Archive | September, 2010

GORDON DUFF: TAXPAYERS FUNDING ISRAELI DATABASE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS

GORDON DUFF: TAXPAYERS FUNDING ISRAELI DATABASE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS

CAUGHT! MOSSAD PAID BY U.S. TO SPY ON “DISSIDENTS,” TEA PARTY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS – Never has a nation funded a foreign spy organization’s efforts to catalog potential intelligence assets, operatives and, at the same time, take over the job of watching themselves.  This is one of the greatest intelligence coups in history.  Combine this with control [...]

STEPHEN WALT: Did Tony Blair endorse preventive war on Iran?

STEPHEN WALT: Did Tony Blair endorse preventive war on Iran?

Political leaders often draw negative inferences from an adversary’s conduct, without realizing that their own behavior is not really that different. In particular, an opponent’s past actions is frequently invoked to demonstrate how aggressive/dangerous/hostile/unstable they are, but when one’s own country (or a close ally) acts in the very same way, we are quick to [...]

ANDY WORTHINGTON: Introducing the Definitive List of the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo

ANDY WORTHINGTON: Introducing the Definitive List of the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo

Over the next month, in an attempt to focus attention more closely on Guantánamo, and on the remaining prisoners who are held there, I’ll be publishing an eight-part series of articles (in conjunction with Cageprisoners, for whom I work as a Senior Researcher), telling, for the first time, the stories of the 176 men who [...]

STEPHEN SNIEGOSKI: RICHARD COHEN –ISRAEL LIABILITY FOR US

STEPHEN SNIEGOSKI: RICHARD COHEN –ISRAEL LIABILITY FOR US

Critics of  the US  “special relationship” with Israel hold that it is detrimental to American interests in the Middle East.  Its supporters, however, normally claim the opposite—that Israel is actually an American  strategic asset.  (The Chomskyites are the odd men out since even though they are critical of American and Israeli policies, they maintain that [...]

STEPHEN WALT: Mainstreaming war with Iran

STEPHEN WALT: Mainstreaming war with Iran

If you are worried that the United States might be foolish enough to attack Iran, then you might take comfort from Jeffrey Goldberg’s lengthy and alarmist Atlantic article on the subject. Based on a flock of mostly anonymous interviews, Goldberg has concluded that odds are better than 50-50 that Israel will attack Iran sometime next [...]

JEFF GATES: The Hate Mongers Among Us — First in a 4-part series

JEFF GATES: The Hate Mongers Among Us — First in a 4-part series

Hate we’re told is the face of evil seen in plumes of smoke and ash on 911. Yet hate also serves a purpose for those adept at catalyzing conflicts. Hate is a harsh word. As the counterpoint to love, hate reigns supreme among those emotions that the faith traditions seek to expunge from the human [...]

WILLIAM COOK: RETURN TO SHATILA

WILLIAM COOK: RETURN TO SHATILA

“O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days’ conference With the dead!” (John Webster, IV.ii.18.) “The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.” (Tennyson, “In the Valley of Cauteretz”) For some brief history, first please watch this documentary video of the S&S massacre, placed on record, by journalist [...]

ANDREA MITCHELL’S NBC INTERVIEW: IRANIAN PRESIDENT BLAMES ZIONISTS INFLUENCE OBAMA

ANDREA MITCHELL’S NBC INTERVIEW: IRANIAN PRESIDENT BLAMES ZIONISTS INFLUENCE OBAMA

By  Tim King — Salem-News.Com – NBC Reporter Andrea Mitchell’s interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke new ground with the American public, by actually allowing the idea of Zionist control to air on an American news network. I’m not saying it has never been mentioned, but this is a real breakthrough. The interview initially [...]