Imad Abdullah Hassan, a Yemeni detainee in Guantanamo that has spent 12 years in a cage without ever being charged with a crime, is suing President Obama. He says the forced feeding he has been subjected to in order to disrupt his hunger strike amounts to torture. At...
Edward Snowden spoke today via video feed to an audience at this year's South by Southwest. Here is the full discussion:
When news hit last week that China's defense spending will increase by 12.2 percent this year to $132 billion, pundits and politicians told us to be scared. I'm not: Via Ian Bremmer in Politico. Note that this is using a conservative estimate of U.S. military and...
Last week, I argued in a piece at Reason that Russia did not decide to intervene militarily in Ukraine because of alleged "weakness" on the part of U.S. foreign policy, despite what hawks would have us believe. The talking point, especially but not exclusively from...
Henry Kissinger, architect of the destruction of Indochina and secretary of state to one of America's most corrupt leaders, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post yesterday making arguments that, if uttered on any of the cable news shows, would be condemned as...
Worth a watch from CNN's Jake Tapper: Pretty much everything that comes out of the mouths of the Democrat and Republican talking heads is ideologically driven and devoid of substance. This also adds to my argument at Reason.com that Russia's foreign policy is...
According to a YouGov poll conducted this week, only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has "any responsibility" to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. "has any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade" "Americans are more...
Amnesty International came out with a report last week documenting cases of abuse and killings by the Israeli army in the West Bank over the time period of January 2011 to December 2013. The report documents "the killings of 22 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank,"...
Below is a video of the talk Scott Horton and I gave at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC this month. We were initially scheduled to give the talk together, but due to weather conditions Scott was delayed. I handle the first half of...
Writing in the Boston Globe about the U.S.-Russian jockeying in Ukraine, Stephen Kinzer has it exactly right: From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other...
