The one idea interventionists have to solve the Syrian conflict is to eliminate the Assad regime. Regime change is the solution to the humanitarian calamity, they reason, because the Assad is the one doing all the killing. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped,...
War Tax Resisters
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Discredited Conservatives Attack Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy as Naive
When faced with ideas of non-intervention in foreign policy, the most common refrain among hawkish Republicans is that such notions are naive, immature, unrealistic, and "wacko." In reality, it is the foreign policy worldview of the Republican establishment that has...
The Pulitzer Prize Win for NSA Reporting Vindicates Snowden
In a powerful testament to the value of Edward Snowden's decision to leak, the Pulitzer Prize for journalism was awarded to the Guardian and the Washington Post. This came just days after the lead reporters on Snowden's NSA stories - Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras,...
The US’s Invasion of Africa That Nobody Knows About
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it. Hardly anybody knows about it because the government and military refuse to divulge much of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. You see, U.S. foreign...
The Intoxicating Pull of Proxy War Will Worsen Ukraine
The White House has just confirmed what had been reported in Russian media that CIA Director John Brennan was in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev over the weekend. "Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is accusing the CIA of being behind the new government's...
Cities around the country say: Fusion Centers are Wasteful, Fraudulent, and Ineffective
[Cross posted from the People's Constitution Blog of the Board of Rights Defense Committee -- Angela Keaton] Thursday, April 10, 2014 was a National Day of Action against Fusion Centers. Diverse, multiracial grassroots coalitions from around the country held rallies,...
Rumsfeld’s Infuriating Oblivion
Errol Morris's new documentary about Donald Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known, is not as valuable as his last piece The Fog of War, a similarly styled conversation with another former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. The fault is not Morris's, but Rumsfeld's. In The...
Senators Urge Partial Declassification of CIA Torture Report, Keep Vast Majority Secret
Late last week, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post calling for the 6,300+ page Senate report on the CIA's Bush-era torture and interrogation program to be released to the public: The Senate Select Committee on...
A Very Realistic Military Game
Inside Amy SchumerGet More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows Stand up comic and writer Amy Schumer discovers what it means to be "all you can be." For more information on military rape, please read Kelley Vlahos, here, here and here.

