The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second.
Poverty, privation and want are the school of the good soldier. - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The results of a new survey released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as deplorable as they are, show that Iran is the least anti-Semitic country in the Middle East."
by Marsha B. Cohen The results of a new survey released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as deplorable as they are, show that Iran is the least anti-Semitic country in the Middle East. Not that...
Note: A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a TOW missile. How do they lay their hands on these weapons?
| القطاع الشمالي : استهداف حاجز القياسات بصاروخ تاو بين #أريحا و #اللاذقية بتاريخ:31-3-2014
Note: I wonder if the Syrian rebels have manufactured these weapons in Syria. :)
"Late last February, after six world powers and Iran wrapped up nuclear talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Feb.26-27), two members of the U.S. nuclear negotiating team secretly flew to Oman where they rendezvoused at a beach-front villa with two American officials who had arrived from Washington."
Three days in March: New details on U.S. diplomatic channel to IranPosted on January 8, 2014 by Laura RozenShareLate last February, after six world powers and Iran wrapped up nuclear talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Feb.26-27), two members of the U.S. nuclear negotiating team secretly flew to Oman where...
Gradually he became disillusioned with the chaos of the battle. He often found himself among men who openly branded the rulers of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states as infidels, deserving slaughter. He said this bothered him, but it did not stop him from returning to the battlefield. In the end, it was the slaughter of innocents that made him decide to quit, he said, and a broader feeling that the rebels alongside him were not doing it for the right reasons. “If the fight is not purely to God, it’s not a real jihad,” he said. “These people are fighting for their flags.” But there was another reason he gave up the fight. “Bashar has started to put Sunnis on the front line,” he said of Syria’s leader. “This is a big problem. The rebels do not want to fight them. The real war is not against Bashar himself, it is against Iran. Everything else is just a false image.”
The Saudis are bent on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and his patron, Iran. But their only real means of fighting them is through a proxy war using fighters over whom they have almost no control.
Note: Please read this if you are interested in jargon and follow the writer if you want to make Iranians go nuclear.
ARGUMENTJerusalem’s Itchy Trigger FingerForget sanctions. If there's one thing that should convince Tehran not to go nuclear, it's that Israel might use its own nukes -- first. BY Yonatan Touval Yonatan Touval is a senior foreign and security policy analyst with Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Reg...
Note: If a new anti-Iran Sanctions Bill is passed in Congress, the White House has to admit three facts. 1. Pro-Israel lobby retains more leverage over the congress than the White House does. 2. For the congress, domestic interests take precedence over US national interests. 3. Iranian had legitimate concerns about US credibility and trustworthiness.
Exclusive: Top Senate Democrats Break with White House and Circulate New Iran Sanctions Bill BY Ali GharibDECEMBER 18, 2013 - 08:45 PMShare +NukesPoliticsIranU.S. Foreign PolicyU.S. Congress Three top senators, including two Democrats, have begun circulating a draft of a new Iran sanctions bill that...
Note: Photos of Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, hiking in the North of Tehran.
گزارش تصویری از کوهنوردی حسن روحانی
Note: South Africa's anti-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela, passed away today.
"Press TV has conducted an interview with Miko Peled, author and peace activist, about Egypt implementing sterner restrictions at the Rafah border crossing which if continued could result in a catastrophe for Gazans."
Interview with Miko Peled, author and Israeli peace activist, San Diego
"Hidden in the shadows, with eyes like hawks, IDF snipers can spend hours watching the enemy. They must often make life-or-death decisions, especially when confronting a terrorist who seeks to attack Israeli civilians."
Hidden in the shadows, with eyes like hawks, IDF snipers can spend hours watching the enemy. They must often make life-or-death decisions.
"On November 22, 2013, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) went into the third day of the hearing on genocide and war crimes charges against the State of Israel and Amos Yaron, a retired Israeli army general."
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Hearing on Palestine--Testimony by Dr. Ilan Pappe. On November 22, 2013, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) went into the third day of the hearing on ...
"People like me really shouldn't complain about anything, at least not at the personal level. I've been extraordinarily lucky from birth, and most misfortunes I've experienced have been self-inflicted. That's one of the reasons Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday; though I'm not religious, I like the idea of a day set aside to be thankful for one's blessings and grateful for friends, family, and random acts of good fortune. As in past years, today I offer up this year's Top 10 Things I Am Thankful for This Year (Foreign Policy division)."
