Facts on File: U.S. Imperialism

U.S./Israel Planning to Attack Iran?
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  • "Bombs Away? Arms expert Scott Ritter says the U.S. plans to attack Iran. MT asks why he's so sure." -- Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron, Metro Times, November 30, 2007
  • "Will the US Really Bomb Iran?" -- Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, September 8/9, 2007
  • "From al-Qaeda to al-Quds" -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, September 7, 2007
  • "When Wishful Thinking Replaces Resistance: Why Bush Can Get Away with Attacking Iran" -- Jean Bricmont, CounterPunch, September 4, 2007
  • "Bush threatens to militarily “confront” Iran" -- Bill Van Auden, World Socialist Web Site, August 29, 2007
  • "Inventing reasons for targeting Iran" -- Elizabeth Schulte, Socialist Worker, August 24, 2007
  • "Bush's New War Drums for Iran" -- Ray McGovern, Consortiumnews.com, August 21, 2007
  • "Is US Preparing to Attack Iran?" -- Omid Memarian, The Huffington Post, August 20, 2007
  • "US steps closer to war with Iran" -- Kaveh L Afrasiabi, Asia Times, August 18, 2007
  • "A Neo-Conservative International Targets Iran" -- Jim Lobe, LobeLob.com, June 9, 2007
  • "Tomgram: Klare and Constantino, Where is the USS Nimitz?" -- TomDispatch, May 7, 2007
  • "Why the U.S. is targeting Iran" -- Sarah Flounders, Workers World, May 5, 2007
  • "Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times" -- John Pilger, The New Statesman, April 16, 2007
  • "Thinktank to White House: Iran War Would Push Oil Prices Through the Roos" -- Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, April 12, 2007
  • "The Iran War Theater's "Northern Front": Azerbaijan and the US Sponsored War on Iran" -- Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, April 9, 2007
  • "Kuwaiti media: U.S. to attack Iran by end of April" -- Global Research, April 8, 2007
  • "Real US battles with Iran still lie ahead" -- Mahan Abedin, Asia Times, March 31, 2007
  • "Britain's provocation against Iran threatens over sailors threatens prospective catastrophic nuclear war" -- Peter Symonds, The Canadian, March 31, 2007
  • "Is UK-Iran marine incident part of larger war provocation plan?" -- Larry Chin, Online Journal, March 30, 2007
  • "Subverting Iran: Washington's Covert War inside Iran" -- Gregory Elich, Global Research, March 23, 2007
  • "Three US reasons to attack Iran" -- Michael Klare, Asia Times, February 21, 2007
  • "US war drums beat louder after Iran fails to meet UN deadline" -- Peter Symonds, World Socialist Web Site, February 26, 2007
  • "The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" -- Seymour Hersch, The New Yorker, February 25, 2007
  • ""Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT)" -- Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization, February 21, 2007
  • "Will the United States attack Iran?" -- Hans Blix, IHT, February 19, 2007
  • "Iran - Ready to attack" -- Dan Plesch, New Statesman, February 19, 2007
  • "Chomsky on Iran, Iraq and the Rest of the World" -- Michael Shank, Toward Freedom, February 18, 2007
  • "An “Existential” Conflict: Charging Iran With “Genocide” Before Nuking It " -- Dan Plesch, Dissident Voice, February 11, 2007
  • "Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad: another US provocation?" -- Peter Symonds, Centre for Research on Globalization, February 11, 2007
  • "War: It's just a pretext away: Lessons from Yugoslavia" -- Mickey Z, Alternative Press Review, February 11, 2007
  • "Intelligence Briefings to NYT Notch Up Tension: Will They Nuke Iran?" -- Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, February 10/11, 2007
  • "Iran: The War Begins" -- John Pilger, The New Statesman, February 10, 2007
  • "Iran's Defense Against an Imminent U.S. Attack" -- Ron Fullwood, OpEdNews, February 10, 2007
  • "Target Iran: US able to strike in the spring; Despite denials, Pentagon plans for possible attack on nuclear sites are well advanced" -- Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, February 10, 2007
  • "Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran" -- Hamid Dabashi, Al-Ahram, February 8-14, 2007
  • "Thelma and Louise Imperialism: Over the Cliff with George and Dick?" -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, February 8, 2007
  • "Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and US War Preparations (Part One) " -- Walter C. Uhler, Dissident Voice, February 6, 2007
  • "From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq" -- Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, March 2007
  • "Bush Is Hiding the Ball on Irag" -- Robert Parry, The Consortium of Independent Journalism, February 2, 2007
  • "Iran Clock Is Ticking" -- Robert Parry, The Consortium of Independent Journalism, January 31, 2007
  • "Iran Must Get Ready to Repel a Nuclear Attack" -- Leonid Ivashov, Centre for Research on Globalization, January 24, 2007
  • "Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back" -- William Thomas, Convergence Weekly, January 18, 2007
  • "Iran: Pieces in Place for Escalation "The fuel for a fire is in place"." -- Col. Sam Gardiner, Centre for Research on Globalisation, January 16, 2007
  • "The new war: Bush declares war on Iran and Syria, fires first shot" -- Geov Parrish, WorkingforChange.com, January 16, 2007
  • "Iran: Thinking the Unthinkable" -- Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 15, 2007
  • "Bush administration provokes open war on Iran: Irbil raid, and other operations, authorized "several months ago"" -- Larry Chin, GlobalResearch.ca, January 15, 2007
