This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Netanyahu and Obama to meet in Washington on March 5 Syria’s regime launches ‘sickening’ assault on Homs Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez makes emergency trip to Cuba for cancer test Tibetan’s Lhakar movement confounds China’s Han
Like father, like son? Director Oliver Stone’s son, Sean Stone, made headlines last week when he announced he had converted to Islam while making a film in Iran. Now, the young Stone is doing some pretty good spin for that
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A U.N. team visiting Iran has no plans to inspect the country’s nuclear facilities and will only hold talks with officials in Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. The remarks by Ramin Mehmanparast cast doubt
Eric Allen Bell, who was banned from The Daily Kos and defamed by Loonwatch.com to the Islamic world for his investigations into radical Islam, discusses how initial support for the Arab spring was thwarted when: “I started to pay attention
(AP) Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday afterIran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program. By Monday afternoon, benchmark March
From Reuters: China rebuked Iran on Monday for stopping oil sales to British and French companies at the weekend, calling for renewed efforts at dialogue over an escalating stand-off over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program. China has repeatedly called for talks
Moreso than, say, a nuclear attack by Iran on Israel or the United States? From Bloomberg: An Israeli attack on Iran would be “destabilizing,” Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “It’s not
From Front Page Magazine: Nineteen American citizens working for well-known and well-established nonprofit groups are being held on trumped-up charges that they tried to destabilize Egypt. Their offices were raided in late December, some are holed up in the U.S.
From The Guardian: Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced that sanctions will not deter Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, and believe that the US will be left with no option but to launch an
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, Defense Intelligence Agency director, told the Senate Armed Services Committee “Iran has the ability to fire missiles at U.S. targets in the Middle East” and “temporarily” close a key sea transit route. He went on to
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations by his regime. The vote in
In what amounted to a media “night of the long knives,” last week Fox Business Network abruptly cancelled its three politics-oriented prime-time shows and starting February 20th will replace them with repeats of its earlier 5-8pm business related lineup. It would appear that
BANGKOK (AP) – The Iranians arrested after accidentally setting off an explosives cache in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand’s police chief said Thursday, the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting terror attacks in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Iran’s Ahmadinejad announces nuclear breakthrough with great fanfare Nicolas Sarkozy announces reelection campaign for president of France German Chancellor Merkel to campaign for Sarkozy Germany and Greece trade insults as bailout talks stall Private
Since 2008, Barack Obama’s position on Iran has vacillated somewhat, but on the whole remained one of benevolence. During his presidential campaign, he expressed his openness to diplomacy with the nation’s leaders via his willingness to hold talks without requiring
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional Republicans on Wednesday vowed to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons “reckless lunacy.” Pointing to the
Congressman Jeff Duncan introduces the “Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012” (H.R 3783) which comes a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s five day tour of four Latin American countries. Duncan’s legislation makes it clear that American
When President Bush stated the case for pre-emptive war, he was roundly denounced. That denunciation became full-scale blowback when we failed to find massive rooms full of WMDs in Iraq (although there were clearly WMDs in Iraq in some quantity).
Director Oliver Stone’s son, Sean, converted to Islam this week while filming a documentary in Iran. The 27-year-old Sean has long been a backer of genocidal anti-Semite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Iran is ruled by law,” explained Stone the Younger. “People don’t like Ahmadinejad,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China’s Xi Jinping receives reassurance on Taiwan from Barack Obama Tibetans fear bloody repression by China’s security forces Three bomb blasts in Bangkok, Thailand, blow Iranian’s leg off Italy cancels Rome’s bid to host
As tensions mount, there are at least two and possibly three U.S. carriers within the theater of operations including the Persian Gulf, as the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln transited the Strait of Hormuz, despite previous Iranian threats and Iranian patrols following
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman have openly accused the Islamic Republic of carrying out assassination attempts against Israeli diplomats and citizens living in other countries. The accusations stem from a series of attacks that were
CODEPINK activist Joan Stallard, who was forcibly removed from the House of Representatives during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in 2010, tells Iran’s Press TV they will be back to “modify the voice of AIPAC.” Stallard said AIPAC (the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel accuses Iran of attempted embassy staff bombings More vacuous outrage in U.N. as dozens more are killed in Syria Germans approve Greece bailout even though they know it won’t work Israel accuses
