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Chalabi ran the little con on Iraq, but Bush ran the bigger one

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Christopher Dickey writes: Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi mathematician, banker, schmoozer, spy and source of dubious intelligence provided to journalists and politicians alike, died today of an apparent heart attack in Baghdad at the age of 71. And at least one breaking news headline called him “the man who drove the U.S. to war in Iraq.” […]

Visions of slaughter: Jennifer Rubin, Rachel Abrams and the Washington Post

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Here’s the post that got this story rolling. It’s written by Rachel Abrams and appears on her blog, Bad Rachel, and is her bloodcurdling response to the release of the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, on October 18: GILAD!!!!!!!!!! He’s free and he’s home in the bosom of his family and his country. Celebrate, Israel, with […]

State Dept funding neocon-Zionist propaganda outfit

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Ali Gharib reports: On Thursday, the U.S. State Department announced a $200,000 grant to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East media watchdog closely aligned with U.S. neoconservatives and Israel’s hawkish security establishment and rightist Likud Party. The grant was awarded “to conduct a project that documents anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and Holocaust […]

John Robertson: Elliot Abrams bangs the drum for war against Iran

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By John Robertson, War in Context, July 11, 2011 Once again, from one of those worthies privileged to call themselves “fellows” of the Council on Foreign Relations, a call for America to suck it up, be strong, hammer those bad guys into submission (and not a word about how much it costs, or how little […]

Does the US have a strategic interest in the success of the Arab democratic revolution?

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One of the most pernicious effects of the Bush era was that the neocons succeeded in turning so many progressives into realists. Before Bush, “the national interest” was correctly viewed as the abiding concern of insular conservatives. It meant that Americans should be concerned with the rest of the world only in as much as […]
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