The Obama Admniistration has for months been railing against Russian "interference" because the Russian Federation has been advocating a federal system in Ukraine as a way of increasing regional autonomy in the face of secessionist rebellions. Never let it be said...
Before dawn broke in Washington on Saturday, “Ukrainian pro-Russian separatists” – more accurately described as federalists of southeast Ukraine who oppose last February’s coup in Kiev – unloaded desperately needed provisions from some 280 Russian trucks in Luhansk,...
In a brilliant August 17 segment of Last Week Tonight, HBO host John Oliver ripped into small towns that have equipped their police with warlike military equipment. One town was Keene, New Hampshire, where their military-grade armored personnel truck was acquired to...
"And believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy. It’s part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us such a world power." - US President Barack Obama at the DreamWorks Animation facility, November 2013.As sensational as that...
If anyone wants to know what Afghanistan will look like whenever the United States finally gives up its meaningless occupation, take one look at Iraq. After 24 years of perpetual American war in Iraq – an invasion, a decade long no-fly zone, international sanctions, a...
The Ferguson community is rightly outraged over the fatal police-shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the broader problem it represents: how American blacks are treated like a subject population under military occupation. They are also right to be doubly outraged...
In the recent film X-men: Days of Future Past, the "Sentinels" are robots programmed by non-mutant humans in the government to hunt and keep down the feared and marginalized population of "mutants." Eventually, however, their programming undergoes major "mission...
Ron Paul is 79 today Libertarians owe him a great debt, one which can never be repaid. Without him, it's more than likely that our movement would've either gone off the rails, succumbing to opportunism of the worst sort, or else slipped into obscurity, never to be...
Somewhat lost in the first-hand account of last week's helicopter crash by NY Times reporter Alissa Rubin, who was injured in the incident, was a potentially important revelation about the attacks on the Iraqi Yazidi minority. The pilot really made a big impression....
In the wake of the U.S.-engineered coup in Ukraine, the Western Press warns us solemnly and relentlessly that Vladimir Putin is Beelzebub himself, the leader of a vicious and backward Russia. Such deceit is reckless in the extreme since it puts the U.S. at odds with a...
