In the news section, I critique some of Senator Rand Paul's foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. One aspect of the article that I could not elaborate on is Sen. Paul's support for sanctions against Iran. Following his speech yesterday, I was...
This week it was revealed for the first time that the CIA has a secret airbase in Saudi Arabia from which it has been launching drone strikes for targeted killings in Yemen for at least the past two years. The news media is reporting, and reiterating for emphasis,...
The leaked Justice Department memo detailing the Obama administration's legal rationale for killing US citizens without charge or trial or judicial review or any publicly available evidence of their guilt has raised a lot of questions. One of them, which doesn't get...
Shadi Hamid, of the Brookings Institution, thinks "we have overlearned the lessons" of Iraq and unfairly let it inform decisions about whether to intervene militarily in Syria: The memory of the Iraq War obviously looms large. The war, itself, was one of the greatest...
The US-led sanctions on Iran are strangling the economy: unemployment is high, inflation is rampant, prices of food and other basic necessities are becoming prohibitively expensive. Washington claims the sanctions are meant to punish and coerce the Iranian government,...
The top officials in the Bush administration were not ones to let the law get in their way. If they wanted to torture and detain people beyond what any conceivable interpretation of US law, even in Guantanamo, could allow, they were going to do it. The solution, they...
Efforts to ban the military from sponsoring NASCAR cars on the grounds that they are a waste of money and simply don't work have so far been foiled, with efforts to add a ban to military spending bill being removed after the fact. Controversy around it was enough to...
Israeli officials loudly and eagerly condemn the right of return as it relates to Palestinians stuck in multi-generational refugee camps across the region, but the Israeli government itself recognizes the right of return, if you're a member of the right religion....
In the US and Israel, there is an obsession with Iran as this grave threat and their secret nuclear weapons program (which doesn't exist) as Israel's death knell. In order to believe this incredible tale, one must accept the claim that Iran's leaders are suicidal...
For decades, Israel has claimed that Palestinian school books teach pupils to hate Israel and Jews. This sent a strong signal to pro-Israel voices in Washington to tell lies, like when Newt Gingrich falsely claimed in a Republican presidential debate in December 2011...
