YouTube of Iran Debate

Below is the 2 1/2 hour entirety of that Iran debate at UCR on April 1, 2010. Featured speaker was Reese Erlich. Panelists were Erlich, Larry Greenfield, Christopher Records and myself. The host was Louis Vandenberg. Thanks to Joe Briggs for putting this on his...

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1/4 of an Iran Debate

On April 1, 2010 I participated in a panel discussion at the University of California at Riverside titled "Obama's challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons & the Mideast" with Reese Erlich, Larry Greenfield and Christopher Records - here is some of my part. Thanks to Mansoor...

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More on Shahram Amiri

Gareth Porter and Philip Giraldi both have new articles out on the case of mysterious Iranian defector(?) Shahram Amiri. Porter's new one is here, in RawStory. Giraldi's is here, in The American Conservative magazine.

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Ron Paul Says Iran Sanctions Will Backfire

Wednesday, in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas explained to his colleagues the reasons for his opposition to the Iranian sanctions legislation and wondered why Congress would try to undermine the president when he's in the middle of trying...

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Doing 55 in a 54

Kelley Vlahos has a great piece today on the Henry Gates affair and the larger problems of which it's a symptom. One such problem is the ever increasing number of pretexts on which the authorities can interrogate, search, assault, and arrest citizens. The authority...

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American Narcissism Quote of the Week

"Who is at the helm? The way Iran is acting up, and what about weather catastrophes? Hopefully no decision has to be made." - South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington), Tuesday, on then-missing Gov. Mark Sanford

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The Suffrage Green Preservation Society

Like Justin, I'm pulling for Iran's Greenies. No, Mousavi's worldview and goals aren't radically different from Ahmadinejad's; if they were, his candidacy wouldn't have been approved by the clerics. Nor are the people out in Tehran's streets good little junior...

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