People like me really shouldn't complain about anything, at least not at the personal level. I've been extraordinarily lucky from birth, and most misfortunes I've experienced have been self-inflicted. That's one of the reasons Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday; though I'm not religious, I like the…
"Something extraordinary happened on Saturday evening at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in Washington, DC. At a packed open meeting called by the ASA’s National Executive Council to discuss a resolution to “endorse and honor” the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, speaker after speaker rose to express strong support for the resolution. They urged the council to vote on it without further delay or deferral."
The American Studies Assiciation’s meeting showed that the time of fear of debate over boycotting Israel may be over.
Note: The first phase of introducing China as the United States' new adversary in the world.
China says it monitored two unarmed U.S. military aircraft that flew through its newly declared air defense zone on Monday without identifying themselves
Note: Events such as these reveal the banality and fictitiousness of the mantra "Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East" reproduced by Israel protagonists.
An Israeli mother has been ordered by a rabbinical court to circumcise her son in a ruling that could set a legal precedent
Note: Watch this video! The US Military has employed depleted uranium in Iraq and no Mother F... in the world dared to have them accountable for the crimes and atrocities they committed in Iraq. Americans deserve better leaders. Th US government has nuked Japan at the end of WWII, and has used a depleted form of uranium in Iraq and yet they impose sanctions against Iran which views possession of nuclear weapons a liability and seeks nuclear capability for deterrence purposes.
Not only does Iraq have to deal with the physical toll of a decade-plus of war, it's also been left with a huge, and ongoing, health crisis.
"New dynamics both in the Middle East and the US made the Iran nuclear accord possible."
New dynamics both in the Middle East and the US made the Iran nuclear accord possible.
"Want to understand the significance of the agreement? Channel your inner football fan."
Want to understand the significance of the agreement? Channel your inner football fan.
Photos from Iran.
“Portraits: Iran” by Ramin Talaie. Ramin Talaie is a photographer based in New York City. Ramin is the founding editor of photo agency , a news and stock agency based in New York City.
Photos from Shiraz.
Discussing his pictures of the Friday flea market in Darvazeh-Esfahan, the photographer, Kamran Heidari , says: ?This is the only place that you feel life is going on.
"Iran and the United States are to establish a joint chamber of commerce within a month, with direct flights also planned, an Iranian official said Wednesday in a newspaper report. “Iran-U.S. chamber of commerce will be launched in less than one month,” Abolfazl Hejazi, a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, told the English-language Iran Daily."
Iran and the United States are to establish a joint chamber of commerce within a month, with direct
"Al Jazeera asked a number of analysts of U.S.-Iran relations what the Geneva interim agreement suggests about the prospects for a lasting diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, and to assess the significance of the direct talks between Washington and Tehran that have been conducted in secret."
The parties have six months to negotiate a long-term agreement; analysts weigh in on the challenges they face
"A voracious model of capitalism forced down the throats of the world as the only way to run a modern economy, at a cost of ballooning inequality and environmental degradation, had been discredited – and only rescued from collapse by the greatest state intervention in history. The baleful twins of neoconservatism and neoliberalism had been tried and tested to destruction."
Seumas Milne: The upheavals of the early 21st century have changed our world. Now, in the aftermath of failed wars and economic disasters, pressure for a social alternative can only grow
"By reading the image closely, you can see that the teenager in the right background is buttoning up her blouse. It’s a curious action. Why would she be preoccupied with a button while the other people in the photograph were terrified of being killed? Why was the button undone to begin with?"
So we ask again: what are we to make of the informational erasure surrounding this iconic artifact of US history, one that indicates sexual violence in the plain light of day? And why is it that most Americans readily recognize the “Napalm Girl” but not the “Black Blouse Girl?”
What are we to make of this erasure, one that indicates sexual violence in the light of day? And why is it that most Americans readily recognize the “Napalm Girl” but not the “Black Blouse Girl?”
"Rep. Sherman, who previously claimed that the point of sanctions is to "hurt the Iranian people," continues to demonstrate that he cares very little for how many Iranians are killed or injured as a result of his reckless policies. In the wake of the historic nuclear deal struck in Geneva last weekend, Rep. Sherman has objected to a provision of the deal that would enable Iran to purchase spare parts for its aging civilian aircraft, which currently suffers one of the highest accident rates in the world."
Many members of Congress have supported sanctions despite the negative impact that they have had on the Iranian people. But Rep. Sherman seems to relish the pain the sanctions inflict on Iranians.
