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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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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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Gareth Porter
Instead of watching Its a Wonderful Life on the telly for the 97th time, you may find it worth your while to see this intelligent interview of Gareth Porter discussing US-Iran relations and Obama on The Real News. The video is here.
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Howard Zinn on Obama
The historian Howard Zinn is one of the few American voices I trust implicitly on the subject of world affairs and American politics. Here is his post-election November 6 inteview with Riz Kahn on Aljazeera (YouTube).
Part One Part Two
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Deadlock at the IAEA
As the September 15 report on Iran attests, the International Atomic Energy Agency can neither move forwards or backwards. Having been forced by the US and EU-3 to investigate whether some old documents and photos prove a pastnuclear weapons program (a task the IAEA was never really intended for), the IAEA is wallowing in a [...]
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Happy days are here again
Every ten years I pull out and re-read my yellowed copy of A Canticle for Lebowitz by Walter Miller, which I nominate as the best post-apocalypse novel ever. For those who have never read it, the general idea is that humankind is doomed to repeat a cycle of nuclear war – dark age – renaissance [...]
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RNC links Iran to Osama and 9/11
You have got to see this video shown and televised at the Republican National Convention. This is outrageous. If anyone thinks that the dominant elite is incapable of insane falsehoods regarding Iran, guess again. It reflects a chasm of exploitation and distortion that is breathtaking in its cynicism. For once I am not even amused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDx80bnFrVs
The Republican National Convention video [...]
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Now it seems Senators Christopher Dodd (d) and Richard Shelby (r) have announced (July 15) yet another new “bipartisan” agreement on a new Iran sanctions package. According to Dodd, they have reached a bipartisan agreement on legislation that will expand U.S. sanctions on Iran with respect to weapons proliferation, support for terrorism, and the destabilization of its [...]
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War games
The blogo-sphere is aliiiiive, with the sound of muuuu-sic, and much alarum about Israel’s ostentatious air force exercise over the eastern Mediterranean. The Israeli government made no secret that the impressive long range flight of over 100 fighter-bombers, with midair refueling, was intended to demonstrate its capability to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities including the Natanz enrichment [...]
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On bended knee
There is no reason, zippo, for anyone to be surprised that on the day after his final primary victory over DLC queen Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidental nominee-apparent Barack Obama paid homage before the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to swear fealty and loyalty to Israel and its ’security’ against all enemies. In his speech before AIPAC, [...]
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