Anthony Gregory on Libertarians and the Ukraine Crisis
March 26, 2014
Despite Justin’s attempts to place me in the the same camp as the neocons, Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute has written a balanced and principled piece on this controversy. Here’s an excerpt: So what should we think? We should probably take a middle ground between B and C. Putin isn’t just an aggressor; he’s […]
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Where Libertarians Should Really Stand on Crimea
March 26, 2014
John Glaser’s blog post on Crimea is typically American – i.e. it is bathed in unconscious albeit ferocious nationalism. He starts out by accusing me of excusing “the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic.” The crimes of foreign governments are the responsibility of the people who live in those countries: […]
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Where a Libertarian Should Stand on Crimea
March 26, 2014
In opposing and challenging U.S. foreign policy, there is a tendency among some in the libertarian movement to excuse the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic. Fundamentally, I believe this represents a grave bias that has no place in the liberty movement. Recent statements by Ron Paul have been interpreted […]
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Oops…Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Expanded the Empire in Europe
March 25, 2014
At the National Interest, Cato’s Ted Galen Carpenter argues Washington’s Eastern European NATO allies “are dangerous strategic liabilities, not assets.” NATO, he writes, has worn out its strategic value and expanding it as we have since the end of the Cold War merely serves to destabilize Europe by provoking Russia and giving us “crises” like […]
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The Myths Behind the Allied Bombing Campaigns of WWII
March 25, 2014
In the New York Times, Ben Macintyre reviews the new book by Richard Overy The Bombers and the Bombed. Macintyre gives a summary of Overy’s myth-busting about the Allied bombing of Germany. Indiscriminate bombing of civilians, instead of sticking to military targets, is usually defended as (1) a response to similarly indiscriminate bombing campaigns by […]
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Egypt Kangaroo Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters to Death
March 24, 2014
The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was "shocked" and that the verdict defies logic. “While appeals are possible, it simply does not seem possible that a fair review of evidence […]
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The Cyber Double Standard: The Fundamental Hypocrisy of US Power
March 24, 2014
In September 2012, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. government considers cyber-attacks to constitute acts of war that can justly be countered with conventional retaliation. “Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department’s top lawyer said Tuesday,” the report stated clearly. The […]
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Rep. Mike Rogers Is A Liar
March 24, 2014
Rep. Mike Rogers, one of the most doggedly pro-NSA figures in Congress, is once again making claims for which he presents zero evidence and which contradict findings from the intelligence community. Specifically, he is going on television to claim Edward Snowden is a double agent for the Russians. New York Times: A top congressional intelligence […]
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Spy Chief James Clapper Wins Rosemary Award
March 24, 2014
The National Security Archive, an organization founded “to check rising government secrecy,” has awarded its annual Rosemary Award to James Clapper “for worst open government performance in 2013,” chiefly for his now infamous lie to Sen. Ron Wyden that the NSA doesn’t collect information on millions of Americans. Despite heavy competition, Clapper’s “No, sir” lie […]
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Breaking the Law
March 22, 2014
Who violated international law, Russia or the US? We did get UN authority to threaten Saddam Hussein but not to invade. Our country attacked Iraq with no provocation except for threats of nuclear weapons that turned out to be false. We killed probably well over 100,000 Iraqis and around 4,489 American soldiers. What did we […]
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