Democrats

The phony war over which U.S. party loves Israel most

by News Sources 01.11.2012

Josh Ruebner writes: “No Aid to Israel?” wonders a recent Facebook ad sponsored by US President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. “Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich say they would start foreign aid to Israel at zero. Reject their extreme plan now!” the ad implores, directing people to sign a petition to that effect on [...]

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Van Jones and Democratic Party operatives: You do not represent the Occupy Movement

by News Sources 11.25.2011

Kevin Zeese writes: The corporate media is anointing a false leader of the Occupy Movement in Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream.  The former Obama administration official, who received a golden parachute at Princeton and the Democratic think tank Center for American Progress when he left the administration, is doing what Democrats always do—see the [...]

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Occupy Wall Street: The primary the president never had?

by News Sources 10.27.2011

Matt Stoller writes: It’s been a little over a month since this bolt of political lightning known as Occupy Wall Street jolted through the political establishment. It’s time to assess just what Occupy Wall Street has gotten done. That it has accomplished a great deal is beyond dispute. Franklin Foer in the New Republic and [...]

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Meet New York City’s terror-linked political kingmaker

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Max Blumenthal writes: Bob Turner, the Republican candidate campaigning to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, picked up a crucial endorsement last week when Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind threw his support to him. Hikind is the former leader of the the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which the FBI lists as a terror organization. He was [...]

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We’ve been warned: the system is ready to blow

by News Sources 08.15.2011

From Britain, Larry Elliott writes: For the past two centuries and more, life in Britain has been governed by a simple concept: tomorrow will be better than today. Black August has given us a glimpse of a dystopia, one in which the financial markets buckle and the cities burn. Like Scrooge, we have been shown [...]

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Philip Weiss responds to DailyKos censorship and smear

by News Sources 07.28.2011

At Mondoweiss, Philip Weiss writes: DailyKos has acted to ban commenters from linking to Mondoweiss, charging me with anti-Semitism. It is a disgraceful smear and hides DailyKos’s real anxiety: it cannot deal with the issue of Palestinian human rights, any more than the Democratic Party can, and so Israel supporters are striking at me. Their [...]

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‘The Left has nowhere to go’

by News Sources 01.04.2011

Chris Hedges writes: Ralph Nader in a CNN poll a few days before the 2008 presidential election had an estimated 3 percent of the electorate, or about 4 million people, behind his candidacy. But once the votes were counted, his support dwindled to a little over 700,000. Nader believes that many of his supporters entered [...]

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Lieberman’s TEA party and dual loyalty

by Paul Woodward 05.07.2010

Joe Lieberman’s Terrorist Expatriation Act is designed to strip the constitutional rights from any American who is accused of supporting terrorism, but the political sentiment he’s tapping into is simply, America first. Does Lieberman have no concern about where this might go? How about this New Yorker who Max Blumenthal interviewed recently? Presumably she’s an [...]

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Why liberals kill

by Paul Woodward 10.20.2009

Why liberals kill By Thaddeus Russell, The Daily Beast, October 17, 2009 The left may be pressuring President Obama to exit Afghanistan. But their heroes—from FDR to JFK—promoted U.S. involvement in more wars than all modern GOP presidents combined. Should President Barack Obama continue his escalation of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it will [...]

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NEWS & ANALYSIS: War funding

by Paul Woodward 11.19.2007

Pentagon is left scrambling to pay for war By Gordon Lubold, Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2007 Congress’s failure last week to agree whether and how to fund the war puts the onus on the Pentagon, at least for now, to find a way to cover expenses in Iraq, potentially forcing the Defense Department to [...]

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NEWS: The not-so hidden costs of war

by Paul Woodward 11.13.2007

‘Hidden costs’ double price of two wars, Democrats say By Josh White, Washington Post, November 13, 2007 The economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, according to a new study by congressional Democrats that estimates the conflicts’ “hidden costs”– including higher oil prices, [...]

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REVIEW: The Second Civil War

by Paul Woodward 11.13.2007

Division of the U.S. didn’t occur overnight By Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, November 13, 2007 During President George W. Bush’s first term, one of his senior political advisers summed up the prevailing philosophy at the White House like this: “This is not designed to be a 55 percent presidency,” he said. “This is designed [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The options table

by Paul Woodward 11.13.2007

Will wou attack Iran? By Ezra Klein, The American Prospect, November 8, 2007 In the last few weeks, the Democratic field has settled on an attack against the frontrunner: Doublespeak. “I believe Senator Clinton should be held to the same standard that every one of us should be held to,” says John Edwards. “Tell the [...]

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OPINION: Pseudo-antiwar Democrats

by Paul Woodward 10.25.2007

The trap that is Iraq By Tom Oliphant, The Guardian, October 24, 2007 Hidden in plain sight is the one issue still capable of blowing up the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. It isn’t Iran, outsider-insider, lobbyist relations or healthcare. It’s the war in Iraq. The mass media illusion – and also delusion – [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The phoenix of preventive war arises from Syrian ashes

by Paul Woodward 10.14.2007

Preemption, Israeli style By Joshua Muravchik, Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2007 Last month, one of the more mysterious episodes in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict began to leak slowly into the news. Although the facts are still unconfirmed, what seems to have happened has major implications not only for the region but even [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Putin, Clinton, and the GOP buffoons on Iran and the end of the world

by Paul Woodward 10.10.2007

Putin: no proof Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons By Mark Tran, The Guardian, October 10, 2007 There is no proof Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said today. But he said Tehran should make its atomic activity “as transparent as possible”. “We do not have data that [...]

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OPINION: Upholding the Constitution

by Paul Woodward 10.07.2007

How Congress forgot its own strength By Mario Cuomo, New York Times, October 7, 2007 Senators Jim Webb of Virginia and Hillary Clinton of New York are right to demand that the president go before Congress to ask for a “declaration of war” before proceeding with an attack against Iran or any other nation. But [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The Democrats’ failure to challenge Bush’s Mideast policies

by Paul Woodward 10.02.2007

How the Democrats blew it By Gary Kamiya, Salon, October 2, 2007 The fact that Democrats have eagerly participated in Bush and the neocons’ campaign to demonize Iran shows that they have learned nothing from Iraq. The Democrats know that Bush lives in his own world outside the “reality-based community,” one in which rational behavior [...]

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EDITORIAL: The future of democracy depends on abandoning the war metaphor

by Paul Woodward 08.03.2007

The future of democracy depends on abandoning the war metaphor By Paul Woodward, War in Context, August 3, 2007 If presidential candidates can’t come up with some intelligent foreign policy positions, it’s time that they followed State Department advice: shut up — at least for a while. In just three days we’ve heard candidates proposing [...]

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