Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 24th, 2011: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin blogs, after the conclusion of the P5+1 talks in Istanbul, that “Instead of talking to an Iranian regime that has shown no interest in...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 21st, 2011: Foreign Policy: Josh Rogin, on his Foreign Policy blog The Cable, reports that administration officials are pushing back against a common perception in Congress that China isn’t...

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Scott Horton and The Market for War

Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton will be speaking on The Market for War at 5:00pm Pacific, Tuesday, January 25th at Cossentine Hall, La Sierra University as part of the Koch Foundation Liberating Markets lecture series. The La Sierra University campus is located at...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 20th, 2011: Commentary: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs on Commentary’s Contentions blog that Switzerland has finally “relented and announced that it will...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 19th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: Johns Hopkins Professor and Hoover Institution fellow Fouad Ajami opines, “The Bush diplomacy had declared an open ideological assault against the Iranian...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 18th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: In his weekly column, neoconservative Bret Stephens acknowledges that the Stuxnet virus appears to have done serious damage to Iran’s nuclear program but,...

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Ellsberg Responds to State Dept Showcase

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...

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The Most Dangerous Documentary in America

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...

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Who Would MLK Bomb?

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,...

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