January 28th’s Neoconservative Playbook: Boost Democracy; Bash Muslim...
The response from hawks in Washington to the unraveling situation for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after nearly thirty years in power has been rather telling. Two important talking points are...
View ArticleIsrael Project Covers Up Ties With Iran-Focused Media Organization ‘Réalité-EU’
also by Ali Gharib Posted with permission of Think Progress The Washington- and Jerusalem-based pro-Israel lobby organization The Israel Project (TIP) claims to be dedicated to “get(ting) facts about...
View ArticleA Flailing AIPAC
by Jim Lobe In a remarkable demonstration of the the increasingly vulnerable state into which AIPAC appears to have thrown itself, the Israel lobby’s premier group released a new statement this...
View ArticleWho Are the Billionaires Attacking Obama’s Iran Diplomacy?
by Eli Clifton Since taking the helm of The Israel Project two and a half years ago, former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block has turned the pro-Israel advocacy group into one of the shrillest opponents of...
View ArticleGood Reads on Bibi-Boehner, P5+1 Progress
by Jim Lobe For those who want to keep up with the Bibi-Boehner fiasco and prospects for an agreement between the P5+1 and Iran by the end of March, there has been some good reading material published...
View ArticleFollowing Paul Singer’s Money, Argentina, and Iran (Continued)
by Eli Clifton Last week, Jim and Charles Davis addressed The Washington Post editorial board’s claim that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had pushed an “anti-Semitic conspiracy...
View ArticleTop Ten Ways That Iran Hawks Became Their Own Worst Enemies
by Eli Clifton Opponents of the agreement negotiated by the U.S. and its European allies to limit Iran’s nuclear program haven’t yet given up. There’s still a likelihood that “poison pills” will be...
View ArticleThe Israel Project Boosts An Iranian “Terrorist Organization”
by Ali Gharib Perhaps some right-wing Israel lobby groups can be forgiven for taking up the cause of the exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The more ignorant among them might...
View ArticleFor Hawks, Every American Captive Returned Home Diplomatically is a Failed...
by Eli Clifton This month, opponents of the Iran deal have decided to run with the talking point that the delivery of $400 million to Iran in January was a “ransom payment” for the release of three...
View ArticleNYT’s Argentina Op-Ed Fails to Disclose Authors’ Financial Conflict of Interest
by Eli Clifton On Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of The New York Times to celebrate last...
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