Charles Lane in the Washington Post and David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy make the same angry point: the Freeman affair has devolved into a regrettable argument about whether Israel’s supporters in this country have dual loyalties. Lane wants President Obama…
The other day the Washington Post editorial page–which I am harping on because it has been on the pro-neocon track at least since declaring that the Iraq war was “essential to American security”– ran an editorial urging the Justice Department…
I’m going to harp on my belief that the Washington Post, which supported the Iraq war and showed editorial indifference to the Gaza slaughter, is playing a negative role in informing the American elite. Robert Parry, the former AP reporter…
The Independent in UK says, The lobby cut Obama’s hamstring muscles: The victory of Mr Obama, who as a child lived in a Muslim country, raised hopes that he would see the Middle East through radically different eyes. But the…
I need to say more about Chuck Schumer, who played a critical role in the destruction of Chas Freeman. In fact, Schumer bragged that he had talked to the White House about Freeman—reportedly going to Rahm Emanuel. Someone who was…
Chas Freeman vs Chuck Schumer is Hutus vs. Tutsis. They’re from different tribes, in a power struggle for the American establishment. Schumer’s is winning. Freeman’s crowd, the bluebloods, have been pushed out. Schumer has tribal loyalties to the Jewish neoconservatives,…
Yesterday morning at 11, in a clairvoyant post titled, “Freeman is a lock to keep his appointment,” I noted, “Chas Freeman has never suffered fools–he recently described George W. Bush as ‘leading the world’s first genuinely-autistic government'”. That link was…
Re Adam Horowitz’s post earlier today, Jack Ross writes: Daniel Pipes and Chuck Schumer were in the same class at Harvard, and no doubt because of said connection Schumer conspicuously stood up for Pipes when he was nominated to the…
Charles W. “Chas” Freeman Jr.’s statement: To all who supported me or gave me words of encouragement during the controversy of the past two weeks, you have my gratitude and respect. You will by now have seen the statement by…