Wednesday, June 30, 2010

You'd Spy Too

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Arthur Silber asks: Why wouldn't the Russians feel it necessary to spy on the United States? Good question.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Op-Ed: Endless Occupation?

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So Gen. Stanley McChrystal is out and Gen. David Petraeus is back at the helm in Afghanistan. I don’t like hackneyed phrases, but if this ...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Not Sure I Like This Template

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I may need to move the blog elsewhere.
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Orwell on Nationalism

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From George Orwell's Notes on Nationalism : All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. ...
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Why They Commit Terrorism

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See Update . I want to plead guilty, and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times over because until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Did Bush & Co. Do Medical Research on Detainees?

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As time goes by, the record of the Bush administration gets worse and worse. It could turn out that the most egregious offense of the Bush-...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Firing Squad in Utah

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The state government in Utah has executed a convicted killer by firing squad . Someday, let us hope, governments will be unable to find mark...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Cato Unbound Response

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My Cato Unbound response to David Bernstein is here .
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Debate Over the 1964 Civil Rights Act

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I will be participating in an online discussion about the appropriate libertarian position on the 1964 Civil Rights Act as part of the Cato...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Any Doubts about which is the Roguest Nation?

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From Physicians for Human Rights : In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals' involvement in the CIA'...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Free Bradley Manning!

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SPC Bradley Manning , a 22-year-old intelligence analyst stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer in the vicinity of Baghdad, was arreste...
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Prosecute Bush

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From Dan Froomkin: George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it...

The Helen Thomas Affair

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I've got to say something about the Helen Thomas affair . (See this article too.) I hope no one will need a further demonstration of th...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Terrorism: Made in the U.S.A.

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U.S. policy — no matter who’s in power — couldn’t be better tailored to recruit terrorists. We can keep pretending we are innocent victims...
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Letter to the Editor

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Sent to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today in response to Paul Greenberg's editorial (and probably next syndicated column) on Helen Tho...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Natalee Holloway and Rachel Corrie

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Scott Horton, the superb host of Antiwar Radio , raises a great point. There is something wrong with a society in which most people know who...
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Gaza Blockade Not about Weapons

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As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that des...
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We'll Never Know

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Maybe even without Western colonialism and U.S. intervention Muslims in the Middle East would "hate us for our way of life." But w...
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Limited Government ... with a License to Kill

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Last week U.N. investigator Philip Alston delivered a report on "targeted killings" in which the U.S. government plays a starrin...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Background on Gaza

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I recommend this article for background and perspective on what's happening in Gaza and Israel.