Could he [Mr. Obama] order the targeted killing of an American citizen [cleric Anwar al-Awlaki], in a country with which the United States was not at war [Yemen], in secret and without the benefit of a trial? The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel prepared a...
I can anticipate all the objections. Regardless, keeping Bradley Manning's name in the press increases the chances that some justice, somewhere might be served. From Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Margrét Tryggvadóttir, Members of the Icelandic Parliament: We have the great...
Resisting Drone in Missouri by Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence The United States District Courthouse in Jefferson City, Missouri, is a modern and graceful structure sitting on a bluff over the Missouri River. Less than one year old, it...
Cato's Julian Sanchez takes a dark grim look at President Obama's kill list. Yes, kill list. No irony quotes necessary.
From the Tenth Amendment Center: Los Angeles Event shows how States and Local Communities Can Stop NDAA Indefinite Detention As Congress focused last week on the so-called “indefinite detention” provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder finally explained why it's legal for him to annihilate you on a hunch. The nation's liberals arose as one to condemn this brazen attack on American principles of... Hehe, just kidding. The nation's liberals were all listening to...
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responds to a question about the legality of assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki: This individual was clearly a terrorist. And yes, he was a citizen, but if you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist. And that means that we have the ability to...
Kelley B. Vlahos along with military veterans Daniel Lakemacher and Students for Liberty's Peter Neiger will be appearing at an Antiwar Break Out Session at the 2011 Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, October...
By Coleen Rowley (with editing assistance from Hugh Iglarsh, writer/editor/citizen based in Chicago) These two words sum up well the op-ed I co-wrote with Bogdan Dzakovic before the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks last year, a shortened version of...
Don't forget to sign the open letter to Obama and Congress to end the wars: ComeHomeAmerica.usIN THIS ISSUEMission accomplished in Iraq?Libyan civil war is far from overThe expensive deterioration of AfghanistanTen years since 9/11Israel’s struggles with Turkey and...
