Advertisements Earlier this week, I sat down with J.G. Michael of the Parallax Views Podcast for a wide-ranging interview that covered the recent Israeli elections, the US decision to open an investigation into Israel’s killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the fight against antisemitism, AIPAC’s electoral activities and much more. YouContinue Reading
Advertisements The obnoxious and hubristic Israeli response to the FBI deciding to open an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh highlights the growing tensions between Washington and Israel. Netanyahu’s return will renew the deepening divide on Israel as he will continue to grow closer to theContinue Reading
Advertisements In the latest episode of the ReThinking Foreign Policy Podcast, Mitchell Plitnick examines the effect of the hastily-convened press conference where Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe accused Iran of interference in the United States’ election. He examines the implications for how Iran is perceived in the United States,Continue Reading
Shocking though the revelation of Trump’s meeting may have been, it was not entirely surprising. For months, there have been reports of US intelligence officials warning their Israeli counterparts of Trump’s untrustworthiness. That, in and of itself, is remarkable. Career federal agents expressing to foreign colleagues that the president of the United States cannot be trusted should be unthinkable.
As with so much in the first four months of the Trump administration, however, the unthinkable has come to pass.Continue Reading
Advertisements This week at Souciant…well, I had a different article idea, and I was halfway through writing it. But the whole PRISM thing is just overwhelming. As much as what it says about the state of freedom and democracy in the US, it says even more about the utter andContinue Reading
