Top Russian General: An American Attack on Iran would lead to US Collapse; Wants to Block It; Kremlin Rejects Crippling Sanctions
It appears that, the International Atomic Energy Agency is at least allowing for the possibility that documents allegedly found on a laptop some years ago --but discounted by the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency as of dubious provenance and incompatible with other intelligence gathered in Iran -- point to a nuclear weapons program that no one has been able to locate.

Flashback - Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group
The George W. Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" - 1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop - as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear programme.

No common Iran stance between Russia, US
Russia has rejected claims by US officials that Moscow and Washington have a common policy toward Iran concerning its nuclear program.

Sunni party drops out of Iraqi elections, saying vote will lack legitimacy due to ballot purge
Iraq's main Sunni party says it is dropping out of next month's national elections, seizing on U.S. concerns about Iran's influence in the political process as proof that the vote will not be legitimate.

Russia stands by S-300 delivery to Iran
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says his country has every intention of delivering the advanced S-300 air defense missile systems to the Islamic Republic.

Chossudovsky: US will start WW3 by attacking Iran
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war...

Book: Cheney pushed for military conflict with Russia
A new book suggests Vice President Dick Cheney pushed for the US to engage militarily with Russia when Russia invaded the US-allied Georgian republic in 2008.

IAEA report: zero evidence of Iran nukes. US Orwellian corporate war media: Iran building nukes?
The good news is corporate media war propaganda is so easy to reveal and crush. Today’s version of CIA Operation Mockingbird, the US Senate Church Committee disclosure of over 400 CIA operatives within US corporate media to propagandize for war policies, is escalating their paper-thin lies of omission and commission to manipulate America into war with Iran.

Opposition claims Saakashvili ready for new war
Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters are ready to start a new war and plunge the country into chaos again.

A 9/11 Victim's Family Member Asks for Help (Video)

'Netanyahu authorized Dubai assassination in early January'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized in early January the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, according to the Sunday Times.

British oil ambitions fuel fresh row over Falklands
Tensions are mounting over
British plans to start oil production near the Falkland Islands. London says drilling will start on Sunday despite Argentina's vehement opposition.

Majority of Americans think Iran has The Bomb
A whopping 71 percent of Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey.
(The American people were also led to believe Iraq had WMDs. But that was just pack of lies, planted in our heads, by the neocons and their friends in the press. The elitists and politicians thrive by keeping the citizens in a constant state of fear,)

Israel Enlists Its Citizens In PR Efforts
Zionist occupation has launched a campaign aiming to boost the entity’s image abroad even as it finds itself in the middle of an international uproar over the suspected role of the Zionist spies in the assassination of a Hamas operative.

Gordon Brown praises New World Order
In a speech thanking the progressive politics ‘believers’ of the world, Gordon Brown gives his election speech were he praises the New World Order (again).

Dutch cabinet collapses over Afghanistan: media
The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday when the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw troops from Afghanistan as planned this year, Dutch media reported.

Russia warns US against military strike on Iran
In an exclusive interview to RT, General Nikolai Makarov outlined Moscow's concerns.

Israel unveils drone that can reach Iran
The Israeli air force has unveiled an unmanned surveillance drone which local media say can fly for over 20 hours and reach Iran.

War veterans and resisters say "All Out for March 20th-National March on Washington!" (Video)
Get involved in the anti-war movement! Help build the March 20th anti-war demonstrations!

The Chemist's War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

Local support grows for nullification of federal laws
The stale old campaign issues education, toughness on crime, taxes have lulled countless voters into inaction for years. But sometimes an issue comes along that energizes a portion of the voting public. This is one of those times.

Host of Joe Stack’s Manifesto Site Deletes Claim That FBI Asked For Its Removal
On the face of it the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s top strategist, as he came out of a madrasah in Karachi seemed a coup.

Ron Paul Rocks CPAC
Rep. Ron Paul, former Republican presidential candidate and leading light of the current libertarian grassroots movement, enjoyed a huge rock star moment at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), as he took the stage Friday to thunderous applause and a standing ovation in a ballroom filled to capacity.

Obama to spell out new healthcare plan
President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday.

Ex-Congressman Jim Traficant: If I Was Elected, I'd Kick The IRS In The Crotch 'Real Good'
"I want to get the IRS," Traficant said. "Kick them in the crotch real good." He also said he'd work to repeal the 16th Amendment, which gives Congress the power to collect income tax.

Austin Area Tea Party Leaders Speak Out About Joseph Stack Attack & Liberal Media Distortions
One person’s insane actions, no matter what they believe does not define a movement.

Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure
Like many people, Terry Hoskins has had troubles with his bank. But his solution to foreclosure might be unique.

F.B.I., Laying Out Evidence, Closes Anthrax Letters Case
More than eight years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and terrorized the country, the F.B.I. finally closed its investigation of the matter on Friday.

Wife of pilot who crashed into building expected to talk
The wife of the pilot in a fiery plane crash in Northwest Austin was expected to speak out Friday.

