Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 7th, 2010: Commentary: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, says that talks with Iran are futile and “the current process of negotiation and inspection is worse than...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 6th, 2010: National Review Online: American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Ali Alfoneh opines that expectations should be “subzero” for the P5+1 talks, continuing today in Geneva,...

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Iran: Parallax view

NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. ...They show that Arab opinion ...—holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 3rd, 2010: National Review Online: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies Benjamin Weinthal blogs on a WikiLeaks cable that had originated in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Apparently, a senior...

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Eric Garris on Fox Business (video)

Antiwar.com founder and managing editor Eric Garris appeared on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano Friday night. He spoke about the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. Here is a clip that starts with Garris:

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Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon

Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional...

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Call Interpol! A Condom Broke! (WikiLeaks)

Given the breathlessness of U.S. media coverage, one would think that WikiLeaks' Julien Assange was wanted for raping half the virgins in Sweden. The reality is far less saucy. The New York Times summarized the charges against Assange: H/T Salon According to accounts...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 2nd, 2010: Commentary: Abe Greenwald writes on Commentary’s Contentions blog that the Obama administration’s “paralysis” in responding to North Korea’s recent artillery attack on South...

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Boycott Amazon.com

Earlier today, Amazon.com took down the cloud servers that were being used by WikiLeaks to serve their site. One of the products Amazon sells is space on their cloud servers at a very competitive rate. Thousands of websites, including WikiLeaks, use their service....

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