Barack Obama has behaved in the Middle East exactly like his predecessor, George W. Bush. Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas is right: Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. But wait, pleads Hillary Clinton, we’re trying so damn hard: Call it Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Keep Hope Alive” tour. The secretary of…
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Australian member of parliament thinks bombing Iran is almost inevitable
Australian, Jewish Zionist MP Michael Danby loves to talk about human rights in many countries around the world, except of course Palestine. It’s the usual program; issue directives without political risk but support the most reactionary elements of the Israeli political elite. And bombing Iran. Take his piece in the Wall Street Journal that argues…
Resistance in Iran in photo form
World Press Photo of the year – Italian Pietro Masturzo won the top prize with his picture of the rooftops of Tehran taken in June 2009:
Most reporters are happy to be embedded with the army mindset
Patrick Cockburn, a Western journalist who doesn’t celebrate when the military “kills terrorists”, challenges the relationship between the mainstream media and the armed forces: The press likes short wars. Its audience is never so eager for news as during an armed conflict. The first newspapers date from the wars of the late 16th and early…
Blood, drama, chaos and defiance on the streets of Iran
The Islamic Republic is determined to crack down on any dissent on the 31st anniversary of the 1979 revolution: Iran’s telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.’s email services, saying instead that a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out. It wasn’t clear late Wednesday…
Bombing Iran will only push people into the arms of the regime
Mohsen Sazegara, a founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in 1979 but now strong critic of Tehran, talks to Foreign Policy: I hope that the Obama administration and other democratic countries will be more supportive of the struggle of the people of Iran for democracy and human rights. I can summarize it in four items. First,…
Sarah Palin’s violent vision of America’s future (and yes, Israel is involved)
Following the recent call by Daniel Pipes that Barack Obama should bomb Iran to save his presidency, the Jewish writer finds a charming ally: CHRIS WALLACE [FOX NEWS]: How hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012? SARAH PALIN: It depends on a few things. Say he played—and I got this…
Israel as a “fascist state under the cover of Zionism”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: How can we truly know what happened in the Gaza Strip without Breaking the Silence, and how can we know what is happening in the West Bank every day without B’Tselem? But Im Tirtzu doesn’t want us to know; it wants to cover our shame. That, to it, is patriotism, but…
Murder Iranians in the name of helping Obama, writes radical Jew
Daniel Pipes, a Jew who always loves to find a new war to support, has a new article (re-published in Murdoch’s Australian, of course) that offers the US President a way out of his political troubles: Obama can give orders for the U.S. military to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapon capacity.
Poor old Israel just can’t get a break, worries Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick loves everything about hardline Zionism. She couldn’t survive without constantly warning about the threats faced by Israel. Her latest article continues the familiar theme: the world hates Jews, we are alone and please can we bomb Iran soon? Since the Holocaust, old-style right-wing anti-Semites in Europe have had a hard…