Friday, July 16, 2010

Gen. Petraeus's Local Defense Initiatives

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What about Gen. Petraeus's new Local Defense Initiatives, which he has imposed on the supposed president of the supposedly sovereign cou...

American Exceptionalism

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Commenting on a Washington Post report that Iran may be trying to "influence the U.S. role here in Iraq," the inestimable Arthur ...

Left, Right, or What?

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Even if libertarianism is neither left nor right, it could have left and right wings.
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Bumbling Intervention

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Interesting reporting via Fred Kaplan of Slate : David Kilcullen, a former adviser to Gen. Petraeus and author of Counterinsurgency , among ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Scott Horton and Me

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The indispensable Scott Horton interviewed me the other day on the indispensable Antiwar Radio. Hear it here .
Friday, July 09, 2010

TGIF: Can America Afford an Empire?

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The fiscal question is whether, in the face of the huge national debt and multiyear trillion-dollar budget deficits, we can afford a “defens...
Monday, July 05, 2010

WANTED

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For Crimes Against Humanity (Not only Cheney, of course. And I'm including members of the current administration .)
Sunday, July 04, 2010

A New Look at the "Jewish People"

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Allan Brownfeld of the American Council for Judaism reviews a significant book that has been a bestseller in Israel and was translated into...
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Saturday, July 03, 2010

Michael Steele Sees the Light ... for a Moment

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Better late than never, but the GOP chairman has got much closer to the truth than most of his colleagues, at least briefly: Well if [Obama...
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When Is Torture Not Torture?

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When the U.S. government says it's not. Glenn Greenwald brings to our attention a study by Harvard Kennedy School students (pdf) showi...

More on Immigration

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I'm sick of all the pro-immigration articles showing how good immigrants can be for us . It's not that the arguments are wrong. They...
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TGIF: Border Control Bogey

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As if we weren’t already aware, the current occupant of the White House yesterday proved himself every bit the social engineer his predecess...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

"As Warped and as Evil as It Gets."

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72% of Guantanamo detainees who finally were able to obtain just minimal due process (which is what a habeas hearing is) -- after years ...
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Afghanistan in Light of the Coming Presidential Campaign

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In thinking about Afghanistan, let's step back a moment: Barack Obama is up for reelection in November 2012. He won't want to go int...
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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