US officials have for the first time acknowledged that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), in collaboration with Israel’s Mossad have been behind the killings of Iranian scientists [1]. The most recent assassination was that of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan,

This controversy was something of a nod to various antiquated notions of the rule of law in this country. As James Madison said: “The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most

The plea bargain in the last Haditha massacre case handed down in January is a fitting end to the Iraq war. In the most notorious case of U.S. culpability in Iraqi civilian deaths, no one will pay a price. And that is emblematic of the entire war and its

As U.S. rhetoric intensifies with the prediction that Israel will attack Iran sooner rather than later, the president has an opportunity to stop war with an ace in the cards he has yet to play. In a pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer, the president

Feb 5 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of British Broadcasting Corporation journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, the BBC's head said on Sunday. Mark Thompson, director-general o

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today One of the most uncommented on ironies today is that Israel is threatening military action to prevent Iran from continuing the same clandestine route to nuclear weapons tha

Camuso. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of respect. Chuck and I were 25 years apart in age so we led vastly different lives. We both, however, followed our passion and have been very successful. He lived a long and beautiful life and I am so thankful

David Greenberg, a contributing editor, is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and the author of Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image, among other works. A BOOK SUCH as Chris Matthews’s biography of Preside

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. What we have here is a bunch of bullies itching to attack. You give bully a lot of very fancy weapons, in seemingly endless supply, well guess what? Bul

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will host a discussion at the Columbia Spectator's Annual Awards Dinner, on Feb. 4, 2012, at the Columbia University Club of New Yor

News that a fourth scientist in two years, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, had been assassinated in Iran by an unknown agency generated minimal outrage in the press. While the identity of those carrying out the assassinations remains a mystery, it is most likely

A BOOK SUCH as Chris Matthews’s biography of President Kennedy would not ordinarily seem like best-seller material. Unlike Robert Dallek’s recent big study of JFK, An Unfinished Life, it is not the product of extensive research. Nor does it cater, like b

During his confirmation hearings this past June, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned the Senate, "The next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our grid, our security systems, our financial systems, our governme

According to a report in Foreign Policy, agents with Israel’s Mossad spy agency posed as CIA operatives as they tried to recruit members of the Pakistan-based Sunni terrorist network Jundallah to launch attacks against Iran. The alleged revelations come

On Wednesday morning, an unknown motorcyclist attached a sticky bomb to Ahmadi Roshan's car near a college building of Allameh Tabatabaei University in northern Tehran. Ahmadi Roshan was immediately killed as the result of the explosion, and his driver,

The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. At DontAttackIran.org we've been collecting the arguments for and against attacki

Supporters of Islami Jamiat Talaba, a student wing of political Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, hold up anti-American placards during a rally in Lahore on Nov. 17, 2009 In this land of conspiracy theories, roiling suspicions and rumors have long been ri

The consensus congeals: Our next war must be with Iran. A report issued by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which the New York Times called "chillingly comprehensive" (though this is debatable), stoked this long-simmering agenda. It charges

Whether or not anti-Iranian rhetoric, saber rattling, sanctions, other policy measures, and recent events signal war isn't known. Growing dangers though mount. America targets all independent regimes. At issue is replacing them with client ones. In Octob