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AFGHANISTAN:
03.11.12 - American Morlocks: Another Civilian Massacre and the Savagery of Our Soldiers
08.09.11 - The Invisible Dead and "The Last Word": Lawrence O'Donnell 'Rewrites' the Occupation of Afghanistan
IRAN:
12.31.13 - Panic, Predictions and Propaganda: Endless Empty Estimates on Iran's Nuclear Program
12.26.13 - Time Warped: Repeated Rhetoric of Urgency from Israel to Iran
12.20.13 - Acclaimed Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi's New Film Comes to American Screens
12.14.13 - Spinning Iran's Centrifuges: A Quick Lesson in Alarmism
12.13.13 - American Who Disappeared in Iran in 2007 Revealed as CIA Agent
12.03.13 - The Final Proof That You Can't Trust the Persians
11.29.13 - Balé, Ma Mitunim: Rouhani’s Own "Yes, We Can" Video
11.15.13 - Keep Calm Tehran: A Video Respite
11.11.13 - Iran's Nuclear Rights vs. the West's "Bombastic Diplomacy"
11.11.13 - What an Al-Monitor Analyst Gets Wrong about Arak
11.08.13 - Fashion Photography on the Streets of Iran, Then and Now
11.07.13 - NBC Nightly News Reports on Iran from 1979 and 1980
11.03.13 - Talkin' Bad Journalism and Propaganda with Scott Horton
11.01.13 - Finding Humanity, Not Stereotypes, #InsideIran
10.31.13 - Atomic Errors: Propaganda & Ignorance in Reporting on Iran
10.18.13 - A Persian Version of ‘The Sound of Music’ Hits the Stage in Tehran
10.16.13 - The Crying of Flight 655:The Washington Post and the Whitewashing of a War Crime
10.11.13 - As Usual, Orientalism Employed to Undermine Diplomacy with Iran
10.04.13 - The Mainstreaming of Iran: From Ancient Persian Ruins to Iranian Living Rooms
10.01.13 - Kerry, Kerry, Quite Contrary: US Secretary of State Reveals Ignorance on Iranian Nuclear Program
09.30.13 - George Stephanopoulos Thinks Iran is Enriching Weapons-Grade Uranium...But It's Not.
09.30.13 - Mainstream Media's Ongoing Disinformation Campaign on Iran
09.30.13 - Talkin' Détente with Scott Horton
09.29.13 - The Consistency of Official Iranian Commentary, Part II: Are Rouhani's Statements Really a Huge Break from the Past?
09.28.13 - The Consistency of Official Iranian Commentary: Are Rouhani's Statements Really a Huge Break from the Past?
09.27.13 - CNN’s ‘Open Mic’ in Tehran: Iranians Tell It Like It Is
09.20.13 - Iran’s ‘Constructive Engagement’ Undermines Israeli Propaganda
09.18.13 - Rouhani, Like Countless Iranian Officials Before Him, Affirms: Iran Will Never Seek Nuclear Weapons
09.13.13 - New Documentary Reclaims “The Canadian Caper” from Affleck’s “Argo”
09.06.13 - Iranian American Artists On A Mission to Stop War Through Hip Hop
08.29.13 - Only Bad Guys Ignore Public Opinion, Right? Not to Mention International Law
08.23.13 - Is This The Most Pathetic Sting Operation the U.S. Government Ever Concocted?
08.16.13 - Calls for Diplomacy with Iran Come from Unlikely Sources
08.10.13 - "Plan B" From Outer Space: The Hype Over Iran Continues
08.09.13 - Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art, On Display and In Demand
08.05.13 - Alas, Arak: Plutonium, the Press & a New Path to Propaganda
08.03.13 - Lost in Mistranslation: Before Inauguration, Rouhani Gets the Ahmadinejad Treatment
08.02.13 - Wagering on War Crimes: The Atlantic’s Latest Anti-Iran Propaganda
08.01.13 - After Ahmadinejad, Alarmism Still Reigns
07.31.13 - Iran Alarmism and the "Time is Running Out" Canard
07.19.13 - EU Sanctions on Iran Continue Collapsing in Court
07.16.13 - Benjamin & His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Lies: Netanyahu Cries 'Wolf'...Again
07.13.13 - Dirty Laundry: MEK Re-Ups 3 Year Old Nuclear Propaganda; Terror Group is Sounding Board for Dubious US Intel
07.11.13 - Relax, Iran Isn't Going to Withdraw from the NPT
07.06.13 - John Bolton Condemns US Reaction to Egypt Coup: A Warmonger's Guide to Shouting Support & Prudent Silence
07.05.13 - Mainstream U.S. Media & A Tale of Two Coups
06.28.13 - The Future of Iran’s Foreign Policy (and Arsalan Kazemi)
06.25.13 - TIME OUT! Aryn Baker's Selective History of the 2009 Iranian Election
06.19.13 - How Bogus Narratives Perpetuate: The Guardian's Bad Facts on Iran Return
06.17.13 - Looking For 'A New Devil’: Israeli Leaders & Supporters Scramble After Iran Election
06.16.13 - #IranElection: Wide Asleep in America's Twitter Coverage
06.14.13 - An Interview with Hooman Majd:Part 2: It’s the Economy & Threats Stupid!
