IAEA’s “Soviet Nuclear Scientist” Never Worked on Weapons, by Gareth Porter

Updated: Nov. 12, 2011; added another interview; Nov. 11, 2011; added a video with Gareth Porter.

by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at IPS
Nov. 9, 2011

WASHINGTON, Nov 9, 2011 (IPS) – The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon.

Occupy America, by Michael Parenti

by Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
Nov. 9, 2011

Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr

Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities. Similar actions emerged in scores of other nations.

For the first two weeks, the corporate-owned mainstream media along with NPR did what they usually do with progressive protests: they ignored them. These were the same media that had given the Tea Party supporters saturation coverage for weeks on end, ordaining them “a major political force.”