Another so-called "price tag" attack occurred this morning in a village near the West Bank city of Salfit. "Israeli settlers," according to reports, "set fire to the main entrance of the Broqeen Mosque, and a number of Palestinian cars parked nearby." The...
Secret War, Forever War, and the Irrelevance of the Constitution
Charles P. Pierce has a nice piece in Esquire about Obama's secret wars, waged entirely inside the Executive and almost totally independent of Congress, in explicit contravention of the Constitution and what every notable American revolutionary in the late 18th...
State Dept. to ‘Fund’ Gay Rights Overseas
Let's leave aside whether State Dept. cash can actually buy gay rights in places like our close allies Uganda, which may soon punish homosexuality with death. I'd like to focus on the sheer hypocrisy of the United States government, responsible for the deaths and...
Libertarian Commissars Proclaim Jon Huntsman Safe as Milk
TPM reveals the presidential preferences of D.C. libertarians: Libertarians in Washington are not happy about how the Republican primary is shaping up. Barring a miracle, there are two candidates with a decent shot at the nomination. Mitt Romney, the godfather of...
U.S. Military Bases in the Middle East
Via Lew Rockwell, a map of U.S. military bases in the Middle East:
The One-State Solution
Today presented another illustration of daily life for Palestinians in the West Bank. About 15 Palestinians were evicted from their homes by the Israeli state, only to watch those homes be demolished before their eyes "under the pretext that it was not licensed by the...
Screwing Over Secular Liberal Egyptians, Yet Again
Egypt's ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri as the new prime minister. According to Issandr El Amrani, "Ganzouri was prime minister between 1996 and 1999 and was known for his autocratic style, his...
Obama Should Veto NDAA to Save the Republic
The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military empire. On Thursday, the US Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...
Rape and Morality in Kabul and Washington
Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to pardon an imprisoned woman for the crime of being raped, on the one condition that she marry the man that raped her. This sick tyrant gets billions in American tax money and protection from our Brave Men & Women in Uniform....
WikiLeaks Spy Files Expose Surveillance Industrial Complex
WikiLeaks Spy files project should go a long way in educating the public about how intrusive and privacy-violating the government is and how this new high-tech industry - the surveillance industrial complex, as some are calling it - is enabling ever-more authoritarian...


