At Reason's Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been lying through their...
I wrote last week about the Obama administration's $11 billion deal to send Iraq military arms and equipment, despite the descent into tyranny of the Maliki government. That same day, it was announced that the Obama administration was also sending $30 billion worth of...
In no way do I entirely endorse Micah Zenko's latest post at the Council of Foreign Relations blog, but he does put forth a healthy dose of skepticism about the Iranian nuclear issue and the clambering for war since the IAEA's latest hyperbolic report. Zenko points...
When people talk of "remembering" the service of military soldiers, it's typically associated with vague, irrational, nationalistic appreciation the supposed virtues of taking orders of violence while in uniform. Memorial day is supposed to memorialize the greatness,...
A nice little segment of al Jazeera's series Empire:
An article this weekend from the Washington Post details the growing internal outrage within Israel against members of their Ultra Orthodox community, centered around the Ultra Orthodox's use of Holocaust imagery in a protest against opposition to their calls to...
Will the Republicans ban sex in 2010 [sic]? Why did those "government-hating," "market-worshipping" Republicans "sacrifice all the workers and retirees"? Why mustn't we despise our corrupt, corporatist governments? Read The Guardian and find out! Well, OK, just read...
One doesn't have to agree with all of Ron Paul's libertarian views to admire his principled anti-interventionism and opposition to America's eternal wars: clearly his foreign policy positions intersect at the point where character meets ideology. In this interview...
Electronic Intifada's Benjamin Doherty shared a video from "Nakba"-awareness group Zochrot - "Remembering" - of a former Palmach fighter who participated in the expulsion of unarmed Palestinian Arabs from their villages in Southern Israel. Amnon Neumann casually...
Pointing out Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's turn towards dictatorship is no longer a fad for opposition members of parliament and voiceless Iraqi subjects. Now it's so blatant that it's recognized by everyone. Even the New York Times. The Obama administration...
