A lot of us are cynical/weary about grassroots, direct action, community organizing, picketing, protests, the like. Now stop and acknowledge that Adalah-NY has had an incredible effect on Lev Leviev, the diamond merchant who has global ambitions but supports colonization…
Just wanted to register the fact that last night on Chris Matthews, former Oklahoma Sen. David Boren, now in Obama’s foreign policy kitchen, described Iraq as the greatest mistake in American history. Don’t have the quote. Someone else said the…
I love straightforward journalism, even like to do it myself now and then. Al Kamen has a good column in the Washington Post on Doug Feith chickening out from testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin…
In Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead extends his critique of Walt and Mearsheimer by arguing that love of Israel is American as apple pie. When presidents overrule their expert advisers and take a pro-Israel position, observers attribute the move to…
I’ve failed to post anything about the University of Michigan Press’s decision to stop distributing books by Pluto Press, a leftwing British publisher whose big offense was publishing Overcoming Zionism, by Joel Kovel. What is there to say other than…
Justin Elliott of Mother Jones says J Street’s first congessional endorsements are ho-hum. “J Street’s endorsees aren’t talking about, say, how to put an end to Israeli settlement expansion, or about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” And the Forward…
Douglas Feith refused to appear before a congressional committee yesterday, apparently because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson was also set to testify. And Wilkerson has been sharply critical of the neocons. I’m amazed that Feith even has the status that he does….
Egad, The New Republic is going after Jim Webb, saying that he is definitely not a liberal. Hear that? Not a liberal, even if Katrina vanden Heuvel likes him. Webb is in fact a “reactionary,” a backward, bigoted Scots-Irish nationalist….
Former S.C. Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings voted for the disastrous Iraq war resolution in ’02 because he bought the WMD malarkey, he says in his new memoir (from Univ. of South Carolina press). Hollings writes that the real reasons for…