The false hope of a long rope
In my daily conversations with ordinary people, I've discovered that many don't know how much a billion or a trillion dollars is. It means the same thing to them as a...
Why Steve Rosen is suing AIPAC
April 11th, 20090 On March 2, former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) foreign policy chief Steve Rosen filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of...
FINAL FOUR PREDICTIONS
April 4th, 20090 Michigan State guard Korie Lucious cuts down part of the net after the Spartans defeated the Louisville Cardinals during their NCAA men's Midwest Regional finals......
Obama’s stance toward Iran is the same as Bush’s
President Bush leaves the White House for the last time as president with Barack Obama on the way to the swearing in of the 44th president on Jan....U.S. Muslim coalition considers suspending relations with FBI
WASHINGTON — A coalition of major national Muslim organizations this week announced that it is considering suspending outreach relations with the FBI, citing recent......
Israeli policy gives Jews a bad name
Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This...
Video: Arab culture celebrated in nation’s capital
March 7th, 20090 Last Friday, the "Weekend" section of the Washington Post featured a cover story on "Arabesque: Art of the Arab World," the Kennedy Center's three-week-long festival......
Divestment from the Israeli occupation of Palestine
A coalition of Columbia University students released a series of demands this week that clearly and forcefully lay the groundwork for the divestment of the...Memo to Obama: Urgent action needed in Mideast
We do not know what special envoy George Mitchell told President Barack Obama after his tour of the Middle East. But here is what I hope he is telling the president now.......
Obama not likely to change Mideast policy
Almost a thousand Palestinian civilians were dead from Israel's recent Blitz on Gaza before Barack Obama interrupted his mantra, that there's only one president at a...Will Obama break the law for Israel’s sake?
U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question from Hearst columnist Helen Thomas (L) during his first news conference as president in the East Room of the White......
How Israel’s propaganda machine works
As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war. This has been...
Pro-Israel pardons and leniency too costly to continue
January 17th, 20090 Palestinians mourn in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, after their relative was killed during Israel's offensive January 14, 2009. International efforts to......
Improving the United States’ image in the Middle East
Concern about the United States's image in the Middle East is not simply a frothy concern about being liked, because the United States's image is crucial to its soft...Will Obama end pay-to-play in Mideast policy?
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich The incoming Obama administration is scrambling to distance itself from the scandal emanating from the president-elect's home state.......
Economy, ecology go hand-in-hand
Imagine a world that employs logic, knowledge, science and common sense to face the challenges of global warming, which is threatening to bring famine and disaster in...JFK episode suggests Obama’s Iraq plan at risk
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The decision by President-elect Barack Obama to keep Robert M. Gates on as defense secretary has touched off a debate over whether Obama can pursue......
Dems owe Carter an apology
Carter's controversial views on Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention Jimmy CarterNow that the season of electoral...It’s time to end the Fed
The wild fires raging in California no doubt have the finger prints of arson, as did the wildfires that preceded them. A person who is facing foreclosure figures instead......
Obama’s Attorney General pick encouraging to Arabs, Muslims and all Americans
Despite the failures on all fronts of the Bush administration, nothing will stigmatize the legacy of the outgoing president and his party more than the un-American...
The problem with keeping Gates
November 22nd, 20080 Press reports say Barack Obama may retain George W. Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a gesture to war-time continuity, bipartisanship and respect for the......
Have we been conned again?
If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America's wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests,...You can stop the foreclosures
It was always happening to them, not us. Hurricanes, tornadoes, factory closings and foreclosures. We paid attention but didn't really care. People who had their......
