from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 22nd, 2010: Commentary: Jonathan Tobin writes on Commentary’s Contentions blog that the Obama administration has fallen for the Iranian’s ploy of practicing “Fabian diplomacy in which they...
Obama’s Christmas Future
from the Ottawa Citizen
Tuesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 21st, 2010: Washington Post: The Post’s neoconservative blogger Jennifer Rubin picks up on a Wall Street Journal story where anonymous U.S. officials comment that the United States may soon...
No, Assange Still Very Much Hoist by the State’s Petard
A few bits on the Assange "smear" leak: 1) Getting into even more (quite boring) alleged details of the incidents does not negate the accepted fact that these women continued to gushingly pal around with Assange quite a bit after the "rapes." As pointed out by...
Help Somali Kids
More fine art from Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for a New American Revolution. This is from Tom's Flickr page here.
Scott Horton on War (video)
Scott Horton addressed last week's Freedom Summit in Phoenix, Arizona on "The Case Against the Case for War with Iran." He is introduced by Charles Goyette.
Monday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 20th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes that Afghanistan is costly and “a strategic distraction,†and that U.S. military...
Friday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 17th, 2010: Weekly Standard: Michael Weiss attacks the concept of 'linkage' in a long, convoluted piece on the Standard’s blog. Leading off with an overstatement explanation of linkage (“by...
Daniel Ellsberg on Bradley Manning
Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg is interviewed by Shelia Dean of Beat the Chip. Explaining the parallels between WikiLeaks and the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg compares himself to Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange to the New York Times.
Thursday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 16th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Benjamin Weinthal blogs on The Weekly Standard that the detainment of two German journalists in Iran should put call...
