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I write for the London Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The American Conservative magazine, The National Interest, TomDispatch and Al Jazeera. My book, The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower is published by Verso.

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I'd love to join the optimistic celebration of neoconservatism's demise in the GOP but look who Ted Cruz just appointed as major foreign policy advisors! Also, bears remembering that W ran as a realist, promising no more nation-building or petty interventions–all it took was one Black Swan terror attack for him to reverse course. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-17/cruz-assembles-an-unlikely-team-of-foreign-policy-rivals

On Rubio’s defeat means the downfall of neoconservatives

That's nice that Lara Friedman said this, but APN still supports the massive military aid package to Israel. It's quite true that Washington has zero credibility as a broker of peace, but without cutting off the military aid and the blank-check diplomatic cover, the U.S. is still providing more incentives for the Israeli state to continue ethnic cleansing and occupation than for any workable peace deal. I don't see how APN gets away with the P in its name if the group is for for ongoing military subsidies to a country engaged in ethnic cleansing–that's supporting a war process, not a peace process.

On Only way to save Israel is for US to get out of peace process — Friedman of Peace Now

Terrific post! Cole's an example of a great and subtle legal mind who gets so wrapped up in the law that he misses the bigger and more important picture. Courts, courts, courts, as if that's the problem with US statecraft–not enough lawyers! Looking to Israel as a natsec role model is depressingly common in the U.S. legal academy, as if Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing and periodic assaults on Gaza weren't making it an international pariah–but hey, all of these strategically and morally disastrous actions are being made within a thick layer of legal process, so they must be OK, such is the hopelessly nomophilic (law-loving, and it might be my coinage) bias of our law professors, even the progs.

On ‘New York Review of Books’ offers Israel as a model to US on targeted killings and detention for terrorists

Mario Cuomo was in office before I came of political age, but he has always seemed to me a deeply decent man. How is it that his boys Chris and Andrew are such utter shits?

On Maher lumps Islam with ISIS, and CNN’s Cuomo says Aslan’s ‘primitive’ tone proves Maher’s point

One almost feels bad for Rabbi Leshaw, she's really having a meltdown, just like American liberal Zionism. Another terrific piece of reporting and analysis–thank you Phil Weiss.