A day after leaving Media Matters For America, I feel a need for an explanation beyond what I posted at the MMFA site. It was provoked by all the rig...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 01.03.2012
Wasting no time after its success in getting the administration to oppose Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, and still celebrating the UNESCO funding cut-off, the lobby has returned to its #1 priority: pushing for war with Iran.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.12.2011
Wall Street and Big Coal corporations have no better friend than Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the "prince of pork" and powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
The Americans' insistence on rewarding the Israeli party that puts obstacles in the way of peace only encourages that party to come up with even more obstacles as the talks enter more difficult stages.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Now it's war. AIPAC is putting out everything it has on Steve Rosen and Rosen is about to put out everything he has on AIPAC. If he does -- he won't, it appears, if AIPAC pays him off -- it is probably the end of the organization.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The usual suspects have been warning President Barack Obama almost since Inauguration Day that there would be a literal price to pay if he assumed the...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands of Israelis have been killed as a result of policies that the conservative "pro-Israel" lobby has supported. Yet they sail on, never looking back, labeling anyone who opposes the status quo "anti-Israel."
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
One hoped that the neoconservatives would have disappeared after Bush left office and the Iraq War proved to be a disaster. But they are still around and pushing for a war with Iran, which they want even more than the last one.
Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
During his first few years in Congress representing the sprawling 3rd Congressional District on Colorado's Western Slope, Republican Scott McInnis was...
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly a quarter of all Americans are currently underwater in their mortgage, and if you are one of them, chances are you didn't do anything wrong. You didn't cause this mess. They did.
Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011
At the same time President Barack Obama was insisting the nation needed a stimulus plan to save the drowning economy, one industry was swimming in dou...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The men and women of the flotilla had every right to attempt to destroy an illegal blockade that Israel had no legal standing to impose and which was designed to inflict collective punishment on the people of Gaza.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
It is Israel, not the Palestinians, that is going down the tubes. All the Palestinians have to do is cover their heads, stay away from Israeli soldiers, and watch Israel unravel.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
I understand what is going on at AIPAC right now. I know it because I volunteered there for a year back in the 1970's and then had a senior job there in the 1980's. But times and people change. So do institutions.
Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 05.25.2011
Kudos to U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) for criticizing TV ads running in Montana and around the country which claim that Congressional efforts to rei...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
The lobbying industry demonstrated its resilience last year in the face of the recession and is fully expected to smash previous spending records. On ...
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011
So let me get this straight. President Barack Obama makes a clarion call to reform healthcare so that the 30 million Americans (not including the 12 m...
Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011
Democratic lawmakers topped a list of the "most corrupt members of Congress" released by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in ...
Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011
A nominee for a high-level position in the Department of Homeland Security has come under fire for her failure to disclose past work as a lobbyist. T...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
I made 10 short videos about health care reform. I wasn't hired to do it, I wasn't asked to do it. I just did it because the issue is important to me personally, to my family and to my country. And I did it because I could.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011
A one-year moratorium on lobbying would help change the debate from universal health insurance to actual universal health care.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
I am admittedly crazy. It's just one of my preexisting conditions, probably. (Diabetes is the big one, though.) A couple of months ago, I left my safe...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaking at the pro Israel lobby, Obama, who is being seen world wide as a potentially global president, turned on every promise he made during the run up to the nomination.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.07.2012