By Bill Fisher Just in case you’ve bought into the “post-racial” era of “Yes, We Can,” consider the plight of Zachari Klawonn. Klawonn is an Army Specialist, the son of an American father and a Moroccan mother. He is 20… Continue Reading
Tariq Ali is in the London Review of Books this month, breaking down all things Yemen, including the tidbit that there’s likely only a few hundred Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters there. The alarmist D.C. rhetoric of… Continue Reading
Tablet‘s Lee Smith (whom we last saw attempting to expose the machinations of Washington’s “Iran lobby”) has a reverent interview today with Elliott Abrams, the notorious neoconservative operative who was George W. Bush’s top Middle East aide at the National… Continue Reading
Often when discussing matters of Mid East peace, I encounter people who reply to some point or the other by saying, ‘That’s just semantics.’ I have a canned response to these people: ‘Don’t be anti-semantic.’ But the use of language,… Continue Reading
A guest post by Tony Karon Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Introduction by Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch Considering the Obama administration’s ever wobblier attempt to impose “crippling sanctions” on Iran, the New York Times’ David Sanger recently wrote, “The delays… Continue Reading