Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 31st, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: News columnist Gerald Seib has a convoluted piece on Mid East and Central Asian policy where he says that almost all the U.S.’s regional policy is directed...

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Will Obama Out-BS Bush?

Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq. I’m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 30th, 2010: Haaretz: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling for Lebanon’s resistance groups to stand together with Iran. Ahmadinejad’s comments come after last week’s announcement...

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Daniel Assange is NOT Scott Evil

Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil/Scott Evil proportions,...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 27th, 2010: Reuters: According to Olli Heinonen, the former chief of U.N. nuclear inspection, Iran has stockpiles of enough low-enriched uranium for as many as two nuclear weapons but will not...

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Why Are People Grudgeful?

Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 26th, 2010: Reuters: John Irish reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned Iran that, “If a credible agreement [over its nuclear program] cannot be reached, Iran’s isolation...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 25th, 2010: Washington Times: In an editorial, the hawkish daily chronicles what it calls, “Iran’s emergence as a regional hegemon,” based on its slowly advancing nuclear program and its...

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Scott Horton on Gates’ Retirement

Iran's PressTV interviewed Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton on the announced retirement of Pentagon Chief Robert Gates. Scott appeared with former US ambassador Edward Peck and MediaChannel.org's Danny Schechter. On the program, each of the three responded to each...

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