As he makes clear in this post, The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan has finally come to the conclusion that the democracy claptrap that neo-conservatives have spouted since 9/11 has been a facade for their core foreign-policy worldview with Israel at its heart. “I took...
As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the U.S. Treasury – notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders has been widely remarked...
On PBS tonight, NOVA is presenting "The Spy Factory," based on James Bamford's excellent book, The Shadow Factory. PBS says the NOVA program: chronicles the NSA's role in eavesdropping both before and after 9/11. Drawing on dozens of interviews with agency insiders...
The bottom of your shoe, not the fish. The fantastic trend of protesters showing their disdain for dictators and other official criminals by tossing a shoe (or two) at them continues in Britain, as an as-yet unidentified "European" man hurls his footwear at Chinese PM...
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says -- and he should know -- there is no difference between the policy of "absolute support" for Israel between Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Obama's own spokesman Robert Gibbs affirmed that, as under Bush, "all options remain on...
This might just be the Miami in me (Castro is dead...now! ...nnnnow! ...nnnnnnnow!), but Zimbabwe suddenly nixing price controls and allowing foreign currency to be exchanged freely, with mea culpa from the finance minister and no comment from the 85-year-old dictator...
Likud Party leader and well-known soothsayer Binyamin Netanyahu has predicted that if Israel doesn't have total control over Jerusalem then al-Qaeda will blow up the Holy Sepulchre, sparking "an escalation of religious conflict" we can't even envision. It seems to me...
If so, it's not because he has associated with Bill Ayers.  He did, however, order a terrorist attack on Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don't commit acts of...
Prof. Floyd Rudmin sends the following: Material aid to Palestinians in Gaza can be given by donations to the following aid agencies. These are not listed in any order of priority.1) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East...
Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced today that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were "a product of circumstance." Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: "These matters will...
