Global Research | Reports apprear to confirm that Moscow and Tehran have officially thrown their hats in ring for Assad

Walter Pincus | The Robb-Wald report is latest attempt by Pentagon to war-game a strike on Iran

Felicity Arbuthnot | American and British intel agencies are in Syria executing a plan of destabilization

The Sun | Pakistan warned Britain to help stop the American “Drone Wars” that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians.

Stephen Lendman | US media engineers recycle old messages – to pull the American mind-set towards a new war

Glenn Greenwald | Critics of drone use that “repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals” labeled as sympathizers.

Michael S. Rozeff | The signs are anything but favorable at this time, but political shifts of this nature are always possible – possible but unlikely.

CFR | CFR policy wonks eye an attack on Iran: “A tense situation can provoke accidental conflicts and mishaps…”

NewsCore | North Korea’s hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft.

CanSpeccy | Bombshell as Arab League report leaked, says foreign states are stoking insurgency in Syria

RT | Two Iranian naval ships have docked in the Saudi port of Jeddah in the Red Sea

RT | Iran warns that areas used by US/Israel for hostile operations against Iran will be subjected to retaliation

CBC News | Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, spoke to the agency Saturday during military ground exercises.

General Mirza Aslam Beg | Pakistani general weighing geopolitical horizon, and role of the the US in 2012

Robert Fisk | After invading Iraq over WMD’s, the latest US plan is to clap as Israel bombs Iran

RT | Get ready for a series of PR offensives against Iran…

Poor Richards Blog | Researcher tests show people in Afghanistan have uranium isotopes in their urine

Infowars | Fresh reports say some 100,000 troops will be ready and waiting by March, should that conflict, or one with Syria go “hot.”

RT | Tehran is not playing the Petrodollar game, so no surprise they are the globalists’ enemy number one

Robert Fisk | Syria, Assad are used to the slings and arrows of friends and enemies, but uncertainty rules now

Michael S. Rozeff | The best way to get news is to read actual testimony, reports, transcripts, and speeches. The worst way is to read headlines.

Press TV | Many countries are now aware of how US is pedaling influence through its pro-democracy orgs

Lebanon Now | How Washington gets its regime change is unclear, but it seems intervention is all but certain

Guardian | Pro-Assad hackers are mounting a series of counter-propaganda operations – al Jazeera was hit first

The Independent | Thousands of troops, tanks rushed to Syrian capital’s suburbs in heavy crackdown on insurgents

RT | “If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon,” declares Mitt Romney

Essential Intelligence | Breaking down false flag and ‘no flag’ operations and how they relate to the Iran crisis

Washington Post | The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran.

Wall Street Journal | Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn’t yet capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities.

Bloomberg | Naval blockade of Iran reminiscent of the 1962 U.S. quarantine of Cuba.

RT | Saqba area that has now fallen under the control of the Free Syrian Army

Gilad Atzmon | For nuclear treaties to work in the region, then everyone must be on board – especially Tel Aviv

The Independent | Amnesty Int’l revealed several prisoners accused of being Gaddafi loyalists have died from torture

Daily Star | More than 100 people have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israeli Mossad since April 2009

MSNBC | Brzezinski says GOP candidates ‘casual’ about going to war with Iran.

Saman Mohammadi | When Martial Law is declared and social order breaks down, North America will become the battlefield that they intended it to be all along.

Patrick Henningsen | Why would US send its rusting 50 year floating museum into the line of fire in the Persian Gulf

Press TV | Decision to send British HMS Argyll sent a “clear signal” to Tehran.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Clearly, regarding a preemptive strike, “The Road to Tehran Goes through Damascus”

Reuters/Euronews | U.S. Marine sergeant led slaughter of 24 Iraqi civilians makes plea deal in massacre whitewash

Essential Intelligence | Looking at the different factors – and possibilities, driving events in the Persian Gulf

RT | Some 120 people and companies are targeted so far by EU assets freeze and travel ban

Guardian | Details of Israeli psych-warfare on younger Palestinians detailed in new report

Euronews | NATO’s viche gov’t in danger of collapse as deputy head of Libya’s NTC quits after protests

Press TV | According to Asharq Alawsat, the troops landed in the eastern oil port city of Brega.

Reuters | Veto-holding Security Council members Russia and China would stand firm against foreign intervention.

DPA | Sarkozy’s remarks come amid fresh tensions between Iran.

Ynet News | Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff visits Holocaust museum, vows to prevent another human tragedy

RT | Paris-based exile is in charge of Syrian opposition, following pattern of past Western puppets

Reuters | Iran, at odds with Western governments over its nuclear program, has accuses U.S. and Israeli agents of being behind the killing.