Americans unhappy with news being released

*Ashantai Hathaway, Press TV Washington

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A recent poll shows that Americans are dissatisfied with the way they are receiving their news and many do not believe they are being told the entire truth when it's given.

In America there are several ways to get the news, including newspapers, TV, the Internet and magazines, the field is flooded but if the numbers are any true indication than American media has a long way to go to win the public approval.

According to a Gallup poll Americans are unhappy with the information being released from the media and Americans remain largely distrusting of the news media, with 55 percent saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly, and 60 percent said they perceive a bias one way or the other.

But perhaps worst some Americans say in the media is the growing obsession in the U.S. for gossip and tabloid news where Americans have become more aware of what's going on with the latest reality television star rather than topics like government and foreign affairs that affect them.

In fact, some believe celebrities seem to be taken over the media and many Americans are more aware of what's going on in Hollywood than what's going on in Washington. According to the Houran Team, a group of University researcher a third of Americans is obsessed with celebrities.

The same report said that one in ten was obsessed to the point of having what's referred to as "celebrity worship syndrome.

Tarpley says the only thing that may change the draw to celebrity is the down economy which forces people who are living on fixed incomes to come back to reality.

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Anti-war organizations against attack on Iran: Veterans for Peace

President of the Veterans for Peace organization Leah Bolger

President of the US-based Veterans for Peace Leah Bolger says many anti-war organizations are making efforts to oppose a possible military attack against Iran.

Veterans for Peace and many peace-seeking organizations are trying so hard to oppose a military attack against Iran, Bolger said in an interview with the Iranian Fars News Agency.

The former US commander said such an attack against Iran would violate international law.

Referring to the upcoming summit of NATO leaders in Chicago, Bolger said she and many of the members of the Veterans for Peace would go to Chicago to declare the veterans demand to end NATO’s mission and war.

The US, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program without offering any evidence corroborating such allegations.

Washington and Tel Aviv have time and again threatened Tehran with a military strike against its civilian nuclear facilities.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Iranian officials have also promised a powerful response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

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Persian Gulf states join US-Israel plot by agreeing to missile shield: Iran cmdr.

An Iranian naval commander warns that if the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf agree to a proposed plan by Washington for a missile shield in the region, they amateurishly join a US-Israeli plot.

 

 

 

 

 

*Iranian naval commander Ali Razmjou

Ali Razmjou warned the regional countries that cooperating with the US in the missile shield plan would amount to joining the “operational phase of a US-Israeli plot” for the region.

He said that the missile shield plan was the continuation of organized efforts aimed at guaranteeing the survival and security of Israel.

Razmjou said that certain Western countries have turned the southern countries of the Persian Gulf into the stockpiles of US and European weapons by creating Iranophobic scenarios.

The US seeks to protect its numerous military bases in the region against Iran by establishing a new missile shield, the costs of which will be paid by the host Arab countries, he said, urging the regional states to think twice before agreeing to the plan.

In March, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Saudi Arabia about plans for a Persian Gulf missile shield system to counter what she described as potential threats from Iran.

She said in an address to a [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council-US Strategic Cooperation Forum in Riyadh that Washington was aiming for "practical and specific steps to strengthen our mutual security, such as helping our militaries improve interoperability, cooperate on maritime security and missile defense, and coordinate responses to crises.”

Iranian officials have repeatedly stressed that Tehran follows a defense doctrine, which is based on deterrence, and have pointed out that the Islamic Republic poses no threat to any country.

US Congressmen say Taliban 'stronger' since surge

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Colin Campbell, Press TV, Washington

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After a bipartisan report is released by the US Congress, critics of the US-led Afghanistan war say that they fear that war could spread to Pakistan.

After more than a 10-year slog in Afghanistan, US-led NATO troop presence in the region may sustain for years to come. A bipartisan report released by Congressional members may indicate that financing for war in the region may spread to Pakistan. Critics are reacting.

The national outcry for the end to war in Afghanistan has led to the surge of drone attacks, which have seen an increase in Pakistan since President Obama came into office. Some experts say that more hawkish members of Congress are beating the drum of war with Pakistan as the country has shown resistance to US control.

To further complicate matters, Al-Qaeda members released a video of a 70-year old American pleading for his life in Pakistan. State Department spokesman Mark Toner says the Obama administration is very concerned about the American aid worker’s fate, but negotiations for his life are sensitive.

Meanwhile, never leaving a crisis go to waste as some beltway insiders say, NATO allies are urging the international community to fight militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan by giving money and aid.

But relations between the US and Pakistan are questionable.

US-Pakistan tensions remain high despite their need to forge a solid relationship. The us has provided a total of $4.5 billion to Pakistan in 2010 alone but congress is rethinking that aid as the future for the country’s
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10 killed in US terror drone strike in NW Pakistan

A Pakistani protester holds a burning US flag as they shout slogans during a protest in Multan on February 9, 2012 against the US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region.

