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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
October 10, 2007
Trita Parsi On Little Known History of Israel-Iran Relations
Trita Parsi, now head of the National Iranian-American Council, has written for Rootless Cosmopolitan on some little-known history of Israel-Iran relations. Based on his book Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, it's the kind of thing that tends not to make it into books, and certainly not onto the Learn Nothing From History Channel. The book's website is here, and its Amazon page is here. And here's Parsi recently on Democracy Now!:
Posted at October 10, 2007 12:08 PM | TrackBack
Abrahamian's final comments on this video were about Bush, weren't they??
Posted by: Aunt Deb at October 10, 2007 12:49 PM"The Learn Nothing from History Channel," hee, good one.
The network actually aired a documentary on Israel's attack on the USS Liberty a few years back, and the video was offered for sale through the network store. By the following day, the video was gone from the store and the doc was never aired again. It was like - well, slow motion electron scatter.
Someone from AIPAC or ADL must have been watching.
Posted by: catherine at October 11, 2007 02:59 PM"The Learn Nothing from History Channel," hee, good one.
The network actually aired a documentary on Israel's attack on the USS Liberty a few years back, and the video was offered for sale through the network store. By the following day, the video was gone from the store and the doc was never aired again. It was like - well, slow motion electron scatter.
Someone from AIPAC or ADL must have been watching.
Posted by: catherine at October 11, 2007 03:00 PM
