Maybe it’s just a coincidence. On May 6, just before dawn, Ameer Makhoul was arrested. Initial reports state that the Haifa home of the director of Ittijah, a network of NGOs and grassroots organizations representing the interests of Arab citizens of Israel, was...
Once again, when Obama had a chance to take a strong stand in favor of the Constitution, he took a dive. His nomination of somemone for the Supreme Court who shirked the most controversial moral and legal issues of the war on terror is appalling. Glenn Greenwald has...
1. It is impossible to kill enough people to end up with no enemies. 2. For every person your military kills, you create 100 more enemies from family, friends, countrymen, religious colleagues, etc. 3. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. The intelligence services...
In a disturbing comment on "OK, so who DID they slaughter?" poster "DOESITMATTER" suggested a scenario in which a drone pilot and helicopter gunship both mis-target apparent "militants" in Los Angeles, "cut[ting] to ribbons a group...
From Josh Rogin’s excellent “Cable†blog at foreignpolicy.com today: Dennis Ross links Middle East peace to Iran Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 6:16 PM The National Security Council’s Dennis Ross is the latest U.S. official to link the Obama...
[viddler id=f166caa9&w=247&h=227]"Those who would slaughter innocent men, women, and children must know that the United States will do more than simply strengthen our defenses. ... Around the world and here at home there are those who would attack our...
We have been missing Alan Bock's column for the last few weeks. A few weeks ago, Alan got very sick. After seeing many doctors and getting scores of tests, he has been diagnosed with a cancerous blockage in his biliary ducts. He is facing surgery and is hopeful, and...
The farcical NPT conference drags on: the US and Israel, both nuclear powers, the former actually noncompliant, the latter not even a signatory, point their trigger fingers at Iran; Iran, with not even a nuclear power plant, complains the world doesn't care that the...
Interspersed between the US claims that they are virtually certain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is living in Pakistan is the occasional wild theory about where the reclusive terrorist mastermind actually is. Today's theory comes by way of a documentary filmmaker...
Democracy Now! has an excellent and comprehensive report on the 40th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. On May 4th, 1970, National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio. The guardsmen fired off...
