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It’s now really quite clear that long-time neo-con heartthrob, Ahmad Chalabi, has been doing the bidding of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iraq. The latest on that subject was published Thursday by the Washington Post’s David Ignatius who apparently was given an unclassified summary of alleged Iranian efforts — in which Chalabi has [...]
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The invaluable Paul Woodward of War in Context has been closely following the assassination of Mahmoud al Mahbouh in Dubai. The story’s been unraveling like a brilliant spy novel (or not-so-brilliant spy) right on Paul’s blog, where he’s been highlighting news clips and giving his usual incisive commentary.
Though Israel has staunchly denied any involvement, all [...]
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Phil Weiss has been doing some great research on Columbia Law School dean David Schizer’s “Lawfare Project.” The group has an upcoming conference in March—which looks to be a Goldstone-bashing-fest judging by its list of speakers—but has been very quiet about who actually founded, or belongs to, the project.
Yesterday, Phil passed along the information that [...]
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On Monday, the Electronic Intifada (EI) website published a report on a speech that right-wing Middle East scholar Martin Kramer gave at Israel’s Herzliya security conference earlier this month. In the speech, Kramer called for a cut-off of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees, and endorsed Israel’s ongoing siege [...]
Tags: Gaza, israel, Martin Kramer Gunnar Heinsohn, Operation Cast Lead, UNRWA
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The James Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University has published a major report entitled “Getting to the Territorial Endgame of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement” based on off-the-record deliberations of former U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian officials over an 18-month period. The reports calls, among other things, for Washington to play a more aggressive [...]
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I’ve been wondering for a while now what exactly Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, meant when he told the New York Times that there was a “government in a box” waiting in the wings to take over services and development programs as soon [...]
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Last week, a federal judge ruled that the families of two men who died in detention at Guantanamo couldn’t sue the government because their imprisonment as enemy combatants had been approved by a Combat Review Status Tribunal — a CRST.
The same CRSTs the Supreme Court found “inadequate.”
Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the [...]
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Much has been made of the divisive messages emerging from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which continues through Saturday, but an event–Jihad: The Political Third Rail—co-sponsored this morning at CPAC by the Freedom Defense Initiative brought a panel together who have a number of shady connections to a Nazi sympathizing political party in Belgium [...]
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This week saw the publication of a two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine purporting to expose the machinations of the “Iran lobby” in Washington. The author, Lee Smith, is apparently not the great baseball closer, but rather a former reporter for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and a current fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute (also [...]
Tags: Flynt Leverett, Hassan Daioleslam, Hillary Mann Leverett, Hudson Institute, iran, Lee Smith, Michael Rubin, neocons, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Trita Parsi
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President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, has a long history both inside and outside of government as a respected realist. But comments made by him on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Monday highlight the shift to the ideological right that this self-proclaimed “card carrying realist” has undergone when it comes to shaping US [...]
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