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February 14, 2012
U.S. media takes the lead on Iran
(updated below – Update II – Update III – Update IV – Update V)
Many have compared the coordinated propaganda campaign now being disseminated about The Iranian Threat to that which preceded the Iraq War, but there is one notable difference. Whereas the American media in 2002 followed the lead of the U.S. government in beating the war drums against Saddam, they now seem even more eager for war against Iran than the U.S. government itself, which actually appears somewhat reluctant. Consider
February 13, 2012
February 11, 2012
Book event with Noam Chomsky
I'm in Boise today to deliver the keynote address to the annual Bill of Rights dinner of the ACLU in Idaho, and will be traveling back home tomorrow, so posting will be light to nonexistent over the next couple days. In the meantime, C-SPAN this weekend is broadcasting the book event I did last November in Boston with Noam Chomsky, and the one-hour discussion can be viewed online here.
And here is Cenk Uygur on his CurrentTV program this week discussing the poll showing liberal support for...
February 10, 2012
Israel, MEK and state sponsor of Terror groups
One of the most under-reported political stories of the last year is the devoted advocacy of numerous prominent American political figures on behalf of an Iranian group long formally designated as a Terrorist organization under U.S. law. A large bipartisan cast has received substantial fees from that group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and has then become their passionate defenders. The group of MEK shills includes former top Bush officials and other Republicans (Michael Mukasey, Fran...
February 8, 2012
Repulsive progressive hypocrisy
(updated below)
During the Bush years, Guantanamo was the core symbol of right-wing radicalism and what was back then referred to as the "assault on American values and the shredding of our Constitution": so much so then when Barack Obama ran for President, he featured these issues not as a secondary but as a central plank in his campaign. But now that there is a Democrat in office presiding over Guantanamo and these other polices — rather than a big, bad, scary Republican — all of that has...
The Grave Threat of "Homegrown Terrorism"
U.S. government officials and their cheerleaders in the community of so-called "Terrorism experts" have spent the last two years justifying Endless War and ever-increasing surveillance, detention and militarism authorities with a steady drumbeat of shrill warnings that the nation faces a new, grave menace: the threat of "Homegrown Terrorism" from radicalized American Muslims:
The government has failed to anticipate the danger from homegrown terrorists, some of...
February 6, 2012
February 5, 2012
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
(updated below – Update II)
On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in the middle:
Asked for documentation of Tariq and Waheed's deaths, Akbar did not provide pictures of the missile strike scene. Virtually none exist, since drones often target...
February 4, 2012
The growing Iranian military behemoth
The tranquility of my Saturday morning was disrupted — and that's putting it mildly — when I read on Glenn Reynolds' popular right-wing "Instapundit" blog that we can learn important "Lessons About Iran From Hitler." To know that we have yet another New Hitler in our midst is alarming indeed. Reynolds' link takes one to an even more jarring warning about the Persian menace, by David Goldman, that extensively compares the fallen Nazi leader to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and argues t...
February 3, 2012
Iran is the root of all evil
(updated below)
The Washington Post's David Ignatius yesterday reported that Leon Pantta believes there is "a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June," while the Face of American Meritocracy, NBC News' Luke Russert, today said that "NBC can report Sec of Defense Panetta says there's a greater than 50% chance Israel will attack Iran in the coming months." If that does happen, many Americans will undoubtedly be entirely supportive because they know (at least the...
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