[aggregation-styles] CNBC There is another story about the killing of an Iranian general. And unlike Qasem Soleimani, he wasn’t an enemy of the U.S. In fact, as one of the top ranking military officials in Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s regime, he was an important ally. He was my grandfather. Major...
A Very Elegant Coup – 'All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror'
[aggregation-styles] Wayback Machine BOOK REVIEW — All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer In the summer of 1953, the CIA and Britain's MI6 arranged a coup in Tehran. The Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, appeared to be opening his country...
The World Is Abandoning America
[aggregation-styles] The Week For three years, President Trump has tried to disentangle the United States from the burdens of world leadership. This week, it appears he has succeeded. One of the most notable aspects of the crisis between the United States and Iran is how little the international community rallied...
Iran Crisis: Why Gulf Arabs Increasingly See US as a Liability
[aggregation-styles] The Christian Science Monitor Blindsided. Exposed. Anxious. Exasperated. Such are Gulf Arab leaders as they fly to Washington, Tehran, and European capitals to contain the fallout from the U.S. assassination of an Iranian general they saw as their mortal enemy but whose killing was a red line they could...
Opinion: Sierra Tree Deaths Punctuate Climate Urgency
When the Navy brought me to California in 1990, I immediately fell in love with the beauty of the backcountry and the trees of San Diego County. In fact, the majesty of sugar pines 6 foot in diameter, the enormous white fir, the incense cedar, Jeffrey pines and Ponderosa inspired me...
Trump Does Not Have a Foreign Policy. He Has a Series of Impulses.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Three months ago, President Trump suddenly withdrew U.S. forces from northern Syria that were, in part, thwarting Iran’s efforts to dominate the country, declaring, “Going into the Middle East is one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country. It’s like...
Can San Francisco Be Fixed?
[aggregation-styles] Curbed San Francisco From afar, San Francisco’s skyline looks pristine and thriving. But take a closer look. From how we interact with each other to vivid displays of the widening divide between rich and poor, it’s not as booming as it appears from a distance. As many have suggested...
Mayor Brand Launches Assault on Second Amendment: Bredefeld
The misguided Brand administration is at it again — now attacking our Second Amendment Rights! The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms…” and this right “shall not be infringed.” Our Founding Fathers in crafting the Declaration of Independence...
Donald Trump Wants to Curb Iran. Has He Gone About It the Right Way?
[aggregation-styles] The Economist Subscription Masterstroke or madness? The Killing of Qassem Suleimani by an American drone on January 3rd threatened to bring the United States and Iran closer to war than at any time since the hostage crisis in 1979. In a part of the world that has lost the...
The Media Should Spotlight a Different Kind of War Expert: Those Who Voted ‘No’ on Iraq
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription There she was: Judith Miller, the former New York Times reporter most closely identified with the paper’s flawed reporting in the run-up to the Iraq War, chattering away on Fox News. Karl Rove, one of the masterminds of that 2003 “shock and awe” invasion and...
