Bob Dreyfuss
Bob Dreyfuss is an independent journalist based in New York City and Cape May, New Jersey. For the past twenty-five years, he’s written extensively on politics and national security for a wide range of publications. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Nation, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, Slate, Salon, and many other magazines and websites.
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Views Friday, November 29, 2013 Block the US-Afghan Security Agreement! Despite strong objections from President Hamid Karzai, the United States insists that Afghanistan must sign, as written, a Bilateral Security Agreement that sets the framework for another decade of US occupation of that war-torn nation. Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 23, 2013 Afghanistan: The Occupation, Part II Meet the new occupation: same as the old occupation! Or pretty much: not as many troops, not as many dead and wounded every week, but still. In the new US-Afghanistan accord—which may or may not be ratified early next week by President Hamid Karzai’s Loya Jirga, and which may or may not be signed until some in mid-2014—the United States will be able to maintain as many as nine military bases in Afghanistan . Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 05, 2013 American Death Spiral in the Middle East Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Can Congress, Hawks and the Israel Lobby Wreck the US-Iran Talks? The Obama administration is working hard to head off a wrecking ball from Congress and the Israel lobby aimed at sabotaging negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. The talks, which resume in November, also include direct talks between the United States and Iran. Read more |
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Views Monday, September 09, 2013 Obama Plans 'Shock and Awe' in Syria President Obama’s plan to have Congress approve his ill-considered war on behalf of Al Qaeda in Syria will shock everyone, when it happens, with its sheer intensity. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 26, 2013 No War with Syria! Read more |
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Views Friday, June 14, 2013 Obama Tumbles Down Syria's Slippery Slope Here’s the thing about a slippery slope: sometimes you maintain your footing and don’t go tumbling down, and sometimes you slip and slide right into disaster. With the apparent decision to arm the Syrian rebels, President Obama looks like he’s going to go kersplat! Read more |
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Views Friday, May 10, 2013 Against Connecting Terrorist 'Dots' Can we stop talking about “connecting dots”? Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 17, 2012 Obama Fiddling While Gaza Burns In 2008–09, during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead invasion of Gaza that left 1,400 Palestinians dead and no good accomplished, the George W. Bush administration famously dithered and sat on the sidelines, all the while defending Israel’s right to “self-defense.” In 2012, will President Obama do the same? Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Romney's Libya Comments Kowtow to Anti-Muslim Bigots Mitt Romney has, for all intents and purposes, pretty much disqualified himself for the presidency by his intemperate comments in regard to the murder of the US ambassador in Libya. Read more |