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Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000), Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (ISI, 2008), and Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (1996).
He is a contributing editor for The American Conservative, a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, and an adjunct scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Assange's Last Stand? If there was ever a clear-cut case of good versus evil, then surely it is the contest between Julian Assange and most of the world's governments. They hate him because he exposed their lies, their manipulations, and their routine violations of the most elementary rules of human decency. The US government would dearly love to get its hands on Assange: rumor has it a secret grand jury indictment has already been handed down.
Saturday, July 7, 2012Assange's Last Stand? If there was ever a clear-cut case of good versus evil, then surely it is the contest between Julian Assange and most of the world's governments. They hate him because he exposed their lies, their manipulations, and their routine violations of the most elementary rules of human decency. The US government would dearly love to get its hands on Assange: rumor has it a secret grand jury indictment has already been handed down.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
The FBI vs. Antiwar.com It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. The phone kept ringing. I picked it up with annoyance: it was our webmaster, Eric Garris, telling me about this -- FBI documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act that detail surveillance of Antiwar.com, the staff, and specifically yours truly.
Monday, August 22, 2011The FBI vs. Antiwar.com It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. The phone kept ringing. I picked it up with annoyance: it was our webmaster, Eric Garris, telling me about this -- FBI documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act that detail surveillance of Antiwar.com, the staff, and specifically yours truly.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
The Israel Lobby and the Road to War Israel's alleged "existential crisis" is nothing but hysterics on the part of Israel's leaders, but let's leave that aside for the moment and ask a more fundamental question: where do Israel's interests end and America's begin, or is there no daylight between the two?
Saturday, October 13, 2012The Israel Lobby and the Road to War Israel's alleged "existential crisis" is nothing but hysterics on the part of Israel's leaders, but let's leave that aside for the moment and ask a more fundamental question: where do Israel's interests end and America's begin, or is there no daylight between the two?
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
The Hollow Empire The US has lost the war in Afghanistan. The announcement that joint operations involving US/NATO forces and Afghan military and police personnel will cease - "temporarily" -- went down with a whimper, not a bang. Neither major party is much interested in the subject of a war we have been fighting for over a decade, at a cost measured in hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Saturday, September 29, 2012The Hollow Empire The US has lost the war in Afghanistan. The announcement that joint operations involving US/NATO forces and Afghan military and police personnel will cease - "temporarily" -- went down with a whimper, not a bang. Neither major party is much interested in the subject of a war we have been fighting for over a decade, at a cost measured in hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Espionage, Treason, and the Congressional Fifth Column Israelis penetrated our communications, and used other means -- including "informants" presumably inside the U.S. government -- to uncover details about the emerging deal with Iran, and then passed this information on, perhaps indirectly, to their congressional fifth column, including presidential aspirants Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, all of whom then signed on to Sen. Tom Cotton's "open letter" to Tehran.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015Espionage, Treason, and the Congressional Fifth Column Israelis penetrated our communications, and used other means -- including "informants" presumably inside the U.S. government -- to uncover details about the emerging deal with Iran, and then passed this information on, perhaps indirectly, to their congressional fifth column, including presidential aspirants Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, all of whom then signed on to Sen. Tom Cotton's "open letter" to Tehran.
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Saturday, January 3, 2015
The Sony Hack Fraud The technical "evidence" supporting the narrative woven by those geniuses in Washington is rubbish. Yet they are still sticking by it -- because, after all, government officials can never admit they were wrong. Especially since the President of the United States went out on a very thin limb and vowed to retaliate against North Korea -- a pledge apparently carried out a few days ago.
Saturday, January 3, 2015The Sony Hack Fraud The technical "evidence" supporting the narrative woven by those geniuses in Washington is rubbish. Yet they are still sticking by it -- because, after all, government officials can never admit they were wrong. Especially since the President of the United States went out on a very thin limb and vowed to retaliate against North Korea -- a pledge apparently carried out a few days ago.
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Ukraine's Tragicomedy The goal is to isolate Russia, both economically and politically, and eventually move the West's regime change operation into the Russian heartland, restoring the rule of the oligarchs -- their oligarchs, as opposed to Putin's -- and silencing the Russian leader's trenchant critique of US hegemonism.
Saturday, June 6, 2015Ukraine's Tragicomedy The goal is to isolate Russia, both economically and politically, and eventually move the West's regime change operation into the Russian heartland, restoring the rule of the oligarchs -- their oligarchs, as opposed to Putin's -- and silencing the Russian leader's trenchant critique of US hegemonism.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel's Apartheid State This coarsening -- brutalization, really -- of Israeli society is something one imagines Leibowitz would have despised had he lived to see it. The mere fact that the Israelis routinely arrest and torture Palestinian children as young as eight should be enough to delegitimize the "Jewish state" in the eyes of the world -- that is, if enough eyes see it.
Saturday, December 14, 2013Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel's Apartheid State This coarsening -- brutalization, really -- of Israeli society is something one imagines Leibowitz would have despised had he lived to see it. The mere fact that the Israelis routinely arrest and torture Palestinian children as young as eight should be enough to delegitimize the "Jewish state" in the eyes of the world -- that is, if enough eyes see it.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
We're Never Leaving Afghanistan Rather than ending the war, the Obama-Karzai pact institutionalizes it, making the occupation of Afghanistan a permanent feature of US military operations in the region. It even maps out a place for this new US colony in the annual budget, and there is no time limit on any of this: "2024 and beyond." From this quagmire there is to be no extrication -- that, in short, is the sum total of our great "victory" in Afghanistan.
Saturday, November 23, 2013We're Never Leaving Afghanistan Rather than ending the war, the Obama-Karzai pact institutionalizes it, making the occupation of Afghanistan a permanent feature of US military operations in the region. It even maps out a place for this new US colony in the annual budget, and there is no time limit on any of this: "2024 and beyond." From this quagmire there is to be no extrication -- that, in short, is the sum total of our great "victory" in Afghanistan.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Utah -- Achilles' Heel of the Surveillance State This burgeoning nationwide movement to liberate us from the NSA's unwanted embrace isn't going to be stopped by some harebrained conspiracy theory. The American people, no matter what their politics, have had enough, not only of the NSA but of an intellectually bankrupt "progressive" movement that has sold its soul to James Clapper.
Saturday, February 15, 2014Utah -- Achilles' Heel of the Surveillance State This burgeoning nationwide movement to liberate us from the NSA's unwanted embrace isn't going to be stopped by some harebrained conspiracy theory. The American people, no matter what their politics, have had enough, not only of the NSA but of an intellectually bankrupt "progressive" movement that has sold its soul to James Clapper.
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Is America a Force for Good in the World? The history of the last decade or so proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the US government, far from being this great liberating force, the greatest factor for good in the international equation, is instead a force for naked evil. It isn't that "we are not angels," it's that we're devils. It's as simple as that.
