Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 18th, 2010: Washington Times: In an editorial, the über-hawkish DC daily echoes John Bolton (referenced in our last entry here) and calls for a strike against Iran’s Bushehr reactor before fuel...

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“Our Man in Turkey” – The Jake Hess Story

OK, so he's not really "our" man, he's Inter Press Service's (IPS's) man in Turkey, but the articles of Jake Hess, as was reported by a number of media outlets, his writings have appeared on Antiwar.com. But who is this 25 year old New Hampshirite and why does it...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 17th, 2010: The National: Michael Theodoulou reports that new sanctions will exacerbate corruption and mismanagement in Iran’s economy but do little to change Tehran’s nuclear policy. However,...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 16th, 2010:The Financial Times: Daniel Dombey reports that the White House has warned Turkey that it could lose access to U.S. weapons, including drone aircraft that Ankara wants to acquire for...

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Bruce Fein on American Empire (video)

Former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein appeared on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Thursday night. He spoke on America as Empire. Fein is the author of the just-released book: American Empire: Before the Fall. You can get a complimentary...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 13th, 2010: Huffington Post: Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch calls for the United States to bomb Iran. Citing the concerns of Sunni Arab allies, Israel, and even Europeans, who Koch says would...

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Charge, Don’t Kill, Anwar Awlaki

The following appeared in the Gallipolis Daily Tribune last week and in today's Union Daily Times. CNN has become the latest to brand Anwar Awlaki, a US citizen born and raised in the United States, as not just a “terrorist,” but indeed the “New bin Laden.”...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 12th, 2010: Foreign Policy: Michael Eisenstadt and David Crist, both fellows at the AIPAC-formed and often hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy, write that President Obama must...

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Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive

The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless...

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