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Blackwater used 'child prostitutes in Iraq'
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| (Friday, 16 October 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Press TV New disturbing charges have emerged against XE, the infamous private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, whose operations came under spotlight after its 2007 carnage in Baghdad. According to a report by MSNBC and based on ... (1482 more chars) |
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NewsMax calls for military coup
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| (Wednesday, 30 September 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Full Text Of Newsmax Column Suggesting Military Coup Against Obama Here is the full text of John L. Perry's column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" is becoming more possible and is not "unrealistic." Perry also w... (4270 more chars) |
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George W. Bush didn't understand economic problems as president
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| (Wednesday, 16 September 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Bush - ex-speechwriter in new book It seemed like every time President George W. Bush stepped before the cameras during last fall's stock market meltdown, the Dow tumbled. It's a good thing the public couldn't see what was going on behind the scenes ... (1357 more chars) |
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To the Righties
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| (Saturday, 15 August 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy. You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. You... (1534 more chars) |
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Why does The Times recognize Israel's 'right to exist'?
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| (Monday, 01 June 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| By Saree Makdisi Los Angeles Times 'As soon as certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of wor... (4927 more chars) |
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WHERE THE HELL IS THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT?
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| (Tuesday, 26 May 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| By David Icke Obama is not only Mr. [fake] Change, Mr. [fake] Hope and Mr. [fake] Yes-We-Can; he’s also Mr. Untouchable. Most of the anti-war ‘left’ bought the Obama propaganda down to the smallest syllable and they are either getting d... (2197 more chars) |
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Ron Paul: States Have Right to Legalize Marijuana
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| (Tuesday, 19 May 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| In a recent interview on Air America Radio, Ron Paul took a strong stand in support of the Constitution and State Sovereignty - by stating that laws and regulations of Marijuana should be on a state level. “If California wants to legalize it, let &lsqu... (608 more chars) |
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California Professor Under Fire for Holocaust Comparisons With Gaza
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| (Thursday, 07 May 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Los Angeles Times The UC Santa Barbara sociologist, who is Jewish, sent images from the Holocaust and from Israel's Gaza offensive to students in his class. He has drawn denunciation and support. / Controversy has erupted at UC [University of Cal... (549 more chars) |
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Rape Kit Backlog – 12,000 in Los Angeles Alone
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| (Friday, 01 May 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| In his New York Times editorial column, Nicholas Kristof called on police departments nationwide to eliminate the high numbers of untested rape kits. He quotes Human Rights Watch’s 2008 report “ Testing Justice ” that documents through doz... (273 more chars) |
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George Bush Jr. Ranked the Worst President
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| (Sunday, 19 April 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| If George Bush Jr. has any serious interest in how history will measure him in the Presidency, he needs to get ready for the bad news. Sixty-five historians have already given their opinions. Bush left the Presidential suite to his successor, Barack Oba... (2379 more chars) |
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10 Republican Lies for Tax Day
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| (Wednesday, 15 April 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| The truth may set you free, but not if you're a Republican and the subject is taxes. After all, 95% of American families as promised received a tax cut from the Obama stimulus package. And while three-quarters of Americans support President Obama's... (18326 more chars) |
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Glenn Beck’s latest conspiracy
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| (Wednesday, 08 April 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Foreign nationals have ‘penetrated’ U.S., staging Marxist revolution. Today on his radio program, radical right-wing conspiracist Glenn Beck declared that “the second wave” of “the Perfect Storm” had arrived. Discuss... (2691 more chars) |
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Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed face six-month jail sentence in America
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| (Thursday, 02 April 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed face the incredible prospect of a six-month jail sentence in America after writing a letter to President Obama detailing their client's allegations of torture by US agents. The privilege review team – officials from the US ... (1888 more chars) |
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Letterman calls O'Reilly a 'goon'
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| (Thursday, 02 April 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| Bill O'Reilly had barely lowered himself into the Late Show chair before David Letterman said, "I think of you as a goon," and it just got more prickly from there. Asking The O'Reilly Factor host to run down his resume, which ended with his ascension to the ... (1438 more chars) |
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Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials
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| (Saturday, 28 March 2009) By Shahram Vahdany |
| LONDON — A high-level Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, on whether they violated international law ... (7342 more chars) |
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