Surprise: A resolution for a blockade against Iran, pushed by AIPAC, has been shelved by the House leadership as being too belligerent. Many are calling it a defeat for the Israel lobby; Jim Lobe cites “an unexpectedly strong lobbying effort…
With bated breath, last week I mentioned the big conference this week at Harvard’s Middle East Strategy group of the Olin Institute, on American finding its way after Bush. A lot of neocons, and a guy named Adam Garfinkle from…
Jack Ross says I’m too hard on Ahmadinejad. I don’t know what to say; Ross is 23 and so much better read than I am that my jaw simply drops. Another jaw-dropper: Insofar as you’re correct to point out that…
Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio did a superb interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad today in which he asked him about his disgusting threat, to wipe Israel off the map. Ahmadinejad explained it in much the way that he sought…
One of my masked correspondents, “Mark” (who provided me with all the thinking a few weeks back when we unmasked the religious columnist “Shushon” as the highflown double of a vengeful neocon operating under another pseudonym) has been thinking about…
Just now on WNYC, I heard Richard Brodsky, a New York Assemblyman, attacking Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s plans for Yankee Stadium, and saying that the Yankees had manipulated information about the stadium site in public filings. Notably, he said that land…
The Republican delegate from Denver who is all over the internet for having picked up a “beautiful woman” at the Republican convention, then going back to his fancy hotel with her and waking up later with $120,000 gone is a…
Yesterday Vladimir Putin said that he likes George Bush, it is the people around him he can’t stand. A king is no better than his court. This is a reference to the neoconservatives, who gave us Iraq and helped to…
I heard Charlie Gibson’s commencement address at the elite New York high school, the Dalton School, last June. The tone was: aw shucks but I went to Princeton; I’m just an ordinary guy, I did poorly in economics, but I’m…