Advertisements One of the reasons that centrist Democrats were desperate to nominate Joe Biden and even more desperate to avoid nominating Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren this year was to secure the support of alienated Republicans. The Lincoln Project, the Never Trumpers and a good number of MSNBC hosts areContinue Reading
The debate over AIPAC’s role and its very nature is not going to end any time soon. But for that debate to be productive, it needs to be grounded in facts, not in mystification, propaganda, or disingenuousness. Continue Reading
In the United States, it’s possible to debate any and every policy, domestic and foreign, except for unquestioning support for Israel. That, apparently, is Ilhan Omar’s chief sin.Continue Reading
In order to pursue a progressive foreign policy, the United States cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Saudi crimes, to ignore the denial for decades of the rights of Palestinians, or to continue to demonize Iran. It’s not enough to demand an end to the war in Yemen, although that’s the starting point. Otherwise, there will just be more Yemens, more Gazas, and more Khashoggis while U.S. politicians dance around reality.Continue Reading
Advertisements The real Iranian nuclear threat has apparently already taken hold. New Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s so-called “charm offensive” has sent the war hawks scurrying as if the bomb had really gone off. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been relentless in his increasingly desperate efforts to cast Rouhani inContinue Reading
