Will U.S. Submit Its Case Against Iran to Arbitration or Will it Take Unilateral Action?‏

U.S. CAN DEMAND ARBITRATION

OVER ALLEGED IRANIAN PLOT

By Sherwood Ross

“If the Obama administration truly believes it has credible evidence that Iran was behind this alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi diplomat on the streets of Washington D.C., then it must invoke the Protection of Diplomats Convention(PDC) and demand arbitration of this claim with Iran,” a distinguished American authority on international law says. The diplomat Iran is accused of plotting to kill is the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

“In the event Iran were to reject such arbitration, then the Obama administration could sue Iran at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the so-called World Court of the United Nations System,” says Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Boyle recalled that during the Iranian Hostages Crisis, “the International Court of Justice rendered an overwhelming victory on behalf of the United States against Iran that played an important role in the successful resolution of that crisis. So the World Court is an eminently fair institution to resolve this latest international dispute between Iran and the United States.”

On the other hand, Boyle continued, “If the Obama administration’s real motivation is to concoct and manufacture a pretext for a crisis resulting in provocations and hostilities, it will continue to argue its so-called case to the Western news media which is inherently biased against Iran, instead of resorting to this regularly established and already proven to be effective international judicial dispute settlement procedure.” The PDC was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1973.

Boyle has been involved in major international cases challenging U.S. defense policy on nuclear and biological warfare activities and against its preemptive wars. He is the author of numerous books on these issues, including, “Tackling America’s Toughest Questions,” (Clarity Press), and he was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Convention.

The headlines about the alleged conspiracy have successfully sensationalized U.S. charges. There was no comparable publicity in U.S. media when Iranian nuclear scientists have been actually assassinated.

Over the past several years three Iranian scientists involved in that country’s nuclear effort have been murdered, the most recent this past July. (An attempt on the life of a fourth scientist was foiled.) The Times said the killings are widely believed to have been the work of Israeli agents and were conducted “with tolerance from the United States.”

Also, as the Times reported: “Both countries (Israel and America) are believed to have worked in recent years to sabotage Iran’s program to enrich uranium, smuggling damaged components into Iran’s supply chain and destroying centrifuges by planting the so-called Stuxnet computer worm.”

The goal behind those actions appears to be to continue Israel as the dominant nuclear power in the region. Israel, which declines to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, is believed to possess some 200 nuclear warheads. It has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1996 and refuses to allow international inspection of its facilities. Iran, by contrast, has no nuclear weapons and the former head of the IAEA said recently there is no evidence that Iran is attempting to build one.

Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University told The New York Times October 15th, “The Iranians absolutely believe the U.S. and Israel have been carrying out a covert campaign against them and clearly they are right.”

Resorting to assassination, though, would be the worst possible response for Iran. Given past official Iranian statements disavowing retaliation for the murders of the three scientists, the new charges brought by the U.S. about the Saudi ambassador plot must be viewed with some skepticism. According to the Associated Press, an Iranian official has said Iran would not retaliate for the “ugly phenomenon” of the killing of their scientists. By refraining from any revenge killing for its scientists, Iran has sought to place itself on the high ground in the dispute.


(Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant for good causes and director of the Anti-War News Service. He formerly reported for major dailies and worked as a columnist for several wire services. Reach him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com)

William Cooper - The Hermetic Marriage (Full Length)

CNN Wants This Video Banned (SEE WHY)

IKE'S GRANDSON REISSUES "MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" WARNING---A LITTLE TOO LATE?

By Sherwood Ross

David Eisenhower, grandson of the president who warned Americans of a “military-industrial complex(MIC) 50 years ago, says in an essay this month that that coalition today “retains significant influence...” Yes, indeedy! In fact, when the Pentagon gets more than half of all taxes collected from the American people and spends more for war than all our 50 governors spend to run their states, his phrase “significant influence” may be a wee bit understated.

