Daniel McAdams

August 17, 2016

The Saudis have purchased more than $100 billion in weapons from the US during the Obama presidency. Much of it has been used to attack next-door Yemen in attempt to restore a deposed president. Over the past several days the Saudis have bombed a school, a hospital, and a potato chip factory. Scores of civilians […]

Daniel McAdams

August 16, 2016

The elephant in the living room? Foreign policy. No one wants to really talk about it. Washington is hoping the rest of us won’t blurt out that the emperor has no clothes, that US interventionism is making us poorer, less free, and less safe. Even when candidates like Donald Trump talk about it, they don’t […]

Chris Ernesto

August 16, 2016

Days after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, Mike Morell, former acting director of the CIA, said the U.S. should covertly kill Russians and Iranians in Syria, and that the US should bomb Syrian government offices, aircraft and presidential guard positions. Here are Morell’s exact words: "I’d give (the "moderate opposition") the things that they need […]

Daniel McAdams

August 16, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a major foreign policy speech in Ohio yesterday which was once again a very mixed bag. On the one hand he promised an end to regime-change and nation-building, which if he had just stopped there and stuck to it would have been a positive development. Unfortunately his positions are […]

Peter Van Buren

August 16, 2016

There is a nasty pattern in American political speech, going back into the 1980s at least: when a senior U.S. official labels you a thug, often times wars follow. Thug is the safest word of American Exceptionalism. So it is with some concern that lots of folks are pushing each other away from the mic […]

James Holbrooks

August 15, 2016

On Wednesday, it was reported that Libyan militia groups supportive of the GNA, the Government of National Accord – the interim government installed by the United Nations – had, with the help of the United States via airstrikes that began August 1, retaken the northern city of Sirte. “Pro-government Libyan militias backed by American airpower,”wrote […]

Sandra Fulton

August 13, 2016

Rapidly developing technology exposes communities of color to near-constant surveillance and over-policing During the 1960s, the FBI and NSA followed, wiretapped, and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. – all under the veil of proper legal process. Today, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security spy on Black Lives Matter activists under the guise of “counterterrorism” […]

Peter Van Buren

August 12, 2016

You know how it is. You just get back from a trip to the store and your significant other says “Honey, I just realized we are all out of AK-47s. And while you’re at the market, could you also grab a couple of mortars and some grenades in case your mother stops by again unexpectedly?” […]

Jason Ditz

August 11, 2016

The Muslim community of the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan has filed a lawsuit accusing the city of violating the Religious Land Use Act by forbidding them from building a mosque on land the community already owned within the city limits. Officially, the Planning Commission claimed their block on construction was based on concern over […]

Daniel McAdams

August 11, 2016

Russia claims that Ukraine sent a sabotage team into Crimea over the weekend, armed with bombs and military equipment. Russian president Putin has pulled out of the “Normandy” talks in response. Ukrainian president Poroshenko denied any involvement in an attack on Crimea and responded to the charges by placing his military on high alert and […]