Editor's Note: Axis Reader Joseph comments on the article we re-published yesterday - The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran | Media Critiques |Axisoflogic.com - LMB How saddening... Many of us in the U.S. (the people working day to day) see ourselves slipping down this well-oiled,... » read this article

Editorial As most readers know, the drumbeat for war on Iran has been building over the last several years in both, the imperial and alternative media. Our question is: if the US/Israeli regime plans to attack, why threaten and not simply do it. The writer of the article below tries... » read this article

31 January 2012 The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year. The article, written by Ronen Bergman, a prominent Israeli journalist... » read this article

The United States claims Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Israel says Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says it is trying to build nuclear power generation - you know, the same kind of activity the US paid Iran to do during the reign of the Shah.... » read this article

Officially, America is now bankrupt: financially, economically, politically – and morally. Its criminal aggression towards Iran is just one of many parts of a jigsaw that add up to a clear and grotesque picture of what the United States of America now represents in the 21st Century world. The numbers... » read this article

"Despite warnings from the Obama administration that Latin America should not engage in relations with Iran, President Ahmadinejad held a successful four-country tour in the region forging commerce and trade and consolidating relations."  T/ COI P/ Presidential Press Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Caracas... » read this article

Washington has made no secret of its disdain for Venezuela’s President Chavez and mass media have turned a democratic leader into a dictatorship. Does Venezuela really represent a threat to the United States or is the hype just an excuse for regime change? [NOTE: I accompanied President Chavez on his... » read this article

Editorial comment: This excellent article from 2006 is well worth getting republished today. Every word is as important in the year of 2012 as it was when it was first written.  -SON The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it... » read this article

Is Iran the new Japan – 70 years after the Pearl Harbour incident that led to a US declaration of war and an unspeakable nuclear nightmare? Two concurrent articles on Global Research deserve close reading because taken together they suggest that history is in danger of repeating itself, with even... » read this article

On 22 May 2007, the Guardian's front page announced: "Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq." The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which included "forging ties with al-Qaida elements". The coming "showdown" was an Iranian... » read this article

Iran's claim last week to have arrested 12 spies working for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is potentially a major blow to American intelligence-gathering efforts in Iran and to American intelligence generally. The arrests come on the heels of the arrest of 30 alleged CIA spies in late... » read this article

For at least the past two decades, political leaders in the United States and Israel have warned that Iran was on the threshold of building a nuclear weapon. From what we've been hearing lately from the media, Iran is once again... on that threshold. Touting thousands of pages of carefully... » read this article

"We will not build two (nuclear) bombs in the face of (America's) 20,000," said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency report this week that accuses Iran of doing just that. He called Yukiya Amano, the head of the IAEA, a U.S. puppet, saying: "This... » read this article

Editor's Comment: What is always ignored or hammered under by the corporate media is the fact that if the Iranian government wants to develop nuclear weapons it has a right to have them as an appropriate national defense against those who have nuclear arms and a history of threatening their country. This... » read this article

From bizarre claims about the use of "mercenaries" to tongue-in-cheek travel advisories, countries long used to Western criticism of their own human rights records are relishing Britain's embarrassment over the riots sweeping its cities With its long colonial past and its carefully nurtured self-image as the mother of parliamentary democracy... » read this article

The Iranian Government has consistently reported that the Zionists have been assassinating their university professors and scientists for the past year. Driving out and killing off a country's academics and scientists was also the method used for overrunning Iraq. It's sort of like a destruction of the human infrastructure of... » read this article

Almost directly in proportion to the nosedive in Washington's ties with its allies in Kabul and Islamabad, Iran has stepped up its political and diplomatic activity over the Afghan problem and the regional situation. Tehran estimates that the United States' relations with the Afghan and Pakistani governments have suffered a... » read this article

Unlike what many analysts thought, the United States is making serious efforts to depose the government of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. This change of strategy first became apparent in U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on May 19, 2011, in which he said that some regional allies were not responding... » read this article

In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, every time the Queen of Hearts is crossed or defeated during her mad croquet match, she shouts “Off with his head!” at the offender. When Alice points out that the trial of the Knave of Hearts, alleged to have stolen some tarts, is... » read this article

February 14 in many Iranian cities was marked with massive rallies and opposition clashes with security forces. A number of Western media and politicians have tried to present it as a "continuation of the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt". U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quite clearly supported the actions... » read this article