A propos the growing brouhaha (see here and here) over Mark Perry’s article on foreignpolicy.com, “The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story,” I was just reminded that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) announced last November that it… Continue Reading
(LobeLog contributors have written about the Lawfare Project here.) By Max Blumenthal As the anti-Goldstone, human rights-bashing Lawfare Project’s opening event on March 11 wrapped up, I asked its chairman, Columbia University Law School Dean David Schizer, for an interview.… Continue Reading
Last Fall, I was talking with a friend who had cut his teeth reporting on the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. Not a particularly animated man, my friend lit up when he talked about those days. He wondered what… Continue Reading
In my article published on IPS Saturday (but written Friday evening!) on the Biden-Clinton one-two punch against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, I raised the question in the title whether this indicated a “Tiff or a Tipping… Continue Reading
It’s been a rough couple weeks for Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s right-wing outfit Keep America Safe and its media apologists. The group’s now-infamous “Department of Jihad” ad questioning the loyalties of Justice Department officials who had represented Guantanamo detainees… Continue Reading