I’m soon to visit New Zealand for the Auckland Writer’s Festival and a nationwide tour to various cities to speak about the Middle East. For any New Zealand readers, here’s another major event:
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Watch the Zionist gate-keepers, Nick Clegg
Here’s how corporate and Zionist smearing works. British Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg is surging in the polls and this makes the old hacks, who can only imagine a two-party reality, nervous. Besides, anybody that dares challenge Israel and the US is clearly beyond the pale. For the record, Clegg is hardly some radical (for…
The students paying the price for Ahmadinejad’s arrogance
Because we haven’t forgotten about the Islamic Republic’s barbarism: Bahareh Hedayat belongs to another group of Iranians that has been among the most active in the protests, most brave in its defiance, and most repressed by the state’s basij militia and other official thugs: she is a student leader, arrested (as she had been in…
How unpopular globally is Israel?
A BBC study heralds good news for Obama’s America: Views of the US around the world have improved sharply over the past year, a BBC World Service poll suggests. For the first time since the annual poll began in 2005, America’s influence in the world is now seen as more positive than negative. The improved…
Cover your legs, ladies, an earthquake is coming
No wonder so many young Iranians are leaving the country: A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric’s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,…
Now why would the Times want the world to know that America has no idea about Iran?
Who really benefits from this Sunday New York Times lead story (all from anonymous sources, of course)? Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according…
Iran lectures the world about NPT responsibilities
A timely article by Iran’s foreign minister in the London Independent. It’s almost inconceivable that an Australian outlet would publish this, Tehran being “the enemy” and all: Despite the empty boasts of the US about the achievements of its Washington conference on nuclear disarmament, the world still faces the threat from tens of thousands of…
Boycott Iran but embrace Israel like a young girl in need
Oh, the irony, Here’s Jewish news service JTA publishing a piece demanding that private companies divest from Iran because it’s a threat to world peace blah blah blah. Of course, if anybody dares suggest that a company making money from the Israeli occupation of Palestine should be boycotted they’re labeled extremists and mad. Iran is…
When most Iranian Twitter fiends were actually living in the US
Food for thought. Moeed Ahmad is the head of New Media at Al Jazeera and he spoke a few months ago at Australia’s Media 2010 Conference. An astute reader pointed out this clip and he comments about Iran’s so-called Green Revolution in 2009: Moeed studied the “Twitter” accounts of posters purporting to be in Tehran…
The so-called Arab street is growing impatient with Israel
An editorial in the Arab News that shows the growing anger in the Middle East towards Israel (despite Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick arguing that in fact the “moderate”, authoritarian and US-backed Arab states want Israel to take on Iran and win): The Israeli Army’s plan to deport tens of thousands of Palestinians from the…