On December 21, I joined the great Scott Horton, host of the Scott Horton Show and director of The Libertarian Institute, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. We explain the historical context necessary to explain why Hamas decided to perpetrate horrific...
On November 17, I discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict for the Nate the Mutualist podcast (formerly Nate the Voluntaryist). It was a lengthy discussion, and we covered a lot of ground in considerable detail. We talked about the influence of Christian Zionism on the...
I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Leavitt, host of the And If Love Remains podcast, to discuss Israel’s ongoing onslaught in the Gaza Strip, the reasons why Hamas might have executed its “Operation Al Aqsa Flood” terrorist operation in Israel on October 7,...
IntroductionThe Drafting of the Balfour DeclarationBritain’s Belligerent Occupation of PalestineAnti-Zionism Is Not Anti-SemitismThe Myth of the UN Creation of IsraelThe Violent Legacy of the Balfour Declaration Introduction It was 106 years ago today that Great...
[Update, February 20, 2016: After expressing my disappointment and publicly calling them out, the Habilian Association restored the full text of my interview.] I was recently asked to do an interview by Meysam Haddadian for the Habilian Association, but much...
The US government implements a policy of prolonging and escalating the violence in Syria, backing armed rebels seeking to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad, with most of the arms delivered by the CIA by the end of 2012 having fallen into the hands of...
Human Rights Watch documents examples of vulnerable troubled Americans entrapped by the FBI in sting operations and thrown in prison for terrorist plots that wouldn’t even have existed had the FBI not itself masterminded them. HRW has a report out about this...
The New York Times reports: As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip, extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and Western intelligence officials say may be...
An Associated Press article last month titled “US surveillance, arming of Syrian rebels under debate as House takes up defense bill” enlightened us that: The House also will consider an amendment that would bar funds for any military action in Syria if it violated the...
The European Union decided last month to label the military wing of Hezbollah a “terrorist” organization for its alleged role in the bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria in July 2012. As the Israeli daily Haaretz reported it: The Burgas probe, in which the United States,...
I haven’t had much time to post about the NSA’s illegal surveillance of all Americans, but I’ve been taking notes. Here are a few highlights (updated 6/9/13 at 10:38 pm)… “Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to...
FPJ — The Zionist organization UN Watch has cited a commentary by Professor Richard Falk on the Boston bombings in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanding that that Prof. Falk be reprimanded for it. Mr. Falk, who serves as the United...
Thomas E. Donilon, President Obama’s national security adviser, penned an op-ed last week in the New York Times titled “Hezbollah Unmasked”, which begins: ON FEB. 5, after more than six months of investigations, the Bulgarian government announced that it believed...
There’s been a lot of hype in the media that the Bulgarian government has announced that its investigation has concluded that Hezbollah was responsible for the bus bombing in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and the bus driver. “Hezbollah and Iran...
Israel is shocked — shocked, I tell you! — that Argentina and Iran have agreed to form a “truth commission” to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association...
The New York Times reports on how the truce that began on Friday has already fallen apart, with both sides blaming each other for breaking it. But what I want to draw attention to is not what the Times reports, but how it reports it. The article, titled “In Syria,...
More blatant propaganda in the New York Times, this time under the heading “Hezbollah Is Blamed for Attack on Israeli Tourists in Bulgaria”. Remember that first Iran was blamed for the attack. Now the story is that it was Hezbollah, operating as a proxy for Iran....
FPJ — Scott Shane, in a recent news analysis piece for the New York Times, sets out to present “The Moral Case for Drones”, but grievously fails to present anything of the kind—quite the contrary. Under that headline, Shane notes that the use of drones for...
The armed rebels in Syria carried out several terrorist bombings this week. They detonated a bomb in the parking garage of the Palace of Justice in downtown Damascus. They bombed a police station. They bombed a TV station. All of these are non-military targets. If...
J. M. Berger over at Intelwire.com has successfully FOIAed agency records relating to the 9/11 attacks. Scanning through, I don’t see any major revelations, but some of the documents are still interesting. Here are some of the more important excerpts I found and...