Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: We all agree that Joe Biden was is in Munich for an international security conference. We all agree that he spoke about the new direction in US foreign policy. But that’s all USA and the rest…
In a day or so we’re going to publish a splendid piece by Mohammad of Vancouver disputing James Petras’s argument that Obama is going to attack Iran. Part of Mohammad’s critique is a long meditation on the character of the…
Notwithstanding his record on the neverending “peace process” (12 years, during which colonization of the West Bank marched on), Dennis Ross is said to be on the inside track to become envoy on the Iran portfolio under Obama. Well, two…
Phil Weiss: When he was young, my friend Mohammad of Vancouver, an art curator and graduate student, served in the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war. I asked him whether he’d observed or experienced torture, and how he feels about…
Phil Weiss: This is a picture of Mohammad of Vancouver. The picture was taken last week at an art intervention: A group of artists did pieces of political art about Gaza at some art galleries, unsolicited. One of the pieces…
From Phil Weiss: Last night I posted a comment by my new friend Mohammad on Gaza in which he called it “genocide.” I felt somewhat uncomfortable with the word, but I am trying to get this blog open to Muslim/Arab…
Whatever Barack Obama is or isn’t, a mystery we will get to unfold for many years, we know who George Bush is: a tragic figure. Look at him now. He’s crumpled, thin, gray, and angry. I remember him eight years…
Here is a really smart piece by Trita Parsi on Huffpo saying that notwithstanding the neocons’ (they won’t go away) claims, Iran has limited connections to Hamas (as opposed to Hezbollah) and that it has all but washed its hands…