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Ahmadinejad Is a Dangerous Clown

For all those who spoke out against University of Columbia’s President Lee Bollinger’s invitation to Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to speak at Columbia, I hope Ahmadinejad’s performance caused a shift in their opinion.
Besides Bollinger’s introduction/tirade against Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad speaking to American students really allowed him to expose something about himself and policies in Iran that […]

Big Noise counters Patraeus Political Theater

Here’s some interesting counterpoint to much of the political theater coming from the Petraeus testimony. I saw the tail end of this interview on Democracy Now.  
It is an interview with Rick Rowley of Big Noise film … Rowley spent time embedded with U.S. military and Iraqi militias while in Iraq and bring back a […]

When will this era end?

With the recent resignation of Karl Rove who is arguably an important symbol of the Bush presidency, one could only hope that it may signal the end of an era. But this is not true entirely. Even when Donald Rumsfeld retired, the ugliest and biggest failure of the Bush presidency was still with us: the Iraq War.
As […]

What’s next, driving a clown car through Iraq?

It seems Speaker Pelosi began her trip to the Middle East thinking about international diplomacy in terms of “if Dubya can do it, how hard can it be.”
After this embarrassment during her trip to Syria, I can wait to hear what she says next.
Iran and Syria have no intention of cutting ties with, or helping […]

Bad News Inundates Palestinians, Again

As if things weren’t bad enough for Palestinians, I believe drowning in sewage adds insult to injury. Some people from a Bedouin village drowned when a dam holding back sewage gave out.
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Iran captures pawns in ongoing war game

As tension has been slowly ratcheting up between the U.S. and Iran, 15 British sailors and marines were arrested by Iranian forces during a routine, U.N. sanctioned, inspection in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf.
 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4655773.html
I’m sure this is in some ways connected to the overall situation between Iran and the U.S. (and by extension coalition […]