At least ten people have been killed in a US assassination drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border.

The unmanned aircraft targeted Dar-i-Nishtar residential region in Shawal area, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan early Saturday, killing ten people and injuring several others.

The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, in the US drone strikes have strained relations between the two allies, prompting Pakistani officials to send warnings to the US administration over the assaults.

In a recent reaction to drone strikes, Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned political counselor at the US embassy Jonathan Pratt to lodge a formal protest over an assassination drone attack on a school in North Waziristan in late in April that left three civilians dead.

The US says the operations target militants, although surveys show most of the victims are civilians.

According to a Pakistani human rights lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in US drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians.

That means that “over 2,800 people were civilians, whose identities are not known, and they have just been killed on suspicion of being militants,” Akbar said.

North Waziristan and other tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan have been frequently targeted by US drones over the past few years.

This is while, top level talks to patch up damaged relations between the United States and Pakistan ended in failure in April over Washington’s refusal to apologize for the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO airstrike in November 2011.

In 2001, Pakistan entered an alliance with the US against the so-called war on terrorism but the controversial issue of the drone strikes, considered by Islamabad as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, has at times jeopardized the partnership.

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in the streets of Manama

 It does not matter.
in the alley of Medina or in the streets of Manama in Bahrain.
the slap by government officials is always painful.

Can we talk a little about the facts of nuclear power between Iran and America?!!

 Can we talk a little about the facts of nuclear power between Iran and America ?!! let me say first that you might have frequently heard of the Western mainstream media’s claims that Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program which is aimed at developing atomic weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth about the nature of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program has been a constant, unchanging and recurring theme of the Western corporate media’s coverage of Iran’s events. Iran has always been at the forefront of combating the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and also a victim of such weapons during the 8-year imposed war with the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians, and it was the United States that equipped Saddam with such weapons to use against the Iranian people in an unequal and unjustifiable war in which the brutal Iraqi dictator was unconditionally supported by a strong coalition of the United States and its European allies.then some more facts about the difference between Iran’s peaceful program and western atomic weapons:

Fact: Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon.
Fact: Iran has the right, according to international law, to develop nuclear energy for civilian use.
Fact: Iran’s nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Fact: Iran has never started a war.
Fact: The United States possesses 10,600 Nuclear war heads in its stockpile, 7,982 of which are deployed and 2,700 of which are in a contingency stockpile. The total number of nuclear war heads that have been built from 1951 to present is 67,500.
Fact: The United States is the only country y to have ever used nuclear weapons. It did so when it incinerated hundreds of thousands of Japanese people living in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Neither city had any military significance.
Fact: The United States has spent $7 trillion on nuclear weapons. The U.S. military budget for 2012 alone is about equal to Iran’s entire Gross National Product.
Fact: Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid (about $3 billion in 2011), unlike Iran, possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons.
Fact: Israel, unlike Iran, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into Israel to monitor its nuclear program.
Fact: There is active discussion in the Israeli media about whether Israel will carry out military strikes against Iran’s nuclear energy facilities. Israel bombed similar nuclear civilian energy facilities in Iraq in 1981 ("Operation Babylon”) and in Syria in 2007 ("Operation Orchard”).
Fact: The United States and Britain used severe economic sanctions and CIA covert operatives to over throw the democratically elected government of Iran led by Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953.
The Iranian government had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), which became known as British Petroleum (BP), in a campaign to use oil profits to eradicate widespread poverty within Iran. The successful CIA and British Intelligence coup d’état put the Shah of Iran (King) back in power. The Shah’s dictatorship denationalized Iranian oil and returned it to the ownership of British and U.S. oil companies. The Shah executed and tortured thousands during his 26-year bloody reign, which ended in the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Fact: The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran and has pursued a policy of economic sanctions against the country since the over throw of the U.S.-backed Shah (King).
Fact: Iran’s oil reserves are the fourth largest in the world — it has 12.7 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. That makes Iran’s oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, greater than those of Iraq.
Fact: The new economic sanctions against Iran include a ban on the import, sale and trade of Iranian oil, which constitutes half of Iran’s Gross National Product. It forbids any company in the world that does any business with Iran or its Central Bank from having any trade or economic transaction with a U.S. bank or corporation.
Fact: The economic sanctions are an effort to create economic suffering in Iran and to deprive the country of the goods and services to sustain life. According to international law, these economic sanctions constitute a blockade or an act of war against Iran even though Iran poses no threat to the people of the United States or Europe.
Now who is the real threat to peace? Who is an impediment to Nuclear-Free Middle East ?! I think the answer is as clear as the sunshine !