At the insistence of the Cheney cabal, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency had a "special" meeting a month ago and passed a resolution [.pdf] requesting that the IAEA director-general: "[C]ontinue with his efforts to...
C’est la Guerre
President Bush has taken actions and made proposals that he claims were intended to "strengthen" the existing nuke proliferation-prevention regime. Ha! Last year, Bush specifically urged the Nuclear Suppliers Group to close what he claims is a "loophole,"...
A Way Out for Iran?
The Bush-Cheney Pentagon is reportedly putting finishing touches on a plan to preemptively nuke Iran for insisting on its inalienable right guaranteed by (a) the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, (b) the Statute of the International Atomic Energy...
Placating the Greenies
The Greenies aren't particularly upset with President Bush for launching on false pretenses an unauthorized war of aggression against Iraq three years ago. Nevertheless, the Greenies are extremely upset with Bush. Why? Well, for one thing, up until now,...
March Madness
Gholamali Haddad-Adel, "speaker" of Iran's parliament in Cuba, last week dismissed the possibility of a U.S. preemptive attack against Iran, finding it "impossible" to believe that the U.S. would want "to repeat the experience of...
Not Another No-End-in-Sight War
Last week, Representative Ron Paul (R, TX) pleaded with the House to not pass the House Concurrent Resolution entitled "Condemning the Government of Iran for violating its international nuclear nonproliferation obligations and expressing support for efforts to report...
Sanction the IAEA Board, Not Iran
You probably heard that as a result of extreme pressure brought by the Bush-Cheney administration a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors was convened last week to discuss what to do about the "gravest" threat to...
Smoking Laptop
Since February, 2003, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei and his inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency have been conducting intrusive investigations into Irans Safeguarded nuclear programs. Since December, 2003, Iran has been voluntarily adhering...
Gravest Threat Not
John Negroponte, our first director of national intelligence, gave his first threat assessment [.pdf] to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. "Let me begin with a straightforward statement of preoccupation shared by all of us sitting here before you:...
President Bonkers Bolton
Why is President Bush hell-bent on getting Irans alleged violations referred to the UN Security Council before March? Perhaps its because John Bolton is President of the Security Council this month. Bonkers Bolton has been point man in Bushs campaign...


