Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar warned Thursday that “If (the West) issues a new resolution against Iran, we will not be committed to Tehran’s statement and dispatching fuel outside Iran will be canceled.” Turkey and Brazil, with full backing from Washington DC and in close cooperation with the Obama administration, had apparently succeeded [...]

“You Need a Proper Boat … ” We’ve all caught the fever, every one of us who works to send boats to Gaza. From August 2006, when a handful of us started the Free Gaza Movement, every one who has joined us has been stricken with a bad case of the disease. It is chronic. [...]

By Stuart Littlewood At that rate Muslims would have 200 seats ‘Proportional Representation’ is a big buzz-word in the UK these days. It implies fairer voting and fairer government. It is claimed to give minorities a better chance of being heard and therefore, they say, it should be incorporated into the “new politics” our shiny [...]

Why kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American who inspired the Times Square Fizzler and advised the Crotch Bomb Sizzler? This Islamic preacher is “out there.” No doubt about it. So is Christian preacher John Hagee. Hagee promises his flock a Rapture that will beam them up to Heaven. But not just yet. First God’s Chosen People must recover [...]

There have been recent reports that Iran has enabled the travel of al-Qaeda leaders to Afghanistan and Pakistan where they will be able to confront and kill American soldiers.  If you think you have heard the story before, you have, in another context.  In the earlier rendition it was Saddam Hussein who was hand-in-glove with [...]

The times may be a-changin’ — at least a bit — with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East must be handled, though the new reality has been slow to dawn on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her neocon [...]

Colonel Wright said “the Israeli siege of Gaza is illegal and a violation of international law.  We demand that the Israeli, Egyptian, United States and European governments end this siege.  If the governments will not stop the siege, it is up to the citizens of the world to break it—and that is what we will [...]

By Julian Borger (source: The Guardian) The brisk rejection of a last minute compromise on Iran proposed by Brazil and Turkey has snarled broader UN talks on disarmament and non-proliferation US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the NPT Review Conference at the UN in New York Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images The rapid flurry [...]