from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 7th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs that U.S. senators “have reached a breaking point†with Germany’s “recalcitrant...
Friday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 4th, 2011: The Washington Post: Foundation for Defense of Democracies board member and Project for the New American Century letter signatory Charles Krauthammer opines on the unrest in Egypt and...
Day of Departure Dawns
As the "Day of Departure" dawns in Cairo, many thousands are gathering in Tahrir Square, and the crowd swells by the minute. Rumors of secret negotiations behind the scenes, with various factions of the opposition trying to make a deal with Mubarak regime, amid news...
Obama’s Egypt Plan: Mubarak-ism Without Mubarak
With the Obama administration trying to impose Mubarak-ism with Mubarak, easing the old lizard-headed dictator out and ushering in Omar Suleiman -- recently appointed Vice President and formerly Egypt's top intelligence official and torturer-in-chief --  there may...
Huffpo Headline Helps Hosni
I see the Huffington Post has another one of their over-sized screaming headlines: "'Day of Departure -- Will Massive March Force Mubarak's Hand?" Yes, that's right, Arianna -- you airhead -- Mubarak will be "forced" to kill, jail, and repress the protesters in Tahrir...
Take the Frum Test
Former Bush speechwriter David "Axis of Evil" Frum, the neocon who today poses as a "moderate" Republican, writes: "There’s a lot of heady talk in the US media right now, from both liberals and conservatives, about the possibilities in Cairo. We all share those...
Egypt: The Dealmakers
The New York Times and others are reporting that the Obama administration is working on a plan to get Mubarak out and usher in his Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egypt's feared intelligence service. That Suleiman is the embodiment of the torture...
Thursday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 3rd, 2011: National Review Online: Foreign Policy Initiative Executive Director Jamie M. Fly opines that the possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt is concerning “but...
Ron Paul: Cut All Foreign Aid (video)
Ron Paul spoke to Neil Cavuto on Fox News:
Egyptian Heroine: “We Do Not Trust a Govt. That Sends Thugs to Kill Us.”
I just listened to a live interview on Al Jazeera English with a 23-year-old woman in Tahrir Square. The pro-Mubarak forces are apparently pounding the anti-Mubarak demonstators in the Square with gunfire this night. The Al-Jazeera host asked why she and other...


