DONATE: As many of you know, I support my blogging as a freelance journalist writing for publications like Middle East Eye, The Nation, Al Jazeera and Jacobin Magazine. It's a precarious business since you are at the mercy of editors who you hope understand the importance of your work, but who sometimes don't. You may pitch a story you believe is … [Read more...]
What Do We Think of Countries Which Sabotage Other Governments?
We don't like Russia sabotaging western democracies including our own, do we? We're disgusted that Vladimir Putin and Fancy Bear would have the gall to cyber-hack our election processes, steal our political party documents, and hoax the American people into voting for a candidate who is possibly one of his assets or agents. We denounce such underhanded … [Read more...]
Michael Weiss, Iranian-U.S. Hardliners Led Iranian-American Family to Evin Prison
This is an updated version of the profile originally published at Unz Review. Thanks to Ron Unz for having the courage and moxie to stand behind this piece. How Daily Beast Editor, Michael Weiss Helped Send Siamak Namazi to Evin Torture Chambers It’s a long way from the campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire’s Great North Woods in 2003 to … [Read more...]
Why “Reform” Islam?
With the world-wide fallout over the Paris attacks and ISIS' bloody role in them, pundits and journalists have been falling all over themselves opining on how we got here. There has been no end of breast-beating about Islam: what's wrong with Islam that it produced such monsters? Can Islam be reformed? I think the question is entirely wrong. How many … [Read more...]
