Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, December 24: A year from now, the Bush Administration will be emptying its desks into cardboard boxes and preparing to hand over to its successor. And, it’s a relatively safe bet that the menu of foreign policy crises and challenges it will leave in the in-trays of its successors will be…
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We are all compromised
Bill Moyers talks to Keith Olbermann about journalism, ethics, advertising and baseball
The never-ending threat
Next time you hear some media blowhard talking about the “threat” from Iran, remember the story about the boy who crief wolf (over and over again):
Time for Jews to stand up and be counted
There are an increasing number of Jews trying to challenge the militaristic, neo-conservative fantasy of radical Jews who believe in the concept of endless war in the Middle East. Tragically, many Diaspora communities have allowed these Zionist lobbies to represent and speak for them, pushing war in Iraq, a strike against Iran and brutality against…
Counting the costs
Like so many other self-declared democracies, the Jewish state exports death: Israel has passed Britain to become the world’s fourth largest exporter of weapons, Defense Ministry Director-General Pinchas Bucharis said yesterday. Israel had a total of $4 billion in defense exports in 2007, Bucharis said. The United States, Russia and France lead the world’s list…
Not negotiable
My latest New Matilda column is about the recent Annapolis conference and the Zionist lobby’s failure to understand how the political realities are changing: Despite the rhetoric wafting from the Zionist camp that most West Bank settlements would be abandoned in a peace deal, a recent poll found that the vast majority of these settlers…
Unfit to serve
Keith Olbermann delivers another Special Comment on the Bush lies over Iran (why is it so hard for our mainstream media to call our leaders for what they truly are? Charlatans):
No peace in Israel-Palestine
My following article in the Melbourne Age, co-written with Michael Shaik, the public advocate for Australians for Palestine, is about the realities on the ground in Palestine: It is difficult to overstate the lost opportunity that last week’s Annapolis conference represents. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, had agreed to all of Israel’s preconditions for negotiations…
How many wrongs does it take?
As Salon’s Glenn Greenwald ably demonstrates, the many supposedly serious foreign policy “experts”, commentators and politicians warning about a nuclear Iran have been proven wrong by the latest NIE report. And yet the mainstream media still publish those who were criminally wrong about Iraq and seemingly want America to launch yet another pre-emptive strike against…
What we say goes
Noam… Chomsky, Japan Focus, November 26: Remember the background. The Iraqi population is overwhelmingly calling for a withdrawal. The US government knows this from its own polls. The US population is calling for a withdrawal. The last congressional election was about this. The response? Escalate. As soon as you saw the surge was announced you…