Event: “What are the True Goals of the Surveillance State?”
September 17, 2013
I will be speaking on “What are the True Goals of the Surveillance State?” on Saturday, September 21 at the Peace Resource Center at 1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside at 2:00 PM PT. Free to the public. Sponsored by Libertarians for Peace, Peace Coalition of Monterey County and the Libertarian Party of Monterey County. For more […]
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Obama Waives Ban on Arming Terrorists So He Can Aid Syrian Rebels
September 17, 2013
The Obama administration promises over and over again they are only sending arms to secular, freedom-loving Syrian rebels, not those Islamic jihadists associated with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. If that’s true, then why was it necessary for the president to unilaterally waive the federal law prohibiting the supply of lethal aid to terrorist groups? The […]
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House GOP Budget Cooks the Books to Avoid Defense Cuts
September 16, 2013
Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014. The reason, according to the Cato Institute’s Tad DeHaven, “appears to be that the GOP wants to manufacture angst over sequestration’s hit to […]
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In US-Backed Bahrain, Detention and Torture of Children is Routine
September 16, 2013
“Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture,” Human Rights Watch said in a report this week. “Rounding up kids, throwing them in jail and beating and threatening them is no way for a country to treat its children,” said Joe Stork, Middle East […]
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How War on Syria Lost Its Way
September 14, 2013
The just announced U.S.-Russia agreement in Geneva on a “joint determination to ensure the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons (CW) program in the soonest and safest manner” sounds the death knell to an attempt by Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to get the U.S. into the war in Syria. Equally important, it greatly increases […]
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Nicholas Kristof Responds to Justin Raimondo
September 13, 2013
Nicholas Kristof responds to Justin Raimondo (at 01:15):
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Those Damned Libertarian Republicans Are Spoiling America’s Unipolar Moment!
September 13, 2013
Over at Foreign Policy, Will Marshall laments the fact that America’s position of “global leader” is being “strained” by a GOP that is “increasingly in thrall to libertarian ideas.” If only this renewed skepticism towards unwarranted, unpopular, and illegal wars – he calls it “neo-isolationism” – would go away, Marshall argues, America could be free […]
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Help Kickstart World War III
September 13, 2013
A hilarious take on an all-too-real state of mind. (Important note to overly-serious readers: this is satire):
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Pat Buchanan Defends Putin Amid Onslaught From Pols and Pundits
September 12, 2013
Pat Buchanan on Fox News yesterday:
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