06.13.13 - AMAZEBALLS: Rachel Maddow's Ignorance on Iran
06.12.13 - An Interview with Hooman Majd:Part 1: The Presidential Election
06.11.13 - On Non-Resident Voting in the Iranian Election
06.07.13 - Social Freedoms & Women’s Rights Take Center Stage in Iran’s Presidential Debate
05.31.13 - Iran: Beyond the Headlines, Beneath the Fold
05.24.13 - Will Iran’s Next President Be Elected or Selected?
05.19.13 - Outsourced Trolling, Weak Replies and More Bad Research: Javedanfar's Former Students Unsuccessfully Defend Their Mentor
05.10.13 - In Iranian Town, Recycled Stones Make For Groundbreaking Architecture
05.08.13 - Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Facts to Vindicate Failed Iran Sanctions Policy
05.03.13 - New Study Examines Media Coverage of Iranian Nuclear Program
05.01.13 - The Daily Beast Takes the Bait on Anti-Iran Propaganda
04.29.13 - New Israeli Math and the Return of the Holocaust Analogy: Steinitz: Iran "Equal to 30 Nuclear North Koreas."
04.27.13 - The Guardian's Bad Facts: Error-Filled Article Needed More Editorial Inspection
04.24.13 - Decades of Threats and the Delusions of Shimon Peres
04.23.13 - Nostrad-Amos! The Hysterical Predictions of Israel's Former Military Intel Chief
04.22.13 - Iran Remains Committed to NPT, Despite Bluster from MPs, While U.S. Ignores Treaty Obligations
04.18.13 - Clapper: Iran Still Not Building a Nuclear Weapon; Purpose of Sanctions is to Foster Unrest
04.12.13 - The Lonely & Lovely “Look” of Iranian Photographer Newsha Tavakolian
04.08.13 - The Ironic Lady: Margaret Thatcher, Supposed Champion of Freedom and Democracy, and Her Dictator Friends
04.05.13 - Cautious Optimism as Negotiations Between Iran and the P5+1 Resume in Almaty
03.29.13 - From a Candy Factory in Iran to the 'Sweet Sixteen' in Indiana: Arsalan Kazemi’s Mad March through the NCAA
03.24.13 - Khamenei's Nowruz Speech and the "Threat" That Wasn't
03.22.13 - The Last Straw: Britain’s Former Foreign Secretary Regrets One War, Tries to Avoid Another
03.18.13 - The Not-So-Imminent Iranian Nuke: A Year Away for a Decade
03.17.13 - Ever-Closing Windows and Biden Time on Iran at AIPAC
03.15.13 - U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn't Building Nukes.Is Anybody Listening?
03.08.13 - From Iraq to Iran: Memories Ignored & Lessons Unlearned
03.05.13 - Massimo Calabresi's 'Path To War'
03.02.13 - Fifty People, One Question: Tehran Edition
03.01.13 - Wide Asleep on CounterSpin Radio
02.26.13 - Wide Asleep on Radio Dispatch...and Other News
02.23.13 - Oscar Prints the Legend: Argo's Upcoming Academy Award and the Failure of Truth
02.22.13 - Maternity Leave, Iran, and American Exceptionalism
02.17.13 - Going For The Gold:The P5+1's Latest Lackluster Offer to Iran
02.15.13 - In Iran, Sanctions Speak Louder Than Words
02.14.13 - The BBC Spins the Truth on Iran's New Centrifuges
02.07.13 - The Talented Mr. Takeyh: Why Doesn't the Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Like Flynt & Hillary Mann Leverett?
02.06.13 - Iraq, Iran, Red Lines and Headlines
01.31.13 - The Ongoing Saga of Bad Websourcing: Does Al-Monitor Even Have Editors?
