The Washington Post reports that the U.S. has decided to "partially resume military aid to Egypt": The United States has decided to resume delivery of Apache helicopters to Egypt, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday, backtracking on a decision officials made last...
"...it would be good to know under what circumstances the White House thinks it can kill Americans without a trial." If Rip Van Winkle awoke just yesterday, he might be dumbfounded at the above sentence. To Americans in the Obama-era, it is an all too relatable...
At least 35 people were killed in Yemen over the weekend in a series of U.S. drone strikes. As usual, government authorities claim those targeted and killed were al-Qaeda members. At least three civilians were confirmed to have been killed, but the true number is...
According to Stephen Aftergood at Secrecy News, a new intelligence directive forbids any official from talking with the media and threatens "termination of employment" or "criminal prosecution" for any violators. The Director of National Intelligence has forbidden...
Spencer Ackerman has a great piece up at the Guardian exploring what is likely to happen to the government's legal justification for holding people under indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay once the U.S.'s combat operations in Afghanistan are over in December. The...
Charles Goyette talks with Ron Paul on their weekly podcast about cattle rustlers, cowboys on horseback, and the Nevada showdown with the BLM. Violence has been averted… for now. But what happens next?And a special conversation with Pat Buchanan who has long been...
The people being targeted in the Obama administration's drone war are "suspects" who deserve due process, renowned linguist and political radical Noam Chomsky said during a talk at Google this month. There's a debate in the United States, Chomsky said, about the...
Determined not to let a good piece of rhetoric go to waste just because it was untrue and discredited nearly 24 hours ago, Western media outlets are running frenzied stories about Jews in the protester-held Eastern Ukraine cities being forced to register, providing a...
Whenever the U.S. gets outraged by the actions of another state, be prepared for elaborate displays of self-deception and hypocrisy. This has surely been on display in the case of the latest outrage in Russia's annexation of Crimea and meddling in Ukraine. At the Cato...
The one idea interventionists have to solve the Syrian conflict is to eliminate the Assad regime. Regime change is the solution to the humanitarian calamity, they reason, because the Assad is the one doing all the killing. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped,...
