The strategy behind Israel embarrassing the United States with their recent announcement on building new settlements in East Jerusalem doesn’t require much dissection or analysis. The Israel right wing has seen the Obama Administration as an enemy from day one – an administration, they believe, that is inimical to the Israeli state. It’s no wonder [...]
Posted in War of Misinformation on November 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now.
First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president to go f**k himself.
In only a matter of weeks, Obama bends over on the Israeli settlement issue and lets Netanyahu have his way with [...]
Posted in War of Misinformation on September 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
Thank God for Jimmy Carter.
But I still have to wonder why it’s Carter’s job to report facts – wasn’t that supposed to be the job of journalists?
After the “9/12” protests last week, the news media tried to convince us that this represented a legitimate argument again Obama’s policies. We were told these were “real” fears [...]
The stupidity and arrogance of our government has never ceased to amaze me, but the latest dust-up over secret CIA plans to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders is truly Orwellian.
Apparently, long ago, in an administration far, far away, some Bush adviser actually had a brain. Imagine this: instead of dropping bombs from unmanned drones on remote [...]
After last Friday’s bombing that killed 25 at a Shiite mosque in Zahedan, Iran, Press TV (an Iranian-funded news outlet) ran the headline:
Iran mosque blast bears ‘US, Israel thumbprints’
Of course, the two Iranian officials quoted in the brief story didn’t offer any evidence – merely that the attack was “at the behest of the United [...]