In a game of chicken of massive and momentous proportions, it appears that Iran’s clerical leadership has...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
Who will win the showdown between brutish theocratic dictatorship and reformism? So far, clearly the thugs backing...
Bibi’s slightly-anticipated speech to the Israeli public in response to Obama’s Cairo speech surprised in a few...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was already the laughingstock of much of the world with his farcical denial of the...
Man, George Mitchell is all over Bibi Netanyahu like white on rice (can you still say that?). ...
In our gun happy culture, it’s no surprise that a convicted felon would gain access to guns...
In less than 24 hours, we will know the winner of Iran’s presidential election–whether Hussein Moussavi, the...
Stand With Us is the new Chabad. The difference is that while Chabad inveigles secular Jews to...
A slightly different version of this post was published earlier today at Comment is Free. Earlier this...
Alana Newhouse, former culture editor at the Forward, has transformed the Nextbook website into an online Jewish...
Last April, I covered the shocking story (How is Our Holocaust Different from All Other Holocausts) of...
The N.Y. Times reports that Iran’s leading moderate presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, leads the incumbent Mahmoud...
