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Iran Emerges as Issue in Race for Waxman's Seat

Iran Emerges as Issue in Race for Waxman's Seat

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — With just two weeks left until the June 3 primary elections, Republican candidate Elan Carr and Democrats Wendy Gruel, Ted Lieu and Matt Miller–all vying for outgoing Democratic Representative Henry Waxman’s seat–took turns speaking at a pre-election

Iran declares victory in Syria

Sure, the Iranians are jerks, and they’re given to making a lot of bloodcurdling threats and chest-thumping boasts.  But is what they’re saying in this UK Guardian piece wrong? In a series of interviews in Tehran, top figures who shape

Sunni Muslim States Forming 'Arab NATO'

Sunni Muslim States Forming 'Arab NATO'

The Sunni Muslim Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), led by Saudi Arabia, appears to be forming an “Arab NATO” military alliance according to Stratfor Intelligence. The alliance would initially include Morocco and Jordan, but over time it would probably also seek

Iran Claims It Replicated Captured US Drone

Iran Claims It Replicated Captured US Drone

The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed it has fully replicated and reverse-engineered a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned spy plane. The UAV was downed in 2011 while it was surveilling Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who

CA33 Candidates Face Off In Young Turks Internet Debate

CA33 Candidates Face Off In Young Turks Internet Debate

Most of the candidates vying for California’s 33rd Congressional District seat were on hand Saturday to endorse themselves, slam each other, and discuss policy in an unusually formatted Internet debate hosted by moderator Cenk Uygur and the Young Turks, an online

Rouhani: Iran Won't Accept 'Nuclear Apartheid'

Rouhani: Iran Won't Accept 'Nuclear Apartheid'

Iran will not accept “nuclear apartheid” but is willing to offer more transparency over its atomic activities, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday ahead of new talks with world powers. Iran and the P5+1 group of nations will start hammering out

Boko Haram and the History of Child Rape in Jihad

Boko Haram and the History of Child Rape in Jihad

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram, (whose name either means “Western education is forbidden” or “a colonialist fraud being perpetrated against us”), captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists

Susan Rice Reassures Israel on Iran Nuclear Ambitions

Susan Rice Reassures Israel on Iran Nuclear Ambitions

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice assured Israel at high-level talks on Thursday that Washington remained determined to stop Iran developing nuclear arms, the White House said. Earlier, Netanyahu said the best defence against a nuclear Iran was to block

Top 10 Obama Human Rights Failures

Top 10 Obama Human Rights Failures

Hollywood superstar and power broker Steven Spielberg has recognized President Barack Obama with the USC Shoah [Holocaust] Foundation’s highest award, the “Ambassador for Humanity.” It is an odd award to present to a president who has been called “dangerously silent

These Anti-Israel UCLA Students are Stupid and Dishonest

These Anti-Israel UCLA Students are Stupid and Dishonest

The majority of UCLA students running for undergraduate student government officer positions–though none from the inclusive, centrist “Bruins United” coalition–have signed a pledge drafted by radical groups and several ethnic organizations promising never to travel to Israel on student trips sponsored

Secret CIA Weapons Depot Linked with Two Texas Locations

Secret CIA Weapons Depot Linked with Two Texas Locations

Is Camp Stanley, an Army weapons depot located southeast of Boerne, Texas (near San Antonio), the secret home of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) weapons stash known as the “Midwest Depot”? The Midwest Depot is allegedly where the CIA has

Iran denies nuclear inspectors access to key Parchin facility

Iran denies nuclear inspectors access to key Parchin facility

Iran’s atomic energy organisation on Saturday said it was denying international inspectors access to the suspected nuclear facility at Parchin, reports theTimes of Israel.  Iran claimed that IAEA inspectors were not entitled to visit the military complex outside Tehran, which further