Showing posts with label war on terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war on terror. Show all posts
Friday, January 07, 2022

TGIF: National or Enlightenment Liberal Identity?

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I find much to admire about Ayaan Hirsi Ali , the Somali-born Dutch-American scholar, author, and one-time politician who has drawn internat...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Hot off the Press! Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

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  It my supreme pleasure to announce the availability of Scott Horton's great new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism...
Friday, April 27, 2018

TGIF: Trump and Syria

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Let's face it: no one knows what Donald Trumps really wants to do in Syria. On a couple of occasions he's said he intends to withdra...
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Friday, October 27, 2017

TGIF: New York Times Acknowledges US Global Empire

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One big advantage the war party has is the public’s ignorance about the activities of the far-flung American empire. Although frustrating, t...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

TGIF: Dying for the Empire is Not Heroic

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Predictably, the news media spent most of the week examining words Donald Trump may or may not have spoken to the widow of an American Green...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

TGIF: Operation CYA - Afghanistan

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Steve Bannon's Breitbart  and others notwithstanding, that was Trump being Trump when he announced he would not be quitting Afghanistan,...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Condemning Sexual Assault Is Too Easy

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It's easy -- costless, really -- to display outrage over sexual assault. Who (besides Trump perhaps) would publicly endorse it? Where ar...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Nothing to See There. Move Along

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Shall we have heightened government monitoring of Americans who visit countries bombed by the United States?

Cable Noise Network

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You could watch CNN all day (and the others, I surmise) and never see domestic terrorism associated with US wars in the Muslim world.
Monday, June 20, 2016

The Golden Thread

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To see where we are, watch these two videos.  
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Ya Gotta Do What You Gotta Do

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Since we can never make airports perfectly safe, I guess we'll just have to liquidate the empire and stop bombing Muslim countries. Oh w...
Friday, February 12, 2016

TGIF: Obama Suspends TV Coverage of Middle East

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced today that the government will forbid the television news med...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

TGIF: America's Asymmetrical War Against the Muslim World

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The demagogic exaggeration of the "terrorist threat,"  which was the centerpiece of the last Republican debates, is easily deflate...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

A Conspiracy of Fear-Mongers

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Over the weekend CNN breathlessly reported as "Breaking News" -- it breathlessly reports everything as "Breaking News" -...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

The Phony Mystery of Why "They" Hate Us

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What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? Among other things, they have -- or pretend to have -- no clue why some Muslims hate ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Foreign Policy Comes Back to Haunt Us

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From the start, opponents of the American empire warned that the government could not violate the rights of foreigners without eventually vi...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Fail-safe Method

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Hat tip: Liberty.me, with apologies to Karl Kraus.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Drone War Delusions

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We are constantly told that US drones are surgically precise. But any weapon – especially a remote-controlled one – is only as accurate as ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2015

What the Hell Are We Doing in Yemen?

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The U.S. government has charged into another civil war in the Middle East. When you find yourself repeatedly asking, “Will they ever learn?...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

The Open Society and Its Worst Enemies

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Last week’s bloody events in Paris demonstrate yet again that a noninterventionist foreign policy, far from being a luxury, is an urgent ne...