Posted with permission of Think Progress The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has been a vocal presence in Washington since its founding in the days following the 9/11 attacks as a self-described “nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting… Continue Reading
Trita Parsi and Reza Marashi have an article in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs on the Arab Spring as seen from what they consider to be the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their analysis explores Iran’s regional… Continue Reading
Reprinted with permission of Think Progress Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain told reporters and editors at the hawkish Washington Times that he would attack Iran if the Islamic Republic “mess(ed) with Israel.” Cain was responding to a question as to… Continue Reading
Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work It Failed in Campaign 2010 and Will Do Worse in 2012 By Stephan Salisbury Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a… Continue Reading
The latest “Arab Attitudes” survey, released Wednesday by the Arab American Institute Foundation, gives the lie — and rather convincingly, too — to the notion pushed by neo-conservatives and other factions of the Israel Lobby that Iran’s nukes are seen… Continue Reading