Saturday, September 3, 2011Is America a Force for Good in the World? The history of the last decade or so proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the US government, far from being this great liberating force, the greatest factor for good in the international equation, is instead a force for naked evil. It isn't that "we are not angels," it's that we're devils. It's as simple as that.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Demand An Unconditional Pardon for Edward Snowden In a rational world, there would be no question about the moral and legal status of the man responsible for exposing this treason to the Constitution: he would be hailed as a hero by every sector of society, from the political class to the working class, and given the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Sunday, January 5, 2014Demand An Unconditional Pardon for Edward Snowden In a rational world, there would be no question about the moral and legal status of the man responsible for exposing this treason to the Constitution: he would be hailed as a hero by every sector of society, from the political class to the working class, and given the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Gore Vidal: The Last Jeffersonian I won't be surprised to see Vidal's posthumously published works shoot to the top of the bestseller list. That's because the power of what Vidal represented -- not the "ranting" of a Southern populist, as Lind would have it, but the sharp dissent of an American original and a literary giant, whose oeuvre will be remembered -- and read -- long after the journalistic twitterings of his critics are justly forgotten.
Saturday, August 4, 2012Gore Vidal: The Last Jeffersonian I won't be surprised to see Vidal's posthumously published works shoot to the top of the bestseller list. That's because the power of what Vidal represented -- not the "ranting" of a Southern populist, as Lind would have it, but the sharp dissent of an American original and a literary giant, whose oeuvre will be remembered -- and read -- long after the journalistic twitterings of his critics are justly forgotten.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015
Chelsea Manning and Hillary Clinton: A Case of Double Standards Chelsea is being left to rot in jail, subjected to the harassment and cruelty of her jailers, while Hillary routinely flies around in a private jet, lying to the American people and refusing to answer questions from reporters. That's "justice," American-style, circa 2015.
Saturday, August 15, 2015Chelsea Manning and Hillary Clinton: A Case of Double Standards Chelsea is being left to rot in jail, subjected to the harassment and cruelty of her jailers, while Hillary routinely flies around in a private jet, lying to the American people and refusing to answer questions from reporters. That's "justice," American-style, circa 2015.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Bibi Wants War Bibi's problem is that he wants war, and Americans want peace. Efforts to get Joe Sixpack riled up over the "existential threat" allegedly embodied by Iran have run into war-weariness -- and, to be sure, an Israel-weariness that really began to show up after the last attack on Gaza, where the news accounts of children under fire from Israeli war planes brought home for the first time the ugliness of the Israeli occupation.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015Bibi Wants War Bibi's problem is that he wants war, and Americans want peace. Efforts to get Joe Sixpack riled up over the "existential threat" allegedly embodied by Iran have run into war-weariness -- and, to be sure, an Israel-weariness that really began to show up after the last attack on Gaza, where the news accounts of children under fire from Israeli war planes brought home for the first time the ugliness of the Israeli occupation.
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
War Party Hates Putin -- Loves al-Qaeda The cloud of propaganda hovering over events in Syria gets thicker by the minute, but it's possible to see the reality of what's occurring if we remember one thing: our former enemies -- al-Qaeda and its imitators -- are now Washington's allies. However, we have to ask, as Putin did at the UN: "Who's playing who here?"
Sunday, October 4, 2015War Party Hates Putin -- Loves al-Qaeda The cloud of propaganda hovering over events in Syria gets thicker by the minute, but it's possible to see the reality of what's occurring if we remember one thing: our former enemies -- al-Qaeda and its imitators -- are now Washington's allies. However, we have to ask, as Putin did at the UN: "Who's playing who here?"
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Who Killed Boris Nemtsov? Who killed Boris Nemtsov? The answer is: we don't know, at least not at this point, and one can only marvel at the investigative prowess of talking heads who "solved" this crime from a distance of several thousand miles, hours after it occurred. The mythology built up around Nemtsov and his death will certainly eclipse the truth, at least here in the West -- where "narrative" trumps truth in every instance.
Monday, March 2, 2015Who Killed Boris Nemtsov? Who killed Boris Nemtsov? The answer is: we don't know, at least not at this point, and one can only marvel at the investigative prowess of talking heads who "solved" this crime from a distance of several thousand miles, hours after it occurred. The mythology built up around Nemtsov and his death will certainly eclipse the truth, at least here in the West -- where "narrative" trumps truth in every instance.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Edward Snowden vs. the Sovietization of America Government officials are howling with outrage, and calling for Edward Snowden's head. The pundits are livid: how dare this "narcissist" who didn't go to an Ivy League college presume to sit in judgment of his betters! Whatever their disagreements, politicians and talking heads of the left and the right agree: Snowden is a "traitor"!
Wednesday, June 19, 2013Edward Snowden vs. the Sovietization of America Government officials are howling with outrage, and calling for Edward Snowden's head. The pundits are livid: how dare this "narcissist" who didn't go to an Ivy League college presume to sit in judgment of his betters! Whatever their disagreements, politicians and talking heads of the left and the right agree: Snowden is a "traitor"!
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Friday, August 7, 2015
The Liberation of US Foreign Policy The backlash against our Israel-centric foreign policy has been a long time coming, and that it is now being given expression by the President of the United States is significant beyond measure. The Lobby recognizes this fact, which is why they're spending many millions, and calling in all their chits, in an all-out effort to defeat the Iran deal.
Friday, August 7, 2015The Liberation of US Foreign Policy The backlash against our Israel-centric foreign policy has been a long time coming, and that it is now being given expression by the President of the United States is significant beyond measure. The Lobby recognizes this fact, which is why they're spending many millions, and calling in all their chits, in an all-out effort to defeat the Iran deal.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Hands Off Glenn Greenwald! Glenn Greenwald, the former lawyer-turned-blogger, now a world-famous journalist, whose incisive reporting on the story of how the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans' phone records, emails, and other online communications has roiled the Obama administration and started a fierce national debate over what kind of country we are -- and what kind of country we're turning into.
Friday, October 25, 2013Hands Off Glenn Greenwald! Glenn Greenwald, the former lawyer-turned-blogger, now a world-famous journalist, whose incisive reporting on the story of how the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans' phone records, emails, and other online communications has roiled the Obama administration and started a fierce national debate over what kind of country we are -- and what kind of country we're turning into.
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Prisoner of the War Party It's hard to believe any decent human being would even consider putting Bergdahl through more trauma than he's already endured -- but in the case of the War Party, we aren't talking about decent people. They will argue that no individual "insider," whether a private in the Army or a top level technologist for the NSA, has the moral right to obey their conscience when it conflicts with their orders.
