Yesterday's New York Times pointed out two very interesting notes on the last Republican debate. The candidates were asked to name the national security issue they most worried about which had not already been discussed. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Rick Perry all...
Important Correction, re: Politico and Jim Lobe
It came to our attention today that an excerpt from a 2006 column that was incorrectly attributed to Jim Lobe was quoted in an article that appeared today at Politico.com. Some of our old archives are being misindexed by Google. The article that appeared at...
Governments Hunting Down Dissidents
WikiLeaks recently drew attention to the surveillance industrial complex with its release of the Spy files. The obvious truth about them still has not hit the mainstream media. Reporters Without Borders: "By equipping oppressive regimes and giving them the means to...
Israeli Settlers Continue to Attack Palestinians, Torch Another Mosque
Another so-called "price tag" attack occurred this morning in a village near the West Bank city of Salfit. "Israeli settlers," according to reports, "set fire to the main entrance of the Broqeen Mosque, and a number of Palestinian cars parked nearby." The...
Secret War, Forever War, and the Irrelevance of the Constitution
Charles P. Pierce has a nice piece in Esquire about Obama's secret wars, waged entirely inside the Executive and almost totally independent of Congress, in explicit contravention of the Constitution and what every notable American revolutionary in the late 18th...
State Dept. to ‘Fund’ Gay Rights Overseas
Let's leave aside whether State Dept. cash can actually buy gay rights in places like our close allies Uganda, which may soon punish homosexuality with death. I'd like to focus on the sheer hypocrisy of the United States government, responsible for the deaths and...
Libertarian Commissars Proclaim Jon Huntsman Safe as Milk
TPM reveals the presidential preferences of D.C. libertarians: Libertarians in Washington are not happy about how the Republican primary is shaping up. Barring a miracle, there are two candidates with a decent shot at the nomination. Mitt Romney, the godfather of...
U.S. Military Bases in the Middle East
Via Lew Rockwell, a map of U.S. military bases in the Middle East:
The One-State Solution
Today presented another illustration of daily life for Palestinians in the West Bank. About 15 Palestinians were evicted from their homes by the Israeli state, only to watch those homes be demolished before their eyes "under the pretext that it was not licensed by the...
Screwing Over Secular Liberal Egyptians, Yet Again
Egypt's ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri as the new prime minister. According to Issandr El Amrani, "Ganzouri was prime minister between 1996 and 1999 and was known for his autocratic style, his...
