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February 15, 2021
Can Iran nuclear deal be salvaged?
Bill Weinberg

President Joe Biden's pledge to rebuild the Iran nuclear deal is already deteriorating into a deadlock—a testament to the effectiveness of the Trump-era intrigues that sabotaged the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Biden and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei have each traded "You Go First" statements—the White House demanding Tehran return to compliance with the JCPOA and Khamenei insisting the US lift the sanctions that were re-imposed by Trump. There is indeed a case that the US, having abrogated the pact first, should now be the party to "blink" in the stand-off, and lift the sanctions as a good-faith measure.

President Joe Biden’s pledge to rebuild the Iran nuclear deal is already deteriorating into a deadlock—a testament to the effectiveness of the Trump-era intrigues that sabotaged the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). On Feb.

February 4, 2017
White nationalist-Zionist alliance fraying already?
Bill Weinberg

Reports of White House tension between white nationalist Steve Bannon and hardline Zionist Jared Kushner point to contradictions in Trump's alliance.

When we first noted the strange alliance of the Trump White House, we observed that we will now see how much overt Nazism conservative Jews and Zionists will be able to stomach in exchange for an aggressively pro-Israel position.

December 5, 2016
Jared Kushner: bad for the Jews
Bill Weinberg

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, a hard-right Zionist appointed to be "special envoy" to the Middle East, is also a sleazy New York landlord. Way to play into the anti-Semitic stereotypes, Donald and Jared.

New York's The Villager newspaper provides a profile of Jared Kushner, president-elect Trump's Orthodox Jewish son-in-law who  is apparently being considered as "sp

April 13, 2016
Bernie Sanders must drop Tulsi Gabbard!
Bill Weinberg

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a key supporter of Bernie Sanders, is also a supporter of the genocidal dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Bernie's partisans urgently need to call him on this.

Among the luminaries at the Bernie Sanders rally in Brooklyn's Prospect Park this Sunday, April 17, is to be Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who has emerged as one of the populist candidate's <

June 6, 2013
Samatha Power signals Syria intervention?
Bill Weinberg

Samantha Power's appointment as UN ambassador may signal a determination on the part of the Obama administration that intervention in Syria is inevitable.

The usual frustrating mess.

February 27, 2013
Catholic sex scandal Jewish plot: papal hopeful
Bill Weinberg

Alan Dershowitz calls out papal hopeful Cardinal Maradiaga of Honduras as floating theories about how the Vatican sex scandal was instrumented by the Jews. 

You knew this one was inevitable.

January 5, 2013
Chuck Hagel: revenge of the paleocons?
Bill Weinberg

Leftists are ironically rallying around Chuck Hagel as Obama's apparent pick for Secretary of Defense—a conservative Republican who is wary of the neocons but close to Big Oil.

Talk of former Republican Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel's imminent nomination as Obama's new Secreaty of Defense has sparked all the predictable reactions—but they don't neatly break down along lines of right and left. MondoWeiss says the pick is "setting up a battle between the left and r

July 14, 2012
Neocons diss anti-Semites —yet again... Ho-hum...
Bill Weinberg

The Judeophobic filth that has appeared on MondoWeiss needs to be called out. But once again—why is it only neocon propagandists who will take it on? When will the anti-fascist and anti-Zionist left step up to the plate?

Here we go again. We ourselves have noted before the insidious mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in "progressive" discourse by the likes of the execrable MondoWeiss blog.

December 17, 2011
Paradoxical normalization of anti-Semitism, anti-Arab racism
Bill Weinberg

The simultaneous mainstreaming of the seemingly opposed phenomena of anti-Semitism and anti-Arab racism appears contradictory—for those whose thinking lacks dialectical spark.

The simultaneous mainstreaming of the seemingly opposed phenomena of anti-Semitism and anti-Arab racism appears contradictory—for those whose thinking lacks dialectical spark. Even though it is now only the most hardcore fringe elements of the radical right that espouse both, do not be deluded.

August 12, 2011
Liberal hypocrisy: Whole Foods edition
Malka X

I'm finding it wearisome to be so focused on Israeli issues when most of the people who eat up all the bad shit about Israel and boycott Israeli products kowtow to one of the most sordid companies in America. 

I'm finding it wearisome to be so focused on Israeli issues when most of the people who eat up all the bad shit about Israel and boycott Israeli products kowtow to one of the most sordid companies in America.

July 10, 2011
Syria: US involvement muddies water
Bill Weinberg

The US ambassador visited army-besieged Hama during Friday protests to express "solidarity" with the demonstrators—allowing the Assad regime to portray the protesters as pawns of Western imperialism.

Tens of thousands of people again rallied in the army-beseiged Syrian city of Hama on Friday July 8, calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad.

July 6, 2011
DC grooms Islamists for Arab Thermidor
Bill Weinberg

Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US has made contact with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood—just as the organization has broken ranks with the protesters.

On July 4, clashes again broke out between protesters and security forces in Cairo after a court released on bail seven police officers accused of killing 17 protesters in Suez during the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February. After an initial outburst of violence at the Cairo courthouse, protesters blocked the highway linking the Egyptian capital to the city of Suez.

June 18, 2011
Islamophobes descend on Huma Abedin
Bill Weinberg

In a truly ghastly spectacle, the professional Islamophobe set is descending like a flock of vultures on Huma Abedin, the wife of disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, portraying her as a jihadist agent in a subversive anti-American conspiracy.

In a truly ghastly spectacle, the professional Islamophobe set is descending like a flock of vultures on Huma Abedin, the new wife of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who has notoriously just stepped down after being caught in a "sexting" scandal.

June 4, 2011
Syria: political vultures circle in
Bill Weinberg

Beltway neocons are clearly heartened by the bloodshed, and see it as an opportunity to augment it with US bombardment, as in Libya. The Assad dictatorship meanwhile exploits the Israeli-occupied Golan Druze as a base of support.

February 27, 2011
Islamophobes exploit Lara Logan to discredit Egyptian revolution
Bill Weinberg

On David Horowitz's Front Page Mag, Phyllis Chesler exploits Lara Logan's sexual abuse in Tahrir Square to portray the Egyptian revolution as a hatefest of Islamic extremism.

As we've pointed out, the right is divided on the Egyptian and Arab revolutions—between neocons who have deluded themselves into thinking the Egyptians are following their "regime change" playbook, and more hardcore Islamophobes who can see only a fundamentalist threat in