Cruel in nature.
Saudi Arabian Family hang their Ethiopian maid upside down from a hook and beat her to a bloody pulp. She is drenched in blood from the whips and sticks that the Saudi men use to beat her. Non-Europe
"In fact, the real issue isn't whether Iran gets close to a bomb; the real issue is the long-term balance of power in the Persian Gulf and Middle East. Iran has far more power potential than any of the other states in the region: a larger population, a fairly sophisticated and well-educated middle class, some good universities, and abundant oil and gas to boost economic growth (if used wisely). If Iran ever escapes the shackles of international sanctions and puts some competent people in charge of its economy, it's going to loom much larger in regional affairs over time. That prospect is what really lies behind the Israeli and Saudi concerns about the nuclear deal. Israel and Saudi Arabia don't think Iran is going to get up one day and start lobbing warheads at its neighbors, and they probably don't even believe that Iran would ever try the pointless act of nuclear blackmail. No, they're just worried that a powerful Iran would over time exert greater influence in the region, in all the ways that major powers do. From the perspective of Tel Aviv and Riyadh, the goal is to try to keep Iran in a box for as long as possible -- isolated, friendless, and artificially weakened."
The interim nuclear deal with Iran is an important step forward, and the various negotiating teams can be justly proud of their achievement. Far be it from me to be a killjoy at this rare moment of progress, but let's not lose our heads amid all the high-fiving and back-patting. Why? Because Iran's…
Ten facts revealed by Gary Sick on the nuclear deal with Iran.
In the avalanche of reportage and commentary on the nuclear deal with Iran, here are a few tiny facts that may have escaped your notice: • France’s President Hollande made his triumphal trip to...
"So actually, folks, the Likud government of Netanyahu is completely isolated in its loud rejection of these negotiations. Virtually everyone else in the Middle East is positive, and most of the countries that count (by size and power) are absolutely enthusiastic. The degree of Israeli isolation is matched only by the extremeness of its rhetoric. One Israeli cabinet member who has read too much Tom Clancy warned of “suitcase bombs” provided by Iran to terrorist for use in Western cities. Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon and there aren’t any such things as suitcase bombs and no country has ever given away a nuclear weapon to anyone, let alone to a scruffy terrorist. And, again, Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon or any particular prospect of one. Israel in contrast has several hundred warheads and the means to deliver them, bombs that it developed sneakily and under false pretenses. And Israel routinely uses its nuclear stockpile to threaten or blackmail other countries (as with Ariel Sharon’s threats directed at Saddam Hussein’s Iraq)."
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"The interim nuclear agreement with Iran is a potential game changer. The deal has been met with a mixed reception, but many see this development as significant. Mark Fitzpatrick, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation at the U.S. State Department who is now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Gary Sick, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and author of “All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter with Iran,” discuss how the deal came about and what’s next for Iran and the U.S."
“The interim nuclear agreement with Iran is a potential game changer. The deal has been met with a mixed reception, but many see this development as significant. Mark Fitzpatrick, former Deputy...
"Iran Has a Right to Enrich—And America Already Recognized It"
"On Sunday morning, Tehran was bubbling with excitement: many Iranians, whose lives have been dramatically affected by the sanctions, had stayed up all night waiting to hear the news. Reporters were live on air from Geneva, finally delivering real stories before turning in for some well-deserved sleep—and Iran, if not the whole world, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now."
There was a sense that this session of talks with Iran was likely to be the last, whether or not a deal was struck.
"The most intriguing question now is whether Obama intends to remain on the path of conflict with Netanyahu on all that’s related to the Israeli-Palestinian track. Will Russia, China and the European powers agree to cooperate in this arena as well? Will they dare advance, in opposition to the position of Israel’s prime minister, another agreement that would prevent the use of violence in order to solve this bloody conflict?"
The success of the P5+1 in closing a deal with Iran might encourage the body to take part in the Israeli-Palestinian talks and fill the diplomatic space left by the Middle East Quartet.
"The six-month interim deal between major powers and Iran, renewable for a further six months pending a full accord (for a period to be defined), freezes Iran’s nuclear program about where it is — at a technologically advanced point short of militarization. But it fast-forwards American-Iranian relations and may thereby redraw the strategic map of the Middle East."
The best Iran deal that could be had reorders the map of the Middle East and compels Israel to think again.
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