01.20.13 - When Fact Becomes Opinion: Half-Truths, Non-Truths & the Phony Objectivity of the Associated Press
01.16.13 - Jordan Paust's Bad Law: UH Law Professor Tries & Fails to Legalize an Israeli Attack on Iran
01.09.13 - For ThinkProgress, Any Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy is "Anti-American Propaganda"
12.22.12 - Wired's Weird Propaganda and the Most Dangerous Man in the World
11.27.12 - Graphoganda!, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love George Jahn's Embarrassing Nonsense
11.21.12 - The Persian Gulf on Tonkin: Will Hawks Succeed in Igniting a Disastrous War Against Iran?
10.22.12 - What We Won't Hear in Boca: Nine Things to Remember During the Iran Section of the Presidential Debate Tonight
10.21.12 - The Constant Countdown: Never-Ending Hype, Hysteria, and Hyperbole about Iran's Nuclear Program
10.18.12 - Lights, Camera...Propaganda! RT: Hollywood beats the war drum
10.12.12 - Argo's Asinine Auteur and his American Audience: Are We Hostages to Hollywood History?
10.10.12 - The Goldberg Predilections: Ignoring Decades of Iranian Statements on Nuclear Weapons for the Sake of Propaganda
10.01.12 - Reuters Fails the "Find-Replace" Game for Recycling Iraq Propaganda about Iran
08.25.12 - Editor vs. Editor: New York Times' Rosenthal Ignores Ombudsman's Advice on Responsible Journalism Regarding Iranian Nuclear Program
08.14.12 - Points of No Return, Zones of Immunity, & Windows of Opportunity: The Constant Israeli Hype Over Iran
08.09.12 - Is Barak Ravid the new Judith Miller?
07.21.12 - The Insanity of Anti-Iran Propaganda
07.14.12 - MEK Spokesmen and Their Cozy Home at The Huffington Post
07.09.12 - Threats and Propaganda: 30 Years of U.S. Policy towards Iran [VIDEO]
05.16.12 - That Was Now, This is Then: Another Pro-War Resolution Hits the House Floor
05.14.12 - Wall Street Journal Shocker: Iranians Have Democratic Values (or, OMG! Iranians are Like Totally Almost Like Real Humans!)
05.13.12 - I Want My - I Want My - I Want My NPT: This Weekend's Extravaganza of Crapoganda on Iran's Nuclear Program
05.08.12 - Biden to Israel: Bomb Away!
05.05.12 - Perceptions of Persia: The Persistent & Pervasive Orientalism of the West's Iran Policy
03.24.12 - The Tribalism & Latent Racism of Jeremy Ben-Ami
03.02.12 - Hurting, Hanging, Suffocating & Starving: The Inhumanity of Iran Threat Rhetoric
02.27.12 - Israeli Reactions to Oscar-Winning Iranian Film Reveals an Ignorant & Propagandized Population
02.22.12 - Them's War-Startin' Words! Jeffrey Goldberg's Disingenuous Condemnation of Tucker Carlson
02.14.12 - Alan Dershowitz's Awful Law & Terrorist Friends
02.07.12 - Obama Lies about the Iranian Nuclear Program: Super Bowl Sunday Edition
02.02.12 - The Warmongering Post: Iran, Israel, Ignatius, and the Intended Consequences of Propaganda
01.31.12 - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: The U.S. Tries Too Hard to Fear-Monger about Iran
01.26.12 - The Kowtowing of CAP: ThinkProgress Buckles to Josh Block Bullying
01.24.12 - We Aren't The World: Obama, Iran, and The Arrogance of Empire
12.25.11 - Troll and Response: A Follow-Up
12.13.11 - The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel's 'Rights'
11.21.11 - Bluster Bombs: Israel's Empty Iran Threats Continue
11.17.11 - On Al Jazeera's "The Stream" with Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi, co-creators of Voice of America's "Parazit"
11.12.11 - Reality Withdrawal: The Iran Nuclear Scare™ Cycle Continues
11.10.11 - The Iran Attack That Will Never Happen: Perennial Threats, Permanent Bluff
11.08.11 - The New IAEA Report on Iran: An Initial Response to the Explosive Reactions...of the Press
11.07.11 - Rattling Sabers & Beating Drums: Fear-Mongering over Nuclear Iran Reaches a Fever-Pitch
09.08.11 - Nuclear Propaganda and the Failure of Journalism:
Iran, the IAEA, and the Mainstream Media
07.20.11 - Fleitz of Fancy & A New Diehl on Iran (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XLVII)
07.19.11 - Herman Cain, Israel, Iran, and the "Clinton Doctrine"
07.13.11 - The "Iranian Weapons in Iraq" Carousel: Around and Around It Goes
06.28.11 - The Uncritical Stenography of Beltway Reportage: Is Robert Zeliger Killing Truth in Foreign Policy?
