November 2011 Archive

The Pentagon-Arab Spring love story

By Pepe Escobar: Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough ...

Answering Judge Goldstone’s defense and denial of Israeli apartheid

By Ali Abunimah: What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against ...

David Brooks Complains That He Can’t Get Access to Inequality Data

By Dean Baker: Actually he didn’t complain about his lack of access to data, but he probably should have given the column he wrote today. Brooks purports to ...

New York Times: A Tale of Two Vetoes

By Michael McGehee: When Charles Dickens began his classic Tale of Two Cities by writing, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was ...