By Alex Shams | BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Commuters in cities across the United States were surprised this month to find their daily trips to work adorned with posters and banners calling on their government to end military support to Israel. The posters were rolled out in seven cities for the entire month of March, and […]
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US politics
Obama-Netanyahu Tiff worsens: US won’t rule out using UN to create Palestine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – President Obama put some further hints out there on Tuesday about how he might proceed on Israeli-Paletinian relations in his final two years. Asked if he’d be willing to go through the United Nations to achieve Palestinian statehood, he replied, “We’re going to do that evaluation . . […]
Traitor Senators used Israeli Spies against their own Country
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadaola | (The Young Turks) | – “Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and John Iadaola (https://twitter.com/jiadarola) host of The Young Turks discuss a recent report on Israeli spying activities used to aide traitor senators against Iran/U.S. nuclear talks. Israel intelligence was funneled to Republican Congresspeople in order to ruin support for Iran/U.S. […]
All the Wars and Coups of President Ted Cruz
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz, one of three Cuban-Americans in the Senate, is throwing his hat into the ring for the 2016 presidential race today. Cruz has made a career out of slamming President Obama for being weak and presiding over the collapse of countries like Yemen (as though […]
Obama with Drama: Translating his comments on Israel’s Netanyahu from the Vulcan
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Now that Leonard Nimoy is most unfortunately no longer with us, Barack Obama is the primary exemplar in American popular culture of the maddeningly calm, excruciatingly logical way of speaking that Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry forever associated with the alien race, the Vulcans and the character Mr. […]
Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state
RT | – The US is “evaluating” its policy towards Israel in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election and campaign statements. This could involve passing a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements. President Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to congratulate him on winning the March 17 election, and used the opportunity to […]
Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic
By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and let me put what I do understand about it in a nutshell: based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching […]
Facing Down Anti-Muslim Bigotry Through Faith in America
David Schanzer | (ISLAMiCommentary) – Address to Islamic Association of Raleigh (NC) David Schanzer As-salamu alaykum. Thank you so much for the invitation to address you this afternoon. I am very pleased to be included in this wonderful celebration. I know we are gathering today with very heavy hearts. I was out of town last […]
The Impotence of the Big Dick strain of American Nationalism
By Nan Levinson | (Tomdispatch.com) Let’s face it: we live in a state of pervasive national security anxiety. There are various possible responses to this low-grade fever that saps resolve, but first we have to face the basis for that anxiety — what I’ve come to think of as the Big Dick School of Patriotism, […]
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