Leaving Afghanistan by Staying By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/leaving-afghanistan-staying Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military presence in Afghanistan (currently about three times the [...]
Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Newt Gingrich has relied on the huge donations made by just two donors [EPA] New York, NY - From Paracelsus (1493-1541) to CS Lewis (1898-1963), JRR Tolkien (1892-1973) and all the way to JK Rowling, the creative crafts of [...]
War in Afghanistan Is Mutiny by a Different Name The troops are protesting “by any other means” their entrapment in a no-win landscape where Washington politicians keep a war going beyond the limit of sanity. March 13, 2012 | “Any person who…with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other [...]
Americans to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan by George Zornick The talk of Washington this morning is a new Washington Post/ABC News poll showing strong disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy, which appears to be tied to increasing gas prices. His overall favorability has decreased to 46 percent, from 50 percent one month ago, and he’s [...]
Poll: Overwhelming US Opposition to Afghan War War ‘Not Worth the Cost’ by Jason Ditz, March 11, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The regular Washington Post-ABC News poll on the war in Afghanistan is showing anoverwhelming popular opposition to the war, with some 60% of Americans now believing the [...]
Engelhardt, War as the President’s Private Preserve Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:19pm, March 11, 2012. The 0% Doctrine Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran By Tom Engelhardt When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, [...]
What role does AIPAC play in US elections? Republican candidates have been making their pitch to the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US. The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US, is holding its biggest annual conference yet with around 13,000 delegates in Washington. For all those [...]
The haunting of Daniel Pipes by Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” by Franklin Lamb Posted on March 6, 2012 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon March 4, 2012 Daniel Pipes, the anti-Arab Islamophobe, is reportedly spooked these days. “Actually he has become an almost terrified man”; so says a colleague [...]
Obama ‘Consulted’ Team Before Apologizing Over Quran Burnings Newt Says Afghans Don’t Deserve Apology by Jason Ditz, February 24, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Politics means never having to say you’re sorry. Or sometimes, it means seeing someone else saying he’s sorry and expressing outrage. [...]
“A Cockleshell Adrift on the Ocean” Presidents Who Don’t Preside By Serge Halimi European summits come and go, and the White House and Congress bicker endlessly, to no effect. “The markets” are well aware of this, they see the elected representatives of the American people running around like headless [...]
Ron Paul stands alone on US foreign policy and wars. By William A. CookA curious glance at the current crop of presidential candidates makes it clear that Ron Paul stands alone when it comes to the issue of US engagement in foreign wars. He stands with George Washington against foreign entanglements while the [...]
The ‘Invented People’ Stand Little Chance by Robert Fisk Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can deny the [...]
Republican Socialists, Democratic Capitalists GOP Pols Exploit Anti-Wall Street Rage By Ted Rall January 12, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Newt Gingrich made a name for himself as the right-wing ideologue who led the 1994 “Republican Revolution.” What a difference the wholesale collapse of international capitalism makes. Forget 9/11—everything changed on 9/14/08, [...]
The Apocalyptics By John Feffer They’re like a heavy metal band. Dress them up in black, put some Goth makeup on them, give them a name like The Apocalyptics, and they’d fit right in with the head-banger crowd. After all, it’s mostly doom and gloom with the Republican candidates, particularly when [...]
Thomas Frank, Why the Tea Party Needs Mitt Posted by Thomas Frank at 8:07am, January 8, 2012. Ode on American Earnings A Poem for Campaign 2012 Goldman Sachs ($367,200) Credit Suisse Group ($203,750) Morgan Stanley ($199,800) HIG Capital ($186,500) Barclays ($157,750) Kirkland & Ellis ($132,100) Bank of America ($126,500) PriceWaterhouseCoopers ($118,250) EMC Corp ($117,300) JPMorgan Chase & [...]
How Washington Lies About Cutting Defense Budgets John Glaser, January 04, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum At Reason‘s Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been [...]
