1. Dangerously Counterproductive War on Terror
(Newsletter)

...WC NEWS    Tuesday, 22 April 2008 At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon—the first large suicide bombing to target Americans—the ...

2. Obama Continuing Bush Policies, Chomsky says
(Opinions/op-ed)

...aq, Alabbasi reported, Chomsky said the U.S. continues to seek a long-term presence in the country and the huge U.S. embassy in Baghdad is to be expanded under Obama.   “As late as November, 2007...

3. Shut Up about Iran
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ution that has reigned in Iran ever since. The U.S. government’s crimes against Iran were not forgotten, as the U.S. embassy was seized and the personnel held hostage for 444 days. When the hostage cr...

4. Interventionism Comes with Empire
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ger against the United States. They could not understand why the Iranian revolutionaries took hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Americans didn’t know about the U.S. Empire’s support of the terro...

5. Boumediene Confirms the Wisdom of Our Ancestors
(Opinions/Politic)

...-9/11 paranoia that gripped U.S. officials, Boumediene was arrested in Bosnia on suspicion of having bombed the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. Bosnian courts dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. U.S...

6. Obama’s Empire
(Opinions/op-ed)

...n called for under the agreement with the Iraq government. And what of the air bases and Vatican-sized imperial U.S. embassy inside the Green Zone? The prime minister and most Iraqis want the United S...

7. Ahistorical Parodists (AP on the US-Iran row)
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...two countries have not had diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. [1] That editorial statement provides the historical backdrop ...

8. Who Should Obama Look to for Advice?: Jimmy Carter
(Opinions/Politic)

...d in failure because of the incompetence of the U.S. military, was the attempted rescue of U.S. hostages at the U.S. embassy in Iran. Even this mission exhibited restraint; when the hostage-takers st...

9. Guantánamo Justice After Seven Years
(Opinions/op-ed)

...rian citizenship. Arrested by Bosnian authorities in October 2001 for alleged involvement in a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, they were ordered released from prison on January 17, 2002 and...

10. CIA's Overthrow of Iranian Government in 1953
(Opinions/Society)

...omeini became so powerful he forced Palevi from the throne and a few months later sanctioned the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the taking of U.S. diplomats' hostage. "The hostage cri...