Archive for January, 2009
Iran, and new robots
In a move unlikely to endear Iran, the European Union formally agreed on Monday to remove the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from a list of terrorist organizations. The PMOI gained a degree of notoriety in 2002 when it outed Iran’s ongoing enrichment program.
The EU decision on the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran [...]
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Nuclear things
Today we touch on the state of nuclear matters in the US and Iran.
MSM-stalwart Time leads forth with an article suggesting that President Obama is at loggerheads with his Bush-holdover Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, as to whether to proceed with the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). The Pentagon and the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons laboratories [...]
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From Livermore to Gaza: the DIME
In early January, Norwegian doctors working at Shifa Hospital in the Gaza strip began noticing that survivors of Israeli attacks were suffering odd patterns of massive amputations and shredded soft tissue and bones, but without tell-tale signs of shrapnel penetrations. They reported to the UN and outside agencies that they believed the injuries were caused [...]
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Teeing off and well
Occasionally, someone in the media finally lets go and rightously blows off steam. I read the Daily Kos every so often, and have seen its editor, Markos Moulitsas, on various talk shows as well as the Daily Show. He is an articulate left-liberal, and certainly no radical (except relative to the great mass of Wallmart shppers [...]
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Iran’s aluminum tubes
Today’s Wall Street Journal leads with a “scoop” concerning Iranian efforts to acquire high-tech components for “nuclear missiles.” While I am in no position to contest the factual elements of the story, it is interesting to observe the spin the conservative paper puts on these details. This starts with the very first paragraph:
U.S. security and law-enforcement [...]
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Willy Peter
It doesn’t help in the denial department if the folks you happen to drop white phosphorous shells on happen to be the actual United Nations. Israel, which has denued or evaded questions on use of the chemical, hit a UN warehouse with white phosphorous shells on Thursday. Other groups have seen Israeli artillery drop dozens [...]
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Reality bites
A good antidote to the Anglo-centric wave of “great game” columns on the Gaza war (we win, Iran loses, we lose, Iran wins) is Trita Parsi’s article “Trapping Obama in imagined fault lines” at truthout.org.
In talking about the assault on Gaza, neo-conservative pundits and Israeli hardliners have relied on a familiar frame. The [...]
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From Gaza to Hiroshima
International lawyers such as Richard Falk (video) are cropping up on foreign networks such as Aljazeera to crticise Israel’s war in Gaza.. In recent days, accusations have abounded that the Israelis are using white phosphorous in urban areas (video) as well as targeting civilian schools and mosques. As the number of confirmed dead in Gaza [...]
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Change you can’t beleive in
The auguries are poor that President Obama will engage in a significant shift of policy toward Iran in the first months of his new Administration. As noted by Glenn Greenwald in Salon, his recent public statements reflect that he has fully signed on the mainstream rejection of the 2007 NIE’s statement that Iran was not [...]
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Festival of lights
Iran’s Press TV is covering the Gaza war 24/7, although it is hampered by Israeli press restrictions which has denied nearly all foreign press from entering the war zone. Despite the fact that Press (like everyone else) is reduced to a collection of talking heads, it is a rare shaft of light in the near-total [...]
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