Obama’s Israel Policy: Speak softly and carry a very big carrot
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were...
Read MoreMaidhc Ó Cathail writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. He also edits The Passionate Attachment blog (http://thepassionateattachment.com/).
Posted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Dec 4, 2010 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were...
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Nov 21, 2010 | Middle East, Palestine, Viewpoints |
Couldn’t the Baghdad church massacre also be seen as an attempt to “subvert and fragment” Palestinian unity? With “brothers” like al-Qaeda, who needs enemies?
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Nov 9, 2010 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to their avowed enemies.
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Oct 29, 2010 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Helen Keller’s pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice “between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois.
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Oct 17, 2010 | News & Analysis, US |
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the...
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Aug 18, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer” prove a negative. Iraq was invaded because it couldn’t prove that it didn’t have WMDs. Iran is under constant...
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Jul 3, 2010 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since 9/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the “global war...
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | May 31, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbor, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | May 3, 2010 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Israel’s nuclear espionage against the United States didn’t end with its accession to the nuclear club in the late 1960s, however. As former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds revealed, its smuggling network received crucial assistance from three high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration.
Read MorePosted by Maidhc Ó Cathail | Apr 7, 2010 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Whenever someone insists too strongly about something not being true, we tend to suspect that maybe it is. In their denials of involvement in 9/11, do Israel’s apologists “protest too much”? While it would take a small book to adequately document the Israeli connection to 9/11—as Antiwar.com editor Justin Raimondo has attempted in The Terror Enigma—let us briefly recall some of the more intriguing facts as reported in the mainstream media, involving dancing Israelis, Odigo warnings, and Zim’s timely move.
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