‘Bomb Iran’ Podhoretz: War Would ‘Unleash A Wave’ Of Global Anti-Americanism

An interesting article and video from Think Progress.  It is an interview with one of those hungry neo-cons, Norman Podhoretz.  Here is a very revealing excerpt:
In a new interview, Podhoretz was asked to comment on the possible fallout of the military strikes he advocates. “Well, if we were to bomb the Iranians as I hope [...]

Al Jazeera (english): Seymour Hersh Interview

Finally i’ve been able to find the video of Darren Jordan’s interiew with Seyour Hersh. This was on Al Jazeera English last week. I wish Hersh didn’t have such a good track record as an investigative journalists, because there’s not much in what he says that would give an iranian (or anyone opposed [...]

Seymour Hersh: Body setup to plan Iran Attack

Invesigative journalist Seymour Hersh is back with another article, detailing the ominious steps the Bush Administration is taken in their upcoming war with Iran. 
Just a brief excerpt:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated [...]

Reading List: Iran, will the US attack (and other stuff…)

Here is a list of interesting short articles by various specialists done by Harper’s Magazine as part of an online forum on whether the US will engage Iran in military action:

Part I : Independant Analysts

This includes commentaries by Richard Norton, professor of international relations at Boston University; Wayne White, an adjunct scholar with Washington’s Middle [...]

No George, No Iran

A great article in the Huffington Post by George Karel Bouley, on Bush/Cheney and the lack of their legitimacy in the argument to confrotn Iran. Here are some excepts:
You see we should not invade Iran because of they give or gave weapons to Iraqi fighters for one solid, very real reason: our hands are [...]

Another overt act of provocation …

… and goading into war.
Iranian Envoy seized by Iraqi army unit which reports directly to the US army.
Why is everyone so silent and just watching? All those countries in europe, in asia, in north america… who are not sayign anything, not doing anything, once this war gets started by those warmmongers, the flames of [...]

The Unspoken (American) Presidential Candidate

There is an excellent article in the recent issue of ROLLING STONE, on the unspoken-of Democratic Presidential candidate who is Al Gore.
Here is an excerpt:
A stiff vice president campaigns on his administration’s legacy of unprecedented prosperity. Looks terrible on TV. Bows out, following a disputed vote count. Then, two terms later, with no incumbent in [...]

State of the Union Update

So as you might or might not know the much-awaited WordPress 2.1 came out a few days ago, and i finally upgraded last nite, after much worryign and gnashing of my teeth (i pretty much don’t know anythign when it comes to MySQL, so it’s always an adventure when i have to backup the database [...]

Republican warns congress against a Gulf of Tonkin type incident

Interesting that a Republican Congressman from TEXAS, would be giving warnings against military action against Iran, citing aptly a [[gulf of tonkin]] type incident as a starting point for such an invasion.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/fRB3UBz1KEQ[/video]

US to develope new generation hybrid nuclear warheads

Well, according to the NY Times, the US is set to make new hybrid Nuclear warheads:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 — The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from [...]