Via Micah Zenko, the Washington Post last week reminded us of official US policy regarding cyber-warfare: Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department’s top lawyer said...

The Obama administration's decision to remove the Iranian cult Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department's list of officially designated terrorist groups was a long time coming. But no single act by the administration so crystalizes the hypocrisy and...

Economist Robert Higgs famously described the ratchet effect, in which the state uses crises of one kind or another to expand government's power and scope. Often times a crisis will give the state the opportunity to establish measures previously planned for, but...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart   On the surface, it seems like conservatives were for spreading democracy in the Middle East if it was a Republican president imposing regime change and continuing to support dictatorship throughout the region, but against it if...

The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are American citizens with Constitutional rights to due process....

A hidden camera that caught Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising dinner has grabbed a lot of media attention today. Network news is focusing primarily on a single portion of the candid-camera speech in which Romney derides "47 percent" of the population who...

The Obama Administration is creating yet more new computer viruses, according to growing evidence collected by major anti-virus makers. Those viruses start out attacking sites in the Middle East but remember, they don't stay that way. The Stuxnet Worm started out...

The last time anyone saw Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, he was wearing a scarf wrapped around his head as he was being escorted into a police car for a midnight visit to his probation officer. However, TMZ has  uncovered a rare photo of the "producer" of "Innocence of...

The fact that the Syrian rebels have committed war crimes has been found and publicized repeatedly for anyone willing to hear it. In May, a United Nations investigation found that rebel militias were committing atrocities along with Syrian government forces. Again in...