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- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
ZNet Article Last night Britain executed two men arrested during the period of widespread unrest that erupted after January 29th’s disputed Chilcot inquiry into the Labour government and Tony Blair’s role in the invasion of Iraq. -
- Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
Commentary In a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this week, Hillary Clinton said that Iran "is moving toward a military dictatorship," and continued the Administration's campaign for tougher sanctions against that country. -
- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
ZNet Article A new human rights campaign has been launched to stop executions in Iran -
- Friday, Jan 15, 2010
ZNet Article On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosionâ€. (Leading art... -
- Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
ZNet Article In one key conflict area-Iran-President Barack Obama appears to be keeping, at least for the moment, his campaign commitment to engage rather than threaten, to use diplomacy rather than force. As talks with Iran go forward, hope continues to rise ... -
- Thursday, Oct 15, 2009
Commentary In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection†to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass... -
- Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
Commentary On 1 October, Iran startled the world by making two dramatic concessions in the long-standing crisis over its uranium enrichment programme, 'agreeing to admit inspectors to a newly revealed nuclear plant and to surrender some of its enriched ur... -
- Friday, Oct 09, 2009
ZNet Article The relationship between the United States and Iran with respect to Iran's nuclear file is playing out at two levels. One level revolves around formal obligations and agreements and diplomacy. The second level is the long-running contest between t... -
- Saturday, Oct 03, 2009
ZNet Article The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities" and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 absten... -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
Commentary In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea... -
- Friday, Sep 25, 2009
ZNet Article An analysis of Obama's cancellation of the US radar base in the Czech Republic. -
- Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
Commentary On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, 'US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's nuclear programme in one massive gamble.' -
- Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
ZNet Article The recent elections in Iran, and the subsequent challenges to their legitimacy, have been a matter of enormous internal conflict in Iran, and of seemingly endless debate in the rest of the world -- a debate that threatens to linger for some time ... -
- Friday, Jul 10, 2009
Commentary June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive. -
- Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009
ZNet Article Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at the ferocious response of the government. Our ... -
- Saturday, Jun 27, 2009
Video Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about what the U.S. should and should not be saying in the aftermath of the Iranian elections. -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Audio A continuity of American policy under Bush and Cheney -
- Friday, Jun 19, 2009
ZNet Article The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an... -
- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
ZNet Article Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran -
- Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009
ZNet Article Obama lets loose the predators ZNet Article Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared the protests following his country's recent sham election to the common scuffles that take place after a soccer game... -
- Monday, Jun 15, 2009
ZNet Article If it is true that Ahmadinejad's victory is fraudulent, it'll be a dream come true for those pushing a more confrontational approach with Iran. -
- Monday, May 11, 2009
ZNet Article Obama has been much bolder with regard to US relations with Latin America than with the Middle East in is first 100 days -
- Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009
ZNet Article At the end of 2007, a thorough assessment by the United States concluded that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme had already halted in 2003. The National Intelligence Estimate was the consensus view of all 16 US spy agencies...
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- Thursday, Feb 26, 2009
ZNet Article Peace Activists Call on Teheran to Ensure the Safety of Iranian Human Rights leader Shirin Ebadi -
- Saturday, Sep 13, 2008
Commentary In early July, a National Post reporter on board a Canadian naval vessel explained: "The usual tense games were played this weekend as this Canadian warship responsible for refueling and replenishing a coalition task force in the Indian Ocean pass... -
- Monday, Aug 18, 2008
ZNet Article From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Ira... -
- Thursday, Aug 07, 2008
ZNet Article There's good news and bad, mostly the latter but don't discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House - with charges and proposals so outlandish that if passed and implemented will be a blockade and act of war. -
- Saturday, Jul 19, 2008
Commentary For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but t... -
- Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008
Commentary Once again, there's a lot of serious attack-on-Iran talk going around. We've both been following this, admittedly with no deep expertise, for several years now. During that time a number of media/blogosphere storms declaring such an attack imminen... - All Newest Content

