Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 26th, 2010: Politico: Laura Rozen reports on Dennis Ross', a top Obama adviser on Iran and the peace process, presentation to an AIPAC conference earlier this week. Ross addressed the...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 25th, 2010: Commentary: Max Boot blogs that, in light of Hamid Karzai’s acknowledgment that he receives $2 million a year from Iran, “the Iranians have attempted similar dollar diplomacy in...

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Pentagon’s Biggest Lie? …WikiLeaks

So the pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump. Obama's Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible - if not mutton-headed - as the Bush...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 22nd, 2010: Jerusalem Post: Israeli President Shimon Peres endorsed linkage — the concept accepted by many in the Obama administration and military leadership that resolving the...

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Blackout?

Can YOUR card do this? AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you how war fits into this. I mean, you co-wrote the book with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. How does war fit into our problems with the economy? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, war fits in because you're creating a...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 21st, 2010: The Washington Post: Glenn Kessler reports that Iran is increasingly unable to conduct “normal banking” activities due to the sanctions, and is attempting to set up banking...

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Raimondo to Speak in Ann Arbor 10/25

The Michigan Campaign for Liberty and the University of Michigan College Libertarians will host Antiwar.com Editorial Director Justin Raimondo in Ann Arbor on October 25, 2010 at 7pm. The free event, "War Without End: The Shame of the American Left," will be held in...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 20th, 2010: The National: Mohamad Bazzi, former Middle East bureau chief for Newsday and current adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes while the Obama administration...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 19th, 2010: Commentary: J.E. Dyer writes on the Contentions blog that Sunni Arabs are convinced Iran is taking over Iraq. He notes that Iraqi Sunnis in the Awakening movement are moving back into...

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