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heywood-gould's picture
Nov.07.2008
GREENPOINT, Bklyn, Nov.7...Toasts and cheers resounded at Golubchik's tavern last night as Obama euphoria kept the party floating two days after the historic election. "To change," people shouted, raising their glasses. "To peace." This was too much for Ivan Yopsvoyomatsky,...
heywood-gould's picture
Aug.01.2008
GREENPOINT, Bklyn, July 18...Iranian President Ahamadinejad says "We will wipe Israel off the face of the earth." Israeli Prime Minister Olmert responds: "The Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means." Is nuclear war imminent? "No way, " says Efraim Durg...
jeff-biggers's picture
Jul.19.2008
Huffington Post, July 19th, 2008 Whether or not the George W. Bush administration's surprising act this week of initiating people-to-people diplomacy with Iran is sincere, it presents a critical opportunity for cultural and human rights organizations in the United States to take the lead in making...
edmund-jenks's picture
Jul.11.2008
Barack Obama sits down to speak with the editorial board of The Military Times. Image Credit: YouTube Account, pe11201 - Video by M. Scott Mahaskey / Military Times Staff The “I”- “Me” (monopolistic thinking of), uh, Barack, uh, Oba, uh, ma Somebody please ask junior Senator Barack Obama what he...
arlene-goldbard's picture
Jul.02.2008
Have you ever had one of those scary ah-hah moments? Hurtling along the freeway or gazing out the window of a jet plane, suddenly coming to consciousness: Ohmigod, I'm in a metal capsule going much too fast to stop, surrounded by other metal capsules piloted by who knows what! This is crazy! All in...
hammond-guthrie's picture
Mar.21.2008
President Bush contends that Iran has "declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people," as Vice President Cheney spreads paranoid disinformation abroad. It seems to me we have been here before. (In reprise) I offer these OpOetic testimonies © 2003/2004 FAITH-BASING THE LEAKY...
jacques-leslie's picture
Feb.04.2008
So Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been rebuked by the State Department for having the temerity to sit next to Iran’s foreign minister at a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Khalilzad...