A week and a half ago, I blogged about an ongoing story in Oakley, Michigan, which is not that far from here and which I've been keeping an eye on. People are apparently picking up the story now outside of the local news, and it's getting some new info. For those who...
Though Antiwar.com covers the vast majority of English-language news sites 7 days a week, and 365 days a year, it's inevitable that sometimes we miss stories that received sparse coverage. On Sunday, October 19, an Israeli settler ran over a pair of 5-year-old...
Statist politicians of both the left and the right – John McCain, Robert Reich, Charley Rangel – keep asserting a claim the lives of young people. And if conscription into the military creates resistance, they are always ready with something called "national...
Earlier this week, the federal government's National Science Foundation, an entity created to encourage the study of science – encouragement that it achieves by awarding grants to scholars and universities – announced that it had awarded a grant to study what people...
Imal, a 7-year-old Afghan student in the 2nd grade, came to visit us in Kabul.As Imal grew up, he kept asking his mother where his father was. His mother finally told Imal that his father had been killed by a drone when he was still a baby. If you could see Imal in...
On August 9, 1983, three people dressed as U.S. soldiers saluted their way onto a US military base and climbed a pine tree. The base contained a school training elite Salvadoran and other foreign troops to serve dictatorships back home, with a record of nightmarish...
I lost one of my favorite teachers this week, as did so many other libertarians, not to mention the freedom movement as a whole. Leonard P. Liggio, 81, died after a period of declining health. Leonard was a major influence on my worldview during the nearly 40 years I...
The tiny village of Oakley, Michigan looks fairly unremarkable as you drive through it. Located along the M-52 highway, it consists of little more than a single traffic light, with a bar on one side and a gas station on the other. It's a village of secrets, however,...
Three years ago, during the height of the Occupy movement, I was ejected from a Congressional hearing for allegedly “assaulting” Leon Panetta, then Secretary of Defense and former Director of the CIA. He was testifying to the House Armed Services Committee about...
There is a simple rule that is followed scrupulously by most U.S. commentators of every stripe on world affairs and war.This rule allows strong criticism of the US But major official adversaries of the US, Iran, Russia and China, must never, ever be presented as...
