US Strategy in Iran Talks US Strategy in Iran Talks
On Wednesday, several top US officials who will be leading the American delegation to the talks with Iran gave a background briefing to reporters in Geneva on their perspective fo...
Sep 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Can the US-Iran Talks Succeed? Can the US-Iran Talks Succeed?
The US-Iran talks start Thursday in Geneva and, while a lot of other countries will be there too -- the UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany are all part of the so-called P5 + 1...
Sep 28, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Iran Bombshell: US Reveals Secret Facility Iran Bombshell: US Reveals Secret Facility
It isn't clear why, exactly, the United States and its allies revealed today what they know about a secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran. The New York Times, which broke the...
Sep 25, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Will McChrystal Quit? Will McChrystal Quit?
Yesterday morning, at a meeting of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, a former top US military officer suggested that General Stanley McChrystal might resign from his ...
Sep 22, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Hints He’ll Resist McChrystal Obama Hints He’ll Resist McChrystal
Contrary to my own expectations, President Obama seems to be hesitant about announcing yet another escalation in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has thrown down the gauntlet, say...
Sep 21, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Zaps E. Europe Star Wars Obama Zaps E. Europe Star Wars
The right-wing regimes of the "new Europe" -- that is, the post-Soviet governments in eastern Europe that emerged, during the Bush administration, as the staunchest backers of Ame...
Sep 17, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
“Safe Haven Myth” Bites the Dust “Safe Haven Myth” Bites the Dust
One of the most intelligent and thoughtful comments on Afghanistan so far comes from Paul Pillar, the former chief analyst for the US intelligence community and a renowned expert ...
Sep 16, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
US-Iran Talks Start October 1 US-Iran Talks Start October 1
The hawks, neoconservatives, and Israeli hardliners are squealing, but the US and Iran are set to talk. The talks will begin October 1, among Iran and the P5 + 1, the permanent me...
Sep 14, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela WTOP Yellow Journalism on Iran-Venezuela
Earlier this week, I lambasted Robert Morgenthau for his alarmist, fear-mongering speech at the Brookings Institution and op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested d...
Sep 11, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Door Open for Iran Talks Door Open for Iran Talks
The drums of war are beating again over Iran, but sadly it's a representative of the Obama administration who wielded the heaviest drumstick. Glyn Davies, the US representative ...
Sep 10, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss