George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan (of the blog Econlog, author of the wonderful book The Myth of the Rational Voter) and his colleague in the Mason Law department Ilya Somin (of the Volokh conspiracy blog) debated pacifism and libertarian foreign policy...
The Pentagon reiterated today what we've known for some time now: the freedom of the internet, and that freedom which we are afforded by it, is a threat to the government. That's why they released their "cybersecurity plan" which designated the internet an...
Glenn Greenwald yet again dismantles the lies and smears that were used against Bradley Manning by Adrian Lamo and Wired magazine. This must read piece really questions the journalistic integrity of Wired as well as the honesty of Lamo, both of which are being used to...
A new expose from the Nation by Jeremy Scahill detailing the CIA's same, old dirty tricks is certainly troubling. Candidate Obama assured the American public that extrajudicial actions by the CIA and Defense Department were a thing of the past. Transparency, much like...
Over at Econlog, Arnold Kling directs us to this interesting and much needed article arguing that the IMF has "outlived its purpose." Excerpt: Now, before Tunisia and Egypt even have new governments in place, the IMF has jumped to offer them loans for vast...
Jeremy Scahill's excellent report at The Nation magazine exposes secret CIA prisons which confine uncharged individuals in terribly inhumane conditions without access to legal council, a Somali intelligence agency supported and trained by the CIA, and on the ground...
The case of Manadel al-Jamadi, the Abu Ghraib prisoner who in 2003 was hung from his arms twisted behind his back, beaten, and tortured to death at the hands of U.S. interrogators in Iraq, is in the news again. AP reports: A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's...
Lebanon and Israel are becoming even more hostile to one another in disputes over natural gas deposits in the Mediterranean. The recent hostilities are due to maritime borders that were approved by Israel's cabinet and sent to the United Nations for approval. This...
Recent reports of Iranian "interference" in Iraq again note a central tendency in imperial culture: we own the world. The talk about Iraqi Shiites using Iranian weapons to fight their American occupiers (which is by no means an established fact) was first, but then...
Despite his campaign promises (a trite phrase at this point), Obama has relentlessly tried to blanket the United States government in secrecy in order to both protect the abusive injustices it engages in from public scrutiny, as well as to ensure the continuance of...
