Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 27th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: L. Gordon Crovitz opines that Ahmadinejad’s statements and interviews over the past week, which twist or deny accepted truths—such as no one is in...

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Guns Drawn, FBI Raids Peace Activist’s Apartment

As part of a sting against antiwar activists suspected of connections to terrorism, on September 24 the FBI raided six homes in Minneapolis-St. Paul and elsewhere in the country. At the Hard Times Cafe in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, The UpTake interviewed peace...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 24th, 2010: Washington Post: In an article focused on President Barack Obama’s address to the UN, Scott Wilson leads with Obama’s reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s...

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Did Israel Boycott Obama’s UN Speech?

While most of the attention in yesterday's UN speeches was centered around the US delegation's faux-impromptu walkout on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talk, President Barack Obama's own talk had a notably absent delegation, the Israeli one. Officially the...

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Eric Garris on WBAI Radio

Antiwar.com's Eric Garris appeared on WBAI (New York -- Pacifica Network) yesterday to talk about the state of the antiwar movement. The interview starts at the 12 minute (12:00) mark. Listen.

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Spinning the Rand Paul Disaster

No sooner did my column on the shortcomings of Rand Paul appear online then Brian Doherty was out with a long blog post on the Reason magazine web site, which starts out: “I'm already hearing whispers especially from the antiwar libertarian hardcore that a strangely...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 23rd, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Jay Solomon and Richard Boudreaux (with Farnaz Fassihi) write that while Iran hints it might be ready to resume talks on its nuclear program, U.S. and EU...

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Eric Garris on WBAI 99.5 in NYC Today

Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris will be live on WBAI’s “Behind the News” today at 5:10 p.m. ET to discuss the emergence of the antiwar Republicans, the left-right antiwar coalition, and why Obama’s war in Afghanistan has disarmed the traditional antiwar...

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