Stories written by PhilipGiraldi
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – The key component of the Israel Lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is the most powerful foreign policy lobby in Washington. It exists only to maintain and increase United States support for Israel, no matter what Israel does and no matter what the actual American interests might be. […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – There has been a flurry of articles about the possibility that Jonathan Pollard, convicted Israeli spy who is now languishing in a North Carolina prison, might be released by President Barack Obama as a gesture to revive the moribund Middle East peace talks. Media accounts from Israel suggest that Secretary of State […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com – I am going to explain why Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s meticulously documented account tells the tale of how the government […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a New York Times editorial which comes remarkably close to assigning blame for the inevitable failure of the Kerry round of the perpetual “peace process” to Israel. John Kerry, in an unguarded moment of honesty, did the same thing during his recent “poof” testimony to Congress … before the State Department launched […]
Haaretz – Some 60 young, mainly Israeli, travelers have been arrested at a Peruvian archaeological site for what local media are describing as a late-night drunken, drug-addled sex orgy, Channel 2’s Mako website reported Tuesday. A Peruvian TV station billed the event as “a night of Israeli debauchery.” Stolen Inca artifacts, as well as marijuana and […]
By Jonathan Cook. The National – For the first time since the US launched the Middle East peace talks last summer, the Palestinian leadership may be sensing it has a tiny bit of leverage. Barack Obama met the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Washington last week in what Palestinian officials called a “candid and difficult” […]
The Senate Intelligence Committee is as sclerotic and turf-obsessed as the agency it’s meant to regulate. By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Government bureaucracies, like many private sector businesses, are initially created in response to a perceived need either to do something or provide a service. The Department of Defense in its current incarnation […]
By Philip Giraldi. UNZ – Harvard Professor Stephen Walt has described the current contretemps over Ukraine as “geostrategic incompetence of the highest order” on the part of the White House. Seconding that I would add that the central problem with the Obama foreign policy, guided as it is by a bundle of poorly defined principles, is that […]
By Philip Giraldi. AntiWar.com – Mitt Romney is the kind of guy who just never goes away, even when you really, really want him to. Readers will recall that Mitt had some funny ideas about foreign policy back in 2012, insisting that Russia was our “number one geopolitical foe.” He is now at it again, explaining what […]
By Richard Silverstein. RichardSilverstein.com – In the second case in which an Israeli either serving as, or running for president has been accused of sexual harassment, Israel’s News1 reveals that senior minister Silvan Shalom is being accused of engaging in a sex act with a subordinate in 1999. At the time, he was minister of science and technology. Shalom […]
