This week's meeting between Obama and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu was said to have ended more cordially than their last face-to-face. And Netanyahu does seem to have cooled his calls for war and threats to attack Iran even without notifying the U.S. After...
Aside from being a war-monger, Senator Lindsey Graham has poor eyesight. No matter how much he squints, he has never seen fault in U.S. foreign policy (unless, of course, it hasn't been sufficiently interventionist for him). But somehow circumstances have developed so...
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has just completed another survey of Arab public opinion. Some relevant findings: 73 percent of respondents believe that Israel and the US are the two countries presenting the largest threat to the security of the Arab...
In an otherwise OK report on the attorney general's assassination address, Adam Serwer of Mother Jones quips, "There won't be any drone strikes in Denver anytime soon." I say, "Wanna bet?" I mean it. I assume that "Denver" is a synecdoche, so Serwer just needs to...
While widely recognized in antiwar circles and on the left, the issue of a nuclear weapons double standard in the Middle East is one of the least appreciated when it comes to the Iran nuclear debate. As President Obama curries favor with Israel and AIPAC, he is...
The Obama administration believes that secret executive branch reviews fulfill constitutional due process requirements for when they decide to target suspected al Qaeda leaders even if those individuals are U.S. citizens, according to statements on Monday...
During the last 4 years the dispute over the implementation of Nobel´s prize for the "champions of peace" has come to a head. The Norwegian awarders seem to reinterpret Nobel´s wishes and award the prize for whatever in their judgment is good and valuable, based on "a...
Yesterday, Daily Kos posted the sad news that Jeff Huber died. Huber, a retired Navy commander, loved to skewer the powerful and the pretentious, but he never let outrage diminish his wit. If you have never sampled his inimitable blend of humor and insight, take a...
Speaking before a broad collection of the Israeli Lobby at AIPAC, President Obama followed up a week of repeated threats to attack Iran by warning of "loose talk" about attacking Iran. We learned last week that Israel, the presumptive aggressor in he upcoming war,...
Despite the words of friendship, the diverging perspectives of the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government on key issues in the Middle East – the Arab uprisings, the Palestinian issue and the Iranian nuclear program – are profound. The dispute on the nuclear...
