Edward Snowden Speaks at SXSW
March 10, 2014
Edward Snowden spoke today via video feed to an audience at this year’s South by Southwest. Here is the full discussion:
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Who’s Scared of China’s Military Budget?
March 10, 2014
When news hit last week that China’s defense spending will increase by 12.2 percent this year to $132 billion, pundits and politicians told us to be scared. I’m not: Via Ian Bremmer in Politico. Note that this is using a conservative estimate of U.S. military and national security spending. There is much in the black […]
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Putting the ‘Weakness’ Argument to Rest
March 10, 2014
Last week, I argued in a piece at Reason that Russia did not decide to intervene militarily in Ukraine because of alleged “weakness” on the part of U.S. foreign policy, despite what hawks would have us believe. The talking point, especially but not exclusively from Republicans, is that Putin saw the Obama administration’s reluctance to […]
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Conservatives for Palestine
March 9, 2014
I am just back from the National Summit to Re-Assess the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship and will file reports of compelling remarks from speakers in days to come. But I want to convey the importance of the conference here. The crowds were impressive. There were close to 300 people inside the National Press Club to hear […]
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Kissinger: Leave Ukraine to Ukrainians
March 7, 2014
Henry Kissinger, architect of the destruction of Indochina and secretary of state to one of America’s most corrupt leaders, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post yesterday making arguments that, if uttered on any of the cable news shows, would be condemned as anti-American. Kissinger’s analysis is a balanced one, in contrast to much of […]
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New Columnist: Lucy Steigerwald
March 5, 2014
I’m so glad we have a brand new columnist in the fabulous Lucy Steigerwald! She’s a columnist for VICE.com, previously worked as an Associate Editor for Reason magazine, and blogs at www.thestagblog.com. She is most angry, she tells us, "about police, prisons, and wars." Well, that’s a start! Today is her first weekly column, which has […]
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Then and Now: Partisan Responses to Russian Actions Under Bush and Obama
March 5, 2014
Worth a watch from CNN’s Jake Tapper: Pretty much everything that comes out of the mouths of the Democrat and Republican talking heads is ideologically driven and devoid of substance. This also adds to my argument at Reason.com that Russia’s foreign policy is consistent, irrespective of alterations, or the lack thereof, in the U.S. approach.
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Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose US Intervention in Ukraine
March 5, 2014
According to a YouGov poll conducted this week, only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has “any responsibility” to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. “has any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade” “Americans are more likely than not to say that the United States has no […]
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Amnesty Intn’l on Israel’s ‘Callous Disregard for Human Life’ and ‘Pattern of War Crimes’
March 5, 2014
Amnesty International came out with a report last week documenting cases of abuse and killings by the Israeli army in the West Bank over the time period of January 2011 to December 2013. The report documents “the killings of 22 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank,” mostly “young adults under the age of 25.” Amnesty reports […]
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John Glaser and Scott Horton: Libertarianism Vs. The Empire
March 4, 2014
Below is a video of the talk Scott Horton and I gave at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC this month. We were initially scheduled to give the talk together, but due to weather conditions Scott was delayed. I handle the first half of the talk and Q&A, and Scott managed to […]
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