Iran is not the problem

U.S. military spending rose 4.6% in 2018 to reach $649 billion, making it by far the world’s biggest investor in death.

Iran may be the key to peace in the Middle East

Is that why Trump and Netanyahu are gunning for it?

The White House’s distorting mirror

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”

The oldest dated carpet in the world was woven around 1540 by Maqsud Kashani, about whom nothing is known except for his own description as a “servant of the court”.

Pulling the rug out from under your average carpet-buyer

The Sickle-Leaf Carpet, woven in Persia in the mid-17^th century, has sold at auction for the astonishing sum of $33,765,000. Previously, a blue leaf-patterned 17^th century rug from Iran held the world record, selling for $9.6 million at Christie’s in London in 2010.

Let’s end the deception over Iran!

The media became “weapons of mass deception” in the war on terror. That’s the opinion of Danny Schechter, executive editor of Mediachannel.org, who hung the label on U.S. media for its uncritical repetition of government sources of information leading up to the disastrous war on Iraq. Now it’s Iran’s turn.