The Right-Wing Americans Who Made a Doc About Argentina

by Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe A new documentary about the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor found in a pool of blood in his apartment last winter, premiered last week at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum. One might wonder why… Continue Reading

Eli Lake Rejects Obama’s “Politics of Fear”

by Derek Davison When it comes to fear, Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake knows what he’s talking about. Over the years he’s warned us of the dangers posed by Saddam Hussein’s stockpiled weapons of mass destruction, the Persian Gulf nation… Continue Reading

FDD’s Cliff May Misses the Irony

by Jim Lobe “’Creating facts on the ground’ means changing reality through actions rather than diplomacy.” That opening line in a Washington Times op-ed, by the long-time president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), Clifford May, gave me… Continue Reading

The Bomb Iran Lobby Gears Up for 2016

by Sina Toossi In a recent TV ad, a van snakes its way through an American city. As the driver fiddles with the radio dial, dire warnings about the perils of a “nuclear Iran” spill out of the speaker from… Continue Reading

Following the Money: The New Anti-Semitism?

by Jim Lobe and Charles Davis  In the 1976 docudrama about the Watergate affair and the fall of Richard Nixon, All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward’s source at the FBI, Deep Throat, tells him to “follow the money.” To the… Continue Reading