The State Department has released its "American Documentary Showcase," which includes... “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.†Ellsberg responds: WOW! Hot damn! Sometimes even the current USG comes through -- with a show of...
The US State Department has released their list of films for the 2011 "American Documentary Showcase," a program that brings their approved documentaries to audiences around the world to "offer a view of American society and culture." Amongst the list of selected...
Dr. Martin Luther King's outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam put him neatly in the milieu of modern Christian non-violence that started with the religious writings of Leo Tolstoy, and which had impacts well beyond Christendom (Gandhi's interest in non-violence,...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 15th, 2011: National Review Online: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs on the collapse of Lebanon’s government on Wednesday, warning that “the Iranian proxy...
A Washington Post online article headlined "Have You Changed Your Tone Because of the Arizona Shootings?" seeks comments from people about how the rampage by an Arizona nut case reform themselves. Here's the article's pitch: Reporter Sandhya Somashekhar is looking to...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 13th, 2011: The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board writes that the apparent delay of Iran’s nuclear program is “confirmation that the international campaign†has been effective....
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 12th, 2011: Tablet Magazine: Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow Lee Smith writes, “Arabs are not winning an information war against Israel, nor anything else for that matter. Rather, the stories...
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...
