America and Iran should get the deal done despite obstacles, but the influence of Israel and Saudi Arabia continues to undermine American national interest.
Israel-Palestine
Posted inPolitics
AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process
What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Altercation: New York Times Headline Whitewashes Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing
America’s most influential news source bends over backward to shade the truth about the bullet that killed the beloved Palestinian American journalist.
Posted inAmerica and the World
America’s Middle East ‘Withdrawal’ Breathes Its Last Breath
What was once a policy of disengagement has now become a policy of far more dangerous entanglement.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Altercation: Is Brookings a ‘Liberal’ Think Tank or a Big-Money Lobbyist
The case of its abruptly resigned leader highlights its dependence on big money from the Gulf.
Posted inPolitics
Will AIPAC Crush One of Congress’s Most Prominent Jewish Democrats?
Former union organizer and synagogue president Andy Levin is being challenged by AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups, largely over his progressive views.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Altercation: Israel and Palestine and the Absence of a Solution
Israel relentlessly escalates its repression, and the BDS campaign has completely failed to deter it.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Let’s Not Grant Saudi Arabia a Blank Check for American Support
Fareed Zakaria’s latest idea for a diplomatic bargain with the country is too clever by half.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: AIPAC Goes Full Trump
It endorses most of the GOP representatives who voted to overturn the Electoral College results—but not pro-Israel hawk Liz Cheney.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: CBS News Hires a Prevaricating Trumpoid
Because that’s the kind of thing that TV ‘news’ does.
