Nice piece by Al-Jazeera English on Freeman, quoting Hillary Mann Leverett and Max Blumenthal, both using the words “the Israel lobby” a lot. It’s entered our political language, and a good thing–enough prevarication. Al-Jazeera picks a smart quote from Freeman’s…
Sydney Morning Herald gets the Chas Freeman story in this great editorial: In the United States, President Obama’s nominee as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Chas Freeman, has just withdrawn, citing a campaign against him by the “Israel lobby”……
Felson writes: I was actually exasperated reading the NYT story. I guess it’s good that they acknowledge it was about Israel, but Mazzetti and Cooper seem to take every opportunity to paint Freeman as an unhinged fringe figure, without providing…
I can only do this site with help from genius friends. It’s social media. One of them sent me some links and comment this morning: Here is some more good stuff on Schumer’s closet-neocon agenda from Glenn Greenwald (overlapping with…
Daniel Luban, co-author with Jim Lobe of a superb analysis of what befell Chas Freeman, writes: Not sure if you’ve read the Times and Post stories on Freeman yet, but thought you might be interested as they fit the “shifting…
Answers are needed here as swift and astute as snakes. Franz. [August 1913 letter to Felice Bauer on their relationship]
Chas Freeman has finally hit the the front pages and editorial sections of the leading US newspapers. Freeman landed on the front pages of both the New York Times and Washington Post, but the real fireworks have been in the…
At last, the fat is in the fire. The American press is talking about the Israel lobby. Spirited Chas Freeman has succeeded in getting up the beach, after Walt and Mearsheimer draped their bodies on the barbed wire. Writes a…
On the day after he helped sink Chas Freeman, and on the day the Washington Post ran an editorial calling for the Justice Department to drop the case against him, it has also come to light that Steven J. Rosen…