Why should Iran bow to America when it’s treated like a dog?

Nobody reads the New York Times without their irony gene being firmly removed. Here’s today’s editorial on Iran and the Obama administration. It wonders what Washington is really offering Tehran to somehow induce the Islamic Republic back into polite company but the tone is one of hectoring; “we” have the right to bully Iran. Australia…

War with Iran may have to wait a few more minutes

Leading American Zionist and hawk Jeffrey Goldberg is upset in his meeting with Barack Obama that the US President wasn’t more threatening towards Iran. Diplomacy will supposedly fail, we’re told, despite the fact that Washington has its foot on Tehran’s face.

Let the post Wikileaks leaking begin

This piece didn’t get the attention it deserves. Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg (a clear inspiration to Wikileaks and Julian Assange) told the Washington Post last weekend what documents or information should be leaked and freely available. A truly free society would depend on it: 1. The official U.S. “order of battle” estimates of the…

Please give Israeli murderers equal time in our media

Lesson number one for journalists: talking about Israeli “massacres” will always be “biased” even if Israel commits “massacres”: Ofcom has ruled that a current affairs TV show discussing the ill-fated Gaza flotilla, which was presented by Cherie Blair’s sister Lauren Booth, has broken broadcasting code rules on impartiality. Booth presents a regular programme on Press…

The lack of intelligence of American intelligence

Fulton Armstrong is a former US intelligence officer who sent the following letter to the New York Review of Books and explains how the US intelligence community is close to broken (so remember this when a forthcoming report appears on Iran): I was a member of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), as national intelligence officer…

Revolutionary Guards pulling strings in Iran

A new blog by a colleague who knows Iran inside out. Iran Dispatch is essential reading. Like this post that discusses where real power today lies in the Islamic Republic: Iran’s opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi says Iran Revolutionary Guards has been behind the election fraud and now controls the whole economy of the country. In…

Don’t even think about bombing Iran after Wikileaks release

Another angle of the Wikileaks information dump is the way in which it may be used to justify military action against Tehran. Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch explains and refutes that bogus comparison (neo-cons and the Zionist lobby, are you listening?) Most of the response to the WikiLeaks Afghanistan document release thus far has focused on…

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