A New York Times Magazine article titled “Will Israel Attack Iran?” can only be described as a propaganda piece, which maintains that central premise only through deliberate omission and distortion of the facts.
What’s most enlightening about the attacks on Dr. Paul and his views and positions is the fact that when you really get down to it, his sin is that he’s too unwilling to tow the official line on issues across the board, too willing to challenge the lies and war propaganda, and too honest with the American public about real issues.
Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul “assures audiences” that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 “took place only because of U.S. aggression and military actions”. It’s “True,” she writes, that “we’ve heard [...]
The reason Iran’s nuclear program has become so controversial has nothing to do with nuclear nonproliferation.
Despite the headlines, there is very little new information reported, and the evidence for the claims made is thin.
Any attack on Iran would have dire consequences and enormously destabilize the Middle East.
Once again, I find myself mostly in agreement with Marc Lynch, who argues against launching a military attack on Iran at Foreign Policy. I agree pretty much with all of his conclusions. But that’s not what I’m inspired to comment on at the moment. Rather, I’d like to make an observation about the nature of [...]
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has interviewed me frequently. Here’s the article from the most recent one, in Persian (it’s not on their English site, unfortunately). Here’s a very rough Google translation. Unfortunately, my comments do not come across very clearly, and they published my conclusions without including any of my discussion in which [...]
There’s this idea out there that President Obama had, in a letter to Brazilian President Lula da Silva, praised and encouraged the Brazil-Turkey initiative to forge an agreement with Iran (the “Tehran Declaration”) to have it export uranium for enrichment abroad, to be returned as fuel rods for use in its nuclear program, only to [...]
Foreign Policy has a series this month entitled “Misreading Tehran” in which “Leading Iranian-American writers revisit a year of dreams and discouragement” that is quite interesting. The introduction describes how “the Western media was presented with a sweeping, dramatic story” after the June 12, 2009 presidential election in Iran. “It was a story that seemed [...]
Look. It’s not that difficult, okay? Point one: Politicians don’t often say what they mean. Point two: Politicians don’t often mean what they say. As corollary of the first two points, point three: Policy is rightly judged by deeds, not words.
Representative Jim Costa (CA) sponsored a bill introduced into the U.S. Congress on Tuesday “Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the one-year anniversary of the Government of Iran’s fraudulent manipulation of Iranian elections…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ban Ki-moonThe United Nations Security Council yesterday passed a fourth sanctions resolution against Iran for its insistence on enriching its own uranium…
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