Andrew Sullivan, as demoralized as we are here, says the MSM didn’t cover Freeman and this means that the Israel lobby has won and there will be no change in policy in I/P under shrewd timid Obama. “The fact that…
Felson writes: This leapt out at me in Ben Smith’s coverage of Freeman’s withdrawal: But Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), one of Freeman’s leading critics, said the appointee could have “withstood” the attacks on policy grounds, but ultimately was torpedoed by…
per published reports. The announcement came from Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence. Stating that Freeman asked that his name be removed.
An important sign: Jake Tapper offers this exchange between Senator Joe Lieberman (D-from you know where) and Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence, on the appointment of Chas Freeman, to be head of Nat’l Intelligence Council. Blair says Freeman has…
In this fall 2007 column, Roger Cohen was somewhat pugilistic toward the American left, offering apologies for liberal Iraq-interventionists and even the neocons. And then? Gaza.
Wow. Look at alleged center-left Brookings’ page on the Middle East, and its “featured” experts. Writes a friend: Martin Indyk, a former lobbyist, now an unpaid lobbyist; Ken Pollack who writes books advocating wars of imperial aggression; Tamara Cofman Wittes,…
in Max Blumenthal’s sharp piece in the Daily Beast on the Freeman opposition. Blumenthal says that the campaign against Chas Freeman is motivated by alleged spy Steve Rosen’s opposition to the two-state solution, that the campaign had the quiet AIPAC…
The saga Sen. Jon Kyl’s Senate Amendment 629 has come to an end. The New York Times is reporting that the discriminatory amendment which would have made it illegal for US budget funds to be used to resettle Gazans in…
We’re in IQ freefall. None of us can doubt that Jewish genius transformed the 20th century. Finance, science, psychiatry, media–do I really need to go through all that part? Now we are in IQ freefall, for two reasons related to…