Stephen Harper Goes To War Again
He’s always been a nerdly chickenhawk. Posing as a Great Warrior Leader, inflating and deflating like a blimp, depending on the prevailing political winds. He’s never seen a war he…
Iran
Harper’s paranoia reaches a new level … a dangerous level?
Stephen Harper was in full psychic mode on a Calgary call-in show Thursday. He telepathically declared that Iran is “a regime that wants to acquire nuclear weapons … and has…
The Great Oil War [Chapter 2] : Iran
In chapter 1 of what now may be considered the beginnings of a World-War III we discussed what was then the active military action against Libya. We covered economic hitmen…
That Was Fast. Iraq Stumbles Into Civil War.
Iraqis knew they were getting something special for Christmas this year, the departure of American combat forces. And a good many Iraqis also knew that marked the time for settling…
North Korea: Moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight
It’s been a little over thirty six hours since North Korea revealed that Kim Jong Il died from an apparent heart attack on Saturday. It was well known that Kim…
Loontastic!
If anything seems to elicit the barely disguised lunatic aspect of almost every Republican politician (with a few notable exceptions such as Ron Paul and Gary Johnson), it’s their desperate…
Talking to Iran
I am beginning to get the uneasy feeling that we are psyching ourselves up for war with Iran. With the Americans’ two Middle Eastern buddies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, egging…
Where In The World Is This?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Is Iran Next in WWIII?
Iran is the next target. When will it happen? Soon, I bet.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.