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I am re-reading The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower for the second time…making this three times in all I have read this book by Robert Baer. I guess Robert Baer’s other books...
View Article3 Lessons from Libya
The decision by the US to push for UN military intervention in Libya holds 3 important lessons for us as America considers other conflicts: First, a military campaign by outside forces, intruding into...
View ArticlePilots Falling Asleep or Parts Falling Asleep
It seems every time I do some studying of Middle Eastern issues I find another author reminding me of what I know (and have written about here), but what sometimes gets shoved into memory recesses...
View ArticleVoices Crying to be Heard
Checking the news this week, I certainly feel like I am not being heard by this administration. Nice for a while there…. with fellow Occupy Wall Street citizens in the streets and making some...
View ArticleIran: New Strategy Available
The last thing we need right now is another US war. Just when the US has largely left Iraq and is pursuing peace negotiations in Afghanistan, so that finally we might focus our resources on problems at...
View ArticleTalking Points on Iran, the US and Israel
Lately there have been many calls for increased sanctions against Iran, which would gravely affect the people of Iran and the world economy. There has also been escalating rhetoric threatening a...
View ArticleBringing Together Hopes For Peace With Principles of Economic Justice
On Saturday, February 4th I took part in the Albany facet of Mass Actions demanding: NO War! NO Sanctions! NO Intervention! NO Assassinations against IRAN. Our local action wasn’t as big as some of the...
View ArticleNeeds at home & compassion for earthquake victims. Stopping the sanctions and...
Last Wednesday afternoon a group of 10 peace activists from the Women Against War Iran Project and our allies demonstrated and leafleted at the Empire State Plaza I Love NY food festival. It was our...
View ArticleTime for US-Iran Direct Negotiations
Last week, Iran agreed to hold January talks with the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany. The date is not yet set, but this is hopeful news. According to Iran expert Trita Parsi, whom Women...
View ArticleThe Iran War
What? What do you mean “The Iran War”? I don’t remember an Iran War…oh, wait, you mean the war that never was because we actually learned something as a people? We woke up from our amnesiac nation...
View ArticleDiplomacy 1: Warmongering 0! First small step towards peace with Iran
US secretary of State, John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif shake hands at the ceremony celebrating the historic interim peace deal at the United Nations, Sunday November 24,...
View ArticleAn open letter to New York’s Senior Senator, Chuck Schumer: “Choose Peace...
At the end of November most of the world rejoiced at the achievement of a six month interim peace agreement with Iran on the issue of monitoring and limiting production of enriched nuclear materials...
View ArticleMore pieces of the peace puzzle.
Hey people, it’s me up on the blogsite. I’m the one that’s singin’ this sad song [of war and sanctions] I’ll cry every time that you slip in one more dime [actually $10's of billions in sanctions and...
View ArticleMnnnnn…..Wondering, Venting, Facing Frustration
I don’t have any profound subject coming to mind to write about this week. Also, after many decades of having the various media types give us year end lists and year end reviews, I am somewhat...
View ArticleA Chorus of Sanity on Iran Sanctions
Three cheers for the chorus of sane voices that has won at least a temporary reprieve from Congressional efforts to sabotage negotiations with Iran. On Tuesday ten Democratic senators wrote the...
View ArticleDiplomacy Works
What a relief that diplomacy won last week! And that we are now looking at a good plan to allay concerns about Iran’s nuclear development and at the potential for US-Iran cooperation in calming the...
View ArticleGoing to Moscow
In 1983 I went to Moscow as part of an American delegation organized by the United Church of Christ. We were concerned about the US-Soviet Union build-up of nuclear weapons – the world- threatening...
View ArticleTrump Threatens War with Iran; via sabotage of the Nuclear Agreement
This past week several news sources reported a blatant desire on Donald Trump’s part to find a way to decertify Iran’s compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. A hard won, long...
View ArticleCommentary by Christine Ahn: “Here’s What Kim Really Wants Out of His Meeting...
[Here’s an article written by Christine Ahn in Fortune Magazine on March 5th, just after President Trump accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation to hold a summit meeting sometime in May,...
View ArticleSummit with North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un abruptly cancelled by President...
Thursday morning, afternoon, or evening, depending on where in the world you were, the world woke to the news that President Trump had cancelled the just recently established summit with North Korean...
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