and the freedom of the press motivated and inspired newsrooms. I know it is hard to believe - but it's true - newsrooms were not supposed to turn a profit. Frankly, news was considered an acceptable loss on the balance sheet.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Celebrating-Spiritual-Deat-by-Coleen-Ro...

"Martin Luther King Jr. warned that a country in continuous war approaches spiritual death. I wonder if he realized that this extinction would play out in the nation's shopping malls as, like the Romans, we distract ourselves with bread and circuses from the crimes and catastrophes that surround us, and the responsibilities we avoid"

Celebrating Spiritual Death On Black Friday

By Coleen Rowley

opednews.com

How many remember that this "Black Friday" marks the 10th anniversary of George Bush's famous presidential advisory just after 9/11 for citizens to do their patriotic duty by pushing their worries aside and going shopping? The idea of asking the American people to make sacrifices in the face of the coming "War on Terror" was too '70s, too Jimmy Carter.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/war-on-our-world/

War on Our World

WAR ON OUR WORLD (2011) from Dominoes Falling Productions on Vimeo.

http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65...

November 24, 2011

‘They Found Nothing. Nothing.’
The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’

Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its much-trailed report ‘presenting new evidence’, said the BBC, ‘suggesting that Iran is secretly working to obtain a nuclear weapon.’

Relying on ‘evidence provided by more than 10 member states as well as its own information’, the IAEA said Iran had carried out activities ‘relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device’.

Having looked deeply into the claims, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh commented this week in an interview with Democracy Now!:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/21/seymour_hersh_propaganda_used_ahe...

‘But you mentioned Iraq. It’s just this — almost the same sort of — I don’t know if you want to call it a "psychosis," but it’s some sort of a fantasy land being built up here, as it was with Iraq, the same sort of — no lessons learned, obviously.’

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27806

The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 by Prof. Peter Dale Scott

Global Research, November 22, 2011
Asia Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 47, No 2, - 2011-11-21

"I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."

-- Senator Frank Church (1975)

I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-p...

Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned

Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots

Paul Harris in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 November 2011 12.33 EST

David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in jail, trouble was everywhere.

Williams also made bad choices. He ended up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a drug rap and need cash quickly.

http://www.truth-out.org/war-force-pays-1-percent-occupying-american-for...

War Is a Force That Pays the 1 Percent: Occupying American Foreign Policy
Monday 14 November 2011
by: J.A. Myerson, Truthout | News Analysis

The man on the left served with the Marines in Southern Afghanistan from 2001-2006. The man on the right is now a public school teacher who served with the Army from 1986-1989. (Photo: pfarnac1)

If the last decade was the era of occupations that everyone called liberations, then the 99 percent movement is seeking to make this the era of liberations everyone calls occupations.

"It's clear that the interests of the majority of people in this country do not align with the military-industrial complex who put corporate profiteering based on destruction ahead of the needs of people," said Alex Kane, a journalist and activist. "The nexus of power that Occupy is looking to challenge in this country does not stop at Wall Street. Military profiteering is an integral part of the system and it should be challenged."