In a modern era of global military empire, mass indiscriminate NSA data-grabbing, and unaccountable killer cops, an age-old issue vital to liberty is often overlooked or forgotten: that of conscription. On this Veterans’ Day, while most solemnly reflect on the valiant...
It Was Fake: Syrian Boy Braves Sniper Fire to Save Girl Trapped by Barrage of Bullets
UPDATE: It was too good to be true. A Norwegian director has come forward and the story of how the video was promoted have come out: it was staged and shot in Malta. The original post follows: The video shows the youngster, about 8 years old, weave his way down a...
The Intifada of the Loners: Israel Finds Itself in a Bind As the Occupation Continues
Recent Palestinian attacks against Israel suggest a new uprising (intifada) of the loners is on the making to which Israel may have no sufficient response.The stabbing of several Israeli youth near the Alon Shvut colony in the Occupied West Bank by a Palestinian man,...
Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran, Outspoken War Critic Tomas Young Dead at 34
Iraq war veteran and outspoken Iraq war critic Tomas Young has died at the age of 34. Democracy Now! reported his death Monday, the eve of Veterans Day. Young enlisted in the Army following the September 11 attacks, volunteering to go to Afghanistan. He was sent to...
The Mystery of Ray McGovern’s Arrest
Why, I asked myself, would the New York City police arrest me and put me in The Tombs overnight, simply because a security officer at the 92nd Street Y told them I was “not welcome” and should be denied entry to a talk by retired General David Petraeus? In my hand was...
Peter Van Buren on Shooting Ourselves in the Foot in Afghanistan
Did you know the U.S. war in Afghanistan is still going on?While the American war(s) in Iraq and Syria are the Kardashian’s of geopolitics– can’t get them out of the news, don’t want to look but you do anyway– America’s longest war...
Me and Anthony Brown’s Memorial Day Parade
I was stunned that Maryland voters gave the heave-ho to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown yesterday. Obama's "Mini-Me" never recovered from his role as the mastermind of perhaps the most disastrous ObamaCare Internet site rollout in the country. I...
Elections as Execution Days for Rights & Liberties
President Obama and a heap of other politicians are imploring us to view voting as the ultimate expression of our freedom and self-government. The reality is that the vast majority of politicians will do as they damn well please after Election Day. Edward Snowden’s...
Life in Our Scared National Security State
I am thinking about Sister Megan Rice, an 84-year-old nun and two army veterans, Michael Walli, 65, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, all of them sitting behind prison bars for doing far less than the fraudsters and political thugs who took us into Iraq and killed and...
Ron Paul on Blowback in Canada
In the 60’s and 70’s Canada was a haven for young me who were resisting the calamitous Vietnam War. Now Canada’s leaders, having participated with the U.S. in 13 years of interventionist warfare in the Mideast, pronounce themselves shocked at being the victims of...
