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Iran is no Cuba

From On December 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Hooshang Amirahmadi President Barack Obama’s move towards normalization of relations with Cuba has generated lots of hope and analyses that a similar development may take place with Iran. Jim Lobe, founder of the Lobe Log and Washington Bureau Chief of the Inter Press Service, is one such observer. His recent article offers an excellent elaboration

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Cuba and Iran

From On December 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Jim Lobe Since Obama’s announcement last week that he will normalize relations with Cuba, a number of commentators have analyzed what impact this might have on US-Iranian ties, particularly with respect to the ongoing negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. Aside from neoconservatives, such as Elliott Abrams, and other hawks, like Lindsey Graham and John

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After 53 Years, Obama To Normalize Ties with Cuba

From On December 17, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Jim Lobe In perhaps his boldest foreign policy move during his presidency, Barack Obama Wednesday announced that he intends to establish full diplomatic relations with Cuba. While the president noted that he lacked the authority to lift the 54-year-old trade embargo against Havana, he issued directives that will permit more American citizens to travel

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CIA = Contracting Intelligence Agency

From On December 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by David Isenberg  Undoubtedly, there are many aspects of the just-released summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program that can and should be pondered. But, having written on the national U.S. defense and national security sector’s use of private contractors for over twenty years,

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Israeli Nukes Meets Atomic Irony in the Middle East

From On December 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Paul R. Pillar The stated rationale for the United States casting on Tuesday one of the very lonely votes it sometimes casts at the United Nations General Assembly, on matters on which almost the entire world sees things differently, warrants some reflection. The resolution in question this time endorsed the creation of a nuclear

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50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis Offers Lessons for Iran

From On October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via IPS News

It was exactly 50 years ago when then-President John F. Kennedy took to the airwaves to inform the world that the Soviet Union was introducing nuclear-armed missiles into Cuba and that he had ordered a blockade of the island – and would consider stronger action – to force their removal.

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Sanctions Aiding Limitation of Independent Publications in Iran

From On October 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

The University of Pennsylvania’s Iran Media Project and ASL 19, a Canadian non-profit working against censorship in Iran, explain how sanctions are increasing the Iranian government’s censorship capabilities:

It is increasingly difficult for independent publishers of books and print newspapers in Iran: The problem this time is not strict censorship, [...]

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