If you were Vladimir Putin, or President Xi of China, what would you do if you had the entire archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails, classified and unclassified, “deleted” and not, in your hands? What value to you would that be in your next round of...
Ron Paul: State Department Stonewalls On Syria Weapons
Why can't the State Department spokespersons give a straight answer when asked a clear and direct question by the media? And when they do give an answer why is it often such a bold-faced lie? Either it's "I cannot comment on that because there is an ongoing...
Hillary Clinton, Her Email and a Body Blow to the Freedom of Information Act
Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey announced that his agency is recommending no charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of an unclassified personal email server while secretary of state. Comey offered that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a...
Clinton Says She Was ‘Unaware’ She Was Sending Classified Material on Email Server
She never, through the year and a half that the email saga played out, claimed she did not realize she was transmitting highly classified government secrets through her private email server. Until now.A quick recap of Clinton’s explanations about all that classified...
Shurat HaDin versus Facebook: Vexatious Litigation as Warfare
Shurat HaDin, Israel Law Center, characterizes itself as a non-governmental organization “at the forefront of fighting terrorism and safeguarding Jewish rights worldwide.”On July 10, the organization filed a federal lawsuit on alleged behalf of the...
Why it Matters the Dallas Police Used a Drone To Kill Someone in America
The Dallas police ended a standoff with the gunman who killed five officers with a tactic that is unprecedented: it blew him up using a robot.This represents the first time in American history that a drone (wheels for now, maybe wings later) was used to kill an...
Unintended Consequences and the Warfare State
“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences.” So wrote Prime Minister Tony Blair to President George W. Bush in 2002, as Bush prepared to invade Iraq. Blair’s unstinting support of US policy, notwithstanding numerous unknowns and acknowledged...
Time To Rethink NATO
with Alice SlaterDonald Trump angered the D.C. establishment when he said that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, may be obsolete and the U.S. should reassess its spending on the alliance. Hillary Clinton has used Trump's comments as another example that he is...
The Baghdad Bombings, Islamic State, and What America Still Hasn’t Learned
The suicide bombings in Baghdad by Islamic State, timed for maximum violence, are only the latest reminders that the United States should not downplay the group.Since the wave of Islamic State suicide bombings in May – killing 522 people inside Baghdad, and 148 people...
John Walsh: NATO Marches Toward Destruction
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s cry of distress is that of a man watching a tidal wave of destruction gathering force, similar to ones that have engulfed his country twice in the Twentieth Century.Commenting on NATO’s recent military exercises in...