As the National Priorities Project(NPP) of Northampton, Mass., puts it: “Since 2001, the U.S. has spent $7.6 trillion in security-related efforts, including: Department of Defense base-line, nuclear weapons, Homeland Security and war.” The $500 billion being spent just on the F-35 fighter-bomber jet alone is feeding Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney and 1,300 other suppliers from nine countries and 48 U.S. States, a business magazine reports.

What’s more, NPP says, this year’s spending of $122 billion just on the Afghan war “is greater than the 2012 deficits of 42 states and the District of Columbia combined.” (Holy cow, Batman, you could run America on that money!)

In a gentlemanly essay published in “Bloomberg BusinessWeek” magazine of September 5th, (the source of much of the other military data in this article), Eisenhower writes that Pentagon budgets today “remain large, and the U.S. military operates globally in a way not remotely foreseen 50 years ago.” Again, how true! Fifty years ago who could have imagined a Pentagon involved in six wars of aggression in the Middle East! When Eisenhower’s brilliant grandfather ran the army, the United States was not a country that started wars. Instead, it finished them. Why, it defeated the great powers Germany and Italy in three and a half years while today’s Pentagon has dawdled around for 10 years trying to wrest control of tiny Afghanistan and just can’t seem to manage it! Indeed, a person with a paranoid turn of mind, such as myself, might even suspect the MIC wants an ongoing war or two to keep contractor profits at their historic record highs!

And because the American cause was just in 1944, the entire civilized world rallied behind General Eisenhower as he brilliantly organized and directed the invasion of Hitler-occupied Europe. By contrast, today the entire world, including a majority of Americans, opposes the U.S. and NATO presence in the Middle East, and wants them O-U-T, out!

And who could have imagined in President Eisenhower’s day any American president believing he owns the kingly right to wipe out any human being on the planet without first consulting a judge and jury? Yet Mr. Obama, with perhaps divine guidance from the CIA, follows this routine regularly. And so what if innocent civilians, including children, are incinerated suddenly by exploding missiles aimed at the enemy from drone attack planes? So what if the USA has become the world’s No. 1 jailer and is holding thousands of prisoners without jury trials in squalid conditions and denies that torturing them is torture?

In his essay Eisenhower writes that his grandfather meant every word of his famous warning. Proof: the popular (“I like”) Ike slashed military spending 27% during his eight years in office. The contemporary Eisenhower says the MIC phrase wasn’t “just words written for him by a speechwriter...Watching segments of it (Ike’s Farewell Address) today, no one who knew Dwight Eisenhower can doubt the earnestness of his words or that they are his own.”

That Farewell Message, Eisenhower writes, “conveyed his deeply held values: his dedication to America’s adventure in free government” and our “charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.” Those undoubtedly were Ike’s values, all right, but they hardly represent the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Via their ongoing wars, America’s indentured taxpayers today lavish nearly as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. It is a nation that is even manufacturing noxious germ warfare in secret laboratories, and that has set much of its ingenious scientific community to the task of perfecting its killing machines. As Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons once warned, a Nazi victory would sink the world “into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.” (Is anyone tracking the number of otherwise splendid American universities where germ warfare is being researched right on the campus?)

As for “human betterment,” that phrase can hardly describe the 1-million innocent victims killed by USA in Iraq, the millions of wounded, the millions forced to flee their homes and/or country. And as the Pentagon bleeds the American people for wars they don’t want, “human betterment” doesn’t describe the fate of America’s 95-million with housing problems(source: Habitat for Humanity), its 50-million without health insurance(source: AP), its 13-million unemployed,(source: Robert Reich) its 44-million on food stamps(source: Department of Agriculture), and its record 46-million living in poverty(source: Census Bureau).

“Retains significant influence?” Ha! Ha! I'm laughing all the way to the firing squad.

(Sherwood Ross directs a public relations firm “for good causes” and writes on military and political affairs. To comment or contribute to his work, contact him at sherwoodross@gmail.com)

Vid: Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes

WAS PRESIDENT BUSH COMPLICIT IN 9/11?

