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,…
Iran
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.
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…
Koch Brothers "Secret Sins" Exposed In Bloomberg News Investigation
Bloomberg Koch Industries.png 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 ...
Iran’s overstated military capacities
Iranian Missile Test 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…
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…
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…
Seamless Transition: Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell Moves to BP America
Geoff Morell.jpg 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…
EthicalOil.org: Canada Tar Sands Propaganda And Insult to Canadians
Former federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while…
Afghanistan In Disarray? Blame Iran Even If It’s B.S.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that at the end of a bad month for the client regime in Afghanistan and the NATO colonial project in general, that the US…
Ahmadinejad May Be On Way Out
Al Jazeera is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign. He has clashed with his country's real power, its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but…
Twisting Baghdad’s Arm
America's new defense secretary, Leon Panetta, has probably never won a poker game in his life.Washington, or at least the Pentagon, is wracked with anxiety over whether it will get…
Impeaching Ahmadinejad
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, has a problem. He wholeheartedly supported incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election, and now it turns out the flaky Ahmadinejad is being…
Watch Iran short documentary: Interrupted Lives
Since the Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution) of 1979, at least 1600 students have been executed in Iran for their ideas, thoughts, speech, beliefs, and social activism.…
Egypt’s Shifting Geopolitical Policies: A Consequence of Democracy
The recent democratization of Egypt has resulted in a series of distinct policy changes with regards to Israel, Palestine and Iran. These changes ultimately represent a shift in Egyptian policy…
Is Canadian Uranium Fueling Iran’s Nuclear Program? Follow the links.
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, seems like a dog’s age since I done any boogin’. I been twitterin’ up a storm but I reckon I ain’t been motivated enough to…
Wikileaks: Misanthropy and the Spectre of Scrutiny
Amid the bluster surrounding the public release of 278 of 251,287 secret and confidential USG diplomatic cables by Wikileaks as of Monday November 29th; more telling as to the behaviour…
Greenbacked-up as hell and not taking it anymore
Roll out red carpetsHere come the China boys-- The Payola$ (1979)A report by Robert Fisk (the only Western journalist to ever interview Osama bin Laden) in today's Independent augurs ill…