Last year, Congress proposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) (S.558 and H.R. 1007) to combat anti-Semitism, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sen. Tommy Tuberville and […]
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Cole on NPR
Listen to my interview with Steven Inskeep of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” on myths about Saudi Arabia’s puritanical and hyper-Protestant Wahhabi branch of Islam. […]
Obama v. Cheney on Guantanamo, Prosecutions, Torture
President Barack Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night: ‘ Commenting on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent assertion that the closure of Guantanamo will make […]
Defending Jim Lehrer and Nicholas Kristof from Martin Peretz
The editor-in-chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, attacked Jim Lehrer and Nicholas Kristof over the weekend for having had anything to do with me. […]
Engaging the Muslim World at Firedoglake
Check out the good discussion we had at the Firedoglake Book Salon on Saturday evening of my new book Engaging the Muslim World. Many thanks […]
OSC: Khamenei’s Speech Replying to Obama
The USG Open Source Center translates Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s response to the Persian New Year’s message of US President Barack Obama. For a canny […]
Khamenei Adopts a Wait and See Attitude to Obama; "If You Change Your Attitude, We Will Change Ours"
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday, “Of course, we have no prior experience of the new president of the American republic and of […]
Hixson: Finding a Way Out in Afghanistan
Walter L. Hixson writes in a guest op-ed for IC After receiving his welcoming gifts from the departing Bush administration—a depression and two failed wars—President […]
Firedoglake Book Salon 5 pm Today
Am doing live Q & A at the Firedoglake book salon Saturday afternoon 3/21 at 5 pm ET. Refresh the page to see the start […]
Obama and Now-Ruz
President Barack Obama gave an unprecedented adress to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and to its people on the occasion of the […]