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AIPAC Struggles to Structure Debate on Iran Deal by Jason Ditz
Lobby Group Urges Congress to Breach Deal With New Sanctions

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/10/09/aipac-struggles-to-structure-debate-on-iran-deal/

October 9, 2017

“Major Israel Lobby organization AIPAC was leading the campaign against the Iran nuclear deal for years, and is now struggling to revise the appropriate confines of debate on the matter in the lead-up to President Trump decertifying the deal to try to kill it.

Spain's D-Day is here: the country's biggest political crisis since an attempted military coup in 1981 is about to get a resolution - one way or another - and as Bloomberg reports, Spanish police are ready to arrest Catalan President Carles Puigdemont "immediately" if he declares independence in the regional parliament, according to two people familiar with the government’s plans.

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

While the United States remains distracted and divided, Great Britain draws up plans for an upcoming war with North Korea.

Tossing major issues aside, Americans have all but forgotten that the world stands on the precipice of World War 3.

Authored by Matthew Jamison via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

With the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States having heated up significantly over the summer, it has been the Governments of Russia and China who have sought to be the responsible, mature and wise international parties at the United Nations and throughout the international community.

Authored by J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, & Edwin Watson via SouthFront.org,

One of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was the pledge to “rebuild the US military”, and it is one of the few of his initiatives that appears to enjoy broad bipartisan support.