IN THIS ISSUE Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne! Top News Opinion and analysis ‘War is the Health of the State’ Randolph Bourne came into this world 122 years ago this past Wednesday. Antiwar.com "named our sponsoring organization, the Randolph Bourne Institute,...
Eric Holder Possibly Considers Tweaking DOJ Leak Investigation Guidelines in ‘Productive’ Off the Record Meeting With Press
Today Attorney General Eric Holder held a meeting -- the second of three -- with journalists from high-profile organizations including the ABC, The Wall Street Journal, and POLITICO, in order to discuss how to placate them during any potential, future Department of...
In Revenge, ‘We Would Kill 100 US Soldiers,’ Says Afghan
The unprovoked massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales drew shock and horror from people all over the world when it happened last year. And it should have. An American soldier, armed to the teeth, committed one of the most heinous atrocities of...
Surprise! Washington Post Sides With Hawks Over New War Powers
It's always amusing when one hears talk about The Washington Post being part of the liberal mainstream media conspiracy. The 136-year-old newspaper, known for its breaking of "Watergate" and subsequent downfall of President Richard N. Nixon in the 1970's, is hardly...
How Partisanship Enables Government Criminality
Democrat/Republican noun 1: one who selectively applies stated values From the moment Barack Obama was elected, he resolved to immunize Bush officials from all legal retribution and public accountability for the crimes they committed. As it has become almost trite...
Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne
Randolph Bourne entered this world, on this day 122 years ago, the victim of a mishap caused by someone who didn’t know how to use forceps: his face was badly deformed for life. Stacking the deck against him even higher, at age 8 he came down with tuberculosis, one...
Is There a Way to Stop Police and Military Drones Without Stifling Private Innovation?
Airplanes have been used to rain death down onto hundreds of thousands of people in their 100-odd years of existence. They also changed the way that people travel. A six month wagon trip turned into a three day train trip turns into a six hour plane flight. That's...
Don’t Believe the Scary Headlines of Impending US War in Syria
National security reporter Josh Rogin published a big scoop on Syria yesterday: "The White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria." According to one administration official, "The White House is still in contemplation mode but the...
Does John Yoo Advocate Terrorism?
For too long I've been focused on the ruthlessness of President Obama's drone war. Indeed, he targets individuals he can't even identify and, out of the approximately 4,000 people killed, less than 2 percent have been senior al-Qaeda members. The administration...
The Iraq War is Not Over for the Iraqi People
In 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg stated the following, in language that was introduced by Judge Robert Jackson, the lead American prosecutor of Axis war criminals: To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime;...