Sunday, June 1, 2014Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Prisoner of the War Party It's hard to believe any decent human being would even consider putting Bergdahl through more trauma than he's already endured -- but in the case of the War Party, we aren't talking about decent people. They will argue that no individual "insider," whether a private in the Army or a top level technologist for the NSA, has the moral right to obey their conscience when it conflicts with their orders.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Israel, Genocide, and the "Logic" of Zionism While we have gotten quite used to the sight of Israel conducting a shooting-gallery "war" in the open air prison that is Gaza, there is something new about this latest exhibition of state terrorism. There is a kind of murderous glee in the Israeli leadership's inversion of all moral and international legal standards in its conduct of this "war."
Monday, August 4, 2014Israel, Genocide, and the "Logic" of Zionism While we have gotten quite used to the sight of Israel conducting a shooting-gallery "war" in the open air prison that is Gaza, there is something new about this latest exhibition of state terrorism. There is a kind of murderous glee in the Israeli leadership's inversion of all moral and international legal standards in its conduct of this "war."
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Who Leaked the Obama-Khamenei Letter? For an administration that has put so much emphasis on hunting down "leakers," it's pretty amazing how leaky Washington gets when it comes to matters of concern to the Israelis. Take the recent Wall Street Journal story on President's Obama's alleged letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. How did the Journal get their hands on it?
Tuesday, November 11, 2014Who Leaked the Obama-Khamenei Letter? For an administration that has put so much emphasis on hunting down "leakers," it's pretty amazing how leaky Washington gets when it comes to matters of concern to the Israelis. Take the recent Wall Street Journal story on President's Obama's alleged letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. How did the Journal get their hands on it?
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Who Hacked the White House? The new cold war with Russia is upon us, and the rule is: when in doubt, blame Putin. Our technologically ignorant -- and government-subservient -- media is all too prone to fall for this nonsense. While I wouldn't rule out anyone -- including some of our vaunted "allies" -- as being responsible, in this case I'd look at the knee-jerk accusations aimed at the Kremlin with a very jaundiced eye.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015Who Hacked the White House? The new cold war with Russia is upon us, and the rule is: when in doubt, blame Putin. Our technologically ignorant -- and government-subservient -- media is all too prone to fall for this nonsense. While I wouldn't rule out anyone -- including some of our vaunted "allies" -- as being responsible, in this case I'd look at the knee-jerk accusations aimed at the Kremlin with a very jaundiced eye.
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Lessons of the Vietnam War...We haven't learned them The lessons of Vietnam, and of the cold war generally, haven't been learned by our political elites for the simple reason that they don't want to know about anything that contradicts their dogmatic worldview. That conception of how the world works is rooted in their own little careers, and the colossal conceit that is the hallmark of elite culture in this country.
Friday, May 1, 2015Lessons of the Vietnam War...We haven't learned them The lessons of Vietnam, and of the cold war generally, haven't been learned by our political elites for the simple reason that they don't want to know about anything that contradicts their dogmatic worldview. That conception of how the world works is rooted in their own little careers, and the colossal conceit that is the hallmark of elite culture in this country.
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Monday, December 15, 2014
The Constitution's Pearl Harbor All pretenses have been dropped. The idea that the government must answer in court to the charge that it is overstepping its constitutional authority has been overthrown -- and with it our old republic. Citizens have become subjects -- and all with the stroke of a pen.
Monday, December 15, 2014The Constitution's Pearl Harbor All pretenses have been dropped. The idea that the government must answer in court to the charge that it is overstepping its constitutional authority has been overthrown -- and with it our old republic. Citizens have become subjects -- and all with the stroke of a pen.
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Chicken*hit Lobby Is Mad As Hell The Chickenshit Lobby, otherwise known as Israel's amen corner in the US, is mad as hell -- but just how mad are they? I don't know the answer to that question, but as the prospect of a peace agreement with Iran looms larger, those whose job it is to protect the President need to take this potential threat seriously. As we've seen recently, the White House isn't exactly an impregnable fortress.
Sunday, November 2, 2014The Chicken*hit Lobby Is Mad As Hell The Chickenshit Lobby, otherwise known as Israel's amen corner in the US, is mad as hell -- but just how mad are they? I don't know the answer to that question, but as the prospect of a peace agreement with Iran looms larger, those whose job it is to protect the President need to take this potential threat seriously. As we've seen recently, the White House isn't exactly an impregnable fortress.
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Friday, October 9, 2015
Switching Sides in the "War on Terrorism" The enemy is no longer the jhadists -- the ones who took down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon -- it's now the Russians, and the secular Syrian government, along with Iran and Hezbollah. So a "war on terrorism" that began with an attack by al Qaeda on American territory, one which struck at the very heart of Manhattan, has ended up arming the very people who murdered 3,000 people that fateful autumn morning.
Friday, October 9, 2015Switching Sides in the "War on Terrorism" The enemy is no longer the jhadists -- the ones who took down the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon -- it's now the Russians, and the secular Syrian government, along with Iran and Hezbollah. So a "war on terrorism" that began with an attack by al Qaeda on American territory, one which struck at the very heart of Manhattan, has ended up arming the very people who murdered 3,000 people that fateful autumn morning.
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Israel -- America's Biggest Frenemy The Israel lobby is losing its grip: the American people -- previously inclined to support Israel no matter what -- show signs of waking up to the danger posed by our Israel-centric foreign policy. Israel today is a tyranny on the order of the old South Africa, with one added factor: they are armed with nuclear weapons.
Monday, November 24, 2014Israel -- America's Biggest Frenemy The Israel lobby is losing its grip: the American people -- previously inclined to support Israel no matter what -- show signs of waking up to the danger posed by our Israel-centric foreign policy. Israel today is a tyranny on the order of the old South Africa, with one added factor: they are armed with nuclear weapons.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Raping the World -- Sexual Assault In The US Military Political correctness has mandated a sexually integrated military, with women (and openly gay men) living and working alongside testosterone-soaked heterosexual men who have come to believe they are exempt from the rules us lowly civilians must live by. Is it any wonder that rape is part of the military culture?
Thursday, May 16, 2013Raping the World -- Sexual Assault In The US Military Political correctness has mandated a sexually integrated military, with women (and openly gay men) living and working alongside testosterone-soaked heterosexual men who have come to believe they are exempt from the rules us lowly civilians must live by. Is it any wonder that rape is part of the military culture?
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Bibi's War -- We don't have to fight it Has there ever been a more brazen display of a foreign government dragging a more powerful nation into a war not of its own choosing? I'm talking about the almost comical efforts by the Israelis to goad Washington into attacking Iran: the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has done everything and then some to put pressure on the Obama administration to act.
