Akbar Ganji, the celebrated Iranian journalist and former political prisoner who will be honored with the Cato Institute’s Milton Friedman Liberty Prize for 2010 Thursday, spoke at the National Press Club here Monday, and, while he didn’t break any especially… Continue Reading
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week attempting to mend fences with the Obama administration, but Fouad Ajami, for one, isn’t buying it. In an interview released yesterday on the National Review website, Ajami — the neoconservative-aligned Middle… Continue Reading
You just have to shake your head over the Israeli government’s newly launched world-wide public relations campaign to discredit Richard Goldstone, the South African judge whose UN-commissioned investigation concluded that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Israel’s 2008… Continue Reading
When I last paid attention to Lou Dobbs, he was giving voice to birther conspiracy theories and going on increasingly hostile diatribes about illegal immigrants. For this he was paid a generous severance package (rumored to be in the range… Continue Reading
Neo-cons and aggressive nationalists — two of the three components (along with Christian Zionists) that brought us the Iraq War — are once again organizing themselves in the face of what they see as an abandonment of the “Peace Through… Continue Reading