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Obama Advised to Forgo More Threats to Iran |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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A strategy of threats and "provocations" against Iran by the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama is likely to be counter-productive, according to a new report released here Friday by a group of 20 former top U.S. diplomats and regional experts. |
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America’s Wars of Self-Destruction |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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The decline of American empire began long before the current economic meltdown or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It began before the first Gulf War or Ronald Reagan. It began when we shifted, in the words of the historian Charles Maier, from an “empire of production” to an “empire of consumption.” By the end of the Vietnam War, when the costs of the war ate away at Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and domestic oil production began its steady, inexorable decline, we saw our country transformed from one that primarily produced to one that primarily consumed. We started borrowing to maintain a lifestyle we could no longer afford. We began to use force, especially in the Middle East, to feed our insatiable demand for cheap oil. |
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U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq |
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
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Last April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance to Shi'a militias. |
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Obama and the Rogue Regime |
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
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Barack Obama is receiving lots of advice from many people these days about the collapse of Wall Street, the sinking economy and the quagmire wars he will inherit from the Bush regime. However, there is one important matter that he alone can address with his legal training and the sworn oath he will take on January 20 to uphold the Constitution. That phenomenon is the systemic, chronic lawlessness and criminality of the Bush/Cheney regime which he must unravel and stop. |
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Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections |
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
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The fact that Obama is half African-American or that Biden supposedly grew up in harsh circumstances – or that Palin is a woman and McCain’s airplane was shot down – should be of no essence at all insofar as their policies, decisions and leaderships are concerned. That would be determined by time and experience, although the early signs are hardly promising. |
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UN Tackles Pillars of Intolerance |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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A high-level, two-day conference on the "culture of peace" is being held this week at United Nations (UN) headquarters. Attended by some 70 world leaders and senior officials from dozens of nations, including US President George W Bush and Israeli President Shimon Peres, the enlightening initiative come as recent UN reports have highlighted growing levels of xenophobia, gender, ethnic and racial discrimination, and outright cultural intolerance and religious bigotry around the world. |
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IAEA Divided on Documents |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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What follows is an exclusive Press TV interview with American investigative journalist, Gareth Porter concerning dubious laptop documents and Iran's nuclear program. |
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Yes We Can Talk to Iran |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Five successive U.S. administrations have failed to make progress on the Iranian front, the telling common denominator being that all five have refused unconditional negotiations, embracing instead a consistent policy of hawkish antagonism. Making significant progress on any of our other Middle Eastern concerns - Iraq, Afghanistan, an Israeli-Palestinian deal, etcetera - will be dramatically more difficult without positive developments in our relationship with Iran. |
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With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Establishing a policy that accepts the right of Iran to pursue indigenous enrichment of uranium is actually the soundest approach toward getting Iran to back away from the hard-line position it has taken, because when push comes to shove, Iran cannot afford the uranium enrichment program it has embarked on. This, however, is a conclusion that Iran needs to make, free of international pressure. By respecting Iran’s legal right to enrich uranium, the Obama administration would liberate Iran to make reasoned, rational decisions about its economic future, decisions that would take into account the overall economic health of the country, void of the conservative, nationalistic inputs generated in response to outside pressure. |
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The Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran |
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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Plans by neo-conservatives in the United States to use "airstrike diplomacy" to smash Iran's nuclear aspirations and force it to negotiate were derided at a recent council on US-Arab relations as "utter folly" which would unleash a "titanic crisis". Despite neo-con and Israeli efforts, diplomatic failures by the George W Bush administration are leading to the inevitable acquiescence of the US to a nuclear Iran. |
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