By Sherwood Ross


Was President George W. Bush complicit in the 9/11 attacks? That’s a question that will not go away on this 10th anniversary of those terrible events.

If many people continue to wonder about it, perhaps it’s because the Bush regime did not call for a prompt investigation into 9/11 and subsequently obstructed its work. There is a fresh report that some information turned up by the FBI in Florida was held back on direct orders from Mr. Bush.

To begin with, as Philip Shenon reported in The New York Times of July 9, 2003, “The federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks said today that its work was being hampered by the failure of the executive branch agencies, especially the Pentagon and the Justice Department, to respond quickly to requests for documents and testimony.”

He wrote the panel’s chair and vice-chair released a statement “declaring that they had received only a small part of the millions of sensitive government documents they had requested from the executive branch.”

What’s more, Shenon pointed out, the Administration would not allow its officials to be interviewed “without the presence of government colleagues” so that the panel’s chairman suggested the situation amounted to “intimidation” of the witnesses. Why?

There’s ample evidence President Bush didn’t want a panel convened in the first place. As David Firestone reported in the Times of Nov. 15, 2002, the White House only yielded “to intense pressure from families of Sept. 11 victims” to create the panel. Firestone wrote that Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, “had fought zealously for the commission for months, leveling bitter criticism at the White House for stalling it...”

Of course, Bush’s opposition to the panel is zero proof that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks in any way. He may have only wished to cover up the incompetence of his government’s response to them. Writing in The Times on Feb. 4, 2008, Evan Thomas pointed out, “The official ineptitude uncovered by the commission is shocking.”

Questions about Bush’s appointments to the 9/11 panel are more than troubling. Bush initially named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger chairman of the 9/11 probe---a man whose consulting firm it turned out had done work for the bin Laden family! What a coincidence, right?

When Kissinger hurriedly resigned, Bush named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean in his place. Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research pointed out that Kean “sits on the board of directors of a company which has business dealings with financier Khalid bin Mahfouz.” Kean, it turns out, was a director of Amerada Hess Corp., involved in a joint venture with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia, an outfit owned in part by Mahfouz---a man whose sister is married to Osama bin Laden! Another coincidence, of course.

Chossudovsky writes, “Carefully documented by (Washington reporter) Wayne Madsen, George W. Bush also had dealings with Osama’s brother-in-law (bin Mahfouz,) when he was in the Texas oil business” and both Bush and bin-Mahfouz were implicated in the Bank of Commerce International scandal.”

Americans are right to be skeptical of Bush’s motives when the two chairmen he names to the 9/11 panel are linked to the bin Laden family. They are also right to be skeptical of the 9/11 Commission Report. As David Ray Griffin noted in his “Debunking 9/11 Debunking”(Olive Branch Press), a Zogby poll taken in May, 2006, indicated that 42% of the American people believed that “the U.S. government and its 9/11 Commission concealed...critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks.” And a Scripps/Ohio University poll in August, 2006, showed 36% of the public believes “federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them “because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.”

A new report in the Miami Herald of September 8, states that “The final 28-page of the (official) Inquiry’s report, which deals with “sources of foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers,” was entirely blanked out. It was kept secret from the public on the orders of former President George W. Bush and is still withheld to this day, (former U.S. Senator Bob) Graham (D-Fla.)said. This new information was provided by Anthony Summers, co-author of “The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 & Osama bin Laden” and Don Christensen, editor of the online “Broward Bulldog.”

Kept from the public until now is information that a Saudi family who abruptly vacated their Sarasota, Fla., home two weeks before 9/11, “were visited by vehicles used by the hijackers” and who were in telephone communication with those “who carried out the death flights---including leader Mohamed Atta.” The information was unearthed by the FBI. Graham stated further that FBI information unearthed in California linking Saudis to 9/11 was never turned over to the 9/11 Commission , either, until Congressional investigators found it on their own.

