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The latest issue of The New Republic features a long piece purporting to expose the alleged anti-Israel bias of the leading NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). Not altogether surprising, you might say. Hardline supporters of Israel have been gunning for human rights organizations with increased intensity since the Gaza war, and HRW is second only [...]
Tags: Gaza, Goldstone, Human Rights Watch, Marty Peretz, The New Republic
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Yes, We Could… Get Out!
Why We Won’t Leave Afghanistan or Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Yes, we could. No kidding. We really could withdraw our massive armies, now close to 200,000 troops combined, from Afghanistan and Iraq (and that’s not even counting our similarly large stealth army of private contractors, which helps keep the true size [...]
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The Sheikh Jarrah activists–a group of Israelis who advocate for the rights of Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem–have issued their own appeal in response to Elie Wiesel’s full-page ad which ran in the Washington Post last week (I blogged about Wiesel’s letter here). Signatories of the new letter include Israel Prize [...]
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Reviews “In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After Fifty.” Edited by Emily W. Upham and Linda Gravenson. ATRIA paperback.
I have to admit, this is not my usual book. Generally I’m more comfortable with Sy Hersh or Jane Mayer or Tom Ricks or a history of the Supreme Court.
But this little volume turned [...]
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American Kleptocracy
How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft
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By William J. Astore
Kleptocracy — now, there’s a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It’s a word, in fact, that’s usually applied to flawed or failed governments in Africa, [...]
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For another data point on the marked shift in American discourse on Israel/Palestine that has been occurring in recent years, check out the new report on “Setting the Conditions for a Palestinian State” that was released today by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). The report lays out the framework for the deployment [...]
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The producers of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West and The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America have been murmuring in recent weeks about an upcoming film which, according to their press release, will, “document the development of the Iranian nuclear program, the threats posed by such a program, and the West’s inability [...]
Tags: Clarion Fund, Iranium, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America
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There’s a country in the Middle East that ardently pursues its own interests, trying to court suspicious Arab nations into its corner. Towards these aims, the country pursues a nuclear program under the banner of “ambiguity.”
No wait, there’s actually two of these countries — operating against each other. Their rhetoric, notes my friend Matt Bors [...]
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Obama’s “Remainees” Will Not One But Two Guantanamos Define the American Future?
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By Karen J. Greenberg
On his first day in office, President Barack Obama promised that he would close the Bush-era prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “as soon as practicable” and “no later than one year from the date of this order.” The announcement was [...]
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Author Elie Wiesel has thrown his weight behind the AIPAC, WJC and ADL campaigns to try to get the Obama administration to change course on what looks to be a tense spring and summer for the US-Israel relationship.
Wiesel weighed in with an ad in today’s Washington Post in which he did his best to reverse [...]
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