Posts Tagged ‘Iran’
Gallup: Most Muslims Feel Islamic Law Provides Justice for All
Gallup: The Coexist Foundation | by Magali Rheault and Dalia Mogahed | 25 July 2008 Many Turks, Iranians, Egyptians Link Sharia and Justice Egyptians most likely to make positive associations with Sharia The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary [...]
The New American Imperialism
Naked Punch | 9 June 2010 By NOAM CHOMSKY Interviewed by David Barsamian MIT, Cambridge, MA 2 April 2010 One of the themes that Howard Zinn tried to address during his long career was the lack of historical memory. The facts of history are scrupulously ignored and/or distorted. I was wondering if you could comment on imperialism then and [...]
CNAS Panel: Advice on “Af/Pak” to the Next U.S. President
CNAS | 10 June 2010 CNAS Fourth Annual Conference Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 21st Century BEYOND AFGHANISTAN: AMERICA'S ENDURING INTERESTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA Beyond Afghanistan & Keynote Address by Michèle Flournoy 00:00:00 Panel Discussion 00:57:20 Questions & Answers 01:11:30 [...]
Propaganda: Saudi Arabia Allows Israel to Attack Iran?
Is the Sunday Times a Mossad Mouthpiece? In a re-run of a 5 July 2009 story, Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran (also reported on afpakwar), that cited the "the head of Mossad" as its authority, the Times once again obliges the Israeli propaganda effort ... The Times | By Hugh Tomlinson | 12 June 2010 Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies [...]
Putin on Western Democracy, the Gaza Flotilla, and Iran
Pravda.ru | 11 June 2010 Putin: Western Model of Democracy Doesn't Exist Vladimir Putin gave a traditional interview to French journalists prior to his visit to Paris. In the interview, the chairman of the Russian government said that the Western model of democracy does not exist per se. Below you can read several most intersecting [...]
Stop this Racist War — U.S. War Veteran
ThePhaedrus83 | By Mike Prysner | 20 December 2009 Amazing Speech by War Veteran In this excerpt from an amazing speech, War Veteran Mike Prysner holds Ammerican racism and their belief in their own superiority as the real drivers of American current wars of occupation. He speaks of the mother, who cried hysterically and told him and his [...]
The Aetiology of American Islamophobia
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 10 June 2010 America subscribes to the ‘melting pot’ rather than the ‘mosaic’ model of unity—seeking unity from diversity (E pluribus unum: Out of many, one), rather than unity in diversity. Confronted by the ‘Other’ the American way is to absorb or to eliminate; living with diversity is not an option. [...]
What If Iran Had Carried out the Gaza Carnage?
Pravda.ru | By Kourosh Ziabari | 1 June 2010 It's not unjustifiable to consider Israel as the absolute incarnation of fraudulence, relentlessness and brutality. Since its establishment, the Zionist regime has carried out actions which contravene the international regulations and cancel out the human rights in a way or another. Only a brief [...]
Iran, Pakistan finalize gas pipeline agreement
MehrNews | Tehran | 29 May 2010 TEHRAN -- Islamabad and Tehran have finalized a deal for the construction of a pipeline to pump Iranian natural gas to Pakistan. The deal was signed by Reza Kasaeizadeh, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Export Company, and Pakistan’s Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar on Friday evening in [...]
The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
The American Prospect | By Spencer Ackerman | 7 April 2010 The administration's effort to transform American foreign policy has been much more successful abroad than it has been at home. Several weeks before President Barack Obama announced an escalation of the Afghanistan War at West Point, a group of journalists and think-tankers met [...]
