The State Department report on human rights says that U.S.-trained security forces in Mexico have "engaged in unlawful killings, forced disappearances, and instances of physical abuse and torture" in the U.S.-led war on drugs. Mike Riggs at Reason contacted the DEA...
Antiwar.com has obtained several more photos of the alleged police infiltrators, known by the aliases "Mo" and "Gloves," both of whom were allegedly tasked with acting as informants in the arrests of the group of NATO Summit activists know popularly known as the "NATO...
Julian Sanchez at the Cato Institute on the renewal of the FISA Amendment Act and the lawless surveillance state: It’s been almost four years since the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 put President Bush’s warrantless wiretap program on legal footing by authorizing broad,...
The long-awaited P5+1 talks with Iran took place today in Baghdad, with disappointing results. While the U.S. and its allies called for Iran to stop enriching uranium at 20 percent levels in exchange for delivery of the medical isotopes Iran is creating with the 20...
As talks between Iran the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) conclude, all parties should be commended for returning to the negotiating table. Obama should be commended for having turned diplomacy into a process rather than...
RT: Lawmakers in New York State are proposing new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet. Republican Assemblyman Jim Conte says that...
A lot of people are puzzling over the Obama Adminstration's stance on the P5+1 talks going on in Baghdad right now. In particular, the administration has said that even if a deal is reached with Iran at the summit, they aren't going to remove any sanctions from them...
From the indispensable Just Foreign Policy: Help Rand Paul Call the Question on War with Iran Sen. Rand Paul introducing his amendment to S. 2101. Before we have any military conflict with Iran, the Senate and the House should have at least one debate and vote on it....
Under statutory mandates, Congress is required to impose automatic budget cuts if an agreement on "debt reduction" is not reached. It is already clear Congress is ignoring its own self-imposed requirements, which Americans overwhelmingly support. As I recently wrote:...
In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A democratically elected congressman of the United States...