Former speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich [EPA] The film “Mission Impossible 4″ opened in US theatre in recent weeks, starring BMW, Apple and Tom Cruise. A two-hour-long commercial on steroids. “I think that we’ve had invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the [...]
My colleague James Fallows, as indispensable on the air-travel beat as he is on all the others he covers, has a good post up recounting his interactions with the Transportation Security Administration during his holiday travels. On this subject he and I are of the same mind: that most of the demeaning [...]
The Occupy movements are a manifestation of the public’s discontent with American social welfare [GALLO/GETTY] San Pedro, California - Last week I wrote about Newt Gingrich‘s incredibly destructive record and mindset. But as I wrote then, “If you want to know why the American political system can’t solve even most routine problems anymore, the reasons are [...]
Newt Gingrich. (AFP) By Jason Lange MANCHESTER, NH (Reuters) — “I’m speaking as a historian.” It’s a common refrain in Newt Gingrich’s speeches, a not-so-subtle reminder of the image he seeks to build as a Republican presidential candidate: that of a serious thinker whose opinions are rooted in an appreciation of the past. [...]
by Miko Peled Miko’s blog 19 December 2011 Mostafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Bahjat Zaalan and his son Ramdan from Gaza died on my fiftieth birthday and just a few days after Newt Gingrich declared them an [...]
] ] Down the Mine and Up the Chimney with Dr. Gingrich By Alexander Cockburn When Newt Gingrich, currently touted as the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination of his party, sees a 6-year-old playing computer games or hanging out in the playground, he [...]
It’s now clear that the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House is Israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu. Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich andMitt ”Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney. Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and [...]
Image via Wikipedia Israel has become a hub of all the world’s racists. (Wikipedia Commons) By Uri Avnery My God, what a bizarre lot these Republican aspirants for the US presidency are! What a sorry bunch of ignoramuses and downright crazies. Or, at best, what a bunch of cheats and cynics! (With [...]
The Politics of Doomsday by CONN HALLINAN In a recent New York Times article the newspaper’s senior science writer, William J. Broad, takes a dig at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s obsession with the possibility of a “nightmarish of doomsday scenarios: a nuclear blast high above the United States that would instantly throw the United [...]
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi invited US Republican Newt Gingrich to visit Palestine as her guest, after the presidential hopeful said Palestinians were an “invented” people.” (MaanImages/Charlotte de Bellabre, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Monday invited US Republican Newt Gingrich to visit Palestine as her guest, after the presidential candidate said the [...]
GILAD ATZMON: THE UNITED STATES OF DENIAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011 AT 2:18PM GILAD ATZMON Newt Gingrich is no doubt a revolutionary political thinker. He has managed to offer an adequate solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. In an interview with Steven Weiss of The Jewish Channel, Gingrich said that the Palestinians are an ‘invented people.’ “I think that [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A top US presidential candidate’s denial of the Palestinian people‘s existence reflects a dark worldview of ignorance and racism, Palestinian officials said Saturday. link http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=443696 The prime minister in Ramallah urged Newt Gingrich to apologize to the Palestinian people, after Gingrich called them “an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs.” “These [...]
Newt: No Such Thing as Palestinians They’re Just Arabs, Insists Presidential Hopeful by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an interview released today by The Jewish Channel (TJC), Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich sought to court the pro-Israel vote by claiming that not only do [...]
The entrance to a block in Wandsworth prison, one of the largest in the UK. Photograph: Antonio Olmos Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice Conservative Texas prides itself on being tough, but it has learned that locking people up is a costly failure reddit this Comments (24) [...]
We Are Already at War With Iran and Failing to Struggle to End It By davidswanson - Posted on 14 November 2011 In this past weekend’s festival of idiocy known as the Republican Presidential Debate, one of the more idiotic of the idiots Newt Gingrich said that if he were president he would murder Iranians [...]
Obama used to refer to longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak as a ‘friend’ of the US – and not as a dictator [EPA] During the past few months, Barack Obama has come under increasing pressure from his would-be Republican opponents, not for secretly subscribing to the faith of the enemy (Obama Muslim-baiting is so 2010), [...]
