CIA Participated in Smear Campaign Against Juan Cole Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society CIA Participated in Smear Campaign Against Juan Cole Richard Silverstein June 16, 2011 In 2006, I wrote about a nasty smear campaign mounted against Juan Cole, who’d been nominated for... Read More Read more about CIA Participated in Smear Campaign Against Juan Cole
Embarrassing Wikileaks Revelations Concerning U.S.-Israel Relations Mideast Peace Politics & Society Embarrassing Wikileaks Revelations Concerning U.S.-Israel Relations Richard Silverstein November 29, 2010 When the U.S. government began serially apologizing to various nations around the world, including Israel, about what... Read More Read more about Embarrassing Wikileaks Revelations Concerning U.S.-Israel Relations
Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove Mideast Peace Politics & Society Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove Richard Silverstein June 24, 2010 Uzi Arad is one of those Darth Vader-like figures so common in the Israeli intelligence netherworld. He... Read More Read more about Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove
Dick Cheney: U.S. Will Never Pressure Israel Humor Mideast Peace Politics & Society Dick Cheney: U.S. Will Never Pressure Israel Richard Silverstein March 24, 2008 My Israeli friend, Zvi Solow, just wrote me about Dick Cheney’s blessed visit to the Holy Land.... Read More Read more about Dick Cheney: U.S. Will Never Pressure Israel
Cheney to Israel to ‘Advance Peace Talks’–Really Humor Mideast Peace Politics & Society Cheney to Israel to ‘Advance Peace Talks’–Really Richard Silverstein March 11, 2008 In the midst of an otherwise semi-upbeat report on negotiations among Egypt, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Israel... Read More Read more about Cheney to Israel to ‘Advance Peace Talks’–Really
Cheney and the ‘Dirty’ Iraq Timetable Bill Mideast Peace Politics & Society Cheney and the ‘Dirty’ Iraq Timetable Bill Richard Silverstein April 15, 2007 I was struck by Cheney’s language in the following quote from a TV interview today: Vice President... Read More Read more about Cheney and the ‘Dirty’ Iraq Timetable Bill
M.J. Rosenberg on Pelosi’s Mideast Trip Mideast Peace Politics & Society M.J. Rosenberg on Pelosi’s Mideast Trip Richard Silverstein April 6, 2007 M.J. Rosenberg’s just published weekly column on the brouhaha around Nancy Pelosi’s meeting with Syria’s Bashir Assad... Read More Read more about M.J. Rosenberg on Pelosi’s Mideast Trip
Cheney Accuses Pelosi of ‘Bad Behavior’ on Syria Trip Mideast Peace Politics & Society Cheney Accuses Pelosi of ‘Bad Behavior’ on Syria Trip Richard Silverstein April 6, 2007 I’ve been tickled pink to see Nancy Pelosi in Syria meeting with Bashir Assad and countering the... Read More Read more about Cheney Accuses Pelosi of ‘Bad Behavior’ on Syria Trip
Tuning Judith Miller Out Politics & Society Tuning Judith Miller Out Richard Silverstein February 13, 2007 Today’s NY Times notes that neither Scooter Libby nor Uber-President Cheney will testify at the trial. But... Read More Read more about Tuning Judith Miller Out
Dick Cheney and Herbert Hoover, One Thing in Common Mideast Peace Politics & Society Dick Cheney and Herbert Hoover, One Thing in Common Richard Silverstein January 27, 2007 From today’s Maureen Dowd column, Daffy Does Doom (TimesSelect required): Delusional is far too mild a word... Read More Read more about Dick Cheney and Herbert Hoover, One Thing in Common
Cheney Calls November Election Loss Little More Than Opinion Poll Mideast Peace Politics & Society Cheney Calls November Election Loss Little More Than Opinion Poll Richard Silverstein January 20, 2007 Dick Cheney is different than you or me (to paraphrase Fitzgerald). He marches to a different drummer.... Read More Read more about Cheney Calls November Election Loss Little More Than Opinion Poll
Cheney Kept Abreast of Secret Syria-Israel Talks; U.S. Held Secret Talks With Hamas, Hezbollah Mideast Peace Politics & Society Cheney Kept Abreast of Secret Syria-Israel Talks; U.S. Held Secret Talks With Hamas, Hezbollah Richard Silverstein January 17, 2007 While everyone and their brother seems to be falling all over themselves to deny, deny, deny that... Read More Read more about Cheney Kept Abreast of Secret Syria-Israel Talks; U.S. Held Secret Talks With Hamas, Hezbollah