One unfortunate consequence of the heroic work of WikiLeaks to uncover government crimes was that it prompted the government to be even more radical in their classification procedures and their crackdown on whistleblowers. The good news is that excessive secrecy is...
Senator Rand Paul is not the only one with serious questions about the nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director! Many people are rightly concerned that the CIA Nominee failed to provide a clear answer to Paul's question: "Do you believe that the president has the...
The Obama White House seems to be launching a public relations campaign against China, drumming up hatred and fear about alleged cyber-espionage activities of the Chinese government against the US. The President is reportedly even considering imposing economic...
Over at the Lew Rockwell blog, Michael Rozeff makes a fine point on Washington's skyrocketing hypocrisy: Obama supports a UN treaty on what a US official terms "illicit arms trafficking and proliferation". At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending...
Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...
The Lincoln movie is on the verge of picking up a heap of Oscars at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. That movie did not quite capture Honest Abe's full record. I was raised in a county that was devastated (and lost much of its population) as a result of...
I was going to resist posting this aggravating video-gone-viral today, but I've decided to spread the aggravation around. If I got stuck hearing Ann Coulter speak as if she knows about libertarians and war, then you must too. John Stossel hosts a show once a year at...
Both Nation reporter Robert Dreyfuss and Harvard professor Stephen Walt point today to a speech given by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he explains why America's rhetoric about returning to negotiations are perceived as dishonest. Do read both...
As has been the case from the beginning, options for intervention in Syria go from bad to worse and the limited meddling by countries on either side is simply prolonging the conflict. Dr. Florence Gaub, a researcher at the NATO Defense College, writes at the Carnegie...
Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat was stopped at LAX on Wednesday for...uh, being Palestinian, it seems? The TSA took temporary custody of him and his family in an isolated room and refused to let him use his cellphone. They wouldn't believe he was...
