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It’s far from Earth-shattering and hardly related to any of the serious business discussed here, but it was a mystery which was begging to be solved: No one seemed to know where to the name of the blog Little Green Footballs came from. All Charles Johnson would reveal is that “I am at liberty to [...]
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In what was a surprising and disconcerting development, 30 of the most influential and politically powerful American Jews identified with the pro-Israel lobby, met recently with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in what was called a “dinner and conversation.” The Palestinian leadership has never before met formally with Jewish American supporters of Israel, who [...]
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Corporal Jeffery Goldberg is pissed.
See, on his Salon blog, Glenn Greenwald wrote a scathing critique of Goldberg through the lens of the Dave Weigel-Washington Post affair. The post, on how Goldberg’s rush to judge Weigel is emblematic of flaws throughout his writing, got a lot of coverage (as catalogued by Mondoweiss).
So Goldberg took to his [...]
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The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die
Obama, Petraeus, and the Cult of COIN in Afghanistan
By Robert Dreyfuss
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Less than a year ago, General David Petraeus saluted smartly and pledged his loyal support for President Obama’s decision to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in July 2011. In December, [...]
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I’ve been off at a wedding for most of this week and, poring over old headlines, I noticed that the flotilla incident in the Med continues to have drastic fallout for Israel and, by extension, the U.S.
By announcing that the easing of Israel’s land blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, P.M. Bibi Netanyahu gave us [...]
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America Detached from War
Bush’s Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales from the Crypt
By Tom Engelhardt
Admittedly, before George W. Bush had his fever dream, the U.S. had already put its first unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drone surveillance planes in the skies over Kosovo in [...]
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“A big corner has been turned in Gaza”
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I wrote yesterday about the the results of the latest annual survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. The story noted that, while Obama has retained his popularity in the 21 countries (besides the United States) covered by the survey, and that his handling of U.S. foreign policy generally over the past [...]
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Last week I wrote about GIYUS—the “online public diplomacy platform of Israel” as the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Word document) describes it—and the powerful role it can play in shaping the results of online polls and changing the direction of message board discussions.
Yesterday GIYUS sent out an alert about a forum on The Christian [...]
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Kick Ass or Buy Gas?
How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon
By Nick Turse
Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and Barack Obama says they ought to be. But there’s one [...]
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