Jeff Ballabon, lately appointed a CBS vice president for communications, writing a few months ago: Palestinians simply are not interested in or ready for the creation of a state. Stephen Douglas, the Democratic senator, speaking in Jonesboro, Illinois, in September…
Another important sign that Obama is changing the water in the aquarium. The Israel lobby is openly derided in this piece on Foreign Policy’s Cable, which, echoing the new conventional wisdom in Washington, virtually mocks Dennis Ross’s lack of a…
By Robert Dreyfuss. Good reporting. My big new theme, I’m working on this one. In 1857-60, Abraham Lincoln, then an outsider radical and disappointed office-seeker who believed one thing– that slavery was evil– built the Republican Party and broke the…
Neocon gotterdammerung continues. This time wise Lobe doubts Abrams’s statement about how arms are allegedly making their way from Iran to Hamas. (Thanks to Dave Reed)
Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s suggestion the other night that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president because he was not born in the U.S.–a false assertion–didn’t come out of nowhere. Dr. Orly Taitz is a California attorney behind lawsuits…
The great perceiver Jim Lobe says that Elliott Abrams has now declared himself to be the official spokesman for Netanyahu in the U.S., at the Weekly Standard and the CFR. The piece on which Lobe makes this judgment, at the…
I’m hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather’s poor factchecking over George W. Bush’s National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork…
Here’s a site I had never heard about, New Majority, in which protean neocon David Frum is trying to reinvigorate the neocons. The problem is that they offer the same oldtime dual-loyalty religion: Noah Pollak, in this case, of Commentary…
Note to journalists. You will not see a better headline than the headline on Steve Walt’s latest post at Foreign Policy: “Richard Perle is a liar”. Is there a more electrifying phrase in the English language? Walt delivers: The bottom…