You won't hear it put this way by anyone in Washington, but the main reason cuts to the defense budget are worrying officials is that they make it more difficult to police the world. In Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel suggest a cost-saving measure...
Despite new rules put into place by Congress in 2009 prohibiting the use of open air trash-burning pits on U.S overseas bases -- yes, the same pits that countless numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and their doctors, say have caused irreparable harm to their...
We in ComeHomeAmerica (www.ComeHomeAmerica.US) condemn our government’s war on Syria, prosecuted first with sanctions, then with covert support through “allies” like the dictatorial petro-monarchies of the Gulf and now with overt provision of arms for the...
There are rumors that the Obama administration is considering a "zero option" in Afghanistan - that is, abandoning plans to leave a significant residual force there to train Afghans, perform special operations against the Taliban, and bolster the enfeebled Afghan...
Mos Def participated in a demonstration of the force-feeding procedures that more than 40 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike are being subjected to everyday. It's less pleasant than you probably imagined. The United Nations has already said this practice amounts to...
Robert Merry at The National Interest laments President Obama's wishy-washy stance on the events in Egypt. Following the second overthrow of the government in as many years, "one might ask where Obama has stood on the momentous questions facing the Egyptian polity in...
Here's a poster being held in Egypt's Tahrir Square: Source here.
According to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 2010 the Department of Homeland Security considered the possibility of arming their border drones with "expendables or non-lethal weapons.” There are currently ten Border Patrol drones, the...
Usually one needs a hypothetical to make a point this clearly and strongly. Egypt's Freedom and Justice Newspaper, the privately-owned newspaper of the nation's former ruling party, has found itself completely out of luck today when they found out that the printing...
Thomas Drake after his speech The Restore the Fourth organization had a rally at McPherson Square in downtown DC on this July 4th afternoon. They had several excellent speakers - including Libertarian Party's Carla Howell, CEI's Ryan Radia, Cato's Julian Sanchez,...
