


Invasion or Inaction: A Brief History of US Engagement in the Near East
Part 1: The False Western Dichotomy on Regime Change in the Middle East Historians are starting to change their view of the last 30 years of American history. In the 1980’s, it seemed inevitable this era would be remembered by Reagan’s hard stand against communism and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. In the […]

War Against Big Brother in Iran:
The Appropriate Role of Media & Social Networking in Iran Uncertainty over the future of Iran has turned towards uncertainty over the role that social networking, blogs, and Twitter play in the instability there. Let’s make absolutely no mistake, any Iranian using any website (blog, Twitter, ect.) to criticize their own government is doing a […]

Ideological Revolution in Iran
Focus on the post-election protests in Iran, which are beginning to resemble outright revolution, have primarily focused on the danger of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and campaigns against Israel, or the brave protesters themselves, their use of technology to resist a totalitarian regime, and the human rights violations that have taken place as a result of […]