The Case Against the Next War is "a concise package on foreign policy with Iran and Israel because [young activists] desired a resource to show parents and family something with integrity," says Nick Hankoff. The 26 year old media consultant created the presentation...
VIPS Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War
Obama's re-election campaign may be focusing almost exclusively on domestic economic issues but there are strong forces pushing him and the U.S to war again, this time with Iran. The dangerous brinkmanship with Iran could be alleviated if facts were not being...
Elizabeth Warren: Bomb, Bomb Iran!
Another one bites the dust, and so fast, too! Progressives bitter about Obama have already lost their latest celebrity, Elizabeth Warren, to the fever swamp of war hysteria, and she ain't even elected yet. The Boston Herald reports the US Senate candidate, running...
News Media Hypes the “Iran Did It” Line, Ignores Holes in the Story
The work of the news media on this so-called "Iranian terrorist plot" has been one of the most abhorrent displays of irresponsible journalism since the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Much of the time, the press acts simply as a bullhorn for state propaganda,...
NeoCons Push for Iraq-Like Sanctions in Iran
Eli Clifton at Think Progress on the neoconservative push for tighter sanctions on Iran: The announcement that 90 U.S. senators signed a letter to President Obama urging him to sanction Iran’s central bank has been described by some American officials, according...
U.S., Saudi Oil Influence in Yemen: Dictating Who Gets to Be Dictator
The Cato Institute's Malou Innocent, writing at the National Interest's Skeptics blog, directs us to a Wikileaks-released diplomatic cable detailing Saudi Arabia's plan "to build, own, and operate a pipeline that bypasses the straits of Hormuz—and hence, the Islamic...
CNN Allows Fantasy Novelist to Seriously Blame Iran for Afghanistan Chopper Shootdown
Imperial cheerleaders have a habit of blaming Iran for everything bad that happens to a US occupation, so I have come to accept they will pull that boogeyman out any chance they get. And yet I was still surprised when CNN contributor and Bush regime mouthpiece Frances...
Iran: Parallax view
NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. ...They show that Arab opinion ...—holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United...
1/4 of an Iran Debate
On April 1, 2010 I participated in a panel discussion at the University of California at Riverside titled "Obama's challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons & the Mideast" with Reese Erlich, Larry Greenfield and Christopher Records - here is some of my part. Thanks to Mansoor...
Peres, in Argentina, Leaves Sense of Irony at Home
Israeli President and political office-juggler Shimon Peres is in Argentina schmoozing the poor man's Eva Peron, batty President Cristina Kirchner, in the week before Palestinian Authority strongman Mahmoud Abbas visits. Though he seems to be trying to stay one step...