Ann Jones, The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell Posted by Ann Jones at 9:04am, November 3, 2011. The big war news on the front page of the New York Times last weekend was headlined: “U.S. Is Planning Buildup in Gulf After Iraq Exit.” Its first sentence: “The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military [...]
Occupy Wall Street protester holds a sign while participating in a park near Wall Street in New York [EPA] The first high-profile article to offer a sensible explanation of Occupy Wall Street came from anthropologist David Graeber, author of the recently-published book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In his op-ed, “Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical [...]
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: They want to wipe out all the findings of hundreds of years of scientific investigation and have taken to schools, the courts and political leaders to get things done. September 8, 2011 | A few weeks ago, Jon Huntsman torpedoed his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Rallies for workers’ rights are spreading across the country. In Michigan, over a thousand people rallied at the State Capitol in Lansing to oppose a measure allowing the breaking of labor contracts by placing schools and districts under emergency management. In a scene reminiscent of Wisconsin, hundreds of demonstrators packed the Capitol Rotunda chanting [...]
Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East Share1894 We continue our conversation with world-renowned public intellectual,MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky. Watch Part I of the Interview Democracy Uprising in theUSA?hereusanoam NOAM CHOMSKY: We were talking about unions before. Union busting is criminal activity by the [...]
In 1994 Newt Gingrich pushed for term limits for US congressmen, but was unable to bring them about [GALLO/GETTY] Americans like to think of themselves and their country as a model for the world. Indeed, this attitude of self-congratulation is one of the least attractive aspects of US culture when viewed from abroad, even if [...]
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Photograph: James Leynse/ James Leynse/CORBIS SABA At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image [...]
Newt Gingrich is the latest politician to turn to Twitter, but a large number of his supposed 1.3m followers has turned out to be phony. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Newt Gingrich has always been odd. Even if you share his politics – slashing aid to needy children, telling the world that the seated American president [...]
Newt Gingrich team resign, leaving would-be president high and dry Campaign manager, spokesman and senior strategists cite ‘differences in direction’ but Gingrich ‘committed to running’ Share130 Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 June 2011 23.14 BST Article history Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has already been mired in controversy. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Would-be presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s [...]
AIPAC: The unrivalled lobby The Israel lobby‘s power in Washington is so strong that both Democrats and Republicans fear challenging its agenda. MJ Rosenberg Last Modified: 06 Jun 2011 09:39 Despite being a US lobby group, AIPAC gets its direction from a foreign government [GALLO/GETTY] Not surprisingly, my recent piece on an ugly 1988 experience with the [...]
The Right Word: On liberal media bias For Rush Limbaugh, the deck is so stacked that not even sexual assault charges will disgrace a ‘socialist’ like Strauss-Kahn Share9 Comments (110) Sadhbh Walshe guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 May 2011 17.30 BST Article history Bill O’Reilly The week got off to a disappointing start for Bill O’Reilly with [...]
Gingrich’s presidential bid clouded by his belief in climate change Republicans running for the White House in 2012 are put on the defensive for expressing belief in global warming Share65 Comments (29) A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there were some Republicans who cared about climate change and were not ashamed to have [...]
House panel votes to limit Obama on nuke reduction Email Print Play VideoBarack Obama Video:Newt Gingrich on his 2012 Run, Part 1 FOX News Play VideoBarack Obama Video:AP Top Stories AP Play VideoBarack Obama Video:Obama’s visit to Texas boosts campaign funding KVUE-TV Austin By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press – Wed May 11, 8:15 pm ET WASHINGTON – A House panel [...]
Glenn Greenwald, the Salon.com legal blogger, explains why he is a strong supporter of WikiLeaks, and discusses its recent revelation that the U.S. imprisoned more than 150 innocent men for years without charge in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. “If you think that government secrecy is one of the gravest threats to how [...]
