NewsCloud.com Iran News http://www.newscloud.com/section/iran Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:01:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us McCain: Maybe That’s a Way of Gookifying Them http://www.newscloud.com/read/McCain_Maybe_Thats_a_Way_of_Gookifying_Them Notwithstanding his hiring and endorsing white supremacists and his support for the rescinding of MLK Day and his fighting for the Confederate flag and so on and so on, the one act of racism that disturbs me most is McCain's use of the racial slur "gook" to refer to Vietnamese persons. After all, I am of East Asian descent, and I've been smeared with the "gook" slur quite a few times in my life. "Gook" is a war term and a term of racial denigration. To "gookify" a group of people is to make them subhuman so that one may more conscionably kill, exploit, maim, or manipulate them. Of course the group of people encouraged to use the racial slur to denigrate the "gooks" are also being manipulated, perhaps to kill kill kill.

]]> Americans Say No to War with Iran: Will Washington Listen? by Sarah van Gelder http://www.newscloud.com/read/Americans_Say_No_to_War_with_Iran_Will_Washington_Listen_by_Sarah_van_Gelder Public opposition to Resolution 362, which encourages what amounts to an act of war against Iran, is growing.

]]> Life in Iran with Rick Steves :: Photo Diary by Abdi Sami http://www.newscloud.com/read/Life_in_Iran_with_Rick_Steves_Photo_Diary_by_Abdi_Sami In March of 2008 Rick Steves asked me to accompany him to Iran to help him produce a travel documentary on Iran and its people. Rick's intention was to put a human face on the people of Iran as opposed to the sensational news clips that tend to demonize people of other countries whose governments we don't agree with. I was delighted to accept!

]]> Bob Cesca: Killing Iranian Civilians Isn't Hilarious, Senator McCain on The Huffington Post http://www.newscloud.com/read/Bob_Cesca_Killing_Iranian_Civilians_Isn_t_Hilarious_Senator_McCain_on_The_Huffington_Post Senator McCain has famously said, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war." How, then, should we describe a clearly unbalanced presidential candidate who jokes about killing innocent civilians as part of a larger war-mongering foreign policy?

]]> Will the U.S. Support Terrorists to Destabilize Iran? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Will_the_US_Support_Terrorists_to_Destabilize_Iran All attempts to justify a military attack on Iran have failed and the US is now looking at supporting fringe and terrorist groups to destabilize the country. It won't work, says NAM contributing writer, William O. Beeman, but it will destabilize the region for years to come. Beeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He is President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. The second edition of his book, The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.

]]> Lessons from North Korea for Middle East http://www.newscloud.com/read/Lessons_from_North_Korea_for_Middle_East Our world would be so dull without its delicious ironies and ever fascinating double standards. Who could have ever thought that having condemned North Korea as part of the "Axis of evil" - the other two being Iran and Iraq of course - in September 2001, Bush would rush his top diplomats to welcome "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il to the fold of civilized world.

]]> Preparing the Battlefield http://www.newscloud.com/read/Preparing_the_Battlefield Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership.

]]> Seymour Hersh reports U.S. Special Forces Operating Deep in Iran http://www.newscloud.com/read/Seymour_Hersh_reports_US_Special_Forces_Operating_Deep_in_Iran Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. Further, Hersh alleges that leading Democrats in Congress have been passively supportive in funding this effort. Via HuffPo, watch video

interview with Hersh

here.


]]> US-Iran Relations: The Fourth Option http://www.newscloud.com/read/USIran_Relations_The_Fourth_Option Empower the People.Over the past three decades, American policy towards Iran has drifted from ineffectual to misguided while the Islamic Republic has remained an enigma for most western strategists. The regime's rule is defined by oppression at home and aid to terrorists abroad. It routinely threatens Israel and challenges American interests where and when it can. Yet, successive American administrations have failed to develop a coherent, decisive strategy to face-down the fundamentalist regime.

]]> Bloomberg.com: Worldwide http://www.newscloud.com/read/Bloombergcom_Worldwide June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest financial firms may lose as many as 175,000 jobs by this time next year as Citigroup Inc. and other banks shed workers amid slowing revenue and billions in writedowns, executive recruiters say.

]]> Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran http://www.newscloud.com/read/Halliburton_Charged_with_Selling_Nuclear_Technologies_to_Iran According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

]]> Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link - Food Inc.- msnbc.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/Rachael_Ray_ad_pulled_as_pundit_sees_terror_link_Food_Inc_msnbccom Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

]]> Waxahachie Daily Light > Archives > Opinion > Peace for our time? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Waxahachie_Daily_Light_Archives_Opinion_Peace_for_our_time On "appeasement"

]]> US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war http://www.newscloud.com/read/US_residents_in_military_brigs_Govt_says_it_s_war WASHINGTON - If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

]]> CEM: Transcript of press conference with David Miliband and Condol http://www.newscloud.com/read/CEM_Transcript_of_press_conference_with_David_Miliband_and_Condol Excerpt from: 'Remarks With U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband After Their Meeting' availble from the WH shows that U.S. in negotiations with Iran...

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