The Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday issued a map of an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone that includes a chain of disputed islands also claimed by Japan, triggering a protest from Tokyo. Beijing also issued a set of rules for the zone, saying all aircraft must notify Chinese authorities and are subject to emergency military measures if they do not identify themselves or obey orders from Beijing. It said it would “identify, monitor, control and react” to any air threats or unidentified flying objects coming from the sea. The rules went into effect Saturday. In Tokyo, Junichi Ihara, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, protested by phone to China’s acting ambassador to Japan, Han Zhiqiang, saying the zone is “totally unacceptable,” according to a ministry statement.

PressTV: China slams US, Japan over identification declaration

The P5+1 deal with Iran may be finalized, but keeping it intact is still a battle, as the sanctions relief in the deal is under immediate threat from the US Congress, where hawks are threatening to impose more sanctions on Iran. For some, like Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R – GA), the argument is that Iran is in a weak position right now and the sanctions could really stick it to them and dictate even harsher terms. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif is warning that new sanctions would kill the deal, however, and for many Congressmen, that’s the whole point. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – NY) and others have made it no secret they oppose the deal, and are pushing new sanctions as a way to “protest” against the deal, and ideally sabotage it outright.

Israel Renews Warnings of Military Action After Iran Nuclear Deal - Time Magazine

Peter Symonds: Interim agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear programs ■ After four days of extended international talks in Geneva, an interim deal was reached on Iran’s nuclear programs early Sunday morning, setting the stage for negotiations over a longer term, comprehensive agreement. Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group (the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany) recommenced in Geneva last Wednesday, after the previous round earlier this month broke up without agreement. With the US Congress threatening to impose punitive new sanctions on Iran that could derail further talks, an agreement was sealed that effectively freezes all Iran’s nuclear programs and allows for intrusive inspections in return for very limited relief from the existing crippling sanctions regime. Washington was at pains to stress that Iran received very little in return.

Stephen Lendman: Deal in Geneva: Hold the Cheers ■ Longstanding hardline US/Israeli policy won't change. Sanctions Iran most wants removed remain in place. Stiff new ones may follow later on. For now they're postponed. A six month interim deal was agreed on. It's temporary, modest and reversible. It can be changed, rescinded or ignored if Washington wishes. Iran has no guarantees. It has legitimate demands. It wants its sovereign rights respected.

Xymphora: Let the negotiations begin! ■ Of course, the real negotiations are between the elected government of the United States and the real government of the United States, the Zionist Occupation Government. The job of a successful American Administration is to frame these second negotiations, the real negotiations, in such a way that real American interests, and not solely the interests of a truly insane group of violent group supremacists who would not hesitate to blow up the entire world to steal another square millimeter of land, prevail. The deal provides almost no benefit to Iran except to put the world's real warmongers in the spotlight if the next six months don't produce a lasting agreement due to ZOG blocking.

Home secretary working on legislation allowing removal of UK passport from "suspects" even if they have no other citizenship. ● Theresa May plans to strip British "terror suspects" of their citizenship and take away their UK passports even if it leaves them stateless, Whitehall sources have confirmed. May wants to bring in legislation allowing the removal of a UK passport from any "terror suspect" whose conduct is "seriously prejudicial to the interests of the UK", in a move designed to make it harder for them to return to Britain if they travel abroad. The home secretary already has the power to take away British citizenship from those with dual nationality, and since taking office May has confiscated the UK passports of 16 individuals alleged to have links with terror groups. She has repeatedly said that a UK passport is a "privilege, not a right".

A beautiful thing happend in nottingham on the 23ed of February as anonymous protesters took to the streets. On this day there aim was to shutdown all the tax avoiding shops, this is in response to the tax dodging corporations on the high streets who have evaded in excess of £70 billion in [taxes]. Stephen a homeless man in Nottingham cached the eye of Anonymous members who stopped and gave him money, overwhelmed with love, Steven starts to cry as anonymous member give him hugs and change. Under code name of Robbin Hood, they truly made this homeless mans day.

At least six people are killed in the latest US assassination drone strike in the central eastern part of Afghanistan, Press TV reports. ● According to Afghan officials, the airstrike was conducted in Maidan Wardak Province, late on Tuesday. The identity of the victims have yet to be revealed, though Taliban militants are said to be among the dead. Three other Afghans were also killed in the US-led airstrike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan, on Tuesday. Washington has repeatedly claimed that its drone strikes target militants, but reports on the ground suggest that civilians are the main victims of such attacks. The unrelenting US air raids across the`2 war-torn country come as the pressure is mounting on Washington over the assassination drone attacks in several Muslim countries, mainly Afghanistan and Pakistan.