Moscow’s warned Washington against striking Iran. Russia’s chief-of-staff revealed on Wednesday the U.S. could attack Iran after wrapping up its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He claimed his American counterpart had told him about the possibility. In an exclusive interview to RT, General Nikolai Makarov outlined Moscow’s concerns.

The speech Obama hated. Given at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, October 2009. For some reason the IISS had removed all references to McChrystal from their website for several days. I put this up just in case it disappears again.

We now have an ecological disaster of biblical proportions. We now have an economic disaster of depression proportions. We now have a political disaster of truly fascistic proportions. It does appear that a full blown lock down of humanity is in full scale mode on just about every level of being. Meanwhile the earth seems ready to blow her top as volcanic activity continues to increase. Maybe just maybe, something or someone is trying to get our attention. Will we learn to listen?

The incoming head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said Friday he did not see any hard evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons.

A venture between Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Siemens AG (SI) mentions in its Code of Conduct that it will respect the rights laid down by the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The statement did not seem to apply to its business in Iran. According to the Wall Street Journal, the European companies sold Iran the technology for what’s known as deep packet inspection, which the paper says “involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.”

Iran’s interior minister on Wednesday accused U.S. spy agency the CIA of helping to fund “rioters,” stepping up accusations of Western involvement in street unrest following the country’s disputed election.

Only one in five Israeli Jews believes a nuclear-armed Iran would try to destroy Israel and most see life continuing as normal should their arch-foe get the bomb, an opinion poll published on Sunday found. The survey, commissioned by a Tel Aviv University think tank, appeared to challenge the argument of successive Israeli governments that Iran must be denied the means to make atomic weapons lest it threaten the existence of the Jewish state.