As Obama and Netanyahu escalate their threats against Iran, the only way to rebuff and dismantle the war propaganda is to be aware of the truth on which it claims to comment.

US and Israeli forces have Iran surrounded, and are threatening war in violation of the UN Charter -- a threat to millions of human beings, a threat -- in other words -- of mass murder.

The US-Israeli cyber war on Iran has triggered an unregulated cyber-arms race with governments, intelligence agencies and militaries all developing malicious code to deploy across the world.

Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey confirmed he considered his sacking as defence minister was linked to mounting speculation of a pre-emptive strike on Iran and the expectation that UK forces would be drawn in.

The US has aircraft carriers, gunboats, minesweepers, and robot subs stationed in Bahrain and sold billions of dollars' worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

Obama should make a public declaration against military action by Israel before this possible event, not afterwards. We need a pre-emptive declaration before any pre-emptive war.

The US is arming Arab allies in the Persian Gulf with a missile defense system to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from Iranian attack.

The absence of pro-peace voices in the media isolates Americans from realities of war, stokes irrational fears, and dehumanizes the victims as the faceless "Other."

What is now at stake is not only a threat of a major war in a volatile region, but more importantly for the long run, the future of the international peacemaking process itself.

The aim is to bankrupt the country and cause economic collapse, provoking mass suffering -- ordinary people in Iran are no longer collateral damage, but the intended targets of sanctions.

Widespread and impenetrable false beliefs in the realm of foreign policy means that the political leadership can pretty easily launch a war if and when they decide to do so.

Human rights activists and civil society actors in Iran say a US/Israeli war would undermine the democracy movement and be an absolute tragedy undoing its hard work for reforms.

Obama's embrace of Bush/Cheney terrorism and civil liberties policies — is doing more to entrench those once-controversial policies than Bush and Cheney ever dreamt of doing.

There is still no evidence that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. but evidence is irrelevant when the enormous economic power of the US and EU can force a country to its knees.

Whether Netanyahu is a mad dog about to bomb Iran or using threatening logic to provoke more oil sanctions, the effect is the same: pre-election Obama is playing Israel's game to the hilt.

Companies like Apple should be leading the charge to lift sanctions that violate freedom of speech and access to information, not overzealously applying these policies.