Thursday, August 23, 2012Bibi's War -- We don't have to fight it Has there ever been a more brazen display of a foreign government dragging a more powerful nation into a war not of its own choosing? I'm talking about the almost comical efforts by the Israelis to goad Washington into attacking Iran: the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has done everything and then some to put pressure on the Obama administration to act.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Edward Snowden, A Modern Paul Revere The creation of a secret police state apparatus represents a fork in the road for the United States. Snowden said his motive was to make it possible for the American people to decide whether the Surveillance State is what they want -- and that they couldn't do this unless they knew what was going on behind their backs.
Monday, June 24, 2013Edward Snowden, A Modern Paul Revere The creation of a secret police state apparatus represents a fork in the road for the United States. Snowden said his motive was to make it possible for the American people to decide whether the Surveillance State is what they want -- and that they couldn't do this unless they knew what was going on behind their backs.
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Political Correctness and Imperialism By conducting a "war on intolerance" in the same arrogant manner in which we wage our endless "war on terrorism," we are reaping a whirlwind of resentment--and whipping up the very hatred we claim to be fighting. The crazy idea that we can go around the world uprooting the traditions of thousands of years is a constant. It's not only crazy, it represents a threat to our liberty, our prosperity, and the peace of the world.
Saturday, June 28, 2014Political Correctness and Imperialism By conducting a "war on intolerance" in the same arrogant manner in which we wage our endless "war on terrorism," we are reaping a whirlwind of resentment--and whipping up the very hatred we claim to be fighting. The crazy idea that we can go around the world uprooting the traditions of thousands of years is a constant. It's not only crazy, it represents a threat to our liberty, our prosperity, and the peace of the world.
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Putin's Complaint The number one hate object is Vladimir Putin, who is regularly characterized as either the reincarnation of Stalin, the second coming of Hitler or, preferably, both. That's because he doesn't recognize the implications of Russia's defeat in the cold war and still seems to think his opinions amount to something in the brave new unipolar world Washington is building.
Thursday, October 30, 2014Putin's Complaint The number one hate object is Vladimir Putin, who is regularly characterized as either the reincarnation of Stalin, the second coming of Hitler or, preferably, both. That's because he doesn't recognize the implications of Russia's defeat in the cold war and still seems to think his opinions amount to something in the brave new unipolar world Washington is building.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Problems of Empire Even if we weren't bankrupt, it is hard to see how a cost-benefit analysis can justify this level of US intervention abroad. We spend more on the military than all other nations on earth combined, and the only thing it's gotten us has been some pretty consequential blowback and a mountain of unsustainable debt. So what's the upside?
Saturday, April 21, 2012Problems of Empire Even if we weren't bankrupt, it is hard to see how a cost-benefit analysis can justify this level of US intervention abroad. We spend more on the military than all other nations on earth combined, and the only thing it's gotten us has been some pretty consequential blowback and a mountain of unsustainable debt. So what's the upside?
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Imperial America -- Or: Have we gone crazy? Disengaged yet disgruntled, kept down and yet increasingly uppity, average Americans are both apathetic and angry when it comes to politics. They are ready for someone who simultaneously entertains and entrances them with the prospect of an American Caesar.
Friday, August 28, 2015Imperial America -- Or: Have we gone crazy? Disengaged yet disgruntled, kept down and yet increasingly uppity, average Americans are both apathetic and angry when it comes to politics. They are ready for someone who simultaneously entertains and entrances them with the prospect of an American Caesar.
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
"Holy Schnikes," It's Jeb Bush! We're for "freedom" -- except when it comes to spying on Americans, who must be watched by Big Brother government 24/7. So we must have "liberty diplomacy," as Jeb puts it, around the world, but liberty at home -- forget it, brother! Jeb Bush, despite his last name and all the money he's raising, is not ready for prime time, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
Saturday, February 21, 2015"Holy Schnikes," It's Jeb Bush! We're for "freedom" -- except when it comes to spying on Americans, who must be watched by Big Brother government 24/7. So we must have "liberty diplomacy," as Jeb puts it, around the world, but liberty at home -- forget it, brother! Jeb Bush, despite his last name and all the money he's raising, is not ready for prime time, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
Rand Paul: Fraud, Failure, Liar Rand-ism sends the following message: We're against "big government," and even government spying on Americans, but don't worry, all you Fox News enthusiasts out there, we're not averse to bombing the sh*t out of helpless civilians when the occasion calls for it.
Thursday, July 30, 2015Rand Paul: Fraud, Failure, Liar Rand-ism sends the following message: We're against "big government," and even government spying on Americans, but don't worry, all you Fox News enthusiasts out there, we're not averse to bombing the sh*t out of helpless civilians when the occasion calls for it.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Hoaxes, Hype, and Hysteria Speaking of hoaxes, here's a biggie: they're telling us that the long-awaited Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine has finally arrived! Yay! You can almost hear the sigh of relief all the way from Washington. The War Party's journalistic camarilla -- which has been telling us for the past six months or so that Putin's move was "imminent" -- yelped "we told you so!"
Monday, September 1, 2014Hoaxes, Hype, and Hysteria Speaking of hoaxes, here's a biggie: they're telling us that the long-awaited Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine has finally arrived! Yay! You can almost hear the sigh of relief all the way from Washington. The War Party's journalistic camarilla -- which has been telling us for the past six months or so that Putin's move was "imminent" -- yelped "we told you so!"
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Friday, January 23, 2015
The Great Iran Debate The Israel lobby is powerful, but it is operating at a disadvantage: the American people support efforts to come to terms with Iran short of war. They don't want another conflict in the Middle East, as much as the neocons pine for it. Whether ordinary Americans will rise up and raise their voices in time to defeat the saboteurs of peace is an open question: alerting them to the danger is our job, and I hope we are up to it.
Friday, January 23, 2015The Great Iran Debate The Israel lobby is powerful, but it is operating at a disadvantage: the American people support efforts to come to terms with Iran short of war. They don't want another conflict in the Middle East, as much as the neocons pine for it. Whether ordinary Americans will rise up and raise their voices in time to defeat the saboteurs of peace is an open question: alerting them to the danger is our job, and I hope we are up to it.
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Monday, June 8, 2015
The Israeli-Saudi Alliance -- Does it go deeper than a mutual antipathy to Iran? One wonders about the history of the Israeli-Saudi alliance. Its provenance, we are told, is of relatively recent vintage. But how far back does it really go? The alleged menace of Iran is said to bring these two theocracies into strategic alignment, but there is some evidence that is not the whole of it.
Monday, June 8, 2015The Israeli-Saudi Alliance -- Does it go deeper than a mutual antipathy to Iran? One wonders about the history of the Israeli-Saudi alliance. Its provenance, we are told, is of relatively recent vintage. But how far back does it really go? The alleged menace of Iran is said to bring these two theocracies into strategic alignment, but there is some evidence that is not the whole of it.
