Recent Posts Tagged With 'iran'

• What the US Media Chooses to Ignore

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 07:40 in United States, terrorism, iran, afghanistan, hersh, cia, religious fundamentalism

  The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in ...

• Something Iran and the U.S. Have in Common

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 06:56 in United States, human rights, iran, capital punishment, amnesty international

  Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Behnoud Shojaee, a 21-year-old Iranian, at Tehran’s Evin Prison at dawn on Sunday, for a murder he was accused of having committed when he was 17. (full article…)...

• Zionist Agression

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 18:12 in Israel, iran

  Israel continues to threaten to invade Iran. (full article…) ...

• Atoms For Peace

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 14:52 in United States, iran, reza pahlavi, nuclear energy, eisenhower

  For all the recent uproar over Iran’s nuclear program, little attention has been paid to the fact that the country which first provided Tehran with nuclear equipment was the United States. In 1967, under the “Atoms for Peace” progra...

• Déjà Vu

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 07:49 in United States, iraq, iran, Columbia University, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, new york times, hussein, greenwald

  Not all are persuaded. Glenn Greenwald, an author and a left-leaning blogger for the online magazine Salon, called the parallels with the charges that Iraq had so-called weapons of mass destruction in 2002 “substantial and disturbing.” “The adm...

• Political Hype

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 10:13 in iran, nuclear energy, international atomic energy agency, democracy now!

  Iran’s not in violation of anything. Iran is in compliance and the IAEA has stated this. The IAEA has said that the fact that Iran was in compliance with the old code 3.1 subsidiary agreement – the old safeguards agreements – mean...

• Do They Embrace the Same Commitment For Palestinian Freedom

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 21:31 in Israel, palestine, iran, protest, military occupation

  A new organization of several Israeli and Jewish student groups is working to help young people who are thousands of kilometers away — in Iran. Ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming address at the United Nations General As...

• Surprising… But You Wouldn’t Realize This By Reading the NYT

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 12:13 in media, democracy, iran, ahmadinejad, new york times

  Most Iranians express acceptance of the outcome of the Presidential election. Eighty-one percent say they consider Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s legitimate president, and 62 percent say they have a lot of confidence in the declared election results,...

• “Our” Airspace

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 07:39 in Israel, iraq, iran, brzezinski, us foreign policy

  “We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” he told the news site ‘The Beast’. (full article…)...