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Antiwar.com Original Articles : Obama's War Signals

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:40:52 +0000

just f anyones i, http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/forum/viewtopic... politcal opposition to israel is a hate crime. note: I had a longer post there but I erased it. It wasn't that great anyway but I wish I had left it because it was kind of amazing. it was about being margenenlized and losing your standing for speaking out about israel, so the topic was moved to a lesser area or margenalized, then I was suspended!!

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran: It's All About US

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:03:20 +0000

the problem is not all of iran wants to be free. no I don't mean the pro israel version of free envisioned by neocons, I mean many people in iran seem to be perfectly happy selling their votes to Dr A in exchange for oil welfare. hey Moses, what's the big deal. we stay here we get free room and board and 3 meals a day. who wants to walk around eating manna in the desert? the hugo chavez "populist" political machine is likely to remain strong as oil becomes more expensive and scarce

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran’s Green Revolution: Made in America?

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:59:49 +0000

the hardliners are having a tough time defending the shootings of the protesters. it looks too much like gaza. they are retreating to conspiracy theories and "dont' foget how bad the zionists are"

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran Electoral Chaos Energizes Neoconservative Hawks

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:05 +0000

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php...

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran Electoral Chaos Energizes Neoconservative Hawks

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:07:06 +0000

micahel totten, known mainly for being heckled by his own fans for defending lebanese civilians during that war, has been on a tear at commentary. he posts there infrequently but has been posting several topics a day pretty much unable to control his excitement, not surprsing as he is a man who has made a blogging career out of making mountains out of molehills (not that his is a molehill mind you). He usually has terse factual responses if any to commenters but he has been filling the coments with gusto, even insulting the likes of myself a few times for disagreeing with his various asessments,

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran's Election: None of America's Business

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:36:27 +0000

well said.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran's Election: None of America's Business

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:33:34 +0000

very interesting analogy from al jezeera "It is like football, everybody expects their team to win." is this a friggin football riot??

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran's Election: None of America's Business

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:14 +0000

I think john mcCain and eric cantor just said we are all iranians or something. I'm not kidding. I hope I'm not tehran Bob here. I mean if there is some sort of revolution happening that'd be great, it's just that everything I know about iran tells me that this election's results make perfect sense and alot of liberals and neo cons are going to have egg on their face. they might even declare war to cover up their embarassment

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran's Election: None of America's Business

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:30:25 +0000

i'ts georgia /ossetia all over again. another "revolution" with not loud and western media friendly people getting their rear ends handed to them by larger powers they should never have tangled with in the first place.

Mondoweiss : 'Traditional media have completely failed us' (Iranians turn to brave citizen journalists)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:40:55 +0000

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic... no wmd, no rigged election. the westerm media builds you up and knocks you over again.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran's Election: None of America's Business

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:31:03 +0000

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic... ^some arguments against the juan cole take. guys, juan cole might be better than bernard lewis but he is still just a western pundit. if you look closely the polling up to this election was heavily in favor of ahemdnejad, who has done alot to improve the lives of irans rural population. some might call it buying votes, but the point is it paid off. mousavi jumped on the obama bandwagon post cairo and rode it alot farther than most thought he cuold but as a guy in a good article called "wishful thinking in Iran" noted, tehran is not iran.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Anti-Americanism in Israel

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:14:18 +0000

the lobby have a number of memes that don't really work. kind of like how the right wingers throw various "outrages" against the wall to see what sticks. Michael Oren had this thing a few weeks ago, these 7 reasons to attack iran and one of them was that a nuclear iran would mean people wouldn't want to move to israel or something. I mean, as opposed to now when it's so safe. this particular idea should have been kicked around a little before it got to the public, I think it would have been jettisoned pretty quickly.