What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran By Juan Cole Posted by Tom Dispatch It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too. It might, in the… Continue Reading
Everyone and their brother knows that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Venezuela as part of a Latin American tour. It’s no secret and yet the amount of press this event has received suggests it’s more newsworthy than it is. The hype… Continue Reading
Mitchell A. Belfer, an academic based in Prague, certainly wants you to think so. While he is not the first person who has attempted to discredit Bahrain’s protest movement by accusing Iran of instigating it, few have managed to go… Continue Reading
Republished with the permission of Informed Comment By Juan Cole One of the places foreign policy emerged in the GOP Iowa debate last night was an exchange between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum on Iran, as right wing analyst Thomas… Continue Reading
An Arab Spring for Women The Missing Story from the Middle East By Shahin Cole and Juan Cole Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com The “Arab Spring” has received copious attention in the American media, but one of its crucial elements… Continue Reading