UPDATE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who himself is a former white supremacist, announces a federal civil rights investigation of the Charlottesville massacre. In the meantime, Richard Spencer announces he will return to finish the work he started in Charlottesville. Not happy with killing only one person, he wants to return and kill some … [Read more...]
Bibi: “This is the End, My Friend”
The ominous strains of The Doors, The End, should be playing through the halls of the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. He is beset by four concurrent criminal investigations, any one of which could bring him down, should it result in an indictment. The event that marked the beginning of the end of Netanyahu's nearly forty-year political career was … [Read more...]
Who’s Afraid of Keith Ellison? The Israel Lobby
While Keith Ellison is odds on favorite to win the race as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, we've only just begun to hear from the Israel Lobby on the subject. You might ask: why would the Lobby weigh in at all? To answer this question, you have to return to the FBI wiretap of the Israeli embassy in Washington, which Shamai … [Read more...]
Sanders’ Moral Victory in Iowa
Looks like it's deja vu all over again...Shades of 2008. Remember, Hillary had the primaries and nomination all locked up? Then a funny thing happened on the way to the convention: Iowa. And a guy came from virtually nowhere to win. That was about the time I began supporting Barack Obama. From Iowa, though it was a long, hard road--he hardly looked … [Read more...]