Cook County a "Dark Pool of Political Corruption"
New study provides insight into 141+ years of political hijinks

Austin-Crash Pilot Possibly Angered by Contract-Worker Tax Issue
Andrew Joseph Stack, identified as the pilot of a plane that slammed into an Austin, Texas, Internal Revenue Service office Thursday, apparently took issue with the agency in the 1980s over the proper tax treatment of independent contractors--a topic that to this day remains a sore point between the IRS and businesses.

Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns
Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.

Republican of the People
She’ll hit the trail again for another series of 16-hour days, one small campaign event after another, and—most likely—continue to climb in the polls, one aggrieved voter at a time. Her opponents will keep spending millions to assail one another on the airwaves and wonder: Where in God’s name did this Medina woman come from?

Austin Plane Crash: Suicide Note That Joe Stack Allegedly Wrote
Here is the suicide letter alledgelly written by Joe Stack.

Eyewitness: Hazmat Teams In Place Before Plane Crash (Video)

Smoked Marijuana Can Be Effective in Treating Pain, Calif. Report Says
There is "reasonable evidence" that smoked marijuana can provide relief for certain pain-related ailments, according to a new report prepared for the California legislature by researchers at the University of California at San Diego.

JPL: Missing ice in 2007 drained out the Nares strait – pushed south by wind where it melted far away from the Arctic
This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven.

NASA Putting Mars Rover To Sleep To Save Money
Although it might seem like a headline from The Onion, the story's actually true. NASA's being forced to cut four million dollars from the Mars rover project. In order to meet that requirement, they'll have to put one rover, Spirit, to sleep — a "hibernation" period.

1972 Article Unearthed: 'Worse than Hitler': 'Population Bomb' author Paul Ehrlich suggested adding a forced sterilization agent to 'staple food' and 'water supply'
A 1972 article about “The Population Bomb” biologist Paul Ehrlich reveals a nascent environmental movement grappling with mass sterilization, climate fears, “international policy planning” and redistribution of wealth. The article reveals dramatic parallels to today's modern environmental movement.

Yvo de Boer's resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis
The resignation of Yvo de Boer as executive secretary of the UN climate change secretariat today only compounds the sense of gathering crisis.

Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals
The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days.

Citi: China Sold Their Treasuries Because They Want To Buy Tons Of Gold
In regards to whether or not China truly sold down its holdings of U.S. treasuries recently, the situation remains a bit murky. But Citi’s Alan Heap thinks it happened for sure.

Presenting A Scientific Theory For The Fair Value Of Gold (With 88% Accuracy)
The greatest mystery in finance is and always will be what the fair value of gold is.

Pound slides further on surprise Fed rate rise
Sterling hit a nine-month low against the dollar on Friday as the US currency continued to gain broadly after the Federal Reserve raised its discount rate.

Asia Leads the Global End to Cheap Money
The U.S. Federal Reserve has just kick-started its cautious exit from unprecedented emergency lending measures — but the process has been going on for months in the Asia-Pacific region, underscoring the two-speed path of the global recovery.

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash

Head Of Greek Debt Office Replaced By Former Goldman Investment Banker
Yet what is oddest, is that Mr. Christodoulou worked not only as head of derivatives at JP Morgan but also held comparable posts at Credit Suisse, and… wait for it, Goldman Sachs… Uh, say what?

Fed bumps up rate banks pay for emergency loans
The Federal Reserve decided Thursday to boost the rate banks pay for emergency loans. The action is part of a broader move to pull back the extraordinary aid it provided to fight the financial crisis.

The Middle Class Two Income Trap – Two Breadwinners plus Extra Money to support the Banking Industry. How Middle Class Americans are losing Ground by Supporting the Financial Sector.
If it isn’t enough that average Americans are contending with the rising cost of healthcare, education, and daily necessities like food now additional funds are going directly to the banking sector to keep them propped up like a money loving puppet.

George Soros buys gold despite dubbing it 'ultimate bubble'
George Soros doubled his investment in the world's largest gold fund – just weeks before claiming investing in the precious metal is now the "ultimate bubble".

Producer Prices in U.S. Increase More Than Forecast
Wholesale prices in the U.S. accelerated more than anticipated in January, led by a jump in the costs of energy, light trucks and pharmaceuticals.

Gold May Advance to $1,400 in 12 Months: Technical Analysis
Gold may climb to about $1,400 an ounce in the next 12 months, according to technical analysis by Chartered Market Technician Daniel Bruno, who advises banks and hedge funds.

The Volcker Rule: It’s not happening
The much-hyped Volcker Rule proposal is failing fast in the U.S. Congress. But Paul Volcker himself probably isn’t that surprised.

U.S. state pension funds have $1 trillion shortfall: Pew
U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees' pensions and retirement benefits, and their financial problems are quickly mounting, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States on Thursday.

