On Boys, Frogs, and The Weekly Standard

by Jim Lobe During the Christmas Bombing of Vietnam in December 1972, I somehow came across a saying attributed to Bion of Borysthenes, a third-century BC Greek philosopher. I taped a copy of the quote to my teleprinter in the… Continue Reading

Is John Kerry an Anti-Semite?

by Jim Lobe For a rather slow Thanksgiving weekend, must reading should include an article on The Nation website by Henry Siegman, a former head of both the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America. The article assails a full-page ad that… Continue Reading

FDD Scholar: For Both Sanctions and a Military Strike

One day after calling for the U.S. to sanction the Swiss energy firm, Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL), and taking the unprecedented step of calling for the Obama administration to recall Switzerland as  the representative of U.S. diplomatic interests in Iran, the… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 23rd, 2010: Reuters: Ramin Mostafavi reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Japanese newspaper on Friday that Iran might be willing to stop higher-grade Uranium enrichment. “We promise to stop… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 16th, 2010: The Financial Times: Daniel Dombey reports that the White House has warned Turkey that it could lose access to U.S. weapons, including drone aircraft that Ankara wants to acquire… Continue Reading