When plans to produce My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the journal entries of an American girl murdered by the IDF for her pro-Palestinian activism, were canceled in New York City this year, in the U.S. we only read about it in The Nation. When plans to put...
Philip Weiss, over at the New York Observer, is always a good source of information, and here is his take on the thinktank situation and how it relates to U.S. policy toward Israel: "As we are frequently told, universities belong to the left. The academy is like an...
The debate over who benefits from our invasion of Iraq entered a new phase with the publication of a research paper by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, written by two prominent foreign policy scholars from the "realist" camp, John J. Mearsheimer and...
There have been many indications that an attack on Iran is, if not imminent, then a near certain eventuality. There was Seymour Hersh's reporting on the development of an attack plan. And then there's this, and this. But the clincher has got to be this.  Uh oh...
Retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner, interviewed on Monday by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, had this to say about the possibility of U.S. military operations against Iran: BLITZER: How close in your opinion is the Bush Administration to giving that go ahead. GARDINER: It’s...
A new piece by Tony Judt in the London Review of Books contains more than its fair share of memorable phrases -- "America’s liberal armchair warriors are the ‘useful idiots’ of the War on Terror" -- and one is tempted to simply copy and paste the whole thing,...
From Time magazine [Sept. 25] via Joshua Micah Marshall: "The first message was routine enough: A 'Prepare to Deploy' order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn't...
Check out this WWII-era Office of War information propaganda film on the "relocation" of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast to concentration camps in the interior. Concentration camps, to be sure, well-stocked with plenty of "nourishing food" and pregnant with...
According to the Israeli website Arutz Sheva: "Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in Atlanta have arrested the Israeli security officer at the Israeli consulate in the city. Details to follow." Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with this, or -- more...
I see David Weigel has a response to my column, posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog: he, Michael Totten, and the blogger formerly known as Wonkette are filling in for Candy Andy while he takes yet another vacation. I don't really have that much of a bone to pick with...
