Last month, Republicans in the U.S. Senate introduced a formal resolution of disapproval of the historic deal brokered by the Obama administration that will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon for the forseeable future. Despite millions of dollars being spent by pro-war groups, yesterday Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) became the 34th senator to come out in support of […]

As Brian Williams becomes the first person punished for lying about the Iraq War, Dick Cheney is about to headline a fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Benjamin Netanyahu is about to speak to a joint session of Congress and George W. Bush’s brother — who has “never disagreed” with any of W.’s policies — is the frontrunner for […]

Won’t be fooled again? Of all Mitt Romney’s deceitful pandering, his warmongering when it comes to Iran is the most despicable. Faced with an ever-weakening campaign and an improving economy, his only hope is to gin up war. This President has been cautiously and effectively receding the “tide of war”, as he calls it. And Romney, along with Santorum and […]

Exactly the same, only different Mitt Romney has been going to town frightening anyone who will listen about how President Obama’s plan to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is endangering the USA. He’s been saying on the stump, “If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon.” We can’t risk that, he said, so we […]

Can you hear us yet? The Obama adminstration took further actions in sanctioning the Iranian government yesterday, freezing their financial assets. From his message to Congress: I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in […]

“The protests in Iran show the neocons were right” Hard to believe, isn’t it? After all the discussion about how the neocons wanted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the election in Iran last week (like HERE and HERE, e.g.), turns out that’s not the case at all. According to The Times‘ neocon-in-residence Daniel Finkelstein in his article Fancy that. They want […]