Thursday, March 21, 2013

A Decade Later and the Iraq Debate Is Still Contaminated With Myths. By Peter Feaver.

A decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths. By Peter Feaver. Foreign Policy, March 17, 2013.

Is the New York Times Inciting a Third Intifada?

Protesters fleeing from tear gas launched by the Israel Defense Forces at a protest in February. In the background, the Israeli settlement of Halamish. Every Friday afternoon since 2009, residents of the West Bank town Nabi Saleh have taken part in demonstrations against the Israeli occupation by marching to a spring that has been taken over by the settlers of Halamish but is on Palestinian-owned land.  Peter van Agtmael/Magnum, for The New York Times.

Inciting Intifada: A New Low for the Times. By Seth Mandel. Commentary, March 18, 2013.

If “Problem” Is Zionism, Peace Isn’t West Bank Activists’ Goal. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, March 17, 2013.

Do Jerusalem Homes Prevent Peace? By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, March 17, 2013.

Zionism is the problem. By Ben Ehrenreich. Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2009.

Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start? By Ben Ehrenreich. New York Times, March 15, 2013. [get pdf when NYTM Mar 17 is available]

The Resisters. Slide Show. New York Times, March 17, 2013.

Kissinger Sees Little Hope for Mideast Peace. By Indira A. R. Lakshmanan.

Kissinger Sees Little Hope for Mideast Peace, Arab Spring. By Indira A. R. Lakshmanan. Bloomberg, March 16, 2013.

The American Roots of Neoliberalism. By Daniel Steadman Jones.

The American Roots of Neoliberalism. By Daniel Steadman Jones. History News Network, March 18, 2013.

Can American Conservatism Be Salvaged? By Richard Striner.

Can American Conservatism Be Salvaged? By Richard Striner. History News Network, March 18, 2013.

Economic Inequality: Should We Call It Sin? By Ron Sider.

Economic Inequality: Should We Call It Sin? By Ron Sider. Sojourners, March 19, 2013.

Obama’s Speech to Israelis, with Commentary by Michael Lerner.

Obama’s Speech to Israelis–the text and my commentary. By Michael Lerner. Tikkun, March 21, 2013.

Obama Quotes Alinsky in Speech to Young Israelis. By Aaron Klein.

Obama quotes Alinsky in speech to young Israelis. By Aaron Klein. Klein Online, March 21, 2013.

Channels main theme of Rules for Radicals book on community organizing.

Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class. By Joel Kotkin.

Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class. By Joel Kotkin. JoelKotkin.com, March 20, 2013.

More Losers Than Winners in America’s New Economic Geography. By Richard Florida. The Atlantic, January 30, 2013.

Did I Abandon My Creative Class Theory? Not So Fast, Joel Kotkin. By Richard Florida. The Daily Beast, March 21, 2013.

Hail to the Hipster? By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, March 21, 2013.

A Decade of Despair in Iraq. By Ahmad Saadawi.

A Decade of Despair. By Ahmad Saadawi. New York Times, March 19, 2013.

The Russians Think We’re Wrecking the World on Purpose.

The Russians Think We’re Wrecking the World on Purpose. By David P. Goldman. Spengler. PJ Media, March 19, 2013.

What Russia Learned From the Iraq War. By Fyodor Lukyanov. Al-Monitor, March 18, 2013.