According to MENAFN News, Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Al-Shahristani, has today announced plans to construct an oil and natural gas pipeline to both Iran and Syria - scheduled to begin construction in 2008.
Both neighboring countries have been long accused by the United States of meddling inside Iraq and are both accused of fueling the ongoing […]
Have just finished reading an eighty page report by Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher entitled, “Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East.”
It is a compelling read full of assumptions - yes - but balanced, and disturbing.
If the U.S. is truly contemplating a unilateral attack on Iran then […]
Article in Time.com from Saturday August 18 by Robert Baer.
Entitled, “Prelude to an attack on Iran.”
Begins:
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk […]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates trip to the Middle East and the subsequent and substantial $63 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and a handful of smaller Arab states has drawn considerable criticism back home from Presidential hopefuls (Edwards | Obama) and other media-starlets as an act of incompetent […]
Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West.
The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range […]
Yesterday the Persian Journal published a very succinct but insightful article on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, who helped to end it and how.
You can understand the not wholly misplaced distrust the Iranians hold against the United States and the United Nations. Whilst the U.S. aggressively sought to mediate an end to the bloody conflict - […]
Every once in a while I get a comment from a reader. These are terrific because my opinions do indeed change as based on new facts, clarifications or even when I’m pointed to ‘real’ facts and not, perhaps, an over-reliance on faulty sources or assumptions. Hey - I’m human and I’m not an economist! I […]
The coalition of ‘Evil-Do’ers’ and anti-American antagonists continue their strategy of under-mining the global dominance of the United States one nasty little paper cut at a time!
Just as the paper-tiger United Nations debates ever-tighter trade and security sanctions on Iran, and just in time for Putin’s ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’-esque visit to the Bush retreat in […]
I probably sound rather silly and melodramatic when I state my longing for credible and agenda-free news coverage that focuses on the real issues facing the U.S. and the world. Perhaps extremely silly! So yes, there is indeed a wonderfully diverse news universe out there … but you have to know where to look […]
That folks may stumble across and actually read a blogger’s (not so daily) posts is an enjoyable feeling. To receive comments - positive or negative, that contribute to a discussion or slam and denounce - is a healthy much appreciated event and I’d like to thank those that do take the time to share their […]