This week, the House is expected to vote on a new round of broad, indiscriminate sanctions against Iran. This time, however, there is a special surprise concealed in the bill’s depths: a provision which would restrict contact, both official and unofficial, between US government employees and Iranian officials who “present a threat to the United…
Before and After: Washington Post Photo Gallery Headline Last week, Just Foreign Policy initiated a campaign to get the Washington Post to correct a photo gallery headline which asserted as if it were fact the mere allegation that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Over 1500 of you wrote to the ombudsman to tell him…
Embed this graphic on your site I have long held the suspicion that US politicians and major media have developed a powerful alternative logic that they don’t wish to share with the rest of us. It’s a logic that allows one to do such wondrous things as prove a large-scope negative and infer a universally…
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Three key amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act are expected to come up for a vote this week in the Senate. Two of these amendments would help end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the other could bring us closer to war with Iran. Amendment to Accelerate the US Military Drawdown from Afghanistan…
Just Foreign Policy issued a press release earlier today in response to the Congressional “Super” Committee’s failure to come to an agreement to reduce government spending by $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. You may read the press release here.
Today’s New York Times print edition features an editorial concerning the findings of the most recent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program. The piece begins with a standard, preemptive condemnation of Iran for pursuing nuclear weapons, followed by a prescription for harsher sanctions. Yet, in the very next paragraph succeeding this prescription, the editorial board…
Just Foreign Policy has received confirmation that activist Kit Kittredge, the US delegate to the Freedom Waves flotilla, is presently on a plane back to New York after being detained for 72 hours in the Israeli jail of Givon. The other US citizen that was detained, Democracy Now! correspondent Jihan Hafiz, was deported last night…
Earlier this morning, it was learned that Jihan Hafiz, US citizen and Democracy Now! correspondent aboard the Tahrir, had been deported from Israel after being detained at Givon prison for 72 hours. Soon after arriving in New York, she sat down with Amy Goodman to talk about the flotilla interception and her subsequent detention in…
Earlier today, the two ships that compose the Freedom Waves flotilla to Gaza–the Saoirse and the Tahrir–were commandeered by the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF has since released two videos. One video portrays the boarding of both vessels and is heavily edited. Still, we can clearly see the use of a water cannon on the…