By Barbara Erickson | TimesWarp | August 22, 2016 When writer Michael Chabon visited the West Bank city of Hebron earlier this year, the brutal reality of the Israeli occupation hit him with force. During an interview with the Forward, he appeared “visibly jarred,” and he pulled no punches in describing his reaction. “Once you […]
By Barbara Erickson | TimesWarp | May 16, 2015 Ayelet Shaked, justice minister in the new Israeli government, gets a pass today in a “Saturday Profile” by Jodi Rudoren. Although Shaked is noted for her extremist rightwing views, it seems she faced no challenges in her interview with The New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. […]
By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam |May 13, 2015 Today, the NY Times published what was essentially an unexpurgated series of IDF intelligence reports claiming Hezbollah had taken over a southern Lebanese town and turned it into a fortress bristling with fortifications. The story, written by Isabel Kershner, features photos and descriptions of intelligence data […]
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | April 13, 2015 Former Washington insider and four-star General Wesley Clark spilled the beans several years ago on how Paul Wolfowitz and his neoconservative co-conspirators implemented their sweeping plan to destabilize key Middle Eastern countries once it became clear that post-Soviet Russia “won’t stop us.” As I recently […]
By Jason Hirthler | CounterPunch | December 2, 2014 A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate […]
Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace NegotiationsJames Petras jpetras@binghamton.edu“Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to divert US policy in the region (Middle East)” --Jack Straw, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party “The United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to spur the country to end its nuclear program” --Sheldon Adelson, biggest donor to the Republican Party and major fundraiser for pro-Israel political action committees, speech at
