The Cato Institute has posted this graphic putting the impending automatic defense cuts in context: See here and here for more Antiwar.com coverage of sequestration.
Sequestration: Not the Draconian Cuts You’ve Heard About
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Kazakhstan, a human rights disaster, hosts Iran Talks
Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan and Central...
Sophisticated American Statecraft: Making Poor, Sick Iranian Civilians Suffer
From the beginning of the Obama administration's savage economic sanctions on Iran, Antiwar.com has been highlighting the humanitarian costs of such policies. The sanctions are not only undermining the Iranian economy in the form of high unemployment, inflation, etc....
Budget Cuts May Impede Pentagon’s Ability to ‘Address WikiLeaks’
One unfortunate consequence of the heroic work of WikiLeaks to uncover government crimes was that it prompted the government to be even more radical in their classification procedures and their crackdown on whistleblowers. The good news is that excessive secrecy is...
Don’t Confirm Brennan, Torture AND Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
Senator Rand Paul is not the only one with serious questions about the nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director! Many people are rightly concerned that the CIA Nominee failed to provide a clear answer to Paul's question: "Do you believe that the president has the...
Why the Chinese Cyber Threat is a Bunch of Baloney
The Obama White House seems to be launching a public relations campaign against China, drumming up hatred and fear about alleged cyber-espionage activities of the Chinese government against the US. The President is reportedly even considering imposing economic...
Washington’s Brazen Hypocrisy
Over at the Lew Rockwell blog, Michael Rozeff makes a fine point on Washington's skyrocketing hypocrisy: Obama supports a UN treaty on what a US official terms "illicit arms trafficking and proliferation". At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending...
Stop doing what you’re not doing? AGAIN?
Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...
Hollywood Confers Sainthood on Warmonger Lincoln (Again)
The Lincoln movie is on the verge of picking up a heap of Oscars at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. That movie did not quite capture Honest Abe's full record. I was raised in a county that was devastated (and lost much of its population) as a result of...
Libertarians, Conservatives, and Ann Coulter
I was going to resist posting this aggravating video-gone-viral today, but I've decided to spread the aggravation around. If I got stuck hearing Ann Coulter speak as if she knows about libertarians and war, then you must too. John Stossel hosts a show once a year at...
