It is Israel's nuclear project that must be dismantled IMMEDIATELY

AWIP: Yasser Arafat poisoned by polonium: Report
Jason Ditz: Arafat Likely Poisoned by Polonium

Justin Raimondo: Who Killed Yasser Arafat? - Arafat’s Ramallah compound had been bombed several times by the Israelis, and they had the place surrounded – yet still he persisted. They couldn’t get him out. Worse, his plight was becoming a metaphor for the condition of his people, who were – and still are – prisoners in their own land. A former adviser claimed he was poisoned by the Israelis, who detained the Palestinian ambulance used to deliver Arafat’s medications to the Ramallah compound. At the time, one tended to write this off as a purely polemical exercise: in light of the new evidence, however, the question has to be asked. Simply by continuing to exist in the face of such a sustained assault, Arafat was defeating the Israelis every day. They had to get rid of him.

On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S. The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was convicted of running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel’s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network’s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing “Project Pinto.”

The first major attacks against Shi’ite pilgrims observing Shabaniya occurred today in cities south of Baghdad. At least 63 people were killed and 152 more were wounded in those and other attacks. - The festival climaxes on Friday, the birth anniversary of Twelfth Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, so more violence is possible in the coming days. The number of foreign pilgrims killed or wounded was not given. Also, due to the nature of the attacks, conflicting figures are likely. Iraq has downplayed a surge in violence that has been noticeable for weeks. In June, some attacks were also directed at pilgrims observing a separate Shi’ite holiday but, as today, violence did not spare security and other civilian targets. Over 500 people were killed last month.

The Higgs Boson particle may have been discovered, according to a video that was leaked from the CERN on Tuesday. British physicist Peter Higgs, seen here visiting CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2008, was one of six scientists who proposed the Higgs mechanism as a theory of how particles acquired mass. - The Higgs Boson particle may have been discovered, according to a video leaked on Tuesday by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) a day before their findings were scheduled to be announced. The Higgs Boson, also known as the God Particle, would account for all of the unexplained mass in the universe, as Wired succinctly explained. The particle described in the CERN video is possibly the Higgs, or possibly a newfound particle which has a mass that's around 130 times that of a photon, which would make it the most massive particle to ever exist, LiveScience reported. Two teams of scientists — from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) and CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiments — have been working with the CERN's proton-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to determine why things in our universe have mass, and by extension, why we exist, National Geographic reported. The main purpose of the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, which was started up almost four years ago, is to discover the Higgs Boson, according to LiveScience.

Are you suspicious of federal authority? How about really into individual liberty? Well according to a new study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, you very well might be a terrorist. - A report published earlier this year by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has surfaced, and in their DHS-funded findings, Americans “reverent of individual liberty” and others adamant about protecting their personal freedoms are categorized as extreme right-wing terrorists. In the paper, Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008, researchers used definitions from another START study, 2011’s Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, to characterize what traits should be considered when describing right-wing terrorists. Both papers were funded with grants from the US Department of Homeland Security provided to START.

Russia Today: Twitter report: US leads government interference list

Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, was poisoned by polonium, according to the findings of research carried out in Switzerland and cited in an Al-Jazeera report on Tuesday. - The analysis focused on biological samples taken from the late Palestinian leader's belongings given to his wife Suha by the military hospital in Paris where he died, according to Francois Bochud, head of the Institute of Radiation Physics at University of Lausanne. "The conclusion was that we did find some significant polonium that was present in these samples," Bochud said. Arafat died in 2004, following several weeks of treatment. At that time Palestinian officials said he had been poisoned by Israel, but an inconclusive probe in 2005 ruled out cancer, AIDS or poisoning.

Same poison used to murder Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko found on late Yasser Arafat's clothing

Al Jazeera: What[Who] Killed Arafat? - Arafat's widow calls to exhume his body - Tests conducted in Paris found no obvious traces of poison in Arafat’s system. Rumors abound about what might have killed him – cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, even allegations that he was infected with HIV. A nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed that none of those rumors were true: Arafat was in good health until he suddenly fell ill on October 12, 2004. More importantly, tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal effects, which were analyzed at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, were variously stained with Arafat’s blood, sweat, saliva and urine. The tests carried out on those samples suggested that there was a high level of polonium inside his body when he died.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is helping Cambodia investigate the cause of an unknown disease that has killed at least 60 children under seven years old, most of whom died within 24 hours of being admitted to hospital. The children had been admitted to hospitals in the capital, Phnom Penh, and Siem Reap in the north since April with high fevers and signs of encephalitic or respiratory symptoms, or both, the agency said. Most were under three years old. All but one of the 61 children admitted had died, with "rapid deterioration of respiratory function," the WHO said.

Wayne Madsen: All were under seven. This is a no-brainer, WMR could provide two big names to INTERPOL to investigate: this story smacks of eliminating young witnesses to foreign-connected pedophilia, which is rampant in Cambodian orphanages and schools.

ACTA has received a knockout blow from the European Parliament as the majority of MEPs voted in favor of rejecting the controversial trade agreement, which critics say would protect copyright at the expense of freedom of speech on the Internet. MEPs voted overwhelmingly against ACTA, with 478 votes against and only 39 in favor of it. There were 146 abstentions. The anti-ACTA mood was strong among MEPs during the session, with some members holding banners reading “Hello democracy. Goodbye ACTA”.

Joseph Stiglitz tells Ben Chu that rogue financiers have proven that regulation must get tougher. - The Barclays Libor scandal may have shocked the British public, but Joseph Stiglitz saw it coming decades ago. And he's convinced that jailing bankers is the best way to curb market abuses. A towering genius of economics, Stiglitz wrote a series of papers in the 1970s and 1980s explaining how when some individuals have access to privileged knowledge that others don't, free markets yield bad outcomes for wider society. That insight (known as the theory of "asymmetric information") won Stiglitz the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. And he has leveraged those credentials relentlessly ever since to batter at the walls of "free market fundamentalism".

Christopher Marsden & Julie Hyland: Libor manipulation scandal engulfs 16 top banks - The Libor scandal, thus far focused on British-based Barclays bank, has revealed that global capitalism functions not as a free market, but as a rigged market controlled by contending groups of corporations, cartels and multi-billionaire speculators. Libor and Euribor are two of the crucial mechanisms for setting interest rates on a vast array of financial products. Libor is the largest and most variable rate, covering ten currencies. It even helps determine the rate of the US dollar in the form of eurodollars.