Month: January 2009

Thanks to investigative journalist Gareth Porter we know that in January 2006, when Hamas won a 56 percent majority in the Palestinian parliamentary election, the Bush administration initiated actions to overturn the election...

The events in Gaza have horrified the world. The numerous murdered and wounded civilians are bad enough. But now the Red Cross has released a statement that not only is Israel attacking innocent, starved Gazans, but that those...

Possible Obama envoy backs Hamas outreach “If the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas continues to hold and a Hamas-P.A. reconciliation emerges, the Obama administration should deal with the joint Palestinian leadership...

Back when Al Gore was running against George W. Bush, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about Gore. And I knew a lot of people that couldn’t see much difference between them. I struggled to explain just how evil Bush and...

We’ve become accustomed to the Republicans voting in lockstep and I think many of us just cannot emotionally compute a future where the old paradigms are broken down. It’s true that the Republicans, as a party, are...