Iranian Jewish Parliamentarian Headed to New York?
by Marsha Cohen — You won’t succeed on Broadway if you haven’t any Jews. … Continue Reading
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Laughing ’til it Hurts: Political Satirists on Syria
by Marsha B. Cohen One of the more disconcerting developments in foreign policy discussions in the 21st century is that political satirists seem to be offering keener and more prescient assessments of the dilemmas involved than pundits and policy makers.… Continue Reading
Neocons Take Flight Over Syria
by Jim Lobe via IPS News In an echo of the tactics they used to promote U.S. intervention in the Balkans, Iraq and Libya, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives published a letter Tuesday urging President Barack Obama to go far… Continue Reading
WaPo Really Thinks U.S. Should Be World’s Policeman
by Jim Lobe If you want to get some insight into how the Washington Post’s editorial board increasingly thinks of the world and the U.S. role in it, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt’s column in Monday’s newspaper provides a good… Continue Reading
On Ambassador Sherman’s Testimony on Iran
by Peter Jenkins Listening, on 15 May, to the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on US policy towards Iran put me in mind of the inscription Dante imagined over the entrance to Hell: “Abandon hope all you who enter here”.… Continue Reading