Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning Is No Criminal

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My take on WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, and the cost of Empire is in today's Christian Science Monitor .
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Op-ed: Afghanistan Digging In

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President Obama once said withdrawal from Afghanistan would begin in July 2011 — maybe, conditions permitting. But then he backed off that...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010)

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I do intend to post a tribute to Chalmers Johnson, one of the most thoughtful critics of the American Empire, who died last weekend. All I...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

TGIF: The Many Impositions of Government

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Belatedly: Not that I’m keeping score, but just in the last few weeks the news has overflowed with examples of how much we are at the mercy...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Bush: More Lies

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The incomparable Bruce Fein on George W. Bush's memoir: Former President Bush’s selective memoir is a little like Hamlet without the Pr...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Blast from the Past

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In earlier, stupider, days I thought he was a bad guy.
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Scan or Frisk?

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Let's stop the imperial provocation that makes us targets of vengeful "terrorists" (who might have lost family in the last d...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Op-Ed: Blood on His Hands

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One need not have been a fan of Saddam to see that the invasion/occupation has been a catastrophe for the Iraqi people. Large numbers of t...

Well Said!

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When people have to obey other people's orders, equality is out of the question. --Dick Deadeye (W.S. Gilbert), "H.M.S. Pinafore...
Friday, November 12, 2010

TGIF: Help for the Downtrodden Corporate Exporter

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The Ex-Im Bank grows out of the mercantilist belief that the wealth of nations is determined by a “favorable balance of trade.” Therefore t...
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Op-ed: Republican Phonies

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It’s time for some honesty from the Republicans. Either give up the empire and the conceit of “American exceptionalism” or give up the rhe...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Reason TV and Me

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When I was at Libertopia last month, Reason TV caught up with me. Here's the result.
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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Charge Him

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George W. Bush writes in his new memoir that he authorized the water-boarding of war-on-terror prisoners. Water-boarding is a crime under US...

Jonah Goldberg and Julian Assange

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Jonah Goldberg , who claims to be against fascism (at least when it originates on the left), wants to know why Julian Assange of WikiLeaks ...
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The Robber Barons

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I'm finally reading Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons , a book I never felt I needed to read. That was a bad decision. I'm o...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

TGIF: Budget Mice

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Getting started on the task of dramatically shrinking government’s spending — that is, control of resources — will require much bigger thi...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Don't Hold Your Breath for the Spending Cuts

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Republicans last night made it clear that there will be no spending cuts to write home about. Various GOP members of Congress said they woul...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Elections

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The opiate of the people. Cast your vote, feel good, then zone out till the next one. The politicians will look out for you while you're...
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Shameful

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The foreign occupations and threats to civil liberties played no role in the elections. That's a disgrace. Published with Blogger-droid ...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

TGIF: Is Freedom a Radical Idea?

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Throughout history, and with only the rarest of exceptions, freedom has been far removed from the center of political events — even during ...