The 12th of June 2009 saw Iran’s tenth presidential election get underway with Iranians turning out in record numbers. As someone who decided to vote...
"Religious despotism is most intransigent because a religious despot views his rule as not only his right but his duty." -- Abdolkarim Soroush The French...
Thirty years have now passed since the stern, bearded visage of Ayatollah Khomeini graced our television screens decrying the many "ills" of the West and...
CNN Finally Confirms Israel Broke Ceasefire First. It's a shame it took CNN this long to tell us what we all already knew.
English version-- An episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a...
Friends, Enemies, and "Existential" Threats In the ceaseless and invariably bellicose calls for war (both open and clandestine) against Iran, perhaps one argument invoked by...
Fiery debate on Al-Jazeera's Inside Iraq between veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk and Brad Blakeman, former member of President George W. Bush's Senior Staff... Part 1:...
Youtube: Clintons4McCain founder & PUMA gets smacked down on Hardball... I unfortunately don't have enough time to break down all the disturbing, malicious and bigoted...
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri's legacy is complex and multi-faceted. Some revile him as nothing more than the scourge of the Shah who was instrumental in fomenting the...
Youtube: The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi reports on Shooting Back. It is a project organised by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem which gives cameras to Palestinians...
Rapture and Apocalypse: How Real is the Evangelical Hold on U.S. Foreign Policy? That religion plays a prominent role in American politics is undeniable. The...
Seriously???!!! How doesn't the news anchor burst out in tears of laughter?!!! McCain's audacity and imperial hubris are at times truly astonishing. Chomsky clearly hit...
This interview with investigative reporter, Ron Suskind, is simply a must watch... Democracy Now: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the...
Last week Iran responded to the latest European proposal regarding its controversial nuclear program. The so-called “Iran Six” were however neither amused, nor heartened by...
http://foxattacks.com: You're not going to believe what FOX is up to now—we could hardly believe it ourselves. Not only are they smearing Michelle Obama with...
Mahmoud Darwish, The award-winning Palestinian poet, has died aged 67, after heart surgery in a Texas hospital. Wikipedia: Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1942 – 9...
Alternet.com: It's back-to-school time! Parents are starting to shop for their children's school supplies: notebooks, pencils, crayons, and of course, Bill O'Reilly's book, "The O'Reilly...
Straight talk or IRI-propaganda machine? We can hardly be begrudged for being skeptical, can we?!
Both Palestinians and Iranians ought to seriously worry if Mofaz clinches the Kadima Party leadership and the Israeli premiership (though to be frank I doubt...
An interesting lecture by Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, one of the most important scholars of modern Iranian politics on the nature and role of the crowd...
Negotiations over the future role and status of America’s armed forces in Iraq have been underway for some time, while any sign of agreement between...
Interesting debate between an Iranian-American theologian and American neuroscientist/philosopher on faith, science, reason, secularism and fundamentalism...definitely worth a watch...
As Keith Olbermann deftly shows, the bumbling McCain totally confuses the timeline and history of "the surge" by claiming it preceded the overtures toward and formation of the Sunni...
A fortnight ago Turkish prosecutors indicted 86 secular Turks on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in plots to topple the governing conservative populist Justice...
You can see the New Yorker cover which has caused quite a stink, further escalated by Obama's people's remonstrations and unabated whining here at my blog...
In this Channel 4 Dispatches documentary It shouldn’t happen to a Muslim Peter Oborne looks at whether or not Islam and British Muslims have been...
This video takes a critical look at the MEMRI TV 'news service' upon which all faux-journalists so heavily rely e.g. Tom Freidman of the NYT...As'ad...
The indomitable Trita Parsi lays out in the clear light of day the repercussions of a US strike against Iran and debunks the hollow rationale and...
Video: Dan Rather Reports The Most Wanted Man In Iran Not many answers. But a rare interview with the elusive 24-year-old Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of the...
Excellent documentary made by that bastion of good, old-fashioned American journalism, Bill Moyers, and fascinating on account of how many parallels there are with the...
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