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven't ruled it out The US, while sending only a few hundred "advisers" to Iraq, is sending a huge shipment of tanks and other heavy weaponry to nearly every country in Eastern Europe -- enough to equip 5,000 American troops. Ostensibly proposed in response to a nonexistent Russian "threat" to invade its Baltic neighbors, this represents a significant escalation of the new cold war.
Monday, June 15, 2015Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven't ruled it out The US, while sending only a few hundred "advisers" to Iraq, is sending a huge shipment of tanks and other heavy weaponry to nearly every country in Eastern Europe -- enough to equip 5,000 American troops. Ostensibly proposed in response to a nonexistent Russian "threat" to invade its Baltic neighbors, this represents a significant escalation of the new cold war.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Pro-Israel Media Bias: It's As Easy As ABC There comes a point when the myth and the reality are so dissonant that the result is what happened with Diane Sawyer's "error": as Israeli jets rained death on Gaza, the Sawyerian mind transmuted the image into its exact opposite, and -- presto change-o! -- those Palestinians dragging a mattress across the rubble became Israelis.
Friday, July 11, 2014Pro-Israel Media Bias: It's As Easy As ABC There comes a point when the myth and the reality are so dissonant that the result is what happened with Diane Sawyer's "error": as Israeli jets rained death on Gaza, the Sawyerian mind transmuted the image into its exact opposite, and -- presto change-o! -- those Palestinians dragging a mattress across the rubble became Israelis.
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Look What's Under My Christmas Tree! Hardly a day goes by without us benefiting from Snowden's largesse, the chief perk being the sight of the entire political Establishment -- not only the corrupt politicians but their equally venal servants in the "mainstream" media -- in a veritable panic as the truth about America's evolving police state is revealed for all to see.
Monday, December 23, 2013Look What's Under My Christmas Tree! Hardly a day goes by without us benefiting from Snowden's largesse, the chief perk being the sight of the entire political Establishment -- not only the corrupt politicians but their equally venal servants in the "mainstream" media -- in a veritable panic as the truth about America's evolving police state is revealed for all to see.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Iraq: The "Humanitarian Catastrophe" That Petered Out It's been over 60 days since the Obama administration first notified Congress of the President's intent to send troops back into Iraq -- past the deadline set by the War Powers Act that is supposed to trigger either a vote in Congress or withdrawal. Where is Congress? On vacation -- not only from their jobs, but from reality.
Saturday, August 16, 2014Iraq: The "Humanitarian Catastrophe" That Petered Out It's been over 60 days since the Obama administration first notified Congress of the President's intent to send troops back into Iraq -- past the deadline set by the War Powers Act that is supposed to trigger either a vote in Congress or withdrawal. Where is Congress? On vacation -- not only from their jobs, but from reality.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Return Of Barbarism Look at these "triumphs," which, one and all, are marked by their lawlessness and bloodthirstiness: the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, and now the lynching of Moammar Gadhafi by US-NATO proxies. The distinguishing characteristic of all three acts is barbarism -- a studied disregard for the rules of war and the common decencies that define what it means to be civilized.
Saturday, October 29, 2011The Return Of Barbarism Look at these "triumphs," which, one and all, are marked by their lawlessness and bloodthirstiness: the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, and now the lynching of Moammar Gadhafi by US-NATO proxies. The distinguishing characteristic of all three acts is barbarism -- a studied disregard for the rules of war and the common decencies that define what it means to be civilized.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Do We Have a Foreign Policy? You Bet We Do ... The Obama administration extended the biggest expansionist push in the history of the world into North Africa with the regime change operation in Libya, and later Syria. Somalia was attacked, our alliance with the murderous ruler of Ethiopia was buttressed, and Africom was beefed up considerably in anticipation of future interventions. All this from a President who had been elected as a "peace" candidate!
Wednesday, November 5, 2014Do We Have a Foreign Policy? You Bet We Do ... The Obama administration extended the biggest expansionist push in the history of the world into North Africa with the regime change operation in Libya, and later Syria. Somalia was attacked, our alliance with the murderous ruler of Ethiopia was buttressed, and Africom was beefed up considerably in anticipation of future interventions. All this from a President who had been elected as a "peace" candidate!
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Greenwald Against the Establishment Again and again, Greenwald comes back to the issue of our subservient media and how the complicity of editors and reporters allows Washington -- and other Western governments -- to get away with their crimes. They obey the unwritten rules of Establishment journalism. "Fear-driven obsequious journalism" -- that's what he calls it, and that's what it is.
Saturday, May 17, 2014Greenwald Against the Establishment Again and again, Greenwald comes back to the issue of our subservient media and how the complicity of editors and reporters allows Washington -- and other Western governments -- to get away with their crimes. They obey the unwritten rules of Establishment journalism. "Fear-driven obsequious journalism" -- that's what he calls it, and that's what it is.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
How To Judge A Political Candidate In judging which political candidates to support, and (more importantly) the question of whom to oppose, the rule should be: judge harshly. That may sound unreasonable, and even a bit dogmatic, but the reality is that the only way to get the kind of behavior we want in politicians, when it comes to the vital issue of war and peace, is to punish them for warmongering and support them when they work for peace.
Saturday, June 23, 2012How To Judge A Political Candidate In judging which political candidates to support, and (more importantly) the question of whom to oppose, the rule should be: judge harshly. That may sound unreasonable, and even a bit dogmatic, but the reality is that the only way to get the kind of behavior we want in politicians, when it comes to the vital issue of war and peace, is to punish them for warmongering and support them when they work for peace.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Bibi's Crazy UN Speech The ticking-bomb theme, which has been used to justify everything from torture to the invasion of Iraq, permeates Israeli propaganda in the US and was a cental theme of Bibi's speech. Don't delay, don't think, act now -- before the fraud is exposed, and we discover that -- as in the case of the Iraqis -- those "weapons of mass destruction" were just a figment of our easily manipulated collective imagination.
Friday, September 28, 2012Bibi's Crazy UN Speech The ticking-bomb theme, which has been used to justify everything from torture to the invasion of Iraq, permeates Israeli propaganda in the US and was a cental theme of Bibi's speech. Don't delay, don't think, act now -- before the fraud is exposed, and we discover that -- as in the case of the Iraqis -- those "weapons of mass destruction" were just a figment of our easily manipulated collective imagination.
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
John McCain Cuddles Up to Syrian Kidnappers -- While Buzzfeed Covers For Him Welcome to Bizarro World, where up is down, Islamist fanatics are fighters for "democracy," and a prominent public figure argues we ought to give arms to people who not only want to kill Americans but have already killed a number of them.
