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[Iranian] Iran Hostage 30th Anniversary Meets WikiLeaks ”” All-Star Panel in ...: Iran Hostage 30th Anniversary Meets WikiLeaks ”” All-Star Panel in New York. Amy Goodman, Stephen Kinzer to Host Event on Revolution, Leaks, and New Technology.

[War Is A Crime .org] Reset: Stephen Kinzer's Vision of a New U.S. Relationship with ...: Kinzer begins his case with the story of Howard Baskerville, the Rachel Corrie, if you will, of U.S.-Iran relations: a young American whose life and death suggests the possibility of a different relationship between the U.S. and Iran, one based on sympathy for Iranian national aspirations. Baskerville was a Presbyterian schoolteacher from Nebraska working in the city of Tabriz when royalist forces supported by Russia and Britain - who had agreed between themselves in 1907 to partition the country into spheres of influence - laid siege to the city during the Constitutional Revolution.

[David Charles] Facing Disaster In the Middle East: Do We Have Only Bad Options?: So such a move would have widespread support.Kinzer warns that the problem with making these kind of deals with the elites is that they are usually unpopular with the people, so any deal transfers some of that unpopularity to the US as well. The most important thing that the US must avoid is doing anything that would make it harder for the US and Iran to negotiate in the future!

[Untitled] Time to Get Over the Iran Hostage Crisis / Brainyloft Press: The harrowing 444-day ordeal that still poisons Iran-American relations came to an end 30 years ago today. Stephen Kinzer on conservative politicians and former hostages who say it’s time for the countries to bury the hatchet.

[Virtual Worlds Research Project] Promising New Interactive Graphic Novel For iPad - Virtual Worlds ...: Operation Ajax uses cinematic, multi-touch and gaming techniques to teach about the roots of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and is the singular curated source for several leaked CIA documents about Iran, its overthrow, and BP’s complicity. The Operation Ajax iPad app, created with Cognito Comics and Tall Chair, is available for download in the iTunes store.

[bookforum.com] near eastern promises - bookforum.com / in print: Though Kinzer is critical of Atatürk's failure to investigate the "fate of Ottoman Armenians," he insists on using, as he did in his Turkey book Crescent and Star (2001), tepid if not misleading language to describe the Armenian genocide: "Families were torn from their homes and forced to flee. Hundreds of thousands died or were murdered." It's an odd, enduring paradox that Western writers often own up less bravely to the Armenian genocide than do the Turkish activists and intellectuals who actually have to live in Turkey.

[GlobalPost] Iran Tourism | Axis of Evil | US-Iran Relations: They must travel in groups, engage Iranian guides and stick to established tourist sites. A tour organizer who sought to arrange a visit to the hometown of former Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a secular democrat who was prime minister from 1951 until he was toppled in a CIA-backed coup in 1953, was told that it is not open to foreigners.

[Chrisy58's Weblog] Reset: Stephen Kinzer's Vision of a New US Relationship with ...: Kinzer’s case for a new relationship with Turkey and Iran may strike many Americans as unintuitive, particularly in the case of Iran. But Kinzer’s basic point is that a strategic vision for the future isn’t merely an extrapolation from the present: it’s an ability to envision a future realignment that would be fundamentally different, just as President Nixon saw the possibility for a fundamentally different relationship between the U.S. and China, based on “mutual interests and mutual respect,”

[Latest entries from tabacco.blog-city.com] USA IN IRAN! Regime Change, The Shah Of Iran, Eisenhower-Reagan ...: In a reality-based, fact-based policy environment in Washington, you’d think that the idea of attacking Iran would be off the agenda now. Not only is there no enthusiasm in the military for this, or even in the Defense Department civilian side, we’re very stretched in Iraq, obviously, and there doesn’t seem to be any public demand or urgency for it.

[thatpoliticalblog] Stephen Kinzer: “Blowback” and Responsibility: What America Owes Iran: “Blowback” and Responsibility: What America Owes Iran. Stephen Kinzer - October 10th, 2007 - (Forum: Target Iran?) More than half a century has passed since the United States deposed the only democratic .

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