06.24.11 - The Iranian "Nuclear Test" Report: Gerdab, The Guardian, and How Propaganda Spreads
06.23.11 - Meir Javedanfar Strikes Again! - Inappropriate Use of "Unprecedented" Reveals His Agenda
06.16.11 - Two Smart Fellows, They Tell Lies: The Truth vs. Think Tankers Maloney & Takeyh
(a rebuttal to a New York Times op-ed which repeats long-debunked myths about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
06.06.11 - RAND Researcher: Iran is Two Months Away From A Nuke! (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XLII)
(a new report claims Iran is a mere eight weeks from obtaining enough high-enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb)
06.05.11 - On the Tehran Research Reactor & Polonium-210: An E-Mail Exchange with Jeremy Bernstein
(an email exchange with the author of the recent error-filled blog post from the NYRB)
06.02.11 - Jeremy Bernstein's Nuclear Propaganda Fail: The New York Review of Books Gets It Wrong on Iran
(a comprehensive response to the myriad mistakes made in a recent New York Review of Books blog post about the Iranian nuclear program)
06.01.11 - Israel's Pompous Posturing & Idle Threats (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XXXIX)
(a review of recent comments by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and what Iranian President has long been saying about the (im)possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran)
05.31.11 - An Illegal, Unprovoked Military Attack on Iran?: Anything Less Would Be Uncivilized (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XXXVIII)
(Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Mark Fitzpatrick, and the Iranian "threat to the entire civilized world")
05.31.11 - Meir Javedanfar's Continued Fear-Mongering and Shoddy Journalism (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XXXVII)
(a response to bad journalism and misinformation surrounding the latest IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program, focusing primarily on the reporting of Meir Javedanfar)
05.26.11 - Interview with Kourosh Ziabari
(my interview with Iranian journalist Ziabari, in which I discuss Israeli-American relations, Iran's nuclear program, recent Arab uprisings, and the death of Osama Bin Laden)
05.24.11 - A Busy Week, AIPAC'd with Propaganda (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XXXVI)
(a review of statements made by Obama and Netanyahu at various DC gatherings, plus an explosion in Abadan, a new IAEA report, and a new round of sanctions)
05.04.11 - Israeli Fear-Mongering about Iran Faces a Barak-lash (Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XXXIII)
(recent comments by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak have dealt a blow to Iran hawks)
02.09.11 - It's Pretty Easy Being Green in Iran: A Photographic Rebuttal to Michael Ledeen's Lies
(a photo essay demonstrating the falsehood about Iran's censorship of the color green as propagated by career warmongers like Michael Ledeen)
01.26.11 - Anchors Away! The 'Stability' of U.S. Puppet Dictatorships
(a historical contextualization of the United States' vocal support for Hosni Mubarak's decades-long dictatorship)
01.12.11 - Interview on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton
(my discussion with Scott Horton about, among other things, the numerous failed predictions of Iran's imminent creation of a nuclear weapon and the constant demonization of Iran's leadership as irrational and genocidal)
01.06.11 - The Campaign for Peace and Democracy's Latest Letter: To Sign or Not to Sign?
(a detailed explanation of why I declined to endorse a recent, popular petition regarding U.S. foreign policy toward Iran)
12.29.10 - The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran's Nuclear Program
(a comprehensive time-line of false U.S., Israeli, and European assertions regarding the supposed inevitability and immediacy of a nuclear-armed Iran; allegations that have been made repeatedly for the past thirty years - and updated with the latest bogus predictions!)
