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Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of numerous best-selling political works, most recently, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, and Occupy, published by Zuccotti Park Press, from which this speech, given last October, is excerpted and adapted. His web site [...]

William Kristol, head of right-wing Emergency Committee for Israel, stuns debate audience in New York: ‘I agree with Obama’s Israel policies to a considerable degree.’   By Chemi Shalev   Haaretz May.16, 2012   Many American senators and congressmen “keep quiet” and refrain from criticizing Israeli policies because they “live in fear” and are “intimidated” [...]

The Electronic Intifada Tue, 05/15/2012 – 18:58   Israel, already one of the world’s most negatively viewed countries, according to an annual BBC survey, has seen its reputation sink even lower in 2012.   The result will come as a blow to Israeli officials and organizations who have been attempting to improve the country’s image [...]

AFRICOM will participate in military missions, training of indigenous forces, and war exercises   by John Glaser,   Antiwar.com May 16, 2012   A brigade of U.S. combat troops will soon be assigned to the Pentagon’s Africa Command to be sent to countries around the continent to train indigenous state security forces and participate in [...]

By Melanie Eversley,   USA TODAY May 16, 2012   Thirty to 50 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars may have fought hard for or suffered for their medals, but this weekend, they plan to hand those medals back during the NATO summit in Chicago, MSNBC reports.   The group will stage the demonstration [...]

Is the American-Jewish romance with Israel coming to an end? Are the American Jews known for their liberal views distancing themselves from Israel? Or is it simply an overstatement? Do they support the current Israeli policies? Does the Israeli lobby represent their views? And do they have a strong connection to the Holy Land? Cross [...]

   Cost of basic foodstuffs in stricken country has surged by up to 60 per cent over the past year, according to UN figures   Ahram Online AFP, Wednesday 16 May 2012   For almost half of Yemen’s 22 million people, eating has become a luxury they can’t always afford. On a bad day, Umm [...]

Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of science and modern European intellectual history. www.tothepointanalyses.com   Information Clearing House May 15, 2012   Over the [...]

A Jewish playwright is staging a conversation that shaped history. He tells Donald Macintyre how it can help to form the future   Donald Macintyre   The Independent Wednesday 16 May 2012   Two charismatic men born in Eastern Europe meet in 1934, first in a London hotel room and then in a Golders Green [...]

  By Doug Bandow Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is the author of several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire.   The American Conservative • May 15, 2012   Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has become the inevitable Republican [...]

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.   FOREIGN POLICY Monday, May 14, 2012 – 4:07 PM   I gave a lecture last night at the Cape Ann Forum, on the topic of America’s changing position in the world and what it might (should) mean for [...]

    Algeria state Islamism is closing tap on bars, but illegal outlets are burgeoning in defiance of closures.   By Jean-Marc Mojon – ALGIERS   Middle East Online First Published: 2012-05-15   Algeria’s traditional bars are closing one after the other but illegal outlets are mushrooming, in a prohibition-style game of cat-and-mouse played out [...]