WSJ/NBC Poll: Americans Want Less Interventionist Foreign Policy
April 30, 2014
This morning’s Wall Street Journal has the following headline on the front page: “Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds.” Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. In […]
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Celebrating Freedom Fighter Jon Utley’s 80th Birthday
April 29, 2014
Jon Utley, the publisher of American Conservative and one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom and antiwar activists in the nation, celebrated his 80th birthday last month. Hundreds of folks gathered at D.C.’s Metropolitan Club to hear him speak about his life and to hear tributes from a dozen speakers ranging from Human Events […]
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CIA Thinks Syrian Rebels Might Turn The Guns We Give Them Back On Us
April 29, 2014
Here is a tweet from Foreign Policy’s Twitter feed: The CIA wants to use fingerprint scanners and GPS devices to make sure Syria's rebels target Assad — not the West http://t.co/eivBhYeyr7 — Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) April 29, 2014 If you have to worry that your proxy militias will turn your own weapons against you, maybe it’s […]
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The Problem With Labeling Hamas ‘A Terrorist Organization’
April 29, 2014
Paul Pillar, a 28-year CIA veteran and now senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, writes in The National Interest about how ridiculous and self-serving is the reaction of Israel (and the U.S.) to the Fatah’s announcement of political reconciliation with Hamas. Pillar argues that “The Israeli and U.S. posture toward Hamas is […]
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Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s Pro-War, Anti-Civil Liberties Front-Runner
April 29, 2014
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s admired front-runner for the 2016 presidential elections, made headlines last week when she spoke out against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. At an event at the University of Connecticut she hit him with the boilerplate accusations of anti-Americanism, questioning his motives for civil liberties and transparency by citing […]
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New Bill Would Demand VOA Serve US Propaganda
April 29, 2014
According to a report at Foreign Policy, a new piece of legislation due for a vote on Wednesday of this week would force Voice of America, the federally funded news media organization, to toe the U.S. line even more closely and become an explicit propaganda tool of Washington. A powerful pair of lawmakers in the […]
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Supreme Court Lets Indefinite Detention of Americans Pass
April 29, 2014
The Supreme Court declined to hear the case that a group of activists, journalists, and academics including Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, and Daniel Ellsberg brought against the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA. This is a huge gift to the Obama administration, which will no longer have to answer for the terrible language in the […]
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President Obama: ‘Why Is It That Everybody Is So Eager To Use Military Force?’
April 28, 2014
Here is an excerpt from President Obama’s joint press conference today with Philippine President Benigno Acquino: Typically, criticism of our foreign policy has been directed at the failure to use military force. And the question I think I would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we’ve […]
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Glenn Greenwald at the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital’s 2014 Bill of Rights Awards Dinner
April 28, 2014
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How the US Supports Regimes That Support Terrorism
April 28, 2014
Washington has an advanced relationship with Kuwait, the small Persian Gulf country out of which the U.S. pushed invading Iraqi forces in the 1991 Gulf War. U.S. troops are stationed in Kuwait on a more or less permanent basis, Kuwait receives considerable military assistance and training from the U.S., and in return, Kuwait is “the leading source of […]
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