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In the wake of the assassination of yet another Iranian scientist on Wednesday, The New York Times has belatedly reported on covert actions carried out by the United States and Israel and directed against Iran, something that I have been describing both in the print edition of TAC and also on this blog site. The article, [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Terrorism
Imagine if Ohio Representative and anti-war activist Dennis Kucinich had come in second place and won 23 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 2008 — after taking a close third place in the Iowa caucuses. The New York Times‘ headlines would be proclaiming “A Huge Victory for Anti-War Democrats,” and Fox [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, War
NEW YORK — America has come back, at least politically, to where it was in the far-off 1950s when Communist scares and the American fascism of Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy kept the republic in a state of fear and anxiety. “Reds under our beds” was the slogan in those days of paranoia and witch-hunting. Today, [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, Politics, World
Yesterday the Outside the Beltway blog flagged a video from back in November in which Rick Santorum offers an unusual solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict: Pretend one side doesn’t exist. “All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis,” he tells the young reporter. “They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land.” [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, World
WTTG Fox reports that Iran exaggerated their missile capabilities and engaged in some North Korean-style Photoshop trickery during the ten-day war games in the Strait of Hormuz. The exercises were planned to show Tehran’s strength in the face of threatened sanctions, including one on Iran’s central bank. But as it turns out, Iran lacks the ability [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War, World
There is a new normal in warfare developing as drone technology becomes more widespread. The downing of a CIA drone is the most recent episode in the secret war against Iran and it is to be presumed that American drones are also flying out of Turkish bases to monitor developments in Syria. In the past, the [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
There has been remarkably little US media coverage of the situation in Pakistan, which could, at a stroke, cause Washington’s policy in central Asia to implode. The silence might be because the US media attention span runs to about thirty seconds while the situation in Pakistan is quite complicated. For those who haven’t been following [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
There are apparently some Americans who are so interested in bringing about a war with Iran that they are willing to do or say anything to achieve that aim. A lead op-ed appeared in today’s New York Times written by Reuel Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz of the neocon Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. The article [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
Daniel J. Flynn reviews A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown. He says Julia Scheeres’s work, which examines the events leading to the mass death in the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, is fairly solid on a factual basis, but takes the wrong lessons from the incident. The cult was born [...]
Filed under: Culture, Foreign policy, War
There are mounting concerns over a possible pre-emptive Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and growing speculation that the Israelis could take such an action without receiving a green light from the Obama Administration. Well, if you believe that, I’ve got a nuclear reactor in Dimona to sell you. Even before the International Atomic [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy