Neocons Panic Over ‘Tea Party’
The tiny but well-placed – and very well-financed – political sect known as the neoconservatives is in panic mode. Discredited by the disastrous war in Iraq, and implicated in the trail of lies that led us into that quagmire, the neocons are deathly afraid...
Tea Party vs. War Party?
The Transparent Cabal
A Cakewalk Against Iran
The War Party
I often make reference to “the War Party” in this space: it's a convenient shorthand, one that evokes an image of something sinister, even Satanic, and this serves my rhetorical purposes well. But if we unpack the concept, and look for examples in real...
Who Owns General Petraeus?
Ann, We Hardly Knew Ye
The "gaffe" (i.e., truth-telling) committed by GOP chairman Michael Steele continues to reverberate from one end of the political spectrum to the other: the latest wave to come crashing onto the shore is Ann "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and...
‘The Surge of Ideas’
Neoconservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
As the right-wing leadership of the organized U.S. Jewish community defends Israel against international condemnation for its deadly seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian supplies for Gaza, a familiar clutch of neoconservative hawks is going on the offensive...