Once again Iran is back in the spotlight, not for a corrupt election and electronic dissent, but for a more worrying trend: nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad is fairly scary, but an Ahmadinejad with nuclear capabilities is like the playground bully making the cut-throat motion mouthing the words, "You're next." ...more

November 4, 2009

Once again Iran is back in the spotlight, not for a corrupt election and electronic dissent, but for a more worrying trend: nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad is fairly scary, but an Ahmadinejad with nuclear capabilities ...more

November 3, 2009

No year that saw a 778-point single-day stock market drop, the price of oil fluctuate by more than $100 a barrel and the death of Irvine Robbins - the inventor of Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream - can be called good. But the election of Barack Obama as president made 2008 important. ...more

January 4, 2009

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008

In reviewing our concern about WMDs, particularly nukes in the hands first of Saddam and now Iran, the thing that is principally overlooked is the bellicose posture between these two countries for the last decade. Under Saddam, Iraq decided to go to war against Iran, largely with U.S. help and encouragement. Although the Israelis had taken out Iraq's nuclear capabilities with a surgical air strike in 1981, both Iran and Iraq felt the need to menace each other with the potential threat of nuclear weaponry. ...more

February 17, 2008