I don’t normally blog hard news here. I usually create what I’d call political or social commentary....
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.
Samuel Johnson once said: “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it...
In my blog post, Why Won’t the Good Lord Shut Pat Robertson Up?, about Robertson citing God’s...
Sometimes it seems that Mideast merry go round just keeps spinning round going nowhere fast. Witness, Ehud...
In the largest single gift to an N.C.A.A. athletic program, the Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens...
Sharon’s heir apparent as leader of the Kadima party, Ehud Olmert, has always struck me as a...
His father, Frank, said he was pained. “I don’t understand the situation that’s engulfed our family,” Frank...
Ariel Sharon celebrates Hanukah hours before his second stroke (photo: Reuters I may’ve spoken prematurely in my...
It’s common knowledge to those following the Abramoff lobbying scandal that Jack Abramoff’s rabbinic confidant was Rabbi...
The Israeli and and international media and physicians themselves are raising serious questions about Ariel Sharon’s medical...
David Grossman: can no man take Sharon’s place? (photo: Vardi Kahana) David Grossman, famed Israeli novelist and...
My blown shot at a national news scoop You remember the old saw: what if a tree...
