Cyber-warfare outside a sci-fi novel
If you’ve got a really good memory, you might remember the Defence White Paper of 2009 devoted (comparatively) a fair bit of attention to the idea of “cyber warfare” – computer hacking as a weapon of war. Like I said [...]
Iran's new hole in the ground
Iran, Germany, and the five permanent security council members have sent delegations to a a villa outside Geneva to discuss developments in Iran’s nuclear program. Given the weather’s going to be nice, I suppose there’s likely to be worse ways [...]
Iran election open thread
Here’s an Iran election open thread so that wbb has somewhere to put his searing analysis. Here’s the wiki entry where early results give Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a handy lead. Yesterday the ABC had segments on The World Today and PM. [...]
Iraq provincial elections spin
A cursory inspection of the intertubes today suggests that the right-wing press across the “Anglosphere” is trumpeting the provincial election results in Iraq as variously “the end of the war”, “a model for the Middle East”, “a defeat for Shi’ite [...]
White House restrained Israel from attacking Iran
It’s hard to think of genuine foreign policy successes of the Bush administration – apparently the right-wing blogosphere in the US is touting “improved relations with Australia” as an achievement… The deals with Libya and North Korea were perhaps success, [...]
Meanwhile
George W. Bush – or whomever is actually running the shop – is a rather busy lame duck. As well as the credit crunch, there’s there are all manner of foreign policy challenges which at any other time would be [...]
Persepolis
There are moments in the film Persepolis when the animation makes you gasp at its ability to tell you so much in such apparently simple images. Three notable instances of such illustrations are the young Marjane Satrapi morphing into the [...]
Nelson beats the drums of war against Iran
Lately I’ve been having alarming episodes of déjà vu. As the drums of war beat louder for Iran, public utterances regarding the evil doings of Iran become increasingly common. One of the stranger ones is the idea that Iran is [...]
This is going to end well
Crazy president No 1 with plans to extend sphere of influence in the Middle East: Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran’s regime to impose economic sanctions. [...]
The Straight Talk Song Express
John McCain has been taking questions from supporters. His campaign team should advise him not to.
Elect yourself another people
It’s always a very bad look for the right when they’re reduced, as they were when the American people failed to rally round impeachment of Clinton and were condemned by GOP pols and pundits as morally bankrupt, to suggesting that [...]
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