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Category Archives: Iran
Did the Israeli-American Stuxnet virus launch a cyber world war?
According to this documentary 35 minutes in, Israel knew it did not have the military capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, but they hoped that if they started the job, the Americans would step in and finish it. From Haaretz: … Continue reading
Washington Post Editorial: ‘Iran’s ‘moderates’ and the Holocaust’
Washington Post: “AT THE heart of the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran is the notion that the regime is divided among hard-liners who foment its terrorism and regional aggression and more moderate forces who are open to cooperation with … Continue reading
Forced secularization always unravels in a Muslim country?
Comments to Steve Sailer about Turkey: * Every less intelligent race is prone to conspiracy theory thinking, which is just another word for magical thinking. Blacks love it and it’s very entertaining listening to a black man hold forth about … Continue reading
Soviet Scientists by Ethnicity as of 1973
Steve Sailer writes: On Unz.com, Anatoly Karlin displays an interesting graph of scientists per capita of over 50 Soviet ethnic groups as of 1973. Not surprisingly, the #1 most scientific ethnicity in the Soviet Union were the Jews and the … Continue reading
LAT: Her pink Taser, poisoned hamburger patties and an iPhone: the story of a wife who lured an Orange County fugitive out of Iran
How is this woman allowed to practice law in California? Los Angeles Times: When three men escaped from the Orange County jail, officials quickly decided only one of the escapees possessed the cunning and resourcefulness to mastermind it: Hossein Nayeri, … Continue reading
Divide, Conquer, Colonize
Dan Sanchez writes: As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that … Continue reading
WP: ‘Don’t be fooled. Iran is still not safe.’
Daniel Levinson writes in the Washington Post: American and European companies are drafting plans to begin doing business in Iran with the lifting of sanctions as part of this summer’s nuclear-weapons agreement, and Westerners are planning visits to the country. … Continue reading
JJ: Wasserman Schultz: Iranian nuclear threat has been neutralized
I have some thoughts on this story. * Iran was never a threat to the United States so long as the United States did not commit troops to the Middle East and threaten Iran. The more America and other countries … Continue reading
Prof. John Mearsheimer: “Turkish Foreign Policy: A Realist’s Assessment”
Published on Oct 9, 2012: Prof. John Mearsheimer from University of Chicago gave a lecture entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy: A Realist’s Assessment” on 4 October 2012 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. John Mearsheimer says: … Continue reading