Giving Refuge to Our Criminal Tyrant, Ali Saleh

Longtime U.S. ally and embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is on his way to America, reportedly to seek medical treatment. This decision to come to the U.S. was made after Saleh apparently gave up trying to muscle his way back into the power structure in...

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The Futility of Peace Talks in Afghanistan

James Dobbins of the RAND Corp. has written a piece which basically says the Obama administration's recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban is not a sign that the war is coming to an end. He compares it with peace talks between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese,...

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What is War Good For?

Antiwar.com columnist, Econlog blogger, and economics professor David Henderson appeared on John Stossel's show on the Fox Business channel last night. Henderson debated regular Fox contributor Colonel David Hunt on "war, Ron Paul's foreign policy views, Israel, 9/11,...

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Even the Establishment Doesn’t Want War With Iran

Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has a piece at the Daily Beast which warns not just against starting a war with Iran, but against "letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized...

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SOPA, and Why We’re Not Blacked Out

Today is the day digital activists protest the Internet-censorship bill known as SOPA by symbolically blacking out their websites. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a megacorporate-written scheme to "protect" entertainment and media conglomerates' intellectual...

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