God help us: Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre for the People and…
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Reporters are whores for war (repeat after me)
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting remind us that the corporate media has remembered nothing from the Iraq debacle; their job is to amplify those in power: There have been recent discussions (e.g., New York Times, 9/29/09) about whether the press is doing a better job covering allegations about Iran’s nuclear program than they did during…
Why can’t Iran make demands on Israel?
Akiva Eldar in Haaretz: One of the best-known sayings bandied about in this region is that “Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East.” This has been the official position of successive Israeli governments. What is less known is that after a comprehensive, regional peace agreement is reached,…
”˜Anti-Zionist’ Jew: author of ”˜My Israel Question’ heads for Bali
The following article by Katrin Figge is published today in one of Indonesia’s largest English newspapers, The Jakarta Globe: For a person who gets hate mail and death threats on a regular basis, Antony Loewenstein remains surprisingly cheerful. The Jewish-Australian journalist, activist, blogger and author, who is based in Sydney, has stirred up plenty of…
When America liked the brutal Iranians
How inconvenient and reminiscent of Washington’s support for Saddam: 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” program launched by President Eisenhower, the US sold…
Reporters might like to consider the Arab point of view
The Australian Committee for Truth in the Middle East, a group with a fine pedigree, offers some advice to journalists covering the Middle East: 1. In Gaza and the West Bank Hamas won popular support – enough to win an election generally regarded in the West as fair (except for the result, of course) –…
Not bombing Iran now must be killing the Israelis
Regarding this week’s reported progress between Iran and the Western powers, a salient comment: Obama WH already got more from one buffet lunch with Iran than Bush WH did in 8 years of saber-rattling.
How attractive is conflict to the New York Times?
The New York Times was intimately involved in selling the case for war against Iraq. Six years on, with Iran in the cross-hairs, little has changed. Corporate and complicit media at its worst.
Israel clearly believes hospitals shield terrorists
Israel, your generosity knows few bounds: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to transfer construction materials into the Gaza Strip in order to rebuild a Gaza hospital damaged during Operation Cast Lead. Until now Israel has not allowed cement and other constuction materials into the Gaza Strip. Ha’aretz reports that the move is a…