Frida Berrigan on "Democracy Now" radio: "Israel's relationship with the United States is unique in a number of ways. And one of those ways is that essentially the United States provides 20% of the Israeli military budget on an annual basis, and then about 70% of that...
Must reading: Tom Hayden's "I Was Israel's Dupe." Here's a snippet of Counterpunch editor and Nation columnist Alex Cockburn's, um, irreverent introductory note: "Twenty four years ago Ariel Sharon’s artillerymen bombarded Beirut, causing huge terrible civilian...
An update to today’s column, posted on Thursday, 10:00 pm PST, in which I speculated that some sort of "international force" to supplant the IDF would be created. Bloomberg News reports Friday morning: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she wants a...
The sacred – and the profane. The innocent – and the shameless. The powerless – and the brazen.
Whenever there's a crisis in Lebanon, the "mainstream" media hauls out Michael Young, to give events the right spin, and this time he has really outdone himself. His op ed piece in the New York Times this morning, "Israel's Invasion, Syria's War," is dizzying in its...
In an update to my Wednesday column on the "Other Russia" conference of anti-Putin Russian activists being held in St. Petersburg in the run-up to the G-8 summit, I note that the issue of U.S. government funding and the presence of the neo-fascist National Bolsheviks...
I've been watching Ben Wattenberg's PBS program, "Thinktank," for quite a while now. That's not because the party-lining neocon is especially interesting, nor is it due to his guest line-up, which is usually so wonkish -- or so neoconnish -- that the effect is either...
Inspired, perhaps, by the recent prominence of North Korea in the news, over in the Land of the Neocons David Horowitz is doing his Kim il-Sung imitation. His "Center for the Study of Popular Culture" has been renamed: it is now the "David Horowitz Freedom Center."...
In an odd turnabout, some Democratic "antiwar" politicians are explaining their vote against the recent "stay the course" resolution passed by Congress on the grounds that it means supporting amnesty for insurgents. "I support our troops and goals in Iraq," says...
Remember that $9 billion that somehow got "lost" in Iraq? Boxes of cash were shipped from the Federal Reserve to Iraq, where a former Coalition Provisional Authority official testified that our guys were playing football with blocks of $100 bills and an investigator...
