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The debate over the Islamic Center being planned for Lower Manhattan is unfortunately heating up. Islamophobes from neoconservative corners of the web, right wing politicians and Fox News have continued to drive a debate that should have died long ago with the unequivocal support of the local New York City community board (neighborhood council), and [...]
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Whatever diminishing credibility the Anti-Defamation League retains as a fighter against discrimination and bigotry against minority groups was shed today with the ADL’s announcement that it opposes the construction of the proposed Islamic Center two blocks from “Ground Zero” in downtown Manhattan. One week ago, I linked to a commentary by Robert Wright on the [...]
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The End of (Military) History?
The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
“In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.” This [...]
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The Opposites Game
All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that’s been on my mind for a while. [...]
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I owe a correction to Michael Ledeen whose post on pajamasmedia.com last week accused me of misrepresenting the reasons for his opposition to a military attack on Iran. He objected in particular to a paragraph I wrote in a recent IPS article on the growing clamor among neo-cons and other hawks for preparing such an [...]
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To follow up on yesterday’s post about Lee Smith and frivolous charges of anti-Semitism, it appears that Jeffrey Goldberg — while conceding that Smith’s article, for which he served as the sole source, was completely lacking in substance or evidence — is continuing his rather creepy and pathetic vendetta against Steve Walt. Really, Jeffrey, give [...]
Tags: anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Israel/Palestine, Jeffrey Goldberg, Lee Smith, Stephen Walt
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I’m a little late on this, but, if you’re interested in the some of the polemics and politics around the Ground Zero Mosque, it’s well worth reading the piece published earlier this week on the New York Times website by the author and writer, Robert Wright, who is also associated with the New America Foundation.
One [...]
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Many readers will already have seen that this blog was mentioned, along with Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Greenwald, Phil Weiss, and Steve Walt, as one of the sites “using the Internet to make anti-Semitism respectable,” in a Tablet article by their neoconservative politics columnist Lee Smith. The article is silly and substanceless enough that I won’t [...]
Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Greenwald, Jeffrey Goldberg, Lee Smith, Phil Weiss, Steve Walt, Tablet
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Memo to Hamas
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
A friend, who has helped me understand better what is going on in Turkey, especially in light of the flotilla fiasco, has written an open letter to Hamas, which you can find here.
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I was sent this today by a friend in the UK. It helps illustrate how the neo-con international is faring, at least in Europe.
(By the way, readers should remind me at some point to recount my own experiences with “Scoop” Jackson, who was an occasional visitor to our home in Seattle, and his minions with [...]
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