Lo que la historia debería enseñarnos sobre un bloqueo de Irán Es una política lo bastante feroz como para causar gran sufrimiento a los iraníes, y posiblemente también a los estadounidenses, a largo plazo. Finalmente, incluso podría dañar profundamente la economía y sin embargo, nos dice la historia, fallará por sí sola. La guerra económica conducida [...]

 What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians — and possibly in the long run among Americans, too.  It might, in the end, even deeply harm the global economy and yet, history tells us, it will fail on its own.  Economic war led by Washington [...]

¿Por qué no hay compasión para los palestinos? El escritor alemán Günter Grass (El tambor de hojalata) ya había predicho la reacción a su poema en Süddeutsche Zeitung . No hay motivo para sorprenderse, pero hay todos los motivos para disgustarse. Dentro de Alemania tanto la elite como una capa de la población, por sus palabras [...]

Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around him, but far too engrossed in the daily paper to notice.  [...]

El número de enero-febrero de la revista Foreign Affairs ofrece un artículo de Matthew Kroenig titulado Tiempo de atacar a Irán; por qué un ataque es la opción menos mala, junto con comentarios sobre otras formas de contener la amenaza iraní. Los medios resonaron con advertencias sobre un posible ataque israelí contra Irán mientras Estados Unidos [...]

Wikileaks is publishing internal memos of the Stratfor security analysis firm. A few tidbits have emerged in these very early days, to wit: 1. Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief [...]

Introducción del editor de TomDispatch En mayo de 2007, tropecé con bocetos en el sitio en la web de una firma arquitectónica de Kansas contratada para construir una monstruosa embajada combinada con ciudadela para el centro de comando de Gran Medio Oriente en 42 hectáreas en el centro de la capital iraquí, Bagdad. Presentaban las impresiones [...]

Part 1 Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead.  Right now, in fact. At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John [...]

On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein’s regime is…developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked.” A year later, Blair, enthusiastically joined a US-led coalition that launched an illegal war against Iraq. Their hunt for weapons of mass destruction was futile [...]

 It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the U.S.-Mexican border region. The primary day-to-day mission of the team, known as the Joint Special Operations Gulf of [...]