Starving the Syrians for Human Rights
The wing of the U.S. human rights movement which targets foreign countries can wind up as a cruel business, aiding the ruthless and violent actions of the U.S. Empire, wittingly or not. For the U.S....
View ArticlePlease America, Be Gentle: It’s My First Time
From the China Post on May 21st, 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of sanctions at a news briefing on Thursday with Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, on...
View ArticleWar with Iran Has Already Begun
On Friday, 93% of the U.S. House of Representatives affirmed a resolution escalating America’s already aggressive position on Iran, from “crippling” sanctions to a zero-tolerance policy on nuclear...
View ArticleUS Government Attack on Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is under serious threat. The US, UK, Swedish and Australian governments are engaging in a coordinated effort to extradite its editor-in-chief Julian Assange to the United States, to face...
View ArticleWashington and the Cuban Revolution Today: Ballad of a Never-Ending Policy
The Obama Administration, consistent with the approach of the Bush Administration, has made a political decision to subordinate foreign policy and national interest-based decisions to domestic politics...
View Article“Dodgy Dossier” to Newspaper “Editor”: Tony Blair Re-invents Himself.
We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed of what we did and trying to undo some of...
View ArticleSiege Mentality
On 4th April 1967 Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Riverside Church in New York. It was titled “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence.” In that speech he referred to his recent meetings with...
View ArticleWho is the Winner of the Sanctions Game?
Less than a week ago, the European Union put into effect its comprehensive oil embargo against Iran upon which the member states had reached an agreement on January 23. The EU’s unilateral sanctions...
View ArticleThe Silent Victims of Anti-Iranian Sanctions
While the United States and European Union are vehemently competing with each other in the seemingly endless race of imposing sanctions on Iran, ordinary Iranian citizens are experiencing the agonizing...
View ArticleSanctions: Diplomacy’s Weapon of Mass Murder
In 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski immediately killing 120,000 civilians. The final death toll of the horrendous bombings has been...
View ArticleIran Sanctions: US War of Nerves
In continuation of the US-led illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Congress passed on Wednesday night a bill, which imposes more embargoes on the country including those on the parent...
View ArticleTehran NAM Summit a Diplomatic Coup for Iran
What follows is the text of Fars News Agency‘s interview with Irish journalist and political commentator Finian Cunningham about the hosting of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, its...
View ArticleBlood, Oil, and “The American Dream”
Something is rotten in the state… — Hamlet In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those who reveal sordid...
View ArticleObama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Iran Plan
IPS — Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme have not yet been announced, the manoeuvring by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome has already...
View ArticleCarnage or Sanctions? Six Million Iranian Lives at Stake
The US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran which directly and painfully target the population have created an inconceivable situation for those whose very lives depend on the medicine...
View ArticleNobel Peace Committee Alleged Collectively Insane
“When Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize satire died”, satirist Tom Lehrer, memorably commented. The Former US Secretary of State was awarded his Nobel for “negotiating the Vietnam Peace Accords.” In...
View ArticleFighting Dollarization
The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns...
View ArticleThe Political Trial of a Caring Man and the End of Justice in America
In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the...
View ArticleDebunking Four Myths about Iran
They are not my words, but I’ve learned from numerous foreign tourists, journalists and academicians, who have traveled to Iran in recent years, that Iran is the most misrepresented and misunderstood...
View ArticleIs Washington Mulling Diplomacy on Iran?
In an apparent volte-face, Obama has revealed that the US has decided to resolve the so-called Iranian nuclear dispute by means of diplomacy. “With respect to Iran, I very much want to see a diplomatic...
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