How JP Morgan treats its clients: scandalously and in bad faith
Judge Jed Rakoff’s January 29 ruling in the case of Empresas Cablevisión vs JP Morgan Chase Bank has barely been reported, which is a shame, because it sheds some much-needed light on how banks like JP Morgan really operate — and, for that matter, on the kinds of methods by which Carlos Slim has made his multi-billion-dollar fortune.

When stints on payroll hurt the jobless
After nearly a year without work, Gary LaPlante was happy to take a three-week construction job. What he didn’t know was that the job would cost him more than two-thirds of his benefits when he went back on unemployment.

Muni Threat: Cities Weigh Chapter 9
Just days after becoming controller of financially strapped Harrisburg, Pa., in January, Daniel Miller began uttering an obscure term that baffled most people who had never heard it and chilled those who had: Chapter 9.

IMF gold plan poses tricky twist for market
The International Monetary Fund's long-planned sale of its 403 tonnes of gold has taken on a new twist that may chip away at one of the fundamental drivers for higher gold prices.

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class
The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

Jobless Claims, Inflation Jump as Economy Wobbles
The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery.

Into a Thousand Pieces
So, why is this still important forty-seven years after President Kennedy's murder? As JFK himself said in his commencement address at Yale University on 11 June, 1962, "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

Because it appears to me that since that grim day in November 1963, the three illegitimate branches of our Federal government: the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Federal Reserve; have, using the myth created by the Warren Commission, increasingly usurped the power of the three legitimate branches to themselves, destroying America's long-term hope for peace and prosperity in the world.

New IAEA Chief Stokes Iran War Fever for the Bush-Obama Regime
By Chris Floyd
In an astounding development, the brand-new director of the International Atomic Energy Agency — who was narrowly elected to the post a few months ago with the strong, one might say insistent, backing of the United States — has just issued his very first report on Iran’s nuclear program.

Hushing Up “Conspiracy Theories”
By Jeff Riggenbach
If you spend much time on the Internet, you probably also know why Sunstein has been receiving a lot of attention from the blogosphere lately.

The U.S. Military’s German Fetish
By William Astore and Tom Engelhardt
Those were the days when, as retired lieutenant colonel and TomDispatch regular William Astore reminds us, the civilians in the Bush Pentagon thought they were the masters of lightning war.

1001 Reasons to Own Gold
By Jeff Clark
Tracking the numerous ongoing bullish factors for gold is quite a chore.

Socialist Bankruptcy in Greece
By Jacob Hornberger
How long have European socialists been telling us how successful European welfare-statism has been? The governments in Europe’s socialist countries, they tell us, take care of their people with pensions, social security, free health care and education, and job security. And everything, they say, is just hunky dory.

A Monster Named Torture: Cheney’s Baby
Dick Cheney must derive vicarious pleasure from images of physical abuse. Probably, photographs of victims from Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Bagram wallpaper his bedroom, bathroom, and dining room. Probably, he DNAs into his whitey tighties when he thinks or speaks of “waterboarding.”

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore Liberty
By Walt Garlington
Until 1913, when the 17th Amendment was ratified, the citizens of the states elected U.S. senators indirectly: Voters elected the state legislators, and they in turn selected U.S. senators.

Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do
By Paul Craig Roberts
Social Security, formerly an untouchable "third rail of politics," is now "unsustainable," while the real unsustainables--a pre-1929 unregulated financial system and open-ended multi-trillion dollar Global War Against Terror--are the new untouchables.

The Next Ron Paul? (Video)
Governor Gary Johnson On the Judge Napolitano Show

The Tide Has Changed - Gilad Atzmon
The British anger at Israel would be a positive signal in the right direction if we were not aware of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband investing enormous efforts trying to amend Britain’s ethical stand just to appease Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli leaders.

I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself!
By Chuck Baldwin
By taking his life, he reduced our strength. The global elites delight in our demise. As we grow weaker, they grow stronger.

Fed Raises Discount Rate - Peter Schiff
Discussing the impact on the markets, with Peter Schiff

Texas ordered to destroy five million blood samples illegally taken from babies without consent
The subject of a recent federal lawsuit, routine blood samples legally taken from Texas newborns to screen for disorders and diseases were illegally being kept by the Texas Department of State Health Services without parental consent.

Gov’t Gets Desperate; wants to conceal Turner’s FBI role from Jury!
In a desperate bid to save their losing case, federal prosecutors are seeking to conceal evidence from the jury in the upcoming re-trial of radio host and blogger, Hal Turner.

Activist's case will test U.S. anti-terrorism law
Ralph Fertig hardly resembles a terrorist, but the soft-spoken 79-year-old pacifist and human rights activist from Los Angeles might well qualify as one under the government's strong anti-terrorism law.

Bill O’Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies
Bill O'Reilly interviewed the founder of the Oathkeepers tonight. During their discussion O'Reilly supported gun confiscation during hurricanes. He told the Oathkeeper that his views on the Second Amendment were extreme.