Contrary to hyperbolic rhetoric and threats of preemptive attack from the US and Israel, experts still agree there is no imminent prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, reports the Los Angeles Times. As has been known for several years but only rarely acknowledged in the...
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The Pentagon is drawing up new plans to prepare for an air and sea war in Asia, presumably against China, in the Obama administration's most belligerent manifestation yet of the so-called pivot to Asia-Pacific. Fighting counterinsurgency campaigns and building up...
