The recent uptick in drug-related violence in Mexico has been met with the predictable sledgehammer-like martial responses and pledges of harsh crackdowns by Washington. President Obama said the "United States is and will remain a partner in this fight" against drug...
I'm always impressed by the mainstream's ability to completely ignore the lies and illegality of the Washington leadership, and the case of Libya has exemplified that sort of willful ignorance. We know the rap sheet by heart at this point: waging a war without the...
The National Football League, which almost went dark this season because the front office and NFLPA couldn't agree on the terms of their players' gazillion-dollar contracts, is launching its 2011 season on Sunday, the 10-year mark of the 9/11 attacks. If the very idea...
For years and contrary to all the evidence, many opponents of Obama have denied that he accepted American exceptionalism, and they have tried to interpret everything he has done according to this completely false assumption. - Daniel Larison, March 29, 2011 For some...
The discovery of old intelligence files in Tripoli is yet another example of hypocrisy and America's extremely shortsighted foreign policy. While Libyan and American intelligence sharing and cooperation was not a secret, the cache of files reveals how deeply connected...
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As usual, most of the mainstream media did not do a very good job reporting on Obama's August 30 speech in Minneapolis nor on the protest outside the National Convention of the American Legion to whom he spoke (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, FOX...
From Antiwar.com writer and ally Rick Rozoff: WordPress suspended the Stop NATO site from posting any new material earlier today, with this announcement: "Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as...
A cable labeled 04HOCHIMINHCITY367 Sensitive and For Official Use Only describes the 2004 efforts by Microsoft to convince US officials of the importance of pressuring the Vietnamese government to switch entirely to Windows as an operating system. The cable, which was...
I've written a guest blog over at the Silver Circle Underground, a blog related to a forthcoming sci-fi film about a future revolt against the Federal Reserve. I was asked to write about what US foreign policy will be like in 2019, when the film is set. I've...
