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What The Media Wants You To Forget The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran . Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget. 1. Last Spring,   Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.   Israel refused. 2.   The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 3.   The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 4.   Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed. 5.   Iran allows IAEA inspections   of all its facilities. 6. Contrary to face-savi...

Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming by Bill McKibben Try to fit these facts together: *  According  to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record. * A "staggering" new  study  from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950. *  Nine nations  have so far set their all-time temperature records in 2010, including Russia (111 degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and Pakistan, which also set the  new all-time Asia record  in May: a hair under 130 degrees. I can turn my oven to 130 degrees. * And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They didn't do less than they could have -- they did  nothing , pr...