U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A Harvard professor of international affairs says the warmongering calls for a military strike on Iran follow a classic model of deception that involves fabricating a threat and downplaying the repercussions of an attack. “There is a simple and time-honored formula for making the case for war, especially preventive... 

Detention Act will imprison Americans abroad If you’re upset that congressional approval of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 can send you away to military prisons and be tortured in America, don’t worry — it could be worse. The US could send you somewhere else. No, really. They could. And they can. Anywhere else, too. Really. While the bill that left Capitol Hill last... 

Arrested US spy, Amir Hekmati. A senior Iranian lawmaker says the US government demanding that Iran return the CIA spy, recently arrested by the country’s intelligence agents, is outrageous. “The US spy is a criminal and must be tried in Iran for the crime he has committed,” Kazem Jalali said on Wednesday. The lawmaker, who is also the spokesman for Iran’s Majlis (parliament) National... 

Ron Paul’s surge in the Iowa state polls is more than just an exaggeration. Surveys now have him taking the state with first place two weeks before the Iowa caucus begins, and that success has the establishment running scared. During the election season leading up to 2008, a grassroots campaign in support of Texas Congressman Ron Paul posed a serious threat to the other GOP hopefuls during the months... 

A Turkish delegation has met with French officials in a last-minute attempt to prevent the passing of a bill by the French parliament that would criminalize the denial of the Armenian genocide, Press TV reports. The Turkish delegation including lawmakers and businessmen held talks with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and President Nicolas Sarkozy’s foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte... 

The aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" The US-based intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor says most of the claims by the Syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country’s crisis are untrue. The company insists protesters are exaggerating, to win support from powers like the US. ­Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan administration official, told RT he believes Washington... 

US-China relations can only be expected to worsen as the US expands its influence in Asia. Obama says US influence will turn from the Middle East towards the “vast potential of the Asia-Pacific region”. When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan directly into the fire? In an attempt to turn the page on two disastrous wars in the greater Middle... 

Weeping for a communist dictator under threat of arrest and execution. This is something the establishment media has completely failed to explain properly. All the video footage of weeping North Koreans stricken with grief over the death of the “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is by no means spontaneous or natural. It’s all part of the fun of living in a Stalinist dictatorship. If citizens do not show... 

US seeks to dominate global online freedom - Russia's Foreign Ministry The online freedom bill proposed in the US seeks to regulate the web activities of foreign countries and businesses by imposing its own unilateral standards, says Russia’s Foreign Ministry. Moscow insists the UN is the place to pass global laws. ­The projected Global Online Freedom Act states that the US State Department... 

Iran's first domestically-built destroyer, Jamaran Iran’s domestically-built Jamaran destroyer has returned home from its first international mission after successfully conducting counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. Part of the 16th fleet of Iranian warships, the Jamaran destroyer and Bandar Abbas frigate arrived at Iran’s naval base in the Bandar Abbas port city, located... 

Dictator’s death could have been result of internal power struggle with country’s military. A prominent North Korean defector and a South Korean politician are contradicting reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il died of a heart attack, pointing to rumors that he was assassinated as result of an internal power struggle between the ruling Communist Workers’ Party and the country’s military. “A... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Following the expansion of economic and political relations between Tehran and Caracas, US President Barack Obama has demanded the Venezuelan government sever all ties with Iran. “I think the government’s ties with Iran and Cuba have not benefited the interests of Venezuela and its people,” Obama said in the email... 

North Korea, Pyongyang : North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il returns a salute to Korean People's Army soldiers marching in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to mark the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, 10 October 2005. North Korea’s veteran leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69. A tearful announcer at North Korea’s state television, dressed in black, said on Monday... 

Vladimir Yevseyev, the director of the Russian Center for Socio-Political Studies Russia will try to stop any military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as any threat to the Islamic Republic is a problem for Moscow, a Russian military expert tells Press TV. Vladimir Yevseyev, the director of the Russian Center for Socio-Political Studies, told Press TV on Saturday that “a military attack against... 

China's Ambassador to Iran Yu Hongyang China’s Ambassador to Iran has reiterated Beijing’s determination to expand ties with Tehran amid Western-led efforts to impose more unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic. During a Saturday visit to the Iranian central city of Arak, Ambassador Yu Hongyang described Iran-China relations as satisfactory and added, “Considering the long history...