News

Propeller Armed with a vast array of “confidential analysis” and “inside information” from “anonymous sources,” the western media machine is beating the war drum yet again, this time against Iran. And in the latest revelation, based on nothing more than flimsy information allegedly discovered on a laptop computer, Russia is also fingered as an accomplice.

A New York Times article, matter-of-factly entitled, “Report Says Iran Has Data to Make Nuclear Bomb (Oct. 4),” begins with this sensational grabber: “Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired ‘sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable atom bomb.’”

Now if anybody was looking for a smoking gun against Iran, this would seem to be it. But there’s just one problem: Proof. Individuals hoping to read about solid evidence – at one time an essential requirement for what could be passed off as a legitimate news story – to these very serious allegations will be sadly disappointed.

The New York Times article by William J. Broad and David Sanger, while perhaps a nice rough draft for a Tom Clancy novel (the plot is revealed at the end; please be patient), provides next to zero substantial evidence to its claims, not to mention the very existence of the report itself. The only certain thing about the “classified analysis,” it seems, is its name, which is entitled, “Possi... >>>