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Domestic disturbances
Progressives dealing with the poor state of US-Iran relations, particular over the nuclear issue, have to also confront the complex and dispiriting state of domestic Iran. It would certainly be helpful to those of us opposing sanctions or an armed confrontation with Iran if the Iranian government and its ruling elites were not so damned [...]
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The mainstream press is falling over itself in fulsome praise of President-elect Obama’s foreign policy team, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At this point, with foreign dignitaries refusing even to shake Bush’s hand, the Obama teams are for all practical purposes a shadow government not seen in the US for decades, if [...]
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Rice for oil
A more consequential story than the US raid into Syria may be the agreement between Thailand and Iran to barter rice for oil. As reported in this week’s economic papers, Bangkok’s commerce ministry said it was sending a delegation to Tehran to discuss the barter deal. Thailand is the world’s largest rice exporter, controlling a [...]
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Its about oil
A fascinating article appeared in the latest Middle East Journal, an academic publication, by Anderson Scott Cooper (not the CNN Cooper), on the economic reasons for the 1979 Iranian revolution. Few authors have looked at the relationship between the volatile oil market and the collapse of the Iranian economy in the 1977-1978 period. In his [...]
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Georgia rule
Why a picture of Lindsay Lohan? Because she was in the movie? No. Under the McCain administration, she will be our Minister of Kultur. She understands family values. What a country!
Watching the parade of speakers at this week’s Nuremberg Rally (I mean, ahem, the RNC) I am struck by how much they are carried away by the plight [...]
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Deep freeze
The more I read concerning the weekend Geneva conference attended by US undersecretary William Burns, the more I’m convinced that the Bush Administration wants the talks to fail. If I am correct, we should see increasingly pessimistic statements from the White House and its media proxies combined with “what next” speculative MSM articles. Not to [...]
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Friday’s roundup
Diplomatic moves and sobriety
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that the West must respect Iran’s ‘red lines’ before entering nuclear talks with Tehran, reported Press TV. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Tehran is ready for negotiations with world powers as long as no one threatens Iran over its nuclear program.
“We have [...]
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Wordy rappinghood
It’s official: President Bush has ordered State Department Undersecretary William Burns to attend the ongoing “P5+1″ (US, UK, Russia, China, France and Germany) negotiations with EU diplomat Javier Solana and Iran’s Saeed Jalili in Geneva. On Thursday, Burns met with Solana to prepare for the weekend conference.
There is great speculation that the participation of Burns [...]
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Hossein Askari is a professor of international business and international affairs at George Washington University, and I don’t know his politics or other works. This Asia Times column that appeared Tuesday, however, strikes me as essentially right on a number of levels, and so here are the highlights:
In the popular media and even in learned journals [...]
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Hersh’s latest
Seymour Hersh’ latest column n the New Yorker reports that sometimelate last year, President Bush signed a classified directive authorizing stepped-up covert operations by the CIA and Special Forces against Iran. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and [...]
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