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Steele: Lost In Translation
Znet Article, June, 17 2006
Jonathan Steele
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My recent comment piece explaining how Iran's president was badly misquoted when he allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has caused a welcome little storm. The phrase has been seized on by western and Israeli hawks to re-double su...
Klare: The Tripolar Chessboard
Znet Article, June, 15 2006
Michael t. Klare
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For months, the American press and policy-making elite have portrayed the crisis with Iran as a two-sided struggle between Washington and Tehran, with the European powers as well as Russia and China playing supporting roles. It is certainly true t...
Ireland: TEHRAN WOMEN'S DEMO VIOLENTLY BROKEN UP BY POLICE
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
Doug Ireland
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A women's rights demonstration in Tehran was violently broken up by police today, Iranian feminists say in an exclusive dispatch just received by DIRELAND from Tehran. Women -- including elderly women -- wer...
Casmii: Opposing Theocratic Repression in Iran or Playing into Hands of US Warmongers?
Znet Article, June, 11 2006
Casmii
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Opposing Theocratic Repression in Iran or Playing into Hands of US Warmongers?
Parsi: Under the Veil of Ideology: The Israeli-Iranian Strategic Rivalry
Znet Article, June, 11 2006
Trita Parsi
Parsi's ZSpace page
When Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" in October 2005, the world appeared to be light years away from the end of history. It seemed that ideologues had once more taken the reins of power and...
Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran
Znet Article, June, 10 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Ir...
Herman: U.S. Willing to Talk, With Conditions, and the Media Bites Once Again
Commentary, June, 10 2006
Edward Herman
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The mainstream media have long had a high gullibility quotient when it comes to dealing with demonized external threats, which makes it easy to manage them and guide them into propaganda service. In the case of the ludicrous Guatemalan security th...
Solo: Tommy Cooper journalism - the Guardian and the Observer on Venezuela
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
Toni Solo
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Tommy Cooper was a much-loved British comedian who died tragically but perhaps fittingly on stage during a performance - people thought he was fooling. Cooper's stock in trade was to pose as an incompetent magician. One of his catchphrases, offere...
Bennis: Iran: Bush Isolated, Under Pressure,
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
Phyllis Bennis
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** The Bush administration's "offer" to join direct talks with Iran reflects Washington's international isolation on the Iran issue; the offer itself is simultaneously very significant and entirely fake.** The U.S. is still trying to ratchet up ...
Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran Evokes Memories of Past Similar Ones
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
Stephen Lendman
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It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to I...
Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran Evokes Memories of Past Similar Ones
Znet Article, June, 04 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to...
Steele: If Iran Is Ready To Talk, The Us Must Do So Unconditionally
Znet Article, June, 04 2006
Jonathan Steele
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It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof o...
O’donnell: The Political Economy of the U.S.-Iran Crisis
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
Tom O’donnell
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J ust as the true reasons for the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq were not “weapons of mass destruction” or “links to Al Qaeda,” so too, the real reason for the present U.S.-I...
Edwards: Ridiculing Chavez - Part 2
Commentary, June, 01 2006
David Edwards
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In Part 1 of this alert we showed how the mainstream media have been united in depicting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as an extreme, absurd and threatening figure. In essence, the public has been urged to consider Chavez beyond the pale of res...
Porter: Iran Proposal To U.S. Offered Peace With Israel
Znet Article, May, 26 2006
Gareth Porter
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Washington - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the ...
Lobe: Yellow Journalism And Chicken Hawks
Znet Article, May, 25 2006
Jim Lobe
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Washington - A story authored by a prominent US neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colored badges circulated around the world last weekend before it was ex...
Dyer: Iran, Bush & Nuremberg
Znet Article, May, 25 2006
Peter Dyer
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One of the most pernicious consequences of the invasion of Iraq is that in the United States it is now apparently accepted virtually without challenge that aggressive war is a legitimate tool of American foreign policy. I have seen nothing in the...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, May, 22 2006
Bill Blum
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"Come Out of the White House with Your Hands Up!"
Cpd: IRAN: NEITHER U.S. AGGRESSION NOR THEOCRATIC REPRESSION
Znet Article, May, 18 2006
Campaign for peace and democracy -- Cpd
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IRAN: NEITHER U.S. AGGRESSION NOR THEOCRATIC REPRESSION
Mian: America, Iran and the Nuclear Option
Znet Article, May, 16 2006
Zia Mian
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On April 18, at a White House press conference, president George Bush was asked “when you talk about Iran, and you talk about how you have diplomatic efforts, you also say all options are on the table. Does that include the possibility of ...
