Reviving Gitmo Closure as Campaign Issue

Politico: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration is doing everything it can to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before the 2012 presidential elections. Speaking Tuesday at the European Parliament, Holder said the...

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Gallows Humor

My neck will grasp as the rope descends How much the ass weighs in the end. ~Francois Villon Paul Krugman got a lot of applause from progressives last week for blasting the politicians and pundits who "cash[ed] in on the horror" of 9/11. A few days later, as if to...

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Critique of Obama Foreign Policy in 5 Minutes

One thing that I've been discouraged by is the lack of antiwar music. It certainly is out there, but does not come close to what was seen during the Vietnam war era. Perhaps it's because of the lack of awareness due to our consumption culture, reality TV nation, or...

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Inventing Palestinian Bigotry for Political Gain

Last week, Jamie Weinstein of the conservative Daily Caller, who I tangoed with over the motivations behind 9/11, wrote a scandalous piece entitled, "Palestinian ambassador reiterates call for a Jew-free Palestinian state." The ambassador in question was Maen Rashid...

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Follow Up to DC Column: Beating the Same Dead Horse

The piece I wrote for the Daily Caller was in response to a piece by Jamie Weinstein, the senior editor there, in which Weinstein denies aggressive US foreign policy had anything to do with the motivations behind 9/11. I relished in an evidence-based response, but to...

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Starve the Beasts of War

The big-money rent-seekers in the military industrial complex have been lobbying hard against cuts to the defense budgets. The so-called "super-committee" - the group of representatives tasked with deciding where to cut - have been the target for that lobbying....

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