from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 11th, 2011: Council on Foreign Relations: George W. Bush administration Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams blogs that the pronouncement by retiring Mossad head, Meir Dagan, that Iran...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 10th, 2011: Commentary: Evelyn Gordon, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, pushes back against the claim by outgoing Mossad chief Meir Dagan that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon...
ALLAN NAIRN: Well, now, as the U.S. is losing its edge economically, it has one clear comparative advantage. And that's in killing. And it's using it. Obama has increased the attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan. Brookings Institution last year estimated that for every...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 7th, 2011: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin, writing on her Right Turn blog, asks whether India is doing enough to enforce sanctions against Iran. Rubin, picking up on The Wall Street...
Israeli military 'regrets' killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT OOPS! In the occupied West Bank, Israeli...
By now, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attempts to spin the story of Jawaher Abu Rahmah — the Palestinian woman who died last week following a protest in the West Bank village of Bil’in, by all indications due to exposure to tear gas fired by the IDF at the...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 5th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: David Feith adds his voice to the neoconservative criticism of HSBC’s recent advertisement that highlighted the high number of women in the Iranian film...
This great Gahan Wilson cartoon from the January 3, 2011 New Yorker captures the cluenessness (real or pretended) of Washington policymakers who pretend that U.S. drones and bombing raids on foreign countries are merely expressions of American good will...
It may not be as noteworthy as Time's Person of the Year, but CNN appears to have actually stuck to the results of its voting in selecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange their "Most Intriguing Person of the Year." Though the article spends much of its time carping...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 30th, 2010: Commentary: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, says that Iran has sought to weaken the U.S. military’s capabilities in the region by exploring bilateral defense...