If President Bush was honored for his probity and integrity, one might argue there is no reason today to inquire into suspicions that he was complicit in the 9/11 attacks or concealed vital information about them. Yet, as subsequent events revealed, the man lied the nation into destructive wars that killed more than a million people. It should be noted that he confided in a friendly journalist before entering the White House that he planned as president to make war on Iraq’s Saddam Hussein---and later used 9/11 as the excuse to launch it.

Was George W. Bush complicit in the 9/11 attacks? That’s a question that deserves further investigation.

(Sherwood Ross formerly worked as a reporter for major dailies and as a columnist for wire services. Today he directs the Anti-War News Service as well as a global-reach public relations firm “for good causes.” Contact him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com)

War by Deception Director's Cut (911 and Iraq lies from the same cabal)

Kirwan - LIFE Is A Moving Target

By Jim Kirwan
Rense

Americans are not used to living 'in the Moment' or in coming anywhere near the edges of oblivion that surround us now. Real Life is an agile and moving target that demands awareness and concentration from those that want to continue to live and prosper, despite the criminality that has become pervasive in this atmosphere of complete and total denial.

Real life is about far more than schedules and making money. The relationship between our thoughts and our actions have consequences; but we care not, because far too many of us have subscribed in advance to the price of being involved in getting their own part of the global-profits that are coming from the death and destruction of the planet for personal and private gain. Americans are NOT asleep; they KNOW what's going on and for the most part always have. They are choosing to stay on the sidelines because they still believe that they might one day profit from our criminal-policies and global-crimes.

Back in the 1980's some "games" came out that purport to be able to teach people how to deceive others and basically how to begin to steal the world for fun and profit: These games came from the Illuminati, and were sold openly to the public that thought they had discovered an inside track to real success, even though it might be dipped in blood. But since it would not be their blood that hardly mattered, hence when Bush made his move in 2000, that audience quietly cheered and began to look for ways to share in what was about to be. Here are three links related to this particularly underhanded commercial-scheme that seems to have worked amazingly well. The first link shows you their targets that were included in the 911 attacks. (1)

Today, this is where we are at the moment: "For most Americans, modern war has largely been an abstraction - something that happens only in far-away lands. The victims of U.S. air attack and bombardment in Pakistan, Vietnam, Lebanon, Iraq and other distant countries have seemed somehow unreal. Few ordinary Americans pay attention because U.S. military actions normally have little impact on their day-to-day lives. ... One positive consequence of the shock of Nine Eleven has been to encourage many more Americans to question official claims and re-think entrenched assumptions about their government's arrogant "policeman" role in the world. Many more Americans have come to understand how political leaders of both parties have subordinated American interests and basic justice and humanity, to Jewish-Zionist interests. ... The calamity of September 11 was a consequence, above all, of the Jewish-Zionist grip on American political life and the U.S. media. Enduring security will therefore remain elusive as long as U.S. policy, especially in the Middle East, is set by a small but very influential minority with its own agenda and strong ethno-religious ties to a key protagonist in the region." -- Mark Webber

Beyond this still distant awareness there are some very interesting aspects of the situation that we find ourselves in. This has now altered the realities under which "our military" commits itself to war. We fought fascism and the Nazi's in WWII to supposedly free the world from this contagion. However after the bullets ceased to fly in Europe the USA and Europe took the cream of the Nazi War Machine into the heart of America and Europe to continue what the Nazi's started during that war; and of course this was all done with great SECRECY.