10.08.10 - A British Exchange: Comments & Replies
(an informative dialogue regarding the legality of United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran, international support for Iranian nuclear rights, and the reality of Iran's nuclear energy program)
09.29.10 - International Flaw: With New Iran Sanctions, POTUS Calls Tehran's Kettle Black
(a critical examination of the U.S. government's duplicity in imposing new unilateral sanctions on Iran based on human rights abuses)
07.18.10 - When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of 'Countdown To Zero'
(an analytical look at the anti-nuclear weapons documentary 'Countdown to Zero,' which appears - unfortunately - to be rife with anti-Iranian propaganda and heavy on the hypocrisy)
03.07.10 - 'Néjàd Vu, All Over Again: The Media, 'Pretext,' Context, & 9/11
(a catalog of allegations against President Ahmadinejad, with supporting information debunking the myths used to demonize him in the Western press)
02.15.10 - On the Recent Executions in Iran
(a brief look at the much publicized capital punishment executions in Iran and how they have been misrepresented by the media)
12.27.09 - The New York Crimes: All The Lies That Fit to Print
(a comprehensive dismantling and myth-debunking of University of Texas' Alan Kuperman's latest New York Times OpEd encouraging a immediate military attack on Iran.)
09.24.09 - Obama vs. Ahmadinejad: A Tale of Two UN Speeches
(a comparison of the two presidents' speeches, delivered only seven-hours apart and to very different effect)
06.24.09 - AJAX REDUX: US Heavy Meddle in Iran
(a look at the history of deep involvement and intervention, both overt and covert, of the United States in Iran and how it may have affected the post-election situation)
06.23.09 - In Fraud, We Trust?
(a critical and comprehensive analysis of the allegations of election theft and voter fraud in the Iranian Presidential election)
06.11.09 - On the Table & Off the Map: Threats, Lies, and Iranian Elections
(an election preview on the eve of the Presidential vote in Iran; takes a look at the main candidates political positions)
06.05.09 - Obama's Cairo Speech: Electile Dysfunction, or Timing is Everything!
(an analysis of how the US is involving itself in two upcoming elections in the Middle East, in Lebanon and Iran)
04.29.09 - On Ahmadinejad and Progressive Myopia
(a response to the misguided attitudes of so-called "progressives" or "liberals" to Ahmadinejad, mostly with reference to reactions to the Durban II speech)
04.20.09 - Durban II: Alethophobic Boogaloo
(an analysis of Ahmadinejad's much-maligned speech at the 2009 United Nations World Conference Against Racism; includes some additional commentary in the comment section)
03.15.09 - Pop Goes the Culture...Live From New York, It's the Same Old Propaganda!
(a response to SNL's head writer Seth Meyers' continued Islamophobia and deliberate demonization of Iran)
06.24.08 - Trick or Threat: The US and Israel's Visions of Lebensraum
(another review of recent threats, military and economic, to Iran coming from Washington and Tel Aviv)
05.06.08 - Bush and Bushehr: Dumb Beat To 'War' - Who Are The Real Nuclear Terrorists?
(a review of the US and Israeli threats, real and rhetorical, of attacking Iran)
03.29.08 - To Live and Let Lie: Brain Washing and Iran Bashing
(reviewing the NIE report, presidential campaign rhetoric, push for more sanctions, and a supporting article on the history of the West's relationship with Iran)
03.14.08 - If You Won't Bomb Iran for Us, We'll Find Someone Else Who Will: The Early Retirement of Admiral Fallon
(a look at the US' push for war with Iran, sanctions, Iranian calls for nuclear disarmament, and the retirement of CentCom commander Admiral William Fallon)
01.24.08 - "Blame It On Iran!": The Milli Vanilli-style Broken Record of the War-Mongering US Government
(discusses the usual lies about Iran, mistranslations of Ahmadinejad, and the Strait of Hormuz naval incident)
IRAQ:
04.26.13 - War Criminal Gets New Library as Violence Flares in Iraq
04.21.13 - Hey, Remember That Iran War the U.S. Never Fought? Well, Newsday Does.
04.19.13 - Mourning With America from Boston to Baghdad
11.13.11 - Propaganda Revisited: Iraq, Iran, and the Rhyming of History
04.22.08 - IRAQ/N: 10 Commandments & 12 Reasons
03.20.08 - Five Years
02.12.08 - Rand Corp. Report to US Gov't: 'Try Exporting To Your Colonies What You Don't Have Here At Home'
01.28.08 - Hey, Remember When We Bombed, Invaded, Occupied, and Destroyed That Country? No, Not That One, The Other One...
