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,...
The appalling hubris of the imperial mindset in Washington was on full display yesterday when the U.S. government apparently pressured the governments of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to deny a plane carrying Bolivia's Evo Morales permission to pass through their...
In the midst of continuing anti-government protests, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected the Egyptian Army's 48-hour ultimatum (by now passed) to either call for early elections or step down. On Monday, I noted the acknowledgement of the Morsi regime that...
On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute, Max Boot and Michael Doran are openly arguing for a return to the mafia-like political warfare of the Cold War era. "With the end of the Cold War," they lament unironically, "America's...
