Advertisements Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram Live to lay out the case for why she is so steadfast in her support for Joe Biden remaining at the top of the Democratic ticket. She made the strongest case for Biden I’ve seen, by far. Now, I should single out oneContinue Reading
Advertisements I sat down for a talk on Tuesday with Ian Masters about the growing horror in Gaza and Israel and about some of the ways it has played out in the US.Continue Reading
Advertisements The most high-profile fight yet that AIPAC is trying to decide with its money is in Michigan, where two incumbents–progressive Andy Levin and conservative Haley Stevens–are facing off. AIPAC’s all-out assault on Levin–a self-declared Zionist and high-profile Jewish member of Congress–redraws the political map around Israel, especially in racesContinue Reading
Advertisements Democratic leadership committed a political blunder by trying to sneak an additional $1 billion in funding for Israel (on top of the $3.8 they get annually already) into a bill to raise the debt ceiling. This was funding that was guaranteed to pass in the NDAA bill, so itContinue Reading
Advertisements There is a promising bill in the House of Representatives, brought by Betty McCollum of Minnesota, that would *gasp* require that Israel obey U.S. law in its use of U.S. military aid. [A bill which counts ReThinking Foreign Policy among its supporting organizations] While the political power to seeContinue Reading
