Another one bites the dust, and so fast, too! Progressives bitter about Obama have already lost their latest celebrity, Elizabeth Warren, to the fever swamp of war hysteria, and she ain't even elected yet. The Boston Herald reports the US Senate candidate, running...
Everything is Terror Now. Didn’t You Know?
Apparently even the Dutch, those most contemplative guardians of high civilization, have begun using Washington's crude definition of "terrorism" -- that is, Anything We Don't Like. Sunny Ofehe, a Netherlands resident and activist from Nigeria's Niger Delta region,...
Obama Doesn’t Quite Hate Freedom Enough for Some Republicans
Every time I see these unfortunately ambiguous wire story headlines -- "Key US lawmakers assail Obama on detainees" -- I think some American lawmakers are finally standing up to the executive-run torture-state and its gulags. A closer look is always disappointing....
UN: US Is ‘Rights Violator’ — but Not How You Think
"This is a confusing article on Guantánamo," a friend of mine pointed out when I sent him the link. It's a piece about the Obama Administration allegedly "admitting" its "human rights shortcomings," as reported by the United Nations. As I scanned the article for any...
Somali-American ‘Terrorists’ Victims of Unfortunate Labeling
I wish it weren't always necessary to lay out the recent history of Somalia every time it comes up. But it seems with every current event -- like US bombings and piracy -- Americans are starting with a fresh mental slate. And so it is with the recent cases of...
Because They Were Just Tourists, You See
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
