Stephen Walt at Foreign Policy has just written a piece on nationalism, which he calls the most important political force in the world. It's a nice read, but focuses too little on the central theme of my recent piece on nationalism. That is, nationalism as an...
There is popular and political resistance in Iraq to an extension of U.S. troop presence. However, some of the leadership, including Prime Minister Maliki, is vying for military and security "trainers" to stay beyond 2012. These people are undoubtedly the ones feeling...
Decorated CIA operative with extensive contacts in the Middle East, Robert Baer, declares: There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also...
George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan (of the blog Econlog, author of the wonderful book The Myth of the Rational Voter) and his colleague in the Mason Law department Ilya Somin (of the Volokh conspiracy blog) debated pacifism and libertarian foreign policy...
The Pentagon reiterated today what we've known for some time now: the freedom of the internet, and that freedom which we are afforded by it, is a threat to the government. That's why they released their "cybersecurity plan" which designated the internet an...
Glenn Greenwald yet again dismantles the lies and smears that were used against Bradley Manning by Adrian Lamo and Wired magazine. This must read piece really questions the journalistic integrity of Wired as well as the honesty of Lamo, both of which are being used to...
A new expose from the Nation by Jeremy Scahill detailing the CIA's same, old dirty tricks is certainly troubling. Candidate Obama assured the American public that extrajudicial actions by the CIA and Defense Department were a thing of the past. Transparency, much like...
Over at Econlog, Arnold Kling directs us to this interesting and much needed article arguing that the IMF has "outlived its purpose." Excerpt: Now, before Tunisia and Egypt even have new governments in place, the IMF has jumped to offer them loans for vast...
Jeremy Scahill's excellent report at The Nation magazine exposes secret CIA prisons which confine uncharged individuals in terribly inhumane conditions without access to legal council, a Somali intelligence agency supported and trained by the CIA, and on the ground...
The case of Manadel al-Jamadi, the Abu Ghraib prisoner who in 2003 was hung from his arms twisted behind his back, beaten, and tortured to death at the hands of U.S. interrogators in Iraq, is in the news again. AP reports: A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's...
