Via Jacob Heilbrunn, speaker of the Israeli Knesset Reuven Rivlin speaks out against price-tag attacks, in which extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians and their property out of anger towards the dismantling of illegal Jewish settlements in...
Flynt Leverett, professor of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, and his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO of Strategic Energy and Global Analysis, write of the IAEA report on Iran: Ever since...
The Christian Science Monitor has a brilliant timeline up covering warnings of Iranian nuclear weapons capability for over thirty years. According to western intelligence, they've pretty much always been on the verge of having the bomb. Below is a summary. 1984: West...
And apparently it's because he wasn't obedient enough to his illegitimate, abusive masters. Amnesty International: Shaker Aamer, a former UK resident of Saudi descent, has been held without charge at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 10...
Josh Rogin reports on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent speech on the Arab Spring. It is being billed by State Department officials as one that "takes on the hard questions that people in the region -- and people back here -- have been asking about the U.S....
Most of what I think needs to be said on the Iran nuclear weapons issue I've already written, or has already been written elsewhere. Namely, U.S. policy influences Iran strongly towards attaining a nuclear deterrent, so the notion that Iranians have intent here should...
The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss with one take on the potential for a US-Israeli attack on Iran: Needless to say, an Israeli attack on Iran would unleash catastrophic consequences, completely apart from whether or not Israel could actually do the job effectively. Whereas...
The psycho dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, became notorious for boiling his detainees alive after torturing them brutally. Well, no it seems he's gone in the other direction. And just in time, too, for the Obama administration to fully embrace them with aid and...
Back in May I wrote about the coordinated US campaign of cyber-terrorism, commercial sabotage, targeted assassinations, and proxy wars against the Iranian regime. In other words, the list of acts of international aggression the US has more or less openly unleashed...
This Politico piece made me chuckle yesterday. After years of calling Iran the top supporter of terrorism around, the Ayatollah swung back saying "he had 100 'undeniable' documents connecting the US to terror acts in Iran and the Middle East." He then called the the...
