Iran Chosen as Poster-child for Horowitz’s “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week”
Irancove @ October 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Azadeh Ensha at the Huffington Post discusses Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week—characterized by critics as a fear-mongering publicity ploy by far-right figure David Horowitz.
The purpose of Islamo-Fascism week is:
…to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than […]
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The Secret History of Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn’t Want You to Know
Irancove @ October 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Via Esquire:
In the years after 9/11, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann worked at the highest levels of the Bush administration as Middle East policy experts for the National Security Council. Mann conducted secret negotiations with Iran. Leverett traveled with Colin Powell and advised Condoleezza Rice. They each played crucial roles in formulating policy for the […]
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The Kurdish Front Against Iran
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Farideh Farhi makes some very interesting points about Kurdish groups in Iraq and their relationship to Iran, Turkey and the US.
Kudos to Richard A. Oppel, Jr. of the New York Times for bringing attention to the conflict between the Kurdish guerrillas and Iran during the time attention is on the Turkish- Kurdish imbroglio and the […]
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Interview With Qods Force Commander and Deputy Leader of Iran’s National Security Council
Irancove @ October 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The following is an interview with Mohammad Jafari, Iran’s Qods Force commander, with Frontline. The Qods force is accused by some US officials of smuggling weapons and killing American soldiers in Iraq. These charges are repeated daily as fact, but most news outlets do not seek any statements from Iranian officials. In […]
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