Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014. The reason, according to the Cato...
"Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture," Human Rights Watch said in a report this week. “Rounding up kids, throwing them in jail and beating and threatening them is no...
The just announced U.S.-Russia agreement in Geneva on a “joint determination to ensure the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons (CW) program in the soonest and safest manner” sounds the death knell to an attempt by Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to get the U.S....
Nicholas Kristof responds to Justin Raimondo (at 01:15):
Over at Foreign Policy, Will Marshall laments the fact that America's position of "global leader" is being "strained" by a GOP that is "increasingly in thrall to libertarian ideas." If only this renewed skepticism towards unwarranted, unpopular, and illegal wars - he...
A hilarious take on an all-too-real state of mind. (Important note to overly-serious readers: this is satire):
Pat Buchanan on Fox News yesterday:
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that "the CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures." "The shipments," the...
The following is an excerpt from Democracy Now, in which Noam Chomsky responds to Obama's Tuesday night Syria speech: "Well, the Russian plan is a godsend for Obama. It saves him from what would look like a very serious political defeat. He has not been able to obtain...
