Senator Rand Paul has generated a firestorm over his apparent flip-flop on drones used by the US government to kill American citizens on US soil. Last month, Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor was the most sweeping denunciation of the Obama...
Judge faces off against Fox News people who think they can pick and choose when rights to due process apply and when they don't:
You don't need a PhD in international relations, or even an impressive IQ, to see that recent statements by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stressing Israel's right to attack Iran are just words. The White House, intelligence community, and Defense Department see it...
One of the bombshell findings in Jeremy Scahill's new book Dirty Wars, is revealed in a piece just published in Nation excerpted from the book. A former senior official in the Obama administration tells Scahill that John Brennan, current CIA Director and the...
Lindsey Graham's predictable argument post-Marathon bombing that the suspects should be treated as enemy combatants and tried in military commissions was the sort of role we have come to expect him to play. He is perhaps the foremost jingo in the US Senate and is...
This video is a shocking example of the total lockdown of an entire city and the virtual martial law that took over to find a single 19-year old. While watching it, remember that none of this ostentatious security theater helped to find the suspect. And it was only...
Yesterday I attended a press conference held by the brand new Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, an educational 501(c)(3) that will collect and produce news and commentary on US foreign policy and put on seminars to teach primarily young people about...
“You better be damn sure, as sure as you can be, before you get into something, because once you’re into it, there isn’t any backing out, whether it’s a no-fly zone, safe zone, protect these — whatever it is," Hagel said later during questioning. "Once you’re in, you...
"The Obama administration does not intend to send a witness to testify at a Senate hearing next week on the legality of the U.S. targeted killing program," McClatchy reports the White House as saying Wednesday. The decision illustrates the limits of President Barack...
In condemnation of the Boston Marathon bombings today, Obama said, "any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror." Embarrassingly, Obama inadvertently described his own drone war as terrorism, given that he "counts all military-age...
