Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the beginning of Israel’s latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last year, […]
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Al-Khoei: Ayatollah Sistani is Iraq’s Bulwark against Iran: Wikileaks
Hayder al-Khoei writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The “cablegate” leaks have gone a long way in embarrassing governments all over the world, […]
Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far
1. The British government’s official inquiry into how it got involved in the Iraq War was deeply compromised by the government’s pledge to protect the […]
Gates: Saudis want to Fight Iran to the Last American
Wikileaks Quote of the Day: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Paris, February 8, 2010: “… the Saudis always […]
Wikileaks: UK, US Planned to Pressure IAEA on Iran, Tie Tehran to Pyongyang
Scott Peterson’s fine piece at CSM on Iranian reactions to the Wikileaks cables is given further credence by yet another document that surfaced Tuesday. Peterson […]
Gaza as Israel’s Gimp
In Quentin Tarantino’s camp noir classic, Pulp Fiction, the Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames characters have an altercation and one chases the other into a […]
Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap: Cole in the Guardian
My essay on the implications of the wikileaks revelations about Sunni Arab states urging the US to launch a surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities […]
Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter
A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the […]
Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban
What they tell us: In summer of 2009, it was revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair informed the US Congress that, according to […]
Blair, Hitchens Debate Religion
Here is the transcript of the debate between Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens on the motion, “Be it resolved, religion is a force for good […]
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