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Love twitter, hate twitter, or just wish people understood the difference between status updates on facebook and tweets, and didn’t post the identical thing in both places. But. Whatever you feel about twitter, you have to admit that something very brief can provide huge insight.
Take Marco Rubio for example, or should I [...]

Last week, the Democratically controlled U.S. Congress was caught red-handed aiding and abetting the Cheney-Bush drumbeat for war in Iran — just as they helped the administration in its run-up to the war in Iraq when Republicans controlled both houses.
On Tuesday, the House voted 397 to 16 to endorse the Cheney cabal’s assertion that [...]

Iranian Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking today at Columbia University:
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it.”
July 2005:
Three weeks ago, two Iranian teenagers who had been [...]

The day John McCain lost the 2008 presidential campaign:

O.K., the guy is obviously sick — blowing his nose and probably hopped up on antihistamines — but, come on. “Bomb Iran?”

Fox News is reporting that Sen. Jim Webb (D-Virginia) has proposed a bill intended to stop Pres. Bush’s march to war with Iran. If the bill were to pass, it would it would prohibit funding “for military operations and activities within or above the territory of Iran, or within the territorial waters of Iran, except [...]

Apocalypse now: New reporting by Robert Parry on the behind-the-scenes battle between Pres. Bush and the U.S. military’s top generals picks up where the Seymour Hersh’s story in the New Yorker leaves off — painting a picture of a what amounts to a quiet military coup at the very top ranks of the Pentagon against [...]

One revelation in Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article about Vice Pres. Cheney’s not-so-secret plan to attack Iran bears more scrutiny. It involves Elliott Abrams — a Reagan Administration official who got caught in the Iran-Contra scandal, pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress and was later pardoned by the first Pres. George Bush.
“One, [...]

Iran-Contra redux: New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh has learned that Vice Pres. Cheney has a secret plan to set up an “open confrontation” with Iran. As part of the plan, the Pentagon is now ready to start bombing within 24 hours of a signal from the White House.
The core of the problem is an [...]

Finally, a glimmer of hope for our country:
Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George [...]

More lies: For this week’s Insider Poll, National Journal asked inside-the-Beltway types their views on whether George Bush is gearing up to lead from behind in an invasion of Iran:
‘For the umpteenth time, we are not looking for an excuse to go to war with Iran.’ — Defense Secretary Robert Gates
The new insiders poll asked [...]