News-wise, this week sure is starting out with a bang — and, hey, Monday isn’t even over yet!<\/p>\n
No, I don’t mean the Jackson verdict. It looks like there’s going to be breaking news<\/a> on the Bolton nomination around 10:30 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned …<\/p>\n The minute I heard about the recent bombings in Iran, I immediately thought: Mujahideen-e-Khalq<\/a>, the kooky Marxoid cult<\/a> that some neoconservatives want to help them effect “regime change” in Tehran. And sure enough, it looks like my instincts were right on target<\/a>. But, hey, wait-a-minute, weren’t they all supposed to be corraled in “Camp Ashraf,” their base where U.S. guards stand watch over them? Hmmmm…. who let the dogs out?<\/a><\/p>\n On the Huffington Post<\/i> blog, Eugene Volokh, the “libertarian” lawyer who infamously<\/a> made the case for torture, is all over<\/a> poor old Paul Findley<\/a> for citing an apparently nonexistent quote from Condi Rice admitting that we have an “Israel-centric” foreign policy. I jump into the fray<\/a> to point out that apparently some<\/i> people — including Larry Franklin, whose sealed indictment on 6 counts of espionage on behalf of Israel was made public<\/a> today– think it isn’t Israel-centric enough.<\/p>\n God, but I’m having an indecent amount of fun over at the Huff-blog! <\/p>\n Congratulations to Laura Rozen and Jeet Heer, whose series<\/a> of article<\/a>s for The American Prospect<\/i> got an airing on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. The idea was to debunk Rep. Curt Weldon’s wacko book retailing a whole new set of neocon-generated lies designed to get us into war with Iran. Naturally, Weldon denied everything: Laura catches him in more than a couple of lies here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sources of Neoconservative Thought: Leo Strauss<\/a>, Leon Trotsky<\/a> — and Francis Ford Coppola<\/a>? Arthur Silber has the story<\/a>….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News-wise, this week sure is starting out with a bang — and, hey, Monday isn’t even over yet! No, I don’t mean the Jackson verdict. It looks like there’s going to be breaking news on the Bolton nomination around 10:30 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned … The minute I heard about the recent bombings in Iran, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}