US gives 'secret guarantee' to Israel. US gives 'secret guarantee' to Israel US President Barack Obama The United States has secretly given a "written guarantee" to Israel that obliges Washington to sell Israel nuclear fission materials, Israeli sources say. The materials will be used to "produce electricity," Israeli Army radio, which is an official Israeli news source, reported. Washington has also vowed to "publicly announce" that Israel is a responsible entity and can "contain its capabilities. " Former US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has between 200 and 300 nuclear warheads. The US has always supported Israel's policy of "nuclear ambiguity," in line with which Tel Aviv would neither confirm nor deny having the firepower.
Israel sensed a breach in the partnership two months ago when Washington supported an Egyptian proposal to hold a regional conference in 2012 on a nuclear-free Middle East. US given access to Europeans' bank data under deal approved by EU. Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens. If Fascism Comes To America « Coreys Views. June Jobs Numbers And Financial Regulation: What’s Next? America: The World's Master of Double Standards. Bp Republicans. This industry, which includes multinational and independent oil and gas producers and refiners, natural gas pipeline companies, gasoline service stations and fuel oil dealers, has long enjoyed a history of strong influence in Washington. Individuals and political action committees affiliated with oil and gas companies have donated $238.7 million to candidates and parties since the 1990 election cycle, 75 percent of which has gone to Republicans.
Though former oilmen George W. Bush and Dick Cheney occupied the White House for eight years, the oil and gas industry could not win support for repealing bans on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. However, Congress voted in 2008 to lift a ban on offshore drilling. These companies are also wary of cap-and-trade climate change legislation, such as the measure Democratic President Barack Obama supports. The Grass Roots Movement to STOP THE BURNING In The Gulf. Stop Big Oil Bailouts. Uganda bombings: Islamic militant group Al Shabab claims responsibility for bombings - latimes.com. 'It's Fun to Shoot Some People' : ICH - Information Clearing House. TomDispatch. Ann Coulter Provokes Conservative Afghan War Debate. Welcome to AnnCoulter.com.
Welcome to WarCriminalsWatch.org. Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army - Middle East, World. The birds are singing as he describes in detail some of what he did and saw others do as an enlisted soldier in Hebron. And they are certainly criminal: the incidents in which Palestinian vehicles are stopped for no good reason, the windows smashed and the occupants beaten up for talking back – for saying, for example, they are on the way to hospital; the theft of tobacco from a Palestinian shopkeeper who is then beaten "to a pulp" when he complains; the throwing of stun grenades through the windows of mosques as people prayed. Israel: No ship allowed to reach Gaza. Israel: No ship allowed to reach Gaza Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Israel insists it will not allow any seaborne convoy to reach the Gaza Strip, which it has kept under an all-out siege for more than three years. "I say very clearly, no ship will arrive in Gaza.
We will not permit our sovereignty to be harmed," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Army Radio on Sunday, Reuters reported. Op-Ed Columnist - Waiting for Gandhi on the West Bank. CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. Libya's Qaddafi latest to challenge Israel's Gaza blockade. Six weeks after Israeli commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists to prevent a Turkish aid ship from reaching the Gaza Strip, tensions are on the rise as a Libyan-sponsored vessel sets out to challenge Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory.
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition. The Real News Network. BP Cuts Payments to 40,000, La. Official Says. Byron Encalade, the President of the Louisiana Oystermen Association, during a meeting with top U.S.
Department of Labor officials to discuss the ongoing economic effects of the BP oil spill on July 7, 2010 in Phoenix, Louisiana. The Labor officials are meeting with local fishermen, community-based organizations and state and local elected representatives from Louisiana to Florida as they continue the effort to help people that have been affected by the millions of gallons of oil that have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon spill causing economic hardship throughout the gulf region. Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP. GRAND ISLE, La.
—Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't. Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers. Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East. Woman injured after box left in front of her northwest Houston home explodes. HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Local and federal investigators were at a northwest Houston home Friday night where an explosion sent a woman to the hospital. The woman was opening a package left at her doorstep in the 2100 block of Seamist Court Friday evening.
She had found the shoe-sized box in front of her home about a day ago but didn't decide to open it until around 6:30pm Friday. The woman, who officials said is in her 60s, took the box to the backyard and opened it on the patio. Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghanistan? A commonly proffered argument against negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan has been: "why should the Afghan Taliban negotiate, when they think they are winning?
" For many months, this argument was offered by Administration officials to explain why they would not yet pursue serious negotiations with senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban. More recently, Administration officials are saying that they have moved significantly. Cops Show Marines How to Take on the Taliban. A tough-talking, muscular Los Angeles police sergeant steadily rattled off tips to a young Marine riding shotgun as they raced in a patrol car to a drug bust: Be aware of your surroundings.
Watch people's body language. PEACE PROCESS GOING NOWHERE, ISRAELI ELITE DOING FINE – 18 families control 60% of corporate equity says Israeli economist - Reality Asserts Itself. Arizona warned of 2nd lawsuit. The Obama administration could file yet another lawsuit against Arizona if it decides racial profiling is taking place under that state’s new immigration law, Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. said. Mr. Holder’s Justice Department sued Tuesday to block the law, arguing that it infringed on the federal government’s right to determine immigration policy. But the lawsuit made almost no mention of racial profiling - a key issue in President Obama’s attacks against the law in the weeks before the lawsuit was filed. Immigration reform: President's speech helps Birther 'Impeach Obama' goal (Videos & transcript) At Impeach Obama Campaign. com, a video clip of President Obama, speaking on immigration reform, saying, "Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth..
" is paired with a clip of Representative Steve King as mock confirmation of beliefs that Obama lacks the qualification of birth to be president are legitimate. Outside Groups Aiding GOP Cause This Cycle. Watch out Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich is 'serious' about running for president in 2012.