26 Articles

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Birth Pangs of a New World Disorder
(2 comments) The deal signed with Poland today is a continuation of a disastrous American foreign policy which threatens to nullify every international security agreement reached in the last four decades.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Are you better off than five years ago?
(6 comments) The question each and every one us must now ask is this – Do we continue on as mere spectators and then read the bleak consequences of our inaction in yet another opinion poll five years from now? The answer stares us in the face every time we pull into a gas station.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Fool me twice
(1 comments) In a Haaretz interview published today and titled "Is an attack on Iran a big Risk?" Patrick Clawson seems to weigh the possible outcome scenarios of a hostile attack on Iran in the same cavalier and careless manner a prospective violator would consider speeding his vehicle down a freeway.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
'In search of truth'
It should come as no surprise that any reputable and unbiased media organization looking for expert Iran analysis would pay more than just lip service to vetting its sources and actually check the credentials of their pundits. But a cursory search for the truth behind Mr. Daioleslam's background in form of a simple Google search seems to challenge any notion of such scholarly prowess or dexterity.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Casualties of War
(1 comments) The prevailing apathy toward those who govern us through fear and neglecting the idea of holding power to account as informed members of civil society has been the greatest casualty of this war.

Monday, March 3, 2008
America's Moral Deficit
(2 comments) Trita Parsi begins his 2/27/08 opinion piece in the Inquirer titled 'Negotiating with Iran without Betraying Human Rights' by slapping the wrist of the current administration for its "apparent disregard for the expressed wishes of Iranian human-rights defenders". That warning may have fallen on some sympathetic ears even as early as six years ago. But unfortunately that is no longer the case.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
Diplomacy for War
(2 comments) Reuel Marc Gerecht's opinion piece in the New York Times yesterday titled 'Attack Iran, With Words' advocating diplomacy with Iran may have taken some readers including this one by surprise given his resident fellowship credentials at the American Enterprise Institute.

Friday, January 11, 2008
Straight Facts
(1 comments) Timing of this so-called 'provocation' incident in the Persian Gulf just before Mr. Bush's trip to the region was also very convenient as he went on reminding the world and all the client Arab states in the region during a press conference in Israel yesterday that they must fear this menacing "threat to the world peace" and prepare for a joint U.S./Israeli action to deal with Iran.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
NIE Report: Inventing Facts
Many have been quick to characterize yesterday's NIE report on Iran as a long overdue "Honest Intel" that will suck the air out of warmongers' sails because it clearly states "with high confidence that in fall of 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program". But haven't report after report issued by IAEA in the many years since repeatedly confirmed non-existence of such nuclear weapons program in Iran?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
No Rights No Peace
Shirin Ebadi's declaration that "the United States cannot have the right to deal with Iran outside the framework of international law" and insistence that Iran must abandon its rights under an international treaty to enrich uranium exposes her naive unawareness of the very facts leading to Iran's referral to the UN Security Council.

Saturday, November 17, 2007
Saber rattling us to the next disaster
(2 comments) Neither Bush nor Cheney believes in obtaining a congressional authorization to start another war. What they seek is a convincing alibi which is proving harder to attain this time around but not for lack of trying. A report published by The Observer claims US military is pressuring interrogators questioning Iraqi insurgents to press for incriminating evidence that points to Iran.

Friday, September 28, 2007
H.R. 1400: A recipe for war
The word "diplomatic" is derived from "diplomacy" which is the art of international mediation or negotiation for the purpose of maintaining peaceful relations. Imposing sanctions on a country to enhance diplomatic efforts is as absurd a notion as bombing to preserve peace or engaging in sexual assault to preserve virginity.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Lynching at Columbia
(1 comments) Apparent from the crowd of cheering onlookers who turned out in droves to execute the verbal equivalent of such hideous practice on the Iranian president, not much has changed in the last few decades. Just as the perpetrators of those acts would reinterpret them so they would not be seen as less than civilized, the modern executioner of this hanging hid behind an academic façade and his title as a University president.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Reclaiming their french fries

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Returning to his vomit
(2 comments)

Friday, August 17, 2007
Another step toward military confrontation
(1 comments)

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Joe Lieberman and an Acquiescent Congress

Saturday, June 9, 2007
'Missile Defense Shield' and other imperial misnomers
(1 comments)

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Bad Behavior

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Western Media's 'Inexcusable Behavior'
(1 comments)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
UNSC: Sanctioning the next war of aggression
(1 comments)

Thursday, March 15, 2007
United State of Minds

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Deja vu or Amnesia?
Four years on, one is left with a sense of Deja vu as everyday new and unsubstantiated allegations of blame and culpability are leveled at those "up to no good" Iranians.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Lessons of a Tragedy
Bush can't stop banging on and poking at the hornets nest

Monday, January 15, 2007
King George Marching on to Next Disaster

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Next Nuclear Holocaust
(1 comments) Are we on the verge of another Hiroshima, but in Iran this time?