Time to Recalibrate False Assumptions and Political Fantasies: The Cases of Iran and Venezuela

In May, The New York Times reported that Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had allegedly been recruited by the United States and Israel to assume power if the Iranian regime was toppled.
Ahmadinejad has long had a troubled relationship with the Iranian establishment. He publicly accused senior regime figures of corruption, was later barred from running for president, saw several of his aides arrested, and was eventually placed under house arrest.

Iran’s Record Justifies Military Action Against It

It’s remarkable to witness the level of ignorance displayed by certain public officials, segments of the media, and various analysts when evaluating the rationale behind the joint American–Israeli military operation against Iran.

For Sake of Iranian People, Foreign Intervention Justified

As with many contemporary challenges, the case for foreign intervention in Iran has a clear precedent: NATO’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia against the regime of Slobodan Milošević.

Gaza’s Genocide Inversion: Setting the Record Straight

This video refutes the dire and growing accusation circulating globally—one that seeks to delegitimize Zionism, demonize Israel, and implicitly provoke hostility toward Jews both inside and outside the borders of the Jewish state–that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

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Less than Supreme, Less than Just, and Certainly Not Baseball

Less than Supreme, Less than Just, and Certainly Not Baseball

We watch the Supreme Court Justices as through a fog, a distant one at that, the figures moving in various directions irregularly and indistinctly, in a blur, occasionally adrift and astray but eventually finding their way back together, if not always in the place they started and sometimes not even realizing they have moved.

American Masks and Lebanese Explosions

American Masks and Lebanese Explosions

What are we to make of the argument that any requirement or even pressure to wear masks in the face of the Covid pandemic, a measure we are assured will save thousands of lives, is an impermissible intrusion on personal liberty?

THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

The presidency of Donald Trump has renewed rare debates in American politics about the future of democracy, the constitutional state, and other elements of our country that we have been taking for granted for a long, long time.

Bashir’s Farm And The Tragedy Of Lebanon – OpEd

Bashir’s Farm And The Tragedy Of Lebanon – OpEd

I vividly remember talking to my younger brother Freddy about leaving Lebanon when I was ten years old. I could not explain why I had this gnawing feeling harrowing my heart about leaving the people and country that I loved. Couple of years later when the civil war broke out in 1975, this feeling became subliminally couched in the amplified socio-political and sectarian grievances that I, at one and the same time, rejected and embraced.

A Republican Attorney General

A Republican Attorney General

Attorney General WIlliam Barr finally testified before Congress this week, as he had previously refused to comply with his lawful duty to provide Congress with the opportunity to conduct oversight and, since July 2019, has been in contempt of the House for that conduct.

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