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"The OPEC" oil cartel is acting up like "the innertubes" electronic cartel where "the Google" thrives. Nei...

Perhaps the title of today's post should be " Honey, I shrunk the Petrodollar ." Let's speculate on a couple of events...

Why does the U.S. mass media go nuts over certain (by comparison) minor stories, but not cover much more serious stories? Why do they ma...

Middle Eastern Protesters Today I am reposting a post of five years ago to show how our foreign policy has been frozen in You Are Here ...

On this date in 2009 Dredd Blog looked at one of the problems of nations that attempt to utilize election systems as one form of allowing ...

The Iran and North Korea situations can be used to envision the similarities between nations that are bullies and individuals who are bull...

Here's the deal Barry This month, December, was the month that the Mideast nuclear weapons-free zone conference was scheduled to tak...

Give money a chance From time to time regular readers know that Dredd Blog replays some oldies to see if they are still goodies. It i...

The AP is reporting that Iran seized Oil Well # 4 which the Iraqis claim as theirs. It is a border dispute in theory, but the reality is ...

I don't think I would have the guts that a young Iranian student has. He criticized the leaders of Iran in public: Mahmoud Vahidnia is a...

The ambassadors of peace make music not war. I ran across Shahin & Sepehr in the 90's when an Iranian friend introduced me to the...

This blog has been pointing out the neoCon aspects of Iran's Ahmadinejad , the front man for the dictatorial robe wearers who care no...

Iran began public trials of citizens who protested the past election. Stalin, the dictator of Russia a long time ago, once said those who c...

Even in Iran the president is supposedly able to choose a Vice President. Ahmadinejad did just that and chose a relative in a bit of maveric...

My recent take on the Iranian election was that the Iranian neoCons had fooled some progressive election integrity folk here in the U.S.A. ...

The results of the 8 year war are now in. Iran won. Iraq and Iran fought an 8 year war in the 1980's during Saddam Hussein's re...

The Iranian mullahs are demanding that everyone keep the faith baby and realize they would not cheat, being holy men and all. These lead...

While world leaders react cautiously to the Iranian election , many young and politically active Iranians who feel that the election was a ...

We expressed some doubt about this in an article a while back. In that article we wondered out loud if the real Iran was much like that Ir...

If this is true what does it portend? Israel must be very nervous, Secretary of State Clinton must be very nervous (because Israel is t...