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With Ali Gharib
In the ongoing showdown between the Obama administration and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, White House Middle East strategist Dennis Ross appears to be the man caught in the no-man’s land between the White House and the Israel Lobby.
Since Netanyahu’s snub of Biden earlier in the month and the White House’s closed-doors meeting with Bibi [...]
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Introduction by Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch
By Alfred McCoy
Posted on March 30, 2010
A front-page New York Times article by Rod Nordland on the aftermath of a recent U.S. Marine offensive in Helmand Province, opium poppy-growing capital of the planet, began this way: “The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban [...]
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It was with some disappointment that I read today’s new column from Marc Thiessen, the former George W. Bush speechwriter, new Washington Post columnist, and noted waterboarding enthusiast. After all, the previous day had seen the arrests of nine people in connection with a terrorist plot against law enforcement officers in Michigan. According to the [...]
Tags: Abdulmutallab, detention, Jose Padilla, KSM, Marc Thiessen, terrorism, torture
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With Jim Lobe
The ubiquitous right-wing media personality David Frum parted ways with his home base organization this week. The former George W. Bush speechwriter — who is most famous or notorious for his “Axis of Evil” formulation in the 2002 State of the Union — apparently got fired from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) because [...]
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Recently, I wrote about a crew of pundits and warrior-journalists eager not to see the U.S. military leave Iraq. That piece appeared on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times (and in alonger version at TomDispatch.com) and then began wandering the media world. One of its stops was the military newspaper Stars and [...]
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Just in case you’ve bought into the “post-racial” era of “Yes, We Can,” consider the plight of Zachari Klawonn.
Klawonn is an Army Specialist, the son of an American father and a Moroccan mother. He is 20 years old.
As told by The Washington Post, Klawonn was sitting in his barrack room when he heard a THUD. THUD. [...]
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Tariq Ali is in the London Review of Books this month, breaking down all things Yemen, including the tidbit that there’s likely only a few hundred Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters there. The alarmist D.C. rhetoric of an AQ takeover will result in $63 million in U.S. aid this year — at [...]
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Tablet’s Lee Smith (whom we last saw attempting to expose the machinations of Washington’s “Iran lobby”) has a reverent interview today with Elliott Abrams, the notorious neoconservative operative who was George W. Bush’s top Middle East aide at the National Security Council. Coming on the heels of Smith’s love letter to John Hagee from last [...]
Tags: Elliott Abrams, Freedom Agenda, Lee Smith, neoconservatives, Tablet
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Often when discussing matters of Mid East peace, I encounter people who reply to some point or the other by saying, ‘That’s just semantics.’ I have a canned response to these people: ‘Don’t be anti-semantic.’
But the use of language, and its evolution, colors our every view of these conflicts. In print, as in conversation, words [...]
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A guest post by Tony Karon
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Introduction by Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch
Considering the Obama administration’s ever wobblier attempt to impose “crippling sanctions” on Iran, the New York Times’ David Sanger recently wrote, “The delays and the potential for a substantially watered-down resolution, Mr. Obama’s allies say, have put the administration’s credibility [...]
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