06-23-09 Don’t give Ahmadinejad what he craves or wants

Don’t give Ahmadinejad what he wants
By Ray Hanania – As long as Western politicians, especially those in the United States, view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other tyrants as opportunities for local political gain, the dictators will continue to oppress. Here in the United States, the news media is leading the charge, clawing itself past even the traditional conservative Republican land sharks, to push President Obama to declare war on Iran. It’s not going to happen and the conservative neocons who helped undermine this country’s security for the past eight years and the news-hungry media know it. But, the drama they hope to stir on the backs of the suffering of many people in Iran seems to far outweigh the cautioned and reasoned approach that Obama insists on taking.

06-08-09 Obama’s speech has first victory in Lebanon

Lebanon’s elections could be Obama’s first post-speech victory
By Ray Hanania – As the smoke clears in Lebanon’s sectarian elections, and the two major factions appear to be where they began, the real winner may in fact be President Barack Obama. Did his speech last week to the Arab World impact Lebanon’s election results? In fact, only one seat changed hands between the Hezbollah-Aoun coalition and the Western-back coalition of Saad Hariri, the son of the assasinated former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Hariri’s coalition called March 14 won 71 seats, one more than it had, and Hezbollah’s coalition called March 8 won 57 in the 128-seat Lebanese legislature, one less.

That Great Satan Iran 04-22-09

 

 

 

 

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Ray Hanania’s World Comic Strips 04-22-09
That Great Satan Iran and the hypocrisy of the mainstream American news media and public when it comes to what is right and what is wrong in the world. We’ll blast Iran and its President Ahmadinejad but we are silent when the same actions are taken in Israel or in the U.S. War in Iraq.

SHILLO: Mother’s Day gift from Hillary Clinton — “obliterate Iran” For Immediate Release, May 5, 2008

Mother’s Day gift from Hillary Clinton—Obliterate Iran?
By Saffiya Shillo – As a woman I was thrilled to see, in my lifetime, a woman run for president.  A woman that actually had a good chance at winning.  On the heals of the primary in Indiana and a Mother’s Day weekend, the race for Democratic Party nominee ends.  As it does, Mother’s across America need to seriously reconsider their support for Hillary Clinton.  She has crossed the line of motherhood by vowing to “obliterate” Iran this past week.  Threatening to kill mothers and children does not reflect well on American mothers.  She has revealed that she does not have the compassion and wisdom to be president.  The very thing people are looking for in a woman president. 

MEHDI: Patience is road to reconciliation with Iran, For Immediate Release, 12-14-07

Patience is the road to reconciliation with Iran
By Anisa Mehdi — Two weeks ago today I left Iran. I was sorry to leave after such a short visit – just one week. I was attending a conference and got to spent time with friends I hadn’t seen since my last trip to Iran, six years ago. The cabby that picked me up outside my friend’s apartment late that Friday night spoke better English than I spoke Farsi. Within the first five minutes of our hour-long trek to the glittery, new Imam Khomeini International Airport he managed to communicate something significant. “Khomeini, good,” he said bluntly. “Khamenei, bad.”

ELAASAR: Will Mubarak turn into another Ahmadinejad? For Immediate Release, 10-27-07

America Betrayed by its Allies! Will Mubarak turn into another Ahmedinajad?

By Aladdin Elaasar –  America is the biggest philanthropic nation on earth, and perhaps in human history. We literally give away hundreds of billions of dollars to many nations around the globe. Some of them we call allies. We give that taxpayers money in the best of intensions. Because we are such trusting people and we tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, we assume that our money will help the needy and promote democracy everywhere. But often times this is not the case.

HANANIA: Unanswered questions challenge American perceptions in Iraq, For Immediate Release, 10-10-07

Unanswered questions challenge American perceptions in Iraq

By Ray Hanania – Let’s just start by saying the war in Iraq is anything but what President Bush promised us when he ordered its invasion and missed real opportunities to destroy al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Lies got us to Iraq. Lies are keeping us there. And lies are driving the new drumbeats to expand the failed American war in Iraq into other oil rich nations, like Iran.

ELAASAR: Ahmadinejad, the ugly face of Demagoguery, For Immediate Release, 10-07-07

Ahmadinejad: the Ugly Face of Demagoguery

By Aladdin Elaasar — Seeing Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s face on TV brings a lot of bad memories to many people in the Middle East. He is bad news to the Iranians, Arabs, Muslims and the whole Middle East. Why? Well, for starters, we do not need another hyper-nationalist dictator pointing fingers at the West, America and the favorite old target of his alikes; the State of Israel, to deflect the public’s attention from nagging domestic issues like unemployment, poverty oppression and corruption. Conspiracy theories of the outside enemy have become the favorite rhetoric of dictators for a long time. They work like magic with the masses.

CARTOON: The Politics of Free Speech, Ahmadinejad at Columbia, For Immediate Release, 9-24-07

(Click to view full size) War on Errorism: The Politics of Free Speech, 9-24-07. By Ray Hanania. For more political cartoons, visit www.hanania.com/cartoons/cartoons.htm.

HANANIA: Time to expel the United Nations, For Immediate Release, 9-23-07

Time to expel United Nations to a nation that is freeBy Ray Hanania — You do not have to agree with Iranian President Ahmadinejad to criticize President Bush for his hypocritical comments and the restrictive political policies he encourages that discriminate against Arabs and Muslims in America. The Iranian Leader has much to answer for, including oppressing his own people and highly publicized incendiary comments such as denying Israel’s right to exist, and allegedly calling the Holocaust a “myth.”