By the time that we became involved in the 1967 War between Israel & the Arab world, that SECRET poisoned relationship revealed itself when LBJ ordered the U.S. Sixth Fleet to abandon its rescue mission of the USS Liberty, because as he said; "I want that ship (the USS Liberty) on the bottom of the sea!" and the US navy complied by recalling the fighters! Yesterday the Navy was asked if it would assist a lone American ship that is at the spot now where the USS Liberty was attacked. The ship is there to commemorate the attack on the Liberty. Here was "our" Navy's response:

""The Sixth Fleet cannot guarantee the security of S/V Liberty. Sixth Fleet recommends that if S/V Liberty is concerned about its safety and security that it should return to its point of origin." This is the sick and cowardly statement a spokesperson for the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean gave to an American citizen and sailor, Larry Toenjes, who sailed 8,000 miles to pay respect to the two U.S. Marines and 32 U.S. sailors who were murdered by the terrorist Jewish state of Israel during their cowardly and repeated attacks on the U.S.S. Liberty on June 8, 1967!"(2)

I think the US Navy has joined with the American Luftwaffe, that used to be the U.S. Air Force; but given that our air forces don't engage other air forces now, but instead they just carpet-bomb and strafe civilians, for NATO among others, while murdering civilians in five wars by the hundreds.

So why do we bother with American flags or American unit designations ­ I mean that since we have spent the entire treasury on weapons and armaments since 911; the least we can do is tear off all the American unit designation patches, for all branches of the American forces, and just furnish all our military forces with Israeli Defense Force patches, so that everyone knows who we are really fighting for!

And as for today's continuing outrage that is being orchestrated by the same people who did 911: What has been completely overlooked for the past TEN YEARS is the fact that the real failures of the same people that are now screaming that there will be another terrorist attack on 911 of this year ­ completely ignores the only real facts that the world continues to be beaten to death with. The only OUTRIGHT FAILURES to PROTECT this nation from everything that happened on 911 ­ came directly from the same people that are now demanding that this nation surrender all our rights to them, along with our Constitution and our way of life: This OUTRAGE has led to the almost complete destruction of the USA, along with their institution and promulgation of the POLICE-STATE mentality of USI, which is now running this crisis-driven state of total FEAR right into the ground.

The amounts of money spent to "protect us" against some car bombs tomorrow is ludicrous: given that these same people who caused 911 to succeed were promoted after 911 instead of being fired and charged with treason for allowing these attacks to proceed uninterrupted for an hour and forty-five minutes on 911. Now they want our total and undivided loyalty to kick-in to defend them from those of us that want them tried for TREASON!

Consequently the real terrorists in the US, Israel and England who collaborated in creating the "new Pearl Harbor" that 911 so conveniently provided them with; are continuing to soar as they loot, rape, pillage and plunder their way to victory over this nation and by extension are shoving us all into our new place at the bottom of the ladder in their New World Order. The place they have designed for us is to be the world's first 4th world nation: Because we are now slaves to everyone and everything else in the universe, and all because we continue to buy-in to the massive-lies which are now being formally crowned with whatever happens tomorrow - even if there is "no attack"!

With those games in footnote one, below, they got a head-start on treachery and treason back in the 1980's but even so it did not take them long to turn everything here on its head, so that the literal death of the USA has not even been noticed, while the USI moves in to finish us off.

Then there is this report from RT Television: Charley's comments in this report from RT are illuminating; however the point AGAIN being made, behind this made-for-TV farce is to keep the public focused on the war between the "completely irrelevant-sides" while actually ignoring the FACT that congress is now dead and has been replaced by THE SUPER COMMITEE of THIRTEEN. The so-calledpresident is the ultimate DECIDER, and the thirteenth man in everything that will now be run through the TREASON, created by the very existence of the SUPER-COMMITTEE that was created to end representative government in the USA and then will turn over all the real power to USI.(3)

Say hello to the new symbol for the left-hand side of the USI dollar bill.

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1) The Illuminati as commercial-games
http://thecomingepiphany.com/BookArticles/Cardgame.html
http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/
http://www.sjgames.com/inwo/

2) The US Navy Won't Protect Americans from Israel's Terrorists
http://investigateussliberty.info/index.php?itemid=15

3) Out of Control: Reactive US is Crisis-Led
http://rt.com/news/reactive-usa-political-jobs-205/

BACKGROUND: Slogans Are No Substitute for Reality
http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2011/art195.htm