A New York Times Magazine article titled “Will Israel Attack Iran?” can only be described as a propaganda piece, which maintains that central premise only through deliberate omission and distortion of the facts.…
What's funny about that is--as the editors of the NYT must surely be aware--that Ron Paul gets more support from members of the military than any other candidate.…
What’s most enlightening about the attacks on Dr. Paul and his views and positions is the fact that when you really get down to it, his sin is that he’s too unwilling to tow the official line on issues across the board, too willing to challenge the lies and war propaganda, and too honest with the American public about real issues.
So if you want a president willing to pander to Israel and do what Israeli leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu think is in Israel’s best interest–hardly synonymous with what’s in America’s best interest–then, yeah, don’t vote for Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul “assures audiences” that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 “took place only because of U.S. aggression and military actions”. It’s “True,”…
Ah, Thomas Friedman. You gotta love him. Here he is on December 20, 2011: With the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq, we’re finally going to get the answer to the core question about that country: Was Iraq the way Iraq was because Saddam was the way Saddam…
Special to the Palestine Chronicle. The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of…
“Dammit, make a decision.” A Times editorial: President Obama is fulfilling his promise to wind down the Iraq war. When he took office, there were about 142,000 American troops on the ground; now there are 46,000. All are supposed to be gone by Dec. 31 under a 2008 agreement between…
“I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush.” — Senator Barack Obama, May 2008 Omissions of Grandeur The New York Times reports on a U.N. report that criticizes Israel for killing several protestors who attempted to cross the border fence from Lebanon in May. The…
The reason Iran's nuclear program has become so controversial has nothing to do with nuclear nonproliferation.…
FPJ — The New York Times this week reports under the headline “Taking Lead, Iraqis Hope U.S. Special Operations Commandos Stay” that the security situation in Iraq “may be at risk now that American forces are withdrawing this year” as per the U.S.-Iraqi Status of Force Agreement (SOFA). “Even as…
Steven Aftergood observes: According to President Obama, he has no higher duty than to protect the American people. But that’s not what the Constitution says. “As President, I have often said that I have no greater responsibility than protecting the American people,” wrote President Obama in the new “National Strategy…
Foreign Policy Journal — The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone that was charged with investigating Israel’s full-scale military assault on the…
Foreign Policy magazine this month features an article entitled “Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade“, which is a decent overview of the opium problem – as far as it goes. Unsurprisingly, however, in doing so, it proverbially ignores the elephant in the room, and in doing so represents part of…
Foreign Policy Journal — Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with his second pick being, “The world must adapt quickly to the end of fossil fuels”, including…
Foreign Policy Journal — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at the very least informed in May 2003 by the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, that the Iraqi army would be disbanded, a decision that was instrumental in helping to spur the…
In the Foreign Policy special report “Unconventional Wisdom”, a series of essays purporting to challenge conventional beliefs on a broad range of topics, Leslie H. Gelb asserts that with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “America Pressures Israel Plenty“. Gelb describes as “myths” the notion that Israelis “have been the main…
In sum, neither INN nor Dr. Nisan have managed to point to even a single error in either fact or logic on my part in my essay. The facts are as I have stated them, and the logical conclusions drawn inescapable.…
Despite the headlines, there is very little new information reported, and the evidence for the claims made is thin.…
U.S. government documents shed some additional light on repeated Taliban offers to hand over Osama bin Laden.…
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