The ADL and the ‘Mosque at Ground Zero’: Is This the End of the Anti-Defamation League? The ADL and the ‘Mosque at Ground Zero’: Is This the End of the Anti-Defamation League?
New York OK's the mosque, but the ADL's reputation suffers what ought to be a fatal blow.
Aug 4, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Affirms Drawdown in Iraq Obama Affirms Drawdown in Iraq
For the drawdown in Iraq, I'll give President Obama credit where it's due. Still, it's a tragedy that even he will not apologize for the criminal destruction of that country by the...
Aug 2, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Newt Gingrich’s Lost Marbles Speech: ‘The Sharians Are Coming! The Sharians Are Coming!’ Newt Gingrich’s Lost Marbles Speech: ‘The Sharians Are Coming! The Sharians Are Coming!’
A psychotic outburst at the American Enterprise Institute.
Aug 2, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
United States, Iran to Restart Talks United States, Iran to Restart Talks
Despite the war cries from the neocons, Washington and Tehran will soon be back at the negotiating table.
Jul 29, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Obama Maneuvers to Contain China: Is He Using the Pentagon to Assert Declining American Power in Asia? Obama Maneuvers to Contain China: Is He Using the Pentagon to Assert Declining American Power in Asia?
Dumb and dumber: Obama edges toward a confrontation with China, the rising superpower.
Jul 27, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force
The Council on American Islamic Relations is making noise about the fact that an extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser was "invited to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers." It sounds like something that might have happened under the administration of President Bush, but no—this happened on Obama's watch. Robert Spencer, co-founder of the group Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), is the culprit. According to CAIR, Spencer was called in recently to pontificate to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force. (The JTTFs are law enforcement and intelligence coalitions that began Washington. Soon every jurisdiction wanted the federal dough for a JTTF, and after 9/11 the number of JTTFs exploded.) "Our nation's law enforcement personnel should not receive training from the head of a hate group that seeks to demonize Islam and to prevent American Muslims from exercising their rights as citizens," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "Robert Spencer is the same individual who claims in his new book that President Obama is waging 'war on America.' " He noted that Spencer recently co-authored the book, "The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America," that sounds a "wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come." According to Loonwatch, the SIOA is so extreme that it seems almost satirical. Like a Tea Party phalanx of radical anti-Muslim bigots, the SIOA says that its goal is educate Americans "about about the threat that Islamic doctrine and those who support it present to our freedoms, and the future of our democracy and country." Its organizers call themselves "scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government," as well as in "the defense of…our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency." Spencer's co-founder, Pamela Geller, is a piece of work, too. Notes CAIR: Geller has posted images on her blog that include a fake photograph of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in a Nazi uniform, another fake image of President Obama urinating on an American flag and drawings purporting to depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad as a pig. In a June 25 blog entry, Geller posted a video claiming that Muslims engage in bestiality. This needs repudiation—or, as Sarah Palin would say, refudiation—from the Justice Department, and quick.
Jul 26, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
The WikiLeaks Papers and the Pakistani Intelligence–Taliban Connection The WikiLeaks Papers and the Pakistani Intelligence–Taliban Connection
The ISI's support of the Taliban has been widely known and reported for years, but the WikiLeaks documents dramatically reinforce that fact.
Jul 26, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Containing China Is A Fool’s Errand. Yet Obama’s Deal with Indonesian Thugs Is Aimed at Exactly That Containing China Is A Fool’s Errand. Yet Obama’s Deal with Indonesian Thugs Is Aimed at Exactly That
Why resuming ties with Indonesia's special forces, Kopassus, ain't such a hot idea.
Jul 23, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Guest Blog: The Insanity of U.S. Intelligence Expansion Guest Blog: The Insanity of U.S. Intelligence Expansion
A retired intelligence officer responds to the Washington Post expose of U.S. intelligence bloat.
Jul 23, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Afghan-Pakistan Connection Key to Deal with Taliban Afghan-Pakistan Connection Key to Deal with Taliban
Is the United States supporting President Karzai's efforts to strike a deal with the Taliban, with Pakistan's help, or not?
Jul 21, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss