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Maidhc Ó Cathail: Who will watch the watchdog?
Monday, 12 December 2011, 9:18 am | Maidhc O Cathail
On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “ strong condemnation ” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation there following what it called “ ... More >>
Sanctioning Syria: The Long Road to Damascus
Friday, 18 November 2011, 4:27 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
In 1996, an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, prepared “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” for incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In that seminal report, the Richard Perle-led ... More >>
Territory of Lies:Israeli-Occupied Hearing on Iranian Terror
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 10:32 am | Maidhc O Cathail
In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force – involving a bumbling, failed used-car salesman’s botched attempt to hire a reportedly Mossad-trained Mexican ... More >>
Provoking a Path to Persia
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:14 am | Maidhc O Cathail
In June 2009, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy published “Which Path to Persia?—Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran.” Writing in a tone strikingly reminiscent of the Project for a New American Century’s infamous pre-9/11 paper ... More >>
Max Puts the Boot into Pakistan
Monday, 10 October 2011, 2:53 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
While much attention has been paid to Admiral Mike Mullen’s allegations that Pakistan’s ISI was behind recent attacks on American targets in Afghanistan attributed to the Haqqani network, the subsequent call by an influential neoconservative pundit for ... More >>
Exploiting Norway’s Terror
Monday, 19 September 2011, 1:25 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
In the wake of any major terrorist event, it’s generally worth noting who is especially quick off the mark to exploit the tragedy. Within hours of planes striking the World Trade Center on 9/11, the then former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak was in the ... More >>
Al-Qaeda advances the Israel lobby’s gun control agenda
Friday, 1 July 2011, 5:23 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
On June 3, in an al-Qaeda video rather loftily titled “ You Are Held Responsible Only for Thyself ,” al-Qaeda’s California-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, urged followers to commit violent acts of jihad by exploiting alleged weaknesses in U.S. ... More >>
Pro-Israelis Turning U.S. into Islamophobic Police State
Monday, 13 June 2011, 2:46 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
The recent call by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer for increased rail safety funding and the creation of a “no-ride” list for Amtrak trains is yet another reminder of just who is stoking fear of Muslims in America. More >>
Arab Dissidents’ Strange Bedfellows
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 1:19 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
If it’s true that, as Shakespeare famously put it, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” then pro-democracy Arab dissidents must be very miserable indeed. More >>
Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun?
Monday, 14 March 2011, 2:57 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
On January 12, 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo. Is this the “virtual” smoking gun that indicates ... More >>
WikiLeaks: Advancing an Israeli Agenda?
Saturday, 11 December 2010, 6:51 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
Asked on the night of September 11, 2001 what the terrorist attacks meant for U.S.-Israel relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, the then former prime minister, tactlessly but accurately replied , “It’s very good.” And on the day after WikiLeaks’ publication of ... More >>
Obama’s Israel Policy: Speak softly and carry a big carrot
Friday, 3 December 2010, 4:22 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. More >>
The Truth Will Set U.S. Free
Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 1:12 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
If Israel’s stranglehold over U.S. foreign policy is to be broken, Americans will need to be informed about the harm that Washington’s unconditional support for the Jewish state is doing to American interests, say leading analysts of U.S.-Israeli ... More >>
Who’s Afraid of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?
Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 4:29 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
Whenever someone insists too strongly about something not being true, we tend to suspect that maybe it is. In their denials of involvement in 9/11, do Israel’s apologists “protest too much”? More >>
Quiz: Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
Monday, 15 March 2010, 12:21 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s ... More >>
The Economic Crisis: A Chicago State of Mind
Monday, 8 February 2010, 2:12 pm | Maidhc O Cathail
Worried about the global economic crisis? It’s all in your head, says a leading financial expert. And that’s the problem, according to Jeff Gates, author of the highly-regarded Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street , a sequel ... More >>
