ROBERT DREYFUSS Editor of The Dreyfuss Report and author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, Dreyfuss just wrote the piece “Still Preparing to Attack Iran: The Neoconservatives in the Obama Era,” which states: “A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama’s proposed talks with Iran to fail…

VIJAY PRASHAD Prashad just wrote the piece “The Fires in South Asia.” He said today: “Disoriented, the [Indian] state seeks easy solutions: more draconian legislation, more fiery rhetoric, and more warmongering. The Congress [Party]-led government is pushed from the right by the [Hindu nationalist] BJP, which seems to want an instant attack on Pakistan, a…

TIMOTHY CANOVA Canova is professor of international economic law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California. He said today: “The selections of Larry Summers as chair of the National Economic Council and Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary are disappointing. Although President-elect Obama has referred to their ‘sound judgment and fresh thinking,’ when…

The Jerusalem Post reports: “General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann said the international community should consider sanctions against Israel including ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions’ similar to those enacted against South Africa two decades ago.” In his remarks, d’Escoto said: “Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories appear so similar to the apartheid of an earlier…

SARAH ANDERSON JOHN CAVANAGH Anderson is director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and Cavanagh is IPS director. They are co-authors of a new report titled “Skewed Priorities: How the Bailouts Dwarf Other Global Crisis Spending.” They write: “The financial crisis is only one of multiple crises that will affect…

CRAIG HOLMAN Holman is government ethics lobbyist for Public Citizen. He said today: “Bolstered with enthusiastic public support, Obama has a great opportunity for breaking the grip of special interests over Washington. But his transition to the White House — marked with the appointment of several lobbyists and big-money bundlers — is cause for concern.…

BARBARA SMITH Author of The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom and other books, Smith said today: “In the wake of Barack Obama’s historic election there is a lot of talk about racism suddenly becoming a thing of the past. It is true that millions of white people voted for an…

The Washington Post on Tuesday published a piece titled “Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees: Political Positions Shifted to Career Civil Service Job.” Parallel to this process, some whistleblowers and government workers are apparently being forced out. MARSHA COLEMAN-ADEBAYO Coleman-Adebayo is a senior policy analyst and whistleblower at the EPA. She has recently received a…

Media reports indicate that President-elect Obama will be nominating Eric Holder, a former Clinton administration official, as attorney general. The following are available for interviews: JOHN NICHOLS A columnist with The Nation magazine, Nichols just wrote the piece “The Trouble With Eric Holder.” The piece states that “Holder was part of the legal team that…

“I don’t want to just end the war; I want to end the mindset that got us into war.” — Barack Obama Feb. 19, 2008 ROBERT PARRY Parry is editor of ConsortiumNews.com, a reader-supported investigative webpage. His recent pieces include “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates” and “Obama Risks Clinton-Era Mistakes,” which states: “After a…