from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 24th, 2010: The Atlantic: Marc Lynch responds to Jeffrey Goldberg’s cover story on the likelihood of an Israeli air strike on Iran. Lynch disagrees with Goldberg’s assertion that a failure for...
"This is a confusing article on Guantánamo," a friend of mine pointed out when I sent him the link. It's a piece about the Obama Administration allegedly "admitting" its "human rights shortcomings," as reported by the United Nations. As I scanned the article for any...
In another one of those Washington insider stories every Serious Person is required to care about, Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, two noted "liberaltarians," have allegedly been "purged" from the Cato Institute (that's Dave Weigel's theory, anyway, so take it for...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 23rd, 2010: Reuters: Ramin Mostafavi reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Japanese newspaper on Friday that Iran might be willing to stop higher-grade Uranium enrichment....
We took Wikipedia to task for their parroting of officialdom on Friday; since then, an explosion of comments and edits, some even reversed by other editors, have pushed the consensus away from declaring the Iraq War over. It now lists Operation Iraqi Freedom as having...
There's nothing that gets the American can-do spirit going in the morning than a rightwing scribe urging the U.S military to 'have a fire sale' (read: destroy) Wikileaks, while invoking Bruce 'Die Harder' Willis and CIA 'friends' who openly advocate 'getting' (read:...
One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life during a rocket attack today in Basra.
Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton sat down to discuss with Russia Today the facts about the Bushehr project over the scare inducing rhetoric of the War Party.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 20th, 2010: New York Times: Mark Manzetti and David Sanger report that the Obama administration has “persuaded†Israel that Iran is at least one year — if not more — away from having the...
Wikipedia as Democratic mouthpiece? The user-written and -edited site has been accused of left-leaning judgments on the part of its dominant editors, but not necessarily of hewing to any party line. But now, one must wonder: Wikipedia trumpets the White House talking...
