OPINIONS & BLOGS

The Left's wrongheaded anti-Semitism debate

Rather unbelievably, liberal writers are bashing a former AIPAC spokesman for keeping a tally of their obnoxious anti-Israel comments

Guardians of the Apocalypse

Rick Schwall retired seven years ago after a successful career in Silicon Valley. He says he’s a millionaire but declines to reveal where he worked or how he made his money. “I consider all of that stuff to be absolutely pointless,” he says. “What is important is that in 2006 I stumbled upon existential risk.”...

Iran, the Revolution and the Language of War

A few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East and Cold War history, at the London School of Economics in 2009. His topic was "The Islamic Republic of Iran After 30 Years." ...

America, Israel and Iran - no way out

If Obama can't stand up to Iran and Israel, he will set the US on a direct path to another Middle East war....

Yousef Ahmad and the Saudi syndrome

Yousef Ahmad is an American. He is also my best friend....

War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us

Escalation of the covert US-Israeli campaign against Tehran risks a global storm. Opposition has to get more serious...

The demonization of Iran

The demonization campaign against Iran has the earmarks of a prelude for a military attack by the U.S. and Israel against Iran. The propaganda is very similar to that heaped upon Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2002. In both cases, an isolated state with limited resources is portrayed as posing a genuine threat to the region and the world....

War drums are beating for Iran. But who's playing them?

Just like the taxpayers of medieval Italian cities, we're having our money siphoned off to pay for a a greedy military machine...

George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace

December 05, 2011 "Salon" -- The U.S. has long had Iran virtually encircled as a result of the American occupation of Afghanistan on Iran’s Eastern border, its invasion of Iraq on its Western border, its NATO ally Turkey hovering on Iran’s Northwestern border, some degree of military relationship with Turkmenistan on Iran’s Northeastern border, and multiple U.S. client states sitting right across the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, where the massive U.S. Fifth Fleet is stationed). ...

[The] West Needs Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- A former Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) official on Sunday said sanctions against Iran as a key regional country have never brought success to the West and only inflicted loss and damage on the western companies....