ISRAEL/PALESTINE:
12.27.13 - Remembering the Gaza Massacre
12.12.13 - The Selective Memory of Shimon Peres
12.05.13 - The Destructive Engagement & Youthful Indiscretion of ABC News' Jon Karl
08.21.13 - Rachel Maddow and Chemical Weapons: Inaccurate Information & Telling Omissions
07.14.13 - The Mainstreaming of BDS and an Open Letter to Mohsen Makhmalbaf
05.17.13 - The Newseum’s Decision to Drop Palestinian Journalists from Memorial Prompts Varied Responses
05.13.13 - Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
04.15.13 - The "Constructive Engagement" of Liberal Zionists
01.02.13 - The Horror of Equality and the Left-Right Consensus in Israel
12.13.12 - Susan Rice: Israel's 'Gladiator' at the UN
12.04.12 - Has-Maher-a! The Not-So-New Depths of Bill Maher's Delusion and Depravity
09.27.12 - Benjamin Netanyahu: Master of Show-and-Tell
09.20.12 - That Was Now, This Is Then: Netanyahu Edition
08.24.12 - Iranian Rhetoric and the History of the Cancer Analogy
08.18.12 - Some Notes on Ahmadinejad's "Insult to Humanity" Comment
08.17.12 - American Jihadists and Israel's Lone Soldiers: Come for the Perks, Stay for the War Crimes
08.07.12 - StandWithUs' Dishonest Train Campaign: The Resurrected Roman 'Renaming' of Palestine Ruse
07.25.12 - The Washington Post's Racism Problem: Op-Ed Writers Fear 'Flood' of Arabs & Africans Pose Demographic, Existential Threat to a Pure Paradise
07.24.12 - Smiles and Denials: Official Israeli and Iranian Statements Demonstrate a Double Standard
07.19.12 - Israel Sets the Narrative on Bulgaria Attack: Accuses Iran with No Evidence; Media Repeats Claim Dutifully
06.30.12 - Death of a Proud, Self-Avowed Terrorist: Former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir Goes to the Great Hague in the Sky
06.19.12 - Blood, Heat and Tears: Why I Can't Root for Miami in the NBA Finals
05.01.12 - The Injustice of Israeli Impunity: Remembering and Mourning the Samouni Famili
04.28.12 - Zionism: The Ultimate Art of Inception
04.23.12 - The Holocaust, Hallowed Ground, and Hollow Words: Obama's Selective View of the Struggle for Human Dignity
04.19.12 - Condemning Nazi Comparisons and the Instant Israelification of Elie Wiesel
04.18.12 - The Old News of 'New Anti-Semitism'
04.07.12 - Foxman & Friends: ADL Head Lambastes NYC High School Trip to Israel/Palestine for Insufficient Hasbara
02.15.12 - Troubled Jeopardy!: Travels Through Trebekistan
01.23.12 - When Brainwashing Backfires: Military indoctrination at Nazi death camps stokes...universal democratic values!
01.22.12 - The Hypocrisy of Mark Leibler: Indigenous Rights Advocate Denies Indigenous Rights to Palestinians
01.20.12 - From the River to the Sea...? The One-Statism of Likud and the RNC
01.10.12 - Israel: Still not doing Gandhi very well
01.05.12 - The Shoah Must Go On: The Exploitation of Victimhood and the Israeli Trivialization of the Holocaust
10.19.11 - Plumbing the Depths of Deception: Nancy Scola Ignores the H2Occupation of Palestine
09.29.11 - The Department of Corrections: 'Ben-Hur', the LA Times & A Place Called Palestine
07.18.11 - Jeffrey Goldberg vs. The Truth
07.02.11 - The "Deplorable" Acts: The 'Quartet' Comments on Gaza
06.30.11 - Operation Desert Bloom: The Zionist Myth that Won't Spoil, Wither, or Die
06.27.11 - The "No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza" Canard: From Massacre Myopia to Blockade Blindness
04.28.11 - Publishing Propaganda, Ignoring Facts: The NY Daily News puts the Lies in Editorialize
(a response to a NYDN editorial about the upcoming Freedom Flotilla to Gaza)
04.13.11 - The Call Bob Dylan Won't Heed: BDS, Bullies, and Blowing Wind
(folk legend Bob Dylan is set to perform in Israel this June, ignoring the call for him to boycott)
04.07.11 - Israel's War on Palestinian Memory
(a brief note on a surprisingly truthful article in the Los Angeles Times about the pending demolition of the last remaining pre-1948 Palestinian village in Israeli territory)
03.29.11 - Scare Raids & Square Tactics: HasbarArt Comes to NYU
(a report on a multimedia "fake Israeli bomb shelter" installation on Washington Square Park intended to present Israelis as innocent victims of Palestinian terrorism, rather than an active aggressors and occupiers)
01.22.11 - How To Say Nothing Without Really Trying: State Dept. Spokesman Stonewalls on Settlement Stance
(an examination of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley's verbal acrobatics and question-dodging regarding the potential US veto of a new United Nations Security Council resolution)
01.20.11 - Recognition: Impossible? U.K. Opposes Palestine on Same Grounds It Accepts Israel
(a critical look at the hypocrisy of a recent British declaration that it would not recognize the state of Palestine, as it has neither a capital nor borders)
12.19.10 - Jeffrey Goldberg's Anti-Boycott Bluster & Blunder
(an exposition of the disingenuous claims made by Jeffrey Goldberg associating the BDS movement with anti-Semitism and Nazis)
12.13.10 - Balfour and After: Discussing the Declaration on NPR
(historian Jonathan Schneer discusses The Balfour Declaration on NPR's Leonard Lopate show)
11.16.10 - Peratis and Kulick's Propaganda Paralysis: With Progressive Zionists Like These, Who Needs Likudniks?
