In 2005, eight U.S. Marines massacred 24 Iraqi men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, most of them civilians. Investigations and press reports found that, contrary to the statements of the Marines, they deliberately killed civilians. Nevertheless, not one of the...
Yesterday I wrote about the lies coming out of Washington on defense spending, misrepresenting the minuscule cuts being proposed as slashing the budget and compromising "national security." The truth is that what is being proposed are minor reductions in the rate of...
Obama's re-election campaign may be focusing almost exclusively on domestic economic issues but there are strong forces pushing him and the U.S to war again, this time with Iran. The dangerous brinkmanship with Iran could be alleviated if facts were not being...
Marwa Daoudy has a piece at Al Jazeera titled "The Case Against Military Intervention in Syria" and it is an important read throughout. But the segment I found most instructive was the part describing the incredible pressure towards a U.S. intervention coming from...
At Reason's Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been lying through their...
I wrote last week about the Obama administration's $11 billion deal to send Iraq military arms and equipment, despite the descent into tyranny of the Maliki government. That same day, it was announced that the Obama administration was also sending $30 billion worth of...
In no way do I entirely endorse Micah Zenko's latest post at the Council of Foreign Relations blog, but he does put forth a healthy dose of skepticism about the Iranian nuclear issue and the clambering for war since the IAEA's latest hyperbolic report. Zenko points...
When people talk of "remembering" the service of military soldiers, it's typically associated with vague, irrational, nationalistic appreciation the supposed virtues of taking orders of violence while in uniform. Memorial day is supposed to memorialize the greatness,...
A nice little segment of al Jazeera's series Empire:
An article this weekend from the Washington Post details the growing internal outrage within Israel against members of their Ultra Orthodox community, centered around the Ultra Orthodox's use of Holocaust imagery in a protest against opposition to their calls to...
