What happened to Iran being the centre of world terror? Several American media outlets reported on Saturday that President George Bush is likely to announce after next month’s presidential elections that he intends to restore the diplomatic relations with Iran, almost 30 years after they were suspended.
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Political vaudeville
My latest New Matilda column is about the forthcoming US election: Vacuous coverage of the US election has only skimmed the surface of the economic and foreign policy challenges facing the next President, argues Antony Loewenstein Mainstream media debate over the forthcoming US election has been fixated on the trivial rather than the substantive. Foreign…
From one socialist to another
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a few words on the current financial crisis: “If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, ‘Take notice, Chavez is a tyrant!’ Or they say, ‘Chavez is regulating prices. He is violating the laws of the marketplace.’ How many times have they criticized me…
Porn does not equal torture
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on a nation we’re supposed to respect: …In the Land of the Free: if you’re an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ [Department of Justice] will prosecute you and send…
The American concentration camp
What really happened at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib? An American guard who was there tells all.
In his own words
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to CNN and host Larry King can’t seem to understand why the Islamic Republic may be upset that the US supported Saddam Hussein for many years:
How to bring “liberation” to Iraq
So much for the “success” of the surge in Iraq: Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday. The images support the view of…
Getting some key perspective
On terrorism, WMDs, the Bush administration and fighting real “terror”:
When peace is never achievable
Middle East Report editorial, Fall 2008: It’s easy to forget, but the United States has a pressing year-end deadline to meet in Israel-Palestine as well as in Iraq. At Annapolis in November 2007, President George W. Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to “make every effort” to hammer out…
I’m a Communist (by the way)
One blogger, Notional Misconduct, discovers the truth about yours truly: I believe Mr Loewenstein is a West-hating socialist (note the revolution themed book cover [on The Blogging Revolution]…I doubt red was coincidental choice), who despite his travels to really repressive countries, can’t help viewing the world through Bush-hating glasses (probably because all the ills in…