Tag: Iran
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Trying to Derail Obama. Again
There have been political cartoons and breathless stories, including blatantly false ones by Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for President of the United States, about how President Obama paid ransom to get the Iran nuclear deal. Now, along comes a corrective story in the form of a New York Times editorial: The first thing to…
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“Enemies of freedom”
Gaza Needs a George Orwell Now By Jim Sleeper – January 11, 2009, 12:48AM Israel is barring independent journalists from Gaza, but The New York Times, relying on Palestinian correspondents there, reports that “Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels,…
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A perspective on Obama’s election
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sends us The Ethnicity of our President Elect and how it changes the paradigm A friend sent me the essay below and when I read it I knew I had to share it on this blog. The author, Mr Robert J. House, in his 70’s, is a retired professional man…
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That hero, McCain
The New York Times published a story on Sunday that had me scratching my head. Timesman David D. Kirkpatrick’s piece, Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine, is not quite like the usual admiring pieces that we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media about McCain, explaining away obvious and prodigious faults while pumping…
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A Clear Voice
The United States is not speaking with a forked tongue about Russian atrocities in Georgia before the United Nations Security Council. Russia and the U.S. traded hot accusations at the Security Council over Moscow’s aggressive handling of its military operation in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia and the bombing of Georgia proper. Georgian diplomats…
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'Integrity' update
I mean, did John McCain really just try to pass off as a joke his crack about killing Iranians? Are they responding to news of Iranian missile tests? Has no one been listening, or reading the news lately? File photo of an Israeli fighter jet taking off from an air force base. Hasn’t Israel been…
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Mr. Integrity
The truth about John McCain is that he has never cared about anyone but himself. (AP Photo) Republican candidate John McCain has some lipstick wiped from his face after a peck from wife Cindy in Denver. He’s a guy who has gotten by on the barest minimum effort as others have paved the way for…
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'Obliterat'*ing Iran
That’s what Darth Vader, er, Dick Cheney and Hillary Rodham Clinton would like to do. But a couple of people says Iran’s alleged nuclear capability and intentions are not so clear cut. Why the hurry? Because, in Cheney’s case, he wants to start something while the getting is good. How many months, weeks and days…