London voters just voted out Ken Livingstone, the iconoclast left-wing antiwar mayor and replaced him with the iconoclast right-wing antiwar Boris Johnson. Livingstone was a strong opponent of the Iraq War, and has spoken the connection between an imperialist foreign...
Scott Horton's speech to the Libertarian Longhorns at University of Texas last Monday about war with Iran.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union brought all ports on the US west coast in a one-day protest against the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Union said some 10,000 workers joined the antiwar protest, spurred in part by its belief that big...
In an interview on last Sunday's 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl asked if the term "cruel and unusual punishment" applies to someone "being brutalized by a law enforcement person," Scalia replied: "To the contrary, has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don't...
I think highly of Ivan Eland as a person and as a foreign policy analyst. His piece on today's site on the danger of recruiting into the military people with bad records of behavior is on target. On the way to making his points, though, Ivan writes the following: One...
Just to add a little to last month’s post, “Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts?â€, on Devon Gaffney Cross’ London-based Policy Forum for International Security Affairs, Jeffrey Gedmin’s (?) Case for Freedom, and Anatol Sharansky’s...
After an absence of a couple of weeks, ICasualties.org is coming back online. ICasualties.org is the best source for details on US casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They have compiled an extensive database of this information, which is sortable by state,...
In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as part of Public Law 110-181 (HR 4986), the National Defense...
This morning I received a request to sign an “Economists’ Statement in Support of John McCain’s Economic Plan.†The statement laid out his plans to prevent taxes from rising, to reduce some taxes, such as the corporate income tax, to support free trade...
A couple hundred Ron Paul supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers organized by the Granny Warriors. I stopped by mid afternoon. I was told by one attendee that “Ron Paul came by and spoke around 11:15. Unfortunately, the sound system was...
