Headlines for 09-01-07

Iran may hire others to finish Russian nuclear plant: report Iran is considering alternative builders to finish its first nuclear power plant amid disputes with Russia, which now heads the project, a Russian daily quoted an Iranian official as saying Friday.


Iran changes Revolutionary Guards commander:TV Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday replaced the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, a force U.S. officials have said Washington may label a terrorist group.


Phase III of Bush's War by Patrick J. Buchanan ** What is to prevent Bush from attacking Iran and widening the war, at a time and place of his choosing, and sooner than we think? Nothing and no one.



Gulf Arabs accept Iran offer for talks on free trade pact Pro-Western Gulf Arab monarchies have agreed to an Iranian offer to launch talks on a possible free trade pact, the secretary general of their oil-rich bloc said on Saturday.



Nuclear watchdog chief warns of 'last chance' for Iran


The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran


Underdog Paul inspires political passion


The U.S.-Israeli Draft In a recent press release, PNAC called on the U.S. government to institute the military draft, and induct U.S. servicemen and women directly into the Israeli Defense Force.


Bush Indictment of Iran Tops Usual Rhetoric


Can We Win the Ideological War? by Patrick J. Buchanan


Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.


Outsourcing the Case for War With Iran ** On the heels of President George W. Bush?s latest threats against Iran for its ?murderous activities? in Iraq, the Weekly Standard has obligingly published a 30-page report by Kimberly Kagan, spouse of Surge co-architect and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Frederick Kagan and director of an entity called The Institute for the Study of War, entitled ?Iran?s Proxy War Against the United States and the Iraqi Government?


Showdown Over Iran **


Bush Puts Iran in Crosshairs ** Not another warning about war with Iran! Well, suck it up. President George W. Bush's speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being "fixed around the policy."


Pentagon 'three-day blitz' plan for Iran ** THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians? military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.....Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.




Underdog Paul lights political passion


They Did Not Attack Us for Our Freedoms


Rice, Hadley subpoenas resisted in AIPAC case Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists facing espionage charges have subpoenaed Miss Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and several others to testify at their trial next year. If their testimony is allowed by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the trial could offer a behind-the-scenes look at the way U.S. foreign policy is crafted.


Strange Goings-On Here in Lebanon .. Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's leader, boasts of new weapons. The Lebanese suspect that these include anti-aircraft missiles. If this is true ? and many Lebanese who have spent their lives under Israel's cruel air attacks, assaults which have often been war crimes, hope it is ? then the next war will be anticipated with dark but keen anxiety. Since the Israeli army is incapable of fighting the Hizbollah on its own ground ? its collapse when faced by Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon last year proved this ? what happens if their awesome air power is also neutered?


Walt & Mearsheimer's Proof That 'Tail Wagged the Dog' Points American Jews to a Universalist Ethos


Call for a Coalition Against Arming Theocratic States By Lenni Brenner In 1948, Democrat Harry Truman, needing campaign funds from wealthy pro-Zionist Jews, recognized officially Orthodox Jewish Israel. He loaned it money used to buy weapons to drive hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians into exile.


Editor's Notes: Jeopardizing American interests This clearly pro-Israel writer states that the work of Mearsheimer and Walt works against US interests, a laughable notion, and that Iran is a threat to America (which it is not).


Lebanon refugees yearn to return home once fighting ends Nahr al-Bared was home to 31,000 Palestinian refugees when the fighting broke out but most residents fled the camp shortly afterwards, mostly to Beddawi camp.


Moscow denies involvement in Israel-Syria tensions "The Israeli government knows very well that in our dealings with Syria and Israel we invariably follow the line of reducing tensions in the region, preventing a new conflict and re-launching the peace process,"