Saturday, June 1, 2013John McCain Cuddles Up to Syrian Kidnappers -- While Buzzfeed Covers For Him Welcome to Bizarro World, where up is down, Islamist fanatics are fighters for "democracy," and a prominent public figure argues we ought to give arms to people who not only want to kill Americans but have already killed a number of them.
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Saturday, November 14, 2015
The War Party Lost the GOP Debate What we are seeing is a rising tide of disgust with our policy of global intervention -- in a confused inchoate sense, in the case of Trump, and in a focused, self-conscious, occasionally eloquent and yet still slightly confused and inconsistent way in the case of Sen. Paul. Either way, the real voice of the American heartland is being heard.
Saturday, November 14, 2015The War Party Lost the GOP Debate What we are seeing is a rising tide of disgust with our policy of global intervention -- in a confused inchoate sense, in the case of Trump, and in a focused, self-conscious, occasionally eloquent and yet still slightly confused and inconsistent way in the case of Sen. Paul. Either way, the real voice of the American heartland is being heard.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Bibi Netanyahu and the Myth of the "Special Relationship" A frank informational one-on-one talk with the American people would do wonders to break up the Israeli fifth column on Capitol Hill. The mindless pro-Israel-at-any-price consensus in American politics is heading for a crack up. The question is: does the President of the United States have the guts to press his advantage and -- for once -- put America's interests first?
Saturday, January 31, 2015Bibi Netanyahu and the Myth of the "Special Relationship" A frank informational one-on-one talk with the American people would do wonders to break up the Israeli fifth column on Capitol Hill. The mindless pro-Israel-at-any-price consensus in American politics is heading for a crack up. The question is: does the President of the United States have the guts to press his advantage and -- for once -- put America's interests first?
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Sunday, September 21, 2014
Anarchy in Washington: Is Anybody in Charge? The public opposes troops on the ground -- and so the President sticks that in his "plan." The political elites want to aid the Syrian rebels, so he sticks that in there, too. A general who knows better tells the country the truth: it will take ground troops to accomplish the mission. Yet the mission being accomplished is beside the point -- because the real mission is winning the hearts and minds of the American people.
Sunday, September 21, 2014Anarchy in Washington: Is Anybody in Charge? The public opposes troops on the ground -- and so the President sticks that in his "plan." The political elites want to aid the Syrian rebels, so he sticks that in there, too. A general who knows better tells the country the truth: it will take ground troops to accomplish the mission. Yet the mission being accomplished is beside the point -- because the real mission is winning the hearts and minds of the American people.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Iraq: Will the Neocons Get Away With It Again? A full-scale campaign to restart the Iraq war is now underway. The effort is all too apparent among the neoconservatives, the original authors of this disastrous adventure, with Bill Kristol & Co. not only demanding air strikes -- which the Obama administration is contemplating -- but also troops on the ground.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014Iraq: Will the Neocons Get Away With It Again? A full-scale campaign to restart the Iraq war is now underway. The effort is all too apparent among the neoconservatives, the original authors of this disastrous adventure, with Bill Kristol & Co. not only demanding air strikes -- which the Obama administration is contemplating -- but also troops on the ground.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Robert Bales: Mass Murderer and PTSD Poster Boy What's striking about all this is the focus on Bales instead of his victims. Was he on medications? What about that "traumatic" brain injury? Had he been drinking? What was his childhood like -- his marriage, his work history? Isn't it true that "he loved children" (touted by Matt Lauer)? As for the victims, even their names are rarely reported.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012Robert Bales: Mass Murderer and PTSD Poster Boy What's striking about all this is the focus on Bales instead of his victims. Was he on medications? What about that "traumatic" brain injury? Had he been drinking? What was his childhood like -- his marriage, his work history? Isn't it true that "he loved children" (touted by Matt Lauer)? As for the victims, even their names are rarely reported.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
The Battle for the Amash Amendment: Victory in Defeat There hasn't been a vote like this in the House -- nor a debate quite like it -- since the last time the Patriot Act came up for renewal, in 2011. What -- or, rather, who -- jolted GOPers out of their somnolent indifference to the Fourth Amendment? Two words: Edward Snowden.
Saturday, July 27, 2013The Battle for the Amash Amendment: Victory in Defeat There hasn't been a vote like this in the House -- nor a debate quite like it -- since the last time the Patriot Act came up for renewal, in 2011. What -- or, rather, who -- jolted GOPers out of their somnolent indifference to the Fourth Amendment? Two words: Edward Snowden.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Resurrection of Barack Obama Lies mixed with indisputable truth -- that's been the Obama Method since day one. It's worked so far: we'll see how long it works this time. The President's rhetorical talent is formidable, and it's earned him some time to make good on his promises -- but the hour is late. 2016 approaches. The future of his party, and the country, hangs in the balance, as does his legacy.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013The Resurrection of Barack Obama Lies mixed with indisputable truth -- that's been the Obama Method since day one. It's worked so far: we'll see how long it works this time. The President's rhetorical talent is formidable, and it's earned him some time to make good on his promises -- but the hour is late. 2016 approaches. The future of his party, and the country, hangs in the balance, as does his legacy.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Politics and Persona: Edward Snowden as Symbol Like Snowden, Americans don't want to live in a world in which the government has the power to watch their every move, chart their every thought, and control the very levers of their lives. They are contemptuous of the smear campaign being launched against Snowden and Greenwald, and they are demanding answers.
Monday, July 1, 2013Politics and Persona: Edward Snowden as Symbol Like Snowden, Americans don't want to live in a world in which the government has the power to watch their every move, chart their every thought, and control the very levers of their lives. They are contemptuous of the smear campaign being launched against Snowden and Greenwald, and they are demanding answers.
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
The Long Road From 9/11 Patrick Clawson and his crowd have lost the tug-of-war with the pro-American faction of the foreign policy establishment: that's the significance of the Iran deal, and its importance should not be underestimated. This is a tipping point, a real sea-change -- but the neocons never give up, and they never give an inch. We underestimate them at our peril.
Saturday, September 12, 2015The Long Road From 9/11 Patrick Clawson and his crowd have lost the tug-of-war with the pro-American faction of the foreign policy establishment: that's the significance of the Iran deal, and its importance should not be underestimated. This is a tipping point, a real sea-change -- but the neocons never give up, and they never give an inch. We underestimate them at our peril.
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Monday, August 3, 2015
In Washington, War Is Peace The USIP is today a neoconservative stronghold, a permanent niche for this secretive and powerful clique to push its agenda of perpetual war in the name of "peace." It is an institution that could only exist in the Washington of 2015: a federal agency supposedly devoted to "peace" that spends its resources pushing for US intervention on a global scale. It's high time for this scam to be eliminated.
