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No Deal on Iran's Nuclear Program - So Far
by Stephen Lendman
Reports of a deal reached over the weekend were way premature. As of Monday morning Lausanne time, key unresolved issues remain ahead of a March 31 deadline.
It could be extended days or weeks if all parties agree. Deadlines aren't written in stone. They're easily changed based on circumstances.
The latest as this is written comes from a senior Iranian negotiator, saying:
"No agreement has been achieved, and there are still issues which need to be resolved."
"Instead of launching a media hype, the concerned parties should quit their excessive demands and take the strategic decision if they want an agreement or continued pressure."
Massive News-Suppression That’s Become History-Suppression
Eric Zuesse
While I have always been puzzled at why Americans endorse the existence of a religious and therefore discriminatory nation, Israel, and at why we give more of our tax-money to that nation than to any other; and while I would not pretend to be an authority on those matters; I was stunned on 31 March 2015 to read a news report at counterpunch, "American Historical Association Censors Ad for Book on Israel, Palestine & the US Keeping 'Hidden History' Hidden," by Alison Weir, someone I’d never heard of before. She says there that AHA refuses to accept a paid advertisement for her historical book about the U.S.-Israel relationship — a historical matter that I have always found puzzling, and so was curious to know more about.
With the World Ridiculing Obama, It's Time to Dump Him and the Whole Bush League
LaRouchePAC
In what can only be described as a perfect irony, President Barack Obama spent the weekend playing golf in Florida with the director of Halliburton and the owner of the Houston Astros, further exposing his true Bush League pedigree. The entire world is ridiculing Obama, for his efforts to sabotage the AIIB, and for waging war against the new paradigm on behalf of Wall Street and London. Isn't it time for all sane Americans to rally to oust this treacherous character from the White House? Obama is guilty of many more crimes against the Constitution than are required for his removal. Anyone arguing that it is "not practical" to dump Obama is living in a fantasy world, ignoring the fact that the last desperate option, for the bankrupt British Empire, is to launch wars and chaos all across Eurasia. Over the weekend the Royal Air Force conducted the biggest maneuvers in 13 years, directed against Russian possible air incursions. NATO is moving weapons and personnel closer to the Russian border, in defiance of all post-Cold War agreements, as well as persistent Russian warnings, the most recent of which were delivered by President Putin, himself, last week, in an address before the directors of Russia's federal security service, FSB, that Russia will not capitulate to NATO blackmail.
From Gaza To Southampton – We Are All Palestinians
By Gilad Atzmon
For the second time in just a month, a British academic institution has been intimidated by an orchestrated Zionist lobby.
Yesterday we learned that Southampton University has decided to withdraw its permission to hold the academic conference on International Law and the State of Israel. The decision was taken on the grounds of “health and safety” with the university claiming it did not have enough resources to mitigate the “risks.”
This comes just one month after the Royal Northern College Of Music cancelled a concert of mine for similar safety reasons. Like Southampton University, the RNCM was bullied by a violent pro-Israel group and it took us only a few hours to learn that the spokesperson for the pro-Israeli body was an infamous crook as well as a football hooligan (see here).
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Bush and Obama administrations murdered Yemenis for years - through drone terror-bombings and internal subversion killing mostly civilians.
Yemen is the region's poorest country. Its people suffer horrifically. US imperial policy exacerbates conditions greatly.
Before leaving to participate in Iranian nuclear talks in Lausanne on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted Washington's typical double standard hypocrisy.
On the one hand, it ousted Ukraine's democratically President Viktor Yanukovych - replacing him with putschist Nazi thugs.
Who Spies for Israel in Washington’s Nuclear Negotiations?
James Petras
Introduction
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (3/25/15) headlined: ‘Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks with the US”. The article goes on to detail the way in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the confidential information to sabotage the talks, including ‘playing them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy’.
The WSJ report of this incident tries to play down the serious implications of Israel’s espionage by claiming that Israeli spying of US diplomatic negotiations is ‘normal even among allies’; that ‘both sides do it’; that the US ‘tolerates’ Israeli spying; that the ‘Israelis have not directly spied on the US’ but use sympathetic US agents . . . and several other excuses for Israel’s behavior.
At Last I Met My Rabbi
By Gilad Atzmon
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
Fear of wisdom is one of the notable characteristics of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement. I often find myself flabbergasted by the indignation solidarity enthusiasts direct against creative minds, scholars, thinkers and wisdom in general. But the solidarity movement is consistent, coherent and determined on at least one front- it is united in its battle against ‘anti-Semitism.’ Not surprising, given that the movement has long been dominated by Jewish progressive organisations and funded by liberal Zionists such as George Soros and his Open Society Institute.
As many of us learn to accept that the solidarity movement has been largely reduced into a controlled opposition apparatus, it is reassuring to find out that Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular are more determined than ever to fight Israel and bring their on going plight to an end. In fact, the Palestinians are not alone. More and more solidarity supporters are awakening to the covert transformation in the movement. Increasingly, voices of dissent grasp that the solidarity discourse has taken an unfortunate turn.
Iran Nuke Talks Head for Overtime
by Stephen Lendman
Negotiators on both sides in Lausanne indicated talks may continue past midnight into April 1.
Senior Iranian negotiator Hamid Baidinejad said "Iran does not want a nuclear deal just for the sake of having a deal, and a final deal should guarantee the Iranian nation's nuclear rights."
"We will continue the talks until we reach an agreement over disputed issues."
Un unnamed US official close to talks said "(w)e will, of course, keep working if we are continuing to make progress, including into tomorrow, if it's useful to do so."
"At this time, no decisions have been made about our travel schedule."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov left talks on Monday - saying he'd return if a deal was immanent.
Hamas's principled stance on the Yemen crisis
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine
The principled stance by Hamas on the ongoing Yemeni crisis is politically sound and morally correct. It may raise some eyebrows and draw criticism in some quarters.
However, a contextual examination of Hamas's position in this regard should vindicate the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement of any wrongdoing or charges of ingratitude towards Iran, as some Shiite circles might argue.
In the final analysis, Hamas cannot sell its principles for money from any quarters, Arab or non-Arab alike.
U.S.-v.-Russia: Even Stephen Cohen Is Starting to Speak the Truth
Eric Zuesse
An alarming development is that Stephen F. Cohen, the internationally prominent scholar of Russia, is acknowledging that (1:35 on the video) “for the first time in my long life (I began in this field in the 1960s), I think the possibility of war with Russia is real,” and he clearly and unequivocally places all of the blame for it on the U.S. leadership. He calls this “possibly a fateful turning-point in history.” He also says “it could be the beginning of the end of the so-called trans-Atlantic alliance.”
He goes on to say (2:20): “This problem began in the 1990s, when the Clinton Administration adopted a winner-take-all policy toward post-Soviet Russia … Russia gives, we take. … This policy was adopted by the Clinton Administration but is pursued by every [meaning both] political party, every President, every American Congress, since President Clinton, to President Obama. This meant that the United States was entitled to a sphere or zone of influence as large as it wished, right up to Russia’s borders, and Russia was entitled to no sphere of influence, at all, not even in Georgia, … or in Ukraine (with which Russia had been intermarried for centuries).”
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