Tom Blanton's photowork and caption captures the sad finale of Bradley Manning. "Those with proper authority" .... I liked that phrase better when Stephen Colbert uses it. See more of Blanton's artwork & zippety headlines at http://www.pnar.org.
On the bright side, at least Egyptians know the name of the U.S. Ambassador (Anne Patterson). Maybe if we doubled our foreign aid, they would take down at least one of those signs. I have been railing against foreign aid since... hell.... since way back when my beard...
This is the anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Nixon knew that his defense was doomed and chose to throw in the towel without a Senate trial. But President Gerald Ford compounded the damage from Nixon’s presidency when he issued a sweeping...
This is the 49th anniversary of Congress's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War. The resolution was spurred by false assertions of multiple North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships. At...
Bradley Manning got nailed today by a military judge for exposing the truth. The folks who committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq have almost all walked scot-free. The folks who made the policies that led to the abuses have never faced federal charges....
Thomas Drake after his speech The Restore the Fourth organization had a rally at McPherson Square in downtown DC on this July 4th afternoon. They had several excellent speakers - including Libertarian Party's Carla Howell, CEI's Ryan Radia, Cato's Julian Sanchez,...
The New York Times op-ed page has a piece by retired General Wesley Clark headlined: "To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate." The Times summarizes Clark's wisdom: "The threat of force might get talks over Syria moving, as it did in Kosovo." Clark opines as if the...
As Eric mentioned on the blog last week, Charley Reese has passed away. He was one of the nation's best newspaper columnists. I never met him in person but he and I exchanged a few letters. He struck me as the incarnation of a thoughtful, considerate, Southern...
The New York Times' Disunion series has an excellent essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne by Cynthia Wachtell, author of “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.” In 1863, Hawthorne wrote to an English friend: "The war-party here do not look upon...
Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence. It is encouraging that Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan issued a ruling on Thursday declaring US drone strikes in tribal areas in...
