Washington Examiner: Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently appeared on Russian television to discuss the current crisis in his country. He reiterated what he has held for months as the primary impetus behind his harsh crackdown on protesters: outside interference is fomenting the...
It's a sad day when those on the left end of the political spectrum understand Frédéric Bastiat's simple economic lesson of the seen and the unseen better than billionaire businessmen. But something tells me they know better. Fear-mongering estimates about the...
So there is talk of Obama ending the Iraq War? And planning to draw down in Afghanistan sometime soon? Well, yes and no, on a number of levels. As we know, the decision to not keep thousands of US troops in Iraq was forced upon the Obama administration by the Iraqis,...
It's amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration's increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I've written previously, the Uzbek government is one of the worst human...
The US government is supporting whatever kind of tyranny it can get its hands on in Honduras, the state and its corporate colluders. The coup government, police, and military are all benefiting from lavish US support and the corporatist feudal drug lords and their...
I finally got around to reading the Michael Hastings piece in Rolling Stone on Obama's decision to go into Libya. Regrettably, I think Hastings is far too forgiving and simply not critical enough of the administration and perhaps of his sources. I won't respond to the...
I'm currently reading Harvard psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. To read, it is at once a delight and an aggravation. But I'll spare you the book review. For now, I just wanted to...
When Gadhafi was killed, Libya's new leaders in the National Transitional Council made official statements that he had been killed in the crossfire of an ongoing gun fight. That was a lie, and when videos of Gadhafi's capture came out, showing him being severely...
DemocracyNow!: Guatemala has formally apologized to the family of former president Jacobo Arbenz, 57 years after the U.S.-backed coup that ousted him from office. At a ceremony on Thursday, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom asked Arbenz’s family for forgiveness....
