Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com. IPS — November 11, 2011 WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama’s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]
Jim Lobe: “Israel’s Advocate” to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank
by RAINman on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground
by RAINman on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs. Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as “facts”. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 27 [...]
US double standard: Gaddafi bad, Karimov good
by RAINman on 01. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links
The US shows its hypocrisy by accusing ‘tyrants’ of human rights abuses while not owning up to supporting dictators. Ted Rall Ted Rall is an American political cartoonist, columnist and author. His most recent book is The Anti-American Manifesto. His website is rall.com. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 31 Oct 2011 13:45 “After four decades [...]
Greater Israel—or Peace?
by RAINman on 20. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
The American Conservative October 19th, 2011 Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state. Shortly before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived inNew Yorkto seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, TAC’s Scott McConnell sat down with Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer to [...]
Jim Lobe: Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for War With Iran
by RAINman on 20. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Antiwar Forum October 19, 2011 Key neoconservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003U.S.invasion ofIraqare calling for military strikes againstIranin retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador. Leading the charge is the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the ideological successor to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which [...]
Obama Has Awlaki’s 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner
by RAINman on 20. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum October 18, 2011 The extra-legal assassination ofNew Mexicocleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own right, but reports about the assassination targeting some sort of terrorist convoy seem to be crumbling under evidence and the number of children [...]
Profiles in Patronage — Obama Campaign Reports More than 350 Big Bundlers
by RAINman on 19. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By Peter Stone, Elizabeth Lucas, John Aloysius Farrell, Paul Abowd, Rachel Marcus IWatch News October 17, 2011 More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysis of the campaign’s Friday disclosure. [3] And more than 40 [...]
Patrick Cockburn: Iran had better watch its step now Obama’s chasing votes
by RAINman on 18. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
A fumbling Tehran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was dismissed as bizarre by the rest of the world. But the White House is taking it very seriously Independent Sunday, 16 October 2011 The plot in which an Iranian-American fromCorpus Christi,Texas, notorious locally for his Clouseau-like dimwittedness, tries to hire a Mexican gangster to [...]
Obama must give back the Nobel Peace Prize
by RAINman on 18. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
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New War of Choice in Uganda Follows Familiar Foreign Police Doctrine
by RAINman on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Sending 100 combat troops to Uganda, Obama is fighting a routine fight: unnecessary war, support for dictatorship, and blowback as an afterthought by John Glaser Antiwar Forum October 15, 2011 President Obama’s deployment of 100UScombat forces toUgandaand surrounding areas has shocked many as highly unusual and even downright bizarre. But while ground troops [...]
Why Did the United States Invade Afghanistan?
by RAINman on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by Tim Kelly, Tim Kelly is a columnist and policy advisor at the Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia, a correspondent for Radio America’s Special Investigator, and a political cartoonist. The Future of Freedom Foundation October 12, 2012 The tenth anniversary of theU.S. led war inAfghanistan came and went with very little attention [...]
Conservatives smear ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests as anti-Semitic
by RAINman on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By Eric W. Dolan Raw Story Thursday, October 13, 2011 The Emergency Committee forIsrael, a Republican group, has become the latest to claim the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in lowerManhattanis anti-Semitic. The group has created a video advertisement that shows anti-Semitic signs at the protests. The video will air in a “substantial” buy [...]
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