Just a quick update on the callous Flotilla satire video — funded by tax-exempt U.S. dollars — that I wrote about earlier: Bruce Wilson, a blogger who has done some of the best work in recent years on the U.S.… Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago, I alluded to a longer piece I was writing that would respond to many of the issues raised in Peter Beinart’s New York Review of Books essay. That piece is now up at Tablet magazine. In… Continue Reading
With nine dead in the Flotilla incident, among them an American citizen who was shot five times from a foot and a half away (including in the back and the back of the head), one might think that even a… Continue Reading
On a press call hosted by a pro-Israel organization, Rep. Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, told reporters that he intends to seek the prosecution of any U.S. citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla. “The Antiterrorism and… Continue Reading
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Doubling Down in Afghanistan Why We Refuse to Fold a Losing Hand By William J. Astore As Congress moves toward rubber-stamping yet another “emergency” supplemental bill that includes more than $33 billion for military operations,… Continue Reading