American supporters of Dutch politician Geert Wilders find themselves circling the wagons as Charles Krauthammer and Glenn Beck add their names to the growing number of right-wing voices condemning Wilders’s rhetoric as “extremist” and “fascist”. Daniel Luban has pointed me… Continue Reading
After several weeks of silence, the Wall Street Journal editorial page has apparently decided to stand by its man, Ahmed Chalabi, despite all the new charges by Gen. Ray Odierno regarding his collusion with Iran — charges, that, incidentally, were… Continue Reading
“This war has been extraordinarily painful and costly. But democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in a place like Iraq, which has never known any such thing.” -Thomas Friedman, It’s Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck.
(LobeLog contributors have written about the anti-New Israel Fund (NIF) campaign here, here and here.) (Videos recorded by Rachel Tabachnick; more videos coming shortly.) By Max Blumenthal On the evening after two days of talks between US Special Envoy for… Continue Reading
Tom Friedman has got his head stuffed so far up his own derriere that even his erstwhile sometime-allies, the neoconservatives, are calling him out. On National Review Online, self-loathing neocon — or neocon denier, depending how you look at it… Continue Reading