October 2010

“This conflict is the bone in the throat of the world”

by News Sources 10.06.2010

Phil Weiss, who’s in Israel right now, sat down to talk with Jeff Halper, the Minnesota-born founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, to hear his thoughts on the conflict. Halper would be happy living in a democracy with Palestinians. I asked him why so many Israelis don’t feel that way. “There is a [...]

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Obama grovels for Netanyahu’s approval

by News Sources 10.05.2010

Jonathan Cook reports: The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more skeptical about U.S. and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous [...]

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Washington Post calls for escalation of the war in Pakistan

by Paul Woodward 10.05.2010

After three Frontier Corps soldiers were killed in a NATO helicopter attack on a Pakistani border post last week, the Pakistani government cut off supplies to Afghanistan by closing the Torkham border crossing. It was the easiest way of sending a message to Washington that killing Pakistani soldiers is unacceptable. The Washington Post‘s editorial page [...]

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The terrorist threat to rational thinking

by Paul Woodward 10.04.2010

Is the word “terrorism” a secret terrorist weapon? It appears that when US government officials try to think about terrorism their brains stop working. It’s a word that has become a piece of neural malware and everywhere it spreads, rational minds sputter and then cease to function. Who could have dreamed that a simple word [...]

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Stuxnet, Bushehr and Siemens WinCC software

by Paul Woodward 10.03.2010

Ben D, a commenter at this site and Arms Control Wonk is skeptical about my assertion that Siemens SCADA software is being used at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility. I based that claim on a UPI photograph that led the German industrial security expert, Ralph Langner, to speculate that Bushehr was the intended target of the [...]

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The Israeli threat to global security

by Paul Woodward 10.02.2010

A USB memory stick carrying the Stuxnet malware is believed to have provided intruders with access to Iran’s nuclear program. The same technique was used in November 2008 to break into CENTCOM, providing a foreign government with unfiltered access to the Pentagon’s command of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did both attacks come from [...]

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Israel: smart enough to create Stuxnet and stupid enough to use it

by Paul Woodward 10.01.2010

Ever since speculation began, suggesting that Israel is the source of the Stuxnet malware, there has been a buzz of excitement in the Zionist corner of the blogosphere. The DEBKAfile — trusted source for pro-Israel fantasists all over the world — declared that if it turns out that millions of Iranian industrial units have been [...]

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