A quick but illustrative juxtaposition of news tonight, before I start building tomorrow's page: "Shin Bet chief: Hamas will use terror to thwart talks" and "Likud MKs threaten to withdraw support for budget if settlement freeze extended" Same newspaper, same night....
The 9/11 Commission was one of the biggest frauds of a fraudulent decade. Here's an excellent list of sources from "Washington's Blog" on why the Commission's report was a scam. (H/t Tom Blanton) Here's a piece I did a few years ago detailing some of the charades of...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 13th, 2010: Wall Street Journal: Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz, respectively a Senior Fellow and Executive Director at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,...
Never trust a bureaucracy. This should perhaps go without saying but the singularly remarkable series of events which has ended in my feeling the need to pen a formal denial of a bizarre accusation has reinforced the belief in my mind, and perhaps after reading this,...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 10th, 2010: The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board writes that while sanctions have constricted the Iranian economy, the White House “has yet to produce tangible results†in...
After Approving Release of Book Pentagon Scrambles to Buy Every Single Copy The Pentagon spends an inordinate amount of time demanding changes and redactions to books to "protect national security," but the mass destruction of a book already in print? It may sound...
The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration's spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history,...
As the mothers of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have spent the last year pacing up and down in the private hell of not knowing whether they will ever see their children again, the Iranians who are detaining the ostensibly luckless hikers have...
Unfortunate technical difficulties today preempt the LRN edition of Antiwar Radio. Please join Scott Horton this afternoon on KPFK at 4pm Pacific for a one hour special on Iran.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 9th, 2010: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Golnaz Esfandiari reports for RFE/RL, a U.S. Congress-funded international broadcaster, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s...
