What follows is a series of pictures, the link to which my son Matthew sent me. They are all pictures of the same country, the last one offering you the only real clue as to its identity. I urge you to look at each one slowly, and when you come
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Ehud Barak sympathizes with Iran’s alleged nuclear aspirations
Whether or not Iran is developing nuclear weapons, it appears that Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak appreciates why they would. In an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, when he was asked if he would want a nuclear weapon were he a member of Iran’s government, he replied, “Probably, probably. I know,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: On Iran and the IAEA: what’s really new here?
When Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird indicated last week that Canada would be acting in concert with our allies to punish Iran, he was saying what he was expected to say. Ostensibly he was reacting to the IAEA report issued last Wednesday on the state of Iran’s nuclear program. But
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: GOP Foreign Policy Debate: Iran, Covert Ops, and Sanctions
While most of the CBS GOP Presidential Nomination debate on foreign policy in South Carolina was predictably following the standard script, there was one issue that somewhat surprised me. That is, the extent to which multiple candidates were very empha…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More on Iran’s ‘Nuclear Program’
Yesterday I wrote a post linking to an article by Gwynne Dyer that suggests the rush to judgement about Iran’s alleged nuclear-weapons’ program needs to include the facts and not just recycled data and hysteria. In a similar vein, I recommend a piece c…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Timely Warning From Gwynne Dyer
Author, historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer is offering a timely warning as the world seems to be going down the same uncritical path to bombing Iran as it did with Iraq and its non-existent weapons of mass destruction.Says Dyer, in an article entitle…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Iran Is Developing Nukes!
It seems that that more needs to be done to stop a Iran from going nuclear. Iran is clearly a threat to peace in the world let alone peace in the middle east. Canada, the U.S and France need to continuously push for deeper sanctions on Iran. Iran who’s…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Is Iran Next in WWIII?
Iran is the next target. When will it happen? Soon, I bet.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Edging Closer to a Nuclear Nightmare
When I think of a nuclear nightmare I think of the ghost towns of Chernobyl. Twenty-five years after the reactor exploded…I think of the deformed children, the cancers, and the poisoned earth.Or I think about the continuing horror of Fukushima.W…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Are Israel and the U.S. About to Attack Iran?
The Guardian seems to think so.The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK mi…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Thoughts on the Nevada GOP debate
This post is a collection of miscellaneous thoughts regarding the Nevada GOP nomination debate. There is no particular order or theme.
Cain and 9-9-9:
In the previous New Hampshire debate, just after Herman Cain’s ascendancy in the polls, he sp…
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Wagging the dog, Mexican style
It’s been a little over 24 hours since the United States announced it had arrested an Iranian operative who was picked up in Mexico for wanting to try to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. If even half of it is true then it s…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: US pushing for (at least) one more front
US blaming Iran for the threats against the Saudis equates to a wolf saying that it was the rooster that killed the chickens.
Continue readingArt Threat: Art in Exile – Iranian born Shirin Nashat speaks to art as voice
I recently came across this beautiful and moving talk by Shirin Nashat, an Iranian born artist who has lived most of her life in exile from her native country.
“Art is our weapon,” she says in the talk. “Culture is a form of resista…
DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers "Secret Sins" Exposed In Bloomberg News Investigation
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Bloomberg has released a whopping 21-page investigative and historical essay on the many crimes of the infamous Koch Brothers, their company Koch Industries and its …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Iran’s overstated military capacities
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With the main thrust of the Libyan intervention dieing down – and with it the need to justify it by villainizing Qaddafi – Iran has firmly regained its place as public enemy number one. Ahmadenijad makes it easy to draw attention…
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Non-member status for Palestine a non-starter
An interesting suggested compromise to the “Palestinian question” came out during the week past. It would be to recognize the Palestinian state without granting it a seat at the United Nations General Assembly. The quirk would b…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Nuclear weapons and motivations for Libya and Iran
Perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the non-proliferation movement was the 2003 decision by Colonel Qaddafi of Libya to entirely abandon his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons program, throwing open the doors to inspectors and allowing the pr…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Seamless Transition: Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell Moves to BP America
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Last week, BP America hired former Department of Defense spokesman, Geoff Morrell, as its head of communications.
The move sheds light on the central tenet of American natio…
Former Iranian Guard commander to become OPEC boss
Now this is interesting. Brigadier General Rostam Ghasemi, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, has been approved by Iran’s parliament as the country’s next oil minister. This automatically makes him head of OPEC as Iran assumed the…
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