Monday, August 3, 2015In Washington, War Is Peace The USIP is today a neoconservative stronghold, a permanent niche for this secretive and powerful clique to push its agenda of perpetual war in the name of "peace." It is an institution that could only exist in the Washington of 2015: a federal agency supposedly devoted to "peace" that spends its resources pushing for US intervention on a global scale. It's high time for this scam to be eliminated.
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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Bibi's Bombast Bamboozles Boehner Netanyahu announced that the Israeli cabinet had voted unanimously against the Iran deal -- a proclamation of resounding presumption, since the Jewish state was not a party to the agreement. He went on to say that Israel reserves the right to "defend itself," a not-so-subtle threat to launch a first strike against Tehran: "We have strength, and it is great and mighty," he said.
Sunday, July 19, 2015Bibi's Bombast Bamboozles Boehner Netanyahu announced that the Israeli cabinet had voted unanimously against the Iran deal -- a proclamation of resounding presumption, since the Jewish state was not a party to the agreement. He went on to say that Israel reserves the right to "defend itself," a not-so-subtle threat to launch a first strike against Tehran: "We have strength, and it is great and mighty," he said.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Dempsey's Dissent With back-to-back deployments, and two wars without a victory, what does the Pentagon have to look forward to but a third war, one which promises to be regional in scope. Little wonder they're beginning to make their opposition known.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012Dempsey's Dissent With back-to-back deployments, and two wars without a victory, what does the Pentagon have to look forward to but a third war, one which promises to be regional in scope. Little wonder they're beginning to make their opposition known.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
No U-Turns on the Road to Serfdom? What is needed is a broad coalition of those on the right as well as the left who see the danger and are ready to unite in defense of basic constitutional liberties. Unless and until we build such a movement, the war on the Constitution will end in the unconditional surrender of our liberties by those who had neither the heart nor the nerve to fight.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011No U-Turns on the Road to Serfdom? What is needed is a broad coalition of those on the right as well as the left who see the danger and are ready to unite in defense of basic constitutional liberties. Unless and until we build such a movement, the war on the Constitution will end in the unconditional surrender of our liberties by those who had neither the heart nor the nerve to fight.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015
Chris Christie for President? Or: The Sopranos Go to Washington Christie said, "I'm good at getting attention" -- and that's all he's really after. His bloated persona -- a caricature of the cocksure New Jersey borderline thug -- thrives on drama for its own sake. In short, it's all about him -- and you can just forget about the facts. The governor of a state where violent crime is skyrocketing, home foreclosures are up, and corruption is a way of life is no friend of the factual.
Saturday, July 11, 2015Chris Christie for President? Or: The Sopranos Go to Washington Christie said, "I'm good at getting attention" -- and that's all he's really after. His bloated persona -- a caricature of the cocksure New Jersey borderline thug -- thrives on drama for its own sake. In short, it's all about him -- and you can just forget about the facts. The governor of a state where violent crime is skyrocketing, home foreclosures are up, and corruption is a way of life is no friend of the factual.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Greatest Threat a new Threat is rising, not from without but from within -- an economic cancer eating away at the very heart of our society. We had a taste of it in '08, and in spite of the Obama-bots' Pollyannaish predictions of "recovery," ordinary people see nothing but trouble on the horizon. This is a real threat, unlike the others, one that cannot be fought by our matchless military, or even negotiated with -- and it is coming.
Saturday, January 28, 2012The Greatest Threat a new Threat is rising, not from without but from within -- an economic cancer eating away at the very heart of our society. We had a taste of it in '08, and in spite of the Obama-bots' Pollyannaish predictions of "recovery," ordinary people see nothing but trouble on the horizon. This is a real threat, unlike the others, one that cannot be fought by our matchless military, or even negotiated with -- and it is coming.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Politics 2016: Who Will Stand Up to the War Party? It's hard for people to stand up to popular sentiment, especially in wartime. It is especially hard for politicians, and others in the political realm -- pundits, party officials, and activists. And yet some have been willing to pay the price and stand up for principle: cowardice isn't a necessary requirement for a career in politics.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015Politics 2016: Who Will Stand Up to the War Party? It's hard for people to stand up to popular sentiment, especially in wartime. It is especially hard for politicians, and others in the political realm -- pundits, party officials, and activists. And yet some have been willing to pay the price and stand up for principle: cowardice isn't a necessary requirement for a career in politics.
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
Iraq's Slippery Slope We are sliding down the Iraqi slope pretty rapidly. Hardly a week goes by when we don't hear of another few hundred GIs being quietly shipped to Iraq -- "non-combat" troops, to be sure. Yes, they're going over there to engage in some pretty dangerous and potentially lethal "non-combat" -- and when they start getting killed in numbers high enough to notice, will they come back in non-bodybags?
Saturday, November 15, 2014Iraq's Slippery Slope We are sliding down the Iraqi slope pretty rapidly. Hardly a week goes by when we don't hear of another few hundred GIs being quietly shipped to Iraq -- "non-combat" troops, to be sure. Yes, they're going over there to engage in some pretty dangerous and potentially lethal "non-combat" -- and when they start getting killed in numbers high enough to notice, will they come back in non-bodybags?
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Monday, October 26, 2015
Not Sorry Enough: Tony Blair Apologizes for Iraq War "Mistakes" Tony Blair says he's sorry. It only took him 12 years to own up, but hey -- it's better than what's happening on this side of the Atlantic, where not one word of apology to the relatives and loved ones of those who died -- never mind the nation at large, or the Iraqi people -- has been uttered by the architects of the Iraq war.
Monday, October 26, 2015Not Sorry Enough: Tony Blair Apologizes for Iraq War "Mistakes" Tony Blair says he's sorry. It only took him 12 years to own up, but hey -- it's better than what's happening on this side of the Atlantic, where not one word of apology to the relatives and loved ones of those who died -- never mind the nation at large, or the Iraqi people -- has been uttered by the architects of the Iraq war.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Trump vs. Jeb While Jeb may believe attacking his brother is a mistake Trump will come to regret--the reality is that Trump has hit a nerve. And he dug the stiletto in deeper when he tweeted a New York Times op ed piece pointing out that George W. Bush had plenty of warning before 9/11 that something big was in the works.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015Trump vs. Jeb While Jeb may believe attacking his brother is a mistake Trump will come to regret--the reality is that Trump has hit a nerve. And he dug the stiletto in deeper when he tweeted a New York Times op ed piece pointing out that George W. Bush had plenty of warning before 9/11 that something big was in the works.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
The Return of the Smear Bund Israel's lobby in the US is reflexively defensive, and covertly authoritarian: they can't afford to have an open discussion of our "special relationship" with Israel -- and Israel's sick relationship with its Arab helots -- and so must resort to silencing their opponents.