  • "The Next Act" -- Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, November 20, 2006
  • "US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War?" -- Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca, October 24, 2006
  • "The Next War" -- Daniel Ellsberg, Harpers, October 19, 2006
  • "Beware empires in decline" -- Michael T. Klare, Asia Times, October 19, 2006
  • "The BBC and Israeli Propaganda: Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran" -- Jonathan Cook, CounterPunch, October 11, 2006
  • "Bush’s Nuclear Apocalypse" -- Chris Hedges, Truthdig, October 9, 2006
  • "Eisenhower Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater" -- Dave Lindorff, www.thiscantbehappening.org, October 9, 2006
  • "The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean." -- Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Centre for Research on Globalization, October 1, 2006
  • "Why Bush Will Nuke Iran" -- Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearing House, September 26, 2006
  • "Is the Bush Administration Itching to Nuke Iran? A Crisis Upon Us" -- Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch, September 25, 2006
  • "Urgent Letter from Dennis Kucinich about Bush Administration Plans for a US War vs. Iran" -- AfterDowningStreet.org, September 22, 2006
  • "War Signals?" -- Dave Lindorff, The Nation, September 21, 2006
  • "Why Bush will Choose War Against Iran" -- Ray Close, Information Clearing House, August 25, 2006
  • "Is Lebanon the 'Trigger' for U.S. War With Iran?" -- Larisa Alexandrovna, AlterNet, August 10, 2006
  • "Iran: The Next War", James Bamford, Rolling Stone, July 2006
  • "Urgent! UK government sources confirm war with Iran is on" -- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Axis of Logic, July 25, 2006
  • "Last Stand: The military's problem with the President's Iran policy." -- Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 10, 2006
  • "Next We Take Tehran" -- Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones, July-August 2006
  • "This high-octane rocket-rattling against Tehran is unlikely to succeed" -- Tariq Ali, The Guardian, May 3, 2006
  • "Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? Israel has American warheads ready to fire; Iranians see only hypocrisy from the world's nuclear powers" -- James C. Moore, The Independent, May 1, 2006
  • "1 Million Dead Iranians" -- Chris Floyd, Information Clearing House, April 21, 2006
  • "The Iran Plans: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?" -- Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, April 17, 2006
  • "If You Liked the Iraq War, You'll Love the Iran War" -- Cenk Uygur, Huffington Post, April 14, 2006
  • "Selling the War against Iran" -- Ghali Hassan, GlobalResearch.ca, April 10, 2006
  • "Top UK Brass Plan For US Strike On Iran" -- Michael Carmichael, The Planetary Movement Unlimited, April 10, 2006
  • "Why the United States will attack Iran in 2006" -- Pravda, April 7, 2006
  • "Deja Vu All Over Iran" -- Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com, March 19, 2006
  • "No, the Iran Oil Bourse is not a casus belli…" -- F. William Engdahl, GlobalResearch.ca, March 10, 2006
  • Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust? Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?" -- Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca, February 22, 2006
  • "Iran: the next war" -- John Pilger, New Statesman, February 13, 2006
  • "A step closer to military action: Why is Washington taking aim at Iran?" -- Lee Sustar, Socialist Worker, February 10, 2006
  • "Iran: the next war" by John Pilger Information Clearing House, February 9, 2006
  • "Media Alert: Iran, The Media Fall Into Line", MediaLens, February 9, 2006
  • "Plans for Iran" by Mike Whitney, Uruknet, February 1, 2006
  • "Bush's 130,000 Hostages: Why the U.S. Probably Won't Attack Iran" by Andrew Cockburn, CounterPunch, January 31, 2006
  • "Is the US about to topple the Iranian regime?" by Morad Shirin, In Defense of Marxism, January 26, 2006
  • "War With Iran: It's More Than Nuclear" by Brickburner.org, In Defense of Marxism, January 25, 2006
  • "Prepare to Defend Iraq from a Nuclear Attack" by Rory Winter, Bellacio, January 21, 2006
  • "The approaching war with Iran: How real is the Iran nuclear threat to the United States?" by Ed Haas, Information Clearing House, January 20, 2006
  • "Why Iran?" by Steven Gowan, What's Left, January 15, 2006
  • "Red lines in the Iranian sand" by Praful Bidwai, IPS, January 13, 2006
  • "Talking Up a Nuclear Armageddon" Chimes of Freedom Blog, January 11, 2006
  • Wayne Madsen Report, January 5, 2006
  • "Nuclear War against Iran" by Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization, January 3, 2006
  • "Washington has been holding talks with allies in preparation of an air assault on Iran", Al-Jazeera, January 1, 2006
  • "The U.S. and Iran: Is Washington Planning a Military Strike?", Spiegel, December 30, 2005
  • "Israel's War Deadline: Iran in the Crosshairs", by James Petras, Counterpunch, December 24/25, 2005
  • "Israel is getting ready to attack Iran by the end of March", Al-Jazeera, December 23, 2005
  • "Persian Fire: Israel's special forces at the "highest stage of readiness"" by Chris Floyd, Moscow Times, December 20, 2005
  • "Khuzestan: The First Front in the War on Iran?" by Zoltan Grossman, ZNet, November 7, 2005
  • "Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come" by Jorge Hirsch, antiwar.com, October 17, 2005
  • "US war with Iran has already begun" by Scott Ritter, Al-Jazeera, June 23, 2005
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