Issue 339

03 April 2009 | 7 Rabee' al-Thaanee 1430 AH

Iran looks through Obama's poker face

While much has been made about the "new season of diplomacy" between Tehran and Washington, many in Iran point to crippling United States-backed sanctions and call any reported thaw in relations hugely premature. The US and its neocon allies want it both ways - to gang up on Iran at the United Nations, while seeking its help in resolving increasingly dangerous regional issues, starting with Afghanistan...Full Story

Other News

- The AfPak Paradox

- A lost vision for US intelligence

- Too Big to Save: The End of Financial Capitalism

- Foreign detainees 'have US right'

- Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?

- Jury: University of Colorado Wrongly Fired Prof Ward Churchill

- Israeli FM questioned over fraud

- Police 'use guns' at Bahrain protests

- Our leaders still aren't facing up to the scale of the crisis

- More...

BOOKS

Highlighting

Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform

Author: Richard Tapper, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ISBN HB: 978-1845111342
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
What's it all about?
Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari is a former revolutionary and clerical reformer who became one of the Islamic Republic's most outspoken critics. His ideas of "Islamic democratic government" have attracted considerable attention in Iran and elsewhere....

 

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VIDEOS

Video of the Week

Money As Debt

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States... Click here to watch | Post your comments

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