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- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
ZNet Article Last night Britain executed two men arrested during the period of widespread unrest that erupted after January 29th’s disputed Chilcot inquiry into the Labour government and Tony Blair’s role in the invasion of Iraq. -
- Friday, Jan 15, 2010
ZNet Article On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear program that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosionâ€. (Leading art... -
- Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
ZNet Article The recent elections in Iran, and the subsequent challenges to their legitimacy, have been a matter of enormous internal conflict in Iran, and of seemingly endless debate in the rest of the world -- a debate that threatens to linger for some time ... -
- Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009
ZNet Article Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at the ferocious response of the government. Our ... -
- Friday, Jun 19, 2009
ZNet Article The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an... -
- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
ZNet Article Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran -
- Tuesday, Jun 16, 2009
ZNet Article Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared the protests following his country's recent sham election to the common scuffles that take place after a soccer game... -
- Monday, Jun 15, 2009
ZNet Article If it is true that Ahmadinejad's victory is fraudulent, it'll be a dream come true for those pushing a more confrontational approach with Iran. -
- Sunday, Mar 09, 2008
ZNet Article As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches amid a renewed rise in violence, once-claimed U.S. regional goals of "democratization," "stability," "freedom" are overwhelmed by violent, anti-democratic, unilateral and militaristic U.S. action... -
- Monday, Mar 03, 2008
ZNet Article Washington watched as 2007 came to a violent and inglorious end. U.S. wars raged in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Israeli occupation suffocated Palestinians, U.S.-allied governments in Pakistan and Kenya faced national explosions over false de... - All Featured ZNet

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- Monday, Jun 02, 2008
ZMag Article The public in the United States doesn’t like what is going on and fully 81 percent feel that the country is moving in the wrong direction. But there doesn’t seem to be much the public can do about it. -
- Monday, May 01, 2006
ZMag Article T
he Bush administration’s rapid escalation
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as posturing. Some of the attacks, especially Vice-President Cheney’s
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- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005
ZMag Article Y
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from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile
attack on Iran, they should examine closely a story that took up
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- Friday, Mar 12, 2010
Forum Post http://www.zcommunications.org/introduction-to-participatory-economics-michael-albert-2-5-by-michael-albert -
- Sunday, Feb 28, 2010
Forum Post don't want to specify where i whitewashed SS ??? or maybe NC whitewashed them as well and Edward Herman / David Peterson too (as they are very good friends of NC, but he, in accordance with your 'analysis' is apologist for USA government crim... -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Forum Post The only thing missing from this article is the fact that the US was able and willing to help the Shah's dictatorship venture into the nuclear arena. Interesting that under a dictatorship nuclear development is encouraged but under an elected lead... -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
Forum Post But I suppose it could be used as examplehttp://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/terr-f26.shtml"...Sydney judge last week sentenced five Islamic men to maximum terms ranging from 23 to 28 years"Their crime? "Under the terrorism ... Forum Post What a nice try - to call people who are AGAINST very real (not dream) imperialism meddling in Iran - cultural imperilaist. WHEN people who opposed CIA-made colour "rev" said that "they just cannot help it"? I ask for quatation... -
- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Forum Post comment on SS-whitewashers posts, but this one was not good to miss. The very good Ed Herman & David Peterson articles on Monthly Review Zine are strongly AGAINST "green" coup and its supporters :) In short, our lockal SS-whitewasher... Forum Post allochka still on accid??? if you want to know smth about Iran and Western mass media reaction you can find it in Ed Herman & David Peterson articles on Monthly Review Zine ... otherwise, just stop your usual Bolshevik bullshit, ok :... Forum Post YES, sure, just like in Ukraine in 2004 - WITHOUT any proof but with a lot of imperialist meddling by the same script. Now, when the same imperialism could not repeat the same coup in Ukraine (after all, Ukrainians are NOT such fools to be foolled... Forum Post 1) In UK there is an election, when 1 party is actually supported by foreing force which daily threats to bomb UK, and just invaded and occupied colonial stile two of UK nighbour states?2) BEFORE the polls are finished, the candidate of the same p... Forum Post I completely agree with the general idea behind this piece: that things that are considered abhorrent in the West are quickly forgiven by Western "progressives" when they happen in other countries. I'd just deny that this is ... - All Iran Comments

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- Saturday, Jun 27, 2009
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- Sunday, Jun 01, 2008
Video Details about Israel’s nuclear weapons programme started emerging in 1986... -
- Friday, Feb 29, 2008
Video Demonstrators make the case against the US radar base in the Czech Republic. -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Michael Albert gives an introduction to an alternative economic structure to capitalism. - All Iran Videos

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- Monday, Sep 21, 2009
Blog Post A call for the AJC to practice conflict transformation, rather than simply add to the mass of one-sided propaganda so common in the midst of conflict. -
- Thursday, Feb 05, 2009
Blog Post My thoughts on our constant non-diplomacy in Iran. -
- Monday, Dec 08, 2008
Blog Post My reaction to the defacing of a photo in a library book of the ex-king of Iran -
- Saturday, Sep 01, 2007
Blog Post The Washington regime continues to lay out its
case for war with Iran -- not the least of which is
how little success it has enjoyed at militarily sub-
jugating the population of Iraq. In a speech
Tuesday before the National Co... - All Blogs

Featured Audio Boyle: US in Iran A continuity of American policy under Bush and Cheney Achcar: Middle East Conflict During this conversation, Achcar and Warschawski discussed the current situation in Lebanon, Iran... 
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