"This is a confusing article on Guantánamo," a friend of mine pointed out when I sent him the link. It's a piece about the Obama Administration allegedly "admitting" its "human rights shortcomings," as reported by the United Nations. As I scanned the article for any...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 23rd, 2010: Reuters: Ramin Mostafavi reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Japanese newspaper on Friday that Iran might be willing to stop higher-grade Uranium enrichment....
We took Wikipedia to task for their parroting of officialdom on Friday; since then, an explosion of comments and edits, some even reversed by other editors, have pushed the consensus away from declaring the Iraq War over. It now lists Operation Iraqi Freedom as having...
There's nothing that gets the American can-do spirit going in the morning than a rightwing scribe urging the U.S military to 'have a fire sale' (read: destroy) Wikileaks, while invoking Bruce 'Die Harder' Willis and CIA 'friends' who openly advocate 'getting' (read:...
Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton sat down to discuss with Russia Today the facts about the Bushehr project over the scare inducing rhetoric of the War Party.
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 20th, 2010: New York Times: Mark Manzetti and David Sanger report that the Obama administration has “persuaded†Israel that Iran is at least one year — if not more — away from having the...
Wikipedia as Democratic mouthpiece? The user-written and -edited site has been accused of left-leaning judgments on the part of its dominant editors, but not necessarily of hewing to any party line. But now, one must wonder: Wikipedia trumpets the White House talking...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 19th, 2010: Washington Post: Columnist David Ignatius takes a broad view of the Obama administration’s diplomatic trouble spots and prescribes “patience plus†because time is actually on the...
This alert just came in from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): Tell NBC: Sunday Morning Needs a Real War Debate Meet the Press features a parade of Afghanistan hawks The war in Afghanistan has re-emerged as a major news story, thanks to the controversies...
It's rather shocking that this is really happening, here, in the United States, in 2010. Park51/The Cordoba House, an Islamic community center that, mark my words and those of the mayor, will be built in Lower Manhattan, is being hysterically opposed by all manner of...
