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LobeLog
March 30, 2018
by Jim Lobe Sixty-one percent of the American public prefers a deal permitting Iran to continue limited uranium enrichment and imposing intrusive inspections on its nuclear facilities in exchange for some sanctions relief, according to a unique new survey released here Tuesday. In contrast… Continue ReadingÃâà...
LobeLog
March 30, 2018
by Jim Lobe. Bill Kristol was not altogether pleased with with last week's announcement of the appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump's next national security advisor. Indeed, Kristol, who remains probably the single most influential figure in the increasingly fractious neoconservative movement,Ãâà...
Between The Lines
March 28, 2018
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Jim Lobe, the former chief of the Washington, D.C. bureau of Inter Press Service and founder of the LobeLog.com. Here, he discusses John Bolton's views on the use of military force, as well as the implications for future U.S. policy in Iran, Korea and elsewhereÃâà...
The National Memo (blog)
March 19, 2018
Jim Lobe notes that Pompeo met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia in December to promote an anti-Iran coalition of Israel and the Gulf Arab states. The Jerusalem-Riyadh axis wants to enlist the United States in their campaign to confront and disrupt Iran. “We absolutely needÃâà...
+972 Magazine
March 11, 2018
By Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton. American billionaire businessman Sheldon .... Jim Lobe served for some 30 years as the Washington DC bureau chief for Inter Press Service and is best known for his coverage of U.S. foreign policy and the influence of the neoconservative movement. This article is reprinted withÃâà...
LobeLog
March 10, 2018
A familiar group of super-hawkish, anti-Iran U.S. billionaires has been spending millions of dollars on a rather eclectic and somewhat bizarre organization of mainly foreign leaders. This organization, the Friends of Israel Initiative (FOII), has hailed the advent of what it calls the “New Right” in Europe.
LobeLog
March 10, 2018
by Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton A familiar group of super-hawkish, anti-Iran U.S. billionaires has been spending millions of dollars on a rather eclectic and somewhat bizarre organization of mainly foreign leaders. This organization, the Friends of Israel Initiative (FOII),… Continue ReadingÃâà...
+972 Magazine
March 1, 2018
By Jim Lobe | February 8, 2018. Killing the Iran deal with a thousand cuts. By Paul Pillar | January 15, 2018. Bibi says Iran will soon have 100 nuclear bombs. Well, where are they? By Shemuel Meir | December 17, 2017. So it is just as possible that Araghchi meant what he implied: Iran will withdraw if theÃâà...
LobeLog
February 28, 2018
by Derek Davison and Jim Lobe. In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) announced that they—along with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), who was not present for the press conference—will introduce a privileged resolution that could put anÃâà...
LobeLog
February 1, 2018
by Jim Lobe. Except for the ongoing war in Syria, coverage of the Middle East by the evening news programs of the three big U.S. networks virtually disappeared in 2017, according to the latest annual compilation by the authoritative Tyndall Report. Russia and Russian-related events—as in the allegationsÃâà...
LobeLog
December 27, 2017
The 20th century was rife with partitions, many of them involving European powers carving up colonial possessions in Africa and the Middle East with what often appears to have been little or no concern for local realities. Perhaps the most famous of these free-hand attempts at state creation is theÃâà...
LobeLog
September 4, 2017
by Jim Lobe. With the eviction of Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka from the inner precincts of the White House and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson besieged and taking fire from virtually all sides, neoconservatives – even the NeverTrumpers among them – must be quietly harboring renewed hopes thatÃâà...
LobeLog
July 18, 2017
Are we once again witnessing the politicization of intelligence of the kind that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Only applied to Iran this time? There are a number of indications that such a process may indeed be underway. The latest was disclosed in the wake of Monday's certification by Secretary of StateÃâà...
LobeLog
July 6, 2017
by Jim Lobe. Iran hawks suddenly have a new mantra: the Islamic Republic is the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and the Trump administration should work to hasten the regime's impending collapse. It's not clear why this comparison has surfaced so abruptly. Its proponents don't cite any tangible orÃâà...
LobeLog
April 19, 2017
The apparent and surprisingly abrupt demise in Steve Bannon's influence offers a major potential opening for neoconservatives, many of whom opposed Trump's election precisely because of his association with Bannon and the “America Firsters,” to return to power after so many years of being relegated toÃâà...
LobeLog
April 9, 2017
by Jim Lobe. Thirty-six hours after the pre-dawn cruise-missile strike against Syria's al-Shayrat airfield, neoconservative hawks, many of whom beat the drums for war in Iraq 14 years ago, are feeling the warm spring breezes of renewal and rejuvenation. Suddenly hopeful that Donald Trump may yet beÃâà...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
“Great news for the Republic!” tweeted Sebastian Gorka, on hearing the news that CIA Director Mike Pompeo is replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Gorka, who was forced to resign from his position as a former deputy assistant to the President in major part due to his apparent membership in aÃâà...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
By Jim Lobe | February 8, 2018. Bibi says Iran will soon have 100 nuclear bombs. Well, where are they? By Shemuel Meir | December 17, 2017. The young Arab women on Israel's hasbara dream team. By Samah Salaime | October 23, 2017. The far-right is wooing LGBTQs for one reason: Islamophobia.