(an analysis of - and rebuttal to - claims made by two leading anti-BDS J-Streeters at a recent debate entitled "Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions Movement")
09.10.10 - The Thin Green Line: It's Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid!
(an extensive examination of the Israeli artist boycott of settlements within the context of the wider BDS movement and the ideology, intentions, and implications of Zionism itself)
*Also available as a PDF from ColdType
07.14.10 - 'Hope' Floats: Hey Hollywood, Time to Put Your Money Where Your Morality Is
(a call to action for celebrities who stand for human rights, international law, and basic morality to support - especially financially - sending more boats to break the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza)
05.15.10 - The Ridiculest: Bill Maher's Cultural Supremacy and Religious Hierarchy
(a comprehensive exposé of the comedian's deep-seated and completely unfunny Zionism and cultural exceptionalism)
02.05.10 - A Plea Grows in Brooklyn: An Open Letter to District 11
(a call to action for constituents of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who retracted her own signature from two 'Dear Colleague' letters condemning the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and the prevention of free movement for Palestinians)
11.06.09 - GOLDSTONEWALLED! US Congress Endorses Israeli War Crimes
(an analysis of the recent burying of the UN Goldstone Report by the House of Representatives and what protecting Israel from war crime investigations really means)
*Also available as a PDF from ColdType
06.05.09 - Obama's Cairo Speech: "A New Beginning" or The Old Hypocrisy?
(a look at this historic speech was a game-changer or just lovely words masking the same old American exceptionalism and imperialism?)
05.28.09 - The Laws of the Land?, Over the Shills and Far Away
(a response to the bogus justifications of international law and colonial treaties that supposedly legitimize Israel)
05.19.09 - The Grift that Keeps on Giving: Bibi's 'Innocent' Gift to Obama
(an analysis of the hidden meaning behind Netanyahu's proposed gift to Obama upon their first meeting, a copy of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad)
05.18.09 - Stop the Press! This is what Israeli Democracy Looks Like
(if freedom of the press is truly the litmus test of democracy, how does Israel, the self-proclaimed "only democracy in the Middle East," stack up?)
04.06.09 - The Rotten Orchard
(a look at the culture of militarism, racism, murder, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in Israel's assault on Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009)
01.14.09 - GAZACRE! - The New Year's Neo-Nakba
(a fact-check of Israeli military justifications, hasbara propaganda, and outright lies concerning the on-going Gaza massacre and collective punishment dubbed 'Operation Cast Lead')
10.01.08 - No Country For Olmert? A Rosh Hashanah Shocker: Carterizing the Wounds of Palestine
09.24.08 - Give Peace a Chancellor: Zionist Youth Descend on UN to Demonize Iran
05.17.08 - Happy Ethnic Cleansiversary! - Zionism's Continuing Fête Accompli
04.11.08 - The Propaganda Train Keeps A'Rollin'...Next Stop: Indoctrination Station!
03.07.08 - On Gaza, a Yeshiva, and the Opening Shots of the Third Intifada
03.03.08 - THE NEW HOLOCAUST: There's No Business Like Shoah Business
02.11.08 - The Return of 'Muskeljudentum' and Murder as State Policy in Israel
02.04.08 - All You Need Is Apartheid?
01.31.08 - JAILBREAK: When Gaza Resists
01.28.08 - Visit Har Homa and Reconnect with the Taxes Taken Out of Your Paycheck!
