On Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 6 pm, a panel of speakers from a variety of political positions, all of whom oppose the war in Afghanistan, will meet at First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco to discuss how to build a consensus to end the war in...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 4th, 2010: New York Times: Though details are not available, William Yong writes that Iranian authorities have arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies†in connection with the Stuxnet...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 1st, 2010: Weekly Standard: On the Standard’s blog, Jamie Fly, the foreign policy programs director of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, warns that Russia’s decision to deny Iran...
This interview with Pakistani General (ret.) Hamid Gul, by Bonnie Faulkner, took place on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 on the radio show “Guns and Butter,†KPFA-FM. To read the full transcript and hear the clip, scroll down for more info. In this important...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 30th, 2010: The Washington Post: Thomas Erdbrink reports that sanctions imposed against Iran by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have resulted in the Iranian rial dropping in value against the...
Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward's new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office: "It wasn't until well into the Obama presidency," Woodward writes, that vetÂeran diplomat Richard Holbrooke,...
Protest Against FBI Intimidation of the Peace Movement Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace (VFP 92) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are working together to organize a Thursday afternoon rally outside of the FBI offices in downtown Seattle. Many...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 29th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Benoit Faucon and Spencer Swartz report on Iran’s announcement on Tuesday that it would begin exporting domestically refined gasoline. Iran has depended...
The above cartoon is from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles' sketchbook today. Folks should photocopy this cartoon and pass it around audiences when politicians give speeches prattling about their devotions to those "who made the ultimate sacrifice for their...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 28th, 2010: Washington Post: The Post picks up a report from the Associated Press about the upcoming arrival in Tehran of an Omani delegation to secure the release of the two remaining American...
