from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 15th, 2010: The Washington Post: Thomas Erdbrink reports on comments made Tuesday by former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in which the cleric criticized the government for not...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 14th, 2010: Reuters: Louis Charbonneau reports Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend a UN-meeting next week on moving forward global disarmament talks, which have been stalled...
Antiwar Radio won't appear for the rest of the week. Scott is taking a much-deserved vacation.
A quick but illustrative juxtaposition of news tonight, before I start building tomorrow's page: "Shin Bet chief: Hamas will use terror to thwart talks" and "Likud MKs threaten to withdraw support for budget if settlement freeze extended" Same newspaper, same night....
The 9/11 Commission was one of the biggest frauds of a fraudulent decade. Here's an excellent list of sources from "Washington's Blog" on why the Commission's report was a scam. (H/t Tom Blanton) Here's a piece I did a few years ago detailing some of the charades of...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 13th, 2010: Wall Street Journal: Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz, respectively a Senior Fellow and Executive Director at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,...
Never trust a bureaucracy. This should perhaps go without saying but the singularly remarkable series of events which has ended in my feeling the need to pen a formal denial of a bizarre accusation has reinforced the belief in my mind, and perhaps after reading this,...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 10th, 2010: The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board writes that while sanctions have constricted the Iranian economy, the White House “has yet to produce tangible results†in...
After Approving Release of Book Pentagon Scrambles to Buy Every Single Copy The Pentagon spends an inordinate amount of time demanding changes and redactions to books to "protect national security," but the mass destruction of a book already in print? It may sound...
The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration's spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history,...