01.24.08 - GAZA and DOLLS: The Facade of Impartiality Crumbles with Proof of Favoritism in the Face of "Collective Punishment"
UNITED STATES:
08.30.13 - Treaty Obligations, War Crimes and Accountability:A Study in American Hypocrisy
07.18.13 - The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian Hawk" & Israel's New Gladiator at the UN
05.30.13 - The Not-So-Complex World of Michael Bloomberg: When A White Person Does It, That Means It's Not Terrorism
02.16.13 - The State of the Union Quiz: Who Said It? Edition
09.01.12 - The "Only in America" Myth
10.26.11 - Occupy Oakland & Mercenaries of the Oligarchy: The 99% vs. The Iron Heel
10.08.11 - Wall Street's Mike vs. The People's Mic: A Mayor, A Movement, and a Great Divide
10.05.11 - The Ninety-Nine Percent: This Is What #OccupyWallStreet Looks Like (Photo Journal)
07.05.11 - This is Imperial Privilege
05.19.11 - Disregarding Law, Redefining Justice: The (Il)legality of Killing Osama, or "Bin There, Gun That"
(an elaboration on the legal arguments made by progressive commentators regarding the killing of Osama bin Laden)
05.11.11 - The Killing of Osama bin Laden: Vengeance Has Been Done
(does shooting a terrorism suspect in the face and dumping his body into sea accord with the concept of justice?)
04.27.11 - Ayn Rand vs. the Right-Wing Idiots Who Love Her
(a reminder of what Ayn Rand really thought about the common man, religion, and the right to choose)
02.25.11 - Gingrich's D'oh!MA Moment
(what Newt gets wrong about his DOMA vs. Roe v. Wade analogy)
12.15.10 - If Words Could Kill: Those Bloodthirsty Americans and Their Death Threat Duplicity
(a critical analysis of calls in the U.S. media and by politicians to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and alleged leaker Bradley Manning and the implications of American mob mentality)
*Also available as a PDF from ColdType
12.10.10 - Human Rights Day & U.S. Hypocrisy: Defensive America's Contempt for Full Court, Press
(a look at the U.S. effort to silence dissent and maintain government secrecy in light of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable release)
06.17.10 - World Cup Domination & Entertaining the Empire: One Aim Changes Everything
(an examination of U.S. militarism in relation to the 2010 World Cup)
*Also included in The ColdType Reader, Issue 48 (available in PDF)
09.10.09 - Indoctrination & Education: Who's Really Brainwashing Our Children?
(a response to the right-wing outrage over Obama's televised speech to students and the true danger of government recruitment in schools)
01.19.09 - Beyond Barack: A Time to Break Idolatry - A King's Old Dream or the Emperor's New Clothes?
(a plea to the new president, on the eve of his inauguration, to heed the inspiring words of Martin Luther King)
11.02.08 - Between Barack and a Hard Place: My November 4th Conundrum
10.26.08 - Don't Call Me Bigot, Whitey
10.13.08 - The Great Pander, The Racist Schlep: Fighting Racism with More Racism
10.02.08 - Debate & Switch: A Palin v. Biden Preview
07.04.08 - Freedumb
06.12.08 - Barack To The Future! (While Clinging Firmly to the Dubious Past & Nightmarish Present)
05.26.08 - Befehl ist Befehl: The Real Memories of Memorial Day
05.11.08 - Mother's Day, 138 Years Later...
05.01.08 - Dock Workers of the World Unite!, The True Meaning of May Day
04.18.08 - Obama: Hip or Hypocrite? - Tibet, No-gotiations, Condemning Carter, and Barack's Belated Bris
04.07.08 - Executive Directive 51, or, The Third Term of George W. Bush
04.01.08 - Yes, I Can! Now I'm Pro-bama! Barack Me, Obamadeus!!!
03.17.08 - The Difference Between Wright and Wrong
03.12.08 - Make War, Not Love: A How-To Guide for Avoiding Impeachment
03.01.08 - The Abominations of the Obama Nation
02.27.08 - You're Not Free and Independent Unless We Say You Are, Got It?!
02.18.08 - No Country For Bold Change, or, why the 2008 Oscars and Election are the same thing
02.12.08 - On Truth & Empire
02.06.08 - No, I Can't.
02.04.08 - From the Super Bowl to Super Tuesday: Is this the week of the underdog?
02.01.08 - UNSC: It Was Credible at Some Point?
01.31.08 - HRW Report: 'Truth, Justice' and 'American Way' Mutually Exclusive
01.29.08 - State of the Union 2008 Wrap-Up - Wait, What Year is This?
01.28.08 - 2008 State of the Union Preview [WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!]
