For the last few weeks, we’ve been presenting some of the success stories of 2013. Today, we want to do something a bit different. Let’s talk about some of this year’s losses—AIPAC’s losses, that is. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee—known popularly by its acronym, AIPAC—has acquired a reputation as an organization that pretty much…
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse — Senate Republicans and their friends in the Greater Israel Lobby are using classic McCarthyite smear tactics to try to derail the confirmation of former Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham dug up an unsubstantiated report that Hagel once voiced concern…
(Morning Session) SENATOR CARL LEVIN (D-MI): All right. Alrighty. Here we go. Y’all — are y’all set? Sen. LEVIN: (Sounds gavel.) Good morning, everybody. The committee meets today to consider the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense. But before we begin, I want to first welcome Senator Inhofe as the…
Diplomacy advocate and war skeptic Chuck Hagel is reported to be President Obama’s first choice for Secretary of Defense. Hagel would work to end the war in Afghanistan, avoid war with Iran, and cut the Pentagon budget. Right-wing neocons are organizing a smear campaign to try to scuttle the nomination. Urge your Senators to speak…
The Obama-hating Neocon Right is trying to “Swift Boat” the expected nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense by making up a fantasy scare story that Hagel—a former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, long-respected moderate and thoughtful voice on foreign policy, and decorated Vietnam combat veteran—is “anti-Israel.” The real reason the neocons hate Hagel…