Uzi Arad, Netanyahu Aide, Visa In Question, Posing Early 'Test Of Wills' For New Governments
WASHINGTON, Apr 2 (IPS) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led governme...
WASHINGTON, Apr 2 (IPS) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led governme...
John L. Esposito | Posted 04.29.2009 | World
President Obama has the desire, vision and intelligence to reach out to the broader Muslim world. But will he do what no recent American president has done and take the political risk to resist pressures?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
It seems to have finally dawned on government leaders that bonus recipients are not the only ones who should be afraid.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
After news of Freeman's appointment was leaked, a group of Chinese dissidents, including pro-democracy activists from the Tiananmen Square protests, wrote a letter to Obama protesting the decision.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Obama's refusal to come to Freeman's defense will make it all the more difficult for the president to challenge future right-wing attacks on his administration's policies in the Middle East and beyond.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Last week Chas Freeman, who was nominated to be the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, was forced to withdraw from consideration because o...
Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Here's the reality behind the Freeman debacle: worried about Obama, suffering the effects of Gaza, and about to be burdened with the Netanyahu-Lieberman problem, the Israel lobby is running scared.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
Those who successfully challenged the nomination of Charles W. Freeman, Jr. to become chairman of the National Intelligence Council should be praised for an act of high patriotism.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
The Washington Post finds itself in a state of paradox on a single issue, if you compare the words of its reporter to the words of its editor.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who reportedly urged President Obama against the selection of Chas Freeman to serve in a top intelligence posit...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Freeman may be gone, but the rancor left behind by the gutting of his nomination will not go away quickly.
Washington Post | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
The withdrawal of a senior intelligence adviser after an online campaign to prevent him from taking office has ignited a debate over whether powerful ...
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
For nearly three weeks, the nomination of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council has been a hot-button issue among bloggers. ...
Marc Aminder | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
On Monday I recorded an episode of blogging heads with Brian Beutler on the subject of Charles Freeman. I took the position that, since Freeman had ma...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Below is Chas Freeman's full statement following his decision not to serve as National Intelligence Council chairman. * * * * * You will by now ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- A former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia resigned Tuesday from his new post as chairman of the National Intelligence Council following c...
Ira Forman | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
No side comes out smelling clean when it engages in this mudslinging. However, we progressives should make a particular effort to avoid calling our opponents unpatriotic.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
The folks trying to defeat Chas Freeman's appointment are trying hard to switch the ostensible reason for their dislike of him from Israel policy to Chinese human rights. It's not working.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
All seven Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee joined the chorus of criticism on Capitol Hill over the Obama administration's naming of a ...
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
Freeman remarked that of 3 major changes to effectively combat terror, one was that "the United States should implement a national identity system, so we better know who is who."
Time | Joe Klein | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
I've been loathe to join the argument about whether the veteran diplomat Chas Freeman should be hired to lead the National Intelligence Council. I don...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan's Civil War? Facts: Gunmen attack the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday and...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
The effort to force Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chas Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council is all about Israel.
The Plum Line | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Senator Charles Schumer has privately expressed concerns directly to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about Chas Freeman, the Obama administrat...
Inter Press Service | Stephen Green | Posted 05.03.2009 | World