It's difficult to plumb the pure hypocrisy of this tweet (see below) from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He's bitching about Iran breaking the JCPOA agreement limits on enriching uranium. This is an agreement which he and his boss themselves broke when they abandoned it earlier in his presidency saying it was one of the worst deals ever negotiated by a U.S. … [Read more...]
As Israel Opens New Anti-Iran Front in Iraq, U.S. Issues Warning
It is one of the worst kept secrets of the current hostilities between Israel and Iran, that the former has begun targeting Iranian and Iraqi Shia military bases in Iraq. It has attacked multiple sites using its new F-35 warplanes supplied by the U.S., and long-distance drones flown from Israel. In the most recent attack last Sunday, Israeli drones attacked … [Read more...]
Trump’s State of the Union Fiasco
Donald Trump presented his second State of the Union speech tonight and it was a phantasmagoria of Trumpian grandeur, and not in a good way. For future generations, it should be used as a model for what not to do when preparing and delivering such an address. It was significant both for what it included and what it excluded, among which were climate … [Read more...]
U.S. Official Calls Netanyahu Report of Secret Iran Atomic Warehouse “Misleading”
Bibi Netanyahu's annual dog-and-pony show ambled into UN General Assembly today as he made yet another bombastic, hectoring speech assaulting Iran for its alleged sins of omission and commission. Like the shambling history professor his father was, he trots out audio-visual aids to reinforce his major argument and they invariably resemble the cartoon … [Read more...]
