Maybe this post by George Hawley, “Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem,” wasn’t directed at Antiwar.com, but I’ll address some excerpts from it anyway.
In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old Right non-interventionism, I’ve been somewhat uneasy with much of the movement’s rhetoric. Specifically, I often find much [...]
ArsTechnica has a good overview of the $1.8 billion NSA facility being erected in Utah.
Jon Stokes, the author, correctly notes how government organizations are doing a disservice to tax payers for two reasons.
First, there is little empirical data to suggest that the NSA’s current data mining system has been effective at [...]
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever.
To be fair, that is literally progressive.
But why bring up lawbreaking by the Democrats who preceded them? We don’t want to criminalize policy differences do we?
The sooner we stop pretending there is a “rule of law” which binds the power of our government, the better off we’ll all be.
Antiwar.com contributor Neil Kitson will have his day in court in Vancouver Monday. Kitson is seeking information on prisoners taken by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. His requests have thus far been denied.
The hearing is open to the public. For details, check out Neil’s blog.
Since the collapse of Lehman, how many times have both politicians and pundits suggested that wars act as economic stimuli? Aren’t we taught that it was World War II that ultimately got the US out of the Depression?
Worried that the US may not find any war(s) big enough to do the trick again? [...]
Over at Foreign Relations, William Hauser and Jerome Slater have a new idea on how to win the war on terror.
It doesn’t involve eleventy trillion dollars. It doesn’t involve hydrogen filled zeppelins. And it doesn’t involve nuclear-powered rail-guns or telekinetic dolphins. At least not yet.
Give up?
It’s reinstating the draft.
Ah, but you’re opposed [...]
Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed.
Why?
Perhaps this explains it:
So, while a few die hard “24″ fans — and Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey — might still claim confusion about [...]
If so, it’s not because he has associated with Bill Ayers. He did, however, order a terrorist attack on Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don’t commit acts of terrorism, terrorists do. Well, we probably all learned in school that during the French Revolution, the government’s [...]
Fellow Brooklynite Javed Iqbal, 45, today plead guilty to broadcasting Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV programming to US customers. The charge is “providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”
Eric brought this news item to my attention and asked if I wanted to blog about it.
“Not really. What should I add?”
“Add your outrage.”
I paused and thought about [...]
This past week, the head of the Chinese National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) held a press conference noting that “Somebody with a wireless device in the US should expect it to be compromised while he’s there.”
Oh wait, no, that didn’t happen.
In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, the US NCIX told Americans traveling [...]
Wait. A man was sentenced to 66 months in prison, most of which he’s already served and then when he gets out he stays in forever?
Right.
The White House-chosen military panel – not a jury – at Camp Justice at occupied Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, issued a split decision Wednesday in the case of the notorious driver [...]
