Breaking news in a case that I have diligently ignored for years: Italian Court Overturns Knox Conviction PERUGIA, Italy—An Italian appeals court on Monday acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, a stunning turnaround in Ms. Knox's yearslong...
Its a pity for Raymond Davis that diplomatic immunity doesn't extend to suburban Denver. Davis, the "consulate employee" (read: CIA assassin) who was arrested in January for murdering two people on the streets of Lahore and started a multi-month diplomatic row between...
great, timely cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker
Antiwar.com's Week in Review | September 30, 2011 Watch Justin Raimondo talk with Judge Andrew Napolitano about Obama's secret wars and the FBI investigation of Antiwar.com at the Antiwar.com blog. Don't miss Scott Horton interview Glenn Greenwald for Antiwar Radio...
I've written extensively about US aid to tyrannies in the Middle East as a method to keep governments in place that will obey US demands and that will prevent the populations from interfering with policymaking. And a government ain't a government without that...
Charlie Savage at the New York Times has a piece up from yesterday citing declassified documents revealing that the Federal Bureau of Investigation often keeps suspects on their terrorist watch list even if they have been found not guilty in a court of law....
A mere day after the forces of light and progress ensured that no American can be deprived of his or her God-given right to kill foreigners, a new crisis of conscience emerged. A Chicago Sun-Times editorial from Sept. 21 has the details: Give military women equal...
As in many other places around the globe, the United States has a bad track record of propping up leaders and groups in Somalia, only to watch them crumble months or years later. Siad Barre, the ruthless military dictator of Somalia, was kept in power by the US until...
Tunisia was the spark of the revolution that is the Arab Spring. The Tunisian foreign minister has announced that the transitional government is ready for elections to take place next month on October 23. The elections will be the first since the overthrow of the...
The Net is abuzz today with the irony, that Peter Van Buren, a 23-year foreign service officer with the U.S Department of State, may be the only department personnel to be fired over the WikiLeaks' scandal. Van Buren, who just published the book, We Meant Well: How I...
