Persicus Maximus

Whether the NATO countries -- who had only a few years ago welcomed Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi back into the international fold in exchange for his renouncing his chemical and nuclear weapons programs and allowing U.S. and British experts to come and help dismantle them -- played any role in what certainly appeared in first reports from the scene to have been the summary execution of the Libyan dictator will probably never be known. What the video evidence does prove is that the Libyan revolutionary forces did not find him already dead or killed by a NATO airstrike; nor does the initial claim that he was killed in "crossfire" between insurgent forces and diehard regime loyalists stand up to even the most minimal scrutiny. NATO does acknowledge that its planes bombarded the convoy in which Qaddafi was fleeing the city of Sirte shortly before it was intercepted on the ground by the insurgents, but it has denied it even knew he was there. If that is true, and the French, British, a...

Not even Rumsfeld and Cheney in their heydays could come up with such nonsense about Iran as Obamas election strategists came up with. Whatever the case, Iranians in diaspora specially those living and working in the USA should become very vigilant should they receive an offer too good to be true, the answer should be no thank you officer even if it comes from their business partners they‘ve known for years. These business partners could have been shepherded into it without knowledge as people are when pushed around in a black operation. All Iranians living abroad, even the few dozen that rejoice and applause this idiotic nonsense, should be fearful of this precedent, they could well be the next on the list. Iran is being set up and this set up did not even have to be an elegant one (as in this case). Everybody in Europe, and without exception(to add to the flavor), knows this to be a scam from A to Z... but as always some have to believe, or at least claim to, due to party policies or...

63 years ago most Jews rejoiced over the birth of Israel. Some thought it would become the place where a new vision of socialism with justice and equality would arise. Clearly, not all Jews believed that – or in those values. Six plus decades later, the idea that Palestinians also deserve their own nation with UN recognized boundaries has caused a panic reaction from the Israeli government and its supporters throughout the world – including the President of the United States as he opposed the idea at the UN last month. Why the panic? Look at comparative maps of Palestinian territory as outlined by the UN in 1948, with what’s left of that land today. The maps show Israel has stolen most of it — to build settlements for Jews only. Jews like me and my friends throughout the western world do not want to migrate to the Promised Land (Zion now equals much of Palestinian territory). We don’t want to live amidst Israeli settlers, many of them self-righteous and very superior (chosen by God?) ...

A Glenn Kessler finally took it upon himself not to pretend formal disgust at claimed rhetorics attributed to Iranian officials any more, allegations that divert all possible attention from the very essence of a blunt and comprehensive real time definition of the Middle east problem. At least of an Iranian perspective. Here he decided to thoroughly check the facts of the allegations ... “Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map.” — President Obama, speech to the U.N. General Assembly, September 21, 2011 “It was only perhaps three weeks ago that the president of Iran once again said that Israel should be eradicated off the face of the Earth. As you recall, it was about in 2005 when he [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] said before that Israel -- he would use a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.” — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), September 19, 2011 “Outrageous state...

Justin Raimondo has always been one of my favorite and objective reporters, and here I would like to redistribute one of his articles on the recent targeted killing of a US citizen. "The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki sets the kind of precedent that Americans will come to regret, but for now they cheer, like Romans hailing a death in the arena. Richard Miniter, writing in the Obamaite – and aptly named – Daily Beast, avers that not only was the killing legal, it was also “wise.” He writes: “President Obama’s targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and died in Yemen fighting for al Qaeda, is a victory for America and for common sense.” As if our all-wise and all-powerful President personally stalked and killed his prey, mano a mano. Obama is “like Lincoln,” says Miniter, who ordered the deaths of his fellow Americans in a vicious civil war – but a more accurate analogy is, perhaps, the Roman emperor Commodus, who personally fought in gladiatorial contests,...