Where are the mainstream commentators, hacks and journalists who actually challenge American foreign policy towards Iran? It clearly requires an 80 year old to show sense: Prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky says Washington cannot apply its policy of oppression to Tehran, saying it is not in Iran’s nature to follow orders. Speaking in Beirut after…
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Why are so many reporters so keen to use the language of the US military?
Robert Fisk gave the following speech at the Al-Jazeera annual forum in Doha a few days ago: Power and the media are not just about cosy relationships between journalists and political leaders, between editors and presidents. They are not just about the parasitic-osmotic relationship between supposedly honourable reporters and the nexus of power that runs…
Blumenthal on Tea Parties, guns and Jesus
American, Jewish writer and film-maker Max Blumenthal – we like him, see why here – has produced a documentary on the Tea Party movement in the US and its extensive ties to the Republican Party. Ignoring these millions, however, is a mistake in my view. Their anger and pain must be addressed or America will…
A “gay” Saddam was still Saddam
This would have been just a little cheaper in lives and treasure than destroying a country: A little-noticed blog post by a veteran intelligence reporter averred Tuesday that the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group weighed a plan prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion that sought to discredit Saddam Hussein by portraying him as gay. According to…
Yes, Israel needs more weaponry to protect itself from dirty Arabs
How the US Congress “debates” whether to give yet more military aid to Israel. A nice lesson in loving Israel to death:
How’s that Washington, Middle East continuity coming along?
American foreign policy, under Barack Obama, that’s called terrorism if carried out by any other state: The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according…
Washington and the Muslim world, a testy relationship
Views from across the Arab world: We are now approaching the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, which offered Arabs and Muslims around the world a new “engagement” with the United States. A year later, how do Arab publics see the results of that effort–and how much do their…
America, land of the cyber warrior
Who trusts Washington to keep the internet free? The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon’s ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to…
Obama’s America isn’t so inspiring after all
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on America’s continuing policies to deny human beings the right of appeal to terrorism charges. Obama equals Bush: So congratulations to the United States and… Barack… Obama for winning the power to abduct people anywhere in the world and then imprison them for as long as they want with no judicial review of any…
Solving the Iran “crisis” really isn’t that difficult (if we want to)
A handy reminder by Noam Chomsky from 2008 that the corporate press have a particular interest in mouthing US foreign policy goals (and all this is relevant in light of the ongoing irrational hatred against the Islamic Republic): To take another illustration of the depth of the imperial mentality, New York Times correspondent Elaine Sciolino…