You want an illustration of how devastatingly draconian the impending defense budget cuts are going to be? Try this on for size: no more military jets flying over sporting events. Oh, the humanity! According to USA Today, looming sequestration is forcing the US Air...
Douglas Bloomfield at The Jewish Week informs us that 13,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will descend upon Capitol Hill this weekend for their annual conference to order members of Congress not to cut $3 billion-plus in aid to...
Today is the 20th anniversary of the ATF’s attack on the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. National Guard helicopters played a key role in the initial attack; 51 days later, Army tanks would lead the final assault. I thought Waco might be the most important public...
Antiwar.com's editorial director Justin Raimondo will be the keynote speaker at the California Convention of the Republican Liberty Caucus, Saturday, March 2 in Sacramento. This event is being held as a break-out from the state convention of the California Republican...
The pressure for Washington to add more heft to their support for the Syrian rebels is heating up again. Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the US will, in what Reuters describes as "for the first time" send "non-lethal aid" directly to Syrian rebels...
At the Daily Beast's Open Zion blog, Yousef Munayyer responds to the recent gossip about another impending Palestinian uprising, or intifada. Any single incident of abuse could be the spark, he writes. Just to name a few off the top of his head: There was the killing...
There are at least two ways to evaluate the US's policy of sweeping economic sanctions on Iran. The first is to take the stated aim of the sanctions - what US officials claim is their purpose - and assess their efficacy. In this case, US officials claim the purpose of...
From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly which appears at WarIsACrime.Org. After a six-month delay, representatives Iran and the “P5+1” met in Kazakhstan today to renew negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program. Early news reports say that “the West” offered Iran a very...
This 1965 New Yorker cartoon - from the dawn of the era of Vietnam War protests - captures the danger of leaving peace to the experts. Daniel Ellsberg was inspired by some of those anti-war protests. I did a piece for the Future of Freedom Foundation in 2008 on...
Let's hope that newly minted Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will live up to some of our expectations and not be afraid to tell it like it is. Let's start with Afghanistan. We just found out today that an alleged data entry glitch in the Pentagon program that spits...
