By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – I and others have been noting that Senator Rand Paul is particularly prone to shoot from the lip when it comes to foreign policy, raising serious concerns about his judgment if he should ever be elected president. Paul has surrounded himself with his father’s former advisers, who failed Ron in his electoral bid, […]
Al-Akhbar – Updated August 1 at 00:32 pm (GMT+3): The Gaza health ministry has confirmed the deaths of at least 1,441 Palestinians in the besieged strip since Israel began its relentless assault on July 8. Among those killed, at least 324 were aged 18 or younger. At least 12 children were killed by Israeli forces on Monday, […]
By Clovis Maksoud. Al Monitor – In the July 8 Haaretz, US President Barack Obama published an article written on the occasion of Haaretz’s Israel Conference on Peace. The thrust of Obama’s piece was an emphatic reassurance to Israel’s leaders that “The security relationship between Israel and the United States is stronger than ever.” He wrote, ”Our militaries conduct more exercises […]
France 24 – With 40,000 military reservists called up, another ground offensive by Israel against Gaza seems likely. The kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager that followed have provoked a situation that had been brewing since the recent failure of US-brokered peace […]
Talk show rhetoric doesn’t equal good intelligence on the domestic danger posed by Iraq’s terrorists. By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Americans have become so accustomed to going to war based on lies that they hardly flinch when the latest round of bellicose innuendo surfaces. The public knows that Iraq was a foreign policy disaster, […]
By Phillip Giraldi. UNZ – The United States military should consider itself lucky that it only has Bowe Bergdahl. During the Vietnam War nearly 420,000 soldiers deserted, which means that they left their posts without any intent to return or failed to show up for deployment. Those who were gone for more than a month were administratively categorized as […]
The Jewish Daily Forward – Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris. The two men, identified only by their last names, Bismuth and Benhamou, were sentenced on June 20 by a judge from the Versailles Correctional Tribunal to six months […]
By Francis Boyle. Media With Conscience – I first met Fouad in December of 1976 when I interviewed for a job as an assistant professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University when he was already on the Faculty there as an assistant professor. My faculty lecture was highly critical of Israel, strongly supportive […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a thoughtful article by Stephen Kinzer on America’s destructive role in the world and its consequences for the United States and the world. My only quibble with this article is the assertion that the “intended result” of America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was “to prevent Iraq from becoming a […]
The House’s Defense Appropriations Bill gives the Iron Dome anti-missile system $131 million more than funding in the previous fiscal year provided. Haaretz – The U.S. House of Representatives increased funding for Israel’s missile defense systems. Included in the House’s Defense Appropriations Bill approved last week is $351 million for the Iron Dome anti-missile system, […]
