I got home quite late from the Israel lobby debate and am on deadline for print, so I won’t get around to a full report till later, but thought it best to file a few impressions while the world is…
Tonight’s the big debate. I haven’t been so excited since Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag squared off over feminism. As a pipsqueak, I was on the wrong side then (Mailer’s), now I’m on the right one. One…
One of the great potentialities in tomorrow night’s SRO debate at Cooper Union lies in the fact that on one sideÂNo, Virginia, there is no Israel lobbyÂtwo of the three illusionists are bigtime Washington thinktankers, while on the other the…
One of the tables at Thursday night’s debate over the Israel lobby at Cooper Union will reunite three men who negotiated, unsuccessfully, at Camp David in 2000. Shlomo Ben-Ami negotiated for Israel. And Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk negotiated for…
As a devotee of Chris Matthews, I’d point out a couple new trends on Hardball. A, he’s been using profanity, saying “damn” a lot and “bastards,” usually about our failed foreign policy; and B, he’s trying to give the neocons…
Something’s wrong with the baseball standings in the papers and online. No one’s interested in reading the classic divisional standings; we know who won now, only two out of six races are in play, Detroit vs Minnesota in the AL…
When is the last time the New York Times did major stories on Noam Chomsky two days in a row, one jumping off the front page, and excerpted his work? Like… never. Let’s understand what’s going on. All the American…
Police in Dubai crept up on a couple who were kissing in a car. The 20-year-old at the wheel tried to get away. [L]aw enforcement officers reportedly opened fire on the suspect’s car… That was in April. The couple are…
When Pervez Musharaff refused today at a White House news conference to answer the question of what threat was made against his government after 9/11, by the United States, he cited his contract to his publisher, Simon & Schuster, saying…