How regrettable that Hillary has threatened, on Good Morning America, to “obliterate” Iran if it attacks Israel… How lamentable that the comment draws criticism from around the world, including a British foreign minister, but no one here bats an eye……
The one good thing about the nest of vipers–sorry, I mean the neoconservatives–is that their plans for Iraq and the Middle East gained blanket acceptance in the Establishment and then were emphatically discredited. Thus the neocons have served as the…
Joel Kovel is an old lefty–or anyway, he was wearing a green corduroy jacket at the Brecht Forum last night– and he insists on a central argument of this blog: that the neocons pushed the Iraq war out of a…
Last night at the Brecht Forum, I heard Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, and this morning I need to shout that There is light coming into Americans’ lives on this issue. Everything I’ve said on this blog, about “The…
I said ten days ago that Hillary Clinton was a “dead woman walking.” I still think she’s going to lose. But obviously my political prognostication was piss-poor. It’s not the first time I’ve been wrong. I’m starting a new category,…
When I was a kid everyone talked about the Big Lie. It was what Stalin and Hitler did. You tell the people a lie so enormous that they are confused. No one could believe that someone would actually distort the…
Here’s a youtube of a great speech. Ed Rendell, then Philadelphia mayor, now a giant supporter of Hillary Clinton, going to a black church 10 years ago and praising Minister Louis Farrakhan, who sat nearby on the dais. At that…
Yet another dual-loyalty scandal has broken, this time an American army engineer with a Jewish-sounding name who has allegedly given secrets to Israel, some of them about nukes. How ironic that the Times published a big piece on spying and…