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Former IAEA Director: NYT Article a Malicious Attempt to Undermine Iran Negotiations

Robert Kelley says that David Sanger in The New York Times claimed Iran had backed off a commitment to ship uranium out of the country, something that was later refuted by the U.S. State Department

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: ... On Sunday the New York Times released a story essentially saying that Iran had rejected a key demand of the negotiations taking place between the P5+1 countries and Iran over their nuclear program. I must add, as I always do, there's still no evidence that Iran wants to create a nuclear weapon. That's something that doesn't get said very often, these days.

Here are some of the headlines that followed the New York Times story. NBC: With Nuclear Talks Running Out of Time, Iran Rejects Key Demand. USA Today: Iran Nuke Talks Hit Major Stumbling Block.

This all began with the article by David Sanger in the New York Times: Iran Backs Away from Key Detail in Nuclear Deal.

On Monday morning, the New York Times published another article with an excerpt of an email from an anonymous State Department official, which said contrary to the report in the New York Times, the issue of how Iran's stockpile would be disposed of had not yet been decided in the negotiating room, even tentatively. Then on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the State Department's deputy spokesperson said:

STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON: Obviously stockpile and what happens to it, and how Iran gets rid of it is a key part of this possible agreement we're trying to get to. But the notion that we had some agreement that in the last 24 hours Iran has backed away from just is factually inaccurate. There's never been agreement on that. We've been talking with them about a couple different ways they could do it. And we'll see if we can get to agreement in the next 24 hours or so.

If this is what an anti-war presidency looks like to you, you're detached from reality

Nothing sums up the warped foreign policy fantasy world in which Republicans live more than when House Speaker John Boehner recently called Obama an “anti-war president” under which America “is sitting on the sidelines” in the increasingly chaotic Middle East.

If Obama is an anti-war president, he’s the worst anti-war president in history. In the last six years, the Obama administration has bombed seven countries in the Middle East alone and armed countless more with tens of billions in dollars in weapons. But that’s apparently not enough for Republicans. As the Isis war continues to expand and Yemen descends into civil war, everyone is still demanding more: If only we bombed the region a little bit harder, then they’ll submit.

In between publishing a new rash of overt sociopathic “Bomb Iran” op-eds, Republicans and neocons are circulating a new talking point: Obama doesn’t have a “coherent” or “unifying” strategy in the Middle East. But you can’t have a one-size-fits-all strategy in an entire region that is almost incomprehensibly complex – which is why no one, including the Republicans criticizing Obama, actually has an answer for what that strategy should be. It’s clear that this new talking point is little more than thinly veiled code for we’re not killing enough Muslims or invading enough countries.

If 30 yrs of US as military hegemon in the Middle East resulted in the region today, why would more suddenly stabilize things?

— Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) March 29, 2015

Those clamoring for more war are detached from reality: the US is already escalating – not pulling back – its involvement across the Middle East.

Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law'

People without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking are all being tracked, report says

Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone who visits a page on its site even if the user does not have an account or has explicitly opted out of tracking in the EU, extensive research commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency has revealed.

The report, from researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, was commissioned after an original draft report revealed Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law.

The researchers now claim that Facebook tracks computers of users without their consent, whether they are logged in to Facebook or not, and even if they are not registered users of the site or explicitly opt out in Europe. Facebook tracks users in order to target advertising. ...

Facebook places tracking cookies on users’ computers if they visit any page on the facebook.com domain, including fan pages or other pages that do not require a Facebook account to visit.

When a user visits a third-party site that carries one of Facebook’s social plug-ins, it detects and sends the tracking cookies back to Facebook - even if the user does not interact with the Like button, Facebook Login or other extension of the social media site.

Indiana Is A Great Place To Be A Bigot

US set to pledge emissions cuts of up to 28% ahead of global climate treaty

The US will pledge to cut carbon pollution by up to 28%, doubling the pace of current emissions cuts, under a global agreement on climate change to be finalised in Paris at the end of the year.

Among those countries that have come forward, the EU has agreed to cut its emissions by 40% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, while China has promised its emissions will peak by 2030.

Mexico, the first developing country to make a climate commitment, said it will cut emissions by at least 22% - and as much as 40% if certain conditions are met. Norway offered a 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, from 1990 levels, and said it sought to be carbon neutral by 2050. ...

Birgit van Munster, of the Homo Sapiens Foundation, which has been analysing the pledges as they have come in, said: “If all humanity follows the example [of the first countries to submit pledges] we will be more than 700% over the likely emissions limit [needed] to limit global warming to less than 2C, and if this trend continues humanity will proceed to go beyond 5C, the end of human life on earth as we know it.”

Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK, told the Guardian: “Meeting the end of March deadline is an opportunity for major countries to demonstrate both urgency and leadership in the battle against climate change. But thus far we haven’t seen enough of either. Millions of people around the world are waiting for a signal that their political leaders are taking climate change seriously.