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Media Matters‘ MJ Rosenberg has written an excellent piece which calls attention to the large number of Israeli lives which will be lost if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities.
MJ writes:
Imagine if an American politician declared that it was necessary for the security of the United States that we take an action that would [...]
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I recently wrote a piece on humor as war propaganda for AlterNet. With that story in mind, I’d like to point you to an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg on yesterday’s episode of the “Colbert Report” with satirist Stephen Colbert. The idea of laughing about Israel — or the United States — attacking Iran is only [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Hamas, Hezbollah, humor, Iran nuclear, Jeffrey Goldberg, Justin Elliot, Salon, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Walt, The Atlantic, Zionism
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In the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times, Avner Cohen and Marvin Miller have an op-ed about the Israeli covert nuclear program. Cohen, a non-proliferation fellow at California’s Monterey Institute of International Studies is about to drop a book — “The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain With the Bomb” — about [...]
Tags: Avner Cohen, Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Iran nuclear, Israeli nuclear program, Marvin Miller, Monterey Institute, opaque bomb, Palestine
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Responses to Jeffrey Goldberg’s article on the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran’s alleged nuclear facilities has taken the blogosphere by storm. One of the individuals to add his voice to the debate is Jack Matlock, a retired U.S. diplomat who served as Ronald Reagan’s hand-chosen ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 until [...]
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, existential threat, iran, Iran nuclear, Islam, israel, Israeli attack, Jack Matlock, Jeffrey Goldberg, Likud, oil, Robert Gates, U.S. diplomat
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News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 24th, 2010:
The Atlantic: Marc Lynch responds to Jeffrey Goldberg’s cover story on the likelihood of an Israeli air strike on Iran. Lynch disagrees with Goldberg’s assertion that a failure for the Obama administration to act militarily will result in an Israeli strike on Iran’s alleged nuclear [...]
Tags: Borzou Daragahi, Bushehr, foundation for defense of democracies, Gerald F. Seib, Green Movement, Iran nuclear, Iran sanctions, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israeli attack, Jeffrey Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, Marc Lynch, Michael Ledeen, Obama, pro-democracy reformists, Ramin Mostaghim, Russia, sanctions-breaking, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal
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Two Minutes to Midnight?
Cutting Through the Media’s Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate
By Tony Karon
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
America’s march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, [...]
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Neoconservative activist Michael Ledeen has for years been among the most aggressive Iran hawks on the right. He has steadily pushed for U.S.-backed regime change in Tehran, and during the 2009 post-election crisis was one of the leading voices attacking the Obama administration for not taking a more aggressive stance against the Islamic Republic. He [...]
Tags: Ground Zero Mosque, iran, Islamophobia, Michael Ledeen
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News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 23rd, 2010:
Reuters: Ramin Mostafavi reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Japanese newspaper on Friday that Iran might be willing to stop higher-grade Uranium enrichment. “We promise to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent purity if we are ensured fuel supply,” [...]
Tags: Anne Bayefsky, Borzou Daragahi, Bushehr, Cordoba Initiative, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Hamas, iran, Iran nuclear, Israeli attack, Lee Smith, Los Angeles Times, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Park 51 Community Center, Ramin Mostafavi, Rauf, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Reuters, Russia, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard
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