Friday, January 20, 2012The Return of the Smear Bund Israel's lobby in the US is reflexively defensive, and covertly authoritarian: they can't afford to have an open discussion of our "special relationship" with Israel -- and Israel's sick relationship with its Arab helots -- and so must resort to silencing their opponents.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Tall Tales in Tremseh The real meaning of this propaganda campaign is clear enough: nations targeted for regime change that dare mount a military defense are engaging in "war crimes." This is the first law of the New World Order, one that Bashar al-Assad and his like defy at their peril.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012Tall Tales in Tremseh The real meaning of this propaganda campaign is clear enough: nations targeted for regime change that dare mount a military defense are engaging in "war crimes." This is the first law of the New World Order, one that Bashar al-Assad and his like defy at their peril.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Will Budget "Cuts" Impact US Aid to Israel? -- Not hardly Obama, on his trip to Israel, presented Netanyahu with a new 10-year aid "package" totaling some $40 billion -- a $10 billion increase over the last such agreement. And since our special alliance with Israel is "eternal," as the President rhapsodized, this amount will presumably increase unto eternity. Or until the American people put a stop to it -- whichever comes first.
Saturday, March 30, 2013Will Budget "Cuts" Impact US Aid to Israel? -- Not hardly Obama, on his trip to Israel, presented Netanyahu with a new 10-year aid "package" totaling some $40 billion -- a $10 billion increase over the last such agreement. And since our special alliance with Israel is "eternal," as the President rhapsodized, this amount will presumably increase unto eternity. Or until the American people put a stop to it -- whichever comes first.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Hagel Hearing: The War Party's Waterloo There was something profoundly weird about the ritualistic invocations of undying loyalty to Israel, a country mentioned 135 times in the course of the hearing: Afghanistan only merited 27, while al Qaeda got two and Mali one. One would have thought Hagel had been nominated for Israeli Defense Minister instead of the top civilian in the Pentagon.
Friday, February 1, 2013Hagel Hearing: The War Party's Waterloo There was something profoundly weird about the ritualistic invocations of undying loyalty to Israel, a country mentioned 135 times in the course of the hearing: Afghanistan only merited 27, while al Qaeda got two and Mali one. One would have thought Hagel had been nominated for Israeli Defense Minister instead of the top civilian in the Pentagon.
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Egypt's Tiananmen While Washington's wonks speculate back and forth as to how much advance notice Washington had of the coup-that-isn't-a-coup, the world's Muslims know it couldn't have happened without a green light from this administration -- that is, if it wasn't Washington's idea in the first place.
Friday, August 16, 2013Egypt's Tiananmen While Washington's wonks speculate back and forth as to how much advance notice Washington had of the coup-that-isn't-a-coup, the world's Muslims know it couldn't have happened without a green light from this administration -- that is, if it wasn't Washington's idea in the first place.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Lies We Tell Floating a story about how the administration is resisting increasing pressure to intervene in Syria is a good way to deflect attention from what they are in fact doing right at this moment to overthrow a foreign government. Thanks to our "democratic" system, this administration will pay no political price for meddling in the Syrian mess.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012The Lies We Tell Floating a story about how the administration is resisting increasing pressure to intervene in Syria is a good way to deflect attention from what they are in fact doing right at this moment to overthrow a foreign government. Thanks to our "democratic" system, this administration will pay no political price for meddling in the Syrian mess.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Obama Plays the China Card The propaganda war against China has taken a new tack, lately, one previously reserved for the Russians: the Chinese are routinely blamed for intrusions into US government computers, and other sensitive installations.
Friday, November 18, 2011Obama Plays the China Card The propaganda war against China has taken a new tack, lately, one previously reserved for the Russians: the Chinese are routinely blamed for intrusions into US government computers, and other sensitive installations.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The "Trust Gap" Usually, the blackmailer operates in the shadows, sneaking about delivering threatening missives to victims, while taking great pains to cover his tracks. Israelis are doing it right out in the open. If America were a normal country, this would provoke outrage in our lawmakers and media who would want to know why a supposed "ally" would knowingly put American soldiers at risk--and openly boast about keeping us in the dark.
Thursday, March 1, 2012The "Trust Gap" Usually, the blackmailer operates in the shadows, sneaking about delivering threatening missives to victims, while taking great pains to cover his tracks. Israelis are doing it right out in the open. If America were a normal country, this would provoke outrage in our lawmakers and media who would want to know why a supposed "ally" would knowingly put American soldiers at risk--and openly boast about keeping us in the dark.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Playing to the Peanut Gallery Romney's trip abroad is in the way of an audition before our allies and client states, where he is expected to pass muster with his litany of entirely predictable pledges to abjure "isolationism" and keep the gravy train flowing to our client states, such as Israel.
Monday, July 30, 2012Playing to the Peanut Gallery Romney's trip abroad is in the way of an audition before our allies and client states, where he is expected to pass muster with his litany of entirely predictable pledges to abjure "isolationism" and keep the gravy train flowing to our client states, such as Israel.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Hope in the Belly of the Beast The same pattern is repeating itself as the War Party gears up for an attack on Iran. By leaking the supposedly "highly classified" NIE to the media, the analysts and officials in the bowels of Langley are pushing back against the drive to drag us into another major conflict in the Middle East.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012Hope in the Belly of the Beast The same pattern is repeating itself as the War Party gears up for an attack on Iran. By leaking the supposedly "highly classified" NIE to the media, the analysts and officials in the bowels of Langley are pushing back against the drive to drag us into another major conflict in the Middle East.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
"Egypt the Prize" The neocons were way ahead of the Obamaites in 2002, but Hillary Clinton's State Department is playing catch-up fast. The new year will see a renewed thrust of US power -- "soft" and hard -- into the most volatile region on earth, and the results are sure to be explosive.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012"Egypt the Prize" The neocons were way ahead of the Obamaites in 2002, but Hillary Clinton's State Department is playing catch-up fast. The new year will see a renewed thrust of US power -- "soft" and hard -- into the most volatile region on earth, and the results are sure to be explosive.
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Friday, December 4, 2015
San Bernardino Massacre: Perception and Propaganda Our perception of the facts is shaped -- and altered -- by our preconceptions. In short, people believe what they want to believe -- and the facts be damned. In this case, major media organizations didn't wait for the facts to come in before they pronounced judgment. They simply rushed into print with what were little more than editorials, bereft of any responsibility to their readers or the truth.
Friday, December 4, 2015San Bernardino Massacre: Perception and Propaganda Our perception of the facts is shaped -- and altered -- by our preconceptions. In short, people believe what they want to believe -- and the facts be damned. In this case, major media organizations didn't wait for the facts to come in before they pronounced judgment. They simply rushed into print with what were little more than editorials, bereft of any responsibility to their readers or the truth.
