[ Editor’s Note: Press TV has been going through some staff and website changes which you all have been seeing some of since the first of the year new web makeover.

One change you will see here is a bigger effort to pull more of the highlights of an interview into the text story.

The one below is the most extensive on any of my interviews to date. This text version carries the story fully on its own, whereas the shorter earlier format was more of a preview, like my introductions are. This gives a busy reader more choices on which format is better for them, one or the other… or both.

There is a new CEO for Press TV now, and a new webmaster that we have not been in touch with yet. We hope to engage them in rebuilding Viewpoints which got lost in the shuffle when these changes began in the summer.

VT is going through its changes also, with the website and especially with our growing radio audience via Stew Webb’s Truth Warrior team who has done fabulous work on the Facebook networking, concentrating on pumping up the FB shares of VT article. In the last three weeks those numbers have been roughly 100K, 225K and 500K, an unprecedented growth rate.

I sensed immediately the possibility of this being a very vibrant pool from which to begin building a VT telephone WMD we can target on a few top issues and targets every week. I know that passing links along is somewhat passive copy and past act…but a key first step. We have to now work on the best method for finding out who in the growing contact pile wants to fix bayonets to participate in some mass phone call charges.







If we can do this well, we might be able to break through the mass media total blackout on VT, where they pretend we do not exist. That would be sweet revenge not only for us, but all of you readers who have spent so much time here and kept us from being swept under the rug.

We are being hacked more, and Google has gone on that attack, burying our past article success and pulling our rating numbers down, including personally.

In my own example I had been running a Google hit count on “Jim W. Dean” at around 500,000, a rough measure of exposure of article being copied and posted around the Net, where north of 95% of our readership comes from.

But then off we go to the counter terrorism conference in Damascus, and when I return I check the numbers to see if my Syria articles had caused a bump in my numbers, and found it had, but not the way I wanted.

They had crashed to the 50,000 range, an obvious cleaning… and someone’s way of sending me a cute message that they are watching. Here is the proof:

10-02-14 About 467,000 results

10-11-14 About 549,000 results

10-20-14 About 518,000 results

10-26-14 About 523,000 results

11-02-14 About 500,000 results

Several 50 to 55K readings in Dec

01-04-15 About 43,600 results

01-16-15 About 43,400 results

I share this with you not out of ego, but as an example that something we were doing triggered them to go on the offense with a cleaning.

So the silver lining here is we must be becoming a bigger problem for them or they would not expose Google by involving them in manipulation like this, something which will come as no surprise to VT readers.

But the bad news for Google is they made a mistake here, because we have a lot of information on their “other activities”, ones that many counter intelligence professionals would classify as national security risks. So Google is going to get a lot more attention from us this year… just our way of saying thank you for manipulating our numbers.

I will be following up with you on the mass phone calling. It is the cheapest and lowest labor tool we have in our quiver, a 90% organizational thing, plus selling people on what an empowerment weapon they are throwing away if they will not use it.

Thank you all for your years of VT support. We will keep on going, getting bigger and better, and being hated more by all the right people… Jim W. Dean ]

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– First published … January 16, 2015 –

The American people should let members of Congress know that they are sick and tired of them playing the spoiler role in nuclear talks with Iran, a political commentator says.

You can listen to the 4 minute audio interview at Press TV here.

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Jim W. Dean, the managing director of Veterans Today, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on Republican lawmakers’ threats to have more sanctions imposed against Iran if the ongoing nuclear talks with Tehran fail.

“The new Republican-controlled Congress seems intent on playing the role of the ugly American now by continuing its attempt to poison the nuclear talks with Iran,” Dean said. “Tehran has said over and over that it would not respond to threats in the negotiations.” “So the goal of the new round of sanctions seems to aggravate the domestic, political situation there in these delicate times where all sides especially Iran has to be able to have the domestic support for whatever final resolution that they are able to work out,” he added.

Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Thursday that the Senate will start debate within weeks on whether to impose new sanctions against Iran, despite warnings from the Obama administration that they risked derailing nuclear talks.

Dean said that Israel is deeply involved in this because it is just desperate to have some kind of more sanctions “to have Iran back off from the negotiations due to the pressure.”

“But the good part of this is that it [the US] seems to have has given up on the initial craziness of wanting to have passed more sanctions with the idea that if we put more sanctions on Iran we have a better chance of getting an agreement which is just crazy,” the veteran journalist stated. “But there are two problems here. By playing the ugly American role, Congress is clearly wanting to divert attention from two major things here: “No. 1, all of the bogus claims of Iran’s nuclear weapons program were exposed as such as neither the US and Israeli or any of the other intelligence agencies were ever [able] to put any proof on the table after all of these endless claims of trying to stop their weapons program. “Then [No.] 2, Congress also wants to divert attention from all the concessions that Iran not only has made during the talks but has lived up to by the letter, which the IAEA has reaffirmed over and over.”

The illegal sanctions on Iran have been imposed based on the unfounded accusation that Tehran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran rejects the allegation, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.

“So if Congress were to do this, I don’t think they would be getting the support of the P5+1. It is almost like they are in the isolation. I mean America has been talking about trying to isolate Russians, China – it is part of this new Cold War thing – [but] it’s continuing to isolate itself because it’s saying if everybody else wants an agreement the US doesn’t; they’ll just go their own way, they’ll do their own sanctions,” Dean stated. “So I think this is the problem of Congress running the control [of] the foreign policy… So the American people have to get on the phone if they want to support the talks… and let Congress know that they are sick and tired of them playing the spoiler role when the world needs get this issue behind, because we all will be safer with a good resolution,” he advised.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held three rounds of intense negotiations in Geneva to help speed up the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.

US State Department officials said on Wednesday that Kerry and Zarif held “substantive” talks in the Swiss city.

The meetings come as Tehran and its negotiating partners are set to kick off a fresh round of nuclear talks in Geneva on January 18.

Iran and the six powers wrapped up their latest round of nuclear talks in Geneva on December 17, 2014, three weeks after they failed to reach a final agreement by a November 24 deadline despite making some progress.

The two sides agreed to extend their discussions for seven more months until July 1, 2015.

The scale of Iran’s uranium enrichment and the timetable for the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions are seen as major sticking points in the talks.

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Read Full Complete Bio >>> Jim’s Latest Posts Jim W. Dean is Managing Editor of Veterans Today involved in operations, development, and writing, plus an active schedule of TV and radio interviews. He broke into television work doing Atlanta Public TV programs for variety of American heritage, historical,military, veterans and Intel topics and organizations since 2000. Jim’s only film appearance was in the PBS Looking for Lincoln documentary with Prof. Henry Lewis Gates, and he has guest lectured at the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon, GA.He is working to find time now to database his extensive video archive of Americana and interviews filmed during his public TV days so individual topic segments can be key word searched to quickly use in future multi-media projects.