Search
Recent Comments
- PG on Who Is Tony Karon?
- Rigidonv on The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016
- groovy clock on Rice-Olmert-Abbas: End of the Affair
- Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism on What Is Rootless Cosmopolitan?
- Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism - Quick Telecast on What Is Rootless Cosmopolitan?
Author Archives: Tony
Osama: A Preemptive Obit
The revolution is just a T-shirt away… Before leaving for a vacation in South Africa in December of 2001, my editors asked me to prepare an obituary for Osama bin Laden on the assumption that he might well be killed … Continue reading
Posted in From Tony's Archive
8 Comments
Dosunmu’s African Game
My friend Andrew Dosunmu has done an extraordinary book of photographs of African football, capturing the almost subversive joy and exuberance it brings to the global game, and its place in the urban African social fabric. “For me, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Shameless Cronyism
46 Comments
A Whiff of Sulfur…
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez may be an authoritarian-populist demagogue (Winnie rather than Nelson Mandela) who embarrasses more serious Latin American leftists, but he clearly has had the foresight to hire a comedy writer. That much was apparent in his UN … Continue reading
Posted in 99c Blogging
11 Comments
Children of a Lesser God?
Birth pangs of a New Middle East? Imagine, on September 12 2001, Condoleezza Rice had jetted in to town to tell New Yorkers that the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center and the two thousand lives lost there represented … Continue reading
Posted in A Wondering Jew, Situation Report
66 Comments
Memo to Madonna: It’s a Buyer’s Market
A couple of months ago, it was credibly reported that Madonna was looking for a house in Rosh Pina, a northern Israeli town overlooking the Sea of Galilee where, so we were told, she believes the Messiah will arrive. He’ll … Continue reading
Posted in 99c Blogging
15 Comments
Fidel +10
Looks like another marketing triumph by Adidas over Nike: The first photographs of the ailing commandante supremo aimed at showing that he’s on the mend showed that Fidel Castrol has lost none of his inimitable sense of style. That certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Annals of Globalization
12 Comments
Why Lebanon Should Make You Fear a President Hillary
Ethan Bronner in the New York Times asks the question “what would Ariel Sharon have done?” in response to Hizballah’s raid that captured two soldiers. And his answer seems to be, very little: A few air strikes, and then a … Continue reading
Posted in 99c Blogging
4 Comments
Israel Disappoints the Neo-cons in Lebanon Proxy War
Hear, Oh Israel! Charles Krauthammer is disappointed. Very disapppointed. And he clearly speaks for the rest of the neo-conservative fraternity that has worked so hard to destroy any distinction between U.S. interests and Israeli interests. That’s because, as we pointed … Continue reading
Posted in Featured Analysis, Situation Report
62 Comments
Letter from San Quentin
Some months ago, I posted a piece titled “Are Jews White” that used the case of Stephen Liebb, a Jewish convict in San Quentin who is seeking to have himself racially reclassified from “White” to “Other,” to explore the question … Continue reading
Posted in A Wondering Jew
14 Comments
Is Israel Fighting a Proxy War for Washington?
Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said a curious thing Saturday: Israel has recognized reality and is ready for a cease-fire in Lebanon, Nasrallah claimed, but it is the U.S. that insists that it fight on. And if you read the … Continue reading
Posted in 99c Blogging, Situation Report
6 Comments