from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 10th, 2010: The Washington Post: The Post’s editorial board writes that while sanctions have constricted the Iranian economy, the White House “has yet to produce tangible results” in...

After Approving Release of Book Pentagon Scrambles to Buy Every Single Copy The Pentagon spends an inordinate amount of time demanding changes and redactions to books to "protect national security," but the mass destruction of a book already in print? It may sound...

The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration's spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history,...

As the mothers of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have spent the last year pacing up and down in the private hell of not knowing whether they will ever see their children again, the Iranians who are detaining the ostensibly luckless hikers have...

Unfortunate technical difficulties today preempt the LRN edition of Antiwar Radio. Please join Scott Horton this afternoon on KPFK at 4pm Pacific for a one hour special on Iran.

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 9th, 2010: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Golnaz Esfandiari reports for RFE/RL, a U.S. Congress-funded international broadcaster, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s...

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 8th, 2010: Wall Street Journal: The neoconservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is ready to declare International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of Iran’s nuclear...

Larry Ludlow and his cohorts at San Diego Complete Liberty have put together an excellent brochure for their protest at the USS Midway in San Diego on Saturday. (Details available here). The brochure is available in PDF. Unfortunately, I am not savvy enough to figure...

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for September 7th, 2010: ABC News: Iran was a hot topic of conversation on ABC’s Sunday talk show, “This Week with Christiane Amanpour”. In addition to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s...

If only Toles had written the word DEMOCRACY onto the anvil, the cartoon would be perfect. (from today's Washington Post)