Eighty-three percent of Americans say the development of nuclear weapons by North Korea is a critical threat to the vital interests of the United States, placing it at the top of a list of nine potential threats, along with Iranian nuclear weapons and international terrorism. [cont.] Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
On Eve of Foreign Debate, Growing Pessimism about Arab Spring Aftermath
As next week’s third and final presidential debate on foreign policy approaches, a national survey by the Pew Research Center finds increasing public pessimism about developments in the Middle East and more support for tough policies to deal with Iran’s nuclear program and economic issues with China. However, there is […] Read more »
Iranian News Agency Claims Onion Report It Ran by Mistake Is Essentially True
Iran’s Fars News Agency admitted on Sunday that its report, “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama,” was copied entirely from The Onion, a satirical American publication the editors in Tehran mistook for a news source. … The unnamed editor went on to argue that the premise of the […] Read more »
Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama: Iranian News Agency Plagiarizes The Onion
Apparently unaware of the unwritten rules of both ethical journalism and satire, an Iranian news agency published an edited copy of a report from The Onion on Friday, without crediting the original or acknowledging that it was fiction. The Fars News Agency, which is close to Iran’s powerful Republican Guard […] Read more »
Iran, the Bomb, and U.S. Public Opinion
The Obama administration hoped the specter of an oil embargo and increasingly stringent banking sanctions would finally force Iran to come clean on its clandestine nuclear program and end its enrichment activities. No such luck. … Amidst the heightened cacophony of policymakers and